my mind wanders... on a thought of a green sunset

Monday, March 13, 2006

Small Talk on Expenditures

     If you see a Highlights post below, it was super delayed. It was made to be published the very same Friday, however my internet card ran out and I had to wait for Monday to acquire money for a new one.

     Now, we talk about buying grades.

     Don’t ask everyone who had the 125 summative exam in Social Studies what the test contained. It was just plain horrific. Ms. Lazaro did make a good exam out of, let’s say, 12 topics, amounting to almost a hundred pages of worthwhile reading of the thick Perry book.

     Now, I have to admit, I don’t know a lot of the exam. I read (skimmed!) the Perry last week and not one info stayed in my memory (with a size smaller than a floppy disk, imagine giving me assignments…) The ST part was so last two weeks ago and the exam was delayed, so my mind was not refreshed on the topic. I particularly hate returning to a topic because its quiz was delayed.

     Plus points in mind, Ms. Lazaro assign book donations. It must be in Filipino, can be of history or economics and civic science, and a lot of stuff. I brought 3 books which my brothers used during their high school years and was pretty useless around the house and accumulated much more dust than expected.

     The surprising thing about it is the fact that the three books amounted to 20 points of bonus items for the failing 125 quiz of mine. When I informed my classmates about it, the grade buying had begun.

     Who even though they would make a deal anyhow, they planned to buy books from Recto and donate them as if “they were in our house, so old and dusty”, and get points for being so generous. It was amazing and sarcastic at the same time.

     Speaking of books, that would be a good cleaning problem for me since those old books can be teleported to the school anytime. They would save a lot of bookshelf space and make me pass the 125-item exam.

     Now, we talk about backgrounds.

     Even though Mrs. Vidal told us that the background would not be so important, we (the props people) would just brighten up the play even for just ten minutes so that we will have the feeling of accomplishment.

     That planned accomplishment currently amounted to 560 pesos.

     Trixia gave us a calendar full of wood setting silhouettes to choose from. It was nice, since we could intensify this on the cheesecloth and get on with our painting session. However the P300 I gave to Angela to buy the cheesecloth was not enough, and the canvassed amount rose to a whooping P500.  Now the spray paints would do if we had stencils so we need to bring a lot of cartolina, masking tape and cutters to create silhouette stencils and use Mary’s acrylic to paint the pink-violet dusk sky. Difficulty Rating - [6 out of 5 stars] and the play would already instigate on Friday.

     The expenditure was flat out horrific for our teacher, but it was just plain old disciplinary money. Tardiness is very expensive. Through the disciplinary act of payment (see Highlights post) we collected P1080 because of the base payment and the payments due to traffic, sloth and just plain tardiness. Absences included.

     I played DotA with Hertz just now, and I have to say - I am going stupid. I can’t play well (include the fact that they were brutal and they went pushing through) and I wished I was with Mendel. I now prefer kindness over brutality in the game. But it’s no big deal; after all, I just have to accept the fact that they were just plain fatalistic.

     Clearance is difficult - I lost my notebook in Chemistry, so I have to rewrite a new one by Monday. I have to design a mask too - African style, so I need to go to a DDR game zone and play Afronova Primeval (Revenge or 8 bit, Standard) because there was a picture of African faces there. I could get an idea.

     Time to wash the dishes. Ciao~

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