I was disturbed.
Chemical Reactions. Solutions. Mixtures. Colloids. I've heard it all before the past years. They were all so familiar to me that their basic concepts need not be explained to me over again anymore, and the fact that our teacher was reiterating the same things a thousand times over this morning signaled the call for me to whack my head with a metal pencil case or something.
"Kim, give me an example of a liquid in liquid solution."
Bleep.
It was only then that the usual eye pains I've had before started to kick in once again. My nostrils were also clogged due to the colds I've had recently, and it is also because of the same damn thing that my voice has become gruff and crisp, curbing me back from reciting in front. But our teacher insisted that I provide her an immediate response. Damn her.
The truth of the matter was, I can't think of any liquid in liquid solution as of the moment - my brain wasn't functioning well, to be exact. She definitely broke the ice. She served as an ice pick.
After a few minutes of giving others the impression that I was collecting my thoughts to arrive at a decent answer, I finally belted out, "I'm sorry miss. Hindi po gumagana utak ko ngayon eh."
"An example of a liquid in liquid solution is a concentrated shampoo. Am I right girls? Kim, kahit hindi gumagana ang utak mo, maiisip mo yan," she hit back.
That woman clearly didn't understand that I was going through a lot of thinking that moment concerning other important matters that needed most of my consideration rather than her and her effing solutions. She can do fine without me comprehending today's lesson. Taenang yan. Pinahiya pa ako sa klase.
I was thinking of my report card, if you might ask, for I was aware that I didn't do well in the first quarter. I woke up and came about anticipating a long line of 7's to embellish my card this afternoon.
You think it isn't too much? You think I am overreacting? You think I am exaggerating? Well, damn you, then. Burn in hell if you must. IT IS TOO MUCH. I've never had 70s in my report card before and now here I stand at the brink of academic brilliance, set to finally suck in the aforementioned field. My so-called success doesn't lie anywhere else rather than in the field of academics. It is the only thing I am QUITE good at, and now here goes procrastination, slicing through my dreams of attaining satisfactory grades in my 3rd year in high school like butter knife in hot butter... like a blade slicing through the air... damnation...
Lalo na yung physics. Taenang yan, panira ng masayang buhay. Tanggap ko pa yung statistics, trigonometry, chemistry at analytic geometry eh. These subjects have upright mentors to have their concepts well elucidated. If ever I'd get poor marks in these, the blame is to be shot back at me. BUT IN PHYSICS?
I guess you get the picture. I mean, you must. I cannot elaborate a lot of things here - I might even be sued for doing such. Basta, para sa pinakamamahal naming guro doon, taena mo. Mumurahin talaga kita dito kung pwede lang.
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OLC Classroom
In front of the chalk ledge
approximately 3:20 p.m.
I was flashing the most credible ear-to-ear smile I believed would express the profundity of my contented sentiment.
Facing the chalkboard broadened my beam even more. I know it's not too much to brag about, but then again, it provided me the feel that if anyone else could've made it the way I did, then their names would've been jotted down on the board as well.
12. Naranja, Kimberly Ann A.
Taenang yan! Sa lagay na ganito, naka pang-12 pa ako sa classroom? Grabe. Hindi na ako makahirit pa.
I then moved my pair of biological windows to the sheet of paper I've been clutching with intense grasp the whole time. And then it hit me.
My grades were okay, after all. Okay, I tell you. Not well enough, but okay. I couldn't have asked for anything better, though I got a couple of 84s on analytic geometry, statistics, and trigonometry. But then again, it is reasonable. I flunked most of their tests. Walang samaan ng loob, pare.
And then its sight caused the most credible ear-to-ear smile I just flashed a little while ago to die away resembling dust in the wind.
Chemistry ---------------------- 82
The very same question kept on reverberating from one side of my ear to the other. What the hell went wrong?
Damn it. I almost perfected most of your quizzes. I did well on your seatworks. My experiment paper grades were a bit questionable, but then again, I PASSED them all. Medyo tagilid din ako sa exams mo noon, pero taena... Pumasa ako, hah. So what the hell went wrong?
Physics ---------------------- 85
God knows where you got my mark, LRH. I was really expecting a 78 or 79 here, but the grade you gave proved my supposition otherwise. Ang galing.
Haha. So I've been exaggerating things this morning. Taena.
That's it. It's time to juice some puppies up a bit. Konti na lang!
Pictures from the debate held in St. Paul San Rafael last God-knows-when:
