There was no post yesterday because of a leftover from the weekend, the same weekend where I was not able to post last Saturday. I was with the same people, from Friday night to Monday night.

Let’s just say it’s an early Christmas gift to ourselves, using the thirteenth month money that hasn’t come it yet.

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There was a para-glider near the end of the mountain range at the back of the school yesterday.

I was able to see it before my class at 420pm started, facing due north. For a time I thought it was a kite since it seemed to be just hanging there, but then it would twist and [...]

The net is still slow today. Maybe by later this afternoon or tomorrow we will get another announcement from the ITC saying that during the weekend the problem will be fixed – again.

@@ First rule of advertising: make sure that your poster has all of the needed information: what, where, when.

So if some of these [...]

Sir Leland is having a class right now at the conference table (well one of them anyway) in the student center.

He has about half a dozen students and there is a meeting of the Student Council in the other half of the room, and it’s only mildly chaotic.

@@ On another note, let’s talk about degrees [...]

There was no post yesterday because I was not in school. Let’s just say it involved a whole lot of spaghetti.

@@ We don’t say thank you enough to people for being there. Even if they didn’t go somewhere for you, it should be some consolation to us that our presence there brightened up someone’s [...]

Because of the slow net that has plagued the office the past week, not only have there been days when it was just too frustrating to try to upload content, but it seems on the days when I do try to upload content like yesterday, the belief that I was not able to connect turns [...]

There was again no post yesterday because of the snail-paced speed of the net here in school.

It was frustrating when every few pages you load would get timed out, and several would not load correctly because it is not text intensive or even just contains one large image or some code.

@@ Today I would like [...]

There was no post yesterday because there was no net in the campus, and even today it’s painstakingly slow.

The joke around here is that the howling winds from the most recent typhoon blew over the high-tension wires of the underground cabling and the wireless connections hooking up the school to the outside world.

It’s amazing how [...]

Two new Mac minis at the Student Center! Thank you to Sir Lawrence of Power Mac Center for the donations!

@@ Besides that, I gave the welcome remarks at the opening of the college sports fest last night.

It was simple. I just looked up “lessons from sports” on the internet and rattled them out [...]

There was no post yesterday, the first regular college class day of the week, because I only got to school after lunch and there was a laboratory class immediately upon arrival. And I had to leave at 5pm.

The closing ceremonies for the sports camp were great. Highlight of the evening was the fireworks from Enchanted [...]

It’s the last day of the Sports Camp. Closing ceremonies will be tonight. The Integrated School will have no classes until November 2 though, since they already had their report card giving last week.

There will also be at least one delegation from the provinces that will be staying one extra day tomorrow (and leaving on [...]

I just came from the beach again, from the same place as last April with the college faculty. Before that I was there with friends in January of last year. The first time ever I was there was in the mid-nineties.

This time though I was with the CS oldies, students again just like during that [...]

So this morning the kinder students were supposed to have gone around the offices trick or treating.

Too bad they didn’t pass by the east wing faculty room or the student center, so that the college students would have been involved.

I would also like to commend the management of the new cafeteria for letting their staff [...]

Well, after several months of chasing it around the metro (and finding out it was listed in one of those strange schedules where one film is showing in the morning and another in the evening) last night I finally got to watch “The Time Traveler’s Wife”.

It’s only marginally science fiction, but a lot more complex [...]

Short but meaningful topics today – well, at least I think they’re meaningful. There are some subjects when you can only say so much, if anything at all.

@@ Well, what do you know, it works to show concern for a student who doesn’t show up for class by calling him right at the time when [...]

You may already be familiar with a local column writer’s ongoing rant against a telecom provider.

Keywords for searching (no links, sorry): Jessica Z., Globe Tattoo, Livid, Worthless Piece.

Of course she was assuaged by the company; this is ongoing (and passed around) bad press for them.

Of course they are going to blame the recent natural calamities. [...]

What is the nature of compromise? I would like to quote “The Office” on this one: “Ask for $15,000 so I could give you $12,000.”

Not necessarily that you would request for something unrealistic at the start so that you would get something attainable in the bargain. It does not hurt to ask, because you might [...]

Computer science pioneer JP had this message in his tweet today: “Stay curious. Discover. Learn something new every day. Be careless. Try to be lost. Explore.”

It goes so much with my personal philosophy about sustaining that Wonderment of Discovery that I reposted it, adding the following line from one of my recently favorite songs since [...]

This is one of those rare days when there will be an almost entry long post about the DLL.

@@ Daily Leadership Lesson October 15 - Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My take on this: it may be related to today’s world [...]

I was present for my first Sports Camp organizing committee meeting today.

It was amazing how delegated everything is. There was a secretariat, an accommodations committee (in charge of seeing that all rooms where the participants will sleep are assigned, as well as other activities) a committee for the formation of the students (which will happen [...]

First post in four days. There was no post last Saturday because it was spent in the town of Saint Thomas longer than expected, and doing more than expected.

The night was spent in Festival Mall just to get away from the stress of the day’s work.

That makes it I think the third time that week [...]

And the week is finally over for me. By the week I mean everything not including my robotics lecture and lab, which isn’t considered such as hurdle as all else that has happened this week.

The teachers’ month culmination that was postponed from last Monday was finally done and over with.

I’m glad for the two batches [...]

Here’s my review of “Surrogates”. First of all, I wish all science fiction movies were like this in showing at the start the progression in the world that leads the writer to speculate on how this play out if projected in the near future. In this movie, it is about having robotics controlled directly by [...]

Raining sheets, but not heavily, for the first time this week, well, not counting sometime during the night.

@@ Well, the acts of God befalling this nation have created another first for the school.

In the most recent revision of the school calendar given out by the Registrar’s Office, the finals week will be moved to December [...]

Just to clarify, yesterday was the first post for the month because the one dated October 1 was technically slated for September 30. It was the first WRITTEN in October.

@@ I can’t help but think that this time last year, I was in another country. That was a grand.

@@ I guess it’s Tidbits Tuesday today. [...]

First post for the month of October. A lot happened in the interim, which I will tackle in chronological order.

On Thursday, waiting for word from Sir Mel about the amount of donations left in school again, I accompanied my friend Justin to his family’s large furniture making plant in the town to the south.

It [...]

This was supposed to have been posted yesterday even though I did not even go near any net terminal in the school the whole time. Sadly, my prepaid broadband chose last night not to be able to dial up, so it is now moved to today.

First thing I would like to do is greet Engineer [...]

No post last Saturday because even though I was able to make it to Justin and Chat’s place with only minimal inconvenience (one of the perks of the light rain transit) there was no Globe broadband when I got there, and I didn’t have enough credits in my Smart Bro pre-paid to connect. Besides, WII [...]

The interesting thing about this year’s book fair in the central lobby is that there are now several vendors instead of just one like the previous years. Too bad it’s only four days.

What was only announced today, at least for the college, is that it’s possible to buy books on salary deduction.

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I watched two movies in the past week: “Good Luck, Chuck” and “Duplicity”. Thankfully, the book fair, admitting their lack of continued survival in the face of more technological means of information storage and dissemination, also have movies on CD on sale.

Not that I’ve gone to the book fair; I personally believe my library is [...]

And it’s raining again. Seems like these days if it doesn’t rain in the morning it’s in the afternoon, making sure that at least ONE commute for the day, if not both, is drenched.

And that’s the pessimist talking. The optimist is just thankful for a waterproof bag and preparedness of bringing an umbrella everyday, as [...]

Okay, long weekend is done. At least I’m content that there were only two days of no posts.

Sunday was spent in the Green Belt area with Justin and Chat as he looked for his books for his MBA. We went to several bookstores, but even though there was a cut price book sale, I didn’t [...]

Yes, I’m finally able to post on a Saturday again. I’m not in campus though (they’re having ultimate Frisbee there).

I’m at an internet shop, one of dozens if not hundreds that have sprouted all over the landscape, even as obscure as inside a subdivision and not just along main thoroughfares anymore.

In fact, this one [...]

If someone cuts corners on the small things, most likely they will also cut corners on the big things; ditto with being obedient. And I’m echoing what I place in social networks.

@@ It’s the birthday of Office of Student Affairs secretary Ms. M today. She’s not in my social networks, but it’s been heard all [...]

Am manning the student center by myself today because the secretary went to the quote: showcase of Philippine’s best products from art, antiques, furniture, handicrafts to native food, fashion, pets, plants and novelty items (end quote) to get more furniture for the student lounge that the brother president reserved over the weekend.

It is hoped that [...]

 So there was a seminar today about quality management. I learned a lot. The speaker, Sir Edwin from the Registrar’s Office of the main campus could fill a book – maybe even more – on just his anecdotes about inefficient service provision and his attempts at improving his own office.

First point that stuck to mind [...]

So there was a seminar today about quality management. I learned a lot. The speaker, Sir Edwin from the Registrar’s Office of the main campus could fill a book – maybe even more – on just his anecdotes about inefficient service provision and his attempts at improving his own office.

First point that stuck to mind [...]

As promised yesterday, here is the name of that new discovery book I got: “Science Wizardry for Kids”. It’s about an inch thick with several categories, so it will be long time fun.

@@ There are several campaigns that are going to be rolled out for the celebration of environmental month.

First is “no Styrofoam” to be [...]

There was no post last Saturday because I was never in front of a computer for more than a few minutes. It was mostly walking around and browsing in shops, just like Friday night. Following is a breakdown of acquisitions.

“The Monster Book of Japanese Puzzles” contains not only Sudoku and Kakuro (the number crossword) but [...]

“Caveat emptor” is a Latin phrase that means let the buyer beware. I know that nowadays prices of commodities have to be a consideration, but settling for the cheapest product in the market may have its drawbacks.

Maybe there wasn’t enough quality control given to the manufacture. Maybe child labor was used.

Even when going for high-priced [...]

I yesterday discovered this site called 11points.com, because, the author says, top ten lists are for cowards.

One of the lists this writer, producer and performer made is things he learned about online journal writing.

First he says it can alternate between being a chore and being fun. This is true, despite the fact that it is [...]

Social networks prove to be useful after all. A mere few months after I was able to connect with a lot of my high school classmates, news quickly filtered down as to how our first year adviser died in Bangkok.

It’s a shame that it will bring something like this to bring us together short of [...]

So what did I do over the weekend? I watched “The Final Destination”, which was marketed in the local cinemas as “Final Destination 4” because again, the distributors underestimate the intelligence of local moviegoers. For the same reason risqué films with artistic titles, such as “A Handmaid’s Tale”, becomes the more obviously crowd-drawing “Prison Girls”.

Okay, [...]

And last post’s “tomorrow” becomes “the day after tomorrow”. We had the leadership camp follow-up for the college student council and organization officers yesterday, and there was no time to write anything.

Besides, the WIFI connection in the multi-purpose hall was intermittent. So it was either stay there or go to the faculty room for net.

I [...]

It was course card distribution day today. Not surprisingly, the faculty room was noisy again with students begging their professors to pass them or to give them a higher grade.

Some weren’t even begging; they were defiant, pointing out to the teacher some small merit of achievement they had during the term, which, if they recalled [...]

It’s the day before course card distribution for the college. For the integrated school, it’s their second day of periodic exams.

Just like yesterday, the students were let out by lunch time, which meant that by around 2pm (at least that’s the time I went to the basement) the cafeteria was already closed. Not wanting the [...]

First post of the first day of the BRR months. And not surprisingly, this morning I received a “Merry Christmas” text already.

@@ I didn’t think it would actually take THIS long from the last post to this one, but there was no chance to post last Saturday.

It was weird. I got home from the province [...]

One part of me regrets that if there had been fewer lapses in posting since the millennium numbered entry here, that I would have arrived at number one thousand and one hundred sooner.

But I guess in some ways it can’t be helped as there are more activities this school year that demand my undivided attention [...]

 There have been no posts in the past two days because of preparation for going to a two-day seminar on bringing to life the guiding principles in the campus in the hills of green, and the first day of the seminar. 

It was only now though that I’ve had the chance to write a long post. [...]