Today was the 1st day of the job fair at our school. Juniors and Seniors were required to come in a corporate attire.My classmates looked very corporate-ish.Though i did tease some for looking like an archeaologist, a young mom going to a PTA meeting, a godmother going to a baptism, and a manager of a local supermarket. So of course they had to tease me back, they said i looked like a bartender.I had a white buttoned blouse and a black vest for the top, black pencil skirt and black tights.
Interesting experience in the bus when i was on my way home this afternoon:
old-ish male foreigner(OMF): *sitting beside me while i make way for him* thank you.salamat.
after a couple of seconds
OMF: thank you.salamat(thank you in filipino). you're very beautiful.maganda(beautiful in filipino). Me: *smirked*
when i got home, i told my mom and dad about what happened in the bus.of course it wasn;t really a big of a deal for me.
mom: was he old? me: yeah?kinda dad: you should have asked him why he didn't have a car mom: *thinking the man is a D.O.M(dirty old man)* me: why would i ask him that? mom: *worried about D.O.M's* me: *turned on the karaoke*
My little younger brother's a whiz kid ever since i could remember.Before even having a proper education in preschool, he watched cartoons in Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network(we didn't have disney channel back then i think)and mainly enjoyed The Rugrats, Hey Arnold, andLittle Lulu (I LOVE THIS!). He would immitate the lines in these cartoons and suddenly perform a monologue even without someone asking him to.I could remember him shouting "ANGELICAAAAAAAAA!!!!" the way Tommy did it.But what was most fascinating about him back then was that he read all of our encyclopedias.He did this because he had nothing else to do while me and blister went to school.First he was only interested in flags, so he memorized all the flags.Point out a flag and he'll tell you what country that is.The next thing he did was study the world map.Yes, he memorized the world map.I remember i was in my 2nd year in high school and in our geography class, we had to identify countries in a nameless world map.He did that for me.Aside from the flags and map, he memorized all the capitals of all the countries.He had all of these information stocked in that big brain of his that up until he was in 2nd grade, my 6th grade classmates would challenge him by saying a country and then him saying the capital without any effort.Everyone was just flabbergasted.Everyone that challenged him ran out of countries to ask.
Now, he's 15 years old and in 3rd year high school.He's a government scholar.And take note, his favorite subject is MATH (wtf?i hate math).If i'm not mistaken, he's the best in math in his high school.He's always the representative of the school in interschool Math competitions and never fails to win all the time.
You might be thinking, "Wow Gem!You're very lucky to have a brother as smart as him!Can we trade brothers/sisters?" Well, you'll be surprised to know that he's not as wonderful as i have described him earlier.And yes, i'd love to trade him with your brother/sister.Why? He irritates me (not because i'm insecure of his intelligence) because he eats everything on the dining table and doesn't think of leaving out some for people. (While i was typing the first paragraphs of this post, he ate all the fried rice.Now blister is cooking a 2nd batch for me) He's very anti-social (not anti-social like my case) He's just really not into talking to people. To make the long story short, he's got a world of his own. Well i guess nobody's really perfect.
Today was the 1st day of the job fair at our school. Juniors and Seniors were required to come in a corporate attire.My classmates looked very corporate-ish.Though i did tease some for looking like an archeaologist, a young mom going to a PTA meeting, a godmother going to a baptism, and a manager of a local supermarket. So of course they had to tease me back, they said i looked like a bartender.I had a white buttoned blouse and a black vest for the top, black pencil skirt and black tights.
Interesting experience in the bus when i was on my way home this afternoon:
old-ish male foreigner(OMF): *sitting beside me while i make way for him* thank you.salamat.
after a couple of seconds
OMF: thank you.salamat(thank you in filipino). you're very beautiful.maganda(beautiful in filipino). Me: *smirked*
when i got home, i told my mom and dad about what happened in the bus.of course it wasn;t really a big of a deal for me.
mom: was he old? me: yeah?kinda dad: you should have asked him why he didn't have a car mom: *thinking the man is a D.O.M(dirty old man)* me: why would i ask him that? mom: *worried about D.O.M's* me: *turned on the karaoke*
My little younger brother's a whiz kid ever since i could remember.Before even having a proper education in preschool, he watched cartoons in Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network(we didn't have disney channel back then i think)and mainly enjoyed The Rugrats, Hey Arnold, andLittle Lulu (I LOVE THIS!). He would immitate the lines in these cartoons and suddenly perform a monologue even without someone asking him to.I could remember him shouting "ANGELICAAAAAAAAA!!!!" the way Tommy did it.But what was most fascinating about him back then was that he read all of our encyclopedias.He did this because he had nothing else to do while me and blister went to school.First he was only interested in flags, so he memorized all the flags.Point out a flag and he'll tell you what country that is.The next thing he did was study the world map.Yes, he memorized the world map.I remember i was in my 2nd year in high school and in our geography class, we had to identify countries in a nameless world map.He did that for me.Aside from the flags and map, he memorized all the capitals of all the countries.He had all of these information stocked in that big brain of his that up until he was in 2nd grade, my 6th grade classmates would challenge him by saying a country and then him saying the capital without any effort.Everyone was just flabbergasted.Everyone that challenged him ran out of countries to ask.
Now, he's 15 years old and in 3rd year high school.He's a government scholar.And take note, his favorite subject is MATH (wtf?i hate math).If i'm not mistaken, he's the best in math in his high school.He's always the representative of the school in interschool Math competitions and never fails to win all the time.
You might be thinking, "Wow Gem!You're very lucky to have a brother as smart as him!Can we trade brothers/sisters?" Well, you'll be surprised to know that he's not as wonderful as i have described him earlier.And yes, i'd love to trade him with your brother/sister.Why? He irritates me (not because i'm insecure of his intelligence) because he eats everything on the dining table and doesn't think of leaving out some for people. (While i was typing the first paragraphs of this post, he ate all the fried rice.Now blister is cooking a 2nd batch for me) He's very anti-social (not anti-social like my case) He's just really not into talking to people. To make the long story short, he's got a world of his own. Well i guess nobody's really perfect.
