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  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1242: Business Buyer Beware-Ness   2 years, 1 month ago

    I’m still talking about Friday. I guess when the momentum of activities takes us over we tend to do a lot, and during the times of relative recess that is when we get the energy to talk about it.

    I got some pink cherries, big dry ones with the pits inside. It was only afterwards that [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1241: Let Downs, In General   2 years, 1 month ago

    I’m first going to continue with my discussion from yesterday. As I said, I was at CSB.

    I talked to their Social Action Office head, Sir Leo, who happens to have the same name as the person who attended our last meeting, so they were used to some confusion that one person may or may not [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1240: Errand Boy Mode   2 years, 1 month ago

    Today was spent off campus. I had to go to the Brother Andrew building, the twentieth floor, for an eco camp meeting at the DLSP offices. Sadly not as many as we had hoped attended, but what transpired during the meeting provided me with a lot of hope for our proceedings for next week.

    I also [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1239: Know When It’s Too Late to Go On   2 years, 1 month ago

    First of all, belated happy birthday yesterday to our CS graduate and erstwhile Digital Arts Club president Dwight!

    It was no problem getting you that gift. I know you would enjoy it, and we share the WII spirit after all.

    @@And again just to round out what happened last Sunday, I went to the South Woods area [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1238: Eating and Playing Cards   2 years, 1 month ago

    No movie review for today. Last night was just spent at Shakey’s Pacita Complex eating a basket of mojos and bottomless root beer after I finally was able to give the last Adidas Philippine Flag jacket (at a marked down price) to someone who asked for it, and it fit too!

    Just to round out what [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1237: My Rating is the Movie’s Title   2 years, 1 month ago

     Two movie reviews in a row! But what do you expect: I would have watched both of them last Sunday but there was the time constraint element. So I split them up for two days.

    I’m talking about Kick Ass, which I know will get the explicit content warning again, but I won’t sugarcoat it.

    My first [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1236: Do Anything, In the Past   2 years, 1 month ago

    I finally got to watch Hot Tub Time Machine yesterday, after several attempts since Thursday.

    It wasn’t until yesterday morning that I finally got the strength to leave the spa and just add the movie to my itinerary back to the spa after passing by the house to get and drop off some stuff.

    It’s weird. From [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1235: Winning Someone Else’s Games   2 years, 1 month ago

    Twenty seven percent. That is the school’s passing rate for the most recent ECE board exam.

    It’s higher than last October, which was around seven percent, only slightly lower than April last year, which was twenty eight percent, and higher than two years ago, which was twenty percent.

    Out of that, eighteen percent are those who took [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1234: This Post Is Brought to You By Counting   2 years, 1 month ago

    I was out of the office again today. Blame it on social eating, and the pressures of conforming.

    But what is interesting is that by the late afternoon, too late to go to work that is, I was feeling better.

    In fact, I was feeling good enough to play badminton at a court beside a hospital not [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1233: Lies and Taxes, How Appropriate   2 years, 1 month ago

    First of all happy birthday today to my best friend from college who should visit the country more often, Nolan!

    @@ @@ Today I would like to lift some lines from the post and comments of my new best friend, because he agreed with my second post about how much crap the remade Clash of the [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1232: No Jail, No Chance, Still Fun   2 years, 1 month ago

    As promised yesterday, I will be talking about the Monopoly Deal card game.

    There are different types of cards in this game. First are the money cards, of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 million denominations.

    These cards have to be played on the table to be paid out for rent. An interesting rule of [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1231: Appreciating A Little Work Initiative   2 years, 1 month ago

    Another thing that happened over the weekend, which I am still talking about two days into the new week, is that I bought a new card game, Monopoly Deal. This was definitely the second high point of the long weekend, a little lower down the scale only from the movie discussed yesterday.

    But let me backtrack [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1230: Don’t Ask For A Little Excitement   2 years, 1 month ago

    It’s already Monday and I’m still talking about the weekend. I met with fellow programmer Ryan at Festival mall last Saturday for Mongolian Buffet lunch and to watch a movie.

    We were shocked to see that prices in the Cineplex there had gone up to P150, even though there was no renovation of the theaters to [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1229: Under the Ego Actions?   2 years, 1 month ago

    It is either that we should be careful what we wish for, because the universe will give it to us whether we are serious or not, or that we subconsciously rearrange things in our lives and make decisions that will ultimately service that maybe only half-meant goal, whether we are aware or not.

    I have the [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1228: After Vampires Hollywood Aims for Greek Gods   2 years, 1 month ago

    How come one free online mail provider can work with uploading attachments with one browser, but not with another? The same is true with another free online mail provider and another browser.

    And since certain mail have to be sent using an official email address, one of those that does not successfully attach files, resort has [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1227: Early to Work, Early to Get Promoted   2 years, 1 month ago

    Maybe the Student Affairs calendar has to be stepped up. Today is the deadline of the office of Information and Special Projects for the different offices to pass their calendars of activity for next school year.

    For the Office of Student Affairs, this means more or less passing the same thing that we did last year, [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1226: An Open Prayer - My Definition of Prayer   2 years, 1 month ago

    How great is this? People have not even mandated into position yet, but speaking just as their political party, and they have already submitted two proposals for the next year.

    In the first place, if something is passed by their administration, which they are not yet at all, it will be for implementation in the next [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1225: Restarting with a Clash   2 years, 1 month ago

    That was some nine-day vacation from writing, although only a four-day continuous vacation from work with one more Sunday (Palm) thrown in. Do I have an excuse for it? Yeah, but it’s not one that I want to present here at the moment. Let’s just call it a bad lapse.

    All I can say is that [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1224: Unexpected Friday Happening   2 years, 2 months ago

    Something different for today. Again, as I keep saying, you never know what the new day, the new week or the new month will bring, and this day was no exception.

    I had no classes today, so besides having a letter printed out with the college administrative assistant even before 8am (as I said in the [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1223: Points for Honesty Despite Ignorance?   2 years, 2 months ago

    So what’s the event today that has the Integrated School set up a stage in front of the hedge maze and the statue of the founder in the One Mission Park? It’s sad that I cannot be sure.

    It shows just how detached the college is from the IS that I do not know, although I [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1222: A Hump Day to End All Hump Days   2 years, 2 months ago

    Did I already mention here about the shuttle to the toll gate just south of south woods being stopped? Well, it may have been restarted, because I saw the shuttle here in school earlier.

    But even though I got the announcement through internal computer terminal memo about the cancellation, I did not get any memo about [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1221: Palindrome Post Number Again   2 years, 2 months ago

    We had the college faculty general assembly today. I told them about only four students running for the student council next school year, and all from one party at that, meaning the second party has no candidates. Of course everyone was disheartened, like I was.

    But this is where we varied in opinions. A few of [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1220: If You Have Nothing Good to Say…   2 years, 2 months ago

    So I watched Avenue Q for the second time last Saturday, which I really don’t make a big deal out of except that I sat in the orchestra now instead of at the balcony. But I should not have been surprised that two people who have watched it too expressed interest in watching it again.

    There [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1219: How to Train Your Dragon Review   2 years, 2 months ago

     
     
     March 20, 2010 Last night I watched “How to Train Your Dragon” in 3D at SM Sta. Rosa.

    Short and sweet, it was great. The relationship between the human and his exotic pet is what really made this movie hit close to home, just like what the makers already did in “Lilo and Stitch”.

    Of course, being [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1218: Old Songs Irritating   2 years, 2 months ago

    There was a meeting scheduled earlier with the representative officers of the Recognized Student Organizations about their requirements for reaccreditation for the coming school year, the date of our leadership camp and what it would mean to be probationary.

    I still find it weird that a lot of these organizations have it in their constitutions that [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1217: The Yardstick of English   2 years, 2 months ago

    So yesterday while I was already out of the campus I got a text message from the secretary of the Office of Student Affairs saying that I would be off campus again today accompanying some of our graduating students to the culminating round of this English debate sponsored by a call center training company.

    I guess [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1216: Reasons to Celebrate   2 years, 2 months ago

    It’s Saint Patrick’s Day! This is the first time that I will be noting this holiday here, as this is also the first time that I got reminders on the net before the event instead of after.

    @@ I finally got to watch Day Breakers last night, after hearing a lot of good reviews about it [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1215: Closer to Spa Heaven   2 years, 2 months ago

    It is already Tuesday and I am still talking about the weekend; that is how busy it was.

    Saturday night I went swimming at the Columns in Makati, across from RCBC Plaza.

    Afterwards, our host invited us to the spa in the street behind it, at the Makati Sports Club.

    It was a Korean-themed family oriented spa, where, [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1214: Near 3-Hour Observation Overload   2 years, 2 months ago

    Okay, there were some things that I may not have told clearly from the limited space of the review last Saturday.

    I actually pondered making the review organized into two parts, but finally decided on the main review for last Saturday and just having addendums, which I knew may fill another whole post, for today.

    The time [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1213: Middle Sister Takes Centerstage   2 years, 2 months ago

    The play that I watched last night adapted locally from the script “Three Sisters” by Anton Chekov was mostly great.

    It was held on the stage of the main theater of the CCP. The delineated area where the actors moved about was roughly the size of two classrooms, with bleachers on all four sides.

    This was on [...]