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Last Day
Today marks the last day of eliminations for this year’s sportsfest. We managed to top our bracket (which means that we move on to the semis) in Tennis but the girls had their first loss. It was a very, very close fight. Both of them in singles scored 5-7. It was somewhat heartbreaking yet that’s it. Shit happens. It happened. The good part is, they’re not yet eliminated, so they still have a chance to make it somewhere in the Top 3. On a different sport, I can almost not believe that our Basketball team lost for the second time. It’s “eliminated” for them. Their first loss was during last week’s first set of elims in which they scored only 2 points behind that of the Fisheries team. This time, I heard that it was only 5 or 6 points against the Scions. The sad part? Well, they just happened to be the champion last year — and they were twice-to-beat! Oh, well. Change happens.
I went to the church today after a series of Sundays without doing so. I have to thank Someone for all the happy things (even though I am no longer capable of remembering all of ‘em this instant) that’s been lately. I surpassed exams, won my games, acquired new belongings, and had the opportunity of attending an IT congress for the second time. I sat beside Sahara (a friend who’s a BS Economics student) and it was interesting on how she were asking things which related to the homily… I had 3 cups of rice and Adobong baboy and fried chicken for dinner. Heavy, huh. We won’t be having a class in our Computer Graphics (animation using Blender) subject tomorrow so that leaves only our exam in World Literature for for certain we won’t meet in our Systems Analysis subject in the afternoon because we have to be on the airport for our flight at 17:00 o’clock. It’s gonna be bye-bye school for a week starting tomorrow.
A few lines by Jeff Lew:
“C’mon. We’re animators. We’re not supposed to be smart.”
(after talking about a specific feature in animation)
“You’ll love it. If you don’t love it yet, you better love it.”
Google Olympic Logos 2008 Collection
If you might have noticed, Google was changing their logos on a daily basis during the entire duration of the Beijing Summer 2008 Olympics. In fact, they do change their logos under certain dates. When I first saw one last April (22 to be exact — Earth Day), I instantly decided to start collecting. With that, I occasionally always stop by Google each time I get connected.
August 8 - Opening Ceremonies
August 9 - Cycling
August 10 - Weightlifting
August 11 - Diving
August 12 - Rhythm
August 13 - Rings
August 14 - Basketball
August 15 - Badminton
August 16 - Soccer
August 17 - Rowing
August 18 - Ping Pong
August 19 - Swimming
August 20 - Track & Field
August 21 - High Jump
August 22 - Martial Arts
August 23 - Baseball
August 24 - Closing Ceremonies
Actually, I missed Baseball, as I was super busy that day and even slept very early at 8 o’clock in the evening. (No more time to report for duty on the Internet.) That was last Saturday, the first day of eliminations for our campuses’ Centennial Sportsfest. Thanks to Maathiyoose, who was also doing what I did. Image filenames are as is (except the Baseball, of course :P).
Litmus and Today’s Horoscope
This is a good day to make improvements to where you live, especially to areas connected with plumbing—bathrooms, laundry places and such. You see how to fix something.
For more than a day, I had some laundries soaked in Ariel, a detergent. This morning, since I already bought a cloth conditioner (Downy), I finally had the guts to rinse them. To my surprise, they were cleaner than what I expected. Really, no more visible stains. I guess not all commercials are liars after all. So to all Filipinos out there, start using Ariel now and rinse ‘em all the way! Hehe.
Anyway, as usual, many things have gone lately. Last Tuesday I rallied with Neil (a player from the Redbolts team) in Tennis and we hit each other’s balls ( 
why does it sound like a different subject to me 
) like there was no tomorrow. Actually, it was just my second time rallying with him, for I did not even played singles against him during last year’s sportsfest. Now things are seemingly hot. New players have sprouted and old ones have already blossomed. I am obviously excited and nervous for this year’s sportsfest which will start three days from now! On other news, last night was our academic group’s Mini-Litmus in preparation for the (main) Litmus of the upcoming sportsfest. Like the games Basketball, Volleyball, Football, Softball, and Cheering, it’s considered a major activity which means that its corresponding points are higher compared to that of the others. Litmus stands for “Literary-Musical” and is composed of competitions in Vocal Solo, A capella, Poetry in Motion, and Modern Dance. For last night’s activity, the competition was between batches, and the batch that won’t be able to present in an event would have to pay an amount of 300 pesos. The venue was the CFOS-AVR so it was totally something new. Our batch, specifically course, was in charge of the stage and everything (I was on the music baby! Tehe). There were only a few seniors at first and it was so heartlifting how they thought of doing standing ovations every time the representative from our batch finishes. 
The night was truly hilarous especially for the case of our batch because some were merely literally pulled to perform on the spot particularly on dancing. Woot~! Many faculty members came as judges this time. It was a night to be absolutely remembered.
I played at the Tennis court twice today — early in the morning and afternoon — and the policeman whom Neil occasionally plays with was present on both. He tells his tales of apparently going on nightouts and watching John Lloyd Cruz movies and other interestingly funny stuff. Ah, been talking so much already. Enough is enough. Before ending this post, the image above is a representation of what I felt as I was about to lose a set to Jetson (my teammate). Score ended in 4-6 after going straight to 1-5. Still good, but not yet good enough.
Sports-Minded
The College of Arts and Sciences Opening Exercises was held today, the day of the Philippine Independence. It was just like the usual, I’d say. But I’m happy that our academic group was still able to prepare and become organized without the presence of an official governor. All the acad groups presented an intermission number. The Redbolts and Elektrons (where I belong) had a dance number (”Low” and “1, 2 Step”, respectively) while the Skimmers and Clovers had someone sing “If I Ain’t Got You” and “Umbrella” from their group. By afternoon, it was time for the freshmen orientation for each of these so-called groups that compose our college. I was the music operator for our group. And again, I was glad that things were carried on smoothly. And finally, after it, was the orientation for each of the courses that compose our group — Applied Mathematics, Chemistry, Computer Science, and Statistics. It has been a ‘tradition’ for us komsai (ComSci) to let the freshmen introduce themselves and state the reason of taking up the course. “Why Komsai?”, that is. It was amusing listening to some of the answers, for they were really stunning. The following are some of them:
- “Why Komsai? I will find my reason here.”
- “Computer makes money, and money makes the world go round.”
- “I believe in 10 years there will be a computer revolution in the Philippines and I want the graduates of the University of the Philippines to lead that revolution.” *nosebleed*
- “Gusto ko lang tapatan si Bill Gates.” (I want to compete against Bill Gates.) *sorry girl but you’ll still have to pass over me lol*
- “Because I love computer, I love science, I love computer science.” *flirt!*
We simply had to cheer after hearing those answers. And we, upperclassmen, also introduced ourselves and gave some pieces of advice. This year’s number of enrollees is the highest, ever since the course started here as well as for the entire college. They’re 41, and I do hope the number will stick until the day of their graduation. Talk about their number, we really need some serious manpower in the acquaintance party (I can’t wait!). 
Six (or seven) of them are from Mindanao. When it ended, I stayed for a while in the lab in an attempt to aid the team who’s working on the computerized quiz bee for the upcoming IT Week in Iloilo. I realized that I no longer am capable of helping them since the codes are not mine in the first place. Ah, plus the mood swings too. So I just walked away and went to my guardian’s place. Unfortunately, they were not there. 
But it’s okay, I just left the cake I brought to the person who was left to stay in the house.
I have been alternately playing Tennis and Badminton lately. There was this tough Badminton player whom I saw playing last Monday night and I just couldn’t help but get nervous and excited by the mere fact of playing against him. Well, tonight, I just did. I was together with my roommate in first year. We lost, but it’s worth the sweat. I only had two games for tonight. And in Tennis, well, there’s also a new player. It happens that she’s a girl, so no need to worry in that case.
The Final Cut
From our laboratory, I can clearly see the morning light now. We’re at school again, not that we’re exaggeratedly early birds dying over the Internet, but it’s our fourth time for this semester alone that we stayed overnight to do a project. It was only during the first one where I got the chance to sleep (and my classmates took picture of me which a classmate considered as a non-convincing scandal. Lol). The project we are trying to do right now is, at last, not on SE but on our Database Design Project. If it weren’t for this, I would have already been packing for my summer migration. This is actually scary, since our teacher really informed us beforehand that we’ll get an INC if we won’t be able to pass this. The problem here is, I don’t know how to do a freaking JDBC.
For two consecutive days, I went to school without taking a bath (now the number of such days has really become countless). The first one was last Thursday, when we also had an overnight for the final version of our project prototype and I came back at the dorm around 6:30 only to face my computer and jot down notes for our report on Solaris at 8:30. I wasn’t actually able to report that day, since we were the last group. That afternoon, our labor paid off when we had our defense fast and smooth unlike the group preceding us. Yesterday was the second. I woke up at 10:30 when our report was to start by 9:00. When I arrived at our room our group was already the one reporting (this one’s not yet on Solaris, but on IBM DB2 Universal Database), just in time. Of course, I drew attention from my classmates. I had an obvious haggard look of just waking up.
We watched Sweeney Todd at 3AM today by the way (having a little 2-hour break from tapping the keyboards). It was morbid, ugh. I really liked the fact that the kid was the one who killed Mr. T. Many said that his “dying/death” position was cool but for me it was just…okay. I still can’t look straight when it comes to watching scenes of throat slitting. The heck. It’s as if I can feel it.
Sweeney Todd Trailer
Story 05: SWEENEY TODD!!! - Hiatus
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