Ahedres

Binabalikan ko ngayon ang isa sa mga laro na feeling ko eh hindi ako nag-improve over the years. Charaa aan ang Chess



Hindi ko sure kung ano ang secret ng game na ito, may kaibigan kasi ako na medyo bulagsak sa school pero di ko matalo sa Chess. I guess ibang field of intelligence ang game katulad ng Chess -- Spatial siguro?

Pero ang tumitimo sa akin sa larong Chess, siguro ung "Insight". Bilib ako sa mga players na may gusto talagang may gustong palabasin sa formation nila. Parang nakikita nila yung susunod na pattern, clairvoyance sa bagay na paparating palang. Complicated but yet simple.

Sa pag gawa ng "next move" mas madali makita ang maaaring maging galaw ng kalaro mo sa 8x8 na board ng Chess. Sa buhay mas kumplikado, parang marami kang piyesa, sabay-sabay ang kalaban. Naghahanap ka ng pattern na hindi mo matatagpuan. I am planning my future move that might be smacked down the moment I lay it. But with insight your next move that you will have to enact seems to be appropriate.

How many moves ahead have you planned? Are they rigid or adaptable to change? Or you even haven't decided yet.

Blog Review: Diary ni Ella – Confessions ng Isang Masahista the Book

Una sa lahat ang hirap hanapin ng book ni Ella huh?

Siempre ang una kong pinaghanapan eh yung bookstores malapit sa amin – National Monumento Grand Central and Victory Mall, tsk wala… sumunod yung malapit sa work place sa National Bookstore SM Sucat at Santana Grove. Wala din! Finally found it in National Bookstore sa Glorietta -- sa wakas!

National Bookstore -- Dameng Books

Witty and funny, not to mention hardcore. That is Ella's story match with her story telling. Kahit nabasa ko na ito the first time nung unang lumabas ang blog nya and she was still anonymous back then, i still get that sympathy for the young innocent ella, and the respect as she develops and learned how to fight back.

She told stories and opened issues we know that are there but we refuse to look at. Scenarios so sad that we thought they only happen on movies and telenovelas. Hopes and dreams that make things possible and happen.

It might just be an entertainment story for some. But on higher sense, Ella's stories serves as an inspiration, that even on adversities, just as long as a person haven't given up on one's self, the promise is still there, and its up to us to fulfill it as well.

Confessions ng Isang Masahista -- Life Hardcore

Lesson Plans and Grade Records

I've been optimizing and maintaining Trish's PC -- and i get to talk to his wife Jo,
Umabot kami sa part sa kung saan si Jo ay gumagawa ng Lesson Plan.

Yeah, the big notebook Elementary Lesson Plan, all of the subjects written on it which is identically the same with the ones written last year.

???

I asked for the reason why write it over and over again.

"Kasi para alam na handa ka sa subject mo at dapat handwritten para alam na ikaw ang gumawa..."

???
(*scratches head)

Elementary -- Basic Subjects -- Lesson Plan --Handwritten -- Rewritten again -- and again
and that's the same subjects all over again!

That may be good in the sense that siguradong handa si teacher na magturo sa maliliit na bata.
Hindi ko lang gets bakit kailangang isulat ng paulit-ulit? at bakit hindi puedeng computerized? That system works great back in the 80's but in the time right now. I guess there should be a little upgrade on such said system.

and then comes the Records for the Grades that must be handwritten as well.
done with calculators when it can just be done with Microsoft Excel or Open Office Spreadsheet or Lotus 123 (even Lotus 123 is already obsolete my goodness!)


But i guess that just go for two Public Schools -- maybe it doesn't go that way on other schools.
But just the thought... wow...



and some College(s) struggle with their syllabi!