the new CAL building
I paid a visit to the new College of Arts and Letters Building (if that's even the official name), the one behind and between the Faculty Center and the Vargas Museum in UP Diliman. It's an effective building in that it provides a great many classrooms for the long-since-beleaguered CAL classes, most especially the ones conducted by the Department of English and Comparative Literature. It's a mighty peculiar place, though. Here's why:
- It's got so many bars over almost all the windows that it feels like a correctional facility. The classrooms, the washrooms, the exterior windows, everywhere. I couldn't find any readily identifiable fire escapes, either. I dread what would become of the building if it ever catches on fire.
- The acoustics of the entire building are reminiscent of a high school gymnasium. You know, the kind where every sound echoes everywhere? Stand in one place and I guarantee you'll hear practically every class with a discussion going on.
- There are trash bins on almost every corner. I think this is why there's a shortage of bins everywhere else on campus; they put all of them in THIS building. I pity the maintenance person who'll go neurotic after a week of emptying out several dozen bins in just one building on a daily basis.
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I got to watch an advanced screening of Serenity last night. It was an exceptionally enjoyable and entertaining movie, executed with the tongue-in-cheek finesse that is the trademark of Joss Whedon's work. For those of you who'd be interested in seeing this movie as well, you may have to wait a while; the projected regular screening for it in local cinemas is February 2006.
- It's got so many bars over almost all the windows that it feels like a correctional facility. The classrooms, the washrooms, the exterior windows, everywhere. I couldn't find any readily identifiable fire escapes, either. I dread what would become of the building if it ever catches on fire.
- The acoustics of the entire building are reminiscent of a high school gymnasium. You know, the kind where every sound echoes everywhere? Stand in one place and I guarantee you'll hear practically every class with a discussion going on.
- There are trash bins on almost every corner. I think this is why there's a shortage of bins everywhere else on campus; they put all of them in THIS building. I pity the maintenance person who'll go neurotic after a week of emptying out several dozen bins in just one building on a daily basis.
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I got to watch an advanced screening of Serenity last night. It was an exceptionally enjoyable and entertaining movie, executed with the tongue-in-cheek finesse that is the trademark of Joss Whedon's work. For those of you who'd be interested in seeing this movie as well, you may have to wait a while; the projected regular screening for it in local cinemas is February 2006.