The Jellyfish Files Part 1

For some unknown reason, Apa and I have the same brain waves over a lot of things. And since we have bonded over the last semester, my jellyfish and I have had the most interesting, idiotic and downright hilarious conversations (in my opinion anyway). And since YM has the lovely save conversation thing going on I am pulling off a few quotes from it.

While going through a psychotic report:

apatots_26: shet.
nikki080488: pota
apatots_26: implied gender lang talaga.. kahit sa study yan at phonology lang ang factors....
nikki080488: The implied gender factors (male and female) changed in the interpretation of the subjects.
apatots_26: si mam, gusto niyang malaman kung ano yung implied gender..
nikki080488: oo inalis ko na muna yung dolls...
nikki080488: yun nga e kailangan natin masagot lang sa kanya...
nikki080488: try natin figure out tomorrow
apatots_26: sure....
apatots_26: nicole ah.. talagang pota!
nikki080488: it's the way the name is read i think
apatots_26: hahaha!
nikki080488: hahaha

The emergence of a secret language:

apatots_26: implied gender....
apatots_26: parang indirect kasi yun...
apatots_26: hay ewan!
nikki080488: oo nga e
apatots_26: feeling ko nasa visual chorva yan eh..
nikki080488: uulitin ko ulit... POTA.
nikki080488: haha
apatots_26: hahaha!

Grown ups??

nikki080488: parang it's either male or female
nikki080488: depending on the experiment depending on the dolls
nikki080488: na pinakita natin
nikki080488: or should i say the names
apatots_26: yeah.. it changes depending on the interpretation of the participant nikki080488: yun yung experimental manipulation natin
nikki080488: she-et di ko aakalain gagamitin ko yang words na yan
nikki080488: "experimental manipulation"
nikki080488: scary
apatots_26: nosebleed!
apatots_26: hahaha!
apatots_26: she-ET talaga...
apatots_26: fowtah!
nikki080488: o.O i like that
nikki080488: fowtah
nikki080488: haha
apatots_26: kung yun ang experimental manipulation, then hindi factor ang gender?
apatots_26: . . .
apatots_26: FOWTAH talaga

The battle cry...

apatots_26: inferring GENDER from name PHONOLOGY..
apatots_26: cge, hayaan mo na yan...
nikki080488: FOWTAH!
nikki080488: wait wait alisin ba natin to parang redundant... Finally, there were six conditions in this experiment for both the male and the female gender.
apatots_26: oo.. alisin na yan.. siya lang nagpasabi niyan eh...
apatots_26: FOWTAH..
apatots_26: battle cry na yang fowtah ah...

Lost in translation my dear...

apatots_26: fowtah she-Et!
apatots_26: tanggalin na natin yung last part... yung finally part...
apatots_26: nakakaloko.. sabi niya kasi i-identify daw na may six conditions...
nikki080488: gawin nating... there were six conditions in this experiment
apatots_26: e di lagay naman akong engot.
nikki080488: for....
nikki080488: the factors?
nikki080488: for the two factors?
nikki080488: FOWTAH
apatots_26: wait lang. lost in translation.
apatots_26: natatawa ako pag nakikita ko yang all caps n a FOWTAH
nikki080488: Finally, there were six conditions in this experiment for the two factors
nikki080488: hahaha
apatots_26: hmmm...
apatots_26: puwede na yun....

Dreaming of answers...

apatots_26: haven't eaten dinner.. hahah! surprisingly full...
apatots_26: ... hmmm.
apatots_26: sana mapanaginipan ko ang sagot.
nikki080488: haha

Hate and not studying...

apatots_26: i hate her.
apatots_26: ....
nikki080488: eto yung experiment na nandun sa notes natin sa chapter 7...
nikki080488: yung two factors
nikki080488: content and speaker's voice
nikki080488: ang hinahanap yung effect sa shadowing
apatots_26: huwaat nicole?!
apatots_26: wala pa kong nabubuklat kahit isa...
apatots_26: sana wag na magpaklase si mam mendoza...\
nikki080488: yun nga e
apatots_26: have mercy on us!
nikki080488: wait i'm thinking out loud lang

Almost got it...

nikki080488: some will hear pronunciation of the male variation
nikki080488: some will hear the female
apatots_26: tumpak!
apatots_26: kopyahin na, kopyahin!
nikki080488: some will hear pronunciation of the implied male variation in terms of stress
nikki080488: FOWTAH breakthrough!
nikki080488: haha
nikki080488: so how are we going to say this?
apatots_26: baka makadiskubre tayo ng antidote sa comatose nito pare!
nikki080488: haha oo nga e

Banzai!

apatots_26: eto, yung six conditions... pakita raw...
nikki080488: gets na natin... haha
apatots_26: yay!
apatots_26: yay!
apatots_26: O:-)
apatots_26: banzai!
nikki080488: sabihin mo naman sa akin yung six conditions type ko na dito..
nikki080488: banzai!
apatots_26: eto na..
apatots_26: yehey!
apatots_26: whole day holy thursday!
nikki080488: hehehe
nikki080488: yung layout nga namin ni paula ginawa ko tuesday dahil ayaw ko sa thursday hindi pwede
nikki080488: hehe
apatots_26: nako. nicole talaga. teka. diba pinarinig ni meg lahat sa respondents niya yung nasa list 1...

Of morgues and comatose

apatots_26: phrasing na lang talaga...
nikki080488: yun nga e
nikki080488: yun na confirm ko kay meg... 5 heard yung isang list
nikki080488: Oo. Ü fliping a coin gnwa kong random assignment
nikki080488: at nag flip siya ng coin para dun...
nikki080488: anyway...
apatots_26: ... sensya na... kinausap ako ng tita ko kanina...
nikki080488: yah ok lang
apatots_26: ayun, parang nagegets ko na...
nikki080488: sige try... kasi yung utak ko bumibigay na
nikki080488: comatose na apatots coma na
apatots_26: ahmmm.. 5ng girls ba? yung respondents?
nikki080488: haha
apatots_26: morgue na to...
apatots_26: hehehe..
nikki080488: yes 5 girls and 5 boys
nikki080488: oo morgue na talaga
nikki080488: hindi na nga ako nakareview...
nikki080488: so do not like this
apatots_26: dapat wala ng pysch eh..
apatots_26: she-Et fowtah!
nikki080488: FOWTAH
apatots_26: hahaha! nicole talaga.
nikki080488: haha

Hangman

apatots_26: i did understand, pero hindi ko alam kung pano irerephrase for the 6treatment conditions
nikki080488: yun nga e hangman nanaman tayo
apatots_26: yey, hangman!
apatots_26: hahaha!
nikki080488: another word
apatots_26: dictionary is expanding...
apatots_26: okay, back to reality na...

This conversation never seems to end.

apatots_26: some heard pronunciation of the implied male variation in terms of stress, while some heard female variation. ?????
nikki080488: oo tama
nikki080488: wag natin ispecify yung numbers
nikki080488: nakuha mo na!
apatots_26: yep....
nikki080488: tumpak!
apatots_26: hmmmm.. my fingers are already stiff...
apatots_26: morgue.. morgue..
apatots_26: hahaha!
nikki080488: my brains gone stiff
nikki080488: LOL
nikki080488: hangman pare
nikki080488: or should i say my brains gone numb
apatots_26: hangman talaga!!! iniisip ko kasi pag inispecify natin yung number ng respondents, baka maconfuse yung readers.....

And the quote that took it all...

apatots_26: some heard pronunciation of the implied male variation in terms of stress, number of syllables and final phoneme, while some heard female variation.
apatots_26: i think that would suffice...
nikki080488: Yes...
nikki080488: FOWTAH it took us two hours to come up with one freakin sentence!
apatots_26: hahahaha!!!!!
nikki080488: :))
apatots_26: natatawa ako tae...
apatots_26: =))
nikki080488: yun nga e
nikki080488: tawanan na lang
nikki080488: yan ang quote of the night
apatots_26: some heard pronunciation of the word FOWTAH in terms of stress, number of syllables and final phoneme, while some heard female variation.
nikki080488: =))
nikki080488: yan ang shoutout ko sa ym ngayon... tignan mo... hehehe
nikki080488: should i say status message pinalitan ko hahaha
apatots_26: hahaha!!!
apatots_26: loka loka ka...
nikki080488: buang na ko apa buang na
apatots_26: well at least diba we get to laugh after two hours...
nikki080488: oo nga e
nikki080488: So wait... ganito na siya lalabas...
nikki080488: The design used for this experiment fits a 2x3 factorial design, with two factors namely: implied gender and phonology. The first factor is phonology and the second factor is the implied gender. Three levels of the phonological cues were present: stress, number of syllables and final phoneme. Two levels of implied gender were also present: male and the female gender. In the six treatment conditions, some subjects heard the pronunciation of the implied male variation in terms of stress, number of syllables and final phoneme, while some heard female variation of the three phonological cues.
apatots_26: yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee boy!
apatots_26: FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWTAH!

Yes it took us two freakin hours trying to reconstruct one freakin sentence. And in the end, after the headache and frustration we just laughed it off. Miss you jellyfish! :P

Swallowed Alive

If I did not have all the diversions I've been giddy about in my past entries, I would probably be swallowed alive by school work and the pains that come with it.

There's a little over a month left before sem break (something I'm totally happy about by the way) and things are starting to... build up? Okay, let's stick with that term. I feel the deadlines of projects looming over my head. I shall use this entry to try to make sense of all of them.

Okay what's due next week...

Monday: Psych Experiment... I have to look for another experiment. This class is wearing me out.
Tuesday: Batang Rizal Reaction Paper
Wednesday: Spanish Activity Lesson 4
Critical Review... I'm doing Letters from Iwo Jima. WOOT! Okay must remove all biases from my system.

Okay that seems doable. As for the long term ones:

Filipino: Storybook
Feature Writing: Revised articles for submission
Infotech: Magazine
Newspaper Practice: Newspaper... okay no word on this one yet but I know we will be making one.

The planning stage has already begun. It's driving me a bit mad. Thinking about the workload drives me mad. But we will eventually have to get around to doing it so might as well dive head first into it.

If I weren't getting decent grades for these stuff I probably would have lost it more. Okay... must work hard... must do my best. Ganbatte! Jeez...

Good luck Journ peeps! May we come out of this unscathed.

A Writer's Conundrum

I am a writer. I don't know how good I actually am. I just acknowledge that I am one. I play with words. I try to construct coherent sentences and works from ideas that flee faster than a man who tries to get away from the husband of the woman he was having an affair with. Okay long analogy...

As I was saying... I've been doing this for as long as I can remember. It is a passion I feverishly pursued. I figured that since I enjoyed doing it I might as well try to make a living out of it. How hard could it be? An old mentor told us that we had to choose jobs we enjoyed so we did not have to work a day in our life. Honestly, how hard could it be?

Journalism and the whole college experience became a rude awakening of some sort. I still love what I do. I enjoy the course because I actually get what we're doing and talking about, although the application falls short occasionally.

The deadlines have never been my best friend. They hunt me down until I'm forced to write a mediocre piece because procrastination decided to accompany me as well. It's a lethal combination. Procrastination and deadlines... they're a nightmare.

Just recently we were faced with a seemingly impossible but at the same time doable task. For a veteran it would probably be a piece of cake but for newbies like us it was a horrible dream we wanted to run away from.

We were asked to write a news article on three press statements issued by the President Arroyo but we had to research and write the article in a span of three hours (our class period).

What made this horrid was the fact that our class was six to nine in the evening on a Saturday. That would mean that:

1. We had to hurry to the library to try to use the "free internet" before the library closed at seven.
2. We had to transfer to an internet cafe after that.
3. I had only 50 pesos with me. Good thing the printing and computer rental only cost me 24 pesos.
4. We had to come up with a decent piece in that short span of time because he tore our last one to shreds.

Nightmare is the only word to describe it. A friend of mine finished her story in less than 30 minutes. Don't ask me how she did it. I have no idea.

That was a horrendous experience but I know those deadlines come with the job. I can't help but ask what I got myself into...

I'm a writer. I love it with my heart and soul. It is fulfilling but seriously what did I get myself into?!