goodbye

goodbye dorm,
goodbye internet.
goodbye grade,
goodbye graduation.
goodbye review,
goodbye board exam.
goodbye tech exam,
goodbye interview.
goodbye job offer,
goodbye work.
goodbye all.

procrastinating and bored to death

guess where i am. same as last night, actually. but so far, i have accomplished NOTHING!!! except the two blog entries, and a bit of accounting for my project/thesis reimbursement. oh and yeah, bonding with booh bear. i cannot believe pinagpalit ko pinsan ko na babalik na sa canada at hindi ko man lang nakita since umalis, for the weekend that i'm spending right now. hmmm... mali yata ang sentence construction. anyway, i was just checking out some stuff on blogthings.com (you can blame the volcano for this) and now i have decided to watch a movie instead of work on my last module. hah! and i thought my previous entry would have been my last for this sem. i guess i was wrong, as always. and here's the proof, hahahaha!

Your Brain is 66.67% Female, 33.33% Male

Your brain leans female You think with your heart, not your head Sweet and considerate, you are a giver But you're tough enough not to let anyone take advantage of you!

What Gender Is Your Brain?

Your Love Style is Pragma

You believe love is logical - or at least it should be You've thought a lot about what you want from someone And to say you have a checklist would be an understatement You may even have a plan for how you will fall in love All you've got to do is meet the perfect person!

What's Your Love Style?

You Are 20% Extrovert, 80% Introvert

You are quite reserved You aren't afraid of social situations... But you very much prefer to go it alone And why not? You're your own best friend!

Are You An Extrovert or An Introvert?

You Are 45% Normal (Somewhat Normal)

While some of your behavior is quite normal... Other things you do are downright strange You've got a little of your freak going on But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself

How Normal Are You?

You Are Best Described By...

San Giorgio Maggiore, Twilight By Claude Monet

What Famous Work of Art Are You?

acknowledgments

To my God, my Savior, Jesus Christ, without You I am nothing.

To my family, Daddy, Mommy, Magoo, Cooki, Anjik, thank you for your undying love and unwavering support, and for always believing in me, even if the miles have separated us for years on end.

To my adviser, Dr. Ramos, thank you for being patient with me and for guiding me in the right path towards the completion of my project.

To my reader, Sir Magpantay, thank you for patiently going through my paper and for the constructive criticism you have pointed out.

To my faculty consultants, Sir Burgos, Sir Magpantay, Sir Pedrasa, Sir Escoto, Ma'am Libby, thank you for allowing me to ambush you with my questions.

To my student consultants, Alex, Jeff, Prem, thank you for allotting a portion of your time to answering my emails, text and instant messages, and thank you for dropping by the lab.

To my labmates, Elmer, Tin, Chrissa, Meinard, Sheryl, Lomag, Frank, thank you for the encouragement, those unforgettable ranting and laughing moments, and for all the tips you shared with me as I worked on my project.

To my dormmates, Aleta, Millette, Rhea, Lyndree, Ivy, Che, Frances, Chari, Jennifer, Allen, June, thank you for those sleepless nights, reserved for movie marathons and pillow talks about life, in general, and for making sure I get my share of dorm food.

To my favorite band, Little Yellow Mustard Seed, Eigen, Jojee, Mighty, Pia, Ian, Aileen, thank you for the music and for sharing with me the passion of serving God.

To UP Dormitories Christian Fellowship, thank you for the prayers, even if I seem to have disappeared from the dorm. To UP Saligan, thank you for bringing Iligan closer to Diliman.

To Andrew, Mandie, Suzanne, Corilyn, Pebbles, Mark, Ate Yahnee, Kuya Godwin, thank you for keeping me awake during my work-a-thon nights, through the wonderful world of instant messaging, and for bringing back the sanity I let go of when I feel down.

To my cousins, Manong Lee, Manong Q, Manong Nico, Manong Cipi, Manong Myko, Ate Maybelle, Maita, Leon, Niki, Joel, Kichi, Lisa, and to my Titas and Titos, thank you for always reminding me that there's more to life than school and work.

To my friends, Aldine, Valynn, Sealdi, Norhana, Janina, Hie, Hazel, Rose, Ilian, your friendship has meant a lot to me, thank you for crossing that virtual overpass to Philcoa from Sanggumay, KNL, Libis, Makati, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro and Iligan.

To my blockmates, Genesis, Erol, Jayson, JP, Teng, Jeff, and my pseudo-blockmates, Deejay, Ryan, Louie, Lowie, thank you for sharing with me the hardships and triumphs of life in the EEE department of the country's premier university.

To Athan, for being my best friend, for supporting me in my aspirations in life, for the time we've spent enjoying life together, thank you for getting me out of my shell, and thank you for the time we've spent apart, to work on our respective projects.

To all those who have helped me in one way or another, thank you for sharing your resources with me and for simply being there for me.

the irony of a signed document

submitting the hard bound copy of one's thesis must be one of the highlights of a college student's life. for most, it is the culmination of a year or so of hard work and dedication, not to mention discipline (or the lack of it, due to procrastination), and the many sleepless nights spent in front of the pc, writing the final documentation, or wasting away in chat rooms, blog pages and movie marathons.

yesterday, i submitted 3 maroon colored, hard bound, 40 pages of near non-sense, along with a cd copy of my project's ingredients and by-products, so to speak. unfortunately, because of my short-term memory loss, i failed to include the hardware part of my project. i shouldn't feel too bad about it because it is safely tucked in the recesses of the server in our lab, however, i feel so irresponsible and incompetent.

now let me tell you that my hard bound project documentation has already been signed for recommendation by my adviser as well as my reader. and it has been approved by our department head, who, fortunately for me, is my very own adviser. in a sense, i'm way ahead of my batch. however, since my project still has some modules that i need to work on, i might not be able to attend our graduation rites this april.

the deadline of submission of grades for graduating students is on april 5 and i don't know what grade will appear on my classcard if i don't finish my project by then. my adviser told me to attend to my other subjects first because i already have a grade for my thesis. i just have to complete my last module. unfortunately, i'm too much of a coward to try to play with my hardware again. for one, it's 90% complete. secondly, i'm afraid i might destroy what i have finished.

i don't want to do anything that will make me go through what happened the weekend before my final presentation. i had to do a major overhaul on my project just because i decided to use a different protocol for master-slave communication. my initial testing has been successful until i let my setup rest. when i tried test my setup again, it wouldn't work anymore. and then my power supply bummed out. my adviser and i had to spend 2 whole days together figuring out a way to improve it.

anyway, another problem is that i will be really busy this week. on monday, i have an exam in makati, on tuesday, an interview in ortigas, on wednesday i have to pack because i'm leaving the dorm on thursday, and on friday, i have another exam in makati. so i have until sunday to work on my project if i don't want to disappoint my parents and all my expecting relatives.

on the lighter side, i found a very good excuse to enjoy my finals days (and nights) at the lab, and on a weekend at that. but the thing is, since i will be missing my unlimited internet connection from the dorm, i decided to do some blogging first. and this morning, i went to the pool for my last swim as a college student. of course, i plan to visit next school year.

sigh, i lost my focus. my title might not be that appropriate anymore, but i would like to stick with it. as this might as well be my last entry until i get a job with a not so strict internet connection, i would like to point out that the first entry of this blog was written on a day just like today. it was a saturday and i went swimming in the morning. i spent most of the day with booh bear and then i concluded my day in front of the pc, blogging and surfing, mostly, hehe.

i do hope the days to come will be my last days as a college student. please pray that i will be able to finish my project by tomorrow evening, or before sunrise on monday, at the latest. thank you so much. take care you all. i will miss having this as a way to release my tension and stress. and i will miss you all.

unlimited

what has the world come to? after sun's 24/7 came smart's 258 and now globe has its own unlimited call&text feature. i didn't believe it at first, when i read about it in one of my emails, but just now, an old friend from the department called. and we talked for what seemed like an hour. of course, the limit is at 30 minutes, but then our conversation only got cut because my battery ran out. hahaha!

last christmas, i've heard rumors from my relatives that this would be come around february this year but the news never got out so i thought it was just hearsay and that those emails were just a hoax. anyway, if those telecomminucations companies think they could waste bandwidth over voice calls and text messaging, i hope they'd think about bulk data, too. i will be leaving the dorm soon and i have no idea how i'll survive without my pc being connected to the internet. so there!