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Whew! It’s a cold rainy day here in Davao City! The weather is so deceiving, I thought it’s still early in the morning. We just had our overnyt outing at waterworld together with my classmates. It was fun and I was so full with the foods! Damn I almost puked at the pool!…hehehe I didn’t have enough sleep the other night sorting out things for the outing and last night as well on account of card games and chores. ^_^ Well, I really had fun and I am happy I was able to pull off the almost impossible plan for the Christmas outing. Thank you very much for all those who attended it especially the Sponsors Karlo Jesus Sobiaco and Joseph Rey Sator, the class A people and their friends or rather special someones with the special participation of Sir Exander Barrios and Madam Jasmin Frigillano. Thanks also to Hyzel Rendon for assisting me in planning and for the tasteful and delicious dinner, to John Egon Asuncion for helping out, Patrick John Yap for the procurement of goods and to everybody. It’s sad to say that we were not complete because some have already left the city for their respective vacations and important errands, it could have been merrier with you! Anyway, I’m not gonna dig in the details, just ask around because I’m in a hurry here. Hehehe

Because the outing was all that’s left for me to stay here in the city, I’m heading home to my hometown Makilala this night to celebrate Christmas and New Year with my family. I wish you a wonderful yuletide season and I pray that God will give us all the blessings we need to stay happy and joyful. May we have a fruitful year end and a great start of another year! Good bye everyone! See you next year!

-ciao-

Dayon ang outing ugma sa WaterWorld…3pm assembly sa arinstar…prepare your money for entrance (P90)and for your fare…ok?Ang moapas, apas lng ^^

create a superclass Employee that has the ff data members and methods:
*get,set EmployeeID
*get, set EmployeeName
*get,set Salary
*get Info(EmployeeID,EmployeeName,Salary)

Create a subclass Manager that has the ff. data members & methods:
*all methods inherited from super class
*get,set Department
*get Info(EmployeeID,EmployeeName,Salary,Department)

*Printed in short bond paper. Deadline will be this afternoon @ 5pm

Hello! It’s our first day of prelim exams for this semester (hopefully the last) and test papers with out of this world questions are kicking in. For those who are wondering what would be the coverage for the exam in our subject World Literature, Maam Dupa said it’ll include: The Elements of Poetry, The Elements of Fiction, and Figures of Speech. She also mentioned that there’s going to be a poem interpretation so we might just want to prepare ourselves, who knows the poem could be nosebleeding and we won’t be able to comprehend it. Anyway, the pointers are linked to websites with their respective contents, which I’ll be reading, so just go hit it! Anyway, the schedule is this afternoon 3-4pm in Room 301.

Sorry but I won’t post the code for this exercise. Please understand. I have provided the codes for Employee, didn’t I? They are just almost similar with the Pizza Class so try to create it on your own, in that way we will learn, right?

Note: these codes were created in separate classes, please do the editing to include it in a single class and do not forget to follow the instruction posted on elms.

public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(”Displaying the Even numbers using for loop…”);
for(int var=2;var<=50;var++) {
if(var%2==0)
{
System.out.print(var +” “);
}
}

}

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

System.out.println(”Displaying the Even numbers using while loop…”);
int myVar=2;
while(myVar<=50)
{
if(myVar%2==0)
{
System.out.print(myVar +” “);
}
myVar++;
}
}

}

/** Creates a new instance of UsingDoWhile */
public static void main(String[] args) {
int var2=2;
System.out.println(”Displaying the Even numbers using do while loop…”);
do
{

if(var2%2==0){
System.out.print(var2 +” “);
}
var2++;
}

while(var2<=50);

}

}

public class Employee {
private String name;
private int age;
private double salary;

public static void main(String[] args) {

}

public String getName() {
return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}

public int getAge() {
return age;
}

public void setAge(int age) {
this.age = age;
}

public double getSalary() {
return salary;
}

public void setSalary(double salary) {
this.salary = salary;
}
public Employee() {
}

}

Employee empObj=new Employee();

empObj.setName(”James Gosling”);
empObj.setAge(50);
empObj.setSalary(50000.48);

System.out.print(”Name: “+empObj.getName());
System.out.println(”");
System.out.print(”Age: “+empObj.getAge());
System.out.println(”");
System.out.print(”Salary: “+empObj.getSalary());
}
public TestEmployee() {
}
}

Today, a very important event in Mindanao took place as Mindanao Conference of Information Technology Students was held at Holy Cross of Davao College. Different activities were carried out in celebration for the said event, and one was the Mindanao Wide IT Quiz. This day marks one of the greatest days in my student life because I was one of the participants of the quiz bowl, together with Mr. Christoper Pelayo who represented our school University of the Immaculate Conception. Different schools from Mindanao have gathered together to celebrate the event and there were about 19 participating schools namely AdDU, UM Main, USEP, UIC, HCDC (host), STI Davao, STI Digos, UP Mindanao, SPAC, Notdre Dame of Kidapawan College, Notre Dame of Midsayap College, DMMA, Brokenshire College, SPAMAST, MSU and others.

I am happy to say that we placed 2^nd runner up from the competition and ranked 3^rd out of the 19 participating schools. The competition concluded with USEP’s victory having a total score of 41 with their outstanding performance on all rounds, followed by Ateneo de Davao University with a total score of 36. We placed next to them with a total score of 34 and I think it was either UP Mindanao or STI Davao tailing behind us.

The questions were solely based from the Philippine National IT Standards or PhilNITS exam and were provided by Sir Aloysius Torres of PhilNITS Center Davao. We have undergone review for this certification exam along with other participants from other schools which gave us the advantage. We also did a quick review the other couple of nights and this morning which really helped so much. The quiz comprised 3 rounds, each with different levels of difficulty from Easy, Average and Difficult. The easy round was composed of 10 questions with 1 point each, the 2^nd round also with 10 questions with 2 points each and the difficult round composed of 5 questions with 3 points each. We managed to answer 9 out of 10 questions one the first round, with one question, which, only us got the correct answer. We took the lead on the easy round together with USEP with scores 9. We unfortunately misinterpreted one question about system availability in relation with RASIS and we somehow regretted.

We started fine on the average round and answered the first question correctly, but suddenly, things started to go bad. It was on the average round where everything went into uncertainty as me and my teammate got confused with the questions and ran out of time to carefully analyze them. Anyway we managed to score half of the total scores from the round, while USEP led followed by ADdu, UP Mindanao and STI Davao. Our anxiety and remorse were intensified as we had our supposedly final answers replaced by a wrong one after swift deliberations which turned out to be incorrect, not to mention that my teammate was troubled in account to the call of nature or jingle bell time (if you know what I mean).He drank a liter of water before the competition started to ease the tense which unluckily brought him into a uncomfortable condition. We didn’t lose hope in that round as we saw a chance to get to the top 5 because the score intervals were not really that far, except of course for the leading team who were 10 points ahead of us, getting a perfect score in that round.

As the final round approaches, my teammate still couldn’t chill as he tried to suppress with all his might the distressing force of nature xD . We finally had a glimpse of hope as we answered the questions correctly and eventually reached higher ranks. We managed to redeem ourselves on the difficult round and were the only team who perfected all the difficult questions. As the tabulators were about to announce the final scores, I called up one of the watchers for the second time (called her up from the average round) to acquire permission for Chris to go wee wee…hehehe. So, the results were proclaimed and we were happy about it. I really did enjoy the event, all the nerve-breaking questions and all the thrilling and exciting competition. Well, we did our best and everything went just fine for us.

One of the highlights of the activities in the afternoon part was the presentation of Student Researches which also gave way for Ronald Borla, Joseph Rey Sator and Sean Lester Benitez to showcase their Open Jive Entry system the Multi Website Management using XML-RPC with special mention and image display of PIXELS 4(yes, P4 was in the big screen!) in the demo. The activity ended with awarding of winners and distribution of certificates.

I would like to thank Mr. Exander Barrios for choosing me as the representative of the event and for motivating us, Ms. Sheena Rhea Maranguit our coach for facilitating and accommodating our needs, Sir Roy Manseras for the lucky prediction (Lolz xD), our class A family for the early cheers and prayers and for everybody especially the lower year students Lara Cada for guiding me in the venue, Therese, Jona, James Guardian (a former UICian now at HCDC), Meloraine Vicedo (thanks mel :D), Molly Nuera, and everybody who supported us. Thank you very very much! It was an honor to be part of the event and it was our pleasure to have your support.

Our country today has just been harassed by the chain of storms that left countless people in despair and harshly taken away huge number of lives. Throughout the catastrophe set off by the mother nature, we were gathered as one to rebuild what was lost and helped the victims of the calamity through prayers and donations. Yet, Philippines is now again facing another storm, not brought about by nature but that of beastly and vicious creatures. The misfortunes brought by those natural disasters were tolerable as no one ever wanted it and was beyond human ability, but the horrible and inhumane killing in Maguindanao is very disturbing and unforgivable. The undesirable episode of our country’s history has been once again scarred. And nothing can seem to diffuse the global indignation to our country caused by the recent massacre made by barbaric people.

Many of us would ask, was it a work of a human? It definitely is, but those who have already lost sanity and turned into fiends. The insecurity for probable defeat in political rivalry clouded up the rational thinking of the suspects and urged them to carry out an inevitable killing spree. As the media speaks of the incident, the victims suffered unbearable torments before they were killed, indicating evil desires and plotted actions. It does not only depict flaws in national security and government but also implies dissolution of a unified people, shattered and spoiled by dirty politics .Now that it has come to the point where national government is speculated to be evasive on its judicious involvement to this case because the president herself is politically indebted with the accused perpetuators, a question has been running back and forth inside mine and the majority’s heads, “Will justice be served?” Well, we are yet to witness what will be the outcome of this case.

Given the fact that the President owes the accused Ampatuans, it will be difficult for her to put them behind bars and give them the punishments they deserved. But if she really is the president that possesses the power beyond those who she is indebted, one that stands for what is in accordance to the law, and one that shows fairness and justice, then the accused if proven guilty must face what there is to be faced, and that is equal punishment and not one with special treatment.

As far as I am aware, the government is doing what it should, and I just hope that justice for the bereaved family and the dishonored country shall be achieved in no time, with no deceitful covers and delays. It was never worthy to annihilate innocent people and those who have the rights to establish democracy in politics. If ever things will turn out to the extent on how worse they can be, well I believe that the dominion of the unjust has now power over divine intervention.

It’s now officially chrsitmas season and in line with that, I have altered my blog’s design with some effects. As you can see it now has a snow falling down, which I think is cute and nice, isn’t it? I have also mixed it up with the music Christmas Alphabet to jive in so that you can feel the ambiance of the yuletide season in thissite.I hope you liked it!