Danny Seigle

      

          I am such a fan of Danny Seigle and I would like to make this a page for him. To tell how much I <3 him...

Lightning the Dynamite (How it started...)

       At first I don't like DS and so the basketball but I do remember myself cheering for Alaska during the Alaska - Ginebra Finals in 1997. I also enjoyed watching my cousins who played the game in our inter - barangay league.

       Then it was 2000 when I saw a magazine, it featured the SMB and it said "Back 2 Back Champs" with photos and a calendar (which I posted on our wall). I dunno but with just looking at those photos, I became a beerfan.

       It was 2002 when when I finally enjoyed watching UAAP games and I already love BASKETBALL. I also remembered to watch a game of Team Pilipinas versus another country, a player got injured. It saddened me then I realized that basketball is worth-dying for other players. That heroic athlete was DS but I did not pay attention on his identity but on what happened to him. I really have no idea who he is and did not try to learn things about him. 

      Another game of Team Pilipinas made me an Olsen Racela's fan and because his mother team is SMB, it was official I am a true-blooded beerfan. (And I still did not know about DS during that time. I was more familiar with his BIG bro...Andy Seigle. I did not know that Andy Seigle has a brother in SMB...)

       2004 was the year when I watched PBA to the fullest and of course, I was cheering for SMB. The team really played good that time but they've got eliminated. :( In one of their games I saw DS and I said to myself, "Oh! He's a beerman!" but still I was more of an Olsen's fan. My first impression with him was he was just a benchwarmer. I was like who is this big man then one of analysts said that "He is back but the question is does the player he used to be is also back?" I thought, "Is this guy good?" In that game he did not score that high but after more games..."Oh man! He's a scoring machine!" The team needed him.

       I still did not realize that that he was also the player I saw who got injured few years ago in a Team Pilipinas match not until he encountered another injury and because of that the team I rot for was incomplete again but what was more annoying was I missed DS and the way he plays and even though he was always on the sideline I preferred more of seeing him inside the court and even though he really looked good with his outfits, I want to see him in a SMB jersey...From then on...I became a DYNAMITE DANNY SEIGLE'S FAN! :)

The next one is a poem I wrote for DS. It is in Filipino...

Danny Seigle

ni akaTorrieAllens

Nais kong inyong malaman, makilala,
I want you to know and meet

Taong laman ng aking puso at diwa,
The man who occupies my heart and my mind

Ipinanganak sya sa Pennsylvania,
He was born in Pennsylvania

Daniel Charles Yadao Seigle, sya na!
Daniel Charles Yadao Seigle, that's him.

Sa PBA, siya'y si Dynamite Danny,
In PBA, he's Dynamite Danny

Mga tagahanga nya ay marami,
He's got a lot of supporters

Tatlong Yahoo groups ang mayroon si Danny,
He has three Yahoo groups

He's my only MVP!

He's my only MVP!

Sa Wagner College pa lang ay stand-out na,
Even in Wagner College, he was  already stand-out player

Sa San Miguel Beermen, pambato sya,
In San Miguel Beermen Team, he's one of the best

Career points nya ay 5000 at may dagdag pa,
His career points are 5000 and still counting

Rookie of the year yata ang dinamita.
He was the Rookie of the Year.

Fade-away shot? Yakang-yaka ni Danny,
Fade-away shot? He's very good at that

Sa bawat game may 3-point play lagi,
In every game. there's a three point play

Dun sa rainbow country di sya panis,
He has hands at the rainbow country

Kung slamdunk lang eh sisiw kay Danny S.
Slamdunk? No Sweat!

Itong malaking mama ay model ng Anta,
This BIG guy is a model of Anta

He's my superman! Lipad na!
He's my superman! Go fly!

Makilala si Danny ay aking nais,
To meet him is what I want

Malamang super love sya ni Torrie Allens.
To know how much Torrie Allens hearts him.

I called this tiDbitS... 

          In one interview, Olsen Racela mentioned that their team used to hang-out at Aruba (MOA). Since I am not from the city when I got the chance to go to MOA, my goal was to look for Aruba and I was happy because the ride that was carrying us parked exactly in front of Aruba. Then I asked the waitress outside the bar, "Is it true that SMB hang here?" She said, "YES!" and my friend asked, "Is Danny Seigle cuter in person?" The girl said, "YES!" as well.:)

What did I experience when I finally saw DS in person?... 

Dynamite Explosion

       It was April of 2008 and I was checking my e-mails then I found out that MBM will play at Lipa City so I asked my father to buy me a ticket and he did. He texted me a morning before the game that I already have a ticket for it I was really happy. :) I can't sleep that night then I thought what if DS won't play and yeah, he did not. :( 

       It was may 3, 2008, we arrived at De La Salle-Lipa. My friend said that MBM went there at 10 a.m. and DS was there so there's a chance for him to play. :) Beside us was a man who was so loud as he was telling his friends that he saw the practice and he already had pictures with MBM players. Even though  I did not know him. I asked him if he saw DS and he said that he did. :)

       After more minutes, we saw the bus carrying the players and we were so excited. :) Some people said, "They're coming inside!" and others said "No! Not yet!" I really did not know who's to believe in. Then the noisy court became quiet when Olsen Racela entered the court firstly. A lot was starstruck and then everybody was  screaming. I told to myself that "Hey! that's Olsen", my first favorite but I was looking for DS...but I can't see him. :(

       I was like, "Where's Danny? Where's Danny?" I was not smiling anymore and my friend said that "C'mon! Let's have pictures with the coaching staff." So I looked at the MBM coaching staff and there he was...my world stopped spinning. I finally saw DS! He was real! :)

       But what kind of fool I am...I found it hard to walk towards him. I cannot move my feet. I was shaking and I felt like if I stand up and move I will pass out so I just watched him throughout the game. I really did not pay attention to the game. I was just looking at him the whole time... Even though I was not able to talk to him,say hello or have a picture with him, I felt like I won in a lottery to finally see him in person. :)

It is the Best Option Right Now!

I would like to share this pedagogical joke. I am very sorry if this will not amuse you but If does, go laugh with me. Here it goes;

STUDENT: Ma’am, thank you so much for teaching us.

TEACHER: You should not say thank you. It is my work and I am getting paid for it.

                What? Not funny at all? Anyway, I am a person who loves to do and have a lot of things that only a wealthy person can afford. I will be a liar if I say I do not want to have a bag of bread because seriously I really do not want to feel less since I have less money. BUT I do not know when it comes to teaching suddenly I forget what I want to have and instead I just find myself so glad, so blissful, so joyful, so euphoric, so happy to be given a chance to TEACH. I remember accepting my first teaching job for a salary of P5,000.00, I really did not care about the money, I was after the teaching experience. I realized that 50 hundreds are kind of a small amount to help me to cater my needs and obviously my wants as Ghandi said, “The world has enough for human needs but not with human wants”, but when my salary got higher, a smile was on my face but then I found another dilemma which was I have more money but less time for myself. I wore myself out. My 24 hours of a day were distributed into work, home, work, home, work, no more time to have fun that I rather spend my free time having a rest and stay at home even though I really want to see the world. I remembered a college friend invited me to go malling in her birthday and I promised to come but from just Monday to Friday classes the school where I used to work decided to have a Saturday class (which I understood since it was for our students’ welfare) during that week and my friend’s birthday is Sunday even though I can turn down my friend and tell her that I cannot go home to our place and have to stay at my new place since I still have a meeting by Sunday afternoon, I still went home by Saturday night, been with my friends Sunday morning to afternoon but honestly I still felt deprived of the time, I missed my friends so much that it was breaking my heart to left them earlier because I need to be in our school meeting. On my way to the meeting, I was still thinking of my friends who have more time to spend with each other and be happy while I need to attend to my duties ASAP. I really cried that day and it was for two reasons, so sad for not having more time with the people I love that I need to divide my short Sunday time with my friends and family and since I spent more than half of it with my buddies, I just found myself getting my bag and saying goodbyes to my family as I go back to work and the other reason was I was so happy God made my short Sunday time priceless, I definitely made the best out of it. I felt the best feelings of having friends and the timeless love of my family. I realized that if I did not go home that Saturday night and spend my short Sunday time with my loved ones I probably lose the half of my life, seriously. With that I resigned from my work. Wow! I have more time at the moment but I do not have the money and I am not happy about it either. Come on! From No time and less money to No time and more money, it was more time and no money during that moment. Then I got myself a work as a guest teacher, there I spent my time quantitatively and most especially qualitatively, I was busy yet so happy but my salary will just be released after my service. It was very fine with me but it is hard since I have to rely on the helping hands of my parents again which we all thought that was already done right after I finish college. Seriously that time I can really describe how having less time and less money felt. At the moment, I was offered to do tutorials and with here, I have now more time though less money but at least there is still money while I still do what I want which is teaching (partially?!).

                Probably to have both time and money is the best reason why I am in tutorials right now. As in I am the tutor though I have to admit when I took an exam in a tutorial center where I was applying, I nearly die physically and of embarrassment like I cannot answer the Algebra problems so with the integers. I was thinking like maybe the one who checked my answer sheet will ask, “Is she a tutor applicant or a tutee applicant who needs to learn more with her Math?” Anyway,  I am a tutor right now and I am happy about it because firstly, I can grow my nails and paint them with striking colors, I can have highlights with my hair again and I am thinking of light brown, chocolate brown and dark green, I can wear anything I want at work, less learning materials, no visual aids, no lesson plans, no grades to do, less learners  and less stress. I can say that “Yeah baby, it is indeed the best work opportunity right now but I am telling you as soon as I get the chance to teach in a school, I would not think twice but to grab it even though I have to cut my nails and use natural-colored nail polish, keep my hair black, make more learning materials and motivating visual aids, prepare SMART lesson plans, assess grades, facilitate more students and eventually more stressed moments. I love teaching so much and for me nothing beats the feeling of standing in front of the classroom where students look at you, listen to what you say, respond to you and at the end of the day, thanking you for teaching them. Then it’s up to me to reply with “You should not say thank you. It is my PLEASURE and I am feeling so WORTHY about it” or “You should not say thank you. It is my work and I am getting paid for it.”

Because It Is The Right Thing To Do…

                I can say that I am a good decision maker. I don’t know, it just comes so naturally that I often chose the best for me. And though I’ve tried so hard to feel regretful about a particular decision I’ve made that did not bring my target result I always failed because I learned a lot from it no matter how painful it was for me.

                I will give episodes which I think I made good decisions but still make me think what if I’d gone for the other option. Firstly, ride to college, I could have chosen a course I did not like to be accommodated in a university I love to be in but instead I chose the course I want and failed the entrance examination of that university. I cried a river but God was so good. He was giving me a scholarship from a very good school and take up a course which I will love so much, “TEACHING”. I thought that if ever I passed in my first choice school and take up the course I am not interested then maybe I was not able to enjoy college that way I did. My studying had never been a chore for me. I really liked it. A lot.

 Secondly, the job offers, as a teacher, one of my greatest wishes is to work in an international school but I chose to teach in a SPED school. I love to teach children with special needs. It is nice to feel that you are one of the factors that will help them to cater those special needs. I thought that if I teach rich kids, I will feel obligated in my teaching since these students are going to pay me big. I don’t want to teach for payment. I want to teach for purpose.

Thirdly, sharing my dreams to others, I have a lot of plans for myself, I want this and I want that but since I cannot attend to both I share it to others, saying you try this and you try that and telling them what to do. Then once they performed the tasks very well and landed on their fruitful results. OMG! I was happy but I don’t want to be a hypocrite sometimes I think what if I kept it on myself, what if I did not give him the ideas, what if I give him the wrong ideas, what if I am the one who pursue it then I think I would not be able to attain those dreams because fate will not give it to me due to the reason that I became a self-centered, selfish, egoistic, narcissist type of person just to get what I want. I know that sometimes I think of myself first that I should love myself first before others but what I really know  is if I really love myself I should love other people first as love begets love. I can’t be happy if I know others could have been happier if they are the ones on my place. I think it is nicer to feel that I am part of one’s success than to be the one who reaps away one’s dream.

Fourthly, getting what I want, how far would you get just to arrive to the one you really wish all your life? And what would you do if you already sacrificed a lot but in the end, it’s already the end? In teaching, if to teach in an international school is one of my greatest dreams then my greatest dream is to teach in a public school. I applied for it. I was ranked three among the 50+  to 60+ teacher applicants. So, if we looked it, it seems that I have a good chance to be hired but I am not from the place where I applied, for example I am from place B and I applied at place A since they have this localization order, no matter how good your ranking is the priority of the committee is to hire first those applicants from place A before they give opportunity to the applicants from place B or C or D. Then I thought what if I lied about my address, what if I used a place A address then the tendency for me to be hired is huge but I also thought that with what I am doing I am already throwing away my slightest chance to be accepted. I tend not to do it because a huge part of me says that if it is really for me then it will be given to me.

This blog post is the heaviest thing I have written so far. This one is very personal. I know some might say that I am sour-graping, bitter, envy, insecure, hopeless, nonsense, whatever but one thing is for sure I may not be a good person but at least I am trying my best not to be bad. I received a message saying the right thing sometimes is also the hard way but for me the right thing sometimes is the hurtful thing. Will I post this or not? Am I ready to share this piece of myself online? Maybe some people can relate with me but I wish you get something from this scratch. Yes, I posted it because it is the right thing to do. For ME.

100 Things I Want…

             My idea to write down the one hundred things I like came from Bo Sanchez’ book, “You Have the Power to Create Love”, he suggested that in one of the articles in the book. He said that at first the girl he asked to do it wrote physical stuff mostly but afterwards she was writing with things about helping others, making a difference and becoming better. And I recalled Mandy Moore’s character (Jamie Sullivan) most likely has her own “To-Do List” in the movie “A Walk to Remember” like her number one is to get married in the church where her mother grew up but my favourite among her list is her wish to be at two places at the one time. I thought that it is impossible but Shane West’s character (Landon Carter) brought her into a state line dividing Beaufort and Virginia, placed Jamie’s one foot at Virginia and the other one at Beaufort so that’s it, being at two places at one time. I don’t think I’ll come up with very creative ideas as I write my own list but during that moment I just jot down what my mind and my heart dictated. I have written this when I was in college. Here’s my list:

1.       To graduate…(I thought I already accomplished this when I graduated college in 2009 but I remember I want to finish my master’s degree in educational management  and doctor’s degree in educational leadership…c’mon!)

2.       To enrol in a photography class.

3.       To participate in a cosmetology training.

4.       To learn dress-making.

5.       To design clothes.

6.       To paint.

7.       To sculp.

8.       To try clay pottery.

9.       To create a comic book and a storybook for kids…(it’s the type wherein I will be the one to write the story and make the illustration)

10.   To write a novel…(even just one novel…I remember when we were writing essays and when one essay got longer…other will say,”That’s a novel,”in my mind, I was like, “Yeah, someday I wish I could write one)

11.   To write in a newspaper or magazine.

12.   To read my name at Reader’s Digest.

13.   To blog…(Yehey! ATM, I’m blogging J)

14.   To learn how to play guitar…(I think I like piano now.)

15.   To learn how to speak Italian.

16.   To go abroad…(to work?!)

17.   To go to London and meet Prince Harry…(This is it!)

18.   To go to Rome…(Vatican City, see the Pope).

19.   To go to Taj Mahal…(Mariel-Robin?!)

20.   To go to Jeju Island in Korea and wear the Korean traditional costume.

21.   To go to NY during winter and walk there at night wearing a big fur coat and boots.

22.   To go to Italy and eat spaghetti and pizza.

23.   To go to Africa for a mission…(and of course the wild life.)

24.   To go to Bora or Palawan.

25.   To go to a butterfly farm.

26.   To watch a Pacquiao fight live.

27.   To watch NBA live…(but it should be a Kyle Korver Game…Go Bulls!)

28.   To watch PBA live…(I was able to watch a SMB game vs. RB and a GBK game vs. SLR…happiest part: to see Danny Seigle and JC Intal personally! <3)

29.   To watch WWe live.

30.   To watch MTV Awards or Teens’ Choice Awards live.

31.   To meet the Smallville cast.

32.   To complete the CD’s of Parokya ni Edgar.

33.   To have a pair of silver stud earrings.

34.   To have a white sporty watch.

35.   To have an IPOD…(I like Nano but why not TOUCH?!…hahaha)

36.   To have a compact DVD.

37.   To have a laptop with internet connection…( Go for TABLET…hahaha)

38.   To have a digicam…( SLR?! Yeah, right!)

39.   To have the latest cellphone…(This is quite hard since phones get even better everyday but I want to have a Blackberry Curve)

40.   To hear Jay-R sings live.

41.   To have pairs of flip-flops…(Ipanema or Havs…coz right now, I just go for direct-selling…hahaha)

42.   To buy shorts…(I dunno but these days I really like faded jeans)

43.   To wear a cowboy hat or any amusing or eye-catching headgear…(just like those in Royal Wedding)

44.   To have bags…(c’mon… I’m gunna be a hypocrite if I say I don’t dream of LV and Hermes…)

45.   To have a nice jacket…(Pacqiuao Jacket at the moment)

46.   To have new sets of shoes…(OMG, who does’nt want it?)

47.   To pet dogs…(one Pomeranian, one Siberian Husky, one French Bulldog or a Pug)

48.   To have a pet fish.

49.   To plant cactuses…(or roses).

50.   To have a greenhouse.

51.   To hold a bunch of balloons.

52.   To pick apples from a tree.

53.   To pick strawberries.

54.   To drink a pearlshake.

55.   To rebond my hair…(when my hair got rebounded not I want it curled…hahaha)

56.   To color my hair with red or to color my nails black…(I think this is impossible!)

57.   To whiten my skin…(shocks! It so hard to have white skin..yet so expensive...hahaha.)

58.   To face paint.

59.   To have a henna tattoo at under my right ears going down to my neck…I want a butterfly.

60.   To put up an internet shop for my sister…(but know I want her to have a farm with three cattle(s), one mare and one stallion, four goats, one female hog, three hens, two roosters, two pairs of doves, ten quails, three rabbits, and one hamster)

61.   To put up a printing press business for my father…(or a wood business, can be.)

62.   To put up a grocery store for my mother…(this one is  consistent…EVER SINCE!)

63.   To put up a dress-making shop…(like a clothing line…hahaha.)

64.   To put up a cellphone store.

65.   To put up a coffeshop with bread and pasta…(or catering service)

66.   To be a stockholder at SMC.

67.   To be a millionaire…(Let Bruno mars be the billionaire.)

68.   To buy a jeepney.

69.   To buy a secondhand yellow Volkswagen or brand new yellow Honda Jazz.

70.   To buy a car for my parents.

71.   To buy a house and lot...(make a three-storey house out of our place)

72.   To have a library…(or to franchise BOOKSALE)

73.   To have my own SPED school…(I love this!)

74.   To supply my grandparents with vitamins…(well, the sad part is my grandmother in my father’s side went to heaven in 2009 and my grandfather in my mother’s side followed the next year…right now, I am so thankful  that my grandmother in my mother’s side is still with us.)

75.   To play long tennis with my sister.

76.   To work in a TV station.

77.   To work at 7-11.

78.   To live in an Ifugao house.

79.   To dance a traditional dance.

80.   To get 100 from a karaoke machine.

81.   To be a snow angel.

82.   To wear a fairy costume during a Halloween and do trick or treats with my young students.

83.   To help my sister enjoy college.

84.   To be a part of Kapuso Foundation…(or any NGO’s)

85.   To build a home for the aged.

86.   To teach at college.

87.   To teach in a slum or remote area…(my greatest dream is to teach in a warzone…I really feel for those civilian…)

88.   To show generosity to my uncles and aunts…( if process-oriented, check! But if project-oriented, uh-oh…)

89.   To show generosity to cousins…(same as 88)

90.   To feel independent…

91.   To find true love.

92.   To get married.

93.   To build my own happy family.

94.   To have triplets.

95.   To make a difference.

96.   To influence others.

97.   To become better.

98.   To be contented.

99.   To be happy.

100.  To live life to the fullest.

(I know…I am ambitious…I am materialistic…I am unrealistic…but I guess…this is what usually happens when you are dreaming…No walls, No boundaries, No instant result unless you work hard for it! And as  Vice Ganda says, “A dream without action is a wish!”)