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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.

If I could turn back time, I would see to it that I’ll start to the point where I was just a kid crazy over watching Jetman, Fiveman, Power Rangers and the like with matching snaku and regent cake  commercial. Oh God I could still remember how I would go berserk or plea to my father not to change the channel. It’s real funny and when I come to think of those memories, I just laugh and it makes me feel like I want to live those days again. Well, what can I say, childhood is absolutely where I want to spend eternity, just playing games and enjoying life as if nothing else matters. Bad days and hurt feelings are simply wiped away with a lollipop. Hahahahaha xD

These past days kept reminding me of how wonderful it is to live in childhood stage. I know I sound strange, but its really true, I bet it crossed your mind several times… Yet, We gotta face reality, go on with our lives and live it the best way we can. We have a lot of growing up to do and we gotta do it on our own…

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-

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.

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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

Well, the UIC ITE seniors, including me have just had our Educational Trip on Cebu. As you can see some pictures above, we really did have so much fun. We went into many places, and obviously people went into cam whore mode. I wont be making this post long because I know that all of you are so much excited for the pictures. Here are some of the clips taken from the tours and more links will be added eventually so keep updated. Enjoy viewing!

Dayday’s Cam

part 1 >>> part 2 >>> part 3

Sator’s Cam

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Jesa’s Cam

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Fabio’s Cam

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Felice’s Cam

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Earl’s Cam

part 1 >>>

You can also:

download Sharellyn’s ringtone here!

download the Sunflower Party mini video!

I started playing with this bizarre game Last year, October 12, 2008. I wasn’t really minding the date so I had to search my email for the email verification when I signed up for this. Well, it’s been a year now since I started wasting my time hooking up with this game. It was on server alpha where I embarked on a unrealistic voyage and started my career as an emperor of my own little town. When I first saw this, I really said to myself “Is is this even worth playing. I mean, just look at it, no animations, so dull, no action and totally a piece of crap.” Little did I know that it was an online strategy game, which I was so blind I had no idea what it was. I have tried my very best to understand the game but I just got so puzzled on how it works that I’ve even came to the point of quitting it, and I did. But because my classmates keep  babbling about how nice it was, I gave it another shot. And whooops! I got the it right and I finally knew what I had to do with this game. So, I read and practiced my way to the game building my formidable little army and started destroying another souls day by killing his soldiers and stealing his resources for good, or the other way around..hahaha xD

It was not fun at all until I saw my military reports go on red alert, indicating an incoming attack. Oh I swear to got I got real nervous as if it was happening in reality. And that’s where the addiction started! I have lost many battles, lost hundreds of men, got looted with thousands of resources, got Absolute crisis and scarcity of food. It was when the seed of revenge was planted. I honed my skill, wielded a the best fighters and entered into “addict mode.” Sure I did victorious moments together with my allies and friend, I even liked insulting and messing up with the loosers..hehehe. Everything got so exciting when I got promoted as the DBZ or Dabawockeez(forgive me if the spelling is incorrect) where I made connections and treaties with other alliances, arranged acceptance of new applicants, etc. It was a nice but very exhausting role. So on and on the game gone.

It was all going good when suddenly I got banned and my account was gone for good. Yep, sad but I admit I deserve it. Who does not do dirty stuff around there?huh? Don’t act all innocent, I know every strategy you know. Multiple accounts…and there’s more… X

But, destiny smiled upon me after that horrible day [...there was a brownout while I was writing this...and some parts were deleted I can't retain them xD] because the new server Beta was opened up which allowed my to level up my addiction into obsession. So, I made friends with new people and one player really gave me techniques, strategies and additional knowledge on surviving the game. I was oline almost all time of the day and keep refreshing my browser if in case I get attacked. I was sitting the whole day in front of my PC and wasted my time spying, attacking, and of course defending my colonies. Since I was the Diplomat, I was responsible for Declaring Wars and stuff that made me pretty busy. This went on and on until that very day that the course of history was changed, and it was when the damn thesis started bugging me off. So each day, my interest in playing deteriorated but still I find times to take peak and do my thing a little. There were also times when I couldn’t stop and get back to “addict mode” I rarely got the chances. So, everything went so complicated, new version released, some players quitting, alliance changed, and etc diminished my interest.

At the moment, I still have my beta and gamma account, I signed up for delta but I didn’t pursued it. I grew tired and weary of the game. I’m just maintaining them now just for the sake of not getting my towns erased from the Ikariam.ph World. It’s been days already since I logged in.hehehe

SO, that’s the story of my Ikariam days…(*_*)

Gotta take a rest now buddies, we got a field trip in Cebu City tomorrow! weeeeeh! Vacation mode activated. ^_^

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Sandara, the Pambansang Krung-krung has glittered in the Philippine showbiz for quite long time and appeared in many television shows, movies, modeling and etc showing her unique personality and angelic face with a different attitude. Her popularity suddenly waned and she slowly vanished. She tried to get back and redeem her fame but she ended up unsuccessful and decided to  return to her home country. Destiny smiled upon Sandara when she made it to a Girl Group, now renowned as 2NE1 and sparked her way to success. She has returned and has proved herself worthy of the people’s praise as she dances and sings hip-hop music. What’s great with her is that she still knows how to speak tagalog and even sung “In or out” in one of their shows in Korea. Many speculations have been raised whether she will put herself again in the Philippine showbiz as her growing fans are excited for her comeback.

The picture above shows a different Dara, totally cute and beautiful. In fact, I am now a fan of her and I’m starting to like her, just so you know I was not pleased with her image years ago. Who would have thought the krung-krung would actually park back to showbiz and ring the alarm?

-xoxo-

Well well well, what do we have here? Oh Com’on… If you have noticed on the image posted above, there is something wrong with it, right? From what you can see from it, you have a paper there with the written text saying “OPEN Bottled HERE.” I do not intend to impose the “himantayon” attitude but I just want to share it with you. I was having a late dinner together with my classmates Felice Adlaon, Mark Angelo Pobre and Jan Roland Delmo at a famous restaurant in Davao city. They got really delicious foods that are worth the price. I got thirsty so I went to get myself a glass of water and quench my thirst when I saw this poster. I grabbed my cellphone quickly and took a picture. My mind “buffered” for seconds until I came to a verdict that the grammar is really wrong… hahahaha… It’s just funny how people murders the english language in public. I’ve seen many of these before and they really captured the attention of viewers xD. You wanna know where this was posted? Well, It has something to do with a color and an animal. See the title!