Hi guys!

I’ve got to make a very big revelation to make.

To my batchmates, OUR RESEARCH GADGET is STILL UNFINISHED UP TO THIS TIME. It’s less than 24 hours before graduation day, and we still have to finish it for us to march.

Huhuhu. I did some mindsetting. I prepared myself for our bloody cramming this morning. Waaaa, please pray for us.

If I would to enumerate the things I’ve done in Pisay that I’m proud of, writing a research paper with two other groupmates (Boon and Tomi) without a grammar and spellchecker would be it.

I bet most people nowadays don’t care much when they hit a wrong key, the computer will correct it anyway. But in our case; we’ve been careful in hitting the keys - made sure that everything in the screen was right - pushed the backspace whenever we push the wrong keys and correct them.

Sounds lame, right? But I think it deserves to be written here.

There are still instances in life in which we have to lessen our technological dependence. These are instances in which our technologies fail. My only advice would be - be prepared. Always think of the unexpected. No one knows when your word processor’s spellchecker, grammar checker and AutoCorrect function would fail? It could be a minute from now, tomorrow, or while making your uber-important reports

Hahaha. Lame post. I’m writing this spontaneously from my unorganized brain. Good luck!

Background

Hey, we just had our one-and-a-half day retreat yesterday, and now it’s over. We had it at the Cursillo Retreat House of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Concepcion at F. Torres Street, Davao City.

A day before the retreat, final room assignments were announced. Rooms had an average of three occupants though there was one room with eight occupants and some with only two. I happened to be assigned in the room for two and my only roommate was Elikim.

We were not allowed to use our cellular phones throughout the course of the retreat, but it didn’t mind it since I don’t own one. Just like any batch retreat, strict rules and regulations are to be followed.

Assessment

PLACE. The place was wonderful. Seldom can you see a silent and solemn place in the middle of a busy metropolitan (near nighttime hangout places).

ROOM. Our room was the smallest room since there were only two beds (compared to other two-bed rooms, our’s was still a lot smaller) but it was nice. It was better than I expected it to be. My bed was soft and bouncy, while my pillow was as hard as a rock.

FOOD. The food was average, not that good and not that bad. But still, I managed to eat a LOT. Our table was the only table with no food left on the serving plates every after meal.

ACTIVITIES. Honestly, the activities were not that effective, it could have been better. I don’t feel any change in me after the activity. I think I share the same sentiments with my other batchmates. There were some (minimal) activities though which I enjoyed.

The Fun Activity

One of them was the time when everyone was invited to reconcile with enemies and thank friends. There were a little of us who wept, but I think I wept the most tears.

I wept after someone approached me and said either a sorry or a thank you. I can’t vividly remember it cause the moment she approached me, I froze for a while but I think it was more of a sorry.
If ever it was really a sorry, I’d be confused cause I find no reason for her to ask for forgiveness. I think I should have been the one who asked her forgiveness for all my not-so-bitter bitterness but if it was the latter, I’d gladly accept it and will thank her more in our last few days in Pisay. I’d thank her for everything she has done to me.

Up to now, I still can’t comprehend why I froze and wept. I think I was overwhelmed with happiness cause I did not expect it to happen. I have thought of apologizing and thanking her, but I did not have the enough courage. (more…)

The Batch Ethereals (2008) of Philippine Science High School Southern Mindanao Campus in Davao City garnered a passing rate of 97.80% (89 out of 91) passing rate in the 2008 University of the Philippines College Admission Test (2008).

The said batch garnered the highest passing rate based on the five-year comparison blog released by the campus’ Guidance Unit.

Anyway, I’m one of the 89. Congrats to US!

Last Thursday was the last leg of our three-day final examinations, the last quarter exam in Pisay for us Seniors. For that, I’m rewarding myself a new Wordpress theme, made by me. Huhuhu.

Next in line is our graduation. I’m still not sure if I’ll graduate, but I think I’ll be. What is certain is that I’m leaving Pisay this school year, no more extensions.

This Monday will be the deadline of submission of grades of teachers. I’ll be seeing my grades by that time. I hope my previous-quarter Math 5 substandard grade would be lifted.

Now that my classes in Pisay are technically over, I’ll try shifting my focus to my blog; and my year-end clearance. I’m aiming for a 150% increase of average hits per day by April 24, 2008 from today’s statistics.

That’s all for now. My new WP theme is telling me to work on him. Err.

Ooops, my Marbel post is still under construction.

We just had our Networking Practical Exams. We were tasked to connect the routers, switches and PCs based on the topology given. We have to do the cabling from the power cords, Ethernet connections, serial connections to console part.

It was time pressured. We were only given 5 minutes to implement the topology. We did not finish all the connections, specifically the two power cords. It was fun, so much fun. I know I did the right thing, grace under pressure.

Hahaha. That’s all for now. Good luck Cisco, good luck to me.

Blogging is fun, right? But beware, excessive and addictive blogging is dangerous for student bloggers like me. See how my blogging preoccupation affected my grades.

Here’s a portion of my report card, click to see the fullview:

Interpretation

Our grading system is a stanine system in which the grade 1.00 is the highest while the lowest attainable grade is 5.00. The passing grade is 2.50 therefore a grade lower than 2.5 (e.g. 2.75 or 3.00) is considered as a substandard grade.

From the figure above, you can see that I am a consistent UNO student for my elective. Anyway, my elective is Embedded Systems (electronics using microcontrollers). I’m also a consistent 1.25er of Computer Science, go CISCO! Most of my other subjects went down, huhuhu.

Rationalization (defense mechanism)

FYI: I always get low grades because of assignments and lab reports. Luckily, Computer Science and Embedded systems subjects seldom have those. I did not submit a single assignment for the third quarter. I have submitted less than half of all third quarter lab reports for Chem, Bio and Physics. What more do I expect, a failing grade right? (more…)

UPDATE: A more complete list is available at ate Maris’ alyas Cecs’ blog. Eto ang link papuntang cecilemaris.com.

Oooops, soooper kulang pa pala ng list. Sorry pero prelim palang kasi. I have the complete list already pero nakakapagod iupload ang list kasi kailangan pa iconvert to table (table, tr, td and tons of HTML tags).

Due to public demand, here is the list of PSHS SMC UPCAT 2008 passers.

The list is unofficial and second-hand. Thanks to my ate, Cecile Maris E. Gozalo. Bisitahin niyo siya.

LIST 1:

Degree Program with Available Slots:

• Karl Laoc
• LA Pizarro
• Jen Teves
• Kevin Veneracion

Pending Cases:

• Rafael Baula
• Andrea Celis
• Miriam Edig
• Lea Villanueva

Again, unofficial pa yan!

Aethyrians?

During the first-run of the batch name poll, the winning name was Aethyrians. During that time, Aethyrians was the best among the choices.

But should Aethyrians be our batchname? In my own opinion, its a simple no. The definitions of Aethyrians are quite vague, there’s a lot of positive and negative definitions. There’s inconsistency.

The next best option was Olympians. Its a good name but the fact that the batch Titans existed in Pisay, its no good (the Olympians defeated the Titans).

Katipuneros? Nice name. It’s unique. It’s like a chain breaker: Empyreans, Fortis, Illumina, Paragons then Katipuneros. Hahaha. I hope this will be our batch name. We have three more months to graduation, we have to have a name as soon as possible.

[I do not reserve any right for the batch logo.]

program.asm <- program namin

Fort and Wej’s stuff, not yet available. Hindi pa sila nagpapadala ng copy eh.