.:Memorable:.

As I often tell the winners for the Troy gift packs, and this applies to the students, obviously… you want a good grade? Take it! It’s yours!

In any case, it’s been very entertaining for the most part. In the middle of all the funny exchanges between me and Camillo, today’s batch was arguably the smartest batch I ran into. I had no idea how Vivian Ng and Haydee Hsu did during the orals, though. Beyond their grades, I have no idea at all… oh, well.

In any case, here’re some notable things that happened today, per student…

Camille Legaspi: Brilliant, brilliant person. She had a ready answer for everything, and was smart enough to realize why Jesus Christ’s sacrifice does not violate Kant’s universal moral laws. Her insights were refreshing, and I was really impressed with her aura of confidence. There was no doubt that she was sure she’d do well.

Patricia Migallos: Witty cannot begin to capture it. At one point, she managed to answer the question about Bro. Eli Soriano’s habit of consulting the Bible as a substitute for his conscience. Moreover, she then told Dr. Ibana why experience alone is not the sole prerequisite for conscience: her mom said giving birth was painful. Does she really have to go through it to know, or could she afford to take her mom’s word for it? That was a witty line from her, to say the least…

Karyn Monter: Informed us that a previous student was crying, but this time, it wasn’t my fault… in any case, she answered the question pretty well, and she really was interesting to converse with.

Monette Alvero: Was scared to death with this bit…

Marcelle:Halimbawa ::knock on wood:: binigyan ka namin ni Dr. Ibana ng “F” sa iyong marka, at dahil gandang-ganda si Camillo sa iyo…

Camillo: Halata bang halimbawa lang?

Marcelle: Halimbawa, binigyan ka ng “A” ni Camillo. Makaturangan ba ang iyong grado? Ano sa tingin mo ang gradong dapat mo matanggap?

It was funny, but soon enough, she realized it wasn’t really so scary… Camillo was berating me for being vicious, though…

Juancho Corpuz: What a revelation. I was simply impressed how much this guy got throughout the whole course, as most people would write him off as a delinquent. He even managed to answer the trick question about using Philosophers merely as a means and not recognizing them as an end. Needless to say, I found him to be impressive.

Bianca Macaisa: Lived through the zany “Blue Shop” morality question… what if L.A. Tenorio, out of desperation durign a key Ateneo-La Salle game, lost his uniform, broke into the Blue Shop to get a copy of his own Jersey, and got caught? What if a La Sallian did the same thing out of sheer spite (No offense to La Sallians. You guys won the championship, after all. =))? How would justice be administered given a minimum level of equality and a maximum level of individuality? She was shaking a lot, but she still pulled through excellently.

Patrick Lam: Brilliant, though Camillo criticized his fashion sense. Nonetheless, he got through all the questions without a hitch and even managed to answer a couple of trick questions here and there. I asked him about the “policeman’s dilemma”, and he ended up giving a Punisher-ladedn answer. Needless to say, that was the hook.

Angela Giron: Lived through the Jasmine Trias example. Bah Gawd, that was a crazy one…

.:Jasmine, Jasmine, Jasmine:.

I’m not hating on her just because it’s cool to do.

I’m hating on her because she’s milking good money from this country, and yet it’s not like she really was proud to be a Filipina, to begin with. It’s one thing to decry one’s own country, and another to exploit it while still maintaining the same kind of stance towards it.

And please, her speaking voice annoys the Hades out of me, and it gets increasingly hard to get that song of hers out of my head, which annoys me further…