[Promo] Penshoppe Speak Up! With Courage [Archive]

FUCHSIA

Feb 7, 2006, 12:41 PM

Flashback to 2nd yr High School, our teacher asked us for written comments/evaluation of her. I courageously wrote my name with my comments including a negative one - "SHE HAS FAVORITISM"! She read my written comment in class asking, "Class, may favoritism ba ako?" Of course they said, "Wala po!" (sipsip syempre!) After that I am not called to recite when I raise my hand (meaning I know the answer) but I am called to recite when I don't (meaning I do not know the answer!. I endured that for a year, but guess what, she changed and did better. I also got her respect when I was in third year when she was also my teacher, again. :)

beachboy_now

Feb 7, 2006, 02:52 PM

the gift of democracy

Politics is not my cup of tea. But this whatever generation listens and observes what's happening in the country. I vote for the candidates i think would make a difference. Sometimes, we Filipinos are so proud that we are not hearing ourselves anymore. The year apparently became a stage for varied opinions on controversies. Amidst people in my work were for the opposition, i stood by the government because i was protecting the democracy and bidding not for a bigger mistake. We are still friends and to take charge of your own mind and not hurt people is the gift most of us should learn now more than ever.

Jerik De Guzman

moldycheese

Feb 7, 2006, 03:34 PM

I was about to be attended to at the counter of the Mercury Drugstore in Greenbelt when this middle-aged man reached over my shoulder with a hundred-peso bill and told the pharmacist to fetch him some vitamins. There was no way I was going to let him take my place in line, so I firmly told him to wait his turn, as I was first in line. Apparently embarrassed by my reminding him of the rules but unwilling to back down, he then began to berate me and insult my looks, my choice of clothes, and my accent. The pharmacist who attended to me acknowledged I was first in line, which infuriated him more as he spat out more insults, concluding his ill-targeted fury with the oh-so-classy mother-***** epithet directed my way. I chose to keep silent the rest of the time, even as everyone in the store ignored him throughout his loud and terribly rude tirade, knowing that if I fought back, it would be tantamount to stooping to his level, and I owed myself more than that. Sometimes, courage requires more than the conviction to stand up for what is right; sometimes, courage lies in keeping your cool while fighting for what is right.

zalvaje

Feb 8, 2006, 04:30 AM

it was the time when my gf was going to take a cab at eastwood, the guards there were being rude about the time it took for the cab to move... he then "ordered" us to take the cab someplace in front.. so confronted the guard and told him to take me to his superior that i will really have his *** fired... :D

2ns45

Feb 8, 2006, 07:59 AM

it happens during the fight of paman and morales last january, i was a fan of pacman and i decided to watch the match in megamall with my friends. we are all inside the cinema and the show was about to start, naturally the philippine anthem will be played,me with my two friebnds stood up to pay respect to the national anthem and we noticed that many people are not standing, i shouted STAND!!!(TAYO!!!) then they just followed. its a shame that some people forget to respect our national anthem

thirteen82

Feb 8, 2006, 10:46 PM

I was a part of a pioneer batch in our company back then and our employer promised us top priority when in comes to advancements and promotions. But then as soon as the company started growing, we felt that they have completely forgotten about their promises. Infuriated and hurt, we requested a meeting with the general manager (it was a big company) and I didn't think twice about standing up for our group and telling him what we felt about the situation and questioned him as to what he plans to do about the situation. Nevermind that I am just fresh out of college and it was my first job. All my collegues were surprised (and pretty pleased) that I could say all those things in front of him. There's nothing that pisses me off more than liars and unfair people.

phaelun

Feb 10, 2006, 09:18 AM

I was waiting under a jeepney shed inside our village one afternoon when i chanced upon a bunch of kids, barely in their teens and wearing school uniforms, busy studying a tabloid with pictures of nude ladies. The lady behind me, seeing my disbelieving expression, told me that it is a common thing nowadays and said 'ganyan talaga ang kabataan ngayon'. I looked at her increduously and gave her a tirade about how our complacent and helpless attitude toward children and pornography is wrong. I spoke loud and clear intending for the people around us to hear. It was actually a bit embarrasing since the bystanders were looking at us. Well, atleast i voiced out my opinion. :P

naddinestefanie

Feb 10, 2006, 11:13 AM

i was in my thrid yr premed course then... i may not be the smartest girl in the batch but lucky enough to be a regular... i was part of the beauty contest in the school... i was happy but...it was a sudden fall when i was diagnosed of Hodgkin's lymphoma... i had to stop school, i had to undergo chemotherapy and radiation therapy... i felt devasted, ugly... my hair fell off... i was burned because of radiation... but still thank God...He gave me courage... i knew my family was more hurt so i had to be strong and not show my family that i was really affected by the situation... i would even joke at them with the falling of my hair... so as not bring sadness to my family... i really thank God for the courage and now i'm ok and a med student already... if i see patient in my doctor's clinic i could always say that there really is a miracle... there may be really hard times but there's nothing that God would not give you that you cannot take...

john_nobel

Feb 10, 2006, 11:50 AM

In a state university like ours, not a single centavo should be collected from the students. However, our college, which is in fact should be training future watchdogs of society has been mastering their mysterious misdemeanors. Everytime they want to make paskikat they will send Mass Communication students like in a cheering competition where one super sipsip student is involved. Now, when a student didn’t attend those not “important” events, they will ask the student to pay- for sanction. Like the last was when they were totaling students’ sanctions some even came close to paying not just an amount but at least four books. What is this?

First that is strictly illegal. But my poor batchmates who’s been an accessory to the crime of our sipsip student president can hardly do anything. Clearly, freedom of expression is obstructed in the College of Mass Communication. One time, when sipsip president came to our classroom to collect sanctions, I stood up and raised my voice- our point. With what has transpired, I became the feast of everyone’s orbs in the office (faculty). Why shouldn’t they? They’re all thinking of their profitable sidelines.

From then on, I was treated unfairly. One time a staff became the office’s official sacrificial lamb. Since all of them are more than aloof to me, one time professors made a story about me saying that I insulted the sacrificial lamb employee’s husband which is not true.

Monday after that, the sacrificial lamb was so mad at me. She was devilishly staring at me. As soon as I went out from the office, she screamed at me, so in return I also yelled at her. This poor woman came out of the office and rushed to me when I was about to go downstairs. She screamed bad words and hitted me with a fan several times. As for me, I’ve spanked her in her left shoulder.

Because of this, the whole faculty already prepared their script and submitted it to the Office of Student Affairs. I was suspended. But just as they thought I was really suspended, little did they know I was just having my vacation. I appealed to the University President and responded to my favor. The office of the president lifted the suspension, tasked the office of student’s affairs and the college of mass communication to give all assistance I need and more than that, to make for all I missed. Lovely isn’t it?

So needless to say, the diva will be back on Monday, February 13, 2006.

Mikoid

Feb 10, 2006, 01:20 PM

This is Mikoid, administrator of PinoyExchange. Entries for this week are closed already. However, you are all free to post again for next week's draw -- but make sure the story is a new one. We will be drawing a winner this afternoon.

cookiepao

Feb 10, 2006, 06:45 PM

mine's simple......in the school where i'm currently enrolled in, we've this ongoing intramural games....i don't play but i am the vp of 1 of the orgs....the capt.ball of our basketball team shows up whenever he wants to. he'll play whenever he wants to...they will only play 6 games in the elims and guess what, they've won just a single game out of 4 games(that time..)......i treated them after one of their games at the resto inside our school, when i saw that they're about to leave, i suddenly called them back, made them sit together then i stood in front. made a monologue commending them that no matter what happens, they're the best team for me(as the vp of the org) win or lose....it was the first time i spoke in front of them, telling them stuff that i wanted to tell them since game 1....and nice thing was, they all listened, they gave their comments and suggestions......

barbie-Q

Feb 10, 2006, 09:21 PM

She was an irksome workaholic who liked showing us all up and nobody wanted to work with her anymore, including myself. She knew that but at the same time I thought to myself, the team will suffer if we continue with the same attitude. So I decided to give her a chance and soon enough, the working relationships changed. People started to trust her again, I did too. Thank God I listened to my own tiny voice inside my head.

Precious84

Feb 11, 2006, 10:21 PM

Sige sali na lang ako next week. hehehe. Sorry. I didn't see na tapos na pala kahapon.

Ada

Feb 13, 2006, 11:37 AM

Congratulations to thirteen82 for being the week 1 winner of the Penshoppe "Speak Up! with Courage" contest. I will PM you with instructions on how to claim your GCs.

Keep on posting everyone. We still have thousands worth of Penshoppe GCs to give away.

Precious84

Feb 13, 2006, 01:48 PM

I was grilled for everything I said and did during the hour-long UP Law Aptitude Exam (LAE) interview but it was nevertheless the time I courageously took a stand, spoke up, and made people, I mean, distinguished UP Law professors, listen.

I knew my chances of being admitted to the UP College of Law was already hanging by a thread when the head panelist asked me if I had any last words that might convince them that I was deserving to be accepted.

Having recalled that prior to the interview, the members of the batch of interviewees for that day were given a pre-interview questionnaire sheet, I discussed my answer to the most controversial question in the said sheet which was about the importance of grades.

It was controversial because I recall hearing all of my batchmates saying that for them grades are not important as there are other more vital factors that measure one's success and commitment.

Though I believe that what they said was true, I mentioned during the interview that my stand was grades are important because these serve as the technical yardstick that measure one's dedication and passion to whatever it is that he does or will do.

To this the head panelist said with a smile: "You know Ms. Cardenas, in the five days of interview for the LAE, you are the only one who said that grades are important and we think you said it very well."

Precious84

Feb 14, 2006, 12:02 PM

Though this particular time when I made people listen involved only one person, I'd like to think I was courageous here when no one was daring enough to do something that would benefit many people.

I remember I was watching a movie with my mom and there was this guy, three chairs from us, who answered his ringing cellphone. To say the least, the way he talked to the person at the other end of the line was very, very loud, it was already annoying. I let the guy be for half a minute thinking that he would be ending soon the cellphone conversation. But after realizing that nobody dared to tell the person to at least keep his voice down (I was observing the people around us, they were annoyed as well) and that he had no intentions anytime soon of saying to the person he was talking to that he would just call again because he was watching a movie, I called the guy's attention in my most controlled tone and told him if he could just keep his voice down because he was disturbing his fellow movie watchers. Fortunately he adhered though I never really had any intention of embarrassing him.

Precious84

Feb 14, 2006, 12:16 PM

I am a person who is very, very outspoken and vocal when I know I am in the right and I have a lot of instances when I just could not resist but give people a piece of my mind.

One instance came when I was Christmas shopping last year in an outdoor tiangge. I overheard a commotion near the stall where I was buying a pair of socks and from where I was, I saw an irate vendor accusing two teenagers of allegedly breaking one of her glass figurines. Knowing that no one would give in as the teenagers swore that it just so happened they were only near the figurines and that the vendor never really saw who made her figurine (which was displayed on a shaky table) fall, I intervened and told both of the parties that acccusations, if not credible enough, are wrong. Since I don't want to embarrass the vendor, I also told the teenagers that if just maybe they are really guilty, they should just tell the truth and pay for the P20 figurine. Onlookers clapped their hands but I was never really in for the spotlight so I quickly disappeared in the crowd after offering to pay myself the P20 figurine just so the riot could stop.

haaynaku

Feb 14, 2006, 08:13 PM

Tell us about a time that you took a stand, spoke up, and made people listen!

My mom and my sister had an unreasonably huge fight one instance that I came home right away from work. Both of them refused to talk to the other due to that evil little thing called PRIDE. I brought them to my bedroom and asked them to discuss their differences. I mediated to prevent them from arguing some more and later, they were crying and hugging each other.
That weekend, I brought them to an out-of-town trip with the whole family and never did that kind of incident occur again. My mom and sister have gotten closer since then.

john_nobel

Feb 14, 2006, 11:37 PM

In a state university like ours, not a single centavo should be collected from the students. However, our college, which is in fact should be training future watchdogs of society has been mastering their mysterious misdemeanors. Everytime they want to make paskikat they will send Mass Communication students like in a cheering competition where one super sipsip student is involved. Now, when a student didn’t attend those not “important” events, they will ask the student to pay- for sanction. Like the last was when they were totaling students’ sanctions some even came close to paying not just an amount but at least four books. What is this?

First that is strictly illegal. But my poor batchmates who’s been an accessory to the crime of our sipsip student president can hardly do anything. Clearly, freedom of expression is obstructed in the College of Mass Communication. One time, when sipsip president came to our classroom to collect sanctions, I stood up and raised my voice- our point. With what has transpired, I became the feast of everyone’s orbs in the office (faculty). Why shouldn’t they? They’re all thinking of their profitable sidelines.

From then on, I was treated unfairly. Nobody wanted to include me in their groupings anymore. They fear that they might be treated the same the way I am being treated, they don’t like na mapersonal also. In fact, my thesis groupmates left me when I needed them most. I started a new thesis back to square one, alone in the middle of the semester. One time a staff became the office’s official sacrificial lamb. Since all of staffs are more than aloof to me, one time professors made a story about me saying that I insulted the sacrificial lamb employee’s husband which is not true.

Monday after that, the sacrificial lamb was so mad at me. She was devilishly staring at me. As soon as I went out from the office, she screamed at me, so in return I also yelled at her. This poor woman came out of the office and rushed to me when I was about to go downstairs. She screamed bad words and hitted me with a fan several times. As for me, I’ve spanked her in her left shoulder in return.

Because of this, the whole faculty already prepared their script and submitted it to the Office of Student Affairs. I was suspended. But just as they thought I was really suspended, little did they know I was just having my vacation. I appealed to the University President and responded to my favor for he saw my point. The office of the president lifted the suspension, tasked the office of student’s affairs and the college of mass communication to give all assistance I need and more than that, to make for all I missed. In fact I’m already done with my thesis. Lovely isn’t it?

So needless to say, the diva made a comeback yesterday, February 13, 2006.

benmarc

Feb 15, 2006, 09:51 AM

In our English class back in 2nd year high school, we were required to write a letter to our school newspaper about any school problem we had. Well, I thought I would really like to speak in behalf of all the students against our grumpy and grouchy librarian that always made our lives hell whenever we visit the library. You see, I was a book-lover back in elementary, and it all changed in high school. She made students avoid using the library because she was just not nice. My letter made it to the newspaper and it made such noise in the school 's administration, knowing this issue. They called for a special meeting on this with all the faculty members, the librarian and me. Things were then settled as the librarian was assigned to a different part of the university. After that, my classmates and schoolmates hailed me as their hero including the teachers. It suprised me because I didn't know that even the adults were having a hard time dealing with the librarian. They can't believe such courage to speak out would come out from somebody like me that was the smallest in the class. I was then called "small but terrible". (Now, I'm 5'6". Hehe.) I just did what must be done. I wanted something to happen so I made it happen.

Cherie

Feb 15, 2006, 11:44 AM

Occasionally, six of my male friends and I would meet up in a hangout bar in Manila to talk about how’s life had been to us lately.

Redgie, my best buddy, had brought along with him three lovely, and equally intellectual girls, whom he introduced as his office mates.

Like a pack of hungry wolves, all of my friends began bragging about their jobs, the famous bars they’ve visited, and the alcoholic escapades they had, obviously trying to hit on the not-so-impressed girls.

Being unemployed, depressed, and almost half-beaten by my friend’s endeavors, my hormones told me I have to come up with a ear-catching story, however unordinary it is.

Starting with the words “huuu!, wala kayo sa pagkalasing ko.!, I told them how I scoured the toilet bowl with my bare hands after vomiting and losing my false teeth on the Men’s room.

Cheering and laughing their hearts out, all of them quickly and happily raised their beers for a group toast.

ynon

Feb 15, 2006, 11:54 AM

I know everyone had experienced this yet I don’t know how many have asserted for his or her rights.

I was paying cash over the cashier at SM Megamall. When the cashier handed me the change, I counted it and noticed that it is short of 20 cents. I know that I am not very good with money but I tried to check if she really gave me the right change. She really made an error. With that short span of time, I didn’t know how to behave or react. I know people in the queue could be impatient and the cashier was already giving me a questioning look. Am I to let this habitual error pass again? How many times have they done that? I thought this should be enough.

I demanded the exact change. She asked me if I would accept two 10 cents. I made a sarcastic smile and told her, “Miss, life is difficult nowadays. Even four 5 cents, I would accept.” She opened a plastic of 10 cents from the registry. I noticed that she is sneering and made an eye contact with another cashier. This pissed me off. Holy cow, could I not read body language. I made another remark addressed to the cashier. “Miss, how may times in a day do you do that to your customers? Have you counted it? Each time you do it is also the number of times you made a fool of not only your customer, but also yourself. You know that it is wrong but you still do it. That I pity you.” She just fell silent and never looked at me in the eye as she handed me the 20 cents. I thanked her for the change. I looked back at the person behind me and told him how sorry I am for the inconvenience. I added with a smile, “I value the money I earned”.

I know there are different impressions that came to the minds of the people in the queue, and so thus to you who is reading this. Whatever it is, I like to reiterate that we need to assert what we believe is right. Filipinos are always overpowered by “hiya” that they would rather keep silent than fight for their own principles. I don’t know what impact I had made during that episode. What I am sure is, I left the store with no regrets and with my dignity intact.

kofi

Feb 15, 2006, 12:07 PM

once i was about to be terminated from because of excessive absences. i'd have to admit i was absent for 2 weeks straight. but that was because i had recurring tonsilopharyngitis then. and the antibiotics were not working after the first few days and so it worsened. one of the managers wanted me out. had my immediate supervisor tell me that i'm being terminated. i took all the medical certificates that i'd submitted, made a letter regarding why is should never be terminated and talked to the managers one by one.

i said under no grounds can i be terminated because of a sickness that is not terminal nor communicable. i stated my case, gave my spiel and they retained me. 20 days after that they i got promoted. if i just took their orders i wouldn't be here, i won't get promoted thrice in a eyar and they'd never gain a loyal employee like me.

MEM2

Feb 15, 2006, 01:37 PM

In my workplace, when there are company polices that are against our principles. I usually take the courage to speak on behalf of my office mates. though realistically it doesn't work that's why i am now applying for the supervisory position so that i will be able to stand my principle and make changes for the better. smile :)

cutieeee

Feb 15, 2006, 01:43 PM

i have a experience that made people listen when i spoke up... well its quite risky in my part. the story goes like this.

Well i was aware of the cellphone snatching that was happening on jeepneys, actually their have been 2 attempts on my part to snatch my phone, but i was able to prevent it by placing my hands on my pocket, so they wont be able to "snatch my phone". I remembered their faces (a group of 5), One tiring day at the office i rode a jeep going to our village, i notice this group that has put my attention on. They sat besides and infront of a well-dressed professional. When fear is being overwhelming emotion but i just cant resist to see someone losing a valuable item such as an expensive cellphone. What i did is I spoke quitely on the driver that a snatcher is on his jeepney and please make a stop on the nearest police station. When the snatchers were able to get the cellphone unnoticed, i had this gut feeling that they were about to unload at the next stop. I shouted "Snatcher, Snatcher" while hiding at the side of the driver. So the passengers we're trying to stop them from going down until we had stopped to the nearest police station and all the snatchers were caught right handed!

Whew! natakot ako nun... but i have to do it! or no one will!

LaDY_DaWN

Feb 15, 2006, 01:48 PM

my university is a private non sectarian institution. every university has their own policies that every student must follow. sadly, in my univ, these policies are as stable as the traffic rules and regulations in Makati.

in our handbook, there is no concrete rule regarding what length can a male sport his hair. one day the administration decided to implement a NO LONG HAIR POLICY, to the dismay of the gay and (male) artist community is my university.

during the time that they implemented this, i was the vice chair for the university house of congress. everyday, my gay friends and my friends from the 'outdoors' (mountaineering) troupe would tell me that they needed to have this policy suspended.. or better yet abolished.

my university is also known for the rallies held in and outside its campus... so one day my friends decided to stage a rally.i told them, rallies are not the solution and it would only exacerbate the issue.

for a month i battled it out with the administration... i talked to the Univ President and VPAA... it even came to a point that i was consulting my lawyer friends regarding the legality of the policy and its abrupt implementation.

with determination and many nights of sleeplessness... (and of course pressure from my friends and constituents) i was able to convince the admin that the move to implement this policy would just create conflict between the admin and student body.

i also told them that a university is a melting pot of ideas... if they implement this policy, they would be supressing the 'freedom' of the students to freely express themselves, specially through their crowning glories... :)

i guess thats it :)

FUCHSIA

Feb 15, 2006, 06:07 PM

I was made to finish a gruelling project at work which needed to be submitted to the Board of Directors ASAP. I finished it on time even sacrificing my weekends and weeknights. I noticed that my superiors were not prioritizing the review of my project so I approached them and reminded them of the importance of the project and the message we are sending to the Board of Directors about our work if it gets to them late. I knew I was risking my career because of that move or sort of "reminding my superiors. They were shocked at first for my boldness but they recovered quickly when they realized that I was right. I was promoted and sent abroad afterwards! :)

dov_888

Feb 15, 2006, 10:35 PM

In college, I became seatmates with a new girl in one of my classes with my block. We got along really well, although some of my friends found her to be maarte based on first impressions. We had to do a group project and since I was her closest friend in the class, naturally, she wanted to be in my group. I knew that my friends didn't want her to join at first, but I convinced them by saying that they should give her a chance because she was actually very nice and that she would be a great addition to our team. They reluctantly agreed, and were pleasantly surprised to find out that they were wrong about her. We're all still friends until now!

sassy_kai_03

Feb 15, 2006, 10:40 PM

I remember way back in Grade 6 when I stood up and speak up for my co-officials. There was a problem on going on the class and that was most of our classmates don't obey the class officers they had voted in. They're just ignoring whatever we (I am an auditor) told them to do or worse, they are being superior over us. So, we decided to have an open forum and as expected my other classmates(who were not officers) dominated over the class officials. To end the ongoing debate I took a stand and tell them in a loud voice that we're not robots that would do whatever they told us to do and they had voted us in those positions for them to follow us and not to degrade us. After those words, everybody shut up and listen to me and my co-officials for a few words, and the wall that divided the officers and the members was immediately torn down...

lunacy

Feb 15, 2006, 11:14 PM

I was at a practice with the big bosses for a company presentation. It was the first time I met them and I only have been working for a few months. The "veterans" were talking about "how to's" of our christmas presentation. I had an idea that I thought would help so I said "What if we.... " and stated my suggestion. After which, one of the big boss said "That's a nice suggestion <my name>! I like you na!" and agreed to my suggestion. I was so proud of myself that they liked my suggestion and I somehow made a connection to the big bosses.

^_^

Precious84

Feb 16, 2006, 09:58 AM

I remember being involved in a major group report for a theater class. Confident and satisfied that our group had, for the preparations, exerted a tremendous amount of effort and sacrifice just to cover everything that was needed to be done and researched, we went on with the presentation when all of sudden, one of our surprise visual aids didn’t immediately work the way it was expected.

Needless to say, our professor grilled us for what happened but what shocked the whole class, our group most especially, was the manner she reprimanded us because it went on to the extent of hurling accusations and offensive remarks, consequently embarrassing our group members, even reducing some of us to tears. Knowing that no one would dare question or even at least talk with the professor on the matter as she had some sort of a “reputation”, I took my chances of submitting a formal letter to her expressing and explaining our group’s side and sentiment on what happened, nevermind that there was this unwritten rule regarding a sensitive boundary between students and professors.

The next day during class dismissal, she called on me to stay saying that my letter got her attention; that if it were not for my letter, she would have not realized that she hurt our feelings and failed to recognize our efforts.

Sweetkay

Feb 16, 2006, 11:48 AM

I transferred to another school when I was a freshman in high school. We had visitors coming in from DECS and so we had a briefing in the auditorium. I have been noticing that there seem to be a segregation amongs the section and it was encouraging prejudice and bias among the students. See, in our school before, if you were Section, you're treated as gods and goddesses. If you belonged to the last section, you were dirt. I came from a school where everyone was on equal ground.

What I did was to bring this up to everyone's attention. I asked our principal during the briefing why this was being practiced? I informed him that simply because you are not as smart as what is deemed necessary or admirable does not mean you're a lesser person. I also informed the entire administration that what they are doing damages the self confidence of their own students which should not be the goal of a school.

I was met with a lot of resistance and anger. I was, after all, shaking their world and standing on thin ice. Still, I pushed for the rights of all the students including the ones in the so-called Cream Section because they too are faced with too much pressure or expectation.

After a few months, they finally relented and changed the section scheme of the school so as to combine everyone irregardless of grades or achievements. Now, everyone is on the same footing and I feel proud that I took that step of voicing out my concern. It was scary but it was worth it. *okay*

bloodynose

Feb 16, 2006, 12:04 PM

Me and my friend are buying WWE tickets at SM makati, and the line was so long and as i notice what taking this extra freakin' longer is that guy from the counter (taking him about 30 minutes or more) talking to the teller, checking the floor plan seats, then talks on cellphone, changing minds on what to take, etc... and all the people behind him are pissed off coz he's incosiderate, i can't take this anymore and i said "PARE! ANO BA PROBLEMA MO DYAN? BAKA PWDE PAUNAHIN MO MUNA YUNG IBA SINCE HINDI KA PA MAKAPAG-DECIDE DYAN! PAMPATAGAL KA EH! HANNGGANG 9PM LANG TONG SM, BE CONSIDERATE NAMAN!" then the others says "OO NGA, OO NGA" (funny!!), after what he heard, he just looked at us and make this hand gesture saying "you go ahead", after that he said sorry to us.

javen

Feb 16, 2006, 03:23 PM

This just happened last February 09, 2006 during my presentation of my case study in my University. I was so nervous to the point that i was like backing out and postponed my presentation. i was thinking that i am not prepared and that the panelist were all terror enough to frightened me so much. At the start of the presentation, i'm a bit nervous still but because i know what i am doing my presentation goes well not until when the panelist started to throw me questions regarding my case study.

At first it is so scaring and really heart pounding moment. The panelist continued throwing provoking questions, when i think some of their questions were irrelevant and i know they just like to show that they were the masters and there's no way that i can prove my stand. But just being consistent and persistent on what i would like them to understand about my paper, i managed to defend my paper and of course my stand. I keep on telling them that it is my study so no one can ever tell the real position of my study.

Whew! Thats quite frightening, bit i proved to them my stand.