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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Rota Mags and the Rojases, a clan of geniuses

Filipinos know Rota mags very well. They are very popular to the average public although most enthusiasts don't recommend them, as they are copycats from other well know brands like Ray's Engineering or Mugen, using cheaper materials.

The Rojases own the Rota brand. Raymond "Ramby" Rojas was my classmate at De La Salle University, from the Honors Block of B&E 95. Being on the Honors Block, we have unlimited cuts and absences privilege. Ramby never attends Math classes, he shows up only during exams. And one time, he left after roughly 45 minutes, which has an entire duration of 3 hours. We all stared at a closed door after hearing him leave the classroom so fast and so loud, he actually banged the classroom door just to announce to everyone he had left. We were like wtf, he finished it so fast.  Well I finished mine in 1.5 hours, but I will not leave the room for the rest of the 3 hours as I need to review all my answers at least twice. And by review, I actually repeat the entire exam on a scratch paper, without staring at my first answer, as to prevent me from overlooking and not noticing errors on my initial answers. I normally perfect Math exams, except when I'm careless.

So when the results of the exam were actually available, the professor said, "only one person perfected the exam, Mr. Raymond Rojas!" We then started clapping all are hands. We started respecting Ramby more from that day forth. Too bad he left after a year of schooling to go back to Ateneo, his alma mater, as according to him, he does not fit in the La Sallian culture, and he belongs in Ateneo more. He rarely speaks filipino, always english, and when he does, he is "bulol" and we make fun of him because of that. We never made fun of him after that exam. In a class full of Valedictorians and Dean's Listers, we really cannot fathom how fast and accurate he is in Math.


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