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National respect

MK — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:45:03 +0000

I think it was last Monday when I came to school a little bit later than usual and got held up while the national anthem was being played at the university (it usually plays at 8:20 – 8:30 time span). As I was walking from the SEC I noticed my Sci 10: Science and Society teacher, Loyola Schools Vice President Achoot Cuyegkeng behid me at the small island between the two lanes of the parking lot. A car was moving in the right lane and she went down the island, moved infront of the vehicle, place her palm and front the car and halted the car. I have to say it was a little funny seeing a well little woman like herself command a large van to stop but she did have a point . I never knew the whole stopping for the Philippine National Anthem applied to vehicles though.

Tomorrow we breakfast in school

MK — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:41:51 +0000

Semestral break is finally over and tomorrow at 8:30am I’ll start my first class of the second semester. I’m somewhat excited cause I really didn’t do anything big during the sem break besides go to fontana with ACTM and the last couple of days with my usual friends. I’m hoping this sem would be a lot less stressful since I don’t have accounting anymore but I do have a lot more units. It’s a shame that I couldn’t find a good PE to take not because I didn’t have slots (I was in the first batch to enlist) but because I’ve taken up all the PE classes that I want and after taking up Ballroom (Latin Dancesport) last sem, everything fails in comparison.

I don’t really know if this dancing thing is just a temporary high but I really miss dancing on the hardwood and using those 2.5 inch heeled shoes.

My friends and I went to an Anime convention yesterday afternoon. It was my first time to go to one of those since I usually think I’m above the geekness of it all but turns out im not hahahahaha. They had really great deals on Jpop/Jrock CDs, 1 CD for 50 php! Thats 1 CD for 1.04 USD! Oh just to say these are not pirated these are original Ongaku CDs! I was able to get an original Can You Keep a Secret single by Utada Hikaru for just 50 bucks! I would have gotten Sakura Drops and COLORS as well but some campers got to them first.

I found some of the cosplayers weird though… seriously if you don’t have it don’t flaunt it hahahahah (or if you have too much of it don’t show it hahaha). Some we’re really good like the Hatsumomo cosplay who could really do the fan tricks. I only stayed till around 5:30 cause my parents have been really strict on me getting home at night recently mostly because my nephew has a fever.

Progressive Boredom

MK — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:39:49 +0000

Let me start of by saying that the new macbooks are hot hot hot!! I really like the new macbooks, apple has actually listened to customer complaints and change most of the things that people didn’t like about the macbook. I don’t think it would crack or chip off that easily now that its in aluminum and if is it just me or did they put bigger speakers? The graphics have been upgraded (though it’s still a shared memory) but making the macbook stronger. I was really hating myself about it since I got Anita during the summer but when I saw the prices my jaw just out right dropped. If I had waited for this aluminum macbook I wouldn’t even be able to afford since they did increase the price by 200 usd (so if you add taxation to that and US-Peso exhange rates… your looking at somewhere between 90,000-110,000 php). Anyways, I still love Anita, I ain’t going to trade her off just yet… probably wait two or three years to save up the money then get it for my college graduation.

Semestral break has been pretty boring but it has been at the very least a little productive. Let me begin by saying I PASSED ACCOUNTING! To the side you’ll see a shot of my “Individual program of study page” where you can see if you passed (P) or failed (F). We don’t know our grades yet but this has eased the tension quite a bit. I was pretty sure I was going to fail when I saw my fourth long test last Saturday and this has just taken a load off my shoulders! I might have a bonfire sometime this week and burn my Accounting book cause I have just been victorious against Venus Ibarra, the most evil department head of the Ateneo! hahahaha *shoots a frost bolt*

I’ve also started cleaning up my room. My room sort of reflects the stress level of my semester and by the looks of the aftermath, I was probably on the verge of getting an Ulcer from all the stress. I’ve had little progress though mostly picking up dirty clothes that have piled up. Now at least I have a space to practice latin ballroom when I get the urge to.

Every time I hear Keep Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis now I get the urge to move my hips in a figure-8 and dance rumba! I can’t wait till the club starts this November and this is going to be one of my new driving factors to go to school. Thanks to Osan Mendoza I now have a video of our Rumba performance last September 28! here it is I’m actually in the back row with PC here.

Summer lag

MK — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:37:48 +0000

I ended my summer classes last Friday with my groups business presentation. It was pretty handy that I got my macbook right before we started working on our business plan project, that way we were able to work on it more conveniently at school and I was able to edit our word documents on the go. I really liked our business plan and we got a 94 (A) which was well deserved!

A lot of funny things happened during that day. I arrived at school at around 11:00 am where I met Justin Sy first then Aaron Chan. We we’re going to present at 2pm cause a group switched places with us but they backed out in the end which gave us an hour to do more things for our presentation. Within that one hour we we’re able to go grocery shopping, crash at my grandmother’s kitchen and cook chilli good enough for four panelists.

In the end the panelists were really impresses, specially with our finances. They were really recommending that we take our project to the JGSOMBA

Meet Anita

MK — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:06:42 +0000

As i said in my previous blog, I finally have a laptop and it’s a mac too! I’ve been dreaming of a mac since I was a high school junior and now I finally have one! So guys I want you to meet my macbook, Anita.

Laptop names

MK — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:16:12 +0000

Well after talking to my parents last night I finally got them to agree on getting me a macbook. We all agreed that I’ll be getting a laptop soon but the problem is defining what “soon” is for my family cause they usually have problem when it comes to initiative. Today though I finally got them to set up a schedule and on Wednesday afternoon we’ll be buying my white macbook at Trinoma.

We have this little trend at school where we give names to our laptops, since I now have a macbook I have to find a name for it. I thought of a lot of names but I really can’t decide on one. I thought of “Maggie” from The Simpsons because my old desktop PC is named Lisa. I wanted “Phillip” from the Rugrats because if there is a chance I’ll e buying another computer or electronic gadget in the future, I could name it “Lillian”. “Stewie” and “Brian” came from Family Guy because I love their little tandem on that show. What do you guys think? What should I call my laptop? Comment to vote!

Will it be Maggie?
Will it be Stewie?
Will it be Phillip?
Or will it be Brian?

Web Geekness

MK — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:49:28 +0000

I never thought the Ateneo Rizal Library would be well stocked with books on web development. My English 11 teacher told me a dozen times before that the library had a lot of resource materials but I didn’t think it had the books that I needed to help me learn more about my hobbies.

I visited the Rizal Library today to simply kill time as it was one of the best places in campus to go to sleep. I searched their database just to see if they had any books on , Apache and web development and they did!

I wasn’t just able to barrow a book on PHP but I was also get Flash, XML and Ajax scripting books as well.

I started working with PHP when I was a sophomore in high school because I needed to find a way to make updating Farplaneabyss (my old Final Fantasy media site then) easier and faster. I’ve learned a couple more tricks over the past couple of years, more than your usual dynamic and simple PHP inclusion but it was never really enough. Though I’ve been comfortable using PHP, I never really learned formally which is why I never made my own scripts.

I’m so happy now that I have these books to read! I have a lot of free time this summer even with my design job but it helps a lot with the things I have to do.

The last day of summer vacation

MK — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:36:44 +0000

It’s the last day of my short two week summer vacation. I’ll have to go back to school tomorrow to start my ITM class which is said to be entirely useless. I shouldn’t be complaining since I only have one class to take this summer because I wasn’t able to enlist in any other subjects. I did say I was going to take either Psych 101 or FLC and I would if I could but all the slots for those classes were already taken.

Too make things less fun, my sister has suddenly become a shrew and decided to hog the Digicam. I won’t be able to take any first-day-of-school-photos or video blog for quite a while. That sort of leaves me with not a lot of creative things to do on the net… so bored.