Sunday, November 18, 2007

ay si lola...!




We went to SM yesterday (Saturday) to shop for some new clotes for Christmas. My sister and my mom were browsing through some clothes when I saw an old lady sleeping in one of the benches in SM Department Store.

I'm sure she has to be really tired to sleep inside a mall. Nagulat talaga ako nun. Uupuan ko pa naman sana yung bench! hehe. 
One question, why does she have those socks on her mouth?!?!?

WEIRD.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Pete Wentz is so overrated






i mean, he's not THAT good at playing the bass. A LOT of people think so. (if you don't believe me, check out http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pete+wentz&page=3). Apparently, they think he's hot, wait till you see these pics courtesy of www.perezhilton.com. you might want to check out the comments about him too. hehe. (http://perezhilton.com/?p=2776#respond)

Friday, September 21, 2007

Entrance Exam Madness!

As a senior in high school, I should prepare and cram for my upcoming entrance tests. Problem is, I have absolutely no idea how hard thay are except for UP and Ateneo which are EXTREMELY nosebleeding, by the way. I have my USTET (University of Santo Tomas Entrance Test) coming up and I don't know the first thing to review. So what I did is I googled up some forums and discussion boards that talks about how hard these things are.

Here's what I've got:
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source: http://asteeg.net/2005/after-the-upcat/

After the UPCAT

Posted on August 6, 2005 at 6:57 pm
Filed under Daily Dose

NOTE: Please be reminded that I took the UPCAT on 2005.

The answer? Tigang na tigang ang utak ko! The questions are difficult.

I left home around four hours and thirty minutes after midnight. We (bacause, three of my classmates are with me) arrived at UP Extention Program in Pampanga by 5:30am. We were allowed to go to the lobby (where I took the test) by 6:30am. Well, Filipino Time so we actually started around 7:00am. Giving the instructions took 30 minutes! Nagmamadali pa yung proctor namin! Baklang hitad kasi! Di ka pa tapos nagsusulat ng name mo, nasa number of test booklet na siya! The test took 5 hours. The easiest part is English Proficiency! While the hardest part is Math (though I like Math) and Science. Some questions seems to be funny, you know, stupid questions.

The questions are simple but I have not answered everything. Why? I did not reviewed! What I brought with me is just my stocked knowledge!

After finishing UPCAT, we found out it’s raining. We waited for the rain to stop before go back to San Fernando. I spent 41 bucks just for the transportation! I don’t expect to pass UPCAT but I’ll not lose any hope!

I’ll have to go to hiatus now. Sorry. I still have to do my lectures! Lectures in our school is recorded! I’ll return (and return comments) after our first quarterly test.

**my comments** -- I did not reviewed daw oh! hehe...sama koh.

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source: http://asteeg.net/2005/after-the-ustet/

After the USTET

Posted on September 18, 2005 at 9:39 pm
Filed under Daily Dose

If I have a post entitled After the UPCAT, I also have this post. Lol.

Word Analogy:
UPCAT : UP :: USTET : UST

Lol… nababaliw na ako. It’s my first time to go to UST this day (in the main grounds of UST) and WOW! UST is so so big! Haha! The main building looks like creepy though because of its has big wooden doors.

I took UPCAT at St. Raymond’s Buliding, room 403. The test took four hours from my precious time! Lol! Well as what some of you had said, the test is easy, I want to pass it! Well, as what my classmate had said, “It’s still hard to expect that you will pass.”

USTET is easier than what I had thought! Of course, there are still some questions that I have not answered. The easiest part for me? The Math part of the test! The questions are very easy. Kahit di mo na gamitin ang stocked knowledge mo, pwede na!

Um… I think that’s all for now! I’ll give back comments once I’m free… busy… busy… busy!
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source: http://aika.tinig.com/?p=139

misadventures ng isang babaeng bangag sa kanyang entrance exams…

Posted by aika under *Blogger

punta kami mamaya ni din sa san juan de letran para manood ulit ng PBL. wala lang.

at kapag naligaw kami, di na kami manonood. punta nalang kami sa PLM para tignan yung resulta ng exam ni din at dex at iba pang nag exam doon.

hay naku. ang mga college entrance exam nga naman.

hindi ko makakalimutan na entrance exam ko eh yung sa up at sa ust.(teka lang, yun LANG naman ang pinagexaman ko at wala ng iba!hehe)

sa up, kamuntikan na akong magwala dahil nakalimutan ko yung eraser kong mamahalin na minana ko pa sa tatay ko. tanga kasi ng eraser. nagpaiwan. pero oks lang yung exam. di ko nga inexpect na ganun ka dali eh. yun nga lang, di nakapasa.di ako umabot sa quota. 2.583 ang nakuha ko. sayang. pero enjoy talaga. kasi etong exam na ‘to, di ako sinuportahan ng nanay ko. kasi ayaw nya rin naman akong mag exam dito. mapapagod lang daw ang utak ko. besides, kahit makapasa ako, di ako pag-aaralin sa unibersidad. pero enjoy talaga. akalain mong maglakad kami mula UPIS hanggang oblation. boogie.

sa ust naman, kamuntikan na akong mawalan ng malay dahil sa lamig. para kaming nakakulong sa isang malaking ref. sobra. kaya kahit simpleng tanong na ‘logic’, nag isang minuto ako na sagutan kasi nawalan ako ng konsentrasyon. kaya laking gulat ko ng napasa ko lahat eh. mahirap talaga ang ustet. o talagang malamig lang. pero astig din ‘to, kasi todo supporta si nanay. mas excited pa nga sya sakin. mas kabado pa ata. ako naman, isang magiting na anak, kamuntikang maiwanan ang lapis. bumalik pa ako sa bahay(malapit palang naman ako eh) para kumuha ng 5 lapis.sigh.

hindi na ako nag exam sa iba kasi mayabang ako. joke. ewan ko nga ba. dapat kukuha din ako sa lasalle kaya lang di ko trips dun.

tapos nung nagdadatingan na yung mga resulta ng mga classmates ko ( na yung karamihan eh di nakapasa/waiting list), kinakabahan nako. para ngan ako nalang ang wala pang resulta sa kanila. kaya kukuha sana ako sa MAPUA para sakali manlang na wala akong mapasahan. binalak ko ding kumuha sa PUP. pero ewan ko ba, sa twing binabalak ko, tinatamad ako. weird.

yun pala, makakapasa ako sa UST.

sigh… tapos, within a month, papasok nako ng college. i missed highschool already!
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source: http://niflheim03.tabulas.com/

October 25th, 2004

Posted by niflheim03 at 02:34 PM on October 25, 2004.

Whew! Ang dami naming pinuntahan kanina: CEU, San Beda, UERM at Trinity College. Pero bago ko ikwento un, ung kahapon muna.

Nagtake nga pala ako kahapon ng USTET at DLSUCET. Ung USTET, medyo nadalian ako. Ang dali ng English! In 15-minute time, I managed to finish answering all the items in that subject. At siyempre may mga hula din ako... hehehe. Ung sa Math, panatag naman ako at may naisasagot ako kahit papaano. Sa Science, wag mo nang tanungin! Bagsak na ako dun! Nadiscuss na sa amin ung mga topics dun eh nakalimutan ko lang (dati pa kasi eh... pero kahit bago nakakalimutan ko rin... hehehe).

Sa DLSUCET, ok lang. Sa English ako medyo nadalian. Sa Math, may naiisasagot naman ako pero hindi ganun karami katulad ng sa USTET. Sa Science, ang dami ring tanong na nadiscuss na namin kaso nakalimutan ko na. Ung mga parallel, series sa light bulbs, natake-up na ata namin un eh... familiar kasi. Sa essays, sa English ok lang medyo mahaba ang nagawa ko. Sa Tagalog, bagsak ako! 121 words out of the minimum of 250 words! Ung essay na English buti at marami akong nasabi (kapag explanation kasi talagang matipid ako sa words... hehehe), kung ano ang maisip ko sulat kaagad. Bago nga pala nung exam, nagkakita kami nina Sheryl, Yanie, Jaboy at Enrico.

Dumako naman tayo sa mga pinuntahan namin kanina. On the spot ung punta namin sa CEU. Pagkapunta doon, kuha ng form, bayad tapos nagexam kaagad ako. Walastik! Ang dali! Pinakamadali as of now sa mga inexaman ko na. Nakuha ko kaagad ang result. Sayang ung English, 65/75. 10 na lang eh. At least pasado ako. Habang nageexam gna pala ako, c Mama pumunta ng San Beda para magapply. Kulang daw requirements. Tinamad c Mama magapply sa San Beda, sabi niya sa December na lang daw. Pagkatapos ng CEU, punta kami Trinity, kuha form tapos pila sa cashier. ANG HABA NG PILA! Enrollment pala kasi kaya Mom and I decided to go for a lunch at KFC near UERM. Pagkatapos namin kumain, finill-upan namin ung form. Walastik! Nakakabadtrip magsagot ng form sa UERM, hindi mo maintindihan! Basta ang gulo! Pagkatapos nun, LRT kami papuntang Katipunan then punta ng SAID (Southeast Asian Institute for the Deaf... where my brother studies... he\'s deaf). We left the car there before going to CEU, which means, nagcommute lang kami. We waited for Dan, my bro, to come out after his tutor. While waiting, I watched Butterfly Effect (DVD). Ang haba! Natapos ako sakto pagpark ng car sa garage.
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source: http://pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193772

How was your CETs? Anong CET ang pinakanahirapan kayo?

noinertaus
For me.. natakot ako sa UP... ewan ba pero parang ang "hostile" na environment.. hahaha.... Nagtest ako sa Malcolm Hall.. Tapos yung isa sa mga lights nila parang babagsak sa baba.. Ewan ba pero parang nakakafreak out.

Pinakagusto kong environment yung sa ADMU. I don't know yet if I passed. Pero I felt alive during the whole duration of the exam.

Pinakamadali yata yung sa UST....

CoYoTe_BeAuTiFuL!!
ok lang.. ua&p! omigod! wala akong masagutan sa math part! haha! for me, UST din yung pinakamadali.. hehe..

geeksquad
i came from UA&P. its tough there now. good luck!

coyote_ugly
on topic! really? parang nag aalinlangan na tuloy ako pumasok sa ua&p. luckily i passed nga pala sa ua&p. hehe. lucky me!

geeksquad
ua&p is a good school. you'll just be tired out of your wits. 24 units is a typical load in one semester.

and it gets harder.

enjoy your college life!

coyote_ugly
actually ok naman talaga ang ua&p for me beacause i want to be a businesswoman.

noinertaus
Quote:Originally posted by coyote_ugly
ok lang.. ua&p! omigod! wala akong masagutan sa math part! haha! for me, UST din yung pinakamadali.. hehe..

I can remember one easy question there:

What is the opposite of always?
a) sometimes b) never c) often....


But USTET results are not yet out until Feb 28.

retrojam
admu - mahirap pero hindi mo alam kung anong basehan nila sa pagkuha ng studyante! yung iba pumapasa dun kahit hindi naman katalinuhan yung iba nga bagsak dun pero topnotchers ngayon ng UP. tinatanong pa kung anong prperties mo like "how many cars do you have"? duh?
dlsu ust and up - fair sila sa students.. sa ust madali nga pero best students lang yung kinukuha then the rest pang waiting list lang..


XetraDAX
Quote:Originally posted by retrojam
admu - mahirap pero hindi mo alam kung anong basehan nila sa pagkuha ng studyante! yung iba pumapasa dun kahit hindi naman katalinuhan yung iba nga bagsak dun pero topnotchers ngayon ng UP. tinatanong pa kung anong prperties mo like "how many cars do you have"? duh?

diba they onle ask this if the applicant is applying for a scholarship?


clawed_out
they ask about their financial status to check if they can afford their education without having a scholarship.

but i agree, those are a bit tacky to ask.


XetraDAX
but still diba? they only ask those to applying for scholarship.

some questions i remember seeing, aside dun sa cars

does your family owns a hacienda/farm in the province? how many hectares? how many workers? (woah.....)

square meters of your house

list ALL your appliances (pati electric fan pa yata)

ilan aircon units

etc.


pete_totoy
Life Sa mga future Tomasino...WELCOME sa inyo!

Mag-eenjoy kayo sa USTe basta ingat lang kayo sa paligid-ligid outside of the campus...daming bad elements ang nandoon!


hideki
Quote:Originally Posted by retrojam
admu - mahirap pero hindi mo alam kung anong basehan nila sa pagkuha ng studyante! yung iba pumapasa dun kahit hindi naman katalinuhan yung iba nga bagsak dun pero topnotchers ngayon ng UP. tinatanong pa kung anong prperties mo like "how many cars do you have"? duh?
dlsu ust and up - fair sila sa students.. sa ust madali nga pero best students lang yung kinukuha then the rest pang waiting list lang..

nagtataka nga din ako. kse meron akong mga friends na nagtake ng acet. yung isa kong friend na nag apply ng scholarship sa ateneo, nung nagtake ng acet bumagsak. matalino naman sya. pumasa nga sya sa quota course na inapplyan sa up diliman. yung isa ko naman friend na nagtake ng acet, hindi sya nag apply ng scholarship. pumasa naman sya. pumasa din sya sa upcat pero hindi quota course ang pinasahan nya. nakakapagtaka talaga. siguro mas priority nila yung mga student na kayang magbayad...


noinertaus
Hehehe.. Ako rin di ako pumasa ng ADMU. Iyak nga ako ng iyak e. I believe I did my best from the application to the entrance exam. Ok naman ang school records ko. Mga line of nine nga kadalasan ang grades ko the past years e. (1st to third year lang ang tinignan) Iyak nga ako ng iyak e. Haha. Pero nakapasa ako ng DLSU at UST. Buti na lang.

Kanya- kanya lang yan ng luck. Kung saan ka, doon ka ilalagay ng Diyos.


Cyberspace_law
Quote:Originally Posted by noinertaus
Hehehe.. Ako rin di ako pumasa ng ADMU. Iyak nga ako ng iyak e. I believe I did my best from the application to the entrance exam. Ok naman ang school records ko. Mga line of nine nga kadalasan ang grades ko the past years e. (1st to third year lang ang tinignan) Iyak nga ako ng iyak e. Haha. Pero nakapasa ako ng DLSU at UST. Buti na lang.

Kanya- kanya lang yan ng luck. Kung saan ka, doon ka ilalagay ng Diyos.

hindi ka siguro mapera, akalain mo ba namang tanungin ka kung ilan ang car mo?


[JZ] Nightmare
Flo pinakamahirap na nakuha kong exam ay yung sa ateneo

pinakamadali sa ust. pambata.


noinertaus
Tinanong ba ang bilang ng kotseng mayroon kami? Parang wala akong maalala.

Anyway.. Tatlo na ang mga natanggap kong liham mula sa mga inaplayan ko na unibersidad. Nagtatawanan kami ng mga kaklase ko dun sa mga kalidad ng envelope na pinadala. Pinakamaganda ang sa DLSU. Pinakapangit ang sa UST. Pero walang mas papangit sa Miriam daw. SA Miriam, you have to be the one to provide the envelope. Haha.


sYrinX
I took the UPCAT and 3 other entrance exams two years ago. I was lucky to pass UA&P's entrepreneurial management. The USTET two years ago was not that hard. ACET was the hardest entrance exam i took. And I'm not surprised with the result. UP was okay lang. I didn't pass though.


jude_dlcruz
super, pero mas mahirap ngayon ang USTET kesa UPCAT..ala lang feel ko lang!


[-c-h-a-]
if you think USTET was easy, di siguro kayo nagtake ng exam ng St. Scho... grrrr... not to be boastful or anything but I felt like I wasted my time answering the questions... cuz madali tlga e...


noinertaus
Hindi na ako nag-apply sa mga all-girls school. Ang boring naman ng buhay ko kung ganun. All girls all the way.. Baka di na ako maging normal nun


retrojam
ateneo
minsan naisip ko talaga ano ba ang basehan ng ateneo sa pagkuha ng estudyante?
kailangan mayaman
kailangan may pangalan ang pamilya?

ako pumasa ako sa up, ust, at dlsu.. hindi sa nagyayabang pero yung mga bobito nga pumapasa ng ateneo pero bagsak naman ng up...


phallic1381
Quote:Originally Posted by noinertaus
Tinanong ba ang bilang ng kotseng mayroon kami? Parang wala akong maalala.

Anyway.. Tatlo na ang mga natanggap kong liham mula sa mga inaplayan ko na unibersidad. Nagtatawanan kami ng mga kaklase ko dun sa mga kalidad ng envelope na pinadala. Pinakamaganda ang sa DLSU. Pinakapangit ang sa UST. Pero walang mas papangit sa Miriam daw. SA Miriam, you have to be the one to provide the envelope. Haha.

Have you received UP's envelope? Yun ang pinakapangit na envelope pero da best school... UST yung second na pangit, maganda naman sa ateneo at pinakamagara nga sa la salle.

Baliktarin mo lang and you''ll discover what's the best university in that order. What a coincidence!!! Nyahaha!!!


mischiefer
nagtatago sa kwarto
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: o___o;; I remember taking the UPCAT -- sa Melchor Hall (Coll of Engg) ako.

Nilalamig ako sa Engg theater. Tapos ang tahimik pa. Yung seatmate ko nakipagusap na lang saken, di daw cia sanay sa tahimik (di ko alam kung pumasa ba cia).

Bawal daw balikan yung subject na tapos na pero nung natapos ako sa last part ng exam, binalikan ko yung sa Math. LOL Engot kasi ako sa Math eh.

Di ko akalain, pag pasa ko--sa Engg din pala ako mapapadpad. Melchor Hall, we're meant to be. T_T


3sa
Long Reply But Read It Anyway. :)
Quote:Originally Posted by retrojam
minsan naisip ko talaga ano ba ang basehan ng ateneo sa pagkuha ng estudyante?
kailangan mayaman
kailangan may pangalan ang pamilya?

ako pumasa ako sa up, ust, at dlsu.. hindi sa nagyayabang pero yung mga bobito nga pumapasa ng ateneo pero bagsak naman ng up...

let's put it this way, I applied for a scholarship and yes, pati electric fan tinatanong doon. I didn't get the scholarship. Out of the 607 students who applied, only a 100 were granted. But the thing is, you see, I still passed Ateneo regardless...even if I already said in my scholarship form I wouldn't go to Ateneo if I didn't get the scholarship. (BTW, my family's decided that i'm going to ateneo now)

when I read the replies, I wondered if people really thought of Ateneo as a money-making profit-oriented school. I guess that's the way people see it. But I've known so many people who've won scholarships in Ateneo and have been under Ateneo's wing the whole time and have excelled in the future. Their common factor? Heart. Not just the service they promised to render to Ateneo.

Out of the 25 who applied in my class for ateneo, only 20 passed. Nagulat nga ako na yung isang matalino sa klase hindi nakapasa. pero siguro swertihan na lang yon. Sa bagay, the ACET was so pressuring.

I applied for three schools: UP, Ateneo, and La Salle. I passed Ateneo and La Salle but not UP. Bobita ba ako? I hope I'm not. As I've said, I believe it's a matter of luck and personal limits.

Of the three entrance tests, I found Ateneo's the easiest. The only annoying about it is that the time's so limited it bursts your brain! But the contents was even easier than the UPCAT's. Catch sa UPCAT kasi, right minus wrong.

I figured that those who'd pass UP were those who were more careful and sure of their answers. Those who are bold enough to stick their guns. As for me? the reading comprehension pulled me down. I fell asleep during that test. I was in no way sure of those Filipino articles. Math and English maybe. But the long Filipino articles with complicated FIlipino questions (well, at least for me it was)? Oh no...

ACET and DLSU was more of a matter of guessing intellectually. So those who'd pass those schools more or less had an idea of English and Math principles. Although not so sure about the answers, those who passed were able to still think more coherently even under pressure.

The line is drawn there. Sometimes, people can't guess intellectually under killer time pressure. Others can. Others are VERY smart but take time to think. Others don't need so much time.

At the end of the day, passing these tests become indicative of who we are and how we think. It's not just because may pera tayo. Sometimes, meron nga talaga. But never have they indicated whether the person is BOBITA just because they passed one and flunked the other. Each passing test indicates that there IS something intellectually respectable about the person.



bouncybanana
kakagraduate ko lang sa HS, so incoming froshie ako for college. here's my take on the entrance exams:

UPCAT - medyo madali lang siya, simple concepts, pero yun nga right minus wrong and ang dami daming applicants kaya mahirap pumasa.
ACET - time pressured, kaya mahirap. pero madadali lang naman yung mga questions. may leakage from a review center yung friends ko ;P sayang hindi ko nakuha. hehe :P
DLSUCET - ok naman, medyo short lang kami sa time kasi pinatuloytuloy sa amin ang test.
USTET - favorite test ko ito! hahaha

hindi sa nagyayabang, but i passed all. hindi ko pa alam kung saan ako mag-aaral.


zureee
Ok lang pow. Hmm... madali lang ung sa admu, sobra lang ang time pressure. Upcat ok lng din. dalawa lang pinagtestan ko eh...

Ot: no offense po sa mga dlsu, pero i know some people na nakapasok dun ng hnde nag eexam so... i don't exactly trust their system.


noinertaus
ay sus... kahit saan naman yata may ganyan e. kahit sa ateneo.. may kilala akong dun na siya mag-aaral pero hindi man siya nagtaas. tamad itong batang ito. nakakainis nga malaman e. ako, hindi ako pumasa ng ateneo pero gusto ko talaga mag-aral dun. siya naman, ayaw nga niya mag-college, (kasi sobrang yaman nila.. hindi niya nakikita ang balyu ng edukasyon sa buhay ng tao) doon sya ilalagay ng magulang niya.. paano? pinerahan. palakasan naman talaga.

favorite ko talaga ustet. kahit madali lang test nila at madaling makapasok, it doesn't mean that basta-basta lang ang pinoproduce nilang mga estudyante. ang daming mga may sinabi na galing sa uste.


siLent_xiii
6 schools ako nag take ng exam... share ko lang po


UPCAT - ok lang.. time pressure..kasi hindi ko natapos yun part ng
math pero ok yun kinalabasan ng test scores ko..
pinakamataas ko reading comprehension..la lang

ACET - medyo nahirapan ako...

DLSUCET - ok naman po,pinakagusto kong test...may essay pa nga
eh.. 2 filipino & english

UST - ok din... dami nagtest nun..

Makati Med. - ok naman yung test.. mahigpit nga lang sila...
talgang sinasalang mabuti mga papasok dun...
swerte kung nakaabot sa quota nila...

UERMM - ok din.... kaya lang after naipasa mo exam nila
may interview pa..so wal ka ring lusot...

sa 6 schools sa ateneo hindi ako pumasa...hehe kasi ECE kinuha ko din eh ang hina ko sa math... UP-manila (nursing kasi..may quota)hindi ako pumasa pero yun grade ko pwde sa ibang UP school...

Makati Med.(nursing) & UST (pharma) - wait listed

UERMM(nursing) & DLSU(bachelor of science in accountancy)
- i passed


clawed_out
so nasaan ka ngayon?


karolsee
upcat : totally easy but and I wasn't pressured at all. madami pang extra time to stare at the wall haha! but the competitions really tough so as I expected I wont be going to up whaha! I wasn't expecting to pass naman so I didn't bother studying and stuff for it. haha

acet : I think this test is totally based on luck. I don't remember that thing about them asking how many cars you have and stuff?? baka nga pagmagaapply lang for scholarship.. super time pressure sa mga logical reasoning so you wont really have the time to use your logic. baka may logical reasoning ung pattern ng answers hehe pero english and math parts weren't as hard as I thought.. ok lang normal naaral naman na e..

dlsu : same as ateneo pero yung guessing game part for me yung science.. hehe inask pa ako nung proctor dun kung sure ba daw ako na tapos na ako.. kasi super bilis lang I just kept on shading nakakadisappoint kasi na wala na akong natatandaan.. kahit yung mga kakaaral lang parang ano ulit yun. haha but I also don't get the thing about passing ateneo and lasalle.. parang iba iba talaga sila ng basis?

ust : easiest test I took. easier than up pa ata especially the general knowledge part GENERAL KNOWLEDGE TALAGA! as in siguro general knowledge ng grade school?? haha ewan. haha

ua&p : a bit harder than ust pero halos ganun lang din yung level ng english and math? meron pang essay.. tas 30 minutes?? parang what the ang tagal naman buti nalang pwede umalis ng masmaaga hehe


aldritz
took 3 tests...

DLSU - i like their on the spot essay writing... sa filipino, naipapatupad ba ang... ? i forgot, lol, basta it has something to do with Filipino as a Language... ung english, about tests ata yun...

UP - easy, easy, easy, easy, competitive, competitive, competitive, competitive, competitive, competitive, competitive, competitive,

ADMU - hard hard hard --- lol, i hope they ask the applicants to do the essays during the exams! and they give the same topic year after year! experience that helped define you as a person...

UST - didnt take it... lol, i was too confident i would pass all three... and I DID!, hehe,


xenozyte
ano ung mga topic na binibigay nila sa essay?


noinertaus
basta iba-iba e per batch of examinees. but as what i can remember, they asked us about politics [english essay] and media [fil essay].


megaman7fanatic
for me

ATENEO - madali lang talga entrance exams nila promise heheheh
ang problema lng ay ang time pressure........
ksi ang dami daming tanong pero konti lng ung time
ang dami dami ng tanong pero madadali lng talaga

UP - madali lng din tlga promise.......
pero atleast tama ung time limit na binibigay nila

DLSU - Ok lng din the same pattern as UP but mas mahirap sa UP
ng konti. tama din ung time limit.....
malakas masyado aircon......

UST - Madali lng sya
pero sabi nila once youre their na pahirap na ng pahirap

ehhehehehehheheheh

in my opinion lng hehehhe

i passed all these schools ksi.....


rodent_slayer
acet-pinakamahirap na test na natake ko . biruin mo, if im not mistaken, my part ng test na 25 items ata yun in 1 minute.

ustet-pinakamadali kaso bumagsak ako... HMMM? i've smelled something fishy

mee (mapua entrance exam) - in between acet & ustet. pinakamahirap siyempre na part ng test d2 ay yung sa math and english; bkt sa english? kelangan mo pang mag-solve para madistinguish ang tamang grammar, hirap iexplain pero ganun yun. sabi ng higher years maluwag pa raw yun.

however, basis of good quality education is not determined in entrance exams of each skuls yet its on how the passers of these exams "survive" in the institute.


megaman7fanatic
Quote:Originally Posted by rodent_slayer
acet-pinakamahirap na test na natake ko . biruin mo, if im not mistaken, my part ng test na 25 items ata yun in 1 minute.

ustet-pinakamadali kaso bumagsak ako... HMMM? i've smelled something fishy

mee (mapua entrance exam) - in between acet & ustet. pinakamahirap siyempre na part ng test d2 ay yung sa math and english; bkt sa english? kelangan mo pang mag-solve para madistinguish ang tamang grammar, hirap iexplain pero ganun yun. sabi ng higher years maluwag pa raw yun.

however, basis of good quality education is not determined in entrance exams of each skuls yet its on how the passers of these exams "survive" in the institute.


very true


nakagoluvssoi
4 ang entrance exams na kinuhanan ko at napasa ko lahat...

UPCAT-hindi ko ineexpect na mahirap ang Math dito pero nakapasa naman ako. Nakakatawa lang dahil di ako nakatulog the night before as in walang tulog.

ACET-sobrang dali ng Math pero mahirap ung English. Sa Ateneo na ko papasok this year.

USTET-sobrang dali. Napasa ko ung two courses na kinuha ko.

DLSUCET-mahirap ung iba sobrang shinot gun ko na pero nakapasa pa rin ako thank God! Medyo sumakit lang ulo ko ang lamig kasi sa kwartong pinagtakean ko eh...

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source: http://www.witchmag.com.ph/board/index.php?topic=22310.msg679522


College Entrance Exams

« on: September 08, 2007, 11:48:27 am »

Are you a fourth year who's dreaming of studying in a prestigious school? Umm... We all know that we need to take a college entrance exam right? Im kinda nervous... Is it hard or what? For sure UP is a nosebleed... Can anyone give tips or a bird's eyeview about this topic? I or many fourth years probably need it. Thanks in advance. Well, I sure do need it. ^^

NhiL

Re: College Entrance Exams
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2007, 07:06:31 pm »

UPCAT

i guess this is really the hardest entrance exam in the Philippines. Although many schools/review centers offer UPCAT Review, what they can only teach you are basic facts and principles.

USTET

this is one of the easiest entrance exam as far as i know.

Answers are very easy. They are obvious. However, i don't know why some still fails to pass this exam. One of my friend failed USTET but passed UPCAT. Maybe one of the reasons is what they wrote in their family's income. But for any other reasons, i don't know what or why.

ADMU

I didn't take the exam but my classmates said it was easy. I don't know how easy.

DLSU

Some of my friends said that the test were really easy but some said it's difficult. I guess it depends on the person taking the test.






About the topics...


Well, many schools give basic topics in all subjects. But still there are those exams that requires advance knowledge on a certain topic. So what you need to do is just review on your own. Review your old notes and books. You don't need to enrol in a review center just to pass to a certain university. They might help but still.. it's a 50-50 percent of passing since (like what i said earlier) they just teach basic topics.

If this post does not give you much infos like what you are expecting, you can still ask me (or other members) about more stuffs. ;]


monokuro

Re: College Entrance Exams
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2007, 09:45:01 pm »

Wow. Thanks for the info. ^^ My problem is math... hehe...Im nervous about that. But I really appreciate the information. ^^ I want to try out on UE or DLSU... Cause my mom says so... But I don't think I can cram... ^^;


۵Lilu۵

you heard him, so just play along.. (^^,)


Re: College Entrance Exams
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2007, 09:48:42 pm »

my first time to take an entrance exam for college was UPCAT

it was hard.. as in sobra.. todo hula ako..

language and reading comprehension wasnt that hard, but science and math?? waaah talo ako jan..

anyway, dont be nervous.. have confidence on what knowledge you have and tama si kuya nhil, its better to review on your own than to enroll in review centers..


fujin_iris

Re: College Entrance Exams
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2007, 10:04:35 pm »

nose bleed ka jan^^ sobra ka nmn hehe.. ako nahirapan sa science malay ko ba dun heheh. pero ung math ung madali... d ako nakapasa sa diliman CoE kc choice ko.. sa up baguio tuloy bagsak ko hehe pero auku dun masmabuti nlng magSLU pero ayaw ng parents kong lumayo ako dami na kasi colej skuls samin tas lalayo pa ako.. pero la dn nmn ako pinagsisisihan dito sa skul ko ngaun one of the best skuls nga sa la union na nagooffer ng high quality education especially abowt sa computers.. pero basta at least naka post name ko sa mga nakapasa sa UP hehe.. great accomplishment na un.. 7 nga lng kmi nakapasa sa skul namin sa UP e.. well.. dpende dn yan sa student hnd lng sa skul naweweigh ang capability ng isang tao..

hnd lahat ng studyanteng pumapasok sa magarang eskwelahan ehh nagiging successful sa bandang huli o kaya maicoconsider na lht matatalino.. ung isa ko ngang fren na nakapasa sa UP diliman.. nahihirapan na raw at d makacope up sa subjects nya.. weakness na nga lng nya ang math, engineering pa kinuha nya.. im wondering kung bkt sya nakapasa ng engineering eh waterloo nya un.. tsaka ako pa ung nagsuggest ng kursong kukunin nya heheh.. hayyy.. mabuti nlng maganda status ko ngaun sa skul at least nakakasabay ako..


The Korean Doll

Re: College Entrance Exams
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2007, 01:28:17 pm »

Yung exam palang na nakuha ko was the UPCAT. As what Alindree said, madali lang ang Reading and Language, mahirap ang Math and Science. As in sooper, nablanko din ako.

Just some reaction sa sinabi ni Nhil about sa mga review centers. It can really help you. Narerefresh nila yung mind mo sa mga subjects and topics niyo buong highschool. And mas madali kasi, minsan nakakaadvance teaching sila sa mga topics na around November na iteteach ng mga teachers. Review centers can also help you sa school - kase feeling mo ang dali-dali nalang ng mga tinuturo. If others cram all over it, sa iyo paeasy-easy nalang. So all you have to do is review and refresh it at your mind.

About naman sa comment ni Iris na hindi lahat ng students na nag-aaral sa mga prestigious schools nagsusucceed, well, it depends kase. Pero your schools can really help you to find a decent job. Yung first kase na kinoconsider ng mga jobs is yung school na pinanggalingan mo, then the achievements. So kahit papano, nakakatulong talaga.

All in all, just have faith na makakapasa ka and review review review. And if ever di ka makapasa, always be positive. Siguro meron pang plan ang Lord sa iyo - and mas okay yun kesa sa pinili mo. Goodluck!
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hay...ayan. dami noh?

Monday, September 17, 2007

My Spell Checker

For all of you who have emailed me when my spelling is wrong...

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

from 1funny

Friday, September 14, 2007

Comics!





I've been receiving these comics in my daily newsletter in the past 4 years. I receive 4 of them a day. I wish I could share it all to you guys but it would take me forever and most of them aren't even available anymore. So I'll just share these four popular strips that I just received today. Enjoy.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

How to Tell You're Addicted to Coffee





I don't really get why so many people are addicted to coffee. I don't have anything against it, but I know that there would be some consequences with being addicted to something. And paying 100 to 300-something pesos for a "gourmet coffee" (e.g. Starbucks, Coffee Bean) is 
ridiculous, IMO.

That's why I'm posting this. So you guys can be aware of the dangers of being addicted to coffee. hehe.  :-)


How to Tell You're Addicted to Coffee

You grind your coffee beans in your mouth.

You sleep with your eyes open.

You have to watch videos in fast-forward.

The only time you're standing still is during an earthquake.

You can take a picture of yourself from ten feet away without using the timer.

You've worn out your third pair of tennis shoes this week.

Your eyes stay open when you sneeze.

You chew on other people's fingernails.

The nurse needs a scientific calculator to take your pulse.

You're so jittery that people use your hands to blend their margaritas.

You can type sixty words per minute with your feet.

You can jump-start your car without cables.

You don't sweat, you percolate.

You walk twenty miles on your treadmill before you realize it's not plugged in.

You forget to unwrap candy bars before eating them.

You've built a miniature city out of little plastic stirrers.

People get dizzy just watching you.

Instant coffee takes too long.

You channel surf faster without a remote.

You have a picture of your coffee mug on your coffee mug.

You can outlast the Energizer bunny.

You short out motion detectors.

You don't even wait for the water to boil anymore.

Your nervous twitch registers on the Richter scale.

You help your dog chase its tail.

You soak your dentures in coffee overnight.

Your first-aid kit contains two pints of coffee with an I.V. hookup.

You ski uphill.

You get a speeding ticket even when you're parked.

You answer the door before people knock.

You haven't blinked since the last lunar eclipse.

source: www.1funny.com

Crazy Facts

This is from 1funny.com
I can't believe I never knew these things before.
Read it, it's very iteresting especially the middle and end part.
I seriously tried to licked my elbow after reading that! haha.

here's the link:
Crazy Facts

Enjoy!

Tiger Mommy





Just read my daily newsletter from 1funny.com and saw this:

source: www.1funny.com

In a zoo in California, mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression.

The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve. After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother.

The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans" that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger.

Would they become cubs or pork chops????????????? Take a look........ you won't believe your eyes!!!!

Friday, September 7, 2007

The 100 Question Purity Test

You Are 85% Pure

You're so pure ... you make a nun look like a whore!
There's a lot of life's dark side left for you to experience... if you want to.

Am I an Emo?

You Are 8% Emo

You're the furthest thing from emo. Sensitivity is not something you exactly cultivate... and you can't imagine weeping over song lyrics.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Am I Too Picky When It Comes To Men?

You Are Picky When it Counts

Like most sane women, you want a great guy who will treat you well.
But you're also willing to put up with a few flaws in your Mr. Right
You should congratulate yourself on having a realistic approach to dating.
You probably have quite a few great guys you can date!

We need women filmmakers!

With this being my first post, I think I'm going to relate it to the title of my blog and how I feel about the scarcity of women in the world of filmmaking, more specifically in Hollywood and how many people are wondering why.

A few weeks ago, I was surfing IMDB looking for new movies coming out this month. I was browsing through them and quickly noticed how very few of them (about two or three) were directed by women. So I googled "women directors" to see a list of female directors who have been nominated or won awards that recognize their films. Sadly, I only found about three of them. (i.e. Sofia Coppola, Lina Wertmuller, and Jane Campion) While trying to look for more, 
I saw this website which asks the major question to those invloved in the industry.

courtesy of film.guardian.co.uk

Why are women directors such a rare sight?

Beeban Kidron

I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon. I think that for many young women it doesn't really occur to them that these are the functions in society that they can have. What we want is a whole generation of women who can think: "I can do whatever I want and I have a right to a voice and I can find the expertise to make that voice be heard in the world."

· Beeban Kidron directed Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Oranges are Not the Only Fruit


Naomie Harris 

Film is such a male-dominated industry. There's a lot of "who you know" in terms of how you get promoted. The whole way the business is constructed [means there are ] just men at every level, which makes it really hard for women to get their feet in the door. Also, the way of working makes it very difficult for women to succeed in the business. It must be incredibly hard if you have children to navigate the hours.

I haven't been directed by a woman. I'd love to be; it would make a big difference. Often as an actress you can feel very alienated, especially if you are playing the female lead in a male-dominated cast and environment. It's very hard to feel relaxed, to feel able to express yourself and to feel that you will be heard in that kind of environment.

The other area that is really important to get women involved in - even more than directing, I think - is writing. Everything starts in the writing, and getting more and more women's perspective in the writing will have a huge impact on the quality of films we get. At the moment, we don't really see women as we see ourselves and as we really are because it's only men writing for us.

I've read a lot of scripts where I've thought: "No women would ever say that! No woman would ever behave like that!" Women are put into these categories of bitch, mother or sex symbol. If we had more women writing we would have a more realistic representation of what it's like to be a woman.

· Naomie Harris starred in 28 Days Later and is currently filming Pirates of the Caribbean, part 2.


Sarah Radclyffe

I've worked with embarrassingly few women directors throughout my career as a producer. Why? I don't know, is the honest answer. It's very unusual for me to develop a project without a director, and female directors just don't seem to send their projects in. I wonder whether there are many who want to go into directing.

So why do more women not want to direct? There are a lot of female producers, and that's true all the way through production. Perhaps that's something to do with having children. When you've just had a child, you can go back to the production side of things relatively easily. You can be reactive to problems that are coming towards you - that's fine. Whereas if you are directing, you are giving part of your inner self. You are giving your all and that's hard if you've got a young child. The majority of women give that part of themselves to their child, it's a fact of life. I think it's incredibly important that we get the female voice out there. We need female ideas and ideologies.

We have a frighteningly small list of female screenwriters in this country, sadly. We don't expect 50% of the working directors to be female - that's not going to happen, certainly not in my lifetime, but at least [let's have] a few more female voices out there, a few more visions.

There are some fantastic people coming out of film schools, directors and producers, many of whom definitely will make it. It's certainly the first time for a few years where I've found the next generation of film-makers coming into my office are women, which is great.


· Sarah Radclyffe co-founded the production company Working Title and is currently producing Tara Road, starring Andie MacDowell.


Polly Leys 

It's always felt to me that there were quite a lot of women working in the film industry, although I am aware that the majority work in less visible roles. By this I mean more supporting, production-based jobs rather than the more prestigious creative roles of writer and director. Why is this? It's impossible to say without dipping into broad generalisations about the female psyche, especially issues to do with self-belief.

Rather than gazing at our navels continually, maybe we should spend more time acknowledging and celebrating the work of women who are making headway and in so doing create some positive role models for future generations.

The Australian film industry has an unusually high percentage of female film directors. I once asked one why they thought this was and she cited Jane Campion as the person who made it all possible. Looking back to the UK, yes, the percentages are still terrible and, yes, there is still some way to go, but we shouldn't overlook the importance and possible future impact of writers and directors such as Lynne Ramsey, Amma Asante and Gurinder Chadha, to name but a tiny few who are out already making a difference.

I recently sat on a panel to select the short films for the Birds Eye View film festival. There were more than 450 films submitted. That's 450 future female film-makers out there. That's got to be progress.


· Polly Leys co-produced The Full Monty.


Kelly Broad

I think it's lazy to say that women are better organisers (and hence more of them are producers) and men are traditionally more esoteric or creative (ie, directors). It is far more pragmatic than this. The director's role is an intense one and in the past it just hasn't been compatible with a woman raising a family. In the past decade we've seen a marked shift in the role of men sharing child-rearing and this has to continue. If we can share the child-rearing more equally, this will allow women more time to take on the incredibly consuming role of directing a film. 

· Kelly Broad produced the Bafta-winning short The Banker.

Anthony Minghella 

It matters in every possible way who is making films. That perspective and that purpose is determined by the personality of the director and it's very alarming and odd that that's the preserve largely of white men. You wouldn't want all the information to come from one distorted perspective. It's much better to have views from everybody, from all around the world.

There's so little opportunity at the moment for more than one tiny constituency to speak on film. I think the most exciting thing that is happening is that the way that film is being collected, broadcast and made is going to have a profound influence on the kind of messages we will receive as audiences.

In the past, films were enormously expensive to make, even the equipment was expensive, so of course it has gravitated to one essentially white, essentially male, essentially middle-class group who get to speak and have their say. And what's going to happen is that the means of production are going to be surrendered to almost anybody out there.

There are as many points of views and sensibilities in women as there are in men. The fact is we simply do not hear enough of any of them.


· Anthony Minghella directed Cold Mountain.


Mike Figgis
 

I could write a short thesis on why there were so many men in the film industry and I'd say it was to do with the weight of the equipment. One can understand how a hierarchy of men, a film crew, has built up. In order for us to handle 100 to 150 large men who are carrying equipment almost like an army unit, then it makes sense to put a man in charge of all of that because there are gender issues about control and authority. Just like in the armed forces.

The fact is that in the modern film industry those physical conditions no longer prevail; therefore there is no crude, physical reason why it should be so male-dominated. It is merely a hierarchy that has established a way of being and continues to try to hold on to certain rules about gender.

Film is very important to our culture - it is the main story-telling medium. If it's not representational both of either the gender or race of the culture in which we live, it is an incomplete picture. So it's crucial that women are reflected in the statistics of how many directors there are.

What do women bring to film-making? They bring a female perspective and, in a way, that's enough. To argue what a female perspective is is not really my place, but I know it when I see it!

I think one of the problems is because there's an inequality in the balance between female and male film-makers, there is the expectation that women should rush in and fill that gap with interesting stuff. But it takes a while for the water levels to get to the right balance. It's not like you can pass a law and say, "OK, now there will be more films made by women."

It is really important for aspiring film-makers - women, people from ethnic backgrounds that would not normally be included and also social backgrounds that, 10 years ago, would have been excluded - to realise that you don't need permission, you don't need anything to change, it already has changed. It's now possible to make a film without the endorsement of a male-dominated culture. Now there is no reason to prevent anybody from making a film. The technology exists, the equipment is much cheaper than it was, the post-production facilities are on a laptop computer, the entire equipment to make a film can go in a couple of cases and be carried as hand luggage on a plane. There is nothing to stop people making films.


· Mike Figgis directed Leaving Las Vegas


I think it's very hard for me and the majority of filmviewers throughout the world to deal with the fact that very few talented women are given the chance to direct their own films while many mediocre directors in Hollywood today (e.g. Michael Bay and Uwe Boll, IMO) keep making movies.

Being an aspiring one, I think I'm quite worried about my future now... hehe..