My Saturday’s Issues

NSTP and Grade Distribution

Ate had to rescue one of the twins...

She got a failing grade for NSTP. I asked her if she was able to submit all the requirements in her class and she said she did. That’s why I had to accompany her to talk to her teacher. But unfortunately, unlike in DLSU and UP where you get your class card/ course card directly from your teacher, in their school the distribution of grades is centralized – the college type. Hence, it’s quite tedious to look for professors if ever you’ve problems with the grades. And that’s what we experienced this afternoon!

My sister should wait for November to question her teacher of her failing grade. Funny but she doesn’t have to worry about the period for changing of grades. According to the official in their college’s office, there’s no deadline for changing of grades – you can have your grades change anytime. That’s quite weird.

Bomb Scare

I receive both versions of the “Oct 21 bomb scare” – a forwarded email where the mother mail came from a certain “Ems” and a forwarded text. The usual “paki-alamera” and the “feeling detective” that I am, I tried to find out if the information about the sender were real. The person really exists and that she really works for that company – as per Friendster. But then again, anyone can create a Friendster (in fact, me and my group mates have created dummy Friendster accounts for our research paper then).

Surprisingly, amid the bomb scare, there were still lots of people at Mega Mall. This is probably due to three things:

1. A lot of people aren’t gullible
2. A lot of people are simply careless
3. A lot of people are uninformed

I guess I belong to the first group of people. :-) I had fun at Mega this evening. I was able to sneak a sight of some P.I. contestants.

Philippine Idol

Finally, judges are now more real with their comments. I’ve been waiting for their “boom” comments. Tonight’s really the night! While the judges’ comments are supposed to guide the audience, it seems that with the results of votes, viewers don’t pay much importance on the judges’ comments. Judges have to remind viewers to vote wisely (Simpleng pagboto na lang ng magiling di pa magawa. Kailangan talaga ng voters education sa lahat ng aspeto).

Meanwhile, the reality that the game is a game of money more than talent is apparent. Aside from encouraging the audience to vote for them, some contestants are forced to solicit money so that they could buy call cards/prepaid vote cards to increase their votes.