I watched NEWS ON TV everyday. It's been how many years of watching news on TV since year 1978. Then it became almost a habit or obsession when CNN was founded. I think got this news watching everyday because my father used to watch it too since we had our first TV in 1978. When TV is not enough, the radio is always on for the news too. Then newspapers... never miss anything.
It's a habit almost everyday, early morning NEWS. News, news, news while sipping freshly hot brewed coffee.
I remember way back then when I was in High School, I had a male teacher who always called me for the latest news. He could have asked somebody else but he liked me to tell him what I watched on TV or heard from the radio. Later, I found out that his wife arrived from work at the municipal too late for him to know the news. Where I sat from the classroom can see from the wide open windows who walked by even from a distance of 100 yards...his wife holding on to the newspaper coming home from work. Hmm, they are always into NEWS too.
When I arrived here in Canada, a friend told me that I should not believe all the stories in the news. Some of them are untrue, fabricated or made up for games. What?!
So, if you'll ask me whether to believe the news? I was reluctant to accept that everything is new news, correct news, or hoard news or fabricated.
Fabricated as means to pitch out for the games.
When I was in College, in University, my professor in Political Science was once a lawyer-judge then and he, just like many lawyers are somewhat "bookies." He was the kind of orthodox, believed in "by the book acquisition of knowledge." I think he memorized the whole textbook or maybe because it is the textbook he was using for so many years that every word from the book is already in his mind. My professor was redundant in having this statement about "beware of infiltration." BEWARE OF INFILTRATION. (( It was at the time when students from other universities get in the university belt to rally and demonstrate and recruit students who are willing to join them. They were noisy and to think that they were from prestigious universities and some of them are scholars... ? WTF! is that? They became noisy, loud and obnoxious and they received a splash of water from the fire department of our university. TO COOL THEM DOWN)).
He used to take his lecture as if there's no tomorrow, that professor has no awareness what time is and if I wont walk-run as soon as the bell rung then I would be late for the next subject. In the next subject, the Atenean grad. professor was waiting in the classroom for the students to sit properly before he gets and hold unto his white chalk and without saying a word print on the blackboard " CAVEAT EMPTOR."
CAVEAT EMPTOR! = Buyer's Beware!
Then blah, blah, blah... we listened to him attentively with fright. He seldom smile nor make any jokes. He just stood at the front of the class, delivered the subject and objective of the lesson plan for the day and I take notes. I made sure my ears are open for whatever the notes to be written, have to write down on my notebook. I took all subjects with flying colors as if listening to the news or whatever news are the lessons/lecture for the day. That's how it is. You must have great listening skills if you are to study in Philippines and you the diligent students should have mastered the skills of writing and printing because the professors mouths are faster as they had memorized the textbooks they are using. The skills of steno-writing could be very helpful. Or you could at least buy the textbook and thick textbook that period of time are priced P500-P750. Costly in the 70's and 80's. (Medical textbooks are more expensive, range from P1,000 to P5,000/each).
Later on, it's not the professors doing the teaching, the students were the ones teaching the whole class through oral report defending feasibility study, research and thesis and you have to provide visual aids. To think that those professors never used any visual aids nor write on the blackboard as they were just in front of the class talking and talking as long as the time provide for an hour long lesson. Some of them talked while standing and while others talked and talked while seated on their chair beside their desk. There was a Harvard grad professor who will begin with the lecture, but before that she will face the window and keep puffing her cigarette until she's finished. We can't stop her and we can't say anything. She's like the prima donna in the university, hey she was a graduate of Harvard in the US! (She reminds me of the man in X Files who keep smoking cigar as means to cope up with stress and pressure). Don't know what the stress about in Psychology class. Her normal teaching habit is opening of the Psychology book, then she will tell us the page on what to read then she called several students to analyze images on those pages. They called my classmates 3 of them one after another (wont tell you their names) then me. Them before me. She asked so many questions of what I can see and perceive on those images from the book.
And the rest of the story was deleted. Don't know who. It could be my angel or the Illuminati.
Wonder why.
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Tell me why. Why you have to delete my notes here?
THIS IS MY BLOG!
I don't delete other people's blog. Nor do I post comments on their blogs.
But maybe, they like some mysteries so be it.
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You cannot just hack from my blogs.
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