August 31st, 2006 by kurt-jumpman23
my stat history
1st long : 35%
2nd long: 35%
3rd long, 4th long and 5th long ?
what will be my score kaha?
manimaos ko! dapat 35+35=70 or dapat 35×3=105% ??? akoa 3rd long…
i will!
i will!
motivation? unsaon… ambot unsaon kaha… dapat ma motivate ko! waaahh!
motivate me. anybody me. make me move. make me do something want i want to do: passing stat!
i have many motivations
but der is ONE Motivation
that makes me feel of unexplained emotions
but the motivation is in a situation
where the situation sometimes sends me to a process of damnation
it increases my blood circulation
it gives me a temporary desolation
through this blog ,is a form of sublimation
,for the expression of my emotion.
i will regain my motivation!
i will have my direction!
i will have a limitless positive emotion!
and the situation will never lead to self-destruction!
( i hope i hope i hope i hope )
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August 31st, 2006 by kurt-jumpman23
i hope i could ever see see
a grade as lovely as a three
to pass a draining subject here in UP
under the guidance of Ms. G…:)
i now know what i want to be
in this course of psychology
i hope i don’t end up like a tree
standing strong but cannot move when people wanna pee
i don’t wana waste my tuition fee
and fall into my knee
pls plsss…. help me Thee? 
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August 27th, 2006 by kurt-jumpman23
It was boring to watch the Eraserheads on stage. As they themselves admitted in interviews, they are not the most ‘telegenic’ bands during the time. Pogi rock ruled (rules?) the scene. They were the exception. There were no rock star poses, Mick Jagger struts or the Who type equipment destruction from any of the band members during their live gigs. In fact watching them play so intently, face down or eyes closed makes you think they’re really not that comfortable on stage. Yet, their performances are either sold out or almost always SRO.
It’s a roundabout way of saying the attraction to the E-heads has always been the music. While also not the most technically adept, a fact that they have also admitted in the past, they still managed to turn the OPM scene on its head. When they displaced Ariel Rivera from the charts back in the 90s, no one could make head nor tails of the band that produced ‘Pare Ko’. They already had a following with the Diliman crowd with Pop-U when they came out in 1993 with their first commercial album, Ultraelectromagneticpop! With catchy hooks, a pulse on the young people’s issues and a very Pinoy sense of humor, they convinced the entire country it was time to shake up the music scene. Back then, theirs was a unique sound in the midst of heart-wrenching, warbly ballads and sugary-pop music by singers slash artistas. The attraction to the Eraserheads was all about their music.
So it came as a surprise upon hearing the tribute album Ultraelectromagnetic Jam: The Music of the Eraserheads by various artists that 1) there’s already a tribute album for a band that, while broken up, its members are still very much active making music, and that their albums are still readily available in stores, and 2) it doesn’t do justice to the music which inspired the anthology.
To say that it is uninspired is an understatement. A good tribute album serves not only to remind the listeners how good the originals were but also to showcase the style of the particular artist covering the song. See the excellent If I Were A Carpenter. You need artists which have their own styles, a unique voice which will imprint the song with their signature and show the song in a new light. By that criteria, only veteran Rico J. Puno in Ang Huling El Bimbo, and the Radioactive Sago Project’s rendition of Alcohol manages to pull it off. And as much as I like them, Brownman Revival only did a passable reggae-tinged version of Maling Akala. Isha’s Torpedo is also memorable only for the fragility of her voice which manages to highlight the theme of the song: frustration. Which so much talent collected for the album, that’s exactly what I felt - this coulda been a contender.
Who picked the songs? Kitchie Nadal’s Ligaya was totally wrong for her. And with her chuckling through the line “ilang ahit pa ba ang aahitin” it only magnifies how inappropriate the song was for her. It’s not just about mixed genders of persona in the song. I could totally see her doing Shirley for the sheer “rocking out” possibilities. Even South Border’s With A Smile is unremarkable. The genius of this song is how easily it lends to the audience singing along with it. If you’ve been to an Eheads gig, you’d know this. South Border missed the mark - it was just another warbly lab song. Even Sponge Cola’s cover of the anthemic, uncensored Pare Ko, sounded hollow. It just was not out of the ordinary.
It’s easy to see why some criticized this album as just another marketing ploy to pillage the Eheads catalog and push the newer bands out there. The compilation isn’t particularly bad. It’s just not that good either. I’d still rather listen to the originals than put some of these songs in repeat on the CD. I’d rather hear and remember them as they were redefining pop music and not, as this album did, subsumed by it.
It’s ironic they had to include Para Sa Masa, a song which to me was more of the band’s complaint of the majority of its fans not wanting them to do grow musically and keep them in that happy happy pop music box:
“mapapatawad mo ba ako / kung hindi ko sinunod ang gusto mo
pinilit kong ihaon ka / ngunit ayaw mo na namang sumama”
Of course in this album, it is exactly that — a USA-For-Africa/Band-Aid sing-along which turned the original melancholic song into happy-happy-oh-don’t-worry-about-you-guys-we-totally-get-what-you-want anthem.
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August 27th, 2006 by kurt-jumpman23
"is there a certain feeling science cannot explain
or just a million neurons firing around my brain? "- peter paul clarin
poetic kayo kaayo ka bayota ka! hehe.
life is a game
someone wins
someone loses
almost everybody wants to win.
it’s very rare for someone to compete for the purpose of losing.
when one senses that s/he is at a disadvantage
the competitive fire within the person blazes!
some might get discouraged on this type of situations.
but if the discrepancy is that wide, it’s not right.
i like competition more than domination.
although it’s more relaxing to knowing you’re ahead.
michael jordan retired thrice not because his physical skills had diminished.
but because he did not found the mental challenges to make him happy.
i wanna be like mike
yeah!
that’s it!
"if it ain’t rough, it ain’t ryt"
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August 12th, 2006 by kurt-jumpman23
(Published on April 17, 2006 in the author’s column, Wiretapped Delusions in the Mindanao News Courier, weekly local publication in Butuan City.)
The 2005 Bar Exams have the University of the Philippines topping them once more. UP also topped the exams last year, making this year’s feat its second in a row after its successive control of the No. 1 spot was interrupted by UST and Ateneo in 2002 and 2003, respectively.
Since the first recorded Bar exams in 1913 and up to 2005, UP has topped 45 out of the 92 yearly exams. Famous UP topnotchers are Manuel Roxas, Jovito Salonga, Ferdinand Marcos, among others.
Manuel Roxas was the first topnotcher in the first recorded Bar exams and later became President of the Republic of the Philippines. He belonged to the earliest batches the UP College of Law has produced, having contemporaries in the persons of Jose Laurel, who became President of the Philippines and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Elpidio Quirino, who also became President of the Republic, and Jose Yulo, who became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Jovito Salonga topped the Bar exams in 1944. He later became Senate President when the Senate decided to terminate the US bases stay in the Philippines in 1991. He is dubbed “the greatest president we never had” when he ran and lost in the presidential elections in 1992.
Most notable among the UP topnotchers is Ferdinand Marcos. But before Marcos was known to be the Strongman Dictator, he had already made a name when he topped the Bar exams in 1939—under extraordinary circumstances. He prepared for the Bar exams while in prison as an accused murderer of his father’s political opponent in Ilocos Norte. When he topped the exams, there were even unverified reports that he earmarked a 98% grade—which could have been the highest grade so far—and that the Supreme Court reduced it for being unusually high. He was reportedly ordered by the Supreme Court to take an “oral exam” after he took his Bar exams in order for him to justify his topping and his taking an oath as an attorney. The rest, we know, is history.
What makes UP a perennial topnotcher then? There are four clear answers. First, UP gets only the best students. In the Law Aptitude Exam, the qualifying exam of the UP College of Law, UP admits only an average of 120 lucky incoming freshmen out of an average of 5,000 examinees nationwide. Taking only the so-called cream of the crop has a built-in advantage: it heightens student competitiveness and self-esteem.
Second, UP has a pool of erudite faculty members. It has professors who are experts in their fields and have made teaching law their calling. It also has young faculty members who are Bar topnotchers and who, like their elder colleagues, are holders of post-graduate degrees in law schools abroad, like Yale and Harvard.
Third, UP has the best law library in Southeast Asia. Its library consists of a big four-storey library building that even the Supreme Court goes to UP to get copies of rare legal documents.
Lastly and more importantly, UP lives up to its tradition of excellence. The challenges and the successes that UP has had before are passed on to present generation of students in oral and unwritten tradition that every UP law student knows and lives by. This is also made possible with the help of its alumni who donate to UP for the construction of classrooms, buildings, and other facilities making the college more conducive to learning.
The irony of UP domination, however, is that its training is not Bar-oriented. In the conduct of classes, law schools adopt either the code-method or the case-method. The code-method requires studying and mastering the code, that is, the pertinent laws and rules in order to pass the examinations. The case-method, on the other hand, does not necessarily require memorizing the pertinent laws and rules but obliges the student to study and focus on the Supreme Court decided cases that interpret the pertinent laws and rules.
UP uses and pioneered the use of the case-method. It is not Bar-oriented because the Bar exam questions involve the examinee’s knowledge of the pertinent laws and rules and less, if required at all, on knowledge on doctrinal cases decided by the Supreme Court.
This difference is best exemplified by the personal experience of this writer. When he had studied in a law school that uses the code-method, his professor asked him to recite a long provision of law, comma and period included, without looking at the codal book. But when he transferred to UP after a year, he was instead required to read lots of cases to recite. After he recited a case, his professor then asked him to read aloud the pertinent law in the code, and to explain its relevance after reading it in relation to the case just recited.
How come UP still tops it when it uses the case-method? The answer is this. If a UP law graduate has reached the stage of analyzing the law and the related cases, reviewing and questioning the policy of the law and the reasoning of the decisions made by the Supreme Court, and proposing amendments on how the law is better crafted and the cases better decided, then going down the level of memorization in preparation for the Bar exams may be a methodical shift but one that is less difficult. This is what the UP College of Law calls teaching the law in the grand manner.
Which is why such training makes UP graduates excel even after the Bar exams. Five Presidents of the Republic, 12 chief justices of the Supreme Court, a sizable number of associate justices of the Supreme Court, Senators and Members of the House of Representatives, and many more of its graduates are, at present, prominent law practitioners, high officials in the government service, political leaders in private enterprises. They have been taught law in the grand manner. To practice law in the grand manner as well is not only a tradition to uphold but an obligation to the people who have paid for their education
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August 12th, 2006 by kurt-jumpman23
butuanon youth, specially those who will be 18 before MAY 2007 ( yeah i’m reminding all of those who just celebrated their ‘debut’ ), i have a reminder.
Hapit na ta mag 18, or ang uban 18 na, ang uban gani humana ang 18.
Pero as Filipino Citizens, the Constitution points out that 18 is the ‘legal age’.
As it follows, it is stated in the constitution that 18 is also the ripe age that we can start to fullfill a national responsibility.
To attain a universal Right : the right of SUffrage.
yes.
2007 is coming. Its election time!
I request all of you to register sa COMELEC sa wala pa ka register.
By May 2007, vote nya ta ha.
Think of this:
The youth is an influential factor in determining the winners of the elections.
Butuan City election is dominated by several factors like the TRAPOs, vote-buying/selling, etc etc.
Let the choices of the youth be the most influential of all factors. Dont get swayed by money and power. Have a critical analysis of of your choices.
Im tired of the same faces winning the elections every 3 years, yet there is not really a very significant progess that’s happening.
To those who are ignorant, please change your views.
The steps are easy.
Register -> vote . Hopefully, there will be a positive change.
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August 8th, 2006 by kurt-jumpman23
Butuan, Butuan.
Land of the Brave Souls: the etymological definition of our city’s name during a class in Social Studies during my first year in ANHS.
Butuan, Butuan. Timber City of the South. Now? Nope. But it was. It was just mismanaged. And now? we have lost that distinction. Sayang!
For many years, the city has been mismanaged. Both by the bureaucratic and the public sector. Gamay na ulan, baha na! Diba?
Some might say that the city is progressing as never been before in recent years. They argue that it’s because of the government is finally completting the second magsaysay bridge, that there are taxis operating in the city, that we just recently had our second ‘mall’. But to regard progress as synanymous with industrialization, progress would not be complete if the people will not realize the value of democracy, civility and the Rule of Law.
If you look at the city, it’s not that clean. To compare Butuan City, the regional center of CARAGA,to Tagbilaran City, the capital of Bohol, is valid. Tagbilaran is a young city, with a young mall called ISLAND CITY MALL, with a few jeepneys, mediums of transportation. Yet the city is so clean and if one compares the overall structure of the houses, Tagbilaran has the edge.
Look at Butuan, a big city. There are taxis operating, more than a hundred jeepney of different routes, and a systematized colors of tricycles and motorsikads. Yet very few People are riding. Gamay na Ulan, baha daun. Why? Because of the poor drainage system. Same people, same faces win the elections every three years, yet they can’t figure out how to fix this decade problem. Where’s the money? Where’s the political will? Some of them claimed they are pure Butuanons, yet pure Butuanons as they are, they can’t even recognize this decade-old problem of Butuan nor fix it instantly.
But my whole point for this post, for young BUTUANONS( yes! esp the college students and elder high school students) to uphold democracy in this city. We are in a free country. We have the freedom of speech. Don’t try to waste. EXPRESS WHAT YOU THINK AND FEEL IN PUBLIC ( just don’t commit something that degrades a person).
If you think there are abnormal operations concerning government institutions, especially in school and the PNP, expose it!!!!!! Graft and Corruption has long been the country’s arch enemy and this started on cities and towns. If Butuanons will ignore such violations committed by the people with ’supposed’ powers, who will? The Cebuanos? Gloria Arroyo?!
You can complain such irregularities to the media. Or you can write here on friendster blog, just to let the people know,to enlighten!
After all, activism does not necessarily mean that you actively express your emotions on the streets! You can still express it constitutionally, conventionally.
I have long emphasized of upholding the Rule of Law. Every Butuanon should follow the constitution to city ordinances. It was reported that a ‘certain section’ of the PNP Caraga of were extorting money from people. Like the security guards, some ‘enforcers of the law’ are illegaly giving security guard licences without special training to acquire even though the law states that guards should undergo training. Thereby, cheating the legally private owned training institutions. You can make an issue out of it.
Please throw your garbage in the trash can, if you don’t, small rains would even result to minimal flooding of main streets.
College students of Butuan, though this is a time of a person’s development that we are ideologicaly active, we repress all we learned as just an idea. It should be transformed into actions. We are college students,in a not so distant future, we will be a part of the working force. All the knowledge, the physical, mental, emotional strength should be utilized for our family to have a better living. Which would later translate to the true progress of Butuan. FSUU should not only be famous for its rich tradition of excellence in nursing and commerce, but in leadership in the community as well.
BUTUAN: Land of Brave SOuls.
Prove that we are brave. Have no fear on anyone, anything, not even Death,except God.
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