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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
A crap load of books = Student's best friend
9:21 PM
The Rizal Library is my new bestfriend. Well... That's always the case when I need to do research et al. I expected these past days spent in the library to be of torment, but no hahaha. I found hanging out at the library awesome! HahahaYou see... Even after countless visits to the lib, I still get lost and confused, for example, as to where I should turn to find the staircase going to the 2nd floor from the 3rd. Yeah, the library's really big so it would obviously mean that I'd find something new after every visit. What made my past visits (this week) totally cool was when I spent half an hour inside the Filipiniana section (where all published theses are) and when Angge and I got to tour ourselves around the room next to the Filipinana sec-- Basta it's a room full of old maps. I shall elaborate... Now! haha Reading other students' papers dated back in the days when courier was an in-demand font (typwriters) was muy interesting for me. Just with reading all those theses, I could do a comparative study on the style of writing and the subjects/ topics used or whatever haha. I love old thingggssss. And speaking of old things... The map-room visit made me love old things even more haha. The whole thing started with me asking Angge about the room next to the Filipiniana sec. That simple question fuelled Angge's curiosity too so we decided that we should explore and enter the room. We were stopped at first by a dude, asking what research we were doing. Angge replied with a simple "we were just curious" and the dude called upon an older, much more in- charge- looking dude to ask if we could look around. What happened next was cool haha. The old man turned on the lights and I felt like I was inside a small- scale map museum. Naturally, we looked around and was putangenasized at how old the maps were (Apparently, it showed the history on how the Philippines was "put on the map"). Some of them were handwritten and cool and old while some of them (mainly 2) were stupid HAHA. One stupid map had the Philippines as one big clump of land-- As in walang korte, isang maliit na blob lang-- and the other had the Philippines on the North part of the map (so you'd have to tilt your head to your left to see correctly that China was on top of the Phils). Quoting Angeli: "I love artifacts!", Dani: "I love history!" Kulang nalang ay pasukan ko yung Rizal Room haha. |
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