The Study Wars
Kuya Alvin, a Kalayaan resident adviser, told us this story about his ‘children’ from third floor last year. As a sort of incident for his guys to study, he tacked a map of Middle Earth in the corridor. The territories in that map were ‘prizes’ for The Study Wars to be held in their floor. The rules of the game are much complicated than what I’m about to say but basically, the more hours you pitch into studying, the higher the possibility of you getting a territory in Middle Earth.
The winners of The Study Wars went on to become honor students. University and college scholars with GWA’s (General Weighted Averages) of 1.77 or higher.
Pardon me, but I’ve tried studying for three hours straight and it doesn’t - probably never will - work for me. Bleergh.
Toodles! Poof…
BTW, if you’re reading this, please leave a comment. I’ve been writing so many entries that haven’t garnered even just a single reaction. 
August 12th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
hi, can you please tell me more about this “study wars”?..hehe..i find it interesting..tc!
August 15th, 2007 at 2:12 am
hello sandy. you are perfect and you don’t need the opinion of other people to make you even better. hear that? puuuurfect!
this is sirok aka kulas aka janmags aka gracemags! hey you found your way to my blog and now i found you. bantay ka. bwahaha
August 15th, 2007 at 2:32 am
August 15th, 2007 at 2:39 am
“As a sort of incident for his guys to study”
Just noticed that. Guess what’s wrong with it and you guys can figure out for yourselves what on earth I was trying to say…!
And ’study wars’ is something like…. er. It’s difficult to explain…
It makes use of guys’ territorial tendencies. They want to have ‘territories’ even if those are just little points on a map.
In Kalayaan, each bedroom has two occupants - one on the left bed, another on the right bed. In study wars, the left person and the right person become ‘enemies’. You just have to study more than your roommate and you’ll win.
Let’s say Person Left studied for three hours and Person Right studied for four hours. Since Person Right studied two hours more than his roommate did, he gets two points for that.
For each point you acquire, you get a little plot of land on ‘Middle Earth’. The winner of the Study Wars is the guy who ‘builds the largest empire’ in Middle Earth.
That’s study wars.
August 15th, 2007 at 3:07 am
hey wait a doggone minute. i don’t use my friendster account. i just kinda need it cause most of the people i know can only be contacted through friendster. i don’t visit though if i can help it. now that you are in blogger i’ll visit you there instead of here. i still hate friendster and you won’t see me here often i promise
i was wondering about that “incident” i thought new grammar wave or something
August 16th, 2007 at 4:20 am
i was in a rush
but i’m moving to blogspot now ;D
hehehe. there’s more freedom there
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 am
interesting! sounds fun! that’s a really creative teacher.
but how would he know the students are telling the truth?
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:33 am
ma’am, you sound like you think friendster-ing is an act punishable by law!
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:39 am
by the way, don’t worry about the comments thing. friendster isn’t sending blog updates anymore. lots of blogs are going un-commented now..
February 29th, 2008 at 12:18 am
awwww. so let’s all move to blogspot! hehehe
October 29th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Great work.
October 29th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Thanks