It was the 1st day of classes today… or should I say yesterday… Hmmm…whatever!
I only have two classes or six units this semester. I opted not to take any more than that because last semester was really toxic… neigh! Hellish would be the right term. 9 units of graduate courses and a full time job was like slowly committing suicide. All three subjects took their toll but I am happy to report that I somehow passed all three subjects.
I was kinda hoping that things would be a bit lighter this semester but my hopes were quickly dashed when my first teacher laid out what was in store for us, he actually used up the whole 3 hours talking about different approaches to case studies and the different methods we could use for our reports. When I got to the office earlier this evening I found my 25 mb email account in the red, my professor apparently emailed a lot of the readings for our class. I guess he wants us to start reading up.
Luckily my professor for my 4 to 7 pm class was a no show. Good… or so I thought, I found out later that he or she left us an assignment. We are so supposed to read books 2 and 3 of the Labor code. Damn! This is not going to be a walk in the park.
I got another email again. The same forwarded email I received a couple of days ago. It seems like a message asking me… Why? But its just lines from a TV show that could be nothing more than that, just lines from a TV show. I don’t know how to reply or if I should even do so in the first place. I don’t know, I just don’t know.
Why can’t we just say exactly what we mean? Why do we have to hide behind poetry and lines from TV show to convey what we feel and to ask the questions we wish to ask?
One of my officemates said... It doesnt matter, at least I am not lonely. That got me thinking, is loneliness so bad that you can say "atleast I am not lonely" I don't know why but that sounds so wrong. Sometimes it seems like I'd rather be alone than not be sure.
Sunday, June 20, 2004
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
E-mail blog entry (Test Message)
First post using blogger's emailed posting. I can now post entries on my blog by simply sending an email to my blogger account. Next stop… mobile blogging using my cellphone's WAP / GPRS service
I've also finished signing up my friendly_neighborhood_dementor YM user ID as a free e-mail account in Yahoo. Yahoo is amazing, 100 mb for free... This means additional online storage space for all the junk I need to keep. I now have 4 email accounts with over 160 mb capacity....
The evil empire (Microsoft or MSN) really sucks giving free users only 2 mb of space. They should really smarten up or the competition will leave them behind.
Things only a geek would say…
“Wala kayo sa mouse ko… anong sinabi ng mga optical mouse ninyo sa A4 tech, 5 button, two scroller, optical mouse ko”.
Jay said that…
I've also finished signing up my friendly_neighborhood_dementor YM user ID as a free e-mail account in Yahoo. Yahoo is amazing, 100 mb for free... This means additional online storage space for all the junk I need to keep. I now have 4 email accounts with over 160 mb capacity....
The evil empire (Microsoft or MSN) really sucks giving free users only 2 mb of space. They should really smarten up or the competition will leave them behind.
Things only a geek would say…
“Wala kayo sa mouse ko… anong sinabi ng mga optical mouse ninyo sa A4 tech, 5 button, two scroller, optical mouse ko”.
Jay said that…
Sunday, June 13, 2004
To be or not to be...
It just occurred to me that I am a geek. I was in UP last week with some orgmates eating halo-halo at lutong bahay and we had a small circle talking about stuff. Then Leslie who just started teaching at the College of Engineering, brought up Linux as a topic. Slowly the nine people around us melted away until there was just the two of us talking about computer stuff. Leslie is probably more of a geek himself, he graduated (on time) with a degree in Civil Engineering, passed the board, and is now teaching engineering science while studying for a Masters degree. He teaches fluid mechanics and stuff. And I was selling him the idea of having a yahoo group for his class and maybe having classes in cyber space. Its something I picked up from my classes at SOLAIR.
I’ve never thought of my self as a geek but I can handle my self around computers, I can hardwire a network for playing counter strike, I know what TCP/IP, FTP, and POP3 means, I love reading history books, and I actually used Windows NT 4.0. Does these things make me a geek or am I just a pretender? On the other hand I’m no good with math and I hate coding. In any case I wouldn’t really mind either way…
I also just realized how much effort I actually put into this blog. I could have just simply stayed with Blurty or gotten a livejournal account (like everybody else) but that wouldn’t be cool… Rain, the blog boss, mafia head, and landlord (were paying him to host our blogs) engineered this whole thing. First, my blog (the same with Jay’s and Sonny’s) is a blogger account but its hosted in Rain’s domain. Pride would of course preclude the idea of having my blog as raincontreras.com/user so we had to get our own domain names from .TK and mask the host name with our own domain names. Then there was the avatars and pictures. Jay had to painstakingly teach me how to setup an account at tripod.lycos.co.uk in order to host my pics, which can then be linked to my blog. Then theres Blogrolling for the links. Whew!!! All this effort, and for what… Hey, who knows maybe civil war will erupt and I can be famous like Salam Pax of the famous “Where is Raed” blog, but that’s to far fetched. Me being famous, is far fetched not civil war, not with all the crap going in Congress right now.
I was reading Where is Raed, Salam Pax’s blog. Salam Pax is the famous Baghdad Blogger who gave the world an in the scene point of view of what happened in Iraq before and after the invasion. It’s really funny and insightful. It’s a breath of fresh air after all the teen, angst filled, rants that I’ve come across. Not that it’s all shit out there, there are actually some that are well written and interesting to read. Now if only I had their wit and talent.
I’ve never thought of my self as a geek but I can handle my self around computers, I can hardwire a network for playing counter strike, I know what TCP/IP, FTP, and POP3 means, I love reading history books, and I actually used Windows NT 4.0. Does these things make me a geek or am I just a pretender? On the other hand I’m no good with math and I hate coding. In any case I wouldn’t really mind either way…
I also just realized how much effort I actually put into this blog. I could have just simply stayed with Blurty or gotten a livejournal account (like everybody else) but that wouldn’t be cool… Rain, the blog boss, mafia head, and landlord (were paying him to host our blogs) engineered this whole thing. First, my blog (the same with Jay’s and Sonny’s) is a blogger account but its hosted in Rain’s domain. Pride would of course preclude the idea of having my blog as raincontreras.com/user so we had to get our own domain names from .TK and mask the host name with our own domain names. Then there was the avatars and pictures. Jay had to painstakingly teach me how to setup an account at tripod.lycos.co.uk in order to host my pics, which can then be linked to my blog. Then theres Blogrolling for the links. Whew!!! All this effort, and for what… Hey, who knows maybe civil war will erupt and I can be famous like Salam Pax of the famous “Where is Raed” blog, but that’s to far fetched. Me being famous, is far fetched not civil war, not with all the crap going in Congress right now.
I was reading Where is Raed, Salam Pax’s blog. Salam Pax is the famous Baghdad Blogger who gave the world an in the scene point of view of what happened in Iraq before and after the invasion. It’s really funny and insightful. It’s a breath of fresh air after all the teen, angst filled, rants that I’ve come across. Not that it’s all shit out there, there are actually some that are well written and interesting to read. Now if only I had their wit and talent.
Wednesday, June 9, 2004
Week in Summary
The week went by so fast…
I spent Wednesday of last week, which was my rest day in the office because we had to finish reviewing tickets for the monthly roundtable. I hate rendering OT on my rest day even if it pays double what I would normally get. I value time more than money.
Thursday was a movie marathon day. I saw Harry Potter and the Day after tomorrow last Thursday with Rhanee. Saw Conch with Lisa in Bubba Gump in Greenbelt. Not surprisingly, Conch still hasn’t finished scanning our pictures from Boracay.
I was able to create an online photo album at webshots (http://community.webshots.com) to upload the photos that I recently scanned. I have to admit I got a bit carried away in scanning and uploading my pictures. But what the heck I am going to upload some more. This is the link for my photo albums: http://community.webshots.com/user/ron2lopez
I miss the comfort of commuting. I had to commute last Monday because I had to attend our weekly meeting and calibration and the car was banned from the roads because of the MMDA’s volume reduction scheme. So on Tuesday morning I had to take the bus going home after work. I was able to sleep most of the way. Had I been driving, it would have been a struggle keeping awake. I sometimes wonder if I should really be driving going home after work. I guess this is one of the hazards of working on the night shift. I have had my share of close encounters that was a heartbeat away from becoming a full pledged vehicular accident.
I spent Wednesday of last week, which was my rest day in the office because we had to finish reviewing tickets for the monthly roundtable. I hate rendering OT on my rest day even if it pays double what I would normally get. I value time more than money.
Thursday was a movie marathon day. I saw Harry Potter and the Day after tomorrow last Thursday with Rhanee. Saw Conch with Lisa in Bubba Gump in Greenbelt. Not surprisingly, Conch still hasn’t finished scanning our pictures from Boracay.
I was able to create an online photo album at webshots (http://community.webshots.com) to upload the photos that I recently scanned. I have to admit I got a bit carried away in scanning and uploading my pictures. But what the heck I am going to upload some more. This is the link for my photo albums: http://community.webshots.com/user/ron2lopez
I miss the comfort of commuting. I had to commute last Monday because I had to attend our weekly meeting and calibration and the car was banned from the roads because of the MMDA’s volume reduction scheme. So on Tuesday morning I had to take the bus going home after work. I was able to sleep most of the way. Had I been driving, it would have been a struggle keeping awake. I sometimes wonder if I should really be driving going home after work. I guess this is one of the hazards of working on the night shift. I have had my share of close encounters that was a heartbeat away from becoming a full pledged vehicular accident.
Saturday, June 5, 2004
Seeing Red
I see red
in the blood that flows inside me
it calls out my name in a rage
like a coming tempest
but its silent and subdued
only making itself felt through
stern reminders and unwanted advice
I see red
it flashes bright and brings tidings of peril
Each step I take and every mile I go
with each second that passes
It consumes me even more
enslaved with my consent
I struggle
trying to break free
I see red
and it tells of revolution and civil strife
fierce, fiery, and filled with passion
and its gone awfully wrong
the dead litter the streets
along with principle and good intentions
I see red
its the setting sun
colored crimson at dusk
ushering darkness and uncertainty
it spreads and shrouds the land
seemingly endless, cold, and haunting
I see red
and its the color of courage
as it brings forth a new day
promising more uncertainty and hardships
yet it serves as a banner to push on
with rage in our hearts
as we go about another day
in the blood that flows inside me
it calls out my name in a rage
like a coming tempest
but its silent and subdued
only making itself felt through
stern reminders and unwanted advice
I see red
it flashes bright and brings tidings of peril
Each step I take and every mile I go
with each second that passes
It consumes me even more
enslaved with my consent
I struggle
trying to break free
I see red
and it tells of revolution and civil strife
fierce, fiery, and filled with passion
and its gone awfully wrong
the dead litter the streets
along with principle and good intentions
I see red
its the setting sun
colored crimson at dusk
ushering darkness and uncertainty
it spreads and shrouds the land
seemingly endless, cold, and haunting
I see red
and its the color of courage
as it brings forth a new day
promising more uncertainty and hardships
yet it serves as a banner to push on
with rage in our hearts
as we go about another day
Tuesday, June 1, 2004
Finally!
Alleluia!!! Finally got my flat bed scanner working!
It wasn’t easy. First I had to edit the registry of my operating system so that I could change the product key and install Windows XP Service pack 1. Then I had to install the USB drivers followed by the bundled application. Voila! I was scanning pictures.
I spent the whole afternoon scanning pictures, which I plan to eventually upload somewhere. More pictures coming in, so I can expect a whole lot more scanning.
Back to work today. I can’t say that I am all too eager to get back to work. I had to do my share of bucket of the tickets we need to review before the roundtable discussion tomorrow. I am also looking at more of this tomorrow for the monthly roundtable.
I have to remind my self that enlistment for the 1st semester is almost here. I barely felt it, now the summer vacation is almost over. Juggling work and MA is not easy.
It wasn’t easy. First I had to edit the registry of my operating system so that I could change the product key and install Windows XP Service pack 1. Then I had to install the USB drivers followed by the bundled application. Voila! I was scanning pictures.
I spent the whole afternoon scanning pictures, which I plan to eventually upload somewhere. More pictures coming in, so I can expect a whole lot more scanning.
Back to work today. I can’t say that I am all too eager to get back to work. I had to do my share of bucket of the tickets we need to review before the roundtable discussion tomorrow. I am also looking at more of this tomorrow for the monthly roundtable.
I have to remind my self that enlistment for the 1st semester is almost here. I barely felt it, now the summer vacation is almost over. Juggling work and MA is not easy.
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