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Nakakagulo: February 2007
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Na-ká-ka-gu:-loh (Tagalog, adj.) - something that causes riot, trouble, disorder, or confusion. I started college at the University of California in Riverside that fall of 2002. It did not really feel too different except that my classes were sparse, and I had to drive myself to and from school forty minutes each way, everyday. I found my niche quickly. More accurately, I found a group to hang out with. It was long before I found my college self. All of my old acquaintances disappeared. With new people s...
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Nakakagulo: January 2007
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Na-ká-ka-gu:-loh (Tagalog, adj.) - something that causes riot, trouble, disorder, or confusion. Is This the End? This is why it has taken me so long to get to this chapter in my story; however, there is no avoiding it. If I truly feel that it must be told, then I must tell everything. What followed the dance was a week of hell for me. The dance only served to intensify my feelings towards Jackie and cause more confusion in my life. All of my friends around me who had known kept pressuring me to break up ...
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Nakakagulo: October 2006
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Na-ká-ka-gu:-loh (Tagalog, adj.) - something that causes riot, trouble, disorder, or confusion. It was late October of 1999. I was a sophomore in high school then. Earlier that summer, I had uninstalled a video game program from our family computer, which caused it to crash and cease to start up. After a fix, my mother finally decided to sign up for internet service through, what else, America Online (AOL). After just a few weeks, I already had a routine. As you may have guessed now, I am Filipino.).
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Nakakagulo: December 2006
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Na-ká-ka-gu:-loh (Tagalog, adj.) - something that causes riot, trouble, disorder, or confusion. It was the beginning of April 2000 and the two of us were still talking on a regular basis. It had been a little while since Jackie had broken up with her boyfriend, and by this time he had all been forgotten. There was no longer mention of him or anything from the past. Neither was there any mention of anything that had ever gone on between Jackie and myself. She asked me to go with her. My kind mother provid...
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Nakakagulo: Then And Now [Part 2]
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Na-ká-ka-gu:-loh (Tagalog, adj.) - something that causes riot, trouble, disorder, or confusion. Then And Now [Part 2]. The night of the induction banquet that late May 2004 (around Memorial Day weekend), I arrived with my date, Francine, with our matching brown and pink attire. It was no doubt that she was one of the most beautiful underclass(wo)men there. My friend John (not his real name) arrived in full banquet attire with Kyleen, sporting a baby blue/turquoise scheme. It was a little obvious that som...
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Nakakagulo: Never Meant To Be
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Na-ká-ka-gu:-loh (Tagalog, adj.) - something that causes riot, trouble, disorder, or confusion. Never Meant To Be. That following September, school began once more. I entered my third year in college expecting the worst—the hardest classes, the most laboratory time, etc. I was ready for it. I made sure that I had no other obligations. Later on, however, I found myself involved in writing the next culture night’s script with the cultural chairperson of the Pilipino student organization. Then, she said som...
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Nakakagulo: Summer Meeting
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Na-ká-ka-gu:-loh (Tagalog, adj.) - something that causes riot, trouble, disorder, or confusion. I do not know exactly what it was that prompted me to do it, but after my second year of college, I contacted Jackie once more. I wrote her a letter. It was a long letter. Handwritten, it was four pages long. It reminds me of the song with the same lyrics: “I’m writing you a four page letter…”. What did I write? I no longer remember. I told her everything that I had wanted to say from the first day to the last.
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Nakakagulo: Then And Now [Part 1]
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Na-ká-ka-gu:-loh (Tagalog, adj.) - something that causes riot, trouble, disorder, or confusion. Then And Now [Part 1]. The winter quarter passed, somewhat all too slowly on the personal portion of my life, and all too quickly on the academic side. It was 2004, and there were two years left before I graduated. I decided to forget about Jackie from that point on, knowing that there was nothing really left for me to say to her. I did not really know what I wanted. In plain terms, it was so that the guys cou...
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Nakakagulo: The Next Verse
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Na-ká-ka-gu:-loh (Tagalog, adj.) - something that causes riot, trouble, disorder, or confusion. The end of the spring quarter was drawing near (2004), and so was my second year of college. It also meant that my second quarter of Tagalog class was ending, and our final presentations were coming up that June. The quarter before, during winter, our Tagalog 10A class had to do group presentations in the form of skits using the Tagalog/Filipino that we had learned. See “My Solace” 2007.03....The problem I had...
