Cu4tro Cantos

The Four Songs of Life

Cu4tro Cantos is the new Ala Eh Blog. Since I cannot provide pure Batangueño articles, I decided a revamp of the site, which I think is more appropriate. Cu4tro Cantos refers to the four members of the Cantos Family. In spanish, Cuatro means Four, and Cantos means Songs.


Archive for April, 2007


One Day Blog Silence

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The results of the training

The week that has just passed has been a great one for me. Training all week, everybody just loves it. Who won’t? As the training started, everyone in the room has this feeling of discomfortness. I am not saying that we were nervous, but having a little amount of butterflies in our stomachs, perhaps. Why? I for one, a I entered the room, has my minds set that I was there because I don’t have enough sel confidence, not fluent in speaking english, not very good on grammar and I don’t belong to those that are elite in english. I felt nervous even more when our professor showed the grading system to the class. Passing grade, 85%, while during college I only got 2.5 in english , which is too much far behind from 1.0.
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Claiming back the special day that I forgot.

The last time that I remember the date was April 24. And now it’s already 26.

Yesterday, I never greeted my wife a Happy Anniversary. No gift at all. I maybe on my strangest set of minds that I thought it was just the 24th. I was on the training and whenever we use to write dates, I always write 04/24/2007.

While waiting for the service van yesterday evening and waiting for my wife, I saw her with boxes of Mister Donuts on her hands. I wonder where they came from. I never thought she bought those. Or maybe I thought of that as pasalubong (some uses hand-me-downs), for her brothers. Though, I never asked my wife.
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Grammar. Pronunciation. Accent. Phrasing. Blending.

I mentioned on my previous post that I am taking a training on Basic English Skills. It’s now on its 3rd day and I say, I am learning from it. All the things that I already know were refreshed and many new things were even added. The title tells a few and let’s try to add some more next time. I’m talking about the post. It’s my 2nd time to have plain blank. Wow.

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Weekstart

My work schedule wasn’t quite interesting last week. I was on night shift again and it was too much boring on my workplace. Imagine working alone over night, without anyone to talk to, without music to listen to, without having ‘midnight lunch’. I did not want to go out alone for something to eat. I just had a couple Chips Ahoy! cookies to fill my stomach, and lots of water. That’s how the past week has gone for me.

A couple of months ago, I took a training over the phone, that will measure how good in English, I am. There were very easy questions and true or false statements combined with reading comprehension and grammar. I know that I answered most of the items correctly, it’s just that I my voice maybe wasn’t very clear or the environment where I took the training was a little bit noisy.

Cut it short, today was the first day of my Basic English Training. Nice enough to start my new week.
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