Sunday 4-23-2006 9:31am

- I was driving through the highway, oversized sunglasses on my nose, as the sun trickled on its rising horizon, it was a hot summer day, the road was familiar enough, mountains on my left, endless water on my right.. The ocean looks wonderful. I thought. I saw a shade of trees nearby and I slowly pulled over, not really thinking, i folded up my well-worned jeans, and went down over the rocks, as if the water was calling me.. I sat down and admired the view.. I waded my feet on the water, it was cold & it felt good on my tired feet..I watched little fishes swam around nearby.. The sun felt warm on my skin, as my mind wandered to a daydream.

this is how i spent my sunday morning,

in my secret cove..

 

i missed posting here. :)

Dec 16, 2005

I will never forget this day for the rest of life. For when the clock ticked that day.. I got my second life.

http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=60162

I was inside that bus, me and and maam Joy was going home from Manila after a General Assembly. I thought I was inside a nightmare. Gunshots were heard everywhere. A bullet even missed maam Joy's head. I think my eardrums is still impared with the noise of the gunshots.. In less than 5 minutes of shoot-out 6 were injured, one of them was even a woman who was stabbed by a knife by one the culprits, blood was everywhere. I am thankful me and maam Joy came out alive and uninjured. I still think what about the Christmas of those people who were injured and shot. I am still praying that no one died. My phone is gone, but that is the least of my concerns.. I am now living my second life.

I felt that i was going to die any minute in that bus, my last words were a prayer..
It reminded me, we have a short life to live, one day we might be alive the other we might not.

I thank God that I still have the chance to live mine.

I posted a few pictures here in my gallery of DevDays, they are low-res since I only got them with my camera phone. :D

We've just attended the Microsoft DevDays 2005 yesterday at Edsa Shangri-la, it was a huge success, there were so many attendees that they had to put up extra seats (filling up Isla Ballroom). The sessions were really great, I attended, VB6 to VB.NET Migration (though not really that helpful for me since i'm a sharpist ^^)), Future Directions for Developing Rich Web Applications with Atlas (I can't wait to try Atlas on my web apps), Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005, (I had a glimpse of this way back on our Lap Around Visual Studio 2005 seminar given by Stanley Tan) and Windows Presentation Foundation code-name "Avalon". I am excited to see Avalon at work, it is a totally different approach in Animation.

Good thing I was an MSDN Connection member, members get to have an additional freebie and get to join the Xbox raffle. I even got to join PhiNUG (Philippine .NET Users Group).

the food was great, the freebies were great, a few faces were familiar, and the guy who got the Xbox was really lucky. :) hehe..

I'll be posting pictures of the event later. :D

Mark your calendar : October 25, 2005

see you all there! :)

 

 

 

content but unhappy. damn tired. i need sleep. arg.


inlove with this song:

Lifehouse - You And Me

what day is it
and in what month
this clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up
and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time

cause it's you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to lose
and it's you and me and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you

all of the things that I want to say
just aren't coming out right
I'm tripping inwards
you got my head spinning
I don't know where to go from here

cause it's you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to prove
and it's you and me and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you

there's something about you now
I can't quite figure out
everything she does is beautiful
everything she does is right

you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to lose
and it's you and me and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you

you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to prove
and it's you and me and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you

what day is it
and in what month
this clock never seemed so alive

-gone

I'm c# ready! ajah! ^^) such a hectic Monday, i feared teaching c#, but now, it wasn't bad after all..  i am entering yet another (after a very long time) c# days..

i'm a lazy blogger, please bear with me. :D

something i thought:

"If you're really good, you don't have to prove anything."

 

yup i'm 20.. i just had my bday last sept. 14, hehe.. twenteen.. that was all the drama was about. but i'm not gonna blog about that today :) we went to the Y4IT event yesterday (2nd day). The Embedded Systems talk was pretty good, The java talk was pretty good, the Vista talk was not what i expected.. actually that was the greatest reason that we went to the 2nd day instead of the 3rd. hmm. gotta scoot for now, but i'll have a late blog for that, ;) ciao for now pips!

tomorrow will bring a brand new me.. :)

 

 

A normal Saturday, I'm still on this "adjusting" stage here at theSpoke, tried the gallery (there are still errors when you click here and there), subscribed to a few blogs (there's a difficulty in subscribing to a blog unless one uses the whobar.. hhmmm). I think this version should still be in beta. This one is really not that 'user-friendly', if one is not into computers and wanted to, let's say, blog here, he/she would find difficulties in adjusting and feeling the functionalities.. I got to read the feedbacks about theSpoke ver2. functionalities, errors, etc, even the interface. I couldn't blame all the comments it had (even the bad ones) what can i say? most of the bloggers here are developers, and they had expectations, and some, just really got dissapointed.

And I realized I learned something from that, when you get dissapointed, you have 2 choices, it's either you choose to live with it, or not. And that doesn't just apply here, it applies to life.

ciao pips! have a great weekend ^^)

 

something I got from my e-mail.. :)

Dear Tech Support:
> >
> > Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband
> > 1.0 and noticed a slow
> > down in the overall performance, particularly in the
> > flower and jewelry
> > applications that had operated flawlessly under
> > Boyfriend 5.0.
> >
> > In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other
> > valuable programs, such as
> > Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, but
> > installed undesirable programs
> > such as NFL 5.0 and NBA 3.0. And
> > now Conversation 8.0 no longer runs and
> > Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the
> > system. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these
> > problems, but to no
> > avail!! What can I do?
> >
> > Desperate
> >

> >
> > Answer from Technical:
> >
> > Dear Desperate:
> >
> > First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an
> > entertainment package, while Husband
> > 1.0 is an Operating System. Try to enter the
> > command: C:/I THOUGHT YOU LOVED
> > ME and download Tears 6.2 to install Guilt 3.0. If
> > all works as designed,
> > Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the
> > applications Jewelry 2.0 and
> > Flowers 3.5. But remember, overuse can cause Husband
> > 1.0 to default
> > to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or Beer 6.1.
> > Beer 6.1 is a very bad
> > program that will create Snoring Loudly.WAV files.
> >
> >
> > Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law 1.0 or
> > reinstall another
> > Boyfriend program. These are not supported
> > applications and will crash.
> >
> >
> > Husband 1.0. In summary, is a great program, but it
> > does have a limited
> > memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.
> > You might consider buying
> > additional software to improve memory and
> > performance. personally recommend Hot Food 3.0 and
> > Lingerie 7.7.

finally back from blogging, after a few days off :), we had a few problems with the server's cache here at the office, so we weren't able to view thespoke ver2 for awhile..

me and my officemates attended the Lap Around Visual Studio 2005 which was conducted by Mr. Stanley Tan last Thursday (Sept 1). It was really good, actually i'm pretty much excited to upgrade to VS 2005, can't wait to get my hands started on web development with that.. Like to congratulate Mr. Stanley Tan for that really good seminar he conducted.

by the way, to those who couldn't attend the seminar but wanted to, i think there'll be another one, after two weeks time, it'll be announced @ MSEVENTS.PH.

today will be the launch of the www.subicbay.com.ph at boardwalk, we will upload the site this afternoon before the party. sir jhoeforth is finishing the main flash presentation which will be presented to panels from Subic Tourism. Hope everything goes well, :D

here's a screenshot: the tagline is "anything and everything subic!"

me and my team had an interview at a local TV here in Olongapo yesterday about the Imagine Cup, and we're having another one today, but this time with our city mayor James Gordon Jr. .. and i think...
i still need sleep. hehe. :D

totally hectic week, we are bound to finish the development of www.subicbay.com.ph (which is still under construction) website by friday, which will have a launching party @ boardwalk.

my class is having their module-end exam today, Introduction with Visual Studio.NET and developing WinForms. i hope they pass it :).