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.

Seafood Pasta and Green Mango Shake

Last October 15, 2007, the Rotaract Club had Medical Mission with the Rotary Club of Laguna Technopark at Timbao Elementary School. There were lots of people who went there and but it was fun. It was only a half-day event and we went to Paseo after. Before we have our lunch, we went first to Neospot because there was no internet in school. We ate our lunch in Guilly’s at around one-thirty in the afternoon. I ordered Seafood Pasta and Green Mango Shake. I knew that the serving is bigger there. However, I didn’t expect that it is good for two persons. It was only the two of us and we both ordered the same. We should’ve ordered different pasta. We were surprised that we were given little plates. We have a hint that the serving is big and we find it okay, we were hungry anyway. We finished our pasta and shake but we were not able to have dessert because we were so full.

The serving is wider than me... :)

Out of School Youth

Nowadays, many youths are not in school. Some causes of this are lack of motivation, financial problems, and other additional factor. In addition to these, their living environment can also be a cause. In fact, if these youth are with people with no thought of going to school or having a bright future, they can be more prone to being included in the out of school youth.

Being an out of school youth is not the last part of the situation. Furthermore, it is just a phase in their lives. Many graduates are unemployed, therefore it is more likely that those who didn’t finished schooling will also be unemployed. Nevertheless, we can’t still say that out of school youth have no bright future. In fact, they may be luckier to get a decent job. However, they may encounter hard time because of their lack of experience and training. For instance, they work with those professionals and expect them to do more than their capabilities. They can easily be fired if the employer thinks that the employees are incapable.

Being an out of school youth is not an excuse for not doing well in life, therefore one must really strive hard to surpass some struggles. In addition, hard workers are well compensated in the future as long as they have goodness in their hearts.