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Wala lang tong blog na to..

wala lang tong blog na toh.. update lang tungkol sa mga bagay-bagay. haha :D
^_^ I just finished watching episode 17 of american idol. It’s exhausting.. all the screaming and scheming, they never get tired of it.. nakakatawa lang yung episode when they were grouped together and they’re going to perform the next day ata yun.. kitang-kita ang competition. nobody wants to be the second-best. they all wanted to top’em all. Nakakainis lang.. It’s their dream alright i got that one. But please people, attitude! Mas masaya pa panoorin Ugly Betty..hehe

Kelan kaya gossip girl ep18?!?! one month na wala pa rin?!?! Grr..

^_^ I attended a lecture series kanina for my SEA30 class (I almost miss that talk I completely forgot! Buti nalang tinext ako ng classmate ko.. heeh). Japanese professors from Shizuoka University ang mga speakers. nakakatuwa lang kasi I remembered my students.. antagal ko na kasing hindi nagtuturo. Nakakalungkot..baka nakalimutan na nila ako.. I have this one student named Hideshi Takasugi. He’s already in his 60’s. He’s very kind and thoughtful. He would send me and my ex-roommate Ate yeyen books, pictures and postcards. He would constantly email me. Kaso hindi agad ako nakakareply so maybe he got tired of waiting. But one day I received a package from him again saying hello and there were pictures of children smilling despite that fact that they are suffering from poverty. Gosh! There’re just too many other people out there na in pain! I’m never gonna complain again.. hehe..

**What else?

Oh! So I’ve been thinking about my plans after I graduate. I have too many plans and I’m not sure what to do. I might work immediately and I hope I could get a job easily in spite of the job separation going on. I could study again for a master’s degree. It’s sounds tempting but I’m not sure If I can afford it. If ever I would be studying again, I prefer to be financially independent from my parents. Or I could take a break for a while. But, I don’t think that’s such a good idea..

Oh well, I don’t know.. I think I’m kind of afraid because even if I plan things now, I wouldn’t be able to do them later on.. Ugh! I hate planing plans!!

Delicious.com [Jjam Ppong]

Don’t you just love seeing the array of foods that you can choose from in a grand buffet? If you want the endless choices of websites whether they are new, old, exotic, exciting or resourceful, delicious.com is here to help you! Delicious is a social bookmarking site, which is ranked fairly high, placing 2695th rank according to Alexa. Main users come from USA holding 26.9%, followed by India, China, Germany and the UK.

This website allows the users to visit different Internet websites that were not know to them or were not able to find them. When the users do not have enough time to surf the site they want, or do not want to lose the information of that website, Delicious.com allows them to bookmark the website and revisit the site anytime in the future when they have time.

The website also allows users to tag, save, manage, and share web pages all in one place. It allows the users to bookmark any site in the Internet and additionally, one can see the same bookmarks that one has made using different computers.

Delicious makes it possible and easy to keep track of all websites and keep them in sync. Users are not limited to the individually created bookmarks but open to the bookmarks of friends or anyone visiting the site. They could click on 'popular tags' to look into sites that are interesting to the other users and they could also look into the sites that others have saved as their bookmark!


The bookmarks arrange themselves according to the tags that they were assigned to by the users. So if one has found a site about Filipino food, and tags it as 'Filipino' and 'food', the website could be found under those tags. Easy! :) loads of sites would burst out per tags!

As you open the website, you see a list of popular bookmarks and a list of popular tags such as art, reference, tutorials, photography to name a few. The list is made as a compilation of the most visited bookmarks, and the most clicked tags by users of delicious.com.

For businesses or for certain people like artists or cooks, having their website marked as a popular bookmark or be included in the list of popular tags may be an advantage since it increases the chance that people may visit their page and of course, see what they have to offer, which may eventually lead to a sale.
In short, delicious.com is a tool for sharing of valuable and interesting information, and it may also be used for indirect advertising, which can be viewed as a business value of the website.

Critique

Pros:

- Its first and foremost advantage is that it is personalized. You can make your own categories to group your bookmarked websites. You can also edit your profile.

- This website provides benefits of being able to access wanted sites anytime the user wishes to. It is well organized and user friendly in the sense that even the first timers can actually use it without difficulty. There is a demo tour and a “getting started” action for beginners.

- The search engine is also smarter, and more social. (As aforementioned above) you can search within one of your tags, another user’s public bookmarks, or your social network. Now it’s easier to take advantage of the expertise and interests of your friends, not to mention the Delicious community at large.

- The Delicious Team is constantly transitioning Delicious over to a new platform that would be of advantage to users. Delicious.com former website name is del.icio.us.com, which is obviously hard for people to remember, find the site and share it with their friends. The Delicious team is not just hearing out requests and questions of the users but they are putting these into actions. The new website is faster to traffic growth while ensuring that Delicious is still reliable. The bookmarks are sorted alphabetically and categorized into bundles of interest.

- The Delicious Team are actually replying to the messages of the users and trying to address their concerns. It only shows that the team is concerned with their users.

Cons:

- One needs to download the add-on first before one can use it. It’s a waste of time for someone who avail computer rentals. He/she can only log in to his/her account but to make use of it, he/she has to download the add-on all over again.

- The page needs some work. The font is too small and the bookmarks look a little crowded. The page should be colored brighter to make it more exciting to look at.

Loverage ‘09, Most Unforgettable UP Fair Ever?

one foggy evening

one foggy evening

UP Fair 2009. Loverage: Break the Curse [February 13, 2009 Friday]

So I told Mama, I changed my mind. Instead of going to the UP Fair, I’d rather stay at the dormitory and study for my accounting exam. I wasn’t able to find company anyway. My old friends already had commitments with their classmates/friends/roommates/boyfriends. So, what the hell? There’s still a next time..

But then again, I wouldn’t want to trade my concert experience, which is by the way very cheap for an all night jamming with OPM bands, for my acads.@_@ And it’s Friday, I deserve a little night out. So, I decided to go and ask my cousins to come with me. I volunteered to pay the tickets. They wanted to go so, I’m good. I can go to the concert accompanied. My cousins still has work so they’re going to be late. Ate Hanna asked me to come with her already and wait for my cousins at Sunken Garden.

The line was unimaginable. It reached the hall of fame pathway across the PHAN and curved all the way down to the main library and to the long stretch of College of Engineering.. I am not exaggerating. It’s like enrollment all over again. I thought we wouldn’t be able to get in before midnight. But, fortunately, we were able to make it even before the popular bands started performing.

When my cousins arrived, I couldn’t leave my spot because I was almost in front of the stage. So, I texted them to just meet with their batchmates which happpened to be watching the concert too and I’ll be on my own. Besides, there was already a massive crowd at the back composing of what they call the “Jumping Jologs” or JJs. They are the ones who wear black, red or white clothes, some of them wearing masks and capes, the infamous hairstyles and most of all gothic make-ups. I dare call them adik if you don’t mind me saying.

Anyway, these JJs were extremely and unsolicitedly disturbing the concert. They began throwing pet bottles with each other when Razorback and De Lara were performing. They were chanting and dancing unnerved with the people cursing at them. I have nothing against these people (most of them are still kids!). It’s just that some of us (that includes me) find it a little uncomfortable having them in our event. And it’s UP Fair. It’s supposed to be for UP Students only. So anyways, few other bands performed. The highlights of the concert for me were Giniling Festival, De Lara, Kjwan, Kitchie Nadal and Bamboo.

Few minutes before midnight of the Friday the 13th, the concert was suddenly commanded to stop temporarily. The reason was a lot more people were still outside the Fair arena, unfliching to enter and join the audience. While others were still lining up in the ticket booth. Apparently, the’re no sufficient space inside so they were asked to wait until the crowd moderates. But, they were too eager and some other outsiders were already pushing the fence. I decided to go home right after the fireworks display and after Bamboo had performed. Things were getting really intense and I could tell that some performers were already annoyed because of the nuisance. Give’em a break! They are also entitled with a behaved audience.

I arrived at the dormitory at 1 am. I still wanted to go back and finish what I’ve started. You know the feeling when you wanted something so badly and you’ve waited a whole year for it, but you wouldn’t be able to savor it to its last drop? Well, that’s how I felt. There were still amazing bands like Moonstar 88, Mayonnaise, etc yet to perform.

An hour or so after, dorm people were arriving. They told us that there has been a riot on-going at the Sunken Garden. A couple of UP DIliman Police officers were already harmed and some Quezon police has took part in. One police has a major damage in his head and is still in critical condition.

So, so much for my anticipation. I am still lucky I was able to get back before the discourse even started. I wouldn’t know what to do if I got caught in between. Thank God!

The day after, Saturday Feb. 14, I sat willfully in my study zone, accounting book and a pile of scratchpaper for my solutions in the table. I’m betting this event will not be forgotten so easily. The following week, I heard some of my classmates debating on who to blame. Some were already naming names. Even I had started thinking how could such a horrible thing happened. I just couldn’t imagine how the performers would think about it. Would they even care? I just hope that they wouldn’t resort to concluding that UP students are not civilized people just because of a mere, self-explanatory and unwanted mistake happened.

Enclosure: To anybody who happened to read this blog, please spare me my mother’s tongue-lashing castigation. She has no idea I ever ended up going to the Fair ^_^

Spur-of-the-moment

Guess what? I think I am having fun with my life! I mean I am not really good at school (though I thought I was), I don't play any sports and passive to school organizations, I still feel lucky. Come to think of it I can still wake up in the morning and eat what I like to eat without worrying that my waistline's never going to shrink for God knows when. I can go to class everyday without thinking that I might get embarassed in the middle of discussion because I wasn't paying attention. I can look at some cute guys without hooking up with them. Really, life has been so good to me and I was too blind that I didn't notice it before. And you know what? I am starting to have more positive vibes each day. I had too many expectations that's why I could get really down and depressed everytime I failed on something. There is really nothing wrong with expecting because sometimes it can be very helpful if I have something to look forward to. The thing is too much expectation can get too contagious at times. It can be so vicious that all I can of all all the good things that could happen. I I don't take into consideration the worst things that could happen. This is maybe because I am selfish and I am too proud. Though I never really made into action my pride; I just keep it on me.

The bottomline is, I am happy that there are things in life that I can do freely now compared before when I always have to force myself into something I don't really like. This time, I can do things that please me without hurting anyone, even myself. My mother would always tell me that whenever I am soo hurt and so down and I wanted to begin a new chapter of my life, I should start with forgiving myself first. I wont be able to deal with ther people and problems around me when even I, myself, isn;t ready to face the world. I should start with building courage and belief in me ao that the people around would understand and accept me for who I am. ^_^

Message in a Bottle

I keep on wondering why someone has to put a message in a bottle and throw it in the ocean. There must be something about it yet my mind refuse to believe it. Until one day, when I felt like my mind and heart would burst because of too many things it tried to haul, I found myself writing in a piece of blue stationary, circling it until it was an inch in width and trying to get it right for the small bottle that I could find in my room.

I tried to simulate what Garret did in the book Message in a Bottle before he threw the bottle in the ocean. I sailed for an unbearable three hours before I found the perfect spot where I could toss away the bottle that I have never left out from my grip. I thrust once more the letter so that it would reach the bottom of the bottle and would never leave there. I stared at it for a moment, the wind rapidly blowing away the strands of hair that I weren’t able to tie.

I tucked my free hand in my pocket and seized the tiny necklace that he gave to me. It was very pretty before, but it looked ugly and old now. Its brown color didn’t match my fair skin. I left out a heavy sigh, pushing away the sad memories that were trying to restore in my mind.

I kissed the cover of the bottle and held it for a long time. I faced the northwest direction where the wind monsoon blow and threw the bottle as far as I could muster. My gaze followed the bottle as it fell only a few meters away from the boat. I knew it, there was no way I could get it back. I waited until the waves crawled at the bottle and jostled it away until it was out of my sight. Soon it would reach the great Pacific Ocean. Then, it would hover through the vast rivers and fall in Caribbean. It would somehow break in one of those encounters. But, who cares?

After a couple of minutes, I started to move around. But before I could even move my feet, I felt something hard on my left hand. I lowered my head and raised my hand only to see the necklace still clutching tightly my fingers. Its brown color turned silver and it shined while the sun lowered through the mountains in thw west. Suddenly, tears began to form in my eyes. I struggled to hold those tears back but I couldn’t contain it anymore. I burst into tears, heavy and long cries even just a single glimpse of the bottle but it was nowhere to find. It would be gone forever.

But then, why the necklace?

(This was written when I was in second year college in my English Literature class. My professor asked us to write a short story about our idea of teen-age love)