Milk tea or Iced tea?

That was my status message when I went home. I don't know what went to my mind that made me change my Available status message with that. I have been very busy with school works and everything. I feel very tired but it's not a reason for me to slack off. I just want to rest and get some sleep. There are a lot of things in my head right now and I can't focus on anything. I think I want to close my eyes and relax. I want to lie down because my neck and back is aching. But I can't do that because I still have so many deadlines. My subjects this term requires more reading. It's fine with me because I can't enhance my reading comprehension. Unfortunately, I am frequently experiencing migraine lately. I have no time to go to ophthalmologist to have my astigmatism checked because I have more important things to do. My time for doing school work last week was not that much because I encountered some minor accident that I have to take care. I was really glad that there was no major damage. (Thank God!) This week will be a very hectic and tiring. I pray that God will grant me patience for everything and that I will not have a HB (high blood) attack. It will be more tiring and stressful if I don't feel really good. I hope God will grant me strength to do my best and to finish everything. I want to sleep... but I can't...

Vacation Hang-over

The short vacation was really short for me. I brought some school work at home but unfortunately I was not able to do anything at all. At least I have the intention in doing so. Hehehehe. Monday after that short vacation was our group's scheduled reporting. I really crammed that morning to internalize my part because I just browsed through the topic the night before. I can't understand our report even I've read it more than ten times already. Maybe because I still have the vacation hang-over.

I think we did okay during our report. I like what I felt after our report last Monday because I think ( I really hope so...) I was able to discuss properly my topic unlike my report two weeks ago which I really prepared. I practiced how to present my discussion many times and I even memorized my seven-page report doing it. Maybe being prepared doesn't make us do well all the time. I guess I just have to accept everything that is happening and what will happen to me. :)

Chocolate wafer stick

One of my favorite chocolate snacks is chocolate wafer sticks. There are many brands of wafer sticks that are coming out today. Aside from that, additional flavors are being made like pandan, orange, and other more. Before, there was only chocolate. Strawberry and Vanilla flavors were not yet that popular.

Superstix and other brands were not yet introduced before. Popular brands were Champola and Giziku. Maybe there were other more but those two were the only brands that I used to buy. Stick-O was not yet known during that time.

I was happy that Giziku is still active. It is not that I don’t like Stick-O or Superstix. It is just that I prefer Giziku more because of how I eat wafer sticks. I eat wafer sticks by eating first the outer layer of the stick towards the inner layer. The layers of Giziku wafer sticks are easier to peel than any other wafer sticks. My Giziku wafer stick is still in one piece after I removed the outer layers. I suggest that you try this also if you have time. Hehehehe

2n in 2n

(First picture on my birthday)

Ever since I started college, I don’t spend my birthday at home. It is not that I live so far away from home. I am not living at our house during school days that’s why I spent my birthdays in school. I am not sad anyway.

This year I spent my birthday away from my home. It was okay with me because I was useful during my birthday. I helped cooked during NSTP camp. The Cooking Bosses are Master Chef = Ms. H, Master Rice Cooker = Ms. Dianne, and Master Butler = Ms. Sche. Early in the morning we cooked longanisa. The THM room smelled really good while we were cooking. Our lunch was more delicious because we cooked dried fish. We cooked tinolang manok for dinner. My favorite part was when we were cleaning the chicken at the sink. Hehehehehe

(Campers' lunch)

We used all the gas stoves in THM room.

I don’t have any plans of going out but a friend joked that I buy her ice cream. It was my birthday anyway so I bought a small can of ice cream for us.

Dinner Delivery

We don’t feel like eating can goods and frozen dinner tonight. So, we decided to call Brother’s Burger delivery instead. I think I was really that hungry because I absent-mindedly ordered Big Brother instead of Brother’s Burger. I was complaining that I was already full yet I haven’t finished my burger. It was only when I was thirsty that I realized I ordered the wrong burger. Well, anyway, that’s life.

My dinner...


Genica's...

LAN in class

Our professor said that LAN games started with counterstrike. I believe him even though I don’t play any LAN games. I mentioned this because last October 16, we did our own LAN game in class. We connected three computers in a switch and we tried playing counterstrike. It was nice because we were learning as we were playing. We were able to learn that it was not difficult to connect all the computers in a computer shop. The computers should have been four unfortunately there was one unit which has some technical problems. We could’ve played two-on-two that time. It was okay anyway because we have a small class and we don’t need so many computer units. I am wishing that we can perform more practical applications in that class.

This is my classmate playing counter strike on widescreen.

October 19, 2007

I woke up early and attended my class. We didn’t use up all the time in my first class so we were dismissed early. In my second class, we discussed about the guidelines in making a research paper. We still have a lot of time left before our class is over so we decided to play “silent dodge ball.” It was really fun because it’s a ball game but we were not allowed to make any noise. Controlling our shouting and excitement was a challenge. We didn’t have a lesson in my next class. Instead we helped connecting local area networking (LAN) cables for the programming competition on the following day. Measuring the length of the wires was easier than cutting and crimping because some of the tools were not sharp anymore. By the way, crimping is placing the two plastic ends of a LAN cable. That two plastic ends were also called as RJ45. The most exciting part was crimping because we have to make sure that all the wires in the LAN cable was properly connected. May last class was about Safety. Coincidentally, we were discussing about safety when we heard the news about what happened at G2. It was really sad. Our professor again reminded us to always be safe.

This evening was also the first of evening of the NSTP camp. We are hoping for a fun, exciting, and educational camp.

This was how the Media Lab looked like when we were placing LAN cables.