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Palma Hall during UPCAT, afternoon of august 7, 2005.
several hours before, the traffic on this road could be compared to that of edsa.

last sunday, i drove my nephew to UP diliman to take his UPCAT ( U.P. college admission test ). due to my work in alabang, i seldom have the chance to jog there anymore. a fact that my belly fat could attest to. one of the things that strike me during that day is the proliferation of vendors lining the academic oval. the occassion ( at least outside the test rooms ) seems more like a fiesta or fair. i think i even saw a globe or smart telecom booth there, which made me wonder if they allow celphones inside the test rooms. that is something we don't have to consider during the time i took my UPCAT...which was a looong time ago. what stuck to my mind all these years is the fact that my test room was in the second floor of UP integrated school and that the english essay test was taken from an old issue of readers' digest ( karate: weapon of the empty hand...naks ) that i read the day before by chance. aside from that, i don't recollect anything else from that day.


the kiosks in front of the B.A. college and Vinzons hall