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Quarta-feira, Fevereiro 09, 2005

The Abductor And The Abducted

Considering the meager amount of knowledge which I have obtained last semester from the portly Pamela-wan and Elaine Marieb's too-simple AnaPhy book, I knew I had to make a hundred-fold effort to level with my new classmates' intelligence. (As in?) I realized only just yesterday how an ultimate dum-dum I was in body mechanics. During BaCon class, (this is some major subject in my course that you would not care to get familiar with) my Cookie-Chua-look-alike teacher set up a game of charade for us. At the second round, I got assigned to perform the act for my group. The first word I had picked out from the box was 'acupuncture' which was pretty easy to act out really since I just imagined holding a long needle in my hand and jabbed it to several areas of my body and then they guessed the answer in no time at all. Well at that instant I thought I'd become a good mime when I grow up.

So the next round came and I felt pretty cool about the next word I'd select from the container. Next word was 'abduction'. Ladies and gentlemen, we all know that most of the time, a single word can have more than one meaning. In the field of science, abduction means withdrawal of a part from the axis of the body or of an extremity (Blakiston's, 1952). But of course, my retarded brain did not know that because it thought it meant something more like a kidnap or seizure. So in my one-man show, I imagined myself in the Twilight Zone, may typical image ng alien daw nearby (with spaceship!), tapos ina-abduct ako! Kunwari kinakaladkad at sinasakal daw ako nung alien na 'yun via telekinesis... Maya-maya nag-pretend ako na ako 'yung alien na uma-abduct sa human being (a.k.a. myself). I even made the we-come-in-peace hand signal that UFOs make in the movies and all that crap. The teacher was really laughing like mad while I made fun of myself in the middle of the classroom. I wasn't able to relate it with the subject and that made the act so funny. Hence none of my classmates thought about the right answer as they all went hysterical beholding the debacle of my dignity and poise. As in mukha raw talaga akong EWAN. And even today my classmates are still hooting at it.

I actually did more embarrassing things that time and I am sorry I just could not give you convincing details about it. Words, no matter how careful they may be chosen, could just not come close to how this humiliation really went.

My next duty is at the pedia ward of Ospital ng Sampaloc tomorrow at five in the morning. I should be dead sleeping this instant. Boa noite a gente and may the force be with you.


Carnaval took a nap at 10:08:00 PM

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