Posted on December 22, 2008

Hi guys! Christmas is in 3 days! And New Year is coming fast as well! The year is going to end and it’s ending WAY too fast for me to even cope up with all the stuff that I have to do for this vacation! T_T

So anyway, how was your year? My year, if you ask me, is full of disasters and blisters and wounds. LOL. I’ll list them all down….. (I’ll TRY to list them down accordingly but I can’t promise)

1. I found out that I had gastritis just last January 16 (my birthday )

2. I almost failed yet ANOTHER Math subject last third term (January - April term of school year 2007-2008)

3. I was late for AN HOUR at my office last summer

4. I tripped while on the way to the office therefore having a wound on my right knee (summer)

5. I wore the wrong pair of shoes during a site visit at the office therefore earning a wound

6. My laptop is running SO slow.. T_T I have to have Suppy reformatted….

7. My sister, Vinno and I went ice skating and I forgot to remove my anklet so the lock on the anklet went inside my skin earning another wound

8. Me and my mom got into an accident with a L300 van because the stupid driver did not put on the hand breaks when he parked and left the van so it reversed on us (a BMW car)

9. We went to a theme park once (my sister, Vinno and I) and went to this Snow World (but it was only the coldness we saw or felt. No snow. Just ice.) and when we got out, I found my hair VERY oily. So I had to buy Johnson’s Baby Shampoo just to get it off

10. I ALMOST failed my calculus (yes, again) last term if my professor wasn’t too considerate. I am VERY VERY thankful to him (though I wasn’t able to tell it to him personally cause I wasn’t the one who got my card)

11. If it wasn’t for my final exam grade and last departamental exam grade (which were both above perfect - hey, both first and second departamental exam were failures! Please leave me be by being a bit proud about it) I think I would fail my NETWORK course

12. My sister and I almost left our video camera on the bus when we were on our way home last week

13. I was playing with my niece’s jumprope the other night and I think I landed on the wrong foot so I sprained my right foot (but I’m still able to walk. It went away instantly) then after a few minutes, my left knee started to ache. Don’t know why

<EDIT> 14. Just after lunch, my sister asked me and my mom to accompany her to our little garden for her to use the Time Works Exercise machine that my dad gave my mom last year for Christmas. My niece suddenly saw her and asked me to carry her so that she can use it as well. Just when I crouched down and stood up with her in my arms, my sister twisted the machine just above my head earning myself a lump on the head, on the 24th. I even cursed (with my niece’s ear just beside my mouth). Luckily she didn’t quite hear it cause I just said it in a whisper. In case she heard the word F**K, I would have been VERY much dead by now. LOL

15. While my sister was curling my hair, she accidentally had the curler touch my skin, which is, mind you, VERY hot

16. My niece stepped on me with her boots while we were on our way home from mass before celebrating Christmas Eve….

17. Remember the sprain I got from the jump rope? Well, I landed on the wrong foot when I was on my way to Starbucks with my sisters and brother-in-law so, I sprained it, AGAIN

Hmmm… I think that’s about it….  I remember counting them down just after I got that lump on my head… But right now, I can’t remember them anymore. LOL </EDIT>

Anyways… Here’s a break down of my grades last term:

- CCSCAL2: College of Computer Studies Calculus (1.0)
- KASPIL2: Philippine History (2.5)
- LASARET: Lasallian Retreat (Passed)
- MOBLERN: Mobile Learning (4.0)
- NETWORK: Computer Networking (2.0)
- RELSFOR: Christian Social Teaching (3.0)
-  THESIS: (4.0)

In our school, if ever you haven’t noticed from the past grades I had been posting here, our highest grade is 4.0 and the lowest is 1.0, failure is 0.0 (yeah, looks like a shocked emoticon). For thesis, its just a 4.0 or 0.0 grade. So yeah… For MOBLERN, well, just as you do what the prof tells you to do, its easy to get a 4.0. The rest I earned through studying (except RELSFOR cause I barely studied there cause ALL exams were open notes)

I guess everyone was considerate of giving Christmas bonuses even to students.. So I am very grateful for my CCSCAL2 prof and for the professors of NETWORK for giving a VERY easy exam (all questions were taken from the previous exams)

Anyways, I have to run.. I still have to finish our thesis. Promise, once I finish everything for thesis, I will do my layout for the blog.. The layout is done.. Just the coding that needs to be fixed..

<EDIT> For those who would be interested to know (like Ahiru ), I study in the Philippines, at De La Salle University - Manila… The grades given for colleges in Manila are usually from 1.0 to 5.0, 1.0 being the highest.. But for our school, it’s the other way around… It goes from 1.0 to 4.0..

I’m off tomorrow.. We are going out of town so expect nothing from me for the next 4 - 5 days maybe… Hopefully my list of disasters won’t grow while I’m out.. It already grew while I’m at home, I don’t want it to grow anymore.. LOL

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Posted on August 29, 2008

As I type this entry, it is around 7:15 in the morning, Philippine time. It had been a hectic week for me. I can’t find a day wherein I had the time for myself to do anything I want, and to sleep anytime I wanted. I rest, sure, but not time to do anything I really want, like play a game or something of the sort.

Ever since Saturday (August 23, 2008) until today, here was my to do list:

• 3DGRAFX Final Project
• A mini-project requested by the office
• Thesis Final documentation
• MEASDEV (Measurement in Development) Final Paper and Exam [yes, we create exams for this course. VERY VERY hassle]

As far as I can remember and as far as my calendar is concerned, those are the stuff I’ve been doing ever since Saturday and a few minutes ago. And let me tell you another thing, for the past how many days, I haven’t slept for more than 5 hours (except August 26th cause I couldn’t handle it anymore).

Yes, nearly a week of no sleep… Saturday I did the mini-project requested by the office because it was due Monday, and I finished my part in our exam and final paper for MEASDEV. Sunday, I fixed my character model for our 3DGRAFX course (the entire day). Monday, I went back to the city and we did our thesis together with an overnight (we slept a little past 2 AM and woke up around 8 I think). Tuesday, I went to the place where both my sisters are staying to do my 3DGRAFX project (both my laptop and desktop couldn’t handle the pressure). That’s when I slept for around 9 hours. Then the next day, I attempted to fix my model again cause I was having problems with its arms (I’ll upload my project at YouTube after I get enough sleep then I’ll give out the link). And until I think 7, I worked with the animation of about half of the project. Then I woke up 11 and continued to work with my niece bugging me after every 10 minutes or so until her mom came home.

And now, I just finished the entire project around 30 minutes ago. My stomach is empty, my heart is palpitating, and my eyes are heavy. I can’t sleep anymore. Deadline of the project is at 12PM and we still have a demo at 3:30…. So yeah… It is until I finish every to do for today is the time that I can finally sleep… Sigh.. College… 4th year college… What a hectic year… Sigh

[EDIT] I have uploaded my 3d Graphics project! Click here to view..  [/EDIT]

Posted on August 15, 2008

Weeks of not blogging, what had happened to me? Errr… Nothing much.. I’ve been busy with school (Moomedia work, Thesis, 3DGRAFX, and all other subjects) Sigh… The term is ending in a few weeks! I can’t wait!

Well, what I can’t believe is that even in our break (VERY short break mind you) we are gonna work on our thesis project.. Well, that can’t be helped considering that we do have a lot of things to catch up on since we need to be able to develop a part of the thesis to be patterned by the others… Sigh… I can’t wait for a REAL vacation.. You know, like after schooling is over? After graduation…? Sigh…

Alex (my niece) is turning 2 this 27th of August! She’s growing too fast! And I am growing old too fast! Lately, I can’t help but be saddened by her reactions with me. I haven’t been home lately due to projects and deadlines and seminars here and there. The last time I went home, she said she was afraid of me… Now isn’t that ironic… She is afraid of the person who took care of her after her mother and her father left her a week after she was given birth. Her mom said that she owed me one after taking care of her for two weeks back then (it was my term break and I never had one, AGAIN, because of that kid!) and until now, I can’t feel like she does. If I know, she had already forgotten all about it. She’s just happy that her daughter is in good hands and is growing just the way she wanted her to cause my parents are taking care and are spending money for her.

After our first year anniversary, we are still going through the smooth lane. I mean that we are still together and I can say that I am happy that I chose him, that I got to know him. Although there are times that I wished I didn’t cause what I am seeing right now is not the same person I knew last year, last summer… I remember telling him about this issue… Then again, I can’t change the person, right?

It had been 4 years in college. 4 LONG agonizing years. I can’t say that I am happy all the time. No one is. Everybody gets to have a challenge every where they go. And I think the biggest challenge I ever had was now, in college. I am independent, I am living alone for 2 years, and 2 years with my cousin. The people that tell me what to do are very far from me. Therefore it had been hard for me to manage my time. Me and my sister had been talking about this the other day. All we remember about 4th year high school is computers, that the moment we get home we go straight to the computer then we stay there till we sleep. It was a miracle that we were even able to finish our assignments cause, seriously, we don’t remember doing them.

By the way, the past weeks, I had also been addicted (a bit) to video editing. To see my videos, they are all uploaded at my YouTube Account. I still have one video not uploaded cause it might take 2 overnights to be able to finish that - considering that my net doesn’t fluctuate or suddenly stops then goes on again. But sad thing is, it does.. So I can’t really upload it right now.. :(

My portfolio had also increased. A few of my works can be viewed at my DA Account and most of which are the exercises that I had done for our 3DGRAFX class… Also, I had been creating a lot of posters lately due to being in the publicity committee of both Moomedia and our Batch Assembly. So, yeah..

Anyways, I have to go.. It’s 3:30 in the morning and I still have a meeting at 9 with my groupmates..

Posted on July 27, 2008

It had been another hectic couple of weeks… No thesis deadlines this time… More on thesis docu and screens… And org stuff… And other school works… Sigh…

And in those weeks lay our anniversary (mine and vinno)… And, all his surprises were busted! His supposed to be first surprise was to have his hair cut… And I caught him even before he left (cause we had class a few minutes later) then he slipped and said that he’ll have his hair cut and that it was supposed to be a surprise..

The next day, our anniversary… We had no classes that day so I intended to oversleep… But, I didn’t… I suddenly woke up upon the noise that someone was opening my door and a clicking sound. So I thought that my sister was here… But I realized that it was very early in the morning for either of my sisters to come over… (it was around 8 - 9 in the morning that time). So I got up and went to the living room and saw the door opened…

I panicked and opened the door and saw him there… Then asked him if the door was really opened when he came and all those stuff… (I was really scared that time!) Then he gave me a bouquet of flowers and said, “Happy Anniversary”. While I on the other hand still continued to ask. Then, again, he said that his plans were busted.. He said that he was supposed to leave the flowers and his letter beside me while I slept and that when I wake up I’d be lying beside the roses and his letter..

Then we exchanged our gifts.. I gave him a pair of sneakers and he gave me a ring… A ring that I will not wear on my hand but instead on my neck (I don’t wear rings.. -.-)

After that, we accompanied my sister to apply for her internet.. Then we went to have his sneakers exchanged cause it was a little small for him (1 size smaller). Then we went to our condo at Makati and watched Meet the Robinsons and a few more TV shows after the movie…

And that was how our anniversary ended..

Enough of that day.. Everything had been so exciting for me since last week… I’ve been 3D modeling!! More advanced than what we take up in class…. I just got a human model to move last night! It was so exciting!!! Now my problem is, how to make it animate from being thin to fat… (the model is for our thesis…)

By the way, next thesis deadline is this coming Tuesday… And tomorrow will be another hectic day… Another overnight day… Sighhh

Posted on July 10, 2008

As I write today, some people are still studying. It is midterms week after all. I just finished mine a while ago and I hope I got it correct… I’m not expecting for a perfect score on that of course cause I rarely get them.

It had been too hectic since I last blogged… Thesis submission, less sleep that day (we skipped class because we had 3 submissions that day - one is the thesis, then an assignment for 3d, then a filipino poem for our Philippine Literature class) We had to skip our Philippine Literature class just to be able to make it to the 3d graphics deadline and be able to submit the thesis as well. The condo was a mess that day. At around 9 in the morning, together with Joyce and Vinno, I went back to the condo and we continued to work. Karla followed a few hours later after she attended her class (Vinno skipped his morning class cause he got up late)

Sigh… Then there’s all the org stuff.. It’s been fun… While it lasted. The fun we had before… It’s gone, now that most of the people I was with before had left the org…

Sometimes I wish I could bring back the past and redo a lot of things. Like hanging out with the entire class like we used to do before… I dunno what happened to the class but suddenly everyone got separated… Who knows…? God knows..

Like what I said in the title, this is one hec-term, meaning hectic term. Org stuff going on especially that it is the first them and we had to at least satisfy almost all the members for them to be able to be attracted to the org and continue to attend general assemblies and stuff… Then there’s school stuff as well. Although the Batch Assembly hasn’t given us any work as of the currently, I think the work will start next term as the Batch Representative said… Then there’s never ending Thesis. This will only end when we finally get a certificate that says, “DIPLOMA presented to….” or something like that. Or with the togas and everything… Yeah yeah, I know.. You get my point. It’s just that, I feel like I want to graduate, but I’m not yet ready. Although I already have plans after college, I feel like I am going to MISS it all. Like how I missed High School (and I still do)

This is the last stage of schooling… At least for mandatory schooling. The next set of schooling will be upon the will of the learner… It had been 16 years of schooling (counting my 4th year this year) and still counting. I want to study after college… Question is, what and where. I got options… But I won’t tell until I actually pass the exams of course…

Sigh… So anyway, I got into video editing (AGAIN) and I made a few clips… Actually, just one.. Anyways, just check out my portfolio… It had increased due to the number of posters I had been doing…

I do hope everyone is doing fine..