It felt nice, really. It’s like, hey, I owned the world for minutes on that cliff! I could see the green pastures and cows and the tiny blocks of carabao-smelling buildings which happened to be UPLB. I could see Freedom Park and the hidden cameras deployed by the you-know-who. And the beheaded carabaos at the Carabao Park. And the Heritage Tower. And the Fertility tree bearing condoms like fruits after those puny little men who hurl their condoms somewhere around that tree just because. All I wish is a single Marlboro stick and I’d make a yoga position while smoking. On top of the mountain. Beautiful, just beautiful.
Okay, that was an exaggeration.
I just rappelled myself all the way from the second floor of Baker Hall. What. A. Loser.
But hey, that’s just a friggin’ test to measure our fear of heights (and whether or not some of my classmates have heart problems or something like it). I was a bit tense when I was on the edge of the floor. It’s just scary at first sight but it wasn’t that scary at all once you conquered your fear (I actually don’t have a fear of heights - I can ride the Space Shuttle, the one at Enchanted Kingdom, with both eyes wide open). It almost burned my gloves, but it’s just ecstatic after the landfall.
I should visit Sagada.
Or Mount Apo.
Or the Appalachian mountains. Or Yosemite!
Isn’t that nice to brag that hey I once rappelled and it felt great. Great. Too cliche to use that word but it’s the first thing that came out of my mind after doing it. Well, it’s nice to brag about it without admitting that you rappelled all your way to the bottom from a two-storey hall like Baker. But yeah, I did it and I even smiled on the camera (haven’t uploaded it yet). And then I did it for the second time and it was just amazing. Addictive. Something ten times better than what a marijuana user feels after all the coughing.
I love my P.E class - outdoor recreation’s just the coolest physical education class my ass has ever got into.
Now I’m nervous. Next week, the scheduled activity would be traversing. Traversing the river. With hooks and harnesses and me - the ever-brave me - crossing the river floating and flying on wires. Floating, dude. I’d rather do it blindfolded. No fucking way.
Oh, by the way, I just got the worst puking feeling a while ago on my 7 am class. One of my classmates delivered this phony speech in front of the class, and to think that she’s a girl and every movement she does was scripted, ugh. I just hate it. I felt so embarrassed for her. I really forced myself not to whisper something like “please sit the fucking down on your seat - I can’t bear the embarrassment anymore” on her ears.
That feeling of intense embarrassment for someone else, pretty much identical with what you guys might have felt over Janina San Miguel and her Nobel Peace Prize-winning answer, totally got on my nerves.
Life’s a drunkard’s mess of vomit, alcohol, and fun.
This post is tagged: Appalachian, Baker Hall, Janina San Miguel, Mount Apo, Sagada, UPLB, Yosemite
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bakit alam mo ang feeling ng marijuana user? ako kasi hindi ko alam yun. ang alam ko lang eh ung feeling na intense embarrssment sa tuwing magcocomment ako ng tagalog dito. hahahaha. the fuck!
astig ang P.E nyo, hindi katulad sa amin dati na puro track and field lang. fuck that shit. huwaw english. oha oha oha! hahahaha.
i know what you mean about that Janina girl, i wanted to unplug my speakers while she talked. the worst part about it was my american friends saw it on youtube too, without even me telling them, they just somehow found a clip.
i have never been so embarassed in my life. it’s kind of insulting when people laugh at people of the same race as you. it cuts deep.
anyway, that’s a really cool gym activity, all we do in p.e. are court sports. hrm…
rock on. and thanks for visiting my blog.
mahilig din ako sa mga outdoor adventures. nakakaingget ang p.e. nyo. asar.
hmmmmmmmmm. . . kaya pa pinangarap ko talaga na magaral sa UP e. . . UPD o UPLB
at sa palagay ko, mas okay sa LB, freshest air =p
hmmmm, nainggit. hehe
waaaaaaah! gusto ko rin mag outdoor recreation! sana makuha ko yan next semester. if not, magbaballroom dancing na lang ako.
NOT.
anyway, speech comm. class ba yung 7 am mo? hahaha. coolness naman. ang aga. ^_^
Wow. Swerte mo naman nakakapunta ka sa mga ganyang adventures.
I haven’t done those in years. Haha.
Ganda naman ng PE class nyo. Kung ganyan PE namen, i’d sign up for it every year..
I feel sorry for you having to listen to that girl you described to be similar to Janina San Miguel. She was a disgrace. And the fact that she even attended an english-speaking school and she won is soo unbelievable. O well.
@Pau: Kung pwede lang talagang mag-PE ng ganito ALL YEAR ROUND.
@Ken S: Super aga nga, nakakatamad eh.
@Tisay: I KNOW! We pinoys somehow felt one of the lowest points of our lives ever since Martial Law was implemented! Argh. :p
@Pedro: Haha, that’s a secret.
Wow, that is the kewlest P.E. class ever. Promise. Yeah, pwedeng pwede ka nang magspelunking and rock climbing/rappelling in Sagada, good preparation. Hehehe!
BTW, rappelling/rappeling is double “P”. Hohoho. Anyway, I therefore conclude na double “L” siya since Firefox didn’t mark (with red line sort of MS word spell checker) “rappelling” with red line. XP
@Bleue: YEAH I’M EXCITED IF EVAR YOU GUYS WOULD TREAT ME TO SAGADA. kidding.
My campus didn’t have that sort of kick-ass PE class
And Imiss the outdoors and the extreme sport. Work got in the way of awesome. Galeng ng class nyo!
That feeling of intense embarrassment for someone else, pretty much identical with what you guys might have felt over Janina San Miguel and her Nobel Peace Prize-winning answer, totally got on my nerves.
i’m so freakin’ guilty on this one. haha.
i couldn’t bear watch the vidz on youtube!
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