We Filipinos are professional “crammers”

Organized by Alvin Bugaoisan Bmls 4

> T O   S T U D Y   H A S T I LY   F O R   A N  I M P E N D I N G   E X A M I N AT I O N

>TO FORCE,  PRESS,  OR SQUEEZE (SOMETHING)  

INTO AN INSUFFICIENT SPACE

Crammer(Cram)

“when the teacher give a requirement a month

or so before the deadline , students do not mind at all”

“Manana habit”Manana is a Spanish word which means

“tomorrow” or “morning” and it could also means as “putting something off until another time.” This is where the Filipino’s phrase “mamaya or mamaya na” came from. This trait was instilled to the Filipinos during the Spanish era in which they use this habit in work and serious business as a silent protest to the invaders.

 What are its negative effects in life?

 a). It delays transactions and corporations; plans and progress.

 b). Other people will find you unreliable, as well. c).  You’ll have a harder time finishing your tasks – in

short, you’ll be a victim of procrastination again.d). You’ll have regrets in later life for those things

that you could have done when you still had the time.

Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before a deadline.

“Filipinos do things a day before the deadline and they would usually ask first for extension”

“Filipino Time”    Filipino time is a coined phrase for the

embarrassing affliction of tardiness among Filipinos. It has become a phenomenon and impression for Filipino Schedule, making it a characteristic of Filipinos to be generally late. Obviously, this trait was also an influence from the Spanish occupiers for people would rather give more attention to their amor propio (hiya), in some events than going there as early as possible. This trait is also a root of the “manana habit”.

What is its negative effect in life?

a). You’ll miss a lot of important once-in-a-life time experiences/events.

b). It’ll be a bad impression imprinted on your personality. People will look to you as a “latecomer” whom you can rely on.

c). Time, again, will be wasted in waiting.d). It’ll be hard to catch up with what you hurried

(work or classes), and it’ll bring across more problems that can pull you to being incompetent and unreliable later in the end.