i'm alive !!!

after locking myself up in the lab for the last three days/weeks, i'm surprised i'm still up and about. its weird because i don't feel all that sleepy. but my bio-clock is a mess! i've been sleeping 3 hours midnight-inclusive and another 3 hours sunrise-inclusive for the last three days/weeks. i've been in front of the pc all day/week/month/sem, or make that two PCs, plus my beloved Mitsubishi RVM1 robot arm. the two PCs are about 10 feet apart and i have been walking to and fro between both PCs everyday since i finished working on my hardware enclosure. that was around mid-february. anyway, during the last three days, i promised myself i won't visit my friends' blogs so as not to distract me from my work. i am proud to say that i successfully kept this promise BUT i did visit my cousin's blog last night (i think). so here are the highlights of my anti-overnight, 198 campaign:

sunday night: bulag, pipi at bingi. Jesus healed them all. He even brought Lazarus back from the dead. ako ba'y isang bulag, pipi o bingi? o patay na ba ako? and my sister sent me a very sentimental text message. but i'll keep that to myself (and to booh bear).

monday & tuesday: working with daddy doc. panic mode. but who's panicking? not ME! nakakatuwa kasi tinulungan ako ng adviser ko. twice niya pa ko sinabihan, "magpahinga ka naman." sagot ko naman, "hindi sir ok lang po ako. kung magpahinga kasi ako di ko matatapos to." but then he reassured me, "ok lang yan. wag mo masyado problemahin. matatapos mo yan." kainis lang kasi later sabi nya ang tagal ko daw maayos yung boards ko. ang gulo niya!

tapos minsan he joked, "ano uwian na ba?" as in, give up na ba ako? kasi ayaw gumana eh. sabi ko, "ok lang, kung hindi talaga eh di wag pilitin." tho kainis kasi gumana na yun before pa! then he said, "sige mag-iisip ako ng rason." so slow naman ako. rason pala na sasabihin niya sa panel, kung bakit di ko natapos yung project ko. so touched naman ako, idedefend niya pala ako. di ko inexpect talaga.

tingin ko nahahalata niya na pagod na ako. kasi kahit yung simpleng katangahan ko, nagbibigay na siya ng tips kung pano ko i-debug. sabi pa niya nung minsan, "break ka muna. illogical ka na mag-isip eh." hahahahaha! nakakatuwa talaga!

tuesday night: the test of friendship. i mentioned a friend from the previous post. again, sinamahan niya ako sa lab until the wee hours of the morning habang nag-iisip kung pano ko aayusin yung mga kapalpakan ng project ko. panic mode na nga! 8.20 am yung presentation ko. nakakainis talaga kasi ok na lahat nung weekend, after ng 4th rewire ko. kasibagong protocol na ang gagamitin ko for my master-slave interface. anyway, tinulungan niya din ako sa slides ko at nagmock present ako sa kanya at sa sarili ko. tawag ko na nga sa kanya, my personal student consultant and secondary adviser. sa kanya ko kasi tinatanong lahat ng hindi ko alam sa project ko (hardware especially) lalo na nung proposal pa lang ako. malay ko ba sa encoder signals at limit switch na yan. kaya yun. mega salamat, former-blockmate, now-isolate!!!

wednesday: the morrow that came. natulog ako around 4am. set the alarm to 7am. but no! i ignored it until 7.30 and lay there waiting for my clock to register 8am, actual time: 7.45am! then biglang bangon without fixing my beddings (first time sa lab!) then ligo. buti pinauna ako nung another blockmate ko kasi 8.40 pa sked niya. pagbaba ko, kararating lang ng panel ko. pero dumaan muna sila sa faculty room. nandun din labmates ko, who supposedly coudln't make it. mega salamat sa paglinis ng lab! sobrang sori sa kalat sa inner room. haha. natulog pa ko after ng presentation. dapat til 7am lang may beddings sa lab. buti hinayaan nila ako. and they closed the door para di ko marinig ingay nila. bait talaga. mega suporta ito! sana lang sabihan na ako ng adviser ko kung ano na para makagawa na ulit. kasi i got two exams next week kaya sana at least 2 weeks extension ko. di enough ang 1 week for me eh. kaya yun. eto bumabawi lang ako sa blog. and now, it's time to rest.