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Lyan: I hate my history teacher. :(
Albert: Bakit?
Lyan: Because he hates me back, or at least I think so. Most times I notice that he’s bent on humiliating me, but that’s just me. I’m not quite sure but I can’t help but notice a few things. Hmpf.
Albert: Then do good in class. Show that el bastardo what you can. O kaya talk to him. Which is a very difficult thing to do… Pero you don’t really have to. Try to be indifferent in his class, like you don’t hear and see anything. Besides you can learn history from books. That way he’d feel less attended to and also hated.
Lyan: Aah. Hehe. You’re suggesting revenge…but the guy is a lawyer!
Albert: Okay lang. That’s how you bite back the gentle way. In the end that freak will seem like a shark and you, his prey, when actually you are two bulls clashing each other’s hooves.
Lyan: Wrong body part, not hooves, horns. Hihi. Anyway thanks. I should just ignore him, right? Mmm? How ‘bout you? Are all your teachers okay guys?
Albert: NO! I hate two of my chem teachers. I hate them just because I don’t feel liked back. Alam mo yun, yung bigla ka na lang galit sa kanila.
Lyan: Yeah, I know how that feels. I don’t like teachers who commit grammatical mistakes. I tend to look down on them even if they are teachers. Hehe.
Albert: Ako rin. Haha. Maraming ganun dito sa UP. That’s why sometimes I question myself where UP gets its guts to actually brag its name.
Lyan: Ahaha. Every institution has its own problems—internal or not. But the bragging is still justified by the students’ intelligence and high performance of the school in itself. For an institution with as many teachers as UP, they probably think that a few teachers won’t matter. Hehe. How’s your tuition fee pala?
Albert: Okay lang. May tuition fee subsidization na pwedeng applyan. Parang yung categorization sa Pisay—full, special, etc. Luckily, bracket C ako dito, 60% discount on tuition. Pero full ang bayad sa miscellaneous and lab fees. This sem I just had to pay 8900 for everything.
Lyan: Gosh. That’s already 60% off?! So totoo yung news na the government won’t fund UP anymore?
Albert: Pa-send ulit. Di ko nabasa.
Lyan: Haha. 8900 is still a lot to pay for after a 60% discount. So it’s true that the government has withdrawn funds for UP?
Albert: Ah, matagal nay un. Like two years ago?
Lyan: Eh? Really?! I thought that was just recent. Mmm. Crazy me. Haha! What you doin’ now?
Albert: Wala lang. Nag-iisip kung mag-aaral ba ng bio o hindi.
Lyan: Haha. I should be starting on my lab diagrams too but it’s more fun to text. Ah, indolence…
Albert: Self-study lang naman. Haha.
Lyan: Hah. I guess. Bio is more on memorization naman kasi. But trying to draw something—anything!—is beyond me… Heeellpp!
Albert: Ano bang dino-draw mo?
Lyan: Triple beam balance. 8 variations of it. Haha.
Albert: Wah. Good luck sa’yo.
