A True Hell Week

This passed week has been too much like hell for me. I've been tormented every night by series of heavy dilemmas, and it seemed to me that I couldn't get out of them easily. Aside from having no more money left on my wallet and lack of time to review for difficult exams, the documents for my dissertation were ALL corrupted, without any back-up files to relieve my worries. My 2G-capacity flash drive had been attacked by notorious, totally-frustrating worm virus. Out of desperation, I just rewrite anything from the very start, but I couldn't recall all the good ideas. Ironically, this is the best birthday gift for me! I was really stunned.

Still fortunate enough, my professor hasn't deleted the copies of my documents so I was able to retrieve all of them. Yeah, I smiled a lot! But I already learned my lesson, so I hurriedly created a back-up file to my email accounts and online storage, even gave a copy of my documents to my friends' flash drives to be 101% sure I won't be wasting another couple of days lamenting with my deceased corrupted files. Now I'm back in the game, but I'm already left behind. Doh.

The Most Annoying Word

"Oh well, WHATEVER. Never mind."

Seems like this 8-letter word has the biggest impact even in simple conversations. Really, if the person says this to you while you are explaining something, feels like you want to punch him with knuckles directly on his face.

Whatever, according to Discovery News, crowned as the most annoying word above "you know," "at the end of the day," and "it is what it is". Even more frustrating to hear with 'WHAT-ehv-urr', almost 47% of the total respondents in a survey held by Marist College agreed on its nerve-wracking power.

That was in the United States. I haven't heard any of the schools here in Manila conducting polls with the same subject. Maybe I could share my own most annoying words or phrases I genuinely hate to hear from a person, especially from a Pinoy.

1. "Ano ngayon?" ("So what?") - Feels like you're talking to a red boxing glove and then suddenly it blows forcefully into your chest. It will leave you mentally uncomfortable and speechless.

2. "Wala akong pakialam." ("I don't care anyway.") - This can give you a tormenting, grudging emotion. You're likely to talk into a dummy or a brick wall. It implies superlative negligence.

3. "K." - Many of us are victims, at the same time, guilty with this. It is actually a short, lazy version of "okay". Filipinos are fond of texting, axing the unnecessary letters, making it shorter to easily convey your message in a limited character. Imagine yourself in an SMS fight, making every point clear, thus, sending numerous parts of your message, and then this person replied to you with a single letter "K"? Excruciating.