Wow, nagbrownout for like 30 minutes! Hanggang Malanday, wala ring ilaw! Pare, ang daming lamok! Hindi ko matakbuhan kasi walang bentilador para ma-swept away sila!

Init pa lalo! Sayang, wala kaming aircon! Buti laptop ko may baterya pa! Saya!

Ang dilim rin, buti ang eklipse ang nagbigay liwanag sa dilim!

Dodz!

I’ll hide some details since I don’t want to have people guess right away who the person in question is.
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    I saw this guy: big, tall, kinda overweight, wears glasses and has Tsinoy eyes, sometime during the week. He was talking to someone I know as I was there the area where we were all in.

     I took a good look on the person and to me, he looks very familiar. So familiar he might just be whom I’m thinking.

     You see, there’s this person I know who has the 2 of the coolest jobs in the world. He’s sort of the “main man”  in subsidiary of a big-time firm. He’s also a senior executive in his other occupation, being always up and early for 5-6 days a week in his workplace (or so says a friend).

     I never got to meet him personally but I’ve seen him a couple of times when I visited a friend who works in the same place as he (they’re office-mates).

     Could it be a coincidence? Is it possible that he also go to CSB to teach? A lot of ‘what ifs’ definitely but knowing that I have the World Wide Web in my disposal, maybe I’d be able to get the answers for these questions.

    Or maybe just ignore it and imagine that I never saw him in the first place. Hehehe…..

           There have been few instances of me getting lost in unfamiliar territory but most of the time I don’t. It has been a habit since childhood for me on going to unfamiliar places, places I haven’t been in my whole life, nor been there for a very long time.

         I’ve made great progress with this experiment, having been in the deepest depth of several cities in the Metro, at least well within the radius of the North and as of late, Manila and pocket’s of Quezon City, Makati, Mandaluyong, San Juan, and Pasay.

        At the same time, I somehow developed this kind of “third sense” wherein my sense of direction is as sharp as McGyver’s keen eye for available alternate material. Kinda like some sort of a ‘human compass’. I know when I am lost, but I know greatly when I’m not. I also take note of jeepney route plying in a certain area even if I’m not that familiar yet with that particular route.

      Finest example I guess would be the one that happened early this afternoon. Me and my NSTP groupmates were out looking for the ERDA Development Center found near Siena Colege-QC and the Del Monte Ave.-Banawe Ave. intersection. Despite only having limited clues as to how we could get ourselves there, we manage to get there with the help of some people we asked along the way. We were able to gather some clues and I was able to slowly piece them together.

Clues are the following:

1. We are to drop off in Araneta Ave. after passing by two traffic lights.
2. Turn to where the nearest Caltex gas station (we saw two) in Del Monte
3. Look for Siena College
4. Find Linao street before crossing Sta. Catalina street.

      Eventually we did find it and after fulfilling our reason of being there, the question now is this: How are we gonna get home?

     Of course, we don’t want to walk our way back to Araneta because it’s too darn long. However, I saw a jeep plying by, en route towards Munoz (aka Munoz Market in QC near EDSA-Congressional Rd.) and his route was TAFT/BUENDIA-MUNOZ so I figured we could ride a jeep en route to Manila by waiting on the other side of Del Monte.

     We did and the rest, they say, is history.

Ang yabang ah!

Playing around with my new tripod. Last few pics are too bright because of overexposure I think.

          I already have my suspicions since yesterday. At first, it was the red nose-causing cold I had last Tuesday, then the next day was the sudden dry coughing  (Wednesday). Just before going to sleep, I began coughing out sticky fluid secreted by the mucus membranes (go figure, it’s too gross).

    Today (Feb. 5, 2009), I had difficulty breathing. That’s when I suspicions led me to conclude: I’m having an asthma attack again.

      Even if I knew that I’m already suffering having an attack, I don’t want to tell my dad (who’s at home) and my sister. Especially my dad, who would yell like “yadayadayadayadayada…” with his sermons and calling me “stupid” again for the nth time.

      I went to my pediatrician in Palasan for a check-up and after the diagnose, he told me that I was suffering from my asthma. To help relieve myself from my breathing problems, I took this drug that is supposed to be inhaled through the nose by way of a machine.
   
     I calmed me down, then I was given a prescription on what medicines should I use. I know from that point that I was to go back using a ventolin-induced inhaler.

   Now, the problem now lies on keeping my surrounding clean for me. My room is defintely guilty of being dusty. I don’t have the time to clean my room in whole but probably during the summer, I’ll be having one of my “spring cleaning” days in order to get a lot of things thrown out from the room so that there’d be little need for daily cleaning.

     What’s uncontrollable though would be the elements found outdoors. Smoke belching coming from the vehicles, people smoking wherever I go, and dust coming out from nowhere.

Now that’s where the inhaler comes in handy once I bring it to school :D.

I wanna share to you this post from the CSB section of Pinoy Exchange.com:

You might not know him, but might somehow; you already bumped or saw him around the campus. Even I don’t know him personally; just recently I just knew he was once my classmate in my NATSC13 class back in my frosh days, which I infrequently noticed him because he is usually to be found together with his co-athletes at the backside of the classroom. Iggy Villanueva(ID 107) is a full academic scholar, an athlete, and a graduate of University of St. La Salle-Bacolod in his secondary school, He was diagnosed last January 6, 2009 with an ACUTE MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA. Just in little ways, if you’re interested to donate blood just proceed to SAO-3rd floor Solomon, and help in the fund raising campaigns allotted for Iggy, purchase any t-shirt merchandises, ballers, that can be found in this site “iggy’s friends”

A letter from iggy’s mom

26 January 2009

Mother
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A late late entry but I’m gonna write about it anyway:

            For week 3 of Fotogra, Ms. Ofrasio gave us an introduction to the wonder tool that is the tripod. I forgot which brand it was but the units currently available at the 10th floor SDA are plenty in sight.

     At first try it was a bit difficult. I have to remove this certain piece and have it attach to the camera’s bottom and later attach the whole thing onto the tripod. I also have to constantly adjust the “legs”  not only because I have to use it to obvious purposes but also because I have to bring it wherever place I want to take my pics with.

           However, I didn’t maximize the tripod the first time I used it, thus when my CP#2 came out, I noticed that some of the pics taken (with aperture set between f/22-f/16 and shutter speed is below 1/60 per second) are blurry. That’s when I decided to use the tripod for most of my newer set of pictures for CP#3.

     Getting into my creative side last Saturday, I took pics (this time, the aperture is set between f/2.8-f/1.8) that are extremely out of the ordinary thus it became less frequent to just hold the FM3a (even if shutter speeds of 1/125 per sec allows me to do so) and more on using the tripod. I’m hoping that this time, the quality of pictures would turn out good, despite “re”-shooting 24 pictures using a Konica film (which I know will turn out bad, unlike my usual use of YKL/Fujicolor film rolls).

      What made me happy right now is that a family friend gave me as a present this really neat 2nd-hand Sony remote-controlled tripod. It’s essentially a tripod but, it is has RC capabilities that are compatible only with Sony cams when used.

         Nevertheless, I was inspired to do this sort of photography trick that one of my friends would do when bored :):).

Ang Saya!

I was eating lunch last Saturday with some buds and one of them was utterly surprised to see a senior we all know and love. I looked around but can’t who was he referring to. I looked around a second time, and my jaw dropped. When I saw him, he looks like a….frosh?

“Wow! Anong ginawa mo?”

Ngumiti lang si senpai at dumiretso sa mesa niya dala ang pananghalian niya.

😀

Looks could kill yah!