33 posts tagged “qotd”

What's your favorite season and why?
Submitted by [Susan]

Rainy season! I'm only happy when it rains!

What is the one word that perfectly describes your day today?
submitted by [this is connie]

Nostalgic. One of my college buddies emailed me out of the blue telling me that he's here in Manila taking a break. I got to meet him last weekend and he's been here for about 3 months already and that he's email is a long shot hoping someone would reply to it. We had a couple of drinks and did quite a lot of catching up with our lives. The last time I saw him was probably 7 or 8 years ago.... jeez. He's currently based in LA and is here in Manila for his sister's wedding. I was touched and was quite sad because of all of the classmates that we have in the class of 1D-Math, he tells me that I am the only one who took time in replying in his long shot email, even with his classmates in elementary and high school days didn't even replied to him. Well I told him that I will get in touch with others and set a meeting for the rest of our class. Hope he gets to extend his stay here since he'll only be here until Wednesday.

What question do you wish you'd never asked.
Submitted by cha0tic.

"Do you love me?" and the answer I ended up with is "I don't know, maybe yes maybe not..."

What soon-to-be-published book are you excited to read?

Brisinger

Christopher Paolini

This time I'll try reading fantasy-themed books and this particular book will be released sometime around September in our local bookstores. This is book three of the Inheritance so might as well finish the two other books which are Eragon and Eldest.

What was the best thing about your weekend?

I get to finish my tasks for the week so I was able to have enough sleep in which I rarely get during ordinary weekdays. In addition to that, I get to see first hand what hair rebonding is since I tagged along with Gig to see it. I was able to meet an old buddy who is about to leave to Singapore for good. I get to watch a Japanese film for free which was my very first experience watching a foreign film with a foreign language other than English in the big screen. Too bad my asthma attacked once again the first day of work for the week.

If you could leave notes for the future, what message would you have left in the past for today?
Submitted by Nameless.

These are what I'd like to include and were taken from Randy Pausch's last lecture: Really Achieving Your Goals

Respect authority while questioning it

Decide if you're Tigger or Eeyore

Loyalty is a two-way street

You can't get there alone

Believe in karma

Tell the truth

Be earnest

Apologize when you screw up

Focus on others, not on yourself

Don't bail; the best gold is at the bottom of barrels of crap

Get a feedback loop; and listen to it

Show gratitude

Don't complain; just work harder

Be good at something: it makes you valuable

Find the best in everybody: no matter how you have to wait for them to show it

Be prepared: "luck" is where preparation meets opportunity

Have you ever broken a bone? If not, what's the worst injury you've sustained?

No broken bones yet however, one of the worst injury that I had is that I have experienced a 3rd degree burn in my left leg. How I acquired it? I accidentally leaned my left leg in my motorcycle's exhaust pipe in an attempt to put it in an upward position and avoid spilling gas when it turned on its side. At first it didn't hurt or I might say my left leg went numb. The outer skin was totally peeled off and all i can see in the burn area is just white skin. The wound lasted for a couple of months and after that I realized why its important that motorcyclists must wear pants (preferably jeans) and shoes (leather ones) for protection. Lesson learned in a hard way.

Who was the meanest teacher you had in school?

When I was in college, the initials "DR" gave tremble to my fellow students. DR stands for Dr. Del Rosario and she's the cause of NTBR (never to be re-admitted) status for many math students since she handles a lot of math subjects. I'm a math student and I was able to finish my degree (I survived). In my later years in UST I found out that she turned out to be one of the best teachers that I've ever had. Anyway at most schools that I've went into most of the teachers tagged as "Terror" turned out to be the opposite, well that is based in my experience.

Are you a go-getter or do you wait for good things to happen to you?
Submitted by sleepybear.

I used to be a passive one. I wait for good things to happen and most of the time I end up with a lot of regrets. I go for what I want and make sure I make all the effort just to have it and if I didn't get it, at least I tried to grab it. Right now I still can't have the only one that I wanted for in the past 2 or 3 years. But what the heck I really want her so much that I still want her back.

When you travel, do you use a guidebook so that you're well prepared, or do you go without much prior knowledge so that you're surprised?
Submitted by Jack Yan.

During my travels, I say that I use guidebooks but do not rely entirely on them since most of the time the experience is different when compared to what is stated in the guidebook. If it's just within my country I will not use one but if it's outside then I might use one.