QUIZ TIME!!!!

bagong gimik naman ito para mapansin ang blog ko. hehe Just as I said in my friendster bulletin post, time to get those neurons up and going. Hope you did that and used you neural networks...or maybe you just skipped the THINKING part and logged on to my blog...which was the primary intent anyway -- get you to notice my blog? hehehe

anyway...what is the answer to the question? what did I lose that I considered most precious and dear to me. Let's go through the options....

A. my SANITY? C. my MOST VALUED WRITING INSTRUMENT?

B. my WHOLE MONTHLY ALLOWANCE? D. my VIRGINITY?


OPTION A: almost...but not quite. Those who chose this may have thought that my brain has succumbed to the overwhelming mental strain of reading several books everyday. Or others may have already considered me insane to begin with. Hmmmm....

I'm beginning to feel the pressure of historical research. I have read about 4 books now (as in read the entire book--averaging about 250 pages per book), plus countless chapters from the different required readings in my subjects. But since last week I've been concentrating on my Kas 10 research -- and I'm still on the prowl for additional sources for my research. All this for just ten pages of historical essay, hay naku. And there are other research projects for my other subjects but they'll have to wait. I'll just finish reading for Kas 10 and then I'll jump into the next few projects 1) an interview with supporting documents -- no interviewee yet 2) a research paper on contemporary Philippine history -- may topic na, and I have read about 7 chapters from various sources, but this one's related to my Kas 10 essay so it wouldn't be too hard once I finish reading for Kas 10. I've been bringing my reading materials wherever I go -- even to malls. Trinoma and SM North Edsa are now my unofficial reading centers...may libre pa nga live show with couples making PDA around me...it's like being in the middle of a soft-core porn film. hehehe I'm already digressing...basta kaya ta ni ah!

OPTION B: sorry try again...but if I keep straying inside Powerbooks in every mall I visit, this just might happen in the near future. I'm being miserly this week until next week because I'm saving up for an academic booksale on July 25 (libro na naman!). My mother complains about my bibliophilia everytime we talk on the phone. And I keep telling her: "Na, kay ang bata mo maestro na, history pa gina-tudlo! Mayu na kay libro ginabakal ko kag indi drugs!" hahaha I'm expecting to bring home a TON of books when the semester ends. So far the list of books i've purchased include a book on Egyptian history, culture and art (wow! kanami sang pictures!) that I bought at Powerbooks @ the Mall of Asia at a BIG discount (mahal gyapon but worth it), a VERY THICK book of Philippine Epics (now I know who Lubaylubyuk Hanginon Mahuyukhuyuk is -- sister ni Nagmalitung Yawa Sinagmaling Diwata gale hehe), Sophie's World (that I try to finish reading -- damn those research!), two Pugad Baboy Books (13 & 14, additions to my Pugad Baboy collections), a book on Philippine Collaboration during WW2 (with some grammatical errors and inconsistencies in facts grrr), The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking, the 500 People you'll meet in Hell by Jessica Zafra, The Comedies of Aristophanes, and more to come...others are photocopies of books that I had hard-bound "for reference". Addiiiiiiiict!!!!

OPTION C: CONGRATULATIONS! (cue music) You have fathomed the mind of Sonofaditch! Isa kang henyo and you deserve to be counted among the great minds of history! Gleng, sori wala prize, hehehe....

Actually nadula ballpen ko sang Monday, and it's not just any ordinary ballpen mind you. Pilot GTech nga 4.0 ni nga kamahal pa sang refill. For a student (and teacher) losing this valued writing instrument is equivalent to a soldier losing his firearm while a battle is raging all around him. So I had to acquire a new weapon -- este, ballpen -- posthaste so of I off I went mounted on a UP-PANTRANCO jeep bound for the Shopping Center. With great speed I traversed the treacherous hallway of the Shopping Center, fought a thousand demon-beasts with my lightsaber, reached THE GREAT DOOR OF "PULL", and pulled...and went inside the mini-bookstore. Dios ko kamahal sang baligya nila sang GTech (damn you capitalists! or in this case damn you UP Employees Livelihood Cooperative who operates the UP Shopping Center! Damn youuuuuuuuuuu!) but no choice so I had to buy it or else my readings and notes would be stalled. So Moral Lesson kiddies: always remember where you put your ballpen -- and have yourself checked for Early Onset Alzheimer's...

OPTION D: Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Amo lang na mahambal ko...


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