I'm so effin' tired today. The 3-day Interscholastic Leaders' Awareness Workshop (or ILAW) was so ... BLAH. I mean, the speakers - Tony Gloria (director, writer, producer, advertiser), Sandy Prieto-Romualdez (CEO and President of Phil. Daily Inquirer), Team Manila Graphic Design Studio, etc. etc. - were awesome. It's just that the student participants from other schools were sorta like sosyalin, English-speaking, yadda yadda yadda. Well, it's Makati, people, what do you expect? The PCHS reps (meaning us - me, Christine Lee, Jamie Chua, Edardo Mercader and Alyssa Liu) were sooo OP (out of place). I think we were the only school who's non-sectarian there. Tapos kami lang pala yung Chinese school dun. Sabi nga namin murahin namin sila in Chinese para di nila maintindihan. Muahahahahaha.

Anyway, kakaasar kasi yung iba because they didn't listen to our opinion during group activities. I was like, "What color should this be? (Naki-English din e, no?)" And my girl groupmate was like, "What do you think?". I said, "Hmm... I think it should be yellow or orange." And she became quiet. Para bang ayaw niya yung suggestion ko! Basta alam niyo naman pag nasa situation din kayo eh. Tapos 'di lang yan. Basta parang ganun din ang nangyari. Naulit lang kumbaga. Kaasar kasi HELLO!? She asked for MY opinion tapos ayaw niya?! 'Di naman siya yung leader ah!

Ganun din daw ang nangyari kay Jamie yesterday. Her groupmates were asking for the Tagalog word of "move forward". Jamie kept silent kasi asar na daw siya nun. Tapos after several minutes, she (Jamie) said, "Tara na't sumulong tayo" (Slogan-making kasi 'yun eh), and her groupmates were like, "ANG GALING!!!"

LMAO. Yeah, that's how effin' bad they are at Tagalog. And the funny thing is, the theme for the workshop is "NATIONALISM in Media". ROFL.

Really. That seminar is pure irony.