(December 22, 2019) Kris Mass – sixth part
(December 22, 2019) Kris Mass – sixth part
My “predictions” about future flooding and earthquake became my concern not because of their “almost certainly to happen” as Krisnel would believe, but these predictions already reached Prof. Moreno for his comment. The professor, a PhD holder in Physics, once talked to me regarding his conversation with Krisnel. It was after his Physics class when Krisnel saw him. Initially, they talked about Krisnel planning to have LOA (Leave of Absence) on that trimestral term with the fire incident. Narrating all that I could to my father about my relationship with Krisnel in the library and what might have happened to her instead, he said that the database systems of DLSU-M not allowing cross-enrollment may be part of God’s plan. My fellow ID 105 “blockmates” of first year batch were wondering before the fire incident why Krisnel was considering to file for LOA. Prof. Moreno and I were told by Krisnel the reason, at least to us of that moment: once allowed to cross-enroll for the Basic Organic Chemistry sequence (General Chemistry 1 & 2 followed by Organic Chemistry 1 & 2), Krisnel intended to file LOA for that trimestral term which in reality became her last term because of fire. When Prof. Moreno heard what happened to Krisnel with that fire, he thought that Krisnel was not enrolled due to LOA. Krisnel told me that some Behavioral Sciences Dept. faculty members were willing to give her special classes after LOA but the reason she gave them for LOA was the financial aspect as an example, not her reason given to me and Prof. Moreno that it’s for preparing to study Chemistry topics which she found difficult in high school. It is my perceived “delaying tactics” by DLSU-M about my undergraduate studies even today that would always remind me of what might have happened to Krisnel instead. Prof. Moreno once invited me and Krisnel to shift from College of Liberal Arts to College of Science, but Krisnel replied to him that I would have to “do the math” for her by being the only one who would shift to his College (of Science) because we planned to write a book that I titled for humor “Preparing for the Big One beginning 2021 – a five-year plan for a safe 2026 and beyond… earthquake preparedness not a matter of chance but of choice… so choose to buy this book now!!!” It was this title that Krisnel commented – with laughing, a lot of it – would likely categorize our book in the Fiction section diminishing the value of her research because of the book’s front cover. I told her that our ‘target’ prospective buyers of the book would be about one-sixth because Catholic Church membership worldwide only convinced about one-sixth that it’s not teaching Fiction but Faith, its fullness not foolishness. She told me that our fund to publish the book would be based on my ‘great flooding’ prediction (in Metro Manila and areas surrounding it) accurately “happening on days in 2009”, a prediction she was willing to put at risk her reputation – as she was actually looking for someone and actually claimed to have found our “connection” for urgent government response through fellow Lasallians of DLSU-M – because Prof. Moreno told her that its probability can be considered “reasonable in theory”. Krisnel “flexed” to me and Prof. Moreno “the kindness” in her belief that the ‘standard’ of how both of us would become “overachievers in life”: this “connection” together with “prediction” being realized, with “risks” together with “deaths” being minimized. Regarding this, I told Krisnel and Prof. Moreno during our “futuristic discourse” what I was telling my parents and anyone asking about my career plan: it is for the “end” of all, with Statistics for the end of game, Law for the end of contract, and Medicine for the end of life….
Richard Benedict Baltazar
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