Lecheng Megalodon

Hindi ako maka-move on.

Wala kaming sembreak. Well, technically, meron. Wala kaming pasok ng October 30 at 31 (Thursday at Friday). Tapos balik-eskwela ulit kami this November 3.

Wala talagang bakasyong naganap para sa aming mga guro dahil BUSY KAMI SA PAGGAWA NG GRADES. Monday ang deadline. Kailangang ipasa ang Class Record at print-out ng template ng grades per subject. 

Thursday at Friday, pinagsasabay ko ang paggawa ng chapter outline para sa NaNoWriMo novel ko at paggawa ng grades. November 1, Saturday, I wrote my first 1,667 words for my YA novel, plus continued to work on the grades of my 40 students for the 6 different subjects that I handle.

Eh habang nagsusulat ako sa class record sa may salas, narinig ko yung pinapanood na documentary ng tatay ko at kapatid ko sa Discovery Channel. Tungkol sa isang fishing boat na lumubog sa may Capetown, Africa na inatake ng kung anong sea creature, at walang survivors. Pero may video na malabo din kung ano nga ba yung naging attacker nila.

A scientist theorized about this huge shark that locals call as 'submarine'. It got my attention ng banggitin nila yung tungkol sa theory nila that it was a megalodon who attacked the fishing boat. A sea creature that is so huge, it could cut whales into half in one bite.

Photo Credit:examiner.com

Then, nagpakita pa ng pictures ng whale bitten into half somewhere in Mexico, a picture during the World War II of a huge fin seen beside a warship, a picture of a huge fin near the shore somewhere in Africa, etcetera, etcetera, pointing to the possible existence of this dinosaur-ic shark. At dahil less than 5% pa lang talaga ng oceans ng earth ang nae-explore ng tao, plus the global warming phenomenon, the idea of a megalodon surviving extinction and now hunting near humans seemed quite plausible. 

Nakaka-excite talaga as the biologist and his group tried to hunt and trap the megalodon using a crazy weight of shark bait (composed of mean looking fish meat and oils and blood), and a whale decoy that is in the same scale as that of a real one, and they even blasted the sound of a distressed whale. Sa sobrang engrossed ko sa palabas, gumagawa ako ng grades tuwing commercial, tapos balik ako sa panonood with the documentary kapag narinig ko na nag-start na ulit yung palabas.

After all the hulabaloo, and ending, the team had a really, really close encounter with the megalodon. Na muntik pa ngang ikamatay nung dalawang member ng group. At kahit nagawa nilang malagyan ng tracking device, hindi na rin nakapag-send ng signal yung device dahil sa sobrang lalim na yung nalangoy nung creature.

Nabitin ako sa documentary. Gusto ko kasing i-discuss sa Science class ko, kaya nag-Google ako for an update about Megalodon. 

Tapos nalaman kong peke pala yung lecheng documentary na yon ng Discover Channel na dalawang oras kong pinanood (insert expletives here na mahihiya kahit ang mga batang kalye).

Docufiction daw ang bagong term don. Mas gusto ko siyang tawaging 'Nakakagagong Documentary'.

Lecheng Discovery.