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My Johari window

A Johari window is a cognitive psychological tool created by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955 in the United States, used to help people better understand their interpersonal communication and relationships. It is used primarily in self-help groups and corporate settings as a heuristic exercise.

When performing the exercise, the subject is given a list of 55 adjectives and picks five or six that they feel describe their own personality. Peers of the subject are then given the same list, and each pick five or six adjectives that describe the subject. These adjectives are then mapped onto a grid.

Ang ganda nito for team building and stuff no?

I have my own dito sa site na to. Suuper tagal na nito di ko nauupdate ahehe.

Paupdate naman guys! I'd appreciate your input!

http://kevan.org/johari?name=Mau+Hernandez

thanks

so far, this is how it looks.

Arena (known to self and others) cheerful, clever, idealistic, independent, logical	Blind Spot (known only to others) accepting, bold, calm, confident, dependable, energetic, extroverted, friendly, happy, helpful, intelligent, kind, knowledgeable, mature, organised, powerful, reflective, relaxed, responsive, self-assertive, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, silly, spontaneous, trustworthy, wise, witty
Façade (known only to self) observant	Unknown (known to nobody) able, adaptable, brave, caring, complex, dignified, giving, ingenious, introverted, loving, modest, nervous, patient, proud, quiet, religious, searching, shy, sympathetic, tense, warm

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (3%) adaptable (0%) bold (15%) brave (0%) calm (3%) caring (0%) cheerful (42%) clever (7%) complex (0%) confident (46%) dependable (19%) dignified (0%) energetic (42%) extroverted (19%) friendly (42%) giving (0%) happy (30%) helpful (7%) idealistic (3%) independent (38%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (23%) introverted (0%) kind (3%) knowledgeable (19%) logical (26%) loving (0%) mature (3%) modest (0%)nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (3%) patient (0%) powerful (3%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (7%) relaxed (3%) religious (0%) responsive (7%) searching (0%) self-assertive (3%) self-conscious (3%) sensible (15%) sentimental (3%) shy (0%) silly (11%) spontaneous (26%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (23%) warm (0%) wise (7%) witty (42%)

Created by the Interactive Johari Window on 5.8.2008, using data from 26 respondents.
You can make your own Johari Window, or view Mau Hernandez's full data.

Eraseheads Reunion confirmed!

From Ate Joy's Post and also from a friend who has a friend who has an "eyeball"connection with one of the former E-heads cast.

Anyway there is a Philippines Star online article that confirms the reunion http://www.philstar.com/archives.php?&aid=2008071263&type=2&

It's slated for August 30 at the CCP Open Grounds. A one night only concert where they will be performing their classic hits!

Also, confirmed by one of the members of the band. Its supposed to be hush hush as of the moment because the details haven't been ironed out yet...

but YES! THERE WILL BE A REUNION!!!!

AYEN! KUYA BYRON! MAGIPON NA TAYO!!!!

Kahit gabi ito ng boards exams manonood ako!!! Hahahaha!

Help me change my nickname

    I've decided to change my nickname.

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Why? Well its kinda awkward to possess a monicker that sounds exactly the same as your boss',

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So here's a poll for you, my friends, to vote for a nickname for me.

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Vote kayo lahat! Para fun!

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Kung alin mang vote ang manalo..... Yun ang gagamitin ko hehehe unless it happens na the name is so absurd, then depende na lang kung ano mananalo.

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Seryoso guys ha.

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Sa mga nagtatanong kung bakit ako magpapalit ng nickname:

Kasi magbabago na ako ng personality. O ha! Parang damit lang!

hehehe

Well seriously, kasi pareho kami ng nickname ng soon to be boss ko. So to avoid confusion, eh magpapalit na lang ako ng nickname. hehehe

Saka parang ang cool din na iba-iba ang tawag sakin everywhere. At least when somebody calls me, I'd have an idea kung saan kami unang nagkita.

Okiba yung reason?

Vote na!

Kahit wala kang multiply account you can still vote!

ito yung link

http://lavendercrystal.multiply.com/journal/item/73/Gimme_a_NEW_NICKNAME_final_update

Clam Reseeding Activity: open for everyone

According to sir Andre:

If hindi diver, but willing to snorkel...you can help move the clams from the holding pool to the sea and then watch from above as the divers place the clams. There will also be a short input and discussion with the giant clam experts from MSI who are in charge of the breeding and transport of clams.  You can also discuss with the local managers who have been protecting and building up a stock of clams (so that they will reach a reproductively viable population)

Even if hindi snorkeler, there is a jetty from which you can see so many colorful fishes swimming already.

I am not sure when there will be other opportunities to join a similar activity, they pop up every couple or so years I guess but the potential participants would vary from one occasion to the next--this particular time it's open.

Invite:

For those who might be interested in joining a giant clam reseeding activity in Dive and Trek, Bauan, Batangas on May 31-June 1.

P3,100 per person (for one overnight including meals and insurance) (free use of SCUBA gear--if licensed diver--or snorkelling gear if not)

P5,500 to adopt-a-clam (you get a certificate of adoption and the clam is tagged with the name of your choice) (I'm not sure what other benefits you get whenever you come back to check on your clam at the resort but I think there might be some discounts)

Punta tayo guys!

contact me na lang hehehe.

an unfortunate event

1 o’clock am, I was writing an article about adoption for one of my rakets. 10 kilometers away, in a hospital an event was happening that I was totally unaware of.

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My cousin died this morning, at

Jose

Reyes

Medical

Center

, as a result of the aftermath of her chemotherapy treatment, she had ovarian cancer.

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Her remains arrived around 7pm after being sent to the funeral parlor. I haven’t seen it yet. I feel like seeing it would be finally admitting that she is dead. When I found out this morning, at around 9am, I was completely dumbfounded, and all I can say is, until now, I still haven’t accepted her death.

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Maybe because deep inside, I knew she’d survive. She was a strong woman, one of the daredevils of the family. She learned to drive at 15 years old and would take their van out from under her father’s nose to practice drive. She braved every feature of

Enchanted

Kingdom

and

Star

City

whenever we’d go there for Christmas, and is one of the persons insisting on going to

Splash

Island

in the summer to brave the 4 story slides.

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The cancer was unexpected, at first she thought she was pregnant, then it turned out to be something worse.

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It was really surprising because the battle wasn’t very long. It was only her second chemotherapy session. Yet after the first, she already looked like death.

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Truth is, I feel guilty, because I never did anything to help, never offered any.

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We used to be really close my cousins and

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when we were young, because we all lived in the same compound, we would always play together.

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When we got a little bit older, we would go to family outings, hence the

Star

City

and

Splash

Island

trips. Her and my older sister with a help from her younger brother Jhe would convince to Ery to take us swimming. Or she’d borrow the van from her dad so we could go to

Star

City

.

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When we got a bit older still, we started to fall apart. We started to have our own worlds. We’d still get together during Christmas, New Year and Fiestas though; where we’d always try to rent a videoke machine so that we’d enjoy the night. Aileen was always the one taking care of the videoke, from finding a place to rent, to fetching it from there. In our generation, and of those cousins still living in our small compound, she was the only one who could drive, so she would always be assigned the fetching and the driving.

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She gave me a friendster testimonial, and now I feel so guilty that I never gave her one. That it is only now that I explore her good side.

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Everybody was so sure that she’d survive. Nobody really took it seriously. Now I guess everyone has guilt feelings for it.

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It’s the first night of her burol. I was expecting relatives to arrive by the dozens, but I really didn’t expect them to arrive today. Not when I myself haven’t accepted her death.

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I was nice to see familiar faces that I haven’t seen in years as well as to see new faces that I’ve never seen before. My cousins, nephews and nieces they’re all here right now. Reminiscing, talking about how everybody’s been talking about what-ifs and the like. It would be really nice if it wasn’t for the event that made it possible.

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I make it a point not to look at a corpse in a coffin, there’s something eerie about it for me. Especially if the person I am looking at is someone I know. I hope I get to look at her one last time though, and properly apologize.

Fun in the Sun Before the Exam

Well here's my promised Puerto Galera entry and then some.
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Anyway my adventure started friday when I came home from school early to arrange my stuff and finish what i have to finish before I go to Puerto Galera. Apparently some articles i wrote earlier for a raket turned out to be unsatisfactory so I had to repeat some of them. And then same night, I recieved article assignments from another bossing requiring me to pass them on Sunday.
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Well since I can't pass up the opportunity to earn the cash (which by the way would pay for my Puerto trip and some other ones) I finished those 3 articles that same night prompting me to pass on the z's for that evening.
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Having just finished editing and rewriting articles about Pilates and foot pain (ick!) I went to pack a 2 day duffel bag for the Puerto trip. It was about 3:45 am. I also made it a point to call up my two beach companions so they'll wake up on time to fetch me at 5am.
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And well just as expected, the 5am deadline wasn't met and I was fetched at around 5:45. And if any of the readers know me when I lack sleep, I'm either a B!TCH or an angel, that morning I was a B!TCH. Maybe because of the fact that I really really REALLy could've used the extra hour sleep had I know that we were going to depart late.
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Anyway enough of that. Trying to sleep on the way was b!tchier than me because I can't seem to sleep.... I wonder why. <sarcastic>
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We were still figuring out how to get to Puerto Galera on the road. All three of us were first timers, so we were referring to the set of instructions that I got from the internet. And miraculously, after 3 hours of watching out for signs, b!tching and catching up on stuff, we were finally able to get to Batangas pier, pay a hefty parking and tricycle fee and finally wiggle ourselves into the waiting area of the ferry.
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And as if we weren't irresponsible enough about not knowing how to get there, we also don't have room reservations. Well it was the internet and my foresight to the rescue once again, as I did also research some contacts numbers for places to stay on the beach.
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Unfortunately the place was full-up and we couldn't find an affordable place that still accepted guests. Fortuntely, there was this number for a residential area that was pretty close to the beach. We thought we'd take it instead of sleeping in the sand, so we did for 1,500 pesos a night.
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Our ferry was delayed 15 minutes according to the P.A. system, but in actuality, it was delayed 45 minutes. When we were finalyl able to board, the suppposedly 10:30 am boat ride was left at approximately 11:15 into the unforgiving sea.
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Why unforgiving? Well, as luck would have it it was a particularly wavy time of the day and most of the passengers were at the point of hurling midway into the ferry ride. The start was kinda enjoyable, it was kinda riding anchors away, and some people were actually wooting and asking for more, but after 45 minutes of getting tossed and turned, you wouldn't feel good either.
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It was around 1pm when we finally arrived at white sand beach, totally regretting what we got into and wanting to just get to our place and go to sleep first before enjoying the boat laden, people brimming, 36 degree beach.
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We took refuge from the noon sun at a nearby souvenir shop where I instantly lost all trace of seas-sickness at the sight of  capiz earrings.
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Unfortunately, the short burst of eenjoyment wasn't to be as we were taken by our contact to the house. It was clean but it was a bit frugal and a bit far from the beach. WE had to cross a smelly kanal to the house. And we had to share the bathroom with the dwellers. No hot shower, no aircon. it's good that the room was cool enough sso we had a brief lie down to get rid of the sickness and the disappointment of the trip.
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Half accepting that we'll be spending the trip to Puerto Galera sleeping on the the bed, we stood up and got dressed in our swimsuits to make the most of the trip and headed straight back to the souvenir shop to do some shopping.
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After shopping we went for lunch, which at first sounded pretty expensive, but turned out to be a feast. The chicken I ordered was skewered and barbecued on a 2 ft. long metal rod and even if I didn't eat rice, I was really full by the time I finished.
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We proceded to look for someone who'll take us snorkelling. Because at that time it was already past 3pm, it was hard looking for a boat because the common schedule of snorkelling was 1-3pm and 3-6 pm.
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Fortunately we found one in the person of mamang nakablue who took us on for snorkelling together with seven other people (who we were sitting next to at the ferry waiting area by the way). We went out to sabang beach if I'm corerct and found a blue starfissh, some scary looking living thing that had white string like tentacles that spread over the ocean floor, a few butterfly fishes, a lot of groupers of different colors, a scary looking tentacle like arm of what seemed to be a plant, no jellyfishes but about 15 sea urchins.
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I managed to teach tere how to snorkel, and partly teach yocz how to dive with her snorkel on.
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We collected smooth rocks, (which by the way i wasn't able to take home because I forgot them in the room) and weren't able to go banana boating because we came back fro snorkelling too late in the night.
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The snorkelling trip was enjoyable especially when we all tried to simultaneoussly hsow each other some fascinating thing we saw under the ocean. It was expecially fun whenever somebody blurts out that she just swallowed a mouthful of (very salty) sea water.
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Getting back to the island, we almost forget to pay manong nakablue for the trip. change into drier clothes without changing the swimsuits and went for dinner. By the way I saw this guy who looked so much like mike Shinoda I couldn't resist staring at him... and he caught me staring. hahahaha.
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Anyway we looked for a bar and ordered a pitcher of mindoro sling. It was kinda early so we ditched the bar, bought some shirts and took the rest of the pitcher to the beach where we sat, tipsy still drinking, taking pictures and making a complete fool of ourselves.
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After downing the mindoro sling, we went to the tent where orange and lemons were supposed to be playing, but thought it was gonna be too full of people and we were all tired anyway. So we decided to finally call it a night and proceeded to go back to our house.
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Well apparently it wasn't the end of the night because I suddenly hear someone calling out to me, and it was some alumni from my org. WE exchanged a few words and said our goodbyes and went back to our room.
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Back in the room, Thet and I felt that the night wasn't enough, but Tere was down for the count. So thet and i resolved to find my alumni friends to join them hehehe, after all, we thought, the more the merrier.
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So we went back to the beach trying to find them but we couldn't. So we went to the orange and lemons concert only to find out that it was already full to the brim. WE went to the livelier part of the beach and got ourselves some beer and just walked along the beach, and whaddaya know, we found the peoplewe were looking for.
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They just finished a pitcher of Mindoro sling and we joined them for another one. We downed it in 5 minutes. After that, I was already drunk harhar and joyce (one of the alumni) and I talked about the last tym we both were drunk and laughed soo much about it. The others availed of the massage from ate masahista when Thet finally wanted to call it a night because we had to go back to manila early because she had to drive.
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We decided that I could stay with my orgmates and she and tere ould go home. So me and Atan took her to our lodging so that I could get the key from her so that I could go home later. At that point the idea of getting left behind was starting to sound like a bad idea so I did a coin toss to decide what I should do. The coin said I should go back to Manila with thet.
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So I told Atan I wasn't going back with him, (sorry tlaga!) and we finally went to sleep.
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We were supposed to wake up at 4am so that we could be back to Manila by 9am, but as luck wasn't on our side on that trip, we woke up at 6:45am, with bad moods, and in my case, a bad hangover.
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We got a ferry ticket for 7:30 am packed really fast, got some medicine for the hangover and the seasickness and went on the two hour boat ride.
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The way home was pretty peaceful, maybe because I was asleep most of the time. But Tere and Thet had a waving and pacute session with two guys in a lancer along SLEX.
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We lost them when we turned to get breakfast and coffee at KFC and starbucks.
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That was the fun in the sun part, but when I finally arrived home,  it was only to find out that my neices are  visiting and  as usual, I was expected to help in taking care of them.
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So it would be safe to say that I didn't get any sleep either when I got home. Then the next day, it was another day of class and org stuff. We had to wait for Halley until 8pm, because we can't leave the extremely important items at the tambayan. It was really bad timing because I still had 4 problem sets for ES11 and 4 problem sets for ChE 123. I  wasn't able to do it at the tambayan too because I had to help in the sorting of the papers and the PET bottles.
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I went home with Len, but not before getting some sushi and calamares at the sulu hotel. Len had this gift cheque that would expire April 30 so we had to claim it. It's good that the sushi tasted really good. I took it home and my father's craving for sushi because of it.
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And now I am sleepless and swamped with work. Why is that so when today's a holiday? Well, my neices are still here and my mom's at work and my sister's constantly finding some other type of work that would prompt her to ask me to take care of the baby for a "few minutes". So i wasn't able to find a decent continuous time to gatehr my thoughts to do and plan for the simultaneous FOPC GA and two house to house trips, problem sets for ES 11 and ChE 123  and the 2nd ES 11 exam.
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Just my luck huh?
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Truly, now that I've written all of this while comtemplating yet another sleepless night, I wonder if the recently concluded friday the 13th is getting back at me for the unusually good luck I got that day.
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*sigh
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Well now that that's all vented out... back to work for me.

puerto Galera

went to puerto galera last sat. next tym n lng ung details. basta nasabi kong pumunta kami hehehe. may hangover pa ako from last ny eh so tulog muna. pero nakapost na yung photos here.

Another first

Well it's back to the writing scene again, I just got my first set of writing assignments due on April 24... weeeeeeeeee.
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And getting back to my writing days means getting back to writing this blog. This blog is kind of the vein that drains all of the poisonous stuff that comes into my body whenever I write for profit or for work, whether it be for a subject, for a raket or for somebody else, this blog is my drain and my readers... well your kind of the wastewater treatment plant... hehehe.
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Well back to che 123, I have an exam tommorow.

The Curse

It's almost the end of the first week of summer classes and almost time for bloody exams and already people have experienced and shared with me the wrath of a curse that befalls every female known to woman.... PMS.
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For those who don't know what PMS is, please google it, don't make me explain it here.
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Anyway, I think I might've shouted at a few people and consequently, natarayan ang higit pa na mas madaming tao, (wala akong makitang appropriate word for natarayan in the english language eh) during the course of my curse.
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Aside from being short fused, I am also prone to food binging, which is really bad if you're trying to lose weight like me.
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And if those weren't enough, there is also oversleeping waaaaaa. i scheduled myself for a 6 hour sleep today after which I will wake up to do school stuff and other important stuff. Since I choose to sleep the heat away during the afternoon, I sleep during the day and work at night.
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Up until now, that plan worked.... waaaaaaaaa.
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I overslept, now I only have a third of the time I usually reserve for working... waaaaaaaaa.
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Patay...

Blogs and Stuff

I thought it was bad when I stopped doing rakets concerning writing, now I'm not in the mood to write even in my blogs.
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I've been trying to, but i always get distracted.
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So I'm forcing myself to write right now so that I don't get rusty, especially because I'm taking in a new raket this summer which will hopefully continue on through the next year. After all I'll be needing the money for the trip to Puerto and the planned swimming thing that my batchmates at UP are planning.
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Anyway i'm re-organizing my stuff today. It seems my stuff just spontaneousl get disorganized during school season. Most of the time I don't have time to tidy up because either I'm late for class or I need the extra 15 minutes for sleep.
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Usually my room is clean and organized during summer and vacations, but once classes start, well you get the idea.
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Anyway usually, before classes start, I expect the clutter to  come so i renew my organizing strategy. Well it neer seems to work.
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This summer class season, I decided to buy one of those cardboard boxes with labels for my readings. I wanted a pigeon-hole like spot to place my readings and organize them into subjects, but it was just too expensive so I settled for the boxes.
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And I'm also gonna reconstruct my shelf so I can turn it into a study table. I hope it works. i've taken into making my bed my study table, it's okay but it becomes a bother when I'm studying in the middle of the night and suddenly have the inkling to take a power nap which then eventually turns into a full pledged 8 hour sleep and when I do wake up, I'm suddenly cramming to finish what is hould've finished the night before.
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Right now I'm on a rest period, I never knew I had so much paper to organize and to throw away.
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Oh I completely forgot to CRS bash nyahhaha see it in my next entry.

crs bulok

Well my anger and frustration has ebbed tremendously since thursday when i found out that CRS changed the enrollment procedure for this summer. They made it online and they announced it the day before the first day of enrollment!
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Aside from stupidly not informing the students, they also conveniently did not inform the (in my case) engineering administration, the engineering registration commitee, even the other engineering departments, so on the day of registration everybody didn't know what to do.
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The enrollment process used to be, pre-enlist online, go to your department to fetch the your list of pre-enlisted subjects, go to the departments that offer the subjects you want and have them manually (as in written in paper) encode you into the class list, have your reg form checked and then pay.
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they changed it into, pre-enlist online, go to your department to get your list of pre-enlisted subjects, enlist online, print your enlisted subjects, have your subjects checked or they'll be cancelled, pay.
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Now here is the first stupid. If they're going to impose online enlistment, why didn't they just give all the slots during pre-enlistment?
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Stupid no 2: They imposed online enlistment, but the servers for the enlistment isn't able to accomodate all the influx of people logging in. So instead of eliminating lines, they just concentrated all the lines into one BIG line behind the computer center because of stupid no. 3.
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Stupid no. 3: The online enlistment can only be accessed through dilnet but they didn';t provide enlistment computers. As one of my friends said, even if we overloook the blatant miscalculation of bandwidth needs how the hell are people going to access online enlistment? The answer was of course the computer center, where people lined up for hours just to get to the computer terminals only to  find out (after constant window refreshes) that the subjects they want is already full. At least during manual enlistment, you'lll find out your subjects are full the moment they are becuase it's going to be announced when you fall in line for that subject.
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They could have at least informed reg com earlier then maybe regcom would have provided computers at the  engineering lobby or somewhere else. I'm sure other reg com of other colleges would have done the same.
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Stupid no 4: They rushed the implementation. Wi eman what else could oyu conclude from an announcement that came out on the day before registration period and a registration commitee that doesn't know and weren't briefed of the new protocols?
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Personaly I pity the engineering regcom because people ask them for information which they themselves do not know becasue they weren't briefed. So the students end up venting their anger at the regcom. And when the regcom goes to the admin for help, the admin isn't able to help either because, whaddaya know, the admin wasn't  informed either.
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Stupid no. 5 Colleges need to go thorugh tons of paper work and signings just to input subjects into the system. Sometimes colleges get petitions for making osme subjects available for summer. And they get these petitions during registration period itself. Before, one the subject is approved, the department offering that subject can easily release an announcement so that the students can enlist. But now they have to get permission again just so they can input it into CRS. That's ok if the permission is given instantly but it's not and slow permitting is ok if the registration period is long, but the registration period is only for two days.
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Gawd I can go on and on about the stupid things that they failed to foresee. But my day is just going to get ruined.
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Fortunately, due to sheer luck, I was able to enlist ES 11 and Che 123 or else I'm toast.
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i just hope they don't use this  for the 1st sem registration or rather have the common sense not to try anything stupid like it again.

Pangasinan trip

Well despite my previous entry, we got on to going to Bolinao this weekend. The place we went to was good looked good great facilities, but too expensive for my taste. I've got pictures at my multiply site, and also a full review of the place.
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Anyway, after trying to even out my tan lines I ended up having too dark skin. Hehehe it doesn't show in the pictures I uploaded but you see, after we went to the resort, we visited my grandmother at Santiago Island and the boat trip and tricycle trips under the burning sun called all my melanin out.
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Anyway it was fun spending some time with my parents and my sister, I just wished we could've stayed there longer. I was a little disappointed with the beach though, it never got very deep, but the sand in the deep part was more like mud than sand, maybe because the beach was right beside the opening of the River Malinao. The waves never got to the beach because there appeared to be something blocking it off shore. We later found out that the place where the waves end is a deep drop. i tried to go there but I was stopped by the mud-like black sand which was really gross.
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Anyway I just confined myself to looking at the bottom of the about hip-high water where I found lots of shells, a few fish lurking in the dead coral and the newly sprouted seaweed and one dead fish floating into oblivion.
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My feet had it's own share of exfoliation when we walked the beach into Puerto del Sol, which was only a few meters away from Punta Riviera. The waves hit their beach and as far as I know, they don't have the icky muddy sand, weel that's because before I got far enough out into the deeper  part of the water, I was blocked by a WALL OF SEAWEED!
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Here I was thinking that maybe we finally arrived at a better beach. me and my sister, with my neice went further, so as not to be scolded by the Puerto del Sol people, then while my neice enjoyed the deeper water which was full of dead sea weed, I tried to explore the deeper parts. With my goggles on I swam out but before I could get deep enough to practice my swimming skills, there I was tangled in a wall of seaweed. Seriously, I thought I was going to die, it was soooo gross and slimy, I felt like Harry Potter in Goblet of fire when he went thorugh the wall of sea weed, but this was icky and slimy and as far as I know, there were no grindylows.
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Anyway, I got home safely, but not without an allergic attack because I went into the pool. I think I'm allergic to pool chlorine, because i didn't get any allergic reactions from the sea water.
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Owell that's my Ilog Malinao adventure, hopefully we get to go to Patar beach this last weekend of April. Either that or I'm going with my higschool friends to Puerto Galera.... But I'm crossing my fingers because this kind of planned stuff almost always gets cancelled.

Bad Trip

Well i found out yesterday that our outing on Saturday is cancelled. Good now there'll be nothing to look forward to before summer classes, just my luck.
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Also I failed ES 11, and rumor has it, they won't be taking 2nd takers this summer.
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And to top it all off, I gained 3 pounds since I haven't been going to the gym.
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I haaaate it!
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Well at least I've got a new raket, I hope I stay on this one, and I truly hope that i can balance this, execomm duties, acads and everything else that seems to come to my life at worst of times.
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I guess life can only be what you make of it.
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Right now I'm craving an extra cold Venti sized Starbucks Frappucino, unfortunately, the nearest Starbucks is about three rides away if I commute, so I'm sticking to my instant coffee with ice and topped with my just bought, non-fat whipped cream. But it doesn't taste the same so it did little to boost my optimism, but it did keep me awake.
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Anyway, my room's a mess because of the past acad rush from the last week of the semester, and I've been procrastinating ever since to clean it up.
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My mom says my allergies were because my room was... ehem... dirty, but I get allergic reactions everywhere I go recently, heck i wasn't even able to enjoy the FR properly because I started to have really bad allergic reactions to the Pool water.
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Although I am glad that I never was allergic to alcoholic drinks and caffeine, because if I was, I think I'd die.
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Anyway I still have to do some general cleaning in my room, scrub the walls, dust the mattress, vacuum and stuff so that's not really something I'm looking forward to. But at least I have this laptop so I can watch Casablanca and continue my starwars marathon while I clean up. Haaai. Here I go. Thanks for reading my nonsense hehe.

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It's funny when something you're so sure of turns out to be something unexpected.
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Right now I am home alone, not knowing where my parents are (hehe orphan). I just came home from our org's Final Rites and semender hoping that I will arrive at a home where a steaming bowl of something delicious is waiting for me as my dinner, unfortunately, I came home to an empty house and no food. So I had to fend for myself and cook my own dinner.
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Anyway, speaking of the semender, it's kinda sad that there're very few people who attended, maybe because of the wonky schedule which is a sunday-monday overnight event, or maybe because most people still have requirements to finish for acads.
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Well it was kinda fun and tiring at the same time. Of course the applicants were put through a series of tasks that they had to finish before they can be inducted, after the induction was of course the videoke busting singing marathon!
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This was my longest marathon that's org related if memory serves me right. I think i went to sleep at 5am, of course not before I was caught sleeping open mouthed on the chair I was sitting in. hehehe. i also discovered a new way to ruin a perfectly good alcoholic drink... grape juice. We called it gin-ubas, and I don't suggest trying it. Unfortunately we had no choice because it was the only juice available at the 7-11 outlet we bought it from.
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I'm not really in the mood to write, I just thought I had to document the event. heheh.
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Actually I'm hoping that my inspiration comes back in a few days... Well, I kinda need it 'cuz I'm planning on re-entering the writing scene. I desperately need a gig to finance my... ehem summer escapades. Hehehe.
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I'll make sure to document my sumemr escapades too though.

fishies here I come

Well it's almost vacation time and I just can't wait to leave my problems behind with Manila and go to Pangasinan! Whoohooo!
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My mom promised that after we visit my grandma that we could go somewhere we could snorkel. Yeah! Ever since my first time in Anilao, I've been dying to swim in the sea again and watch the fish. Nyahahah finally some water-fun that doesn't require you to go up flights of stair just to feel the fun. *cough splash island cough*
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I miss Splash Island though. We used to go there yearly with my cousins, back one none of them had children. It was the number one choice for summer activity for us.
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I remember going there for the first time and being too afraid to ride the slides. The next time wwe went, I went berserk and won't stop climbiing up the stairs for the slides. nyahahhaha.
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But now, I have to level up, to something more challenging, swimming in water deeper than 20ft! Nyahahaha I'm already excited, and it's this Holy week already!!!
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Anyway, i'm not done with school requirements just yet. I have to finish my 135 paper before Sunday and layout PURGED!, before Sunday as well. And it's already Saturday tommorow.haai.
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Oh well gotta get back to work, as they say, you have to work beofre you can have fun, so off to work I go.