simple.minded.fool

for feb 13:

loverage: spread the love and not the virus

UP sunken garden

feat bands: bamboo, prokya ni edgar, kamikazee, hale, callalily, spongecola, 6cyclemind

hehehe, hindi po ako… si lc yun… ahehehe!!

anyway, so nung dec 15, dapat lantern parade namin. pumunta ako dun, nakaplano na ang araw ko, pero pagdating ko sa booth namin, maraming nagsabi na hindi daw tuloy ang lantern parade. marami ang nagsabi kasi ayoko maniwala! hehehe… pero totoo pala. hindi natuloy ang lantern parade. maraming propaganda ang lumabas na dapat daw ituloy ang lantern parade. pero anung magagawa? e ayaw ipadala nung admin yung lantern namin. oo, nakakainit ng ulo, kasi kami ang nagpagod dun sa lantern na yun. at naiintindihan ko si kuya carlos. pero, magkaiba lang talaga siguro ng stand ang mga tao. iba’t ibang paraan ng pagkilos. si kuya carlos, tinuloy niya ang lantern parade dahil hindi daw dapat pigilan ang pag celebrate ng lantern parade. oo, tama siya. pero para sa akin kasi, kahit anong gawin ay hindi na magiging "celebration" yung lantern parade na yun. para sa akin, ang paradang ginawa nila ay pagsuway parin, at hindi celebration. ewan ko, baka twisted lang talaga akong mag-isip. pero sabi nga ni kuya carlos, it’s our own choice. nagkaiba nga lang kami ng choice.

habang naghihintay ng gagawin, nag InAf meeting kami… *fast forward* at pagkatapos ng meeting, naglaro kami ng mga street games. hehehe… una ay ang agawan bola kung saan biburot namin si veron (wah, burot! hahaha). at nung ako na yung taya, (ewan ko kung nahalata nila) nag-aya ako na maglaro ng ibang game (hehehe). yun yung caterpillar kung saan napatid ang (brief! hehehe… jowk) sinturera ni ryan. kaya naglaro kami ulit ng bagong laro, ang contageous (kung saan nakita namin si LC na gumulong sa hill, hehe) at pagkatapos nun ay ang baboy-bahay-bagyo (kung saan natagpuan namin si LC na nagsisisigaw ng "BABOY AKOOOOO!!!") ahahaha. sobrang nakakatuwa.

after ng laro, syempre, nagbihis kami at nagpahinga. may mga iyakan na naganap nun. ako tahimik lang ako, pondering upon my existence (nag-eexist ba ako?) kasi feeling ko nun wala akong friend. hehe! panu kasi walang pumapansin sakin. pinapansin lang nila ako pag aalis na sila. ang sad naman… hehe!

pagkatapos namin mag-emote… yehey! natuloy ang pagpunta namin sa marikina river banks (tama ba?). akala kasi namin hindi na kami pupunta dun. una, dahil nga pangit na ang mood. pangalawa, alanganing oras na. pero tumuloy parin kami. bumili ng sapatos sila ryan. kami naman nila veron ay naghintay, naghintay, at naghintay pa ulit ng order. haha. tapos nun, nauna na kaming umalis kasi sobrang late na. *fast forward ulit* hehehe… pag-uwi ko ng bahay, napagalitan ako ni mama. kasi dapat 11pm nasa bahay na ako. pero nakarating ako ng 12mn… haha… kainis, napagalitan ako, pero eto lang masasabi ko… worth it! hehehe (yak, kinilabutan ako sa sinabi ko)…

Sabi nila kelangan daw mag tuition fee increase ng UP para tumapat sa standards ng Ateneo and UST… i say: hindi tayo ang kelangang tumapat sa kanila. sila ang dapat tumapat sa atin… and this is one email i got from a professor, proving that my assumption is more than an educated guess…

By Michael Tan
Inquirer
Last updated 00:10am (Mla time) 10/25/2006

Published on Page A15 of the October 25, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

SOME time back, i wrote about the ratings of Asian universities given by Asiaweek magazine. Sadly, Asiaweek has closed down, so I thought we would no longer be able to compare universities in the region.

But it turns out that there are global surveys as well, one of which was just released last Oct. 5. This is the Times Higher Education Supplement-Quacquar elli Symonds (THES-QS) World University Rankings. With thousands of universities in the world, it is an honor to make it to this list, which is based on several criteria, including faculty-to-student ratios and ratings given by more than 3,000 academicians and 700 leading international employment recruiters.

How did the Philippines fare? I’m going to keep you in suspense and just say, for now, that four of our universities did make it to the top 500 universities.

Global ranks

Let’s look first at the THES-QS list of 20 leading universities. Note that there are ties so there might be occasional skipping of numbers: Harvard (1st), Cambridge (2nd), Oxford (3rd), Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale (tying for 4th), Stanford (6th), California Institute of Technology (7th), University of California in Berkeley (8th), Imperial College London (9th), Princeton (10th), University of Chicago (11th), Columbia (12th), Duke (13th), Beijing University (14th), Cornell (15th), Australian National University (16th), London School of Economics (17th), Ecole Normale Superieure (18th), National University of Singapore and Tokyo University (tying for 19th).

Most of the universities are American and British, but there is also representation from Australia, France, China, Singapore and Japan. Most of the leading American universities are private; in fact, on that top 20 list, the University of California Berkeley is the only American public institution. When I went on to the top 500 universities, I found that in
all countries of the world, with the glaring exception of the United States and one other country (which I’ll name later but which you may have guessed), state universities lead in the rankings.

Asia’s best

I decided to pull out the Asian (to include Australian) universities from the THES-QS list and found that among the world’s 500 leading universities, 90 are from Asia. Japan leads with 28, followed by China (including Hong Kong) with 16, Taiwan with 8, South Korea and Thailand with 7 each, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines with 4 each, Australia with 3, Singapore with 2 and Bangladesh with one.

Do be careful with those figures since it’s not just a numbers game. Australia and Singapore have few universities on the list, but they are all high up in the ranking.

Enough with the suspense. Let’s look at how the Philippines did. The University of the Philippines (UP) came in 299th globally and 47th among Asian universities. I have to say that’s not too bad, considering how UP has had to plod along with shrinking budgets and with the flight of so many good professors. Trailing behind UP were three private universities: De La Salle (392nd), Ateneo de Manila (484th) and, talk about a photo finish, the University of Santo Tomas at 500th.

Lessons

Instead of bombarding you with more numbers, I’m going to analyze those rankings and spell out three important implications for our own educational system.

First, you don’t need to be a rich country to have good universities, India being the best example. Even before independence, Indian nationalists had formed a commission to plan out their future and early on, they sought to form a network of science and technology institutions. After independence, funds were put in to establish a whole network, with several Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campuses. IIT ranked 57th in the THES-QS global list.

Indonesia, a country less developed than the Philippines, is another example. It had three universities, all state-run, beating us in rankings: University of Indonesia (250th), Bandung Institute of Technology (258th) and University of Gadja Mada (270th).

Second, the other countries seem to recognize that excellence in education must be spread out throughout the country. Note that our four best universities are all in Metro Manila. In contrast, the Indian Institute of Technology has campuses in several states, all of which fared quite well when Asiaweek rated each unit back in 2000. The three Indonesian universities I just named are all on the island of Java, but at least they’re found not just in the capital, Jakarta, but also in Bandung and Yogyakarta.

Thailand’s best universities — Chulalongkorn, Thammasat, Mahidol, Kasatsart, Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen and Prince of Songkla — are all state universities and they are located in different parts of the country.

Third (and I’ve made this point time and time again), the state needs to invest in universities. The THES list is clear in showing that, with the exception of the United States and the Philippines, the leading universities in every country are state-owned. Sure, UP is the leader in the Philippines, but in other countries, several state universities – not just one — made it to the THES list.

Most governments in the world have the wisdom to look at education as something too important to leave to "free market forces" (read: "profit"). Unless we learn from them, we will continue to see more diploma mills, more scandals in licensure exams and more Filipinos having to work overseas as cheap labor to develop other countries. Note that the THES-QS rankings also relate to international competitiveness, meaning if you graduate from those that lead in the rankings, you also stand a better chance of getting a well-paying international job.

UP is still among the world’s best, but if we worked harder on the entire educational system, we should have more reason to be proud. Ultimately, we should be able to look at these university rankings as indicators of our current development strategies, as well as predictors of the country’s future.

http://opinion. inq7.net/ inquireropin. ..ticle_id= 28506

Meet Matsumoto Jun, a.k.a Sawada Shin of Gokusen AND Domyouji Tsukasa of Hanayori Dango

• Name: Jun Matsumoto
• Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
• Nicknames: Matsujun, Jun-chan, Matsumoto-kun, Junji
• Height: 173cm
• Weight: 53.6kg
• Blood type: A
• Horoscope: Virgo
• High school: Horikoshi High School (堀越高等学校)
• Family: Father, mother, and one elder sister
• Speciality: Baseball

cute no? kaso mas gusto ko parin si Oguri Shun… co-star din sa Gokusen, and he played the role of Nachi/Ginkaku sa japanese movie entitled Azumi…

napanood niyo na ba ang bagong commercial ng head and shoulders?? yung kay angel locsin… grabe, ipapahunting ko talaga yung kumanata dun ng wherever you will go! as in, baboy na baboy talaga! nakaka-init ng ulo! i-reremake lang indi pa inayos! leche!!!

ibakod… dinawod… ahgow wurrrreher you will gohowwww…

shet!

hands down, this is the best day i can ever remember. always remember the sound of the stereo, the dim of the soft lights, the scent of your hair that you twirled in your fingers, and the time on the clock when we realized it’s so late, and this walk that we shared together. the streets were wet and the gate was locked, so i jumped it and i let you in; and you stood at your door with your hands on my waist and you kissed me like you meant it, and i knew that you meant it

that you meant it

that you meant it

i knew that you meant it

that you meant it

hmm… naisipan ko lang itanong…

papansin ba ako; o, lagi mo lang akong pinapansin??

pag-isipan mo yan ha?

May atraso ako sa sarili ko… T___T

uminom nanaman ako…

IBUHOS NA ANG BEER SA AKING LALAMUNAN

UPANG MALUNOD NA ANG PUSO KONG NAHIHIRAPAN

BAWAT PATAK

ANONG SARAP

ANO BA TALAGANG MAS GUSTO KO?

ANG BEER NA TO O NAG PANG TUITION KO?!

hehehe…

ok, my previous sked was a total killer coz i supposedly had 4 subjects every tuesdays and fridays and only one subject on mondays and thursdays. eventually, the whole thing changed coz i didn’t ACTUALLY have classes for Psych101 coz the subject was "individualized", and my LIS131 classes was moved to saturday… so i had a lot of free time, which enabled me to participate in a lot of the organizational activities at FLIPP…

and now… the end is near, and so i face the final curtain…

i’m thankful that i got pre-enlisted in all 18 units that i need for the next semester, and i don’t have to go through all that manual enlistment thingy which is total suicide! but… OH MY GOD… it’s sucks… MAJOR!!! this is a screenshot of my sked for next sem:

it sucks, doesn’t it? now, i really have a reason to stay at a dormitory.

Act #1

Narrator: Nakaupo si Arthur at Imaginary Jane sa isang imaginary bench sa isang imaginary park… Lumapit si Kelvin.

Kelvs: So… siya pala ang ipinalit mo sa akin.

Arthur: Anong ginagawa mo dito?

Kelvs: Well, I never thought that you’d replace me with an organism one molecule away from bacteria! (walk-out si Imaginary Jane)

Arthur: Jane, sandali! (hahabol kay Imaginary Jane, pero napigilan ni Kelvs)

Kelvs: Hindi mo ba nakita, iniwan ka na niya! Yan ba, ipinagpalit mo ako sa ganyan?!

Arthur: Ipinagpalit? Baka nakakalimutan mo, ipinagpalit mo ako kay *tooot* (tawanan ang audience. mamumula si Kelvs, at iiyak, tatawa, iiyak.)

Kelvs: Ipinagpalit? Sabi mo mahal mo ako pero… pero… *iyak* shwe shwewewe *iyak*  (hindi maintindihan na salita… pero umiiyak siya…)

Arthur: Ay nyever… shed… dat i lwove ywou… (walk-out)

Act #2

Si Dao Ming Go (Ryan) ay nagsusulat sa pader. Napadaan si Eki.

Eki: Si Dao Ming Go! Ano kayang isinusulat niya sa pader?

Dao Ming Go: Aargh! (hawak sa buhok, sabay sabunot) Ayoko na! (iinat) She hates me!! (aakyat sa imaginary building)

Eki: Wag! Dao Ming Go! (aakyat din sa imaginary building at pipigilan si Dao Ming Go… pero sa totoo lang, para lang silang nagsasayaw)

Dao Ming Go: Bitiwan mo ako! (mag-uusap sila ng intsik)

Eki: Kong kwayla! Chiriri kong kwayla! Abutchikik!!

Dao Ming Go: EK EK EK!!! (iyak kunwari)

Eki: Bobochichang! Chiriri kong kwayla! Abuchikik!!

Dao Ming Go: EK EK EK!!! (hahawakan si Eki at babagsak sa imaginary building. pero sa toto lang, upuan lang yun.)

hwehehe.. wag na yung sakin ha?! ^_____^