Goodbye NBN… Oh Wait, HELLO AGAIN!

Yes, NBN. You’re dead to me.

Thanks in large part to Typhoon Sepat (Egay to those with a heightened sense of nationalism), my much-anticipated, much-talked-about (wahaha) August 20 NBN taping for some debate show on the nation’s most watched network is no longer feasible due to conflicts in schedule.

For the benefit of the non-students (and those reading this abroad), classes have been canceled since Wednesday. The final examination for my first rotation - Internal Medicine - was initially move to Saturday morning. Due to another announcement on the suspension of classes today, the department has no choice but to give the exam on Monday morning (August 20). This was supposedly a holiday to commemorate the 24th year anniversary of Ninoy Aquino’s assassination. Of course, the real date of the anniversary is the 21st but being veterans of the Gloria prerogative to change the day of holidays from the actual date of occurrence, no one seems to question this anymore. Incidentally, our role for the debate would’ve been to protect the idea of this prerogative as a justified desecration.

The exam is 10AM to 12NN.

The call time for the debate is 12NN.

NBN’s studios are in Quezon City.

So clearly, even with the use of a helicopter, I wouldn’t make it in time for the taping.

Hold your horses! The exam got moved to Tuesday! It’s a go!

Oh well.

The silver lining for this of course is that I still get to be on Square Off this Wednesday. It’s going to be De Lasalle squaring off against University of Baguio for a chance to join the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University and University of the Philippines Diliman in the quarterfinals.

Square Off airs LIVE every Wednesday night at 8.

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