of residence, ideas, and my favorite TLA

The Yakal Residence Hall Association, a wannabe organization where the Yakal residents became members, whether they wanted to or not, upon the brilliance of the Yakal House Council, led by our ever-charismatic and beloved president, Junjie something-family-name-that-begins-with-the-letter-C-I-think, decided to hold a special contest for this semseter's open house. The residents are priviledged to sell three twenty-peso tickets to three people who will have a chance to win a residence in Yakal Residence Hall. Yes, even residence has become part of a gamble, and yes, the House Council has thought of a minimal-cost way of making money for their projects. Cash prize and other consolation prizes are there, but the main price is something that I or any other Yakal resident, can never enjoy any further, so that scratches out my paying the tickets for the remote chance to win to something like my paying for the tickets for absolutely nothing. sweet.

The contest gist is 20 random boys and girls (forgot if that was each or total) gets to be interviewed by the council for their appropriateness to become a resident in Yakal, they then have to oblige to rules, get to do stuff, cut each other down, until only one male and one female remains. These two win a reservation for Yakal residency for the next semester, after signing a contract of all priviledges (and responsibilities) a Yakal resident receives. What happens to the other eighteen? They can probably re-apply the next semester anyway. People entitled to purchase the ticket and join the contest are non-Metro Manila residents (scratch out most of my friends) and people who have never enjoyed a single day of Yakal Residency in their entire lives. It does make sense to restrict the contestants, this way a person living in Manila will never be a Yakal dormer since he lives too close by, there should be three times the number of Yakal residents who would like to be a Yakalite in the future, despite the fact that they already have dorms, boarding houses, or far away homes to go home to anyway. And of course, there is such a big difference to win a contest via a lottery and an interview than to do the typical application for Yakal residency. I mean getting into Yakal the normal way is like winning a lottery!

anyway, WTF...I must really love the Yakal House Council to put so much sense in my previous two paragraphs.

Random thoughts:
- Outstanding actually means "nakatayo pa siya sa labas, kaya hindi pa siya nakakapasok" like in outstanding checks, outstanding deposits, etc.
- You can never divide a pie into three equal pieces unless its area is divisible by three.
- If an imaginary number is not real, why bother thinking about it?
- If a guy sniffs a girl's underwear, he is a pervert. If a girl sniffs a guy's underwear, she is plain sick.
- If the only certain thing about the future is uncertainty, how can you be certain that "the only certain thing about the future is uncertainty" when "the only thing about the future is uncertainty" in not uncertain?
- If I say everything is meaningless, did I mean anything?
- Quotes are funny, the very people who need them the most can't understand them. I think the best quotes do not use smart language because that way even dumb people can understand them.