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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 
 
 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When I got to the campus last Tuesday, having had the fortune of boarding the shuttle before 730 a.m., the Integrated School has having their Performance Arts Week presentations at the landing of the central lobby steps.

That is definitely a first. There was a small audience, and the cars passing on the road in front [...]

Thoughts dot com apparently labeled yesterday’s post as having explicit content, most likely because of one of the words in the last paragraph. But I still do not see why the very first entry here from January last year was also marked as such. I see no similar potentially offensive words, having reviewed it once [...]

Right now the worst kind of misunderstanding I can think of between two people is not when one takes offense at what another person has said, because in that case there would at least be some immediate reaction (stoicism, or being poker faces at such a direct insult is another problem altogether) but in assuming [...]

Sometimes a post is just reacting to what happens around me. Either this is an event that only I or a few others experienced that I think would be valuable to those who would read it.

Sometimes it is a commentary on major or minor news items that a lot of people who probably read the [...]

My weekend finished at around 11pm, when I got home last night. From the retreat at Volcano Lake Ridge City (that should be in the Pocket Monsters Game Map) we got back to the school by 2pm. I got a ride with former Catalyst Editor In Chief Therese most of the way home (thanks!), then [...]

So I’m back at the retreat house that we started using in January of last year for the graduating batches.

This is the only student retreat that I have attended for this school year, the first having been in conflict with another out of town activity I had in October of 2009 that I prioritized.

Ironically I [...]

Yesterday afternoon we had the installation of the Blessed Sacrament at the LC1 chapel, something that Sir Mel of the LMO had been working towards for months.

There were comments during the Eucharistic celebration about how it hoped it will make us grow as a community.

And that is what will make a community grow anyway, shared [...]

Today was spent mostly in Enchanted Kingdom, listening to the speeches to kick off the Laguna Business and Investment Expo 2010. I forgot that the last one was held 2 years ago, I thought it was just last year. That time it was in SM Sta. Rosa.

At the end of the second day (in the [...]

I  finally today got to experience the Google mail user friendliness of double checking your text. If it says “attached” but there is no attachment, it will ask if you are sure.

Saved me the embarrassment, it sure did, seeing I was sending it to the Tertiary Education Commission.

@@ Seems I am on the fast track [...]

I finished reading “Hollywood Tough” by Stephen J. Cannell the other night, or was it before I left the house for school?

If there’s one thing the TV producer knows, it’s how to hook people into a story. You just have to find out what happens next, how it all plays out; especially since he was [...]

It’s the start of a brand new week and a brand new month. But as usual I will be talking about what happened during the weekend, alternatively the last days of the last month.

I met Justin and Chat in University of the Philippines last Saturday, and a lot of open-minded people.

It was also the first [...]

Yesterday had two important meetings. In the morning there was the committee on campus postings, and in the afternoon was the one for the eco camp.

In the first one the rules for posters in the campus were discussed, for outside the campus, and for tarpaulins. Also plans for additional boards and their designations was part [...]

Okay, admittedly the last two posts, even though written successively on Wednesday and Thursday were not put up on time. This is because of the similarity between the two days.

I already mentioned that Wednesday after a lunch meeting we went straight to the Science Center in the city in the metro most devastated by the [...]

Okay, here’s what happened yesterday. I was getting ready for an off-campus lunch with the guidance counselor and my counterpart in the Integrated School. That’s at 12pm.

All I have with me is my little bag, with cash, camera and my mobile phones. No chargers, no ATM cards.

Then I get a text message from the secretary [...]

I went back to the river earlier after almost three years. In fact, the last time I was at the river was nearly holy week in 2007.

So it is just less than two months shy of three years since I was last there, another super typhoon had passed.

We started from the sewage treatment plant this [...]

Third Saturday post in a row! I would be so proud if it didn’t just mean going back to what used to be regular practice.

I didn’t go to school today, having received a text from the brother president that the meeting I was supposed to have earlier was cancelled.

@@ I’m reading a [...]

It seems every time I go to the metro now I go home thirty minutes earlier than the last time. A few minutes ago I got home at 130am. Not that the concert I watched ended that late.

It actually ended at around 930pm (I will talk about the specifics of that later) but it was [...]

It’s my first day back in the campus after five days. Last time I was here was Friday. I consider it a vacation of sorts, having been at the workshop with the incoming new president and the rest of the extended operations council from Saturday to Sunday then the tertiary education commission seminar on the [...]

Second day of the Tertiary Education Committee follow up session on the understanding by design curriculum revision.

It is these kinds of seminars that pull me back from looking at my small corner of the world to the big picture.

And honestly, it is quite jarring. There is this threshold where you stop thinking that there is [...]

Today was spent on the twentieth floor of the Br. Andrew Building, which houses the DLSP Hall.

We had the Tertiary Education Commission follow up session with Br. Ricky, Dr. Q and Dr. Mike on Understanding by Design.

Well, actually just the first day of it, where in the morning the guiding principle of social change was [...]