Aka. My idols. :D They are not celebrities, they have had immediate contact with me, and they are great at certain things~
First, in a league all on his own:
- my dad: as an academician and as a father. He'd know at least a little something about anything I ask him about, be it physics (those 2 guys who discovered background radiation--I don't even remember them anymore), math (the Shroeder-Bernstein Theorem--he's heard of it!), and especially History and Economics. He used to read to me before I go to bed and tried to find me a tutor (in vain) when he saw me crying over a math problem that aparently utilized shroeder-bernstein. He gets a blanket from the closet upstairs and covers me with it when he sees me curled up in bed a little cold and closes my windows in the middle of the night when a storm hits.
And the rest that are trailing behind him but remain on my list nonetheless.
- Jojo Liao: as a tennis player. Until April he will be my Externals Sec. General but that's not why he's on this list. He has a deceivingly frail-looking bone structure but he can beat the best of them. At least in UP.
- Junjie Guadayo: tennis player. While we're in the topic, here's another one. He's part of the UP Varsity and has an almost bottomless tank of stamina that'll last him until his muscles cramp out. Plus, he and his teammates teache the sport rather well too, from the improvement I've seen in the applicants. And he has a sense of humor. (Actually, a lot of the men's varsity do, naghahawaan siguro)
- Lourdes Ann Marquez: as a writer. She's a classmate in one of my creative writing courses. The best classmate I have, based on my own judgement. She has this hold on the language that is extraordinary already relative to other students, but not just that, she can play with it well enough to suite whatever atmosphere she wishes her stories to be.
- Paolo Soriano: as a writer. Again, a classmate, and again one of the best. (In my opinion follows second after Lourdes). But his is a different kind of style. More contemporary, I think. Still, he weaves his words artfully enough to make the reader feel the emotions in the trivial scenes that he chooses to portray.
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This list will be continued as I go along. XD
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