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Well, I have been very busy these past weeks working with our thesis. It has been very stressful, with all the sleepless nights, endless worries and unending revisions and additions on our system. It was like a fragmented loop of unease and despair where you always feel like giving up and you feel like you are a zombie with a spirit floating in the air… Oh hell I swear I do not want any of that to happen again, ever again..hehehe.

Truth be told, it was really a nightmare and I am very grateful that I’m finally getting out of it. Just imagine countless sleepless nights, some misunderstandings with your groupmates, dynamic schedules and all the pressures we have endured. I can really say now that earning a Bachelor’s Degree is not easy!

Well, I just thought I’d share my experience. We almost had one of our panels replaced (thank God it did not happen) because he had some errands he needed to attend but since he committed that he will be present, our instructor and the other two panels agreed to start the defense whether or not the other one will arrive. The agreement was that if the two panels reached the same verdict, then it will be the final verdict, otherwise it will depend on the last one panel. Fortunately, he arrived just about 30 minutes after we started off. But before we started, there was a brownout and our panels left the room! Charlemagne Panes, one of my team members screamed like a girl (hahaha) and it was so dark and it lasted for few minutes. We really thought the defense will be postponed but thank God the power kicked back on and our panels went back to the room. So we immediately started the session, I presented the powerpoint slides and performed a demo of our system. After that, we were bombarded with all the questions and challenges that tested our knowledge and awareness regarding our document and system. When they examined the system, I was really shocked when an error occurred and the panels were very kin to it. I humbly asked them to give us time to debug but they had an indirect answer, so I asked again and politely requested to show them a previous working version of that particular module, and they let me. But, they were very particular to make sure that it should work, otherwise, we should expect the worst. I tested that version few hours ago and I was 90% confident that it will work, and it really did! Yehey! hehehe. So they continued interrogating each one of us until finally they got satisfied. We were told to leave the room for a while as they deliberated. After few minutes, we were told to go back inside and as I entered the room, one of our panelists smiled at me and says “Ok na…” and there I really felt happy but I still wanted to hear it from the Chairperson. So we made it! Accepted with minor revision. We really felt glorious and very happy with the result! Thank you very much Lord for lifting up our burdens and giving us the blessing. Please see the Acknowledgment page in our documentation for the credits xD.

Frankly speaking, I kind of enjoyed our final defense compared to our Proposal Defense. I don’t know but I had a good feeling and it was like I was in a very good mood and condition to present, and so were the panels. I hope all the 4th year UIC BSIT4 and CS4 will make it through and march on the graduation day!

Fight with all your might! Good luck and God Bless to us all!

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Thesis Title: Inventory Management System With Reorder Triggered SMS Alert

Proponents: Jay Edward Dayday, Mohammad Masulot, Charlemagne Panes, Jan Benedict Pilapil

Defended last February 16, 2010 at Dark Room 308 Third Floor Main Campus, University of the Immaculate Conception (UIC) at 5:30pm.

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-

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.

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.

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!

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This article is a response to Ms. Maribeth Q. Galindos’ Rizal versus Bonifacio, Is It Fair To Compare?

The idea of comparing two different personalities that also have similarities in some ways appears to be an inevitable action of people today especially us Filipinos. The issue is in fact somehow interesting and for some people worth debating. In my perception as a Filipino student who happens to have no total awareness of every detail of their lives, it is not appropriate to do a comparison of two very important heroes of our nation. The title was not given to Rizal because of his wealth nor has it not been given to Bonifacio because of his financial status. They both deserve the merit of a hero who sacrifices his life for liberty and freedom. We all know they both died with glory, and end that marks true patriotism and courage.

It is not the things Rizal had that Bonifacio lived without determined his being the National Hero. They have done works that most of us can’t even think of doing. They are undoubtedly the heroes of our country and deserve to have reputations beyond the others. The likes of them are worthy to be given recognition. There has to be reasons for the selection of who qualifies for the title. My point is, evaluation must have been performed, consultations, and deep assessment…etc were done before reaching the verdict. The title is not something that can be decided to be given to a hero overnight, it had undergone proper and legal processes.

It is better not to mind the issue that much, maybe dissolve the pros and antis groups and unite in facing the current problems our country is facing. They are both heroes with exemplary works, and so we must also make a hero out of ourselves in our own little ways.

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Did you miss the episode? Then that makes two of us. I was so busy having some talk with my classmates last night which caught my attention away from the episode. Actually I made it to the last minute, I mean it: last minute! I sat on the chair in front of the TV just to find out it just ended. What the heck. I thought nothing special happened but just this afternoon while I was having merienda on the UIC Main campus canteen with Bernil Jane Salarda, Jesamie Tiongco, Joseph Rey sator, Sharellyn Enriquez and Mavis Joy Ibanez, they brought up the topic that the most popular mother icon in the Philippine Showbiz today Aling Dionisia Pacquiao visited the PBB Double Up house and marked her footsteps there. Along with her was the comedy queen Ay-ay de Las Alas, they were separated into the houses. Aling Dionisia actually made quite an accidental joke calling Big Brother as “Brother,” which I think is better than to call him “Brad.” Lolz. She demonstrated some fancy boxing moves along with the barbels and gave some advices to the housemates especially Melai who she thinks is a little too irritating. She even called jayson as “ukoy-ukoy,” a colloquial visayan term connoting a slightly derranged behavior which is associated with the term “Siokoy” or the male mermaids of the ocean. Well, I haven’t finished watching the whole episodes and don’t have any idea yet what happened on the other house with Ay-ay. I’m pretty sure they had real fun there too… The episode also features the arrival of housemate Cathy from Finland and the surprise birthday celebration of housemate Rica.
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This video is uber hilarious! Pokwang really nailed Aling dionisia on this one! ^:)^ Try to watch this one and you’ll laugh so hard your belly will be in pain..hahahaha… Nice impersonation pokwang! I’m starting to think if by any means you are related to aling dionisia… xD

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