Friday, June 15, 2007


Sensei Story # 1
Message from my sensei, shadas. Sensei, as in my sensei in a ninja rpg in the web:
"as your sensei I have to tell you, you're training yourself all wrong. you don't have to go to arena and do battle to get yourself strong, if you practice that way you'll get strong very slowly. what you want to do is focus all your chakara and stamina training into one offensive and then all the other defense and just train like mad and get your base stats like str int spd and will up, you want to do missions to get ur base stat up. going to arena only give you unwanted experience that's all. do like I say and you won't appear weak when facing off against opponent who has the same experience level as you."

Well, as he puts it, my experience pts are already higher than his, but my stats are nowhere near his. Still can't make up my mind which of ninjutsu, genjutsu, and weapon skills should I train for as my primary offensive skill. Which of the three? Mmmm.. hard choice, but as you notice, taijutsu is off my list.

Sensei Story # 2
Tentative schedule

MON 10-1 CMSC 150; 1-4 CMSC 150
TUE 4-7 CMSC 57
WED 1-4 CMSC 57
THURS 1-4 CMSC 150; 4-7 CMSC 150

As Ma'am Marge tells me, I should expect a lot of prerogs for my tuesday class. I'm happy that I got the subjects that I wanted. Seems like I would be teaching sophomores to senior students. And together with the excitement, a bit of unease also starts to cripple in - I'll be teaching UP students afterall. Wanted to clean our room, but with the online registration, our room would already be competing with YouTube's hits if it were a website. I wanna enjoy teaching. I don't want to fall short of the students' expectations of me. Not that I'm a people pleaser, and not that I don't expect to receive rants and negative comments.. it's just that I don't want to end up mumbling to myself "if only". I don't want to fall short of the department's expectations. I don't want to fall short of my expectations. I don't want to fall short of His expectations.

Sensei Story # 0
He stands by me and holds me even if I don't feel of His presence or clarity of His directions. Head knowledge is nothing without application.