Isang email mula sa kabit ni Dating Pangulong Erap

Kilala ko na ng husto ang mga ganitong email na isang tingin ko palang, kaya ko na kaagad malaman kung isa siya sa mga email na nanloloko lang ng mga nakakatanggap nito - unwanted emails ba. Pakiramdam ko nga bihasa na ako sa mga ganito eh.

At kagaya rin marahil ng maraming may email address, binubura ko kaaad ang mga ito ng hindi man lang binubuksan. Sa totoo lang, bago ako magbasa ng kahit anong email, buburahin ko muna lahat ng ganung email. Nakakairita kasi na minsan, sa 35 na email ko, 10 lang dun ang may kwenta sa buhay ko at karamihan, mga email na pinapaasa lang akong marami akong email.

Pero minsan, kapag nababagot ako o sadyang nakakaengganyo ang pangalan ng 'nagpadala,' hindi ko agad binubura at, sa katunyan, binabasa ko pa nga.

At akalain mong mayroon din palang mga pagkakataong mamamangha ka sa mga ganitong email. Minsan kasi, sobrang imaginative ng pagkakagawa niya na umaabot sa puntong nakaka-aliw. Hindi pa rin nakakakumbinsi pero nakaka-aliw pa rin. Sino ba kasing tao ang may kakayahang umisip ng mga ganitong scenario para lang makagawa ng mga email na manloloko? Kaya nakakabilib eh. Yung iba kasi lantaran na lang sinasabi na: "I'll send ou 300 gazillion dollars just reply to this message with your contact info, etc."

Pero ang email na ito, gumamit pa ng kaunting history at story background para lang mas magmukhang convincing. Haha. Kakaibang talaga. Oh eto na (unedited):

From:Madam Laarni Ejarcito Enriquez. Confinement house.
Manilla, Phillipine.

WITH TRUST AND CONFIDENCE,

Dear Sir,

I am very sorry to had infringe into your privacy without permissionbut please with all humility i solicit your attention to hear me out.Iammadam Laarni Enriquez, a filippino by nationality, and a divorcee. Honestly I would like to have a long lasting relationship with you ,if possible entrusting my life time fortune into your possession,as now I am broken hearted and needs someone to trust, without remembering mypast and forsaken experiences from close confidants and family. I need someone, who would take me for whom I am and as a life timepartner, after making claims of my deposited life fortuned in Abroad.Well, from your profile, I believe in me that you ought to be a veryhonest person.

I would like to give you a brief description of my lifeautobiograph I was once the mistress of our President, Joseph Estrada,andduring his tenure in office, I was often used as a courier indepositinghis(the president) funds, in the Europe,and Africa because of myhonesty but his wife Madam Loi and her son-Jude, accused me of havingsecretaffair with the president ,this led to fabrication of all kind ofallegation against just to disrepute my honestly earned fame .

But, not quite long, I was arrested, together with his wife and son,in connection with the 27th July, 2003, failed coup for working in thehousehold of the ex-president Joseph Estrada .Althought i was latergranted bailed as there was no substantial evidence against me , now Ihave been released but under security watch within state confinementwithlimited opportunity to reach the outside world to prove my innocence. All, I want from you is to assist me make claims of some funds, I diddeposited in metallic truck box in security finance house in London,United Kingdom a remote states in British. Every other deposit havebeenconsficated and seized by the the government of Madam Gloria thePresident of republic of philippine .

But, this one is the only one theycouldnot see, as I did kept the deposit certicate and deposit agreetmentwith one of my close confidant The Amount being deposited is much about 20. Million United statesdollars,as this was the money that was supposed to be used by thePresident to acquire some properties in Europe.

All, I want from you, now is honesty and sincerity, as, as soon asthis money is claimed by you, I will look for a way out and sneaked outof Philippines and travel down to meet you in your country , theshipment cost and demurrage has being taken care I would like us to goinvestment partnership together,in investing this money in your countryandanywhere else you prefer.

I will send you my Photo, the a depositcertificate and authoritative agreetment which i am prapared to forward to youwith more hint on how to reach the security company to retrieve andrequest the shipment of the metallic box containing fund on my behalftoyour country while i join you at convenient time for joint investmentif you desire.In addition to this i promise to give you five millionunited states dollars out of the total fund for your kind assistance.

Sincerely,
Laarni.

I hated Math 5

I hated Math 5.

I really hated Math 5.

No, seriously, I really really hated Math 5.

But see, for things that make you tougher and better as a student, more so as a scholar of the government and as a student that is paid to study HARD, those things that challenge your very being to exert more than what you can and excel more on the things you’re bad at – things that push you to the limit, no matter how hate-able it can be – are the things that you’ll eventually love. Things like this, though you hate now, can propel you to breeze through other things that could have been tougher if not for the former.

Even we, INATRMED students, who are actually supposed to have a course centered on biological and medical sciences, still have three math subjects: Math 17, Math 100 and Math 101. Math 17 is the basic math while Math 101 is statistics.

And guess what, Math 100 is calculus.

I know, right? Why the hell are we studying calculus for? Do we seriously have to integrate just so we can measure the pimple of our patients? Or wait, do we have to make a graph and check its continuity just so we’d have quantitative values regarding its location on our patient’s butt?

Oh yeah, I doubted its significance. But see, the world would not fail to prove you wrong many times. We use math in Nephrology, not exactly sure kung calculus talaga pero related ata, in computing for concentration gradients, etc. See, even medicine needs math.

This brings me to my stand (this is the part of an article where the writer would actually just state its stand because he can’t find any other creative way to tell it.): Math 5 should remain as a REQUIRED subject for Pisay seniors.

Why?

One: It is undoubtedly useful. It prepares the Pisay scholars for their math subjects in college, making the scholars have a good foundation for the basic concepts.

Two: If it is removed solely because it is TOO ADVANCED for high school students, then why the hell would Pisay remain to be called the premier high school of the country? If they think something as basic as math 5 is too hard for us, then why still call us gifted? If the main reason for removing it is that it’s too advanced, thus too hard, for us, how would we be different then to the other high schools? Ganito ba kaliit ang tingin ng BOT sa kakayahan ng isang Pisay scholar?

I know it could be that they are just concerned, but the mere fact that many have survived Math 5 means that it is not beyond our capacity.

Come on, those people who got a 5.0 in Math 5 failed not because it was too hard. They failed because of external factors – whether intentional or unintentional, whether it’s their fault or not. For crying out loud, it’s just stupid – PLAIN stupid – to remove a subject just because some fail in meeting its requirements.

And I feel offended that the Math Department is even pushed to comparing our curriculum with the other science high schools. Aren’t we even supposed to have a harder curriculum compared to the other high schools of the country solely because we bear the title of being the premier high school of the country? Wouldn’t it be just right to give justice to that title by actually making sure that we are not just high school graduates after we leave Pisay, but exceptional high school graduates? I’m sure that’s what the country would want. After all, we spend tax payer’s money for our education so why not be the best as a form of respect for being scholars?

It’s just irritating that things like this, when looked upon in the wrong paradigm, can lead to actions that can actually decrease the standard of excellence that our beloved Pisay has. We should not let that be. If there’s something to fight for, judging by what I witness with quesci’s standards, excellence is something we, alumni, should protect.

Boom

I've need to be...complete. (centrum. haha.)

No really. I need reasons AND ways to love myself and appreciate myself back from the disgusting viewpoint of myself that I have right now. Okay, I'm starting to sound conceited. Sorry. It's just that to feel like this AGAIN makes me think like I've never learned anything after so many years. The last time I've felt this was way back first year high school when I was all emo and such. You know, the usual teenage angst. Now, to think that I'm already about to receive my right in watching movie rated R18, feeling this makes me puke.

Or maybe I just really wanted to write in English again, as an act of rebellion to the PI paper that I'm writing right now and can't finish because blog entries like this distract me.

Fix your life, Ryan. Finish the freakin' paper.

Touch Us Not Malacañang!

Is Gloria and her freaking office really determined to CORRUPT EVERY SINGLE INSTITUTION that is trying its best to do something good for the country?

Because if she does, then the news report I heard from ABS-CBN's "Bandila" should come as no surprise at all. No wonder her rotting administration is now targeting Pisay.

Pisay had much controversies that it had to face during the past years. From the pointless and debatable controversy about the Opus Dei teachers to the alleged breaching of several policies, it tried its very best, just like it had always done so in the past, to handle them well. This includes the recent, MOST DESTRUCTIVE controversy that it had to face - the Fabro-Mercury Poisoning Case.

It was destructive because it freaking ruined the image of every Pisay Scholar in the country. It was destrcutive because most, if not all, Pisay Scholars were questioned practically by everyone that knew about the case, if the poisoning was true. It was destructive because we had to answer YES - yes, it was true that a supposedly intelligent senior student was twisted enough to poison another person - and we had to endure the disappointment of everyone that asked the question.

This case has done its part in marring the image that this country's premier high school has long protected. And we are just happy that something was done in response to it. We are NOT PROUD of this case but just like any institution, Pisay is run by humans that make errors. And just like any institution, it is also run by humans that can correct those errors and give justice.

The Philippine Science High School has its own Board of Trustees. And it is the one that corrects the things that are insufficient to conform to the school's standard of excellence. The BOT decides upon cases like this - whether the student still deserves to remain a scholar of the Filipinos or not. But apparently, the Malacañang believes otherwise.

According to the news I've watched in "Bandila," the office of the president had inverted BOT's decision to dismiss M*nzon - the alleged student that poisoned Fabro, another Pisay student. This is so for reasons I'm not sure if the news report aired because I failed to watch the first part. In Pisay terms, when you are already a fourth year student and you got dismissed, you will be graduating not with a Pisay diploma but only with a DepEd diploma. BOT decided to dismiss M***on, thus, disabling him to graduate as a Pisay Scholar.

There are many reasons why I am now officially enraged after hearing this. Here they are:

First, Malacañang NEVER cared (well, at least not when it comes to policies) about Pisay. This is the first I've heard that they actually meddled with Pisay matters (of course, other than the pushing of other lawmakers regarding the constrcton of othe Pisay units. Other maters, if here, I'm not aware.) And what's practically wrong with this "meddling" is that it concerns inverting a decision about a "student case." I would understand that this can be just disgusting Philippine politics if this concerns people from the administration, building constructions, etc. But something as deep as a student case? There is just something wrong. Why would the president of the Philippines be too concerned about a STUDENT who received a disciplinary action due to his conduct last last year? Aren't the rice crisis and Lozada enough to be problematic about? Heck, this issue didn't even become a national issue that everyone in the country knew. Only those who give a damn or who knows what Pisay is all about cared. There are just so many national issues, why and how can the president care about something that is is such a small scale as compared to the other problems they're facing right now?

Second, why this particular student and this particular case? Oh, didn't GMA or her staff knew about the Pisay student that did not graduate with a Pisay diploma simply because he or she exceeded the limit for the number of absences? Didn't GMA or her staff knew about the Pisay students that got dismissed simply because of a failing mark in one of his or her subjects? And these were imposed because these were the rules of the school. And under the rules these, along with the case of M***on, are subject to dismissal. And as an institution that follows the rules that it has created to govern itself, so UNLIKE the government that we have now, Pisay stands by these rules and IMPLEMENTS them well. Besides, these students got dismissed for reasons far less than that of M***on's and yet Malacañang never cared. So why now? Why does it care so much now that it had to meddle with Pisay's implementation of it's own rules?

Third, since when does the Malacañang know more about Pisay students than the Board of Trustees (BOT)? Heck, Malacañang does not even know the constitution well enough to actually prevent Gloria and all other government officials from corrupting the country's money. Why then should it know more about Pisay than Pisay itself? Even if Pisay is under the DOST, it is obvious that the Office of the President know less about Pisay's rules and regulations. I would have been less surprised if the inversion came from the DOST. But from the Office of the President? What's the connection? Seriously, if there is someone more eligible to make a decision about these matters - student matters, for crying out loud - it would be none other than the school, in his case, the BOT of PSHS. The only reason why the inversion from the Office of the President would make an impact is simply because Pisay remains to be under the government (gosh, if only we could be autonomous like UP!). Otherwise, it does not have anything to do with the school.

Fourth, the case was not just disciplinary but almost CRIMINAL. It even almost killed Fabro and had mad her, until now, subject to sterility. THAT WAS MERCURY, for crying out loud! Even the average student knows how fatal that element is! This is not just about a school ego being bruised. This is not just about the stupid government corrupting another honest institution. It's about a girl trying to find justice. And for what that's worth, for a life that could have been possibly ruined, can they not allow justice to incur a punishment, even if its as simple as a 'no diploma?'

Fifth, I have long looked upon Pisay with nothing les than a beacon of excellence. And for that excellence to be ruined by a scholar or by a government, it is simply DESPICABLE. Even Solito's movie wasn't that enough to bring back the image of Pisay that was lost. No one should be called a PSHS Scholar without deserving the title. Genius is not enough. It should have with it the same amount of values expected from it. As an alumni, I do not want to be in the same league as those students sho simply did not deserve what the other alumni, including I, worked for for four years. I do not want to be in the same league as those who have chosen not to value what the school hold dear - LIFE.

Sixth, if he is innocent of the charges against him, why use the DISGUSTING politics of this pathetic country just so he can rid of those allegations? That is just plaine COWARDICE. He WAS once a student of Pisay. He knows that there are o other ways to prove innocence. So I challenge him to drop this utter stupidity of using a rotting government to save his ass and just once, become man enough to face what is thrown at him in the proper courts with due processes. For once, prove to the Pisay community that you still have dignity and that you were still the genius, which Pisay inculcated with values, that everyone thought you were.

Seventh, I DARE NOT BE SILENT ABOUT THIS. Touch us not with your filthy hands Malacañang!