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a year after..

2011-11-01T00:46:00.001+08:00

IM status: . <none> --> been mostly offline for more than a year already! .
lss: . teach me how to dougie (kuya's ringtone) .
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Wow! It's been exactly 1 year since my last official blog post! (There was 1 post on my drafts.. it's about my SG trip last year, but that was also started/written on nov 1, so really.. it's been a year since I visited blogger. Talk about being busy eh?

Hmmm, so how should this blog go? Let's see, let's start where I left off..

Here are the contents of my unfinished draft:
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title: the unplanned SG trip
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A few days before the end of my exams, my aunt (I call her mommy) texted me to ask how the exams were.. and then she asked me if I had anymore remaining.. I had a couple more remaining at that time, and so I told her that. And then she asked me if I had anymore after that, I said no more, and no more school after that actually. And so, she asked me if I wanted to go with her to Singapore to drop off my cousins to their parents. B-)

See, my ninong/uncle and his wife resides in SG because of my ninong's work, so my two cousins live with my aunts in Baguio while they are still studying. And since it was their sembreak, mommy will accompany them to SG as the youngest of the two is only 17, so still a minor, while the eldest, though 18 already, is not really used to travelling on their own yet.

Anyways, as I was saying, my aunt asked me if I wanted to go with them, I know I mentioned in the previous post that most of my leaves were already used up for my 'Study Leave'. Incidentally, that left me with 2 VLs still, so I said, yeah sure, I'll just check first if they'll allow me at work.

Luckily enough, they did! :)

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Yups, that was it.. =)) Bitin right?
Anyways, for now, let's just summarize the past year, and when I have time, I'll try to share about the details of some of those.

20101016-19 -- impromptu Singapore Trip
20101205 -- JLPT
20101218 -- Death of a beloved cousin ('adoptive' sister) ;(
20101219 -- High School Class Reunion & Xmas Party
20101218-30 -- My cousin's wake
20101227 -- My youngest brother went home from the US to attend our cousin's wake
20101227 -- Ading's pasalubong? Wii for me, PS3 for Kuya!
20101230 -- My cousin's interment
20110102 -- Braders (HS barkada) get together
20110102 -- my 2nd horror movie! :(
20110108 -- My brother's flight back to US
20110207 -- an aunt passed away
20110212-13 -- attend aunt's wake+interment
20110215 -- Promotion to supervisor
20110220-0308 -- worst bout of fever then cough+colds for a long time
20110320 -- My macbook crashed! ;(
20110322 -- Received email from UP Engg Grad Office regarding graduation details.. yey! :)
20110325 -- Go to UP to coodinate grad details
20110329-30 -- Finally got my macbook fixed
20110409 -- the car's 2 side-mirrors got stolen because of me! ;(
20110409 -- Bridesmaid for a friend's wedding; then visit cutie Rain (my pseudo-inaanak)
20110412 -- 2nd grad detail to claim stuff for the ceremony; apply for transcript; got diploma (I actually graduated November -- 1st sem)
20110416 -- UP College of Engineering Recognition Rites
20110417 -- @ Manila Ocean Park
20110421-24 -- Holy Week @ Baguio
20110430 -- Bought my own DSLR -- Nikon D5000
20110505 -- Birthday :)
20110508 -- Dropped off Kuya @ his new temp crib in Makati
20110511 -- in UP again: got transcript & grad ring
20110513-22 -- sick again! hay fever
20110526 -- got punctuality & leadership award; part of project award
20110528-29 -- @ Baguio yet again
20110604 -- Avilon Zoo adbentyur
20110610 -- AWS Anniv Dinner @ Outback, G4
20110611 -- internal nihongo exam
20110611 -- ear checkup then 1 week meds
20110628 -- Watched Cirque du Soleil's Varekai !! :)
20110705 -- got nikkor 18-105mm lens
20110706 -- the price for project award -- to share with @ Tony Roma's
20110709 -- attend friend's wedding
20110716-18 -- Baguio-La Union-Vigan-Baguio
20110723 -- defense panel @PLM
20110821 -- Braders get together
20110828 -- defense panel @PLM
20110908 -- soft skills training at aws
20110910 -- attend friend's wedding
20110912 -- got new phone - xperia mini pro
20110916 -- sent softcopy of RPF to my boss at client's office
20110918 -- attend Rain's 1st bday
20110922 -- submittted printed out RPF to my boss - to hire replacement for me
20110923 -- basic supervisory training at aws
20110924 -- attend AWS sports festival
20110927 -- Typhoon Pedring (1 day after Ondoy's anniv)
20110930 -- 食事会 with Jap bosses from client office
20110930 -- 1st full san mig light, ever
20111006 -- attend ACTS sports tournament opening day
20111009 -- help out at friend's bazaar booth in Ayala Alabang: selling ZEN
20111021 -- karaoke+飲み会 with ACTS kidz
20111023 -- help out at friend's bazaar booth in Ayala Alabang: selling ZEN
20111024 -- my boos informed me of finality of end date at client office (i.e. return date to Makati office)
20111029-1101 -- @ Baguio

Whew! Let's just hope that now that I'll be returning soon to Makati, I'll have more time to write.
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school and work

2010-11-01T17:53:00.007+08:00

IM status: . <offline> .
lss: . love is the answer (by Raymond Hannisian) .

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[the end of another school chapter &
the start of a new work chapter]

So, I have been neglecting to blog for quite a while now.
And the first step to giving it more and better attention? Tsk tsk, new template! ;))
Finally, I decided to change my template, I think I had that template (including the modifications) since I first started this blog, which was a little over 6 years ago. I am still not fully convinced by my current template, I may or may not update and/or modify it still in the next few weeks (or months! ha!). Depends if I find the time.

Anyways, the last post was August 13, that was 39 days before the start of my compre exams (Sept 21). And now, it's already been 23 days since my last exam (Oct 09), well, technically, it's supposed to be 32 days already (Sept 30). The extra nine days, I'll explain in a while.

First off, my Cebu 'business trip' finally ended (thankfully, as promised) on Aug 31. I flew back to Manila on Sept 1, then reported back to Makati office on Sept 2.
Upon return, I helped with the supervising of the OJT for the current batch of trainees.
And then I started my Vacation Leave (or should I say, Study Leave) on Sept 16, I originally applied for it to start on Sept 20, but thankfully, I was allowed the extra 2 working days earlier. :D With that, I was officially on leave for half a month or 11 working days. But whew!, was that barely or should I say, hardly enough. Needless to say, I spent those 15 days studying (read as cramming) really hard, including sleeping/napping on my make-shift 'study area' at the dining room so that I wouldn't oversleep. ... Long story short, Sept 21, 24, 27, and 29&30 came and my brains were fried till toasted and whatever is worse than toasted. :)) tsk tsk.

    The first exam was a 3-hour, definition/proving/explanation/essay exam. While the middle two was from the same professor and were both 2-hour essay exams, each worth around a hundred points within 6 to 7 questions. Then, the fourth/last one was a one-hour oral exam about a specific specialization topic (Xen).

The last exam was done on sept 29 instead of the original sept 30, because the Prof was not available on the 30th, and that was an oral exam, so it had to be re-scheduled... unlike the first three which were all written exams. But then again, after the oral exam, the Prof gave me take home questions, which I spent the whole day of sept30 answering.

    Anyways, the details of how I went about each day during the exams,,, I have already mentioned on my facebook and twitter posts, just check it out, I won't repeat it here anymore.

And so, back to work I went on Oct 1, yes that was a friday, and I know it's weird going back to work on a Friday, especially after a 2-week 'vacation' so to speak, but I actually do not have much VLs left anymore and I reasoned I wasn't really on vacation, so my mind wasn't really on 'rest' and besides, it's the least I can do after they allowed such a long time off (yeah, I'm such a good employee like that, tsk tsk). Moreover, there was this buzz going on, that I might get assigned some place else yet again, so I had to really go back and stand-up/answer for myself in case it's necessary.

And as predicted, I was informed that day that there was a possibility for me to be assigned to a partner/client office in The Fort. Tsk tsk, I haven't really spent that much time back in the Makati office and they're sending me off yet again, and now that I don't have school anymore, I don't really have any more reasons not to agree or pass on it like I did with the JP assignment/OB offers before. Not that I was planning or thinking of saying no to this anyway. I think my bosses are pretty clear on the fact that I only passed on the offers before because I had to prioritize school. :) (dang! I sound so much like I dork!)

Another long story short, on Oct 5, I was interviewed at said office in Global City, then I started reporting there on Oct 7. The office is along Kalayaan Ave., so thankfully, the commute is so much easier as compared to if it had been actually inside Global City or even McKinley Hill, so it's an upside. The adjustments are just that, I get to be more picky of the morning shuttle unlike before when I didn't mind whether the shuttle uses the EDSA, the Kalayaan, or Global 'route'. And apparently, if I tend to get to the terminal late, there will be no more Kalayaan shuttles. :( As for going home, since the office is in Kalayaan Ave., I have to go back to Ayala Ave. since the only shuttle terminal (for Marikina) near enough that I know of is there, so that's an extra ride. Other than that, I don't really mind... The extra 30mins I save from the morning commute (Kalayaan to Ayala), is just added to my evening commute.

So, it's been 25 days since I started in said client/partner office, work-wise adjustments, well, even if it is also a Japanese company, I see that they are quite 'stricter' in a sense.
    (1) Internet access is not a basic commodity (so in case you're wondering why I am not online everyday anymore, that's why). I think I might be beginning to suffer from discomgoogolation, but then again I eventually became too busy with work, I hardly notice it. I was recently given Internet access for research for my current project, but that's it, I don't use it for anything other than that, and besides a lot of sites are blocked (I think... I haven't really tried) anyways, sometimes, the programming related sites that I need to access itself are blocked.
    (2) Food is not allowed inside the 'work area', which is why they have a bigger pantry than us. [Tsk tsk, ibig sabihin kaya nito, papayat na ko? Wahahaha]
    (3) Bags are also not allowed in the work area, they also have lockers inside the pantry for keeping the bags. We can bring our wallets and cellphones (thank God) inside, but of course, if we have to use the cellphones, we have to step outside.
    (4) Break times are 'stricter' in a sense. Not that we abuse it in Makati, it will just take a little adjustment being 'on the clock' all the time.
(5) ISMS/Security policies are so much stricter, almost anything and everything has to go through a 'form', but this is the way our ISMS policies are headed anyways. It just that our forms are basically 'electronic' and signatures are 'electronic' already, it's just that not everything is integrated to our company servers yet. So that one's a push and pull. This client office is stricter but we are more 'advanced', tsk tsk tsk.

    But then again, I don't really see anything very wrong with those I mentioned, especially 1-4. AND I would like to emphasize that I am not complaining, I am just stating that these are the differences that I noticed. It's not that difficult to get used to it anyways. I'm basically an amenable person, especially if I can clearly see reason with it. They're just stricter, that's all.

Oh, one last thing, the reason why the 'last exam day' was not Sept 30, is because I had to go back to school on Oct 09 for sort of a make-up exam. According to my Professor, my answers for the first exam, which I did on Sept 21, was not convincing enough, so he asked me to report back to school and make it into an oral exam, he said that maybe we could explain it better orally. Unfortunately, as I mentioned, I'm already out of leaves, so I asked if it was OK to do it on a weekend. What actually happened on that fateful day is actually a longer story in itself, ending in me answering the previously unanswered questions written also since I couldn't articulate it enough orally still, but I'd rather not dwell on it. Hopefully what I did was enough though. I still haven't had feedback, so I do not really know the results yet.

Anyways, I'll end this post with that.
Story of an academic chapter of my life ending..[Note: I really hope that it is already ending, technically, I don't know of the 'exam results' yet. SO my fingers are still crossed].
And the start of a new work/professional experience.
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friday the 13th and my academic woes

2010-08-13T23:26:00.022+08:00

IM status: . it's the 13th and it's a friday .
lss: . josh wilson - 3 minute song .

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Wow, the last post was on the 13th of May... That's a whole 3 months ago, and I didn't even realize it till now. [UPDATE (11/01/2010): correction - apparently there was a draft written on Jul 3 that I failed to publish, anyways, the explanation is in that post.]

Oh, I so remember that day, May 13, 2010. :)

That's the day I finally saw my CRS account and realized that there is hope that I will be finally graduating this semester. Because after 3 semesters (that's 1.5 years!) of hard work and frustrations, I finally got a grade for my 'Special Project', which is the last course in my master's curriculum. At that time, I was really getting a little down because as per school rules, we only have 1 year to acquire a grade for each course (after the actual semester we enrolled it in), so I was really running out of time.

That's why it's probably one of the happiest days of my academic life. Because it's something I really had to work super duper hard on, and something that I almost thought I wouldn't be able to achieve. Not that I didn't work as hard in my undergrad years, but graduate school is indeed very, very different, especially if you're not a full time student, and you have this super demanding work load. Working for a Jap company ba naman, tsk tsk... I even reached the point where I was thinking to quit grad school altogether and just forget the past 4 years ever happened. *sigh* That day validated my resolve and made me pretty proud that I am not a quitter. ;)

Balancing work and school and my duties at home/family and trying to have a normal social life has really been a big challenge for me. And it still is! Very much so! As it is, my Grad School adventures is far from over.

It's now August 13, I only have 39 days left until September 21. That is the first day of my comprehensive exams. Yups, even if I was 'jumping-up-for-joy' happy that wonderful day in May, that was not the end of my graduate school worries. Since I am under the Non-Thesis option, in lieu of the thesis and defense, I have to take the comprehensive exams. Heck, with the time it took me to complete my 'Special Project' course, I should have just taken the thesis option. =)) But I digress..

As I was saying, the 4 most important days of my graduate school life is about to arrive, with the first one occurring in 39 days! I am already freaking out...

I was assigned here in Cebu since last April 25, which means I am missing out on classes I could have sat-in that would have helped me review for my exams this September. And since the project I am in right now is in super duper CRITICAL state, we always do overtime even on weekends.

By the time I get home on weekdays, it's already past 12, so no time to study. On weekends, we often need to do OT, if we can skip OT (which rarely happens), my brain is already too fried to even let it function and feed LOADS of information into it. SO I wasn't really able to fit too much study time these past 3 months. Which explains my current state of mind - freaking out, that is.

I have 39 days to cram 4 subjects, each worth 5 months of 3unit class hours per week into this fuzzy brain of mine, which is also already working in overdrive with work stuff for a crazily DELAYED and demanding project which is requiring me to think and write and worst of all, speak/explain in NIHONGO! *sigh* What have I gotten myself into?

I'll be reporting back to Makati office on Sept 2 (I think), hopefully I could breathe a little more by then.

Anyways, here's my exam schedule:
Sept 21: Theory of Computation [that's Automata (DFA, NFA, PDA), Languages and Grammars, Turing Machine, Undecidability, Computability, etc.] - I took that subject on the 1st sem of AY 2008-09
Sept 24: Advanced Database Systems - which I took on the 2nd sem of AY 2008-09 - heck, that's my most recent subject, and that's 2 years ago!
Sept 27: Advanced Operating Systems - this was actually the first subject I enrolled in grad school, when? 1st sem of AY 2006-07! tsk tsk... yups, I am now in my 5th year in MSCS, :D
Sept 30: Distributed Systems - I took this subject on the 2nd sem of AY 2006-07

So there you go, I know the next 38 days will just pass by crazy fast without me noticing it... Let this blog post be my commitment to myself and to whoever may be reading this, that I will really, really, really, really be doing my best to study but before that, make time to study.

Sorry, work, you'll just have to take the back seat for now, don't worry, I'll honor my commitments, but you have to share the time with the academe first. Look at it this way, after this, you won't have to share my time with school anymore (at least in the next few years, tsk tsk).

next post will probably be after the compre already..
i know, i know, i haven't really talked about what i have been doing in Cebu while on 'business trip'. maybe some other time. ... :) maybe if i feel the need for a breather while studying in the coming days. (like this one.)

and now, back to regular programming, este, studying... ;)

P.S.
RE: IM Status (above) -> so what? :D
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[forgotten draft]

2010-07-03T06:15:00.000+08:00

IM status: . 11 weeks to go .
lss: . .

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So it's been almost 2 months since my last post.
Nothing much has happened though, am still in Cebu, still doing much OT, still trying to squeeze in study time for my Compre exams in September.

Oh, speaking of that, I already got the actual schedule for the exams, it will be on the last 2 weeks of September starting on the 21st; 4 exam dates with 2 day gaps in between. That's actually the countdown from the IM status, in case you're wondering. I am now officially scared. Tsk tsk. **sigh**

Anyways, in other news, my uncle/ninong and aunt was in Cebu for work for 2 days last June, so I went around with them on the Saturday before they went back to Manila. Then my mom and aunt unexpectedly were able to go home to the Philippines for 1 week this first week of July, and because of the busy schedule, they were only to visit me here for 1 day and 1 day only... So even if it was actually hard to, I had to skip Friday work, hey I am going to work the Saturday and Sunday after anyway, I just had to catch up. As I wont be able to see my mother anytime soon after that for a long time again, so I must make the most out of it. So we didn't really go around much, just ate at Mactan and then went to church then stayed at home afterwards. Americanized na kasi, ayaw na sa init ng 'Pinas'.. They arrived late Thursday evening and off they went back to Manila early Saturday morning.. *sigh* tsk tsk

[Note: (Nov 1, 2010)
So I apparently wrote this July 3, 6:15AM, the morning when my mom went back to Manila... And I didn't realize that I didn't post it. I thought I did. And I actually already forgot about it, that's why in the next post, I mentioned that the post that preceded it was written on May 13, which is of course, the post before this. I just saw this today when I was checking my other posts and it was marked as draft...
Well, that's a lengthy explanation.. oh, you get it, you should, it's pretty simple. Anyways, here you go, the information written was so informative not to post. tsk tsk]
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finally! 37 units done, 4 exams to go! :D

2010-05-13T23:24:00.034+08:00

IM status: . doing the happy dance \:D/ weeeeeeeee, may grade na ako! :D .

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So, I thought my next post would be pictures from my adbentyurs this past month.
But indulge me... I'm just so happy this day.
My happiness is uncontainable. :D
The moment I saw my CRS (computerized registration system) account, my smile was from ear and to ear and I just had to send instant messages to people of note and changed my YM and GTalk status. tsk tsk tsk,, And then I finally had the confidence to buy tickets to Manila and to file for vacation leave for enrollment in June.

Why? 'coz after 3 semesters of hard work, I finally got a grade for the last subject I need to complete my masters degree. :)

I think I already mentioned it on the last post that I was having a bit of a trouble with my grade. Since last week, I have been trying to compose an email to the graduate office to inquire about it. So I was checking my CRS account almost every morning for a quite a number of days already, to find the right words. I have been reading and rewriting and reading and rewriting the letter every chance I get to take breather from work tasks. But, since before the election up to this morning, I haven't been able to check my CRS account because I got too busy at work, and then I had to travel home for the elections.

So when I checked this morning, I was very pleasantly surprised that the "Subjects with no grade yet" table was already gone and I already have a grade! Had I not been in the office, I would probably have literally jumped for joy! Like I said, SO happy! :D

But don't get me wrong, I'm not yet done. I still have a lot more to do before I can actually graduate. That last grade only means that I completed 37 units. And since I am on the non-thesis program, I still have to take a comprehensive exam to complete the requirements for my degree. The "compre" translates to 4 exams based on 3 core courses and 1 specialization course that I took in the past 4 years. And this will take place on 4 separate days in September.

So, what does that mean? I need to review 4 courses before September. The fact that most of those courses, I took during my first 2 years in grad school will be giving me a tough time to study. Moreover, being in Cebu until August, means that I will not be able to sit-in on the classes this semester to help me in the review. So this will be all me now. **scary**

I just hope we don't get too critical or busy at work so that I can still have the weekends to review.

Wish me luck and blessings guys, this is "finally", the final stretch. ;)

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wats ap choknat

2010-05-11T22:15:00.003+08:00

IM status: . bakit kasi hindi jap ang keyboard dito sa cebu .
lss: . .
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So, my last post was April 5.

It is now May 11, and a lot has definitely happened in the past month. whew! And I do mean it when I say a lot. tsk tsk tsk,, Let's run them down, shall we?

Apr 5-8: finalize my school project and the paper for it

Apr 9-10: Annawangin Cove with asstrall (my college barkada) My first time to drive for more that 5hours on the way (NLEX-SCTEX-Nat'l highway) to San Antonio, Zambales (where Annawangin is) ... Then back home, I drove during the NLEX duration. :D Super na-test ang driving skills ko, tsk tsk.

Apr 11: Finish my paper for my school project

Apr 12-13: Submit my school project then revisions then submit again

April 13: Business trip to our company's office in Cebu to attend the meeting & discussion for one of their projects, from which we are expecting to get a scope from... And yes, the lead is a Japanese, so I had a bit of a hard time listening and understanding the discussion. I think he also saw me kind of sleeping during the discussion.

Apr 14-15: Hmmm, it seems we missed the last day of grade submission for the sem, the system won't accept my grades anymore since I only have 1 year to fix my grade. Missing the deadline might mean I went over the 1 year mark. That sucks!

I already asked my professor about it, we'll see what happens.

I still don't know what to do about it, since I can't do anything while I'm in Cebu.

Why am I in Cebu?

I missed something when I mentioned Apr 13, one of the conclusions of that business trip is that there will be 2 resources from Makati that will be assigned to Cebu. Me plus one more person. **sigh** The duration would be 4months, which would mean until August.

.... moving on ....

April 16 to April 24? I'm still in denial. ;))

This would be the first time I'll ever be away from home this long.

This would be the first time, I'd actually have to look after myself and live on my own.

Well, actually, I'm not on my own, since my officemate and I share a two-bedroom unit.

But still, I'm away from home. waaaaaaaaaaahhh! **time to grow up Jhaye; you're so sheltered**

* Hey, don't get me wrong, I don't rely on my parents that much anymore especially financially, my brother and I share ALL the home bills and expenses. So, in a way, I'm actually already grown-up as I manage most of the home stuff. But still, living away from home and family, is different. *

.... moving on ....

April 25: flight to cebu

April 26: first day at the Cebu office

April 26 onwards? work work work

.... moving on ....

May 1-2: I had to fly back to Manila. It's my high school class' first ever reunion! :D And I'm part of the reunion steering committee, so I had to go. Nevertheless, I wouldn't really miss it for anything. :) So, as much as it would hurt my pocket, I knew it would be worth it.

And boy, was I right!

I haven't seen some of this people since our last day in high school (which contrary to one might think, is not graduation day; tsk tsk, we graduated about 2 weeks earlier than the last day. :D)

.... moving on ....

May 5: I turned 26. :)

This is not the first time I am spending my birthday away from family; the first was during a company overnight summer outing. But I got to spend the evening of that at home.

This time was different as I wouldn't really be coming 'home' to anything at the end of the day. But the Cebu Office peeps made it memorable and worthwhile, they sang happy birthday at the morning meeting, then I got to blow two candles (as there were two cakeS) in the afternoon. :) So cool!

Thanks again, guys! Kahit na hindi ko naman matatandaan pa rin ang mga pangalan ng iba sa inyo. :D

.... moving on ....

May 8-11: I had to fly again to Manila. And then travel by bus to Baguio as that is where I was still registered. :) Which means I also get to spend Mother's Day with my other moms; my Mommy (Aunt) Liza and my Tita Lyn. :) And I get to go on a date with my cousins to watch Iron Man; when I arrived home on May 8, they asked me if I could come with them, which was just fitting as I didn't have someone to watch it with here in Cebu (even if it meant I had to be the "taya", tsk tsk).

.... and so, that's it! (for now) ...

May 16 is the company outing here in Cebu.

Then I would be flying (again) to Manila for 2 days (again) for enrollment in June. Fingers and toes crossed that I get to graduate this coming sem. ;)

I'll try to create separate posts to share pictures of the Annawangin trip; the HS reunion; and the mother'sday+election trip. :) I hope I get to find time. ;))

Have to sleep now, I believe I have a JPT mock exam at work tomorrow; I almost forgot. tsk tsk.

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offer your seat at church

2010-04-05T12:29:00.001+08:00

IM status: . ODF Viewer (now compatible to FF3.6 -- I still need a lot of FEEDBACK submissions) http://odfview.webs.com .
lss: . all night chemists - whole again .

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random acts of kindness really give me joy... especially if I was the one doing it. ;)

So, I went to easter mass @ UP yesterday, since I had to drop off my friend back to Alabang in the morning first, I was only able to attend the 10am mass instead of the dawn/easter morning mass.
(The friend I was referring to just recently survived almost a month of bed-rest from pregnancy, so I preggy-sat over the holy weekend since her boyfriend (also a close friend of mine) had to go to the province over the weekend. She can't come with him since she may not be able to handle the long travel yet due to her condition and given that is was a holiday weekend. ... I had to bring her home 'coz I can't stay with her in Alabang because there is no internet in her apartment and I needed to complete research papers for school and work. But I digress... moving on...)

Anyways, since I was alone, I got to my usual seat at the chapel, i.e. the edge of one of the pews on the last row around the church. The pew wasn't full so there was still space for maybe 1 more person. And so, an elderly lady and her (let's just call her) yaya approached, I gave way so that the lola can seat while the yaya stood behind her.

As the mass was proceeding, I realized that the lola apparently was with other family members including a chubby (probably around) 8-year old apo. There were a lot of people in the church especially those standing at the back, and if you've been at the UP chapel, you'll know its architecture and realize what I mean when I say that there are a lot of people in attendance and standing. [Heck, it was already the prayer before the readings when the massgoers from the previous mass were able to vacate the church.]

Moving on, during the homily, the chubby boy approached his lola and sat at the edge/arm rest of the pew, I noticed that he was already sweating and I was already feeling bad for him, when I looked back, I saw the other family members scattered at strategic locations at the back side, the mom, dad, and a younger (toddler) child. I would have stood right there and then but I felt weird standing up during the priest's sermon so I waited until he finished and at the same time as when we were asked to stand, I offered the seat to the yaya just after the mother gave the toddler to the yaya so that she could let the boy seat at the back rest of the pew. The mother did not see me offer the seat at the time, but the father did (yeah, for some reason, mom and dad were not standing side by side at the back, tsk tsk)... and so the dad, whispered a quiet thank you as I chose a spot to stand at near him at the back. I just smiled and said it was nothing. :D Apparently, there was still space on pew enough for the chubby boy and his similarly chubby toddler brother were both able to sit. ;) I think the other people on the pew squeezed themselves in and gave space for them. That's cool.

What made me happier even more though was that during the wishing of peace to each other, the mother approached me (on her way to the lola and her kids), smiled and said thank you. Again, I just smiled and nodded and said "okay lang po".

Which was true, I have already been driving for around 2 hours beforehand (to and fro Alabang) before that, so I really welcome the muscle stretching standing can bring. ;)

It's just so cool 'coz I wasn't expecting them to be uber appreciative. Most people aren't. ;)

wala lang, ;) I just thought I'd share something that "made my day" yesterday. :D

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long time, no blog

2010-02-14T23:08:00.000+08:00

IM status: . Waiting for Feedback - http://odfview.webs.com .
lss: . ferras - rush .

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Now, this is major down time -- in blogging I mean -- 8 months since my last entry. And yes, I was majorly busy this time. So what happened this past eight months? Hmmmm, this will probably be a lengthy post... Let's see...

June
- I joined a few people from the office in a Haribon tree planting activity at the Caliraya Watershed in Laguna. It was my first time doing such and I must say, I want to do it again, it was a fun fun fun and fulfilling experience. :) Pictures below are from Jeff, my own are on this link.

July
- This was definitely a busy time for me, I asked my manager if it would be okay for me to take 3 days off of work each week to work on my special project for school, which she thankfully agreed to. :)
- I also got to spend a weekday nightout with my highschool classmates which was pretty nice. Made me miss high school so much more and also made us realize, we are fast approaching our 10th year after graduation, which just means it time for a high school reunion, haha!

August & September
- OJT time again at work, this time we are letting the trainees develop an internal skill map system, pretty interesting. As it is a system, we really want to use inside the company, aside from being simply an OJT project for the trainees, Mara and I had to help them out (including in the development part itself) and make sure that the system will actually work.
- Riki & Glen's birthday overnight. I consider that a tradition already, enough said. ;)

October
- It actually started Sept 26, and I am pretty sure you know what I am talking about... which Filipino would forget Ondoy anyway? And living in Marikina just makes it all the more sad. I got to experience it and see what happened with my own two eyes. I wasn't at home that day, but my brother and cousin was. We had a company activity that day in Pasay, but at around 3pm, I was already very, very worried about what was happening at home so I left the venue in Pasay and braved the floodwaters of Taft avenue, rode LRT1 and LRT2 to reach Papa's office in Aurora Blvd. Tragedy aside, this was also memorable, as Mara was with me braving the floodwaters, am proud of you boss! :D
   When I met up with Papa, we immediately tried to go home but unfortunately, we couldn't enter Marikina anymore as the roads going into the city were already too much flooded. We spent a good 2 or 3 hours in Katipunan and tried waiting for the water to subside, but by 9pm, we decided to go back to Papa's office to spend the evening there. At around 3am on Sunday, we tried yet again, only to be turned away again by the people guarding the city limits. By 8am, we tried once more and was finally able to go home. The sights I saw as we entered the city were just so heartbreaking... and when we arrived home, we immediately got to help my brother, cousin, and uncle with cleaning and pushing out all the mud out of the house.
   Needless to say, we spent the whole month cleaning the house and trying to start anew, we are lucky that all of my family members were safe and alive. However, a friend's uncle unfortunately died due to electrocution after saving a few people during the flood. :(

November
- This was a whirlwind but definitely a happy month... because my mom got to go home after 3 years. :D She can't be here for long 'coz she had to go back to my younger brothers and of course, to find another job, but the 16 days we got to spend with her was good enough for my me & my brother. The day-to-day activities was actually a blur because of all the errands we had to do while Mama was here. This also marks Kuya's first airplane ride, as we got to go to HK and Macau. ;)
   We therefore got to experience how to go about the DOST bond-posting process to be able to leave the country, as Kuya still wasn't done with his service requirement for DOST (because of being a scholar in college). Luckily, I already completed my service requirement. ;)
   I haven't had the time to filter and trim down my photo set for posting, so for the complete set of pictures, you can check out Kuya's multiply site: part1 and part2

December
- It was a bit hard catching up at work having been on leave for 2 weeks. Yes, I was on leave the whole time my mom was here :D tsk tsk, which also meant I barely earned anything this month, haha! Good thing Mara still owes me a few VL blocks (we tend to coordinate, albeit unknowingly our leaves, so we can cover for each other) so I really didn't have to do much catching up on work items. :)
- It was also JLPT time, which I barely had time to review for, I really don't expect to pass anyway. :| *sigh*
- This was also a happy month for my college barkada as one of us got to walk down the aisle... congrats & best wishes, Kat & Jason! :D [Incidentally, they are also my workmates, :) how cool is that!] The venue was at Fernwood Gardens in QC. And even if my friends are pasaway to make me drive to the venue from Robinson's Galleria in only 30 mins (with me, not knowing the place and being a not so experienced driver and all), it was a happy time seeing them again. And it also marked my first time driving in the SLEX because we spent the night in my friends apartment in Alabang. Photo set is found here. But please, please, I want to forget the fact that we failed to go to the photobooth for souvenir pics. :((

- I also worked on the website for my special project in school, which I got to release a few days before Christmas -> http://odfview.webs.com
Oh by the way, I am still waiting for feedback for that one, if you're reading this, please try it out and send feedback. ;) I am still in need of people who can test it out and will fill up the feedback form.

January
- A highlight would have to be the family lunch we got to spend with my uncles and cousins which rarely rarely happens. :) But also, this was a very very very sad month because my 11 year old nephew (my cousin's son) passed away. :((

- I got to spend a weekend overnight with my closest friends from college to celebrate a birthday. Then another weekend afternoon catch-up time (kuwentuhan) with my high school barkada (well that was the plan, but out of the 5 that confirmed, only 2 arrived. haha! pasaway!).
- I also participated in our company's tree planting & team building activity at the La Mesa Ecopark. Unfortunately, since it is off planting season, we only got to plant seedlings in the nursery. That was new to me yet again as it was different to what we did last June.

- It was also a very busy time at work as we are pursuing clients for prospective projects.

February
- Things are starting to pick up at work, we finally got a (paying) project. *big grin* But it's not all smiles yet because this is just a trial run, the client wants to test us out for 1 month before they would think about hiring us to develop a larger scope in the project. Which means, we have to put out all our best efforts in order to gain their confidence and trust... in other words, kailangang *magpasikat!* :D Which means, OT everyday for the past week... hopefully not so much anymore in the coming weeks.
- Oh, and it's hiring time for the new training batch at the office again, it will already be Batch 15. Wow, I am Batch 3, it makes me feel sooo old. :)) haha! (We have 2 training batches of 5 months each year.) They are tweaking the interview process, and I haven't tried it out yet. My manager will be out of office tomorrow, so I'll fill in for her, hopefully I get to interview good ones. ;)

..... And so that's that, the 8 months of whirlwind blurriness that has passed since my last blog post. Hopefully I get to blog more frequently after this. ;) Not only when it's valentine's day and I am at home (if you know what I mean). :))

Happy hearts day and happy chinese new year everyone!
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down time?

2009-06-13T18:56:00.004+08:00

IM status: . <invisible>.
lss: . lady gaga - poker face .

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Wow! 2.5months since my last post. Tsk tsk, it's either I've been really, really busy or I was very much procrastinating. Tsk tsk..
Take a wild guess which of the two is the answer. :))

Hmmm, what have I been up to, the past 2 month's been quite weird at work, technically we have "no project" but for some reason, I was very busy everyday (I'm still figuring out where to draw the line between procrastination and whether I actually had real work done these past couple of months); which, sucks, really, because that means, I still haven't had the time to work on my special project for school. *sigh*

In April, I was in charge of the OJT of the incoming new members for our team.
On top of which, we had to finish the internal project we were working on, then we had to do the estimates for the proposals we were preparing for new project prospects.

In May, when the new members were deployed after their 5month training, we again had to train them for more technologies. Yep, that's the task, train and train and train while we are waiting for new projects.

Well, we still don't have projects for our department right now, which is why, we have to let a few of our members wander around in the other departments so that at least they'll have something to do (and we could earn). As for the grown-ups (I'm thinking of a better term) like us, we're staying put, waiting for new prospects, so that we can make the estimates then the managers could use it for the proposals. And whilst waiting, we are to do internal projects such as tools and small systems that the other departments need or something that the company can use. Oh, and we are currently fixing the training packages of our in-house training program. Tsk tsk, most of them seem to be quite old (and outdated?) already, the current training is already Batch 13 after all. Sheeeesh, the economy crisis is really taking its toll on our department pretty bad. I kind of miss analyzing business logic already. Disclaimer though, I still don't want to be thrown out to the other dev teams, I wouldn't want to leave the business apps team, waiting can just be really frustrating at times.

Anyways, I know I should be taking the down time at work as an opportunity to finally prioritize school stuff for the mean time, it's just that for some reason, I seem to be doing quite a lot at work that I can't find the time to skip it (going to work, I mean). I am still thinking of the best strategy for it. I'm waiting for my one-on-one time with my manager which was scheduled last week, but was postponed to tuesday next week, I'd have to polish out my battle plan by then.
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lakbay, lakbay

2009-03-30T21:45:00.005+08:00

IM status: . <offline> .
lss: . all about the love again .

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I'm updating my lakbayan map.
I think I made a few mistakes when I filled it up the last time.
tsk tsk,,, nothing changed really,, nabawasan pa nga ata.

My Lakbayan grade is C!

How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan!

Created by Eugene Villar.
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the final stretch

2009-03-29T21:29:00.005+08:00

IM status: . wala .
lss: . stevie wonder - all about love again .

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I find it weird that I haven't been blogging recently when in fact I have less to do (at work, that is).

As for school, well, the sem is officially over but unfortunately, I still can't call MY sem technically over since I wasn't able to finish my "special project" subject. For those in the thesis track, this subject is supposed to be where they must complete their thesis proposal. But for us in the non-thesis track, in exchange for the proposal, we should be able to complete an 'implementation' project. For my case, I am supposed to be doing a firefox plugin which I am still clueless as to how I will be able to complete :(( ..

My biggest mistake was that I enrolled for the said subject without really having a clear foresight of the project that I will be doing and if I will be able to complete it by this March. Alas! As luck would have it, I am not yet done with it. Thus, I resulted to asking my adviser if it's ok to just be given an INC for this sem; I am targetting to complete it by May end, because I have to leave room for me to study for the compre exams. Which means I only have 2 months left. Hmmm, I'm thinking of asking for a few days off from the office, so that I can concentrate on working on the project. Better take the opportunity while I can, while there are no official tasks. The thing is, even if I have no official project at the office, I am overseeing the OJT trainees for our development team. Hmmmm, we'll see, maybe I'll ask someone else to cover that particular task. :D Boss? ;;)

*sigh* This is it! The final stretch. After the special project, I just have to take the 5-day Comprehensive Exam on September (for which I also still have to study seriously and intently for...), and then I'm done. :)
and it sucks na parang ngayon pa ko nawawalan ng gana at lakas :( I think my brain is über fried already. :((
O Lord, please grant me strength and motivation. [-o<

P.S.
for those who are not familiar with my current LSS, check this link out.
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it's been a while

2009-02-20T23:26:00.002+08:00

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yep, it's been a while since my last post,, tsk tsk,, probably because i was bitten by the micro-blogging bug. :)) or maybe, it was simply because i was way too busy these past months. ;))

for december and january, a dear dear friend who's been out of the country for quite sometime spent the holidays here, so the college gang decided to make the time uber worthwhile. :D we spent the christmas holidays in baguio then went to bataan and corregidor last january.

pictures can be found in my multiply account. i'd love to tell the adventure stories, but i guess i just don't have the time.. in fact, this post has been in my drafts for quite some time already, begging to get published. tsk tsk

work ... hmmm,, not much projects recently (i guess you could say we are affected by the global economic crisis, the banks are freezing their funds, which means no projects in the mean time) .. end result, we are in research mode, tsk tsk. good thing the other departments are not affected (having non-banks as clients), so our company's still ok.

as for february, i was (still am) quite busy at school, midterms, then before you know it, the sem's about to end. reportings, exams, papers, problems sets, projects. haaaaaaay,, i'm still behind in a lot of things, i guess i have to get back to those, and finally publish this somewhat useless post :))
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let the sun do its wonders :)

2008-11-23T17:56:00.002+08:00

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apple inked apples :D hahaha
what more can i say? ;))
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stoopid, eh?

2008-11-13T08:30:00.003+08:00

tsk tsk

rubik's revo :D

2008-11-02T19:51:00.008+08:00

IM status: . <offline> .
lss: . toni gonzaga - kasama kang tumanda ('my only ü' soundtrack) .
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the lss probably gives it away,, tsk tsk,, yups, my cousin, aunt and I, watched 'my only ü' earlier today ;))

but i'm not blogging about that :D [the movie's great actually, so you might want to try it out,, that is, if you don't think watching tagalog movies to be corny (I don't) ;)) beware though, to laugh and cry at the same time,, madness, I say,, ]

anyways, as the post title dictates, I just want to share my new toy (see below), which, we bought after watching the movie :D
I've been eyeing it on the stands for quite some time now, figuring out whether to buy it already,, quite expensive though (even on sale), but what the heck, I really want to have one, so I grabbed the opportunity and decided to give myself an early christmas present. :D

p.s.: blog history: check this and this
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blogger code

2008-10-26T14:48:00.004+08:00

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tried out generating my blogger code :))
B9 d- t- k- s- u-- f- i-- o e+ l c
apparently it was popular around 2002 when it was launched ;))
how do you define a blogger anyways?
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sembreak :D

2008-10-16T23:20:00.003+08:00

IM status: . sembreak! :D finally B-) .
lss: . colbie caillat - realize (it's blazing somewhere from the neighbors,, jeez,, it 11:30 in the evening!) .

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woohoo! sembreak! finally :D

it should have started last week, but unfortunately (or fortunately), our group's report got pushed to tonight.. tsk tsk,, four groups (3 members each) were supposed to report last week, but when the second group finished, we have already used up all three hours of the class, so we had to have another class, which was tonight. yups, only 2 groups in three full hours, you can just imagine how the 'reporting' happened.. ;))

anyways, back to the topic,, alas! the best two weeks (other than summer break) of my year is finally here,, which is probably why there's a seemingly permanent smile plastered to my face right now. :D a smile which i'm not quite sure how long will last,, i should start wiping it out though, because i'm not sure if this will really be a lax two-week break,, i need to have a definitive research topic by the time next sem starts,, ha! two weeks to make a very big decision,, good luck with that! at least i've narrowed down the domain though, that's one less burden,,

new semester resolution: stop procrastinating
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on papers and error pages

2008-10-04T08:31:00.005+08:00

IM status: . gumagawa ng mga papel,, tsk tsk .
lss: . the boy least likely to - be gentle with me .

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if you've seen my ym status in the recent days, you might have noticed that the status has been the same for i guess a week now --> gumagawa ng papel (making a paper) <-- and then last night, a friend noted that --> ang haba naman ng papel na yan (that paper is long) <-- which actually made me smile ;)) in the middle of me fretting and staring at my blank Writer document,, nice chris, thanks!

hehe,, yup, it's that time at the end of the semester again, hell weeks,, ;)) only this time, no final exams, just paperS and reports,, (4 to be exact; all due this coming week; and all of which i barely scratched the 50% completion mark),, so this morning, I changed my status --> gumagawa ng mga papel (making papers) ,, tsk tsk

i really should find a way to minimize my procrastination habits, i can't be like this next semester if i want to graduate on time,,

anyways, it's breather time, so i just want to share this funny link on google error pages,, developers need to get their fix somewhere right? ;)

Dear valued user,
You have reached the error page for the error page...
You win!!

how i came about that link? jeeez,, must be procrastinating again (reading my feeds instead of constructing my paperS) ;))
ja, back to work ;))
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mario bros. acapella

2008-09-14T21:19:00.002+08:00

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this is so cool,,
for all those who has ever played a mario brothers game,,
enjoy! ;))

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discom what?

2008-09-06T07:10:00.005+08:00

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do you get stressed out if you can't go online?

google and discombobulation plus a little wordplay and you'll get the name of a new phenomenon buzzing around the internet newsrooms... yep, i'm talking what psychologists now call discomgoogolation which they define as feeling of distress or anxiety when unable to gain immediate information access.

According to one of the proponents of the study, Psychologist Dr David Lewis:

The proliferation of broadband has meant for the first time in history we have entered a culture of 'instant answers' - a galaxy of information is just a mouse click away and we have become addicted to the web.
When unable to get online, discomgoogolation takes over.

Based on the study, A poll of 2,100 people found 76% of Britons admitted that they could not live without the internet. and what's sad, 17% said they missed the internet more than friends when they could not get access

[via sky news]

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makes me think if i have the syndrome too,, must go offline now then,, ;))
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desktop with bumps

2008-08-17T07:25:00.006+08:00

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are UI metaphors already going overboard? you tell me ;))
check this out:

nevertheless, it's still cool, isn't it? :D

if you don't like watching the video, there's a portfolio,
and a flickr group that you can also check. ;)
[via http://bumptop.com/]

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sure sure, a prototype vide can be pretty boring, here's another demo done in person, with Q&A ;)) taken during the Stanford Cool Product Expo

[via OhGizmo]

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BumpTop was also presented at TED 2007.
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cool underwater camera

2008-08-10T19:48:00.004+08:00

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liquid image's new underwater camera ;)

[via engadget and AkihabaraNews]
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need to think of a research topic (fast!)

2008-08-03T17:30:00.005+08:00

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tsk tsk ;)) ouch!
click on the image or the link below for the full comic ;)
[via phdcomics]
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'been procrastinating long enough, i seriously need an inspiration to find a good enough topic :-<
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this blog as a graph :)

2008-07-20T21:08:00.004+08:00

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as promised, here are the graphs of this webpage.
the first one was captured last week (7/13)

this other one was captured just a few minutes ago, after i posted about the "internet art"
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graphs and your special day

2008-07-20T20:49:00.002+08:00

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since i've already linked to Marcel Salathé's talk about his onethousandpaintings initiative in the previous post,, here's some more, -> if you watched his tech talk, you'll notice he mentioned there about some other cool sites,, two of those, i'll also make mention here.

first, is the "webpages as graphs" applet (which Salathe created), which is really awesome.. i've run it before using this blog's address as input. i'm running it again now, let's see what it shows. :) i'll put it in the next post.

second is the 365specialdays project. and i agree,

Today, July the 20th, is the most special day for hundreds of people around the world. What is your special day?

It's true, every single day could be the most special day to someone out there.
Much like the idea of the thousand paintings, even if the creator didn't really mean it to be such, each of those 1000 numbers, means something to somebody, that's why they bought it, didn't they. [of course, it could also be true, that they just didn't know where to put their money =)]
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internet art

2008-07-20T20:33:00.004+08:00

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been wanting to post a link to this for some time..
-> onethousandpaintings.com
how would you like to own a piece of internet art history?

One thousand numbers = one thousand paintings. All beautifully painted on canvas. Each number is unique - the number and the demand define the price.

tsk tsk,, i'm not promoting,, it's just that the idea is quite cool and creative if i must say.. especially the math behind computing the price of the paintings,,
for the story of a thousand paintings, check out also a recent google tech talk on it by the creator himself, Marcel Salathé (Sala).

On May 30th and 31st 2006 alone, 322 paintings were sold - most likely the highest number of unique, handmade paintings sold on the internet within such a short time. Since then, close to 800 paintings have been shipped to 26 countries..

it’s such a brilliant place

2008-07-12T22:08:00.004+08:00

IM status: . http://wazblur.blogspot.com/2008/07/see-you-around-aps-d.html .
lss: . Discovery Channel Commercial - Boom De Ah Dah! .

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i got my current lss from marco's latest post. i hate you anton, i can't get the song out of my head ;))
but in fairness, i do love the commercial also. thanks!

It never gets old, huh?
Nope.
It kinda makes you want to…
Break into song?
Yep.

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additional: Apparently, it's been quite popular that there have been new versions being uploaded. the discovery channel even made their own playlist of their favorite parodies.

even the simpsons and xkcd have their own versions.
the simpsons version uses the original lyrics:

while xkcd of course does it like no one else does ;))

I love the whole world
it’s such a brilliant place
Boom-de-yadda, boom-de-yadda
Boom-de-yadda, boom-de-yadda
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the tech savvy way to learn your ABCs

2008-07-12T21:45:00.004+08:00

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just in case you want to refresh your english alphabet, here's a great (COOL) way to do so and still be tech savvy at the same time,, you can use it to teach kids too :D

i do wonder however that they chose YouTube for Y instead of Yahoo. ;))
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see you around Aps :D

2008-07-11T23:57:00.003+08:00

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aws announcement:
last day ni aps today :(
at dahil wala si bea, ni-request nya na i-video ko ang morning meeting speech nya. ;))
kung multiply contact kita at feeling ko may koneksyon kayo ni aps,
malamang kasama ka na sa accesss list,
pero kung hindi at hindi ang sagot mo sa mga 'kung' sa itaas,
tapos gusto mo makita yung video,
sabihin mo na lang saken, gawan natin ng paraan. :)
[pinagbawalan kasi ako ni Aps na i-post ko sa youtube eh ;))]

links:

Sir Butch's thank you speech to Aps
Aps' last day Speech
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yeah, me too ;))

2008-07-10T22:06:00.004+08:00

i wish i could do math like when i was young...

yeah, form some odd reason, i agree that math seemed so much easier when i was youngER (i'm still young :D)..

twisted ankle

2008-07-10T21:08:00.003+08:00

IM status: . twisted ankle (so stupid) .
lss: . bad day .

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so i twisted my ankle, on the way to school from work this afternoon. stupid stupid me,, i was in a hurry and while walking, i was avoiding the wet paint section of the sidewalk (which runs through the whole length of the sidewalk edge) so i jumped over the yellow rope marker, -> unfortunately, i wasn't able to control my fall (i forgot that my bag was heavy because it's a school day) ---> end result, a twisted and swollen ankle.

to make my day even worse, despite my bestest efforts to not be late tonight for the first time, when i eventually arrived at the classroom (with 2mins to spare), i saw that the room is closed.. and then it dawned on me, today is june10, the day of the national youth boycott. dangit, that totally slipped my mind,, thus, i forgot to check out our class website regarding announcements.

anyways, i waited a while, luckily enough, i saw one of our classmates bearing the message from our prof which basically just says to check our class website. sheeesh,, i hurriedly did my work tasks for the day, hurried to go to school, twisted my ankle, only yo find out there are no classes. haaaay, life nga naman.

so, i texted papa, to ask if he could pick me up earlier, sadly, he was still in a meeting and it might take long (he was expecting to pick me up at 8ish afterall, and it was still 6pm at the time).. thus i was left with no choice but to commute towards home. oh well, at least it was still early.

but no, my day was just getting better, when i was near the point where i have to go down from the jeep near our place, the rain suddenly pours its hardest i have ever seen, end result, even if i had an umbrella, i was soaking wet by my pants. the rain was so hard, a lot of people are lined up at the tricycle terminal, so i had to wait in line for quite some time. i don't think that really helped my twisted ankle.

too bad, i can't go on sick leave tomorrow (i have bigger than work tasks to do), i just hope the swelling subsides by tomorrow. :(

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easter eggs

2008-07-06T13:08:00.003+08:00

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okay, i promise, this will be my last techpost (for the day, at least)... :D

since, i've already mentioned the neat robot easter egg in firefox3 and the cool google search tricks, here's another link that can maybe make you say "wow" or "cool" or whatever amazement expression you use (that is of course, if you are still unaware of them) :D

Top 10 Software Easter Eggs (via lifehacker)

go on, read a passage from the book of mozilla, get the highscore in minesweeper, play tictactoe and spaceinvaders on openoffice, save money by talking to your Mac terminal instead of seeing a shrink, or maybe play tetris while downloading,, :D

and for even more easter eggs, try eggheaven
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google search tricks

2008-07-06T12:40:00.005+08:00

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let's continue with the techposts, eh?

wanna know what time it is in a particular place anywhere in the world?
no sweat, as always google can tell you, ;))
and even if you're not very specific, it can tell you all possible matches. cool!
see photo below:

you can also Track flight status; Convert currency, metrics, bytes, and more; Compare items with "better than" and find similar items with "reminds me of"; Use Google as a free proxy; AND MORE...
(see source link below for more information)
via lifehacker: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks

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all about robots

2008-07-06T10:34:00.005+08:00

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just a small techpost, para maiba naman.. :D

have you already shifted to firefox3?
try typing this in the location bar

about:robots

nice science fiction quote at the title :D

software developers have to get their kicks somehow, right?

--> AMEN ;))

via tekzilla
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sg pics uploaded

2008-06-21T18:12:00.006+08:00

IM status: . at home .

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for my multiply contacts, I'm sure you've already received the notifications that I have (finally) uploaded the photos for the singapore trip. it took a lot of time to sort and filter out the 3000 or so photos which i finally trimmed down to around 615. whew!

tinatamad na ko magkwento, let the pictures speak for itself.

basta ang bottom line, nakakapagod maglakad! :))
that's how we went from place to place, walking, mrt rides and more walking.

kahit na naturingan kaming mga sanay maglakad (dahil taga-baguio kami kung saan "walking distance" lang halos lahat ng lugar), eh wala, suko pa rin ang aming mga paa.. ;))

anyways, enjoy the pics! :D

Part 1 pics (May 31 - Jun 03 = 3 days)
http://jhaye.multiply.com/photos/album/58/family_sg_part1

Part 2 - Day 1 (Jun 03 - 04) :D
http://jhaye.multiply.com/photos/album/59/family_sg_part2.1

Part 2 - Day 2 (Jun 05)
http://jhaye.multiply.com/photos/album/60/family_sg_part2.2

Part 2 - Day 3 (Jun 06)
http://jhaye.multiply.com/photos/album/61/family_sg_part2.3

Part 3 - Day 4 to 5 (Jun 07 - 08)
http://jhaye.multiply.com/photos/album/62/family_sg_part2.4

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happiest day of the year

2008-06-21T17:54:00.002+08:00

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happy happiest day of the year to all!

June 20 is the happiest day of the year according to a maths formula worked out by an academic.

According to the research this has been worked out using the equation O + (N xS) + Cpm/T + He.

read more>>
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my birthmonth adbentyurs

2008-06-09T21:47:00.010+08:00

IM status: . back to everything else .

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yup, it's now back to everything else,, but before that, kwento muna.
it's been a month since i last blogged, which was regarding my booking stupidity and my super uneventful 24th birthday.

kumusta nga ba ang past month ko? my birthmonth. astig! [this will be in taglish, sorry na ;))]

may3-4 was spent on hold with PAL reservations, dahil pinapabago ko yung wrong booking ko para sa tito ko.

may5, birthday ko, normal day lang, went home early, yun lang.

may9, tumawag ako sa DOST para itanong yung tungkol sa final clearance ko, bawal pa daw mag-apply kasi wala pa 4yrs, hintayin ko daw eksakto ang may17 (may17,2004 yung start ng bilang eh, dun ako nag-start with training sa company).

may10, nagpunta ng megamall to buy a few things, kamalas-malasan, naharang ako ng isang tao na nagppromo daw, naawa naman ako dun sa tao, hinahabol nya quota nya, sabi nya kailangan ko lang maglaro ng isang game tapos ok. ayun, pagdating sa office nila (within megamall lang din), may iba naman kumausap saken, only to find out na ooffer-an lang pala ako ng insurance, bad trip talaga, sinabi ko na dun sa person na hindi ako interasado, just hear him out daw, baka magustuhan ko, 45mins lang naman daw. ok fine, pero asar talaga kasi nakaka-2hours na sya, d pa rin sya tapos, sabi ko kelan ba sya matatapos para makapag-NO na ko, sabi nya bakit daw, panget daw ba offer nya, sabi ko hindi naman pero hindi lang talaga ako interesado. ang kulit grabe, hanggang sa naasar na ko, sinabi ko talaga na ayaw ko na makinig and gusto ko na umalis, tapos sa sobrang galit ko, hindi na ko nagsasalita tapos naluluha na ko sa inis. nagpanic sya, bakit daw ako umiiyak, did he harass me daw, hindi na talaga ako nagsasalita tapos may isa pa person na dumating, eevaluate lang daw nya un kumausap saken, pero wag ka, inulit lang nya lahat nun sinabi nun guy. sabi ko, ayaw ko talaga, sabi nya ano daw ba ayaw ko sa pag-iipon, basta paulit ulit, sabi ko ayaw ko talaga, asar talaga, naasar na rin sya saken, basta sabi ko ayaw ko, then d na ko nagsasalita talaga. badtrip talaga, super kulit nila.

may12or13 ata yun, may tumawag ulit sa office, from a bank then iba naman ino-offer, pero insurance pa rin, sabi ko ayaw ko, tapos ang kulit pa rin, bakit daw, dami ko binigay na rason then sabi ko basta ayaw ko, pero ang kulit talaga; buti na lang nasa office ako, sabi ko bawal ako kausapin sa line na yun. grabe ang kulit ng mga yun. di makatanggap ng simpleng NO.

may17, kuya's 22nd birthday, may kaunting handa sa bahay para sa friends nya, so the day was spent cooking with my cousins and aunt.

may21, binigay na ng office yun employment cert na ni-request ko para sa DOST, tawag naman agad ko, at pasa ng letter of request to DOST, wait for 2 working days daw.

may26, tawag sa DOST for my clearance, ready na daw yung clearance pero on hold, kailangan pa daw i-confirm kung pwede isama yung 5months na ACTION training ko sa bilang.. debatable pa daw kasi yun kasi "training" lang yung nakalagay, bad trip.

may27,AM, tumawag ulit ako sa DOST, di pa daw nya nacconfirm, tawag daw ulit ako. asar na ko nun, sabi ko kailangan ko na po agad ng sagot kasi until may28 ko lang sya macclaim if ever dahil out of town ang company namen ng may29-30.

may27,PM, medyo okay na daw pero wala kasi yung chief nila, sa kanya yung final say and siya din yung pipirma, tawag daw ulit ako the next day.

may28,AM, tawag ako, for signing na daw yung clearance pero hindi pa napipirmahan, tawag daw ako ng 2pm.

may28,2pm. tawag ako, ready na daw, impake agad ako ng things ko sa ofis tapos after 30mins, nag-taxi na ako papunta taguig.

may28,3pm, nasa taguig na ako, hintay konti, fill up ng tracer survey, tapos ayun, binigay saken yun clearance, sabay sabi na kailangan ko i-pass yun isang letter sa bureau of immigration, though magbibigay din sila ng list for lifting from the watchlist sa B.I. hindi daw ganun kabilis yun, so kung gusto ko makasiguro na matatanggal agad name ko sa watchlist, intime sa pag-alis ko, kailangan ko i-pass yun personally.

may28,3:30pm, d ko lam saan ang B.I., tawag sa office para alamin saan yun, sa Intramuros daw. ok fine, so how do I get there, hirap ng instructions nila, sabi ko ako na bahala, ayun, basa ng mga jeep signboards, nicheck ko bawat road, nang may makita akong pwedeng sakyan, sakay agad, then baba ako sa taft. 4pm na nun, naku, eh until 5pm lang ang govt offices diba, taxi na 'to ulit, pero ang hirap makahanap ng taxi.

may28,4:45pm, pagdating ko ng B.I., halos di na ko pansinin doon, palibhasa malapit na mag-uwian, anyways, binigay ko yung letter, balik daw ako ng monday (june2). [this is for the travel order, indicating that my name is already lifted from the hold departure watchlist]

may28,evening, after 3months of waiting, i finally met my new toy :D [sayang lang at di ko pa nabinyagan agad, maaga kasi alis kinabukasan]

may29-31, company outing sa DOS PALMAS, angsaya! :D hehe,, got to try kayak and intro scuba diving. astig,, :) pictures from my camera are found at my multiply account.

june1, had to go to cubao, may mga kailangan bilhin ang pinsan ko for our singapore trip, ako, ayaw ko pang isipin, natatakot pa kasi ako na baka d ako makasama, i can't calm myself until I have that travel order in my hands.

june2,AM, pasok muna sa work, double time, kasi nag-SL yung isang team mate namen so short handed si boss mara, mag-isa lang siya, nahihiya akong iwan sya basta basta.

june2,PM, punta ng bureau of immigration, pagdating dun, wala pa yung deputy commissioner na taga-pirma, nasa meeting, so ayun, hintay for 1.5hours, then dumating na siya, pero d nya ako agad naharap, haba pa kasi ng pila ng mga dapat nya kausapin. mag-ffour PM na nun, pero wala pa rin. until finally, binigay yung travel order pero wala pa dry-seal, magbayad daw muna ako sa cashier sa labas ng building (for express lane fee daw). after paying, they added the dry-seal then at last, i got to go home and finally pack my stuff.

june3,AM, woke up early to go to UP to enroll, unfortunately, late na rin ako nakaalis ng bahay, so paglabas, taxi na inabangan ko, pero malas, tagal ng taxi. nang makarating ako ng UP, wala pa yung mga adviser for M.S., malas, hintay pa daw ako until 10am, 1hr din yun, nakatulog na nga ako eh,, nang dumating na yun adviser, dami na namen, tapos wala pa yun print out ng pre-enlistment form ko, so hintay ulit. sa taranta ko na baka d ako matapos ng maaga, hindi ko na napag-isipan mabuti yung gusto kong subjects talaga. napag-isipan ko na naman na dati yun, pero madalas kasi nagbabago isip ko last minute kapag enrollment na talaga,, ;)) sira ulo noh? ;)) as usual, after ko mag-bayad, pinag-sisisihan ko na may isa akong subject na hindi na-enroll. kulang sa pag-iisip at pagpa-plano. oh well, bahala na si batman next sem. katakot, last sem ko pa man din yun.

june3,PM, from UP, daan ng bangko to do something for my brothers' accounts, hindi na kasi ulit ako makakakuha ng leave sa office after this. pagdating sa bahay, konting ayos ng gamit. then nung time na para umalis, abang taxi papunta airport, then airport na, 7:40pm yung flight.

june3-8, singapore (walking :)) ) adventures with my family. :) I'll put it in a separate blog. I'm still organizing the pictures; sobrang effort magbura at mag-filter eh.. Dami kasing digicam - almost 4000 items (pics and short vids), now trimmed down to 2,924 items in the meantime (more filtering to go). Haba din nung videos sa handicam (3 or more v8 tapes i think; though hindi ko pa nakikita yun).

that's it for now, mahaba na ito eh ;))
tomorrow, it's back to work and back to school, like I said, back to everything else.
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[wazblurs]

2008-05-04T15:50:00.001+08:00

this really really sucks,, people who know me well, know that i often 'dwell',, and right now, i feel so bad and stupid, it's not sinking so much to me and i can't appreciate that it will be may-5 in a few hours. (thought to self --> get it out of your head already jhaye, seriously!) ,, add that to the fact that to the best of my recollection, this will be the first time that i'll be spending may-5 being sick. yup, i'm sick right now, as in my usual watery-nose-and-eyes-cold type of sick,, way to lift up my mood eh?

online booking

2008-05-04T15:44:00.002+08:00

IM status: . -offline- .
lss: . (airline reservation hotline's recording of promos and destinations) .

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i feel so stupid right now,, deymn,, I really do.

it's like this, my aunts and cousins will be going abroad by the end of the month. now when I learned that they were going, they've already booked their tickets through a travel agent, they didn't invite me as they weren't sure my DOST bond would allow me to leave the country. luckily enough, I am to finish my service bond this month (yey! - which reminds me, I have to ask for clearance already, but that's a different story),, so I asked if I could come, and when they said yes, I immediately booked online. now, as an FYI, booking online could be a whole lot cheaper if you're lucky enough. lucky for me, my ticket was around 1K cheaper. :D

now, here's the deal, last friday, on my way to work, my aunts called me up and asked me to book an airline ticket for my uncle (initially, he wasn't supposed to come, but plans changed) using the online booking facility, he was only 1 so it would be cheaper.

so the moment I arrived at the office, I immediately tried to do so, I tried around three times but unfortunately, an error kept on appearing,, worried that it might get charged to my aunt's credit card multiple times, I stopped for the mean time, and sent an email to the airline service email to inquire about the error,, besides, I do have a ton of work to do,, so I put it off for the rest of the morning while waiting for the reply and as we had a lunch deadline to beat for our project-release for the day,, after being thoroughly pressured into meeting the lunch deadline (which we exceeded by 30mins), I again tried to go back to booking online, now we were already late for lunch and my officemates were already waiting (loooong enough) so I did the booking as fast I could (note that I was already harrassed at this time, one by the pressure of finishing around 2 days worth of work in 4 hours and two by my aunts texting me every hour to check if i've already finished booking the ticket). I don't know what or how it happened but apparently, I wasn't able to edit the gender part of the passenger details, and instead of MR, the MS was selected (it's a drop-down). so naturally when we received the e-ticket, my uncle is now a MS. ,,,,,,,, stupid stupid me.

i received the e-ticket yesterday then forwarded it to my aunt, then when she checked it today, she noticed it and told me,, so I spent the entire morning until this afternoon, put on hold by the airlines' reservation hotline,, it's sunday afterall, all reservation agents were busy (according to the trunkline recording)... after 3-4 hours of waiting on hold, I finally got through only to get cut off in the middle of the transaction because the wireless phone I was using ran out of battery,, so I called again, this time, I had to wait another 50minutes. and finally, I got through (i was already using the non-battery-needing default pldt phone), so I told the agent (again) my dillema, the agent said I had to pay a re-issuance fee (which sucks actually as the amount I saved from the discount will now go to that fee), okay fine I said, and then I asked if I can do it over the phone (pay the re-issuance fee, I mean) and then she asked me if she can put me on hold again as she will consult her handler (sure why not, I got this far anyway), so I had to wait another 15-20mins listening again to a recording of the airlines' promos and destinations,, finally, when she got back, she told me, I can't pay over the phone and I have to go to the airlines' ticket office to do the transaction. haaaaaaaay,, this really sucks. how can I be so stupid. imagine that, just one wrong letter can cause all this trouble. I feel really really stupid right now, I should have triple checked the details before clicking that PAY NOW button (hunger is not an excuse).

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incomplete

2008-04-12T18:45:00.004+08:00

IM status: . my first INC ever, grad school never ceases to amaze me ;)) .
lss: . carrie underwood - i'll stand by you .

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As for those who saw my status in my messengers this past week, of course, you guys already know.
For those who haven't well, it's written up there.
That's my gmail stat.
My yahoo stat just says 'non-passing grade' instead of INC.

Yep, I've finally had my first non-passing grade in college. contrary to popular belief, I did have a grade lower than 80 in high school so I was not the exceptional student then either. ;))

hehe,, well, it's not yet official anyway, I just saw it in my CRS account

INC of course means incomplete

I didn't really expect the grades to come out this soon, the deadline of submission for the teachers was april 07 (moved to april 08 because of the holiday), but they don't usually follow it to the date, so when a classmate informed me that his grade in our Parallel Programming class was INC and asked me why could that possibly be, I was surprised that the grades can already be seen on CRS. Unfortunately, it was summer-enrollment week at the time, so the CRS was inaccessible outside DILNET (the network of UP Diliman) during enrollment hours so I can't check my grades yet to compare. Anyways, I told him that maybe it was because he wasn't able to post their presentation file in our class-groups-site as that's our only difference (I was assuming that I wasn't INC).

Leaving it at that, I waited patiently for the time when CRS can already be accessed by the public network, and when I finally saw my grade, it was also INC also. ;)) I panicked and asked my other classmates if they were also INC. When one classmate told me she wasn't, I panicked even more. What could I possibly have missed out on... passing out on two japan ob trips shouldn't leave me with a bad grade.

Then I immediately sent an email to my professor. point of note, since the beginning of March, our prof was out of the country to accompany her husband on his post-doctorate stint,, so basically our last month of class was done online.

So anyways, she replied to my mail, and I learned that the reason for the INC was that she didn't receive my last submission for the lab exercises we were required to submit. whew! So I just resent her the email. She said, after she checks that, she can already compute my actual grade. ... there, nothing to worry about, whew!

Incidentally, she also said in her email to the whole class (most of us were INC) that the requirement was to submit at least 3 of the 5 lab exercises given (which I already did) and that we can also opt to submit the remaining 2 [for a better grade I presume :)] as many were absent when we discussed them.

So that's what I'm doing right now. ;)) lucky for me, I still have my notes from our discussion of those exercises. I just finished rewriting it into a more presentable form then scanned it and submitted it a few minutes ago. [I could have drawn the graphs through one software or another but I missed handwriting my assignments and drawing diagrams so I decided to write it down myself. It made me realize that my school-mode-handwriting has gotten pretty bad. I rarely handwrite anything presentable anymore. ;)) I guess that's the downside when you work with computers.]

anyways, I'll just wait for the receipt mail, and after that, my sem is finally over (that is, until I learn of my updated grades of course). :)
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アルゴリズムこうしん

2008-04-05T22:14:00.007+08:00

IM status: . -offline- .
lss: . algorithm march tune .

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So I was watching PBB earlier, it showed the weekly task of the housemates which was to 'implement' the algorithm march. A dance fad and viral video which apparently has been around for quite some time already, but I didn't really knew about it before tonight, so as expected I googled and went to youtube to watch the videos.

Here's a pretty neat compilation video of the Algortihm Exercise and the Algorithm March as it was shown in the Japanese educational program PythagoraSwitch (????????).

*the steps can really be hard to follow and the fact that the lyrics of the tune is in japanese doesn't really help does it? ;)) good thing the video above has subtitles so that you really understand the steps to be done :)*

Also, since I googled it, I also found out that the CPDRC inmates (yep, those same guys that did the Thriller video which was voted in Time Magazine as the 5th "most popular viral videos" of 2007) also tried it out, with an effort to create a world record having 967 people do the dance:

Funny,, now that I think about it, it's somehow similar to 'shagedy shagedy sha po po',,, :D

footnote:
for those who don't know, the shagedy game somewhat goes like this:
The players stay together in a circle. One player starts by doing some sort of action/step while the whole group is chanting 'shagedy shagedy sha po po', then the person to his left does the same thing he does (while he on the other hand does another step), and so on. The goal is that the first step be able to complete the circle and go back to the starting person. As the game progresses, it is ideal that the movements gets faster and the steps more complicated. But since it's a game and not a coordinated routine with actual fixed steps like the algorithm exercise and/or march, it can go as crazy and as confusing as the players want it to be. :)
** googling can really do you wonders, here's a video link i found of a group playing shagedy, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f7Vgamrh6U&NR=1
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computer smell

2008-04-02T11:55:00.002+08:00

Yesterday was April Fool's Day. I don't know if those elevator people were just messing with me, anyway here's the story.

On going home,,,
So, I got into the elevator, there were 2 women standing on opposite diagonal sides of the cube and they were talking with each other.
We were just on the 3rd floor (technically, the 4th floor), so going down will be fast thus I didn't really feel the need to go to the back part,,, so awkward as it may seem, I just stood right by the door,, sort of in the middle of them (one was standing on my right side, the other standing a little behind me on the left side).

When the doors closed, one of them (the one on my right) said to the other "amoy computer sa floor na 'to". As there were only 3 of us in there and I was trying very hard NOT to laugh, I was pretty sure the woman can somehow see me in the corner of her eye, so I just smiled and had to say something, it was kind of a dumb thing to say but what came out of my mouth was, "ah, marami nga po computer dyan, IT company po kasi". Then the other one replied, "kaya pala". Ohmygulay, that was probably the longest 3-floor elevator ride ever! It was a good thing they were headed for the basement parking so by the time the doors closed when I got off in the ground floor, I was really laughing to myself while heading out of the building. ;))

I do not mean any disrespect at all, it's just that I didn't really get it. It got me to thinking if computers really do have a smell, I mean, have I been around computers for toooo long that I didn't really notice that there is after all a "computer smell"? I mean, seriously?! hehe,, As a proof that the incident really stuck to my head, this morning, when I got out of the elevator on our floor, I really stopped and tried if I could smell anything different. Oh well, happy april fools to me, I guess. =))

Cyberaddiction

2008-03-21T21:43:00.004+08:00

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Since we're already talking about the internet, let me follow up with this quite interesting article I chanced upon a few days back, saying that:

Internet addiction -- including "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging" -- is a common compulsive-impulsive disorder that should be added to psychiatry's official guidebook of mental disorders.
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Some use computers like they would drugs or alcohol as a way to escape reality, the researchers say. Addicts may be addicted to everything from the sheer act of typing, to chat rooms, online shopping or three-dimensional, multiplayer games users have described as "heroinware."
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China and South Korea are already addressing the problem.
After 10 people died in Internet cafés in South Korea from cardiopulmonary-related deaths -- at least seven reportedly due to online gaming -- the government trained more than 1,000 counsellors in the treatment of Internet addiction.

Read the full article here.

What's heroinware? Here's a WordSpy definition. Also, there's this article I found, to quote:

Dennis Bennett was failing his college classes, his marriage was in trouble, and he wasn't being much of a father to his 1-year-old son. But he had progressed to Level 58 as Madrid, the Great Shaman of the North, his character in the online role-playing game "EverQuest," and that was all that mattered at the time.

Read the full article here.

Want more sample stories? What are the Symptoms? For more information, you can check out the Wikipedia article for Internet Addiction Disorder or check out this Computer Addiction Service website.
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internet doomsday?!

2008-03-21T20:57:00.003+08:00

IM status: .<offline:holy_week>.
lss: . carly simon - you're so vain .

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Remember the Y2K? The millenium bug as they called it. Apparently, there's another similar scenario that's bound to happen in 30 years. Currently being dubbed as the 2038 bug because of the year it's supposed to happen; or the "Unix Millenium Bug", because it will be affecting Unix-like systems. Now, why is it the Unix's 'Millenium'? For those who've programmed times and dates, surely you've encountered somehow, the way machines represents system time. For Unix, POSIX time starts with "00:00:00 January 1, 1970" and each second thereafter is represented by a signed 32-bit integer. Thus, naturally, this will have a maximum value. ...

According to the 2038Bug website,
The precise date of this occurrence is Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038. At this time, a machine prone to this bug will show the time Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901, hence it is possible that the media will call this The Friday 13th Bug.

Pretty scary eh? But don't you worry, January 19, 2038 is still so far, far away. I'm pretty sure all responsible beings will have already found a solution for the problem well before the said date arrives. :D

This post gives a more detailed account of the scenario, describing what might happen, links to more proof, and what one may want to know as a programmer. ... Like he said, 30 years is still a very long time, who knows what technologies could already be out by then. ;)
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super mario and quantum physics

2008-03-18T00:55:00.009+08:00

status: . still procrastinating .
lss: . prince - the song of the heart (happy feet OST) .

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Maybe, like me, you're also wondering what the hell has Super Mario got to do with physics, and not just physics in general mind you, but Quantum Physics. :D

For someone who grew up playing Super Mario Bros. games and has physics-ians for friends. I wouldn't have thought it possible. I mean, I just appreciated the mario games as they are; and for quantum physics? well, it's just too much theory for me to handle (quantum physics-based intellectual conversations with my physics-ian friends can only go so far). :)

So, as I was saying,,, there's this article:

Super Mario World vs. the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics

wherein the author somehow used a certain Mario hack as a way of understanding the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics.. (and more, I think... I pretty much zoned-out after the first few sentences of the explanation.. I suddenly remembered why I didn't do that good in my physics classes during college,, haha) The video is also interesting enough to watch.

I forwarded it to my physics-ian friends, maybe they can make better of the explanation. :))
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vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big

2008-03-17T01:10:00.007+08:00

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
- Douglas Adams

And big it is. Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated with space, I mean who wouldn't be? Which is why, it's so cool that there is now Google Sky. Yep, after Google Mars and Google Moon, we can now see the rest of the sky through the web. Sure, the night sky was already available through Google Earth before but you did have to download and install Google Earth first for that, which for me was a big deal as I don't quite like installing too much heavy applications on my ailing PC. So having a web version is definitely a happy thought for me. yey! (if you would see the interests part on the few times I fill up the profiles on my web accounts, I do love the night sky.)

Excited as me? Google launched it just last week. So go on now and enjoy your virtual telescope at sky.google.com :D

Btw, it's also so cool to learn that one of the team members was an intern <link here>, jamming with the Google engineers on their 20% time, nice story. :)

P.S.
ever wondered how our earth compares to the others out there in the sky? here's a pretty good way to picture it... <Size comparison of planets>
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washable mouse

2008-03-11T21:42:00.003+08:00

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washable?! really?! WOW. and mind you, it has 3 years warranty. =D
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mplayer = mickey player :)

2008-03-11T11:54:00.001+08:00

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Since we're linking today. And I started it with the washable mouse,, Let's continue with the world's (and my) favorite mouse. :D
Last weekend, I posted this,, And now, more with mickey products.

This time, here are links to articles on iriver's mickey line. :))

First, I saw this (steph, look, it's mickey and it's pink :D) ...
So, I looked further, and saw this,, cool colors eh?..
Wait till you see this,, yep, Swarovski indeed. I'm a mickey fan and all, but ... anyways, moving on. :D

Guess what, there's a limited edition.

Still, can't get your fix? Here are older posts on when it became available, the unboxing and more info on putting mickey's ears to good use ;))

Wait, I'm sure this doesn't compare to the above, and it's not by iriver anymore, but still, it's a mickey player. ;))
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myob, will ya

2008-03-06T18:59:00.001+08:00

IM status: . must stop procrastinating .
lss: . .

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this tvc is so cute.. ;))

Mother: “And you, you’re old enough to know better.”
Grandmother: “MYOB, will ya.”
Mother: “Mom, who could you be texting?”
Grandmother: “IDK. My BFF Rose.”

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[wazblurs] whoa... (deleting a blog)

2008-03-05T10:31:00.003+08:00

IM status: . must stop procrastinating .
lss: . .

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the fact that i'm doing this post definitely means i'm procrastinating yet again,, promise, after this, i'll turn off the internet and start working on my skul stuff...

Anyways, I don't know if people will notice, but I transferred all my posts from my wazdex blog into this blog. Why? Wala lang, it's hard having many blogs.

So anyways, after transferring, it's time to delete the blog, and when I clicked the blue "Delete This Blog" button in the basic settings page, i was surprised that there wasn't any confirmation message! It just deleted the whole blog right away. Now, I know it's weird that I'm complaining about this since I really wanted to delete the blog anyway; but it's just weird that there's no confirmation message about deleting a whole blog in contrast to when deleting a post. Yep, you read right, when I delete posts, a confirmation page appears asking whether I'm sure I want to delete the post. Isn't that weird?

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post update: (10:52am)

Wow, what happened a while ago was just plain weird.. So, after I posted the above entry, I tried creating a new blog, then created a post in it, then deleted the blog. Now, a confirmation (popup) dialog appeared asking if I really wanted to delete the blog. hmmmmmm,, okay fine, I stand corrected, there is after all a confirmation before deleting the whole blog. hmmmmm, I'm not so sure that I didn't see that popup earlier when I deleted my actual blog. Maybe it appeared, I just wasn't paying attention. But seriously, a [popup confirmation for deleting a blog] vs. a [page confirmation for deleting a post]? What can you say about that? Maybe it's just me, but I think deleting a whole blog deserves more credit than just a popup dialog, what if I accidentally pressed enter? or what if I pressed enter too fast (even before I had the chance to notice that there was a dialog box that appeared)?

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[wazblurs] mickey

2008-03-04T19:03:00.004+08:00

IM status: . must stop procrastinating .
lss: . disneymobile.jp's M-I-C-K-E-Y jingle .

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a mickey phone?! now that's soooooo cool. :D
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rubik's madness

2008-03-01T23:28:00.007+08:00

IM status: . must stop procrastinating .
lss: . .

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yep i'm procrastinating yet again,, and it's seriously, seriously, seriously a very bad time for it... why? it's the last month of the sem! (current mantra: "must start studying..must start studying..")

Anyways, my cousin and I went to Divisoria today for a few errands... And while there, I chanced upon this beauty:

What's so nice about this simple looking rubik's cube? .... Well, its BIG!

Here it is compared to my other cubes.

I was able to buy the small one from a toy store, in the party favors section, which is why I have six of those cuties (I think I only have 5 right now, I gave 1 to an officemate). So when I saw the big one this afternoon, I can't help myself but buy it. (Silly me, I forgot to also buy a normal sized one, I should have, because the one displayed above is a sticker-type design, I lost my old tile-type design cube.)

Since we're already talking about it, here are the other cubes I currently have. Yep, the pure-black one's a sudokube, and I haven't been able to solve it yet ever since I bought and scrambled it.
*A sudokube is not a Rubik's Cube with numbers written on it. If it is colored in a way where the cube can be done just by looking at the colors, it is not a sudokube.*

It's not as if I'm really a collector before, it's just that when I see a version/design that strikes me, I buy it, not noticing that I now have a handful. ;))

I first learned how to solve the rubik's cube when I was in college, and I had bought a number of cubes (one after another; everytime I break or lose the one I had at the time) since then, but I think I eventually broke or lost all of them along the way.

Here's my most prized cube right now. :) People who know me will definitely understand why. :D

Now that I am possibly a collector, here are my pending items: :))
- an official version [the one with the logo on the center :) I can't find one here in RP (well I'm not really hunting for it, maybe that's why)] <-- I've already asked my brother in the states to buy one for me :) weee!
- a pocket cube (2x2x2)
- a rubik's revenge (4x4x4)
- a professor's cube (5x5x5)

And maybe, this one also. :D
- a rubik's revolution

* If you'll be visiting the wikipedia links above, you'll notice a box at the bottom of those pages indicating the variations of the rubik's cube (or combination puzzles),, wow, they're so many ;))

okay. I'm stopping right now, before this turns into a geeky post. =D
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[wazdex] EEE stess testing

2008-02-27T21:43:00.001+08:00

school status: .final month of the sem.
work mood: .-ruiji-.

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'saw this video of an asus EEE PC being stressed tested ;)) coolness

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pila pila pila

2008-02-21T23:54:00.000+08:00

btw, i went to SSS-pasay and NBI yesterday,, and so my govt-office misadventures saga ensues,, =))

gaya nga ng nakwento ko na, twice na kong nanggaling ng SSS at hindi ako palagi umaabot sa 100-per-day-quota nila. Kaya naman kahapon, nagpahatid ulit ako sa Roxas Blvd. Mga alas-fayb thirty kami dumating ni papa sa HK Sun Plaza, sobrang dilim pa nun, ayaw maniwala ng tatay ko na may tao na sa loob, sabi nya ang dilim pa daw, sabi ko meron na yan, teka check ko.. At ayun nga, pagpasok ko sa loob, may mga nakapila na sa tapat ng pintuan kaya pinauna ko na si papa at nagpaiwan na ko para makapila na.

Tinanong ko un babaeng feeling ko eh nasa dulo ng pila kung yun na nga ba ang pila para sa ID, sabi nya oo, kaya naman pumuwesto na ko (at natulog (hehe)),, Makalipas ang maraming minuto, naalimpungatan ako at may narinig na nag-uusap malapit saken, pagtingin ko dun sa sinusundan ko, medyo may space na sa pagitan namen, at feeling ko pa eh pupuwesto dun sa space na un yung mga taong naririnig kong nag-uusap, kaya naman umusog ako papalapit sa kanya, sabay balik sa pagtulog (take note, nakatayo kme nito,, meron lang parang table/counter na mataas na nakalineup sa may pader na siyang sinusundan nun pila,, dun ako sa lamesa natutulog)... Nang medyo maliwanag na (mga 630-7 siguro), medyo marami nang tao nun, tinigilan ko na ang pagpapahirap sa sarili ko na magpumilit matulog kaya nagbasa na lang ako (By this time pala, nagkkuwentuhan na yung mga ibang naka-pila, hindi sila magkaka-kilala, pero parang ang dami dami na nilang napagkwentuhan habang natutulog ako :D napag-usapan na ata nila buong life story nila kasama ang kani-kanilang misadventures sa pag-aapply ng SSS ID at passport at kung anu-ano pa,, Ako naman, half-reading-my-book, half-eavesdropping :D).

Bandang alas-otso, unruly na un mga iba, palibhasa, naiinip na siguro, tapos hindi pa kumikilos un guard, sabi nun mga tao, dapat daw ata magbigay na ng number un guard dahil dumadami na un mga tao, at yung mga iba ay parang pa-simple pa na sa may pinto pumupuwesto, samantalang kitang kita naman na nila na meron nang mga nakapila. Tapos, may mga apat na tao siguro un na dumating, punta sila sa guard, tapos apparently ina-accomodate sila nung guard tapos nun akmang papapasukin na sila, ayun na, nagreklamo na yun mga naka-pila, madaling araw pa raw sila nakapila, nanggaling na sila kahapon dito, pinabalik sila ngayon, bawal nag reservation, yung kakarating lang sa dulo pumila, etc. At eto, diba nga nun naalimpungatan ako, meron parang pupuwesto sa unahan ko sa pila,, sila na pala yun sumunod saken sa pila (i wouldn't know, natutulog kasi talaga ako earlier) Sabi nun matanda, "kami nga eh, madaling araw pa dito, galing pa kame ng cavite, binilang pa namen yan mga tao sa pila, pang number 8 kami sa pila", that part ng line nya, ilang beses na nya pinapa-ulit ulit na sinasabi sa kung sino man willing makinig earlier pa, pero dun sa sumunod na line ako nagulat, "pang number 8 kami dapat, siya nga eh (sabay turo saken) sumingit lang siya samen, pero pinag-bigyan na namen, pang number 8 kami, kumain lang kami sandali duon sa lamesa, kaya nun pagbalik namen at nandyan na sya (ako daw) pinagbigyan na lang namen, mag-isa lang naman sya" .... Grabe, I was dumbfounded, di ko alam ano sasabihin ko, add that to the fact na medyo matanda na rin kasi sya, so ang naisagot ko na lang is umusog ako paatras to make space in front of me tapos itinuro ko as if to say na ayan na po, take the spot... Pero sabi nya "hindi sige, dyan ka na, okay lang" ... pero paulit ulit pa rin niyang sinasabi na nauna sila saken at pinag-bigyan lang nila ako,,, *here's the deal, sinasamahan lang nya yun person na nasa likod ko,, kaya pagala-gala lang talaga sya at daldal ng daldal*

duh! Sa isip isip ko, wala kaya sila sa pila nun dumating ako, wala naman sinabi saken un pinagtanungan ko na may iba pa pala naka-"pila" pagtapos niya,,, Pero wala naman talaga ako balak sumagot, iniisip ko lang un,, saka medyo matanda na kasi talaga, gustuhin ko man, hindi ko kayang sumagot, kaya hinayaan ko na lang. Isa pa, masyado pa maaga nun para mag-sungit. ;))

So ayun, inaaway nila un guard, magbigay na raw ng number, at kung anu-ano pang ibang reklamo, bakit daw may ibang pinapasok na, bakit sila daw hindi pa pinapansin. Sabi nun guard (nagsusungit na), "alam ko po ginagawa ko, araw-araw ko po ito ginagawa." Hehe, may point naman siya.

At dahil nga unruly na un mga tao kasi nga may mga pumupuwesto na dun sa pinto mismo though obvious naman na kakarating na nila, tapos meron pa un apat na dumating na almost ini-entertain na nung guard, lumabas un isang empleyado, pinapaliwanag niya na yung mga yun daw is kahapon pa nakapila at nagkataon lang na na-offline yung computer nung turn na dapat nila para ma-piktyuran.. Pero hindi pa man din tapos mag-explain yung babae, yung ibang nasa pila kina-cut-off na yung sinasabi niya, sila rin naman daw kahapon pa nandun, ilang araw na pabalik balik yung iba, yung iba naman, last month pa daw, yung iba galing pa sa malayo. Pero pinapaliwanag nung SSS employee na hindi yun yung point na sinasabi niya, kasi nga, yung mga pinapa-una supposedly nila is nakasalang na the day before, umabot sila sa quota, the whole day sila naka-pila for the 100-person quota pero nun turn na nila nag-offline yung computer at 5pm. Pero wala, parang di siya naiintindihan nung mga tao, hanggang sa lumabas na rin yung ibang mas nakakatandang empleyado, tina-try magpaliwanag pero ayaw sila intindihin (seriously, d ko gets bakit di nila maintindihan yung eksplanasyon), anyways, hanggang sa na-bad-trip na ata un mga employees, sabi nila, sila pa rin naman daw ang magdedesisyon, kung di kaya sundin yung patakaran, wala na sila magagawa,, Kung gusto daw nung mga nagrereklamo, sa ibang office na lang pumunta. ;)) Grabe, aga aga, init init ng mga ulo nila.

Anyways, long story short, so, pang 8+4 ako sa pila, natapos din ako by 930am, nagpunta ng NBI to get my clearance, then went back to the office. =D

UP profs quotable quotes

2008-02-21T23:32:00.003+08:00

IM status: . yub gat tu bi kidin mi .
lss: . you and i .

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this post is so cool...
http://yoopee.multiply.com/journal/item/2122/Quotes_from_UP_Profs.

do check out the comments also,, i think it grows by the day. ;))

hindi ako nag-aral nung undergrad sa Diliman pero sobrang natuwa na ko sa mga nakasulat, pano pa kaya yung mga nakakakilala sa mga prof na nabanggit,, hehe,, bigla tuloy ako napaisip ng quotable quotes ng mga upbaguio profs. :)

haaaay, nakaka-miss ang college days... ;)) wala naman na kasing masyadong ganyang moments ngayon na nag-aaral ulit ako,, :D
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me and my curious weird mind,, tsk tsk,,

2008-02-21T00:35:00.003+08:00

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because of the fact that my previous previous post was already quite lengthy, I did leave out a few things that happened the first time i went to the DFA.

I mentioned that I arrived at 8am, but the truth is I actually arrived a little before 8am. And for the sake of storytelling, I'll do the succeeding parts in Filipino.

Pagbaba ko ng taxi, may lumapit na agad na ale saken, "passport ba miss? dito ang pila" (sabay turo sa isang pagkahaba-habang pila papasok ng DFA. "May application form ka na ba? Wag kang matakot, hindi ako fixer." (Sabay pakita saken nun pagkalaki-laking ID na nakasabit sa leeg nya). Mukha namang totoo, at may ilan ding iba pa na may ganun, kaya kinausap ko na rin, sabi ko meron na po, nasulatan na at kumpleto na ko ng requirements. "Patingin nga, naku, mali itong ID mo, kailangan merong allowance sa itaas, mapuputol ang ulo mo nito pag ikinabit na sa passport " (sabay explain na blahblah, natulala na ko, mali-mali ako medyo pag umaga eh, antok pa kasi).

Kapani-paniwala naman un explanasyon nya, saka naisip ko un nakasulat sa requirements, may specified size ng mukha nga naman na nabanggit dun, naku naman oh, bakit kasi nakalimutan kong sukatin. Kasi naman sa studio na ko nagpakuha ng litrato, akala ko naman alam na nila ginagawa nila. Kaya ayun, nagpahila ako sa ale at sinamahan nya ako sa isang pa-litratuhan dun.

Grabe, sa dami ng tao, kung mali-mali ka, at magpapa-niwala ka sa mga basta na lang lalapit sa'yo, naku! Naniniwala pa naman ako kay ate (though with a mental note to be on guard), kaya sumama lang ako sa kanya, at nagpakuha na ko ng litrato, bago nya ko iwanan dun, sabi nya, "O, hintayin mo lang yan litrato mo, tapos bumalik ka na agad dun sa pila sa harapan, wala kang ibang pupuntahan ha, dun lang sa pinanggalingan natin".

Habang hinihintay ko ang 2minutes, marami talagang tao, dun, mamangha ka kung paano napagkakasya ng mga taong un ang mga sarili nila sa ganun kalalaking space; so ayun nga, may mga lumalapit saken, mukhang aplikante (kuno) "nakapunta ka na ba dun sa gate2? kailangan mo muna pumunta dun, kukuha ng number, kakagaling ko nga lang dun eh, pumunta ka na muna dun habang hinihintay mo yung ID mo." Ako naman si mali-mali, "ha? Ano po?" (Habang iniisip paulit ulit sa utak ko na sabi ni aleng may DFA ID, wala daw ako ibang pupuntahan kungdi yung pilang tinuro nya). So hindi ko sila pinapansin,,

May mga dalawa o tatlo (o higit pa ata) na ganun yung sinasabi saken, pumunta daw sa gate2 at kumuha muna ng number, hanggang sa na-curious ako, "ano po? saan po ba yun?" Yung tinuro nilang direksyon, papalayo sa entrance nun DFA, opposite nung pilang itinuro ni aleng may DFA ID saken. Labo naman ata nun diba, sira ulo ba mga taga-DFA na gagawa ng ganung sistema na malayo un pagkukunan ng number dun sa pila papasok ng compound. (Pero nun mga oras na un, aaminin ko nalilito na ko, di ko pa naiisip yang mga kakasabi ko lang na rationalization).

Nang sa wakas ay nakuha ko na yung IDpic ko, nagkataon, merong isang kasabay ko "kuno" na nagclaim din nun ID niya, tapos (effective un get-up, normal clothes to the effect na iisipin mong mas (for the lack of a better word) tatanga-tanga sila sayo ,, promise di ko maalala pano nya sinabi un mga sinabi nya, basta un bottomline na pumasok sa utak ko is nag-aapply din sya (syempre) tapos pupunta sya dun sa "next step" which is dun sa gate 2 daw, tapos sabay na daw kme kasi dun din naman sya papunta) hindi ko alam kung na-curious lang ako or talagang naniniwala na ko sa kanya, so si ako naman, sumama sa kanya (though on guard naman ako) habang naglalakad (nun tumawid na kme ng kalsada, alam ko na for sure na niloloko na lang nya ko) iniisip ko na kung paano sya tatakasan, masyado kasi ata ako mabait, di ko alam paano sabihin sa kanya na hindi na ako naniniwala sa kanya at hahanapin ko na lang ulit si aleng may DFA ID.

Pero mas nangibabaw ata yung curiosity ko, gusto ko malaman how they work. Kaya ayun, sama ako sa kanya, habang naglalakad:
guy: Bago ka lang bang kukuha ng passport?
waz: Opo. (One word answers are always the best ;)) )
guy: Ako mag-rerenew na lang eh, hindi ko man lang nga nagamit tong dati ko, sana naman ngayon magamit ko na. Nanggaling na ko dito kahapon eh, na-reject lang yung ID ko, kaya eto balik ako ngayon.
waz: Aaah.
guy: Aalis ka ba, san ka pupunta?
waz: Japan po. (hindi ko din alam bakit sinagot ko ng tama un tanong na yun)
guy: Aaaah, sa electronics ka ba nagta-trabaho. Ako din eh, sa Taiwan naman ako nag-aaply.
........<blahblah> (and daldal nya promise)........
guy: Bago na pala yung passport natin ngayon, computerized na, <blahblah> 750 daw yung bayad,, Nagtanong ka ba sa loob?
waz: Hindi po. (Pero nag-research na ko sa internet, forums, at kinulit ko buong araw the day before yung admin asst namen,, hehe,, Pero syempre 'di ko sinabi 'yun.)
guy: Nagtanong na kasi ako (Balik sa pag-eexplain ng kung anu-ano tungkol sa passport). May quota sila eh, 2000 lang daw bawat araw, abot pa kaya tayo, sana naman umabot tayo. Matatapos na sana ako kahapon eh, na-reject lang talaga yung ID ko... <blahblah> Pero pala, pag kukunin mo na un passport, magbabayad ka pa ng 900, para sa pag-computerize. <blahblah> Pero kungsabagay, 1600 lahat lahat, ayos na yun, maganda naman na yung passport eh. Computerized na. <blahblah> (Nung sinabi nya yung 900 at 1600, totally, di na ko nakikinig, saka kung bibilangin ko kung ilang beses niya sinabi yung computerized, naku!)

Anyways, nagpatuloy kami sa paglalakad, at grabe, ang layo niya sa mismong DFA, sinumang maniniwala na part pa rin ng DFA yung pupuntahan namen, ewan, ayaw ko na lang magsalita,, At yun na nga, eventually, nun nakita ko na travel agency yun pinasukan nya, tumigil na ko dun sa pinto. Tapos para mas maging effective ata sya, sabi pa nya dun sa lalaki na nakaupo sa lamesa malapit sa pinto, "abot pa po ba ako sa quota? eto na po. May kasama pa po ako oh, abot pa po ba kami..."
Sabay tawag saken at hingi ng documents ko. Ako naman, it's now or never na, "aaah, teka lang po, may nakalimutan pa po pala ako, babalikan ko lang sa kasama ko." [Haha, ang lame nun reason ko! Pero dapat gets naman na nila yun na bistado na kasi sila kaya tinakasan ko na sila. =))]

Pag balik ko sa area papunta dun sa pila papasok DFA (yung block ng DFA compound), meron pang ilang mga manong na naglalakad-lakad na may suot-suot ding ID, "passport po? oh, dun lang po ang pila sa may entrance, wag po tayo sasama kung kani-kanino. Marami dyan, magpapanggap na aplikante. Samen lang po kayo makikinig." Alam kong sinasabi niya yun sa lahat dahil nagsasalita talaga ata sya ng ganun, habang nagro-ronda sya pero feeling ko pinapatamaan nya ko. :)) haha,,

Me and my curious weird mind,, tsk tsk,, I think I wasted a good thirty minutes just because of that. Oh well, the good part is, it eventually occured that those 30minutes was really of no use to me that day since I went back the next (early) morning. At least I had something to charge to experience. =D
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we're gonna fly across the sky

2008-02-20T23:08:00.005+08:00

IM status: . <wala>.
lss: . charlie rich - you and i .

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gaya ng sabi sa taas, eto lss ko ngayon,,
kasalanan ng 'maging sino ka man',,
palibhasa lagi ko nang naabutan na mapanood eh,,
demn,, i can't get it out of my head,,

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my government-office misadventures

2008-02-17T13:04:00.008+08:00

IM status: . yub gat tu bi kiddin me .
lss: . that's why you go away (by mltr) <-- tugtog sa radyo sa taxi on the way to carriedo .

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i don't really know how i would start this blog, maybe copy-pasting my "status report and LessonsLearned" email to my boss would do the trick. so here it goes,,,

Hello <Boss' Name>,

Just a formal status report of my OB trips for yesterday (02/13) and today (02/14).
* I think this may also serve as instructional material for other people wanting to apply for new/renewal of passports.

Feb 13, 2008
DFA: Arrived at 8am, by this time, cut-off for the day was already reached. Not knowing what would happen if I got off the line, I just went through to line-up to set an appointment. I was serviced at around 11:30am, and by then, the schedule they gave me is on Feb 21, 2-3pm.

SSS: (ID card application) From DFA, I walked to SSS Pasay Office, around 2blocks, across the street from DFA.
I lined up at SSS (for 2 hours) to have my application form verified. After which, they instructed me to go back early the next day since they only have a "100 applicants" quota per day, wherein as early as 8-9am, the quota is already reached.

NBI: From SSS, I took a cab to NBI Clearance Center in Carriedo. After around 30mins there, at the last step, they instructed me to go back on Feb 19 to get my clearance. They said they can't release it yet because I have a "HIT", I told them that it is because I am a DOST Scholar and was about to give them my clearance from DOST, but they told me that even so, I still have to wait until Feb 19 before I can get my clearance. According to the person I made 'kulit', they still have to verify the reason for the "HIT" nevertheless. I would just have to give my DOST clearance on Feb 19 after they have verified that the "HIT" is only because of DOST.

Feb 14, 2008
DFA: Because Feb 21 is very far far away, I decided to go back to DFA early this morning to maybe try my luck to be able to be included in the daily morning quota. I arrived at DFA by 5am, and even if it was atill that early, there was already a very very long line inside DFA and the number I got was already 3,633. Luckily enough, this was still within their quota, so by 10am, I have already finished the application process. I am to claim my passport on Feb 26, 1-4pm.
** I asked a few people as to what is the daily quota:
-- According to the people outside (fixers I presume), it's 2,000.
-- According to the security personnel manning the lines, it's 3,000.
-- But since my number was well over 3,000 and there were still a number of people behind me which they allowed inside, I am estimating it to be around 5,000.
-- Or I think, whatever number of people will be able to fit the lined-up chairs in the basketball court which serves as their holding area before the actual processing starts at around 730am. This is because I noticed that when the maximum seating capacity was reached, that was the time that they stopped letting people in, and started giving out schedule dates to those who were not able to be accommodated in the seating area.
** One thing I noticed about the schedules they were giving, at first they would give out schedules for the next day, AM time. Then, after they exhausted however many stubs that is, they would give out schedules for PM times, but the date would be for the following week already.

SSS: I tried to go back to SSS today after I finished at DFA, but they told me that the quota was reached already (this was around 10am), so I would just have to go back tomorrow or some other day as long as it's as early as possible in the morning so that I may be included in the daily quota.
** I plan to go back to SSS on Feb 19 instead so that I would process it the same day as my NBI clearance.

Additional information:
* I tried extracting as much information as I can from the people at DFA who are with me at the lines and some of the security guards. I gathered that there is also an option that instead of lining up at the DFA, we can choose to set up an appointment through phone via 2Go. I already gave the flyer to ms. admin. From what I heard, an officemate will now try this option. =)
* The process is the same for new and renewal of passports. So even if you will only be renewing your passport, if you want it to be processed on the same day, you will still have to go through that very, very long line; unless of course you just choose to set-up an appointment.
* If the appointment option is made, the looooong line option is skipped already.

so anyways, after mailing that to my all my bosses and the admin person, then putting my office-friends in BCC,,,
here are a few of the responses that i got:

moony : nabasa ko philippine bureaucracy misadventures mo ;))
wazblur : hehe :D
wazblur : ayus ba?
moony : hahahaha
moony : ganun na ba kahirap ngayon kumuha ng passport? o.o grabe...
wazblur : ibblog ko din yan,, pero ilalagay ko un mga ommitted parts,, masyado kasing mahaba kapag un buong storya email ko eh :))
wazblur : oo, sobra
wazblur : pero un nga, pwede ka naman pa-reschedule
moony : hehe... grabe... 5 am dapat nagpa-fixer ka or something
moony : mas madali pa malamang
wazblur : ayoko nga gastos,, hindi naman irerefund ng company un
moony : ahh... good point... kaso 5 am... pwede na un dapat hehe

mr.websuff: nabasa ko yung mail mo
mr.websuff: hassle naman sa pinas
wazblur: :))
mr.websuff: when i had my passport renewed last year, wait... two years ago, di naman ganun kahaba yung pila
mr.websuff: i still remember the basketball court ( buti nalang may ipod na ako nun )
wazblur: :))
wazblur: sa hapon ata d na ganun kahaba pila
mr.websuff: tapos i was done in a day, and pinabalik nalang ako for um.. getting it nalang
wazblur: eh, pero pinapa-rush saken ngayon ;))
mr.websuff: actually yeah :)) hapon ako dumating.. i mean, bakit/kelan ba ako nagising ng maaga?
wazblur: sabi nila dahil daw machine-readable na un passport,,, kaya mas matagal
mr.websuff: pupunta ka ng japan? pano ka napa-oo?
wazblur: haha,, d p b kita nakkwentuhan? :-/

mi_anima: grabe naman adbentyur mo
wazblur: :))
mi_anima: ;))
mi_anima: aalis ka ba kapatid?
mi_anima: bakit ka nag aapply ?
wazblur: not anymore B-)
wazblur: hehehe :)
mi_anima: kelan ba dapat?
mi_anima: ang lipad?
wazblur: ay d ko pa rin ba nakkwento sayo un? hehe,, silly me :))
mi_anima: yep di ko po alam ;))

So, dahil, marami pa pala ako hindi nakkwentuhan,, eto na nga. ... My current project is about to finish, so they will be pulling people out from it then placing them to a new one. It's acutally a new scope for our development team, so it'll be quite a challenge. As it is with our company when a new project begins, there's often a need to send people to Japan onsite, to acquire the technology before formally starting the project offshore here in RP. Thus the said opportunity...

Kakatawa rin, na-realize ko ganun na pala ako ka-notorious, kasi karamihan ng tanong saken, kung paano daw ako napa-oo.. After more than 3 years of being in the company, and numerous OB and assignment offers to Japan (to the point that they seemed it pointless to ask me anymore), ngayon lang ako napa-oo.. When my manager asked me, he even said, oh ayan ha, "2 weeks na lang yan." Haha! Sa totoo lang, hanggang ngayon iniisip ko rin kung paano ako napa-oo. Maybe mostly because at the time, i can't point to an alternative candidate. Besides, it was only for two weeks and the travel dates was still within the middle of the sem, why not diba?

Even my manager was quite surprised that I finally said yes. :)) I tell you, his face when I said yes? ... priceless. :D All he could say at first was that he was "ureshii".

But as it turns out, apparently, it wasn't as easy as saying yes. You see, because of my resolve never to go to abroad unless i've already finished my DOST service bond,, until now, i don't have a passport yet. ;)) Thus, the adventure begins.

after saying yes...

wazblur: pero wala pa po ako passport (it was feb4 then, and the target travel date is feb18)
manager: okay lang yan, alam na ni <admin person> kung paano gagawin, she'll guide you
wazblur: okay po, basta hindi din po ako nihongo capable ha
manager: sasama ako, for one week, nandun ako, I'll support

at ms. admin's desk; manager was talking to ms. admin, I approached them..

manager (to me): matagal daw pala ang passport, 7 days,, pero ok pa un,,
wazblur: meron pa po pala isa pa, DOST scholar po ako
ms. admin: naku, mas matagal pa po kung ganun, kasi hihingi pa tayo ng clearance from DOST
wazblur: kailangan po un bago ako makapag-apply ng passport tama po? [doing quick math, 2-3 days for DOST clearance, 7 days passport processing, 5 days visa application .... hindi aabot un =))]
manager (crestfallen): okay. sige, basta i-try pa rin natin

long story short, I eventually got my DOST temporary clearance last feb12. So I went to DFA last feb13 and the rest was the story above...

such occurences will not really allow me to leave by feb18, but there's another opportunity, there's a March 3 OB trip schedule also. My manager tentatively signed me up for this, but here's the catch, he did not formally consult me with it. Sure he mentioned it to the whole dev in one of the morning meetings, and he mentioned it to my future teammates (for that new project), but he didn't really talk to me about it. I made a note at the back of my mind to confirm it with him.

After my ob trip last feb13, I finally decided to talk to him about it. You see, I agreed before because the dates are still within the "middle" of the semester, so to speak. But if the travel date will be on March, it actually is a different story. This is because March is the last month of the semester, so my workload in school will be definitely be heavier. Also, we're expecting a big programming problem set to be given to us as the final requirement in one of my classes. Such requires me constant access to a dual-core machine, which I don't think I can have or will be able to do in Japan.

again, long story short, he asked me if straight out if I want to go on 3/3, I asked for how long, he said 1 month, I told them I can't answer yet because I still need to talk to my professor, as that will cover the rest of the semester, not to mention my finals. But apparently, they can't wait till after this weekend, so the next day, last feb 14 afternoon, after finally passing my passport application,, my current project lead talked to me. Bottom line is the company really needs someone to be in Japan by 3/3, so they asked me if I will be available by 3/3. I told him, I'm not really sure, but if you really need an answer now, as in right now, the answer is NO. Making me choose between school and work is not a very hard thing for me to do, the choice will always be clear. school comes first. =D yep, I'm really serious about getting my masters degree by 2009.
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[wazdex] CSS3 "selection" pseudo-element

2008-02-07T22:29:00.001+08:00

school status: . delayed
work mood: . just finished kengen testing, coolness

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got this from one of my feed subscriptions...

a hack utilizing the CSS3 "selection" pseudo-element. Each portion of letters in the HTML receives its own class, like <span class='color-51'>foo</span>

if you're using Safari or Firefox, go to this link and try to select/highlight the text. cool eh? =D

still interested? here's a link to the author's blog about it wherein he also points to a tool that can be used to create your own, and to the source.
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of escalators and long lines at the terminal

2008-01-30T21:21:00.000+08:00

IM status: . offline .
mood: . cherishing the days, until.... .

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to quote my text to a few officemates on the way home this evening:
"I've never been so happy to see na may pila sa sakayan. at naabutan kong nakabukas yung mga escalators sa underpass. ;)"

yep, for the first time in weeks (or is it months already?) naabutan kong may pila sa sakayan ng shuttle, recently kasi taxi or puro last trip (around 12am) na yung naabutan ko. tapos sarado na yung mismong underpass. ;)) kaya kanina, di maalis alis yung ngiti ko habang ninanamnam ang escalator sa underpass at pag-aabang ng shuttle habang ang haba haba nung pila. hehe,, wala lang,, masaya lang,, appreciating simple joys. =D
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cadavCalc

2008-01-29T23:14:00.000+08:00

Congratulations, your dead body is worth $5725!

Doesn't that make you feel great?

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$5725.00..

coolness

blog leave lifted

2008-01-26T00:18:00.000+08:00

status: .invisible
mood: .too tired to study

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yep. Tired. Im just so freakin' tired... It's just the 25th, but already, my OT applications amount to more than a hundred hours. And that may sound great as to the OT pay I'll be gettin' (though not very great coz I know the tax will just be as high and I have already spent quite a fortune due to my cab fares), it's not really very good to someone who also has a lot of studying to do. A person could only have so much lack of sleep to go by...

wanna know how I know this is not good? Just earlier this evening, I fell asleep AGAIN in my grad class. yep, I missed a whole sub-topic of the discussion, I think around 10+ slides, so by the time I got back to my senses and finally managed to wake myself, we were already wrapping up and my classmates were asking a whole bunch of questions I can't seem to remember being discussed, that's when I knew I missed not just a "few" slides.. Heck, they didn't ask about the slides during my awake time, which just further proves that I have AGAIN slept in the more important points of the lecture. And this is not the first time, mind you, last week, I did it also, around 8+ slides I think.. The following day, saturday, I also have a class, and upon going home, for some odd reason, I rode a jeepney all the while thinking that I will be going to the mall to buy something, only to realize, that heck, what am I supposed to buy anyway? By the time I realized that, I have already paid the driver, and I really didn't have the energy to ask for my money back, thus eventhough what I really wanted was to go home and sleep, I just sat there and waited till it's time to get off the jeep, went around the mall one time, buying and looking at nothing really, went out then rode a jeep to finally go home.

and now, eventhough I have a class tomorrow and I know that what I should actually be doing right now is to finish the lab exercise last saturday, I can't bring myself to do it. Thus, I decided to finally put new letters to the pages in this site.

yup, the title's right, I am lifting the blog leave I apparently underwent since the start of this sem. This is probably my worst sem (since I went back to school last year), not academically, but in regards to my mental and emotional state. This doesn't even compare to hell week during my college days. I hate the way my brain is feeling right now and I hate having this feeling. Feeling oh so tired.

it wasn't my intention not to blog this past few months, I have loads of stories to tell, how I went to bacolod on the last day of school for first sem, then just after two weeks went to cebu-bohol after I enrolled that same morning for the second sem. What a nice way to start and end the sembreak right? But no, I had no time, because that was also the time I got deployed to this current of project of ours, and since then, I don't know where all the time in the world went. Working from 730 in the morning to around 11 in the evening or even 12am (my latest recently is 1am) is terribly insane and dangerously bad for the brain and the body. So eventhough I may have wanted to share how last christmas was quite fun cause I got to spend it in baguio with my aunts and cousins (my last baguio xmas was probably when I was still a toddler), I simply just didn't have the time to blog.

oh well, blog leave lifted, we'll see how the next days will go by. I don't know yet when will be the next adventure, as it is obvious by now, I don't think I have the time yet.

which reminds me, I must really get on with that lab exercise I must finish for tomorrow morning (or is it later this morning already? :D).

seriously, coding again in C/C++ wasn't a breeze as I thought it would be. kinakalawang na ata stored knowledge ko sa C++. Last week, when the problem specs was given, I just stared at my code editor. I can't even remember how to initialize and pass arrays to functions. That, added to the fact that I haven't studied the TBB library we were supposed to be using, is really not how one should behave in one's grad class.

ja, back to the world of vc++ and parallel_for and pipelining

p.s.
this is what i read that got me to writing again: .. read on..

January 25, 2008
Gathering Our Straying Thoughts
Centering Ourselves When our thoughts are scattered in several directions at once and we are no longer conscious of what we are doing or why, it is time to center ourselves. When we center ourselves, we begin by acknowledging that we have become spread too thin and we are no longer unified inside. Our thoughts might be out of sync with our feelings, and our actions may be out of sync with both. The main signs that we need to center ourselves are scattered thoughts and a feeling of disconnection or numbness, as if we are no longer able to take anything in. In addition, we may feel unfocused and not present in our bodies. Centering ourselves is a way of coming to terms with all the different energies within us and drawing them back into ourselves.
read more...

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[wazdex]

2007-11-03T12:22:00.000+08:00

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Hey, Look Who's Now The 5th Biggest Company in the US
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[wazdex] eye-fi

2007-11-03T11:00:00.000+08:00

school status: . sembreak
work mood: . long weekend holiday

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Free your memories
… quickly, easily, and wirelessly!

a wireless memory card? cooool....
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updated lakbayan map

2007-11-01T16:28:00.000+08:00

remember my old post showing my lakbayan map?
hehe, here's the update after the bacolod-iloilo trip of asstrall last-last-week,,
oh well,, it's still letter c...
saan kaya next stop ko,, hmmm,, :D

My Lakbayan grade is C!

How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan!

Created by Eugene Villar.

Friends to the end

2007-10-26T22:39:00.000+08:00

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Last friday, oct 19, i was at bacolod for my college barkada's weekend getaway. We went around the city to check out the masskara stores along the streets (something like session road in bloom (panagbenga - baguio city), only instead of flowers, you see masskaras).

But that's not my story....

After lunchtime, while watching the charter day parade from a donut shop (we were resting after roaming around the city), i received a text message from one of my officemate-friends that was on maternity leave. She told me there was an explosion at glorietta, a mall near our office. I told her i wouldn't know because i was far far away. According to her message, it might possibly be due to lpg explosion or a bomb. okay... Of course that bothered me, but i treated it as just a simple information, i was on vacation after all. In reply I asked her details about the news. So she gave me what details she watched from the news. My aunts from baguio also texted me to ask if I was ok, they know that I frequent that area. I assured them I was fine and I was miles away from the incident. In turn, i texted my brother, who also works at Makati, and made sure he was safe. And that was that. For the rest of the day, I just enjoyed my bacolod experience.

When we arrived home that night, we were just in time for the news. It was then that we learned of details of the incident. Most of us work at Makati, so we were pretty much bothered. It happened around lunch time and we would sometimes go there for lunch. For all we know, it could have been one of us.

I woke up early the next morning with a text message (from the same friend who texted me the day before) saying that three of our former officemates were part of the casualties of the incident. I quickly replied to the text message by asking what exactly she meant by casualty. And then the message, Onin was confirmed dead, Mau is missing, and JeeAnn was with them but there was no news about her. I couldn't believe my eyes, and my mind can't quite comprehend what I just read. I was thinking, maybe i was just dreaming. But i looked at my phone again and the message was still there.

My immediate thought was to ask/inform my friends whom were closer to the three mentioned than I am. Maybe they can better confirm the news. Both were shocked and went on to find truth to the information. Then, I left it at that, I was with friends and promised to have fun and we had a lot of things to do for the day, which includes trekking a rainforest.

Being on vacation and miles away really make a difference as to how one gets affected of such news. And the fact that I was not very close to them may have eased the burden of worrying and being saddened. Though I do know at the back of my mind, there was something.....

We arrived at bacolod late again that saturday night, we ate out, and while eating, I saw the newscast of the blast, and there they were, onin, mau and jeeann were being featured. And still, I couldn't quite believe it, more so that the newcast told of their story. I didn't know those stuff about them. I only know them as co-members of our super-long-project before. They were part of teams that were handled by close friends, and they were good friends with my close friends, one even having a sort of "past" with one of them. We cross paths along office hallways, we smile. Si onin, makulit yan, I would always hear him teasing or making jokes. I know they're good people,,, happy people. But i never knew them personally.

I did bug fixes for their codes, that was my job on the team for that project. I know for my more than a year and half service to that team, I have touched their codes more than once. And for my part, superficial as it seems, maybe that's the most intimate way that I know them, reading their codes, bug fixing for their codes. I know how they code. It may sound petty but I guess fellow programmers would understand what I mean by that.

Being out of town limited me from watching the news. But when I got back to manila, that's when it sank in. They were all over the news, most newscasts wouldn't end without doing a story or tidbit on them. Newspapers had their pictures on the frontpage.

Glorietta blast: 3 friends together in life, death (inquirer article)
Her life was not even starting yet, says pa (inquirer article)
3 friends out to celebrate birthday die in Glorietta blast (GMA newscast)

I remember another article I read (also about this incident), it was somehow saying (to me at least) that as we listen to this sort of news, there is oftentimes a barrier, the television, the newspaper, my age, or the simple fact that I don't recognize the names flashed in front of me,,,

that necessary varnish of indifference, of philosophical acceptance that allows us to wake up in the morning and go plodding off to work—if we bleed for every man, woman and child who died violently or disappeared in the last few years, we’ll have nothing left.

But this one really hits home. A friend (also from our office) mentioned, there were 11 who died that day, 11 people... and 3 of them, we know... 3 out of 11.

There were 11 who died that day. And we know that each of them has a story. Each of them had hopes and dreams. And now, in the blink of an eye, it's all gone. All that's left are families in grief. ..... I don't even know how to continue that line of thought.

Hearing this story, for sure, makes one have that mixed feeling of sadness and panghihinayang,, and then you process the information, then you would feel fear, and then relief,,, knowing how it could simply have been you.

, , , , , , , , , ,

to onin, mau, jeeann, ,,,, I may not have known you that well. But I delight in the pleasure of having known three good people, 'three good friends' ,,, such as you guys. Be happy wherever you are. May your souls rest in perfect peace with God and his angels. And I pray that God grants your families strength and comfort, knowing that you are now in a better place, still together, chatting the day away and having fun, as friends do. =D

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[wazblurs] We all make choices. What's yours?

2007-10-14T14:16:00.000+08:00

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a few quotes from a movie i just watched,,, wala lang,,,

Kim: Having a crisis are we?
Michael: Do I look like I'm having a crisis?
Kim: Everyone I know is having a crisis. I know you're not supposed to get them until midlife but I think something's happening to our metabolism
Michael: Our metabolism?
Kim: [nods] Yeah, I mean the world is moving so fast now, we are all chasing something so fast that we start freaking out long before our parents did. Feel my heart.
[puts his hand in her chest]
Kim: Feel how fast it is?
Michael: ...that's a fast heart.
Kim: ‘Cause we don't ever stop to breathe anymore...
[takes his hand off her chest]
Kim: You gotta remember to breathe or you'll die.

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Stephen: Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It means nothing. It still doesn't mean anything. What you feel only matters to you. It's what you do to the people you say you love, that's what matters. It's the only thing that counts.

- from the last kiss (2006)
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talking only me and you

2007-10-08T22:19:00.000+08:00

IM status: . [offline].
lss: .Young Folks .

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so it was premiere week (in US) a couple of weeks ago,,
and finally, after the uber-hell-weeks i had (see previous posts), I had time to watch the premiere episodes of gossip girl, dirty sexy money, big shots and the second episode of journeyman,, all are new shows, so while watching, i had this weird feeling because i keep hearing the same tune,, (thus my lss) ,,, i was already hearing the song because it is part of greys_anatomy's vol3 ost, so when i heard it in the new shows i was watching, i was weirded-out,, hehe,, but it was a happy tune, so it was a smiley-weird feeling,, :D

after a bit of research (read as googling), I found out that a lot of shows and stuff were also using the same tune. read here

Peter Bjorn and John (Feat. Victoria Bergsman) - Young Folks

if i told you things i did before
told you how i used to be
would you go along with someone like me
if you knew my story word for word
had all of my history
would you go along with someone like me

i did before and had my share
it didn't lead nowhere
i would go along with someone like you
it doesn't matter what you did
who you were hanging with
we could stick around and see this night through

and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about their own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care 'bout is talking
talking only me and you

usually when things has gone this far
people tend to disappear
no-one will surprise me unless you do

i can tell there's something goin' on
hours seems to disappear
everyone is leaving i'm still with you

it doesn't matter what we do
where we are going to
we can stick around and see this night through

and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about their own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care 'bout is talking
talking only me and you

and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about their own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care 'bout is talking
talking only me and you
talking only me and you

talking only me and you
talking only me and you
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what's in my alternames? :D

2007-10-07T22:40:00.000+08:00

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[follow-up to previous post,,,]

wazir
You have great self-confidence and a charming personality which attracts many friends and admirers. Your innate sense of personal power and ability to lead are ideally suited to positions of authority. Being so versatile and seeing the big picture your ambitions are high and much is usually expected of you. With patience and tenacity you will certainly fulfill the great potential you have for success.

wazblur
Energetic and courageous you stand up for your beliefs and for what you desire. You are independent, strong willed and fiercely competitive when needed although your ambition is tempered with patience. You maintain a positive attitude and with a more organised or practical approach to life material success is very likely. Your immensely loving and generous nature brings joy into peoples lives and ensures your happiness.
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what's in a name?

2007-10-06T23:55:00.000+08:00

jamie lapuz vargas

Good fortune seems to smile on you with worldly success and emotional contentment coming to you in abundance. This is not luck but a result of applying your intelligence, will and organised approach to productive purposes. You are a natural leader accepting positions of authority with wisdom and sensitivity. With your inspiring character and generosity to others you attract many friends.

jamie

Supplanter "Hebrew"

Balanced and fairminded you possess the ability to use sound reason and judgement when determined and decisive action is required. Persuasive and logical you tend to be an influential figure in your circle of friends and associates. You are extremely adaptable and this is necessary as you seem to be continually being presented with decisions of a life altering nature.

lapuz

You are an inspiring leader whose originality, creativity and wisdom are applied to creating practical solutions to "unsolvable" problems. Humanitarian and idealistic your vision is to make the world a better place and you will work to this end. Hardworking and tenacious people admire you for your honesty and integrity. You are a loved and loyal friend and partner. Your have the potential to achieve enormous success in the world.

vargas

Extremely intelligent in thought and deed you are gifted at communication and finding practical applications for your ideas. You are strong willed and ambitious and need to have passion, freedom and adventure in your life. Always willing to help others your warm, honest and loyal nature ensures that you are loved by all. It is likely that you will achieve a great deal of success and recognition in life.

green stuff i believe in or at least think is true,,, others, dunno, :D
got this from here

happy 25th carebears!

2007-09-30T16:27:00.000+08:00

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for those of us that grew up watching them,,, =D

http://www.care-bears.com/25th/
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[wazdex] Filipino or Pilipino or Tagalog?

2007-09-30T16:19:00.001+08:00

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What is our national language?
The 1973 Constitution, through Article XV, Section 3, made a distinction between “Pilipino,” which together with English was made an “official language,” and “Filipino,” which was envisioned as the “common national language.”
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“Filipino,” was seen by the 1973 Constitution as a language yet to be developed. Consisting of a fusion of the various existing Philippine languages, it was envisioned as the “common national language.” It was hoped that it would be symbolic of the Filipino nation and expressive of the Filipino soul. It was also expected to become the official medium of communication.
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If that is a sampling of the language which embodies the Filipino soul, it makes you wonder what the Filipino soul looks like!

be enlightened? or be confused?
read the full text here
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[wazdex] where experience counts

2007-09-30T15:13:00.001+08:00

school status: . last 3 weeks
work mood: .breathing time

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IT professionals in the Philippines may be the lowest paid and least certified, but those with the right amount of talent are still in hot demand.

for the full text, click here
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yu know, ders samting els da matter

2007-09-27T21:25:00.000+08:00

IM status: . if we all do a little, we can do a lot. .
lss: . .

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finally! a time to breathe. whew!

after weeks of uber OT, then almost no sleep at night due to school stuff, i have a few days to rest. then it would be hell weeks again at school. three more weeks till the end of semester. :D

i had this extraordinary experience going home this afternoon.
kuwento muna.

gaya nga ng nabanggit na, halos mahigit dalawang linggo din na critical yung status ng project sa office. working lunch, uwi ng halos 10pm, saberday OT, at every-other-30mins-phone-call plus twice-a-day telecon sa JP team. hindi nga ko nakapasok sa skul nung nakaraang linggo dahil sa sobrang trabaho sa office. grabe diba,, kakapagod,, e bukod pa dun, dami ko rin dapat gawin para sa grad school naman, project, paper, take home exam, etc etc. kaya pagdating ko sa bahay ng mga 1130pm, kailangan ko pang magpuyat para naman sa mga gawaing pang-eskwela.

eniweys, eniweys, kahapon, medyo bumuti buti na ang lagay sa office, kaya nakapasok na ko sa skul kagabi! yey :D

tapos ngayong araw na ito yung deadline ng take home exam ko sa isang subject sa skul. at dahil sa uber busy sa office, sobrang hindi ko nabigyan ng oras yung paggawa ng program para dun sa exam. kaasar pa kagabi kasi yung "monster" ng project namen sa office --> segmentation fault <-- nakita ko rin kagabi nung ginagawa ko yung program para dun sa exam,, hehe

kaninang umaga, kahit na halos hindi na ko natulog, hindi ko pa rin natapos yung program, ayaw ko sana pumasok sa office para matapos ko yung exam. pero hindi pwede, maaga ako umalis kahapon eh, tapos kailangan icheck din kung ayos lang ba yung mga naiwan ko. saka inisip ko, baka naman makagawa pa rin ako ng skul stuff sa office (sana).

pero hindi ako makagawa sa office, being the OC that i am, kapag nakikita ko yung mga dapat gawin para sa work, nadidistract ako. kaya ayun, nagdesisyon ako na mag-half day. natagalan ng konti sa paalamanan pero napayagan din naman.

alas dos na ko nakaalis ng office, kaya kailangan magtaxi na, para masulit yun travel time (isip ng cramming strategy), para pagdating sa bahay, execute na agad. kailangan eh, 6pm yun class, ibig sabihin yun yung deadline.

on going home, matapos ako tanggihan ng dalawang taxi driver kasi "sa makati lang" daw sila (sa marikina ko gusto pumunta), ayun, astig yung nasakyan ko eventually. hindi ko sigurado kung sinsadya nya o ganon talaga sya magsalita, pero kakaaliw sya. english spokening kasi ;)) una, tinanong nya, bakit ako tinanggihan nung nauna sa kanya, sinabi ko yung sagot nun mga driver,, sabi nya,, "ow, dats bad, me i dont do dat", ...... "olrayt mam, just tell me wer to go, yor wish is yor command", ...... "no, dont tern red, stey grin" (habang nakagreen ang stoplight at medyo malayo pa sya) ...... "yu know, ders samting els da matter" ...... "yu know wat i fil, wan of dis deys, our cars will fly" (habang natra-trapic kami sa c5) ......

ayos na rin na nakauwi ako kasi nakapanood pa ko green.vs.blue na game, hehe,, yep, it's one of those days, such days when you see the messenger status-es cheering for the game. :D though i don't really care, cause i'm neither green nor blue blooded.

eniweys ulit, 6pm na, pero tinatapos ko pa yung exam (hindi ko pala nagawa yung pinapagawa sa exam, kaya nambola na lang ako, hehe,, bahala na si batman, lilima lang kme sa class, hindi naman siguro ako ibabagsak nun prof),,, male-late na ko, buti na lang hindi rin pumasok si papa kaya mahahatid nya ko, 20mins away lang naman ang UP kapag nag-shortcut. sobrang nagmamadali na ko nun, tapos sakto, nung malapit na sa skul, nag-text yun isa kaklase ko na umalis na daw yun prof (kasi mag-isa pa lang sya; apparently, hindi lang ako ang naghahapit :D), iwan na lang daw sa guard yung exam. kainis, madali madali pa ko ;))

oh wells, 1 oral report + 2 final exams to go, and the sem will be over. eventhough i didn't do good on the midterm exams for both my subjects, i'm still hoping that the grad_student-Gods are on my side ... so i'm crossing my fingers now. :D tuition fees are too expensive to go to waste. ;))

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[wazblurs] missing sleep

2007-09-16T15:15:00.000+08:00

IM status: . huggin my bed .
lss: . Mat Kearney's "Breathe In Breathe Out" (Grey's Anatomy OST vol3) .

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zach (2:40:38 PM): why u hugging ur bed?
wazblur (2:40:58 PM): na-miss ko eh

haven't had decent sleep for more than 2 weeks already,, *sigh*
anyways, no time to blog, tons and tons of work stuff plus school stuff to do, so next time na lang ang kwento,,
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OT and a baby

2007-09-09T23:22:00.000+08:00

IM status: . uploading .
lss: . [last kiss ost still on iPod loop] .

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nag-OT ako kahapon! my first saturday OT for this year and in a long time. (I'll check the database tomorrow to know that last time I worked on a saturday) ,,, *sigh* I thought I was strong enough to resist. hehe,,

left home @8am,,, arrived @the office @9:15am,,, pagdating sa office, lipat pc sa bagong kuwarto na naman (pangatlong lipat lugar ko na ata to para sa project ko ngayon),, pagkalipat ng pc, bukas, naku, wala internet,, oh may gulay, meron kaming skype conference ng 10am, yun pa man din ang dahilan ng pagpasok namen,, di ako mapakali, sabado, walang sysad,, ni-text ko yung admin namen para tanungin contact number nun sysad, wala reply, nitatawagan ko un cellphone nya, wala pa rin sagot.
punta ako dun sa table ng sysad, nagbaka-sakaling may contact number,, ayun, tamang tama, merong directory, nandun yung cellphone number at landlyn nun sysad, sinubukan ko tawagan yun landline, wala daw sya, kasama yung wife,, naku may date ata, kakahiya,, pero no choice, kailangan ko talaga ng internet,, kaya tinawagan ko na yung cellphone nya, nakapatay ata,, hmmmm,, pano na to,, after 10-20 mins of calling an unattended phone,, suko na ko, inutusan ko yung member ko na sya naman tumawag dun sa landline, nahihiya na kasi ako na ako uli tatawag,, hehe,, pinasabi ko na tanungin na ng diretso yung contact number nun sysad. tapos ayaw ibigay nun nakasagot, sila na lang daw tatawag,, tapos after ilang minutes, tumawag na si sysad, ayun, nahihiya ako, sabi nya pupunta na daw sya sa office,, hehe,, wala, no choice eh, kailangan talaga ng internet, eh malay ko ba paano ayusin yun.

by 12nn, dumating na rin yung sysad. ayus, may internet na. naku naman, nag-hang lang pala yung modem at kailangan lang i-reset. kung alam ko lang na yun lang pala kailangan gawin, e d sana hindi na nya kailangan pumunta,, hehe,,

anyways, after that, natuloy din yung webmeeting slash utp_feedback_and_review_session which lasted for almost 3 hours, pagkatapos ginawa na namen yung kailangan gawin tapos ayun, by the time we finished, malapit na mag-alas-diyes,, saktong 10pm pa nga logout namen. haaaaayy,,

from the office, dumaan pa ko sa saydlyn, stayed there for 2hours then took a cab home. went to sleep then woke up at 1130am.. para sa most exciting na part ng weekend ko. taking pictures of my newborn cousin :D

haaaaaay, marami pa ko ibang kailangan gawin for school, i have 2 programming exercises due this coming saturday, 1 midterm exam by next next thursday, and one expository paper and oral report due next next next wednesday,,, pero hindi ko nagawa kasi mas masayang magkuha ng pictures ng baby, muntikan pa ngang hindi natuloy un kasi muntikan nang hindi pa puwedeng lumabas yung tita ko sa hospital. buti na lang by the time na nakabihis na kme para habulin yung viewing time sa nursery, tumawag na tita ko para sunduin namen sila at magpahatid pauwi..

ayun, wala tuloy ako control sa photo and video coverage (If only my camera's video can capture audio, too). hehe =D

---> it's found here: eric marc's first day out

just what i needed to freshen up my stressed mind,, it's really indescribable how much a baby's presence can brighten up your day,, especially newborns :D

nakalimutan ko tuloy na marami pa ako kailangan gawin at tapusin,, haha,, those school stuff i mentioned and especially for work --> one whole batch delayed - 8 modules, i need to review 3 by tomorrow then release then tomorrow also (monday night),, bukod dun, marami pang iba, as in marami pa,, tambak tambak,, bahala na si batman
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[wazdex] Rubik's cube

2007-09-09T22:06:00.001+08:00

school status: .prog-exer in 1wk, exam in 2wks, expositorypaper in 3wks
work mood: . 8 modules delayed (1 whole batch na yun!), 3 major bugs received, nag-12hr-OT nung saberdey

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wala lang, miss ko na yung mga panahon na natututo pa lang ako nito,, haaaaay, college days,,
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Rubik's cube --> (commonly misspelled rubix, rubick's or rubics cube) is a mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the "Magic Cube" by its inventor, this puzzle was renamed "Rubik's Cube" by Ideal Toys in 1980 and also won the 1980 German "Game of the Year" (Spiel des Jahres) special award for Best Puzzle. It is said to be the world's best-selling toy, with some 300,000,000 Rubik's Cubes and imitations sold worldwide.

Rubik's Official Online site --> http://www.rubiks.com/

I learned from my friends, but I know there are a lot of ways to solve this puzzle, here are some links I found, though I haven't tried them out just yet. :D

How to solve the Rubik's Cube

How To Solve Any NxNxN Rubik's Cube

How to Solve the Rubik's Cube

the weirdest mix of emotions

2007-08-30T23:42:00.000+08:00

IM status: . The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. - Paul Fix .
lss: . reason why by rachael yamagata .

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yep,, it's past 11 and i'm blogging.
i just have to vent this out.
i'm pissed and amazed and enlightened right now.
hehe,, trust me to have the weirdest mix of emotions.

ganito kasi yan,, nandito sa pinas yun haponesang PL ng project ko ngayon (si ate).
dumating sya kaninang hapon at nandito sya hanggang sa weekend.
tapos thursday ngayon, kaya may pasok ako sa grad school.
pag may pasok sa school, kailangan makaalis ako ng office by 430pm para umabot ako sa 6pm class ko.

anong nangyari? ha! 4:45pm na nakapag-umpisa yung meeting, tapos pagkatapos ng meeting, dumating yung reviews sa deliverable na pinadala ko sa japan kaninang umaga, ayun, kailangan ko i-update saka ipadala pabalik. pagkatapos nagyaya si manager, dinner out daw kme kasama yun bisita. at syempre, dahil lead ako, ang labo naman kung hindi ako sasama,, ayun, no choice na, kung kelan naman magkklase na kme sa wakas sa grad class ko, saka pa ko nag-absent (around 3 meetings na kasi kme hindi nagcclass dahil sa bagyo). yan ang dahilan kung bakit asar ako. dahil kinailangan kong umabsent sa school. :( tapos para pa lalo ako manghinayang, nag-text yung kaklase ko (6 lang kme sa class na yun), sabi 2 topics daw yun na-cover sa lecture. haaaaay, ang sayang talaga. isama mo pa dun na 11pm na ko nakauwi. absent ka na nga sa class, late ka pa nakauwi. naku naman,,

sa kabilang banda, masaya rin naman ako, kasi ayos namang kasama si ate, tapos libre dinner naman. ang misyon sa dinner place? kailangan mapatikman sa bisita ang lechon at halo-halo. yun kasi yung ni-rekomenda sa kanya nung teammate/counterpart namen na pinoy dun sa japan. kaya ayun, sa dad's sa glorietta kame napadpad. ayos naman kasi unang punta ko dun. sayang hindi green yun stuff toy na binigay saken. pero yellowmonkey sya, hehe, naalala ko tuloy yun ex-officemate na friend ko. hehe,,, tapos astig din kasi nihongo capable yung mga nanghaharana, kaya natuwa naman din si ate, nakapag-request pa nga sya. kaya ayun, amazing. :D

lastly, enlightening experience na naman.
humabol kasi yung hapon na AVP ng company namen. at pagdating nya, ayun todo kwento ng mga experiences nya nun nagwwork pa sya as quality assurance ng thinkpads. kaya dami ko rin natutunan, sa technical aspect.

tapos ang talagang napaisip ako,,, naikwento kasi nya na one time nun nagpunta sya sa japan recently, may na-meet sya na nagwwork sa isang gaming-oriented company. tapos napag-usapan nila na nung time daw nila, ang mga bata, pag naglalaro, para makapag-enjoy, kailangan may kalaro sila (syempre), kung outdoors, ang mga laro, baseball, football, basketball, (etc,) para magawa mo yun, kailangan merong mga 10 to 20 people. at yung mga taong yun, kabilang sa isang team. or kung indoors naman, para makapag-board game, kailangan at least dalawa or tatlong tao,, ibig sabihin, bata pa lang sila, natutunan na nila (kahit indirectly) ang interpersonal skills. natutunan na nila kung paano mag-"belong" or maging part ng isang team, saka kung paano makisama. kumbaga, nandun yung opportunity to interact with other people. kahit nga daw bangko ka lang halimbawa sa team, the fact is, you experience being part of a team, kasi hindi mabubuo yung team kung wala ka.

but now, with the advent of new technologies,,,, nawawala yung opportunity na ito, kasi nga naman, hindi mo na kailangan ng ibang tao para makapag-enjoy o mapalipas ang free time mo. kung meron kang gameboy, psp o computer o kung ano mang gaming console meron dyan, ayos na, makakapaglaro ka kahit mag-isa ka lang. hindi mo na kailangan ng ka-partner sa board game or ka-team mate sa basketball. kaya ang resulta? mas hindi experienced ang mga tao sa Interpersonal skills nila, dahil wala nga naman silang means para ma-practice ito kahit sa mga simpleng sitwasyon lang.

ano, napa-isip ka rin ba? =D

pasado alas-dose na, may release pa bukas, kailangan nang matulog.

hanggang sa muli. (<-- may last statement syndrome ako dito, eto kasi yung isa sa mga pinoy phrases na natutunan at madalas banggitin ni ate,, :D)
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building an A-R-K

2007-08-28T22:49:00.000+08:00

IM status: . invisible .
lss: . snow patrol - chocolate .

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long weekend na naman nitong nakaraan, pero hindi gaya last week, hindi ako tambay sa bahay,, wala na kasing ulan,, kailangan nang magbanat ng buto,, hehe,, sabado, buong maghapon na ka-ym-voice namen ang mama at kapatid ko sa lugar nila ryan at summer at seth (alam nyo yun show na un?),, nun kinagabihan naman, kailangan dalawin ang saydlayn, pasakitin ang ulo sa pag-iisip tapos matulog dun tapos umuwi kinabukasan,, sunday ng hapon, namili kami ng pantalon at polo ni kuya (nakababatang kapatid ko). hehe,, office boy na kasi, swerte naman at sale sa mall. pagkatapos mamili, dinner na rin sa mall, sweldo weekend eh, unang sweldo din kasi ni kuya, at nagbigay na sya kanyang share sa bills, kaya may pangkain kami sa labas.. =D

anyways, ang pinaka-sulit na ginawa ko nun long weekend (sa pananaw ko) ay nanood ako ng evan almighty,, hehe,, swerte naman at malinaw ang download. =)

napaisip ako ng movie na yun,

1. how do you really change the world?
--> one Act of Random Kindness at a time
and most of the time (if not always), these acts need not be gigantic, sometimes, we don't realize that even the simplest of things we do can already mean a lot to other people (or beings; dogs, included,, hehe).

2. when you ask God for something, like patience (or even a car) for example, He can't actually give you that point-blank (sige nga, isipin mo pa'no?), rather He gives you the opportunity to be patient (or the opportunity to buy/have that car).
--> thus, my favorite quote from the movie -->

God: "Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does He give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does He give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does He give them opportunities to love each other?"

so when you think that God is failing you, think again, or better yet, look closely, maybe God is just giving you the chance to have or get exactly what you want. =)

not bad from a comedy film eh? D

naisip ko na naman tuloy yung post ko tungkol sa sponsored kid ko ,,, kailangan ko na talagang gumawa ng oras para dun.
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Everyday is a Holiday...

2007-08-19T20:37:00.000+08:00

IM status: .available.
lss: .papaya dance (the tune edu dances to in gknb).

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It's holiday tomorrow here in the Philippines, to commemorate the death anniversary of Ninoy Aquino. The actual hoilday is on August 21, but due to a new law it's tomorrow.

In the spirit of holidays, I remembered this sites I came 'round at, some time ago...

Everyday is a Holiday...
http://www.oshel.com/everyday.htm

Holidays on the Net - Daily Holidays of 2007
http://www.holidays.net/dailys.htm

The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. A contraction of holy and day, holidays originally represented special religious days. This word has evolved in general usage to mean any special day of rest (as opposed to regular days of rest such as the weekend).

When translated from/to other languages, the meanings of the word "holiday" may be conflated with these of "observance" and "celebration".
- wikipedia

everyday should be a day to celebrate, and we can make up our own holidays (just don't expect to get off from work because of it,, haha)
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of sponsorship, reaching out, and making a difference

2007-08-19T01:18:00.000+08:00

IM status: .available.
lss: .brighter than sunshine.

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like i said, i was blog-hopping saturday afternoon, and i stumbled upon an officemate's blog talking about her interest to sponsor a child for world vision. that's when the thought striked me! oh noh! i'm such a bad Ate, i just realized i haven't sent a single letter to my sponsored child yet. and her birthday has passed just this past week. oh my,, and to think that when i got her picture folder, i said to myself that i wouldn't forget her birthday because it's just 10 days after my mom's birthday.

it's almost eight months now since i signed up to sponsor a child, yep, if you're counting, it was near the end of christmastime when i signed up. *wink* i've been wanting to do so for sometime before that, a friend gave me a brochure, (i've heard about it on tv before) so i checked the net about it, filled-up the form, but don't really know how to submit it. hehe,, i'm reluctant about faxing credit card details eh,, :p so when I heard on the radio that there's a worldvision booth set up in glorietta that christmas, i passed by it on my way home and signed up. it's my christmas gift to myself. =D it was also cool that since i signed up during christmas, there's already a christmas card ready for me to write at and worldvision would send it to the kid, so technically, this is not my first letter to the child [haha, rationalizing,,;))].

but i'm such a procrastinator and it's been a long time since i actually wrote hand-written letters addressed to a particular person. i don't even write cards anymore. sheeessh, makes me realize how far ago high school was. it was during high school when i used to exchange hand-written notes and long letters to seatmates, classmates, schoolmates, and friends. i even went as far as making personalized mini-cards for close-ones during christmas,, and then i went to college and took an IT course, I was introduced to the wonders of the computer keyboard and internet and email and cyber-communities and blogs.

now that i have this task of writing to 5th grade kid, i don't know what to talk about, i don't even know how to start. sure the sponsorship kit from worldvision (wvi) gives good advice on how to communicate with your sponsored child, like not worrying about covering too much ground on the first letter (which i'm sure translates into --> a simple hi and hello, and introduction from me would do - even be more advisable), but i still can't bring myself to write. maybe that's it, i'm still thinking of it as a task, and an intimate one at that, and given the numerous other tasks i have right now, and the introvert-shy-kid that i am, i'm procrastinating and choosing to do the less personal ones.

i have to do something about that,,, and it must happen soon.

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on another note, remembering about my sponsored-kid, i looked for her picture folder and i saw the solicitation letters i have from unicef,, i have a few now, but sadly, i don't have money to spare yet,,, i'm still working for bills and school, so the charity world would have to make-do with my wvi sponsorship for the meantime,,

but the unicef mails are not because of my wvi sponsorship (so for those wishing to sponsor a child, you will not have to worry about receiving such mails, if you don't want to),, it actually started arriving after something i did two birthdays ago. i made a one-time donation to the spark-of-hope project, yep, it's those leaflets and mini-envelopes you see at starbucks, being it my birthday and all, i slipped a yellow bill into one of those mini-envelopes and put it in the dropbox. it's my birthday gift to myself. :D

on that note, i've posted the most recent letter i received, this one really hit me, and so i'm sharing,, it's the least i can do right now.
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[wazblurs] bum around day

2007-08-18T23:36:00.000+08:00

IM status: .available.
lss: .brighter than sunshine.

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it's a long weekend,, the first of two actually,, coolness.
3 days of bliss. or is it? hehe
i've been waiting for this 3-day break (and the one following it next week) ever-since i read about it from here--> Holidays economics now a law
... so much more even, when classes were suspended for three days in a row this past week. it made me think, wow, 6 days of no class for students. how i miss being a student. haaaay,, though i know it's not something to be happy about since class suspension actually means that there's something bad happening somewhere else around the metro (and on other places in the country) due to the typhoons. still, no classes means no classes for students. too bad, such suspensions don't apply when you're already working, especially when you're working in makati. (ha! dream on!)

anyways, what to do on a 3-day break? i actually had nothing in my mind. i really wanted this time to rest.

had my midterms pushed through last wednesday, i would have been happier since it means, i really would have nothing to do this weekend, be it regarding work or school. now i still have to study for it, oh well, i'll just reserve monday for that, considering that i used up my previous weekend (no-sleep) to cram-up my two problem sets for that subject just so it's included as part of my review, then i burned eyebrows on monday night to create my one-page-back-to-back-A4-sized-allowed-notes (cool right?) for the exam,, (given a choice, i would not have slept also, but i had to, so i can still stay sane and go to work)

sadly, i wasn't able to finish the notes on monday night, so i planned not to sleep on tuesday night just so I finish it (and still go to work) by wednesday 6pm. but my tuesday evening ride home was probably the longest in recent times due to the traffic brought about by the rains, so when i arrived home, i immediately lied down in bed, and next thing i knew, my cousin was already waking me up (still dressed in my office uniform) asking me if i was going to work that day! realizing that i still haven't finished my "legal kodigo" and can't remember i thing i should know for the exam, i sleepily answered no. i'll just have to call in sick then. which was partly true because i was really feeling sickly that day, and i was afraid that the rains would only make matters worse.

so anyways, having said that, you can imagine that i actually had a very stressful and sleep-free past week, so i was thinking of using my saturday and sunday to sleep and rest and sleep and bum around, and then just use monday to study. especially since i remembered i still haven't worked on the network protocol program for my network analysis class. oh noh! oh well, just another thing to do on monday. for now, rest and bum around. hehe,,

so, how was my first rest day? well, well,,,
i woke up really early, practically the same time i wake up on weekdays (so much for lazying around eh?) because of the heavy rains, and since i had no 2nd floor above my room, i could really hear the strong raindrops falling on my roof, the loud gush of water flowing in the just outside our house walls, and the loud rumblings of thunder. it was really scary. i was even afraid that there might already be floods on our street, waist-high like the floods last wednesday when i called in sick for work. fortunately when i peeked at the window, no floods yet at the time, and it did not flood-out throughout the day.

after breakfast and a few minutes of surfing the net by my bed, the rain already subsided at that time, i fell asleep, and next thing i knew it was already after lunch,, at least i got around into getting the sleep i wanted. hehe,,

after eating a late lunch, watched wowowee, then 'bring it on' on hbo, then i started blog-hopping,, and around dinner time, i was already blogging again,, hehe,, finally, i had a chance to put entries on two other blogs i started. wazdex and wazbuoy

i started these other two journals, well, mainly to organize and segregate,, i'll still have this spot to log my adventures, misadventures and musings,, but i also wanted to be able share articles or thoughts or pieces that inspire me, so i have wazbuoy,, at the same time, there are those stuff (schoolstuff, techstuff, trivia) i learn from various places that i want to share, so there's my wazdex. i wanted to segregate, mainly because i don't want to claim these pieces as my own, I only want to share. =D
let's just see how far i can keep this up. hehe,, ningas-kugon ako madalas eh ;))

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[wazdex] Turtles and Tortoises

2007-08-18T20:29:00.001+08:00

school status: .midterms postponed
work mood: .long weekend - woohoo!

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Turtles and Tortoises are closely related reptiles.

Turtles usually live in salt water and have large blade shaped flippers for swimming. They find it very hard to walk on land.

Tortoises usually live on land or in fresh water. They have legs rather than flippers and can walk quiet well on land.
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multiple-intelligences

2007-08-15T21:22:00.000+08:00

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going back to the results of the mypersonality.info tests,,
there's another test there, the multiple intelligences test

i tried to look for a similar test from tickle,
and here is my result from there,, :D

match! astig! ;))

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love vs career personalities

2007-08-15T19:02:00.000+08:00

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ha!

so like i said, i'll retake the love personality test, (see previous post) true enough, while taking the test, the questions are really relationship based.. contrary to the mypersonality.info test, in which the questions are highly general in nature.

anyways, the results are the same, it's still INTJ:

though the bars are a bit differet in position now,,,

so, I'm really a Thinking person when it comes love huh? Let's just attribute that to the fact that I haven't had a go at it then,,, maybe my inexperience on the matter is part of the reason.. maybe I'm more of Thinking right now, because I have no experience to base it with. In that case, I'll just re-take the test when I'm more qualified to do so. hehe...

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so what about the career personality test?
some questions were actually the same in nature to the love personality test but was changed in context to match the workplace... which made me actually realize that I somehow have differing ways to handle a situtation if it's about love and if it's about work. =D
then of course, there are those work-oriented questions,,,

so here are the results:

i don't have the bar breakdowns because it's not a free test.
anyways, it says INFJ, so it matches the mypersonality.info results,,
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my personality ? my love personality ?

2007-08-15T18:42:00.000+08:00

..
hindi ako pumasok sa office kanina, SL,,

also, i was supposed to be studying for my "data structures and algorithms" midterms exam that's supposed to be happening right now, but due to rains,, next week na lang daw.. hehe..

habang nag-aaral kanina, online ako, and i keep on receiving mail updates from multiply,, so, in between reading pages on my notes, nag-check din ako ng mail,, there's this personality test my multiply contacts have been taking, and needing to take a break from studying, I took the test..

here are the results:

(if you're viewing this from somewhere where blogger is blocked (like my office for example), you won't be able to see the pictures.., so, just check my personality page instead, maybe you'd like to take the test also. hehe)

ayon sa results ng test ko, ang "personality type" ko raw ay INFJ - Confidant. hmmmm,, napaisip tuloy ako, I know I took a somehow similar test sometime ago.. kaya hinalungkat ko ang tickle history ko..

true enough, I found it, but it's under a different name, it's a "love personality" test. and based on the results when I took it last year, INTJ naman ako.
see pics below.

If you'll notice the bars, magkaiba sila ng kaunti. at ang big difference ay INFJ ako dun sa test na kinuha ko kanina, at INTJ naman ako sa tickle test.

hmmmm,, o dahil ba yun sa yung INFJ na result ay "personality type" lang
at yung INTJ naman ay more on "love" "personality type"?

Feeling versus Thinking. Does that mean I am generally a Feeling person pero when it comes to love I'm a Thinking person. Or if they actually are just the same tests, maybe I've changed from being Thinking into a more Feeling person. =)

napaisip tuloy ako na mag-take ulit nun tickle test. maybe I have changed over the past year. =D we'll see.

I checked the background of both tests. And it seems to be footed on the same principles.
The http://www.mypersonality.info/ website says that the test is based on Carl Jung's theory of psychological types and the personality research of Myers-Briggs.

Then according to my results page in tickle:
The idea of four basic temperaments existed eventually became the basis of a number of late-19th- and early-20th-century behavioral theories. Some of the most significant work on the subject was done by the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl G. Jung. In 1922, he introduced four categories of mental functioning: sensing, intuition, thinking and feeling in his work Psychological Types. At the time, Jung's ideas about personality types went largely unnoticed, due to the frenzy surrounding the modern psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, and others. However, in the 1950s, however, Isabel Myers and her daughter Katherine Briggs revived Jung's ideas and re-popularized the idea of personality type testing.

And if you would look at the test page itself - http://web.tickle.com/tests/lovetype/
It says -->
The Love Personality Test
What Type of Person Are You In Love?

there, the tickle test focuses only about love...
while I'm presuming that the personality.info test is more in general.

but nevertheless, I'll still re-take the tickle test.. hehe
I also saw a career personality test with results using the Jung-Myers-Briggs principle too.
interesting...

As an added note, here's the start of my result page at tickle,
I agree with the paragraph I boxed out in the pic. read on.

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geek? nerd? dork?!

2007-07-29T05:30:00.000+08:00

..the previous blog made me think about an earlier entry here... not geek.

Joe Normal

2007-07-28T11:02:00.000+08:00

got this from steph's blog....

Joe Normal
43 % Nerd, 13% Geek, 21% Dork

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

You scored less than half in all three, earning you the title of: Joe Normal.

This is not to say that you don't have some Nerd, Geek or Dork inside of you--we all do, and you can see the percentages you have right above. This is just to say that none of those qualities stand out so much as to define you. Sure, you enjoy an episode of Star Trek now and again, and yeah, you kinda enjoyed a few classes back in the day. And, once in a while, you stumble while walking down the street even though there was nothing there to cause you to trip. But, for the most part, you look and act fairly typically, and aren't much of an outcast.

I'd say there's a fair chance someone asked you to take this test. In any event, fairly normal.

Congratulations!

If you enjoyed this test, I would love the feedback!

Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

loans and bankers

2007-07-11T21:56:00.000+08:00

IM status: .antok
lss: .makulay ang buhay ,,, sa sinabawang gulay!

..nung lunes, july 9, nag-emergency leave na lang ako from work para maasikaso ang mga dapat gawin dahil sa kagulat-gulat na pangyayari nun july 8.

kumusta ang lunes ko?
ganito, kahit d ako papasok, gumising ako ng normal na gising ko pag may work kasi pupunta parin naman ako makati. naka-uniform pa talaga ako ha, kasi ang balak ko, half-day lang ako mag-lleave, sa umaga lang. may client visit kasi that week kaya kailangan bumalik kasi marami dapat gawin.

anyways, ayun, kailangan ko pumunta ng office kasi nandun sa bin ko un ITR ko, saka dun na rin ako nag-withdraw kasi mas confident ako sa security ng ATMs dun. saka cash advance mula sa credit cards ang gagawin ko, so mas preferred ko ang high tech na ATM sa makati. =D

pagkabalik ng marikina, diretso ako sa bangko, una kong binayaran un pldt, ayus, wala pa pila kasi kakabukas lang ng bangko.

pagkabayad, dun naman ako sa new accounts area. dun kasi nagpapass ng loan application.
tiningnan nun bangkera yun mga dokumento ko, aba, kinuwestiyon yung form 2316 (ITR) ko, dapat daw may pirma yung #53 at #54... sabi ko, sigurado po kayo? sabi niya oo daw, required daw yun. binasa ko un nakasulat sa number na un,, tapos nitanong ko ulit sya, sigurado po kayo? oo daw, required daw talaga un,, mga tatlo o apat na beses ko tinanong kung sigurado siya. oo daw, talagang kailangan may pirma yun. e pirma ng acctg head namen yun hinahanap sa #53. gusto ko sabihin, eh nasa japan yun boss ko eh,, kaya ipinilit ko kung talagang kailangan pa na may pirma dun. binabasa ko yun nakasulat sa ibabaw nun blank, parang d naman applicable sa case ko. pero mapilit sya, kailangan daw talaga. bumalik na lang daw ako, hanggang july 15 pa naman yun promo.

malas, hindi na ako pwede makakatakas ulit ng office noh.
haaaaay, napabuntung hininga na lang ako at naisipan nang umuwi.

asar na asar ako nun. so pagbalik ng bahay, nag-ym ako dun sa admin rep ng department namen, sabi ko hinahapan ako sa bank ng pirma para sa #53 ng ITR.
tinanong nya yun finance rep, sabi nun finance rep namen, hindi naman daw pinipirmahan yun part na yun. sinusulatan lang yun part na yun kapag may revisions yun ITR. so kahit na i-request ko pa, hindi yun pipirmahan ng boss ko. hindi ako nakuntento sa ym, tumawag pa talaga ako para makasigurado kasi parang sigurado un bangkera kanina na kailangan yun pirma na yun. pero sabi nun finance rep, hindi daw talaga pipirmahan yun space na un.

ganun? ayun, bumalik ako ng bangko.

pagbalik ng bangko, malas, biglang humaba na yun pila, syempre, malapit na mag-tanghali. so pumila ako, dun ako pumila sa bangkerang nakausap ko nun una. gusto ko kasi sabihin sa kanya yun sinabi nun finance rep namen. at muling makipag-kulitan sa kanya na hindi kailangan yun hinihingi nya saken.

pero nun ako na yung susunod, nabakante na yun isa pang bangkerang katabi niya, nitanong na niya ano pakay ko, so binigay ko sa kanya yun application at mga dokumento ko. hinihintay kong magreklamo sya gaya nun una. pero wala, ni-check nya yun documents at ayun, sabi nya ipprocess na daw yun application at 3wks daw yun processing time. =))=)) napatawa na lang ako sa loob loob ko, at nagpasalamat sa kanya at umalis na ng bangko.

konklusyon ko? may sira yun una kong nakausap, o kaya naman inaantok pa sya,, masyado pa kasi maaga. :D hehe, buti na lang hindi ako magagaliting tao. :))

pagkatapos nun, umuwi na ulit ako. may isa pang kailangan gawin. magbayad ng meralco. hindi ko sya binayaran sa bangko, kasi for disconnection na yun kaya kailangan sa branch office magbayad, buti na lang meron malapit sa amin. umuwi muna ako kasi pagod na ko. naisip ko iuutos ko na lang sa pinsan ko or sa kapatid ko para makapasok pa ko office.

pag uwi ko, sabi nun kapitbahay namen na kakwentuhan ng pinsan ko, kakagaling lang daw nya meralco tapos sobrang haba ng pila. naku naman oh. haaaaaay, nawalan tuloy ako ng gana pumasok ng office, tanghali na kasi nun, hindi na ako aabot. nag-dahilan na lang ako. sasapukin kasi ako ng kapatid ko kapag pinagbayad ko sya tapos mahaba pila, mainipin un eh. kaya ayun, di na ko pumasok, naisip ko rin kasi hindi ko pa nagagawa yung problem set ko sa skul na dapat nun sunday ko gagawin, kaya lang ayun, hindi ko nga nagawa nun sunday, kasi nga (see previous blog entry),,. ;))

pero d muna ko pumunta ng meralco kasi mahaba daw pila eh, naisip ko gawa muna ko ng probset tapos punta na lang ako bago mag-sara yun meralco. buti na lang good mood kapatid ko nun nagising sya, pumayag na sya na lang magbayad para magawa ko na ng tuluy-tuloy yun probset ko. :D
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[wazblurs] july 8

2007-07-08T22:03:00.000+08:00

IM status: . haaaaaaaay
lss: . always look on the brght side of life *whistling*

... hindi bagay un lss ko,, inaaliw ko lang kasi sarili ko,, hehe

hindi ako dapat nagbblog ngayon eh,, dapat gumagawa ako ng problem set sa algorithms saka ng programming exercise para sa networking analysis,, parehong this week na due yun eh,, pero hindi,, hindi ako makagawa-gawa,, lumilipad un utak ko eh,, dapat kasi kanina ko gagawin ang mga yun eh,,

pero hindi, nagising ako ng sobrang aga sa isang tawag na para bang binabangungot ako dun sa sinabi nun kausap ko,, kaya kahit na dapat magkukulong ako buong araw sa bahay para mag-student mode, nopes, kailangan grown-up mode muna,, kailangan bumangon at umalis agad at harapin ang problema,, napa-taxi na nga ko ng di oras eh, dahil hindi ako naniniwala dun sa ibinalita sa akin hanggat di ko nakikita yung nangyari with my own two eyes, isa pa masyado akong tulala para mag-normal commute. mahal pa man din ng cab mula marikina hanggang makati,,

apparently, hindi panaginip ang lahat,, *sigh*

haaaay,, pero ano pa nga bang dapat gawin sa mga pagkakataon ng pagkadapa, e di sige, bangon,, go lang ng go,, bawal sumuko agad. :D

gala daw ako oh (Lakbayan beta)

2007-06-14T21:22:00.000+08:00

IM status: . Clouds don't kill people. People kill people.
lss: . makulay,, makulay ang buhay (knorr TVC jingle)

this is cool :D (C daw oh,, ewan ko lang ha,, hehe,, masa-satisfy lang siguro ako kapag marami na ko nakulayan sa visayas and mindanao areas)

My Lakbayan grade is C!

How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan!

Created by Eugene Villar.

high schooly nostalgic

2007-06-09T19:07:00.000+08:00

IM status: . tickle tummy elmo pa rin
lss: . lucky lucky me with my family kay sarap kung sama sama ,,,

... i spent the whole day with my high school classmates/friends ,, 9am hanggang 6pm ,,, o diba, parang office hours,, =D

walang hanggang kuwentuhan ng tungkol sa buhay nung high school (nostalgic ba), mga buhay buhay namin sa kasalukuyan lalo na yung mga wala,, ;)) buhay seaman (ni ton na taya sa panlilibre, hehe,,), real estate, negosyo, crime of passion (huwaat??), marriage/annulment laws (c/o our law student) at usapang berde ,, haha!

buti naman ngayon, dala ko na ang kamera ko, pero hindi din ako masyadong nagku-kuha kasi dala naman ni thad ang kanyang bagong bago pa ring kamera. =D sana lang ma-upload nya agad ang mga litrato mula sa kanya,,, ;))

ang mga kuha ko::

si joseph taking our orders :D ,,, group pic bago umalis sina guday at sephlok

golda & joseph on their way out ,,, si thad pag dating nya

stolens ,,,

group pic ng girls ,,, stolen bago umalis (kasama si julie na humabol kaya wala sa pic ng girls)

pintuan ng macky's ,,, si thad na nag-order kaagad pagdating sa kfc

pagkain ni thad (para sa kanya lang yan) ,,, ayan kumain na agad

at nag-pose pa talaga =)) ,,, ayan matapos kumain, tingin sa camera nya

stolens ulit habang nagkkwentuhan ng tungkol sa barko tapos sa batas

kaya ayan,, matapos tumambay ng pagkatagal-tagal sa macky's at sa kfc [kahit na pinagtitinginan na kami ng mga tao sa ingay at tagal namen na parang walang balak umalis (table hoarders!)] at matapos ang halos higit isang oras na pagkkwento ni lawstudent 'sko sa batas ,,, wala na,,, ;)) uwian na ,, hehe

tickle elmo's tummy

2007-06-06T22:08:00.000+08:00

IM status: . tickle tummy elmo
lss: . ,oh happy day ,,,,,

. new toy! new toy! it finally arrived,,, sawamats ading!

Tickle Me Elmo - Wikipedia
Top-secret Elmo revealed!
What Does the "Tickle Me Elmo" Craze Tell Us About Economics and the Economy?

a braders sandey

2007-06-04T21:27:00.000+08:00

IM status: . oplayn
el es es: how can somethiing so wrong feeeeel so right all along

june 03, 2007
gaya nga ng naisulat ko na nung nakaraang dalawang linggo, nagkikita kaming magkakaklase,, at dahil inggit ang barkada (tagal na naming di nagkikita ng kumpleto eh), napag usapan namen na mag-"reunion" din. haha,, potluck daw, tapos syempre ang venue, san pa ba, dito pa rin sa bahay,, [akala kasi namen marami kami =))]

reunion ba kamo, ahihihihi,,, sa huling banda, sa labing tatlo, apat lang kaming nakapunta,, asan yung siyam? ung isa, lusot, nasa vegas,, yung iba, ang daming mga rason eh, saka may mga hindi nagpaparamdam, ang hirap kontakin. pasaway

anyways, nagkwentuhan lang naman kami mula mga alas-singko hanggang alas onse. ;)) tungkol sa mga bagay na hindi pwedeng ipag-kwentu-kwento sa iba at sa kung anu-ano pa. hehe

pero syempre hindi mawawala ang photo-op. =D

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sa saberday, isang subok ulit sa class reunion,, hehe,, manlilibre daw si tonton sa bagong bukas na Macky's2 malapit samen. ;-) sana naman marami na makapunta :-D

autistic weekend

2007-05-20T11:46:00.000+08:00

IM status: . autistic weekend
lss: . ,,,,

it's so ironic that i blogged yesternight all about my previous weekend but failed to talk about my day ;)) la lang, tinamad na akong mag-type eh,, ;)) saka gusto ko nang mapanood yung finale ng greys. :D

may 19, 2007

yesterday, my status in ym was also autistic weekend, and then cheatmate asked me why so. well, it was because i spent yesterafternoon with my highschool classmates. during highschool, our class was called autistic because we had our own world. aahhhh, highschool,,,, *nostalgic*

so anyways, we agreed to meet up yesterday, mainly because we haven't seen each other (the whole class or most people in the class) for a long time, and also because one of us was back in the country for only a short period of time (she migrated to the US some years back).

the agreed time was 1pm at a fastfood a few blocks from our village, we're from the same highschool so it can be assumed that we live in the same area. that's why bailing out was kind of hard to do. :D i woke up late that day, and i was actually halfhearted into going (sorry guys, hey, i went anyways! :D), i wanted to, but i was also not very much into leaving the house that day,, well it was actually because of something i can't write out loud so to speak [let's just say, i was being a girl that day and not feeling really good ;)], but as i as about to text the organizer (that was already 1pm (the agreed time)) of a cooked up (half-truth) reason why i'm not sure if i can make it, one of my friends texted me and asked if i was going, i told her i wasn't sure and then she answered back that she's already dressed and we should go. talk about pressure,, so in turn, i texted another friend and told her we should go. she was also just at home and didn't want to leave the house. so just as i was talked into going, i talked her also into coming with us, and i asked the first friend into asking the second friend into going also. :D haha, like i said to the one who organized the meetup on our way home, the three of us was sort of a package deal, he only needs to force one of us and that person will see to it, that the other two join her. =))

so that's that, i dressed up (while constantly being texted to hurry up) and at 2pm, i was at the meeting place. after waiting some more, we proceeded to the place where the balikbayan one was staying and texted the others that we'll just wait for them there. the place was nice, i never imagined that there could be such a place in that area, goes to say, i haven't really been around town that much. the roads to the place was so cramped out that you wouldn't think that the inside was so spacious, it was a compound where i would think, the houses there are of family members,, and in the middle, there was a lot of trees, the mango fruits, she said were being exported. we stayed at the tree house at the center of the place and talked and reminisced high school memories, complete with who made whom cry, who fought with whom, our teachers, etc,, and at the same time, we got to catch up with stories about each other,,

it was a fun time altogether, being able to talk to old friends and being able to realize that we're still our oldselves 11 years after (we started highschool freshman year on 1996), even so after all the things we've experienced apart during college and now that we're working. ,,, some things really never change. *contentful sigh*

pictures? i wasn't able to take pictures because kuya brought the camera to their outing. lucky enough two of us brought cameras, so i'll just have to get it from them.

we have a lot cause one of the cameras was newly bought and was being overused so to speak,, haha! *photo op*

tatlong taon na!

2007-05-19T23:17:00.000+08:00

IM status: . sometimes...all you gotta do is turn something upside down to make it right side up - henry spencer
lss: . through the fire

ayan, ang dami kong hinahabol na blog entries ngayon,, hehe,, ratsada to!

may 17, 2007

three years,, tatlong taon na kaming magkakakilala ng batchmates ko sa trabaho.
may 17, 2004 ang first day ng action training namen noon. :D

ang bilis ng panahon,,,
parang kelan lang nang araw araw kaming nagkklase ng nihongo at kung anu ano pa,, ;))
parang kelan lang nang nag-oovernight kami mula sabado ng umaga hanggang linggo ng maagang maaga sa training room para tapusin ang jitse online,, :))

ngayon, pasaway na ang marami sa amin sa pag-attend ng nihongo,, ang daming palusot,, busy na rin kasi masyado sa trabaho,, *buntung-hininga*
kahapon, isa na naman ang mababawas sa amin mula sa kompanya,,, 21 less 5 na bukas,,, *mas malalim na buntung-hininga pa*
at kahapon pa ulit, naku,, nagulat pa ko kasi uunahan na raw ako ni ,,, ;)) di bale, masaya naman ako para sa kanya *ngiti*

ngunit, subalit, datapwat,,, mas lalo man kaming pinaghihiwa-hiwalay na ngayon ng iba't ibang kumpanya,, so what?! ahihihihi ;)) kung mga dagat nga wala kaming pakialam,,, kumpanya pa,, wala namang kinalaman yun sa pagkakaibigang nabuo na namen.

voter's day with asstrall

2007-05-19T22:44:00.000+08:00

IM status: . everything you need is right in front of you, you just have to pay attention - shawn spencer
lss: . ,,,,

ayan, so kwento naman tungkol sa hapon ko kasama ang college barkada ko...

i spent the previous weekend (my birthday / may5-6) also with my college barkada but only with those who are currently in manila. so the may 14 afternoon was my chance to spend time with those that are staying in baguio [except for julie who's working in manila and also just went up to vote (but she wasn't able attend last week, so this is also make up time); carol on the other hand was in manila the previous week so she was also able to join my bday get together]

may 14, 2007

we agreed to meet up at UP at around 2pm. i was already in sm by 1pm with my aunts so i just walked from there. it was a drizzly walk because of the rain but it was fun nonetheless because i missed walking under the baguio cloudy/rainy sky. which reminded me of the sunny walk to and fro the voting area the morning earlier. haaayy,, i really really miss baguio. *sigh*

some pics of the up baguio campus now:
the two peeps walking up the covered walk are dennis and lance; i saw them walking up so i followed them, afterwards we toured lance around since it was the first time he visited the campus again after grad,,, ;))

so after the tour, lance, dennis, and i went back to manang mane to wait for julie. when julie finally came at around 3pm (an hour after the agreed time) ;))

nang makita ni dennis si julie, sabi nya gutom na daw sya, mamaya pa naman dadating si carol, kaya nagpunta na kami ng sm kasi kakain si dennis. pagdating sa sm, nag isip isip pa kami kung san kakain ,,, kinakantyawan na namin si dennis para manlibre kasi siya yung gutom eh,, hehe,,,

napadpad tuloy kami sa:

habang namimili ng oorderin, ayaw pa rin namen tigilan si dennis sa kantyaw,, ;)) hanggang sa tumayo na sya at nag-order,,, ;)) ayan malungkot tuloy pagkatapos:

picture taking ng pagkain:

tig-iisang pizza lang ang nakain naming tatlo, hehe,, pinanindigan namen na nakikain lang kami sa pagkain ni dennis =D siya yung gutom eh =))

ang usapan, sa don hen namen hihintayin si carol, kaya lang nang sinabi ni carol na papunta na sya,,,, nagyayaya nang umalis sa don hen si dencio,,, hmmmm,,, bakit kaya :))

pagkatapos sa don hen, nagpunta kami sa ktv ng quantum,,,,:
mga kuha habang namimili ng kanta bago pumasok sa room. :)

eto naman ang mga kuha sa loob ng green room :D
ang saya, green room, hehe, sabi ko dun kami eh ;)

mula sa ktv, kape naman! naalala ko tuloy, habang hinihintay namen si julie sa manang mane earlier, sabi namen kay dennis, saan kami pwede makapag-bonding na tahimik,, sabi nya, coffee place,, aba, sabi ba naman, starbucks, o kaya, figaro, o kaya cafe picarre,, naku naku,, hindi kaya ng powers,,

kaya nang oras na para magkape, pinuntuhan namen ang studio one, mura lang kasi ang kape dun, may libreng tinapay pa! ;)
pag dating dun, hehehe,, puro hot choco naman ni-order namen,, =))

ang libreng tinapay: (astig!)

random sunset pics habang nagkkwentuhan:

pagkatapos mag-hot choco,, picture muna bago umalis,,,

haha,, hindi pa nakuntento sa kanina,, isa pang round ng kantahan ulits:

paglabas ng videoke place,,,
may nakita kaming isang stray butterfly sa isang column malapit sa veranda:

napag-tripan tuloy ang aming mga sapatos (favorite angle) at (bago to:) botanteng daliri ,,, ;)) sino yang bumoto daw ngunit nakalimutan lagyan ng indelible ink??

hindi pa kami umuwi kaagad, hihintayin pa kasi namin yung bf ni cawol. :D
kaya tumambay muna kami sa gallery display sa baba.

pagdating ng bf ni cawol, kakaaliw, nibigyan nya kaming mga girls neto:
(with a card thanking us for being a friend to carol,, awwww,,, hangswit *smile* )

so that's that, after meeting 'kuya' uly, it was already 8pm, so we went our separate ways already because i have a 10:20pm bus to catch (back to manila),,, :D
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mother's day + election weekend

2007-05-19T21:21:00.000+08:00

IM status: . autistic weekend
lss: . ,,,,,,,

okay, so this blog is long overdue. i was just so busy with work this past week. election, then upon return to office, it was the release/deadline of the current batch of our project.

anyways, i spent last weekend in baguio. i had to go up to vote because i haven't transferred my registration to marikina yet.

dapat gabi ng friday (mga 11pm or 12mn) ako aakyat kaya lang pag uwi ko ng bahay hindi pa ako nakakaayos ng gamit (although wala naman ako dadalhin) saka medyo masama pakiramdam ni papa kaya hindi niya ako mahahatid. kaya madaling araw kinabukasan (satruday) na lang daw ako umalis, naisip ko na ok lang din yun para bukas na ang red ribbon pagdating ko sa baguio kasi balak ko bilhan ng mama/mommy's day cake ang mga tita ko. bibili na agad ako kasi ayaw ko makisabay sa mga bumibili ng sunday saka hindi na ako makakatakas mula sa mga tita ko once i get home. =D

so i woke up saturday early morning and got ready, we eventually arrived at the bus terminal by 4:45am. i lined up to buy tickets, expecting i can still catch the 5am bus but was surprised to be given a 7am ticket with a last row seat :( ,,, yun na daw kasi yun next na may vacant seat. apparently maraming umuuwi sa mga probinsya. oh well, i should have expected that.

kinuha ko pa rin un 7am na tiket pero iniisip ko magcchance passenger na lang ako sa mas maagang bus, at least kung wala man, may sure seat na ako. habang naghihintay nagpunta muna ako sa 7-eleven para bumili ng makakain pero pag dating ko dun naisip ko, tambay na lang muna ako, hintayin ko na mag-7am.

here are some random pics while waiting (taken by the window):

it's been a habit of mine (when travelling alone) to take pictures of the road especially if i get the window seat. but since i was asleep the whole trip, i only got to take pictures along marcos hi-way. :::

at gaya nga ng nasabi ko na, balak kong bumili ng cake for mother's day, kaya mula sa terminal pagdating sa baguio, naglakad ako patungong sm para bumili ng cake. =D

i arrived at home around 3pm [dunno why the trip was that long coz i was asleep the whole time ;))] ,,, upon arriving at home, i rested for a while, texted asstrall peeps that i've arrived already ,, and called on the people at home to have meryenda and check out the cake already.

the next day, sunday, was mother's day. we went to church, then to sm, then home. from sm, my uncle and cousin separated from us and went to the market to buy items that mommy asked for (*wink*, on the way home, i secretly texted them to buy a rose each for my aunts.) and when they arrived they brought out the (hard-to-find) cake they bought (*grinning* glad i already bought cake earlier, nahirapan daw sila maghanap ng cake na eh *big grin*) and the boquet of flowers they also bought. =D

finally, the next day, was monday, election day.
i woke up before 7am and checked out the news right away.
when the precints opened at 7am, apparently, the people at the house were still asleep,,, there wasn't really any rush because our voting site was just above the village. we eventually went out to vote at around 9:30am. good thing i brought my voter's ID, it was hard to find our names in the lists posted outside the gym.

right after voting: eeewww :(

after i tried to lighten the ink: ;))

after voting, i went home for a while to have lunch, i was to meet my friends from college at 2pm at UP <story on my next blog>

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