The Absolute Value of ‘X’

This entry goes out to the best subject everrrr, Math17.

4x^2 + kx + 6 = 0 has real and unequal roots. Find k so that the quadratic equation has one root equal to -2.

What on earth are real and unequal roots? Are there fake and equal ones? Since when did math equations start growing roots? How can a root be equal to a negative two? And now I have to find a ‘k’?! Come on silly, I can do this. How hard can this be?

Well who said Math 17 is going to be easy.

The mere mention of Math 17 never fails to give me a slight heart attack. It is as if it was not made for me or I was not made for it. For the past two months, I have been reluctuntly dragging myself to class, silently wishing for the class to end early, and constantly checking the time only to find out that I still have an hour left to suffer in that makeshift torture chamber. Math used to be easy, until letters and radicals and rational expressions were added. But it has never been this hard. The discussions are fast-paced; lessons which took me weeks to understand back in high school are now tackled in a day’s lecture. The difficulty level of the problems we solve in class is beyond human’s intellectual ability.

But I am optimistic that I will pass Math 17. What keeps me so much more positive about passing the subject is the whopping singko I got for the first long exam. The exercises are nothing compared to the actual exam problems. You might be thinking I am overreacting but please let me share the exam’s first question:

Now I hate to say ‘I told you so.’

Oh, and by the way. k=11. I KNOW. Where on earth did that answer come from. How can a freaking ROOT be equal to ELEVEN. Come on. I think a process called “root extraction” is involved here. And It sounds like a bloody surgical operation to me.

Glee- Gives you Hell

and truth be told i miss you! :> TWO THUMBS UP FOR GLEE!! No. Make that a gazillion thumbs up!! =)

“ Every aching wound will cauterize and bruise
In memory of what we used to call in love

— Fell in Love Without You, Motion City Soundtrack

“ A simple trip to the beach can be all it takes to clear our heads and open our heads, and write a new ending to an old story.

— Gossip Girl, Summer Kind of Wonderful

$high school never ends! \m/$

high school never ends! \m/

still utterly in love with this dress.

oh and i’m forever rooting for them!

$yeah i know, it has been a while =)) it’s just that senior year has been pretty awful and pretty darn awesome at the same time so i wasn’t able to update much. SO YEA, IM BACK! haha! we need a LOT of catching up to do :D JANUARY New year 2010! YAY. Passed La Salle Entrance Test- LIACOM :”> business management-communication arts (THE IDEAL COURSE!) Passed UST Entrance Test- Medical Technology (so you want to pursue your childhood dream huh) Happy 17th to me! (OH DARN I JUST LOVE BEING 17!) Bye Blue. SNIFFS to the nth power. THE BIG DAY: 2010-24781 Diliman FERNANDEZ, Jona Mari Olegon Business Administration (yeahh babyyy! ‘twas one of the best moments of my life.) 2nd to the last periodic exams. Oh the end is near =) Volvo Voice of Leadership 2 camp in Tagaytay \m/ Anemia crapshit. :| Allure Fashion Show at DBTC Ateneo XIV Fair HECTIC MUCH. =)) FEBRUARY MY Last GSP Annual Camp (I’ll miss this…) my 17th single awareness day :”> HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! Valentine’s WEEK (take note, week. =)) PROM 2010: LE NUIT TRES ETOILE february twenty FIRST, around 2am last scouts parade Volvo Gala Night INBOOOX! =)) Outreach program in Bulacan MARCH The LOONG (think three hours) wait is OVER. Recognition day!! :) acad excellence, NUXX. Last UPIS days \m/ MONday :> TWICE the FUN! Bob Uy reunion at pram’s place. (Volvo special! :P) INBOOOOOOOX still =)) LAST PERIO! WOOOHOooo! Haggard days after the perio… getting done with all the crappy requirements p-p-p-party everyday! \m/ FIRST SUMMER GETAWAY!! YAY! :”> the emoticon says it all! KAT- seems just like yesterday when I took the test. Yesterday as in, 11 years ago. =)) DONE WITH OUR BABY! (congrats coronel, del rosario, jimenez!) bikini hunting! :”>$

yeah i know, it has been a while =)) it’s just that senior year has been pretty awful and pretty darn awesome at the same time so i wasn’t able to update much. SO YEA, IM BACK! haha! we need a LOT of catching up to do :D

JANUARY

New year 2010! YAY.
Passed La Salle Entrance Test- LIACOM :”> business management-communication arts (THE IDEAL COURSE!)
Passed UST Entrance Test- Medical Technology (so you want to pursue your childhood dream huh)
Happy 17^th to me! (OH DARN I JUST LOVE BEING 17!)
Bye Blue. SNIFFS to the nth power.
THE BIG DAY: 2010-24781 Diliman FERNANDEZ, Jona Mari Olegon Business Administration (yeahh babyyy! ‘twas one of the best moments of my life.)
2^nd to the last periodic exams. Oh the end is near =)
Volvo Voice of Leadership 2 camp in Tagaytay \m/
Anemia crapshit. :|
Allure Fashion Show at DBTC
Ateneo XIV Fair
HECTIC MUCH. =))

FEBRUARY

MY Last GSP Annual Camp (I’ll miss this…)
my 17^th single awareness day :”> HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
Valentine’s WEEK (take note, week. =))
PROM 2010: LE NUIT TRES ETOILE
february twenty FIRST, around 2am
last scouts parade
Volvo Gala Night
INBOOOX! =))
Outreach program in Bulacan

MARCH

The LOONG (think three hours) wait is OVER.
Recognition day!! :) acad excellence, NUXX.
Last UPIS days \m/
MONday :> TWICE the FUN!
Bob Uy reunion at pram’s place. (Volvo special! :P)
INBOOOOOOOX still =))
LAST PERIO! WOOOHOooo!
Haggard days after the perio… getting done with all the crappy requirements
p-p-p-party everyday! \m/
FIRST SUMMER GETAWAY!! YAY!
:”> the emoticon says it all!
KAT- seems just like yesterday when I took the test. Yesterday as in, 11 years ago. =))
DONE WITH OUR BABY! (congrats coronel, del rosario, jimenez!)
bikini hunting! :”>

To whom it may concern :)

“…every time the ACET results are out, my dad and I would go to the Blue Eagle Gym to check the bulletin boards, dreaming that someday, just maybe, my name will be right there too…”

Fernandez, Jhoanna; Fernandez, John; Fernandez, Joshua

Negative. I was out of the campus in less than two minutes. I didn’t even bother checking again. I knew how my name would look like if it were there- there’d be imaginary lights around it like those on Vegas marquees, there’d be fireworks and fanfare music in the background.

None.

I have imagined myself before, suicidal- jumping from the rooftop of that Prince David Condo if I don’t pass the ACET. Then of course, falling flat on a spot along Katipunan Avenue. I’ve imagined myself watching sappy movies and listening to sad songs while pigging out on the biggest tub of strawberry ice cream- just what a crazy girl would do after breaking up with someone. I knew I would have the biggest heartbreak of my life if ever I wouldn’t be getting a slot.

I mean, come on. What’s more frustrating, tragic, heartbreaking and painful than losing my only ticket to my dream school? Besides flunking UPCAT obviously, which is I-have-no-idea-how-much times worse.

It felt like a second school for me, you know. I even learned to sing a few verses of “Song for Mary” at the age of six. I grew up romping around that campus, playing with my bus mates, running on the fields and having the ags and ahs parking lots as my second tambayan, waiting for hours and hours munching a merienda bought from the McBo canteen or from the caf.

And every time the ACET results are out, my dad and I would go to the Blue Eagle Gym to just look at the bulletin boards, dreaming that someday, just maybe, my name would be right there too. I never missed a year, standing in front of those bulletin boards and giving myself that promise of passing the Ateneo College Entrance Test.

I will enter Ateneo Gate 1 on Tuesday again, like what I’ve always done everyday since 1996. Seriously, for fourteen years, I’ve always asked myself this: “Will I ever get to study here?”

Now I know what the catastrophic answer is.

Haha, okay. Drama’s over. I’m just pouring out everything here because surprisingly, I haven’t shed a tear since yesterday. =)) No kidding. Maybe I will, after reading this on my site, with the Ateneo Hymn playing in the background :))