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The CSB Experience 2: Me Mac Store Pala Kami!

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Compliments from Gilbert: “Nag-iimprove na blog mo ah…”

It’s like as if every day, there’s always a story for me to tell and share.
It’s been 2 months, and now I finally have the money to buy my own pair of earphones for my I-pod. I sold my Graphika Manila ticket to someone for Php1,500.00.
I was planning on going to the Mac Store in Robinson’s Place-Ermita on one of my off-days during the week, either Wednesday or Thursday. However, some thing came up and I was able to buy one anyway just an hour ago.
Yesterday, Partdes was long over and I was at that time brainstorming two new blog entries that ended up posted on Multiply later that night. I chanced upon one of my classmates in Partdes at the elevator. 
She was wearing headphones attached to her I-Pod. I was fascinated with it and said “Nice headphones…”. She thanked me for the compliment, I then asked where she bought those headphones.
She said it was from “downstairs”. “Downstairs” meaning the ground floor of SDA I mistakenly mistook from what she’s trying to imply. When the elevator stopped and opened at the 11th floor, she pointed her finger to a room fronting us.
“There’s where I bought it…”
And I was like “What? We have a Mac Store here?!”
“Yeah…”
“All this time, I’ve always thought it was sort of a…”
“Showroom?”
“Yup, that’s the one…Hahaha!”
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Fastforward to today, class for Comgrap ended a few minutes ago. I put my things in a secluded place somewhere in SDA Caf. Went downstairs at the 11th floor and entered the Mac Store there (known as “switch@csb”).
I saw this pretty-looking earphones so I asked the sales guy how much it costed.
“One-Five”
Great! I just had the money to buy those precious babies!
And now I’m wearing them!
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The CSB Experience 2: Na-USTe Ako sa CSB!

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Partdes, Rm. A1205, 3:30 pm-I was late obviously. Class had already started by 2:45 yet I wasn’t there. Why? Egh…I was at the 11th floor inside on of the comlabs. I was doing something for tomorrow’s Comgrap, using Photoshop CS and CS3. Glad I finished even though the final output was a bit synced—not
Anyway, I got into class. Sir was in the middle of a discussion and people are taking down notes. I sat in front, took my notebook and hurriedly copied what was written on the board, the topic was “The Language of Art”.
I see that Patricia and M.A. are present, so was her friend, a very opinionated AB-FDM (Fashion Design and Merchandise) guy. He’s quite the recitalist really, by that time I already have a gut feeling that I might get to know him better sooner or later.
It was sooner than I thought.
SDA Caf, 4:10 pm-I bought Cheese Curls, first time to eat one of these in months, went back inside A1205, went out again, and got back to the Caf. I saw Pat, her FDM friend and another friend from MMA.
We talked and talked, and something fruitful came out from that conversation. So the MMA guy is actually a transferee from DLSU and…
“You know, there’s quite a lot of transferees here coming from UST…”
“Yeah, including me!”
“Whoah”
“Oh, yeah I forgot James. Let me introduced you to Will. Will, this is James….”
(We shaked hands)
“So what’s your course back in USTe?”
“Arki (Architecture)…CFAD”
(Looking at the MMA guy) “What’s your ID no. back in La Salle?”
“Make a guess of my age…”
“Uhm…21?”
“Gosh, you’re right!”
Then….
“Why did you transferred from UST?”
“I found out I’m not good on designing house models….Batch 2007”
“Uhm…wait…2007? Then that means….Do you know…ah….Dianne…”
“…Naval? Yeah of course! How’d you know? She’s my classmate…”
“Batchmate…”
“Small world” (Ako to)
“It’s a world of laughter, a world of tears, it’s a world of hope and a world of fears…”
“Hehehehe”
“If you knew her, then you must have known Nikko delos Santos”
“Wow! Yes!”
“Weird!”
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More or less that was our conversation
And indeed weird!
As if I had enough of UST that morning, I was wrong! LOLz! :hahaha:
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Na-USTe Ako!: Ang Panalangin sa Calle Padre Noval

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Umihi ka na ba?
Thanks to Dianne, I was able to get directions on where I could buy relatively cheap art supplies along Espan(y)a Boulevard. Hehehe, funny story really.
Call me lucky, despite the presence of cumulo-nimbus clouds, it didn’t rain. While fixing myself after taking a bath, I saw a stored value LRT ticket from nowhere! And I got myself inside the LRT the moment I arrived in Monumento Terminal. And rush hour was yet to commence.
Going down the stairs in Tayuman, I crossed Avenida Rizal and walk til the very tip of Tayuman Street, near SM SanLo. Rode a jeep which brought us to Dapitan-Arsenio Lacson. I walked  along Arsenio (named after the legendary mayor of Manila), and crossed Espana. From there, I walked yet again til I saw that Metrobank Dianne was talking about. Eventually, I arrived at Padre Noval Street. Turning a left turn, I asked some people on where I could find Joli’s, a popular art supplies store among USTe people taking up CFAD courses. 

To make things short, I was able to see the string of art supplies stores sprouted just beside the Beato Angelico Building.

I bought what I was looking for at Lexan’s and went on my way back to Tayuman. There seemed to be some commotion on the UST open fields. Quite a lot of people gathering there, especially UST’s varsity teams practicing various sports like baseball, volleyball, and another one I couldn’t recall for the time being.
This is probably my fourth time in UST, or at least area situated around it. Glad I got the opportunity to explore more of Manila, especially the northern tip of the University Belt (U-Belt), which stretched as far north as Espana passing by Mendiola down towards Taft (Bet you didn’t know that!).
USTE LO MEJOR!
VIVA SANTO TOMAS!

“OUST GLORIA”

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The CSB Experience 2: I Went There Her Way (a.k.a. Three National Bookstores in a Day!)

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I don’t know what’s wrong with me today but lately, I’ve been blogging and blogsurfing this past weekend. Maybe because there’s a lot stuff about life for me to tell and that my constant need to write it down is preventing me from ever keeping my mind off these things (Mind=Pre-production).
Hehehe! Well anyway, I just cannot believe for myself that I went to 3 different National Bookstore branches found each in three cities in the Metro, all in one day! Whoah, I’m utterly surprised with what I just did myself!
The reason is that I have to buy things for my Colrend: various nylon brushes, a set of 12 poster color bottles, and that ever “playing-hard-to-get” watercolor sketchpad.
Early during the day (Saturday the 20th), I had a freecut class so I took the time going to National Bookstore Taft Avenue to buy those stuff. I first started with the watercolor sketchpad, and i couldn’t find one except for these loads of “acryllic colour” ones which pretty much includes “watercolor” in its resume. But given that I can’t risk wasting money on buying something that I might regret doing so, I went on searching for those poster paint bottles, preferably the Sakura branded ones. I did some but unfortunately, they’re all scattered so I can’t find all the colors I was looking for. What I did bought were a number of paintbrushes, those I didn’t include when I first bought a tip brush and a flat brush while I was on National-SM North EDSA.
That afternoon, I went home, but along the way I made a quick visit to National Bookstore-Ever Gotesco Grand Central in Monumento. I was able to find 11 of 12 Sakura-branded poster paint bottles, still no watercolor sketchpad found.
So I did the unthinkable: I decided to visit National Bookstore-Trinoma! So I took a 12-peso bus ride going from Monumento until dropping me off in a terminal in North Avenue. I went to Trinoma and got in.
I bumped into a very familiar face from school. She’s the smaller version of Rini (hehehe kidding), an officer in MMx (I can’t recall the name, dang!). Both of us got surprised and she was like “Don’t tell me you live here in Quezon City?”, and I answered “Ah no…I’m actually here to visit National..” She gave me some directions and I went off thanking her for the directions she gave.
But it was a Saturday, gimmick day for many barkadas. And that day was no exception.
Trinoma’s jam packed full of people, especially at the middle of the mall wherein there’s some sort of an event happening (sponsored by Pampers and hosted by one of my fave Philippine Star writers, Mr. RJ Ledesma).
I got lost because of the swarms of people getting on my way. Eventually I got through and go for gold to National. Unfortunately, the people there don’t have the sketchpad I was looking for as well.
With nothing else to do, I decided to go home, but not without a short merienda at Jollibee! LOLz!
Thanks to Dianne, I was able to know where I could buy that sketchpad along UST. And thanks to Jomar for telling that watercolor sketchpads are being bought there in the first place!
*I took a mobile pic of the ongoing construction/renovation of SM City North EDSA, and all I can say is that it’s progressing for the better. I can fully see what they were aiming at.
**RJ Ledesma is at the center sitting down, wearing glass, wearing a black sweater?.
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The CSB Experience 2: Frehand, Colrend, Comgrap and Desprin

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Ah, the reality of life indeed. 


So I guess it’s high time for me to get my game on practicing sketching and photoshopping. Even it means having to learn all the basics from Grade 1 and above. Well, what can I do? I chose to do these things so I have to live with what I said.

I’m taking four design foundation subjects which all require me to possess certain skills, things to use, and a familiarity to specific mediums. Desprin (Principles of Design), Colrend (Color Rendering), Comgrap (Computer Graphics), and Frehand.

I. Desprin

First class for the week is Desprin. I have a very nice prof, a Fine Arts graduate of UP and runs her own company which are into producing events. 

The first thing she taught to us is scale drawing. Basic right? She showed us on how we could do it by first having to draw lines on a xeroxed picture of a jeepney. That’s to help us draw the picture in detail. No need though of putting all the details but what matters is that we get the jeep right.

We have to use a 12 by 18 sketchpad for this plus a “looong” ruler, and of course, an HB pencil. For over 3 hours, all the students in class were quietly doing their own thing, including me. I was a bit impatient since I wanna have this done before the end of the class. 

Eventually, I finally got the jeep right and despite a little not exact to the original, it was perfect! I couldn’t say anything less!

II. Colrend

After a few shuffles, we finally got ourselves a permanent professor for Colrend in the form of Sir Ulysses. All i could say is that, he’s very “mayabang”. He showed to us last time his resume as well as his vast portfolio of works ranging from sculpturing (he has a fascination with eggs, a major subject for his sculptures), painting, to any art medium thought possible.

He already have a perfectly planned syllabus on what shall do for the next remaining 12 weeks of the term. A lesson of the day followed by doing plates. He had us required to buy nylon brushes, a watercolor sketchpad (which I’m yet to buy), and a set of 12 poster colors (preferably Sakura). But the list of things to buy goes on and on for this guy.

III. Comgrap

My prof here is an MMA graduate, has his own advertising company, and looked way too young for his age (He’s 25). He frequently uses this to his advantage, fooling unknowing victims about his youth. LOLz.

The only that he needs from us is that we must be familiar with Adobe Photoshop, prefereably version CS-CS3 (no need for technical advice please! :D). First to do was doing masks, although as how Jeco puts it, mine was “paint-ish”. Right…

IV. Frehand

No need to explain about this. All I could say is that I sucked at friggin’ Frehand! I suck at drawing effin’ straight lines, circles, and even “rectangular-shaped” 3D squares! Hahahah!

It all means it’s high time for me to start practicing what I ought practicing, ‘no? 🙂
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The CSB Experience 2: Freecut Sabado and a Wanted Silver Lining

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Dapat sa mga oras na ito ay may class pa ako sa 7th floor ng SDA, Hartds2. Iyun nga lang hindi sumulpot prof namin, ikalawang pagkakataon na nangyari uli yon, ang una noong unang araw ng Partdes ko naman, isang linggo ang nakakaraan. 

So habang ala-una pa ng hapon ang sususnod kong klase, tambay muna ako dito sa SDA Caf sa 12th floor at mag blog muli.

Maaga ago gumising, mga 5:15 n.u. eh gising na ako kaso nakaset pa sa 5:30 ang alarm ko sa bumawi pa muna ng tulog. Kasi, kaninang alas dose y medya ng madaling araw na ako natulog dala sa pakikinig ko sa radyo at sa aking pagbabasa ng biography book tungkol kina Victoria Beckham at ang asawa niyang si David.
Paggising ko kanina, deretso kinuha ko na tulwaya ko, naligo sa banyo sa loob ng kinse minutos at bihisado na ng bandang alas sais.
Umalis na din ako para pumasok at 7:30 ay nasa school na rin. Deretso ako pumunta sa accounting office para mabayaran ko na iyung recollection fee para sa darating na recollection ko sa Huwebes.
Fast-forwarding, eh di iyon. Nasa classroom na ako, nandoon na rin ang mga kamag-aral ko. Lagpas alas nuwebe ang simula ng class pero hindi dumating si Prof. Pumasok na din doon ang mga wala noon nung unang araw ng Partdes. May isa na napagkamalan kong kaibigan ko sa States, si Anisah. Iyun pala, Pilipina rin rin siya pero nakabelo rin. Magkamukha talaga sila. 😛
May isa pa na mukhaaang pamilyar sa’kin ang itsura. Medyo matangkad, maputi at makapal ang labi. May parang black-eye siya sa dalawang mata niya at mukhang tisoy. PInagmasdan ko muli mabuti at tama nga ang hinala ko.
Siya pala iyung dati kong ka-batchmate noong grade six. Matagal na rin sa school pero lumipat na rin ng eskwelahan nung high school. Nakikita ko siya madalas noon sa school kasama iyung mmga magkakabarkada, iyung mga tipong bullies pero hindi (may mga bullies sa school namin na nagsasakristan tuwing misa madalas).
Natural, mahihiya akong lumapit sa kanya at sabihin na “Excuse me, di ba pangalan mo si…Ka-batch ata kita sa SJA iyun nga lang grade six nung pumasok ako kaya di mo ako maalala…”. So inisip ko na huwag na lang kasi hindi ko naman puwede ipagpilit sa tao na maalala man lang na magkaeskuwela kami noon.
Pero, kung sabagay naman, bukod pa sa magkaeskuwela kami ngayon sa CSB’t magka-kurso, magkaklase pa kami sa isang section! Eh di ayos rin!
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The CSB Experience 2: Concluding the Court Drama

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Continuing the on-going drama over the case that I filed 1.5 months ago. The OSB decided that my case to be submitted to the Board of (Directors?) for which they will have the final say over the case. The suspect declined to appear which led to the court’s decision. 

Present was the chief of the OSB in SDA, Sir Aries; the head of the OSB, my “lawyer”, and a member from the CSB student council, Chicco Fornier.
Let’s see what’ll bear fruit after all of these…
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The CSB Experience 2: Me, Graphika Manila, and Clients

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Grabeh, never have I expect this thing to be so much of a big deal to many. But I guess, it’s their failing of doing so, ha?
So okay, a month ago, I bought this ticket from Mediamax which costed Php750 (which is a discounted rate till past September which is higher) for this event called Graphika Manila, a convention of sorts which is attended by quite many people coming from different walks of life, even reps coming from well-known media companies like Pixar and Dreamworks. The event is worth MMA points thus the reason for buying them.
But it proved to be worthless once I found out I never gonna use it anyway in the first place because I have classes on that day ranging from morning til way down in the afternoon.
I decided to have my ticket “auctioned” off on the MMA Yahoo Groups. I only thing that I posted there is that ‘I’m selling this ticket for Php500 initially” and that they could contact me by texting me through my number.
One person came in the frontline. Naturally, I decided to give the ticket to her for Php500 and thus we had an understanding that this ticket is now reserved for her til further notice.
But the biggest surprise probably would be the following Tuesday. As early as 5:12 am until recently, I had a total of 21 people (contacting me either via SMS or YM) who took interest of my advertisement, texting me nonstop and wasting 3/4 of my cellphone load just to talk to them until the situation got a bit out of hand.
Then one of them bid my ticket for Php800 from 500 which is a total surprise to me. I texted the other buyers about the offer then another offered to buy the ticket for a whopping 1000 pesos! I asked him how much is he willing to pay for him to get that ticket, he replied that as much as 1.5k-2k pesos is what he’s willing to give. I took notice of he’s offer so I have to tell the other buyers of this development. Many dropped their claims on it except for one person, the guy who offered 800-pesos. He was just furious that he raised his price for Php1000 then when that didn’t worked out, he started giving me anecdotes about me getting the bigger loss despite the financial gain that I have. He even shared to me his current situation, him being a recent graduate gone jobless and he wants that ticket to bolster his job description. How selfish is that, right?
I decided to give the ticket to a student who needs it the most. And that would be the one who offered the Php1500. I know that he needs it more for him to graduate (for the MMA points) than the other guy who just want i so he could land himself a job finally.
The good news is,  I am one step closer of buying myself a new pair of earphone for my IPod! Yahoo for that!
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