No good-byes... only see you soon!

My friends-blockmates-orgmates-01/berkmates Marien and May will pursue their respective masters studies abroad this year. May has left the country few hours ago to take up Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at Ohio State University. Marien, on the other hand, will have her flight tomorrow morning for Singapore where she will take up Master in Engineering. She is a scholar of Asian Universities Network - Southeast Asian Education Development (AUN-SEED) at the National University of Singapore. They organized joint and separate despedidas (Marien at least had her "pakain") this month of July.

To both of you, good luck and God bless.

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Happy

Happy Ending

As I bid farewell to my very comfortable and enjoyable workplace (I'll definitely miss Logan, my ever reliable computer) in the UP Digital Signal Processing Laboratory (the best research lab in UP EEE), me and my labmates held our sem-ender last Saturday 28 October 2006 - a simple and short event yet a sweet and solemn one. Well, the "solemn" part is subjective.

Mam Gev, Sir Franz, Sir Jor-el, Mam Tess (from neighboring IML/Microlab) and Mam Dae plus Amiel, Danes, Fed, Geof, Ivy, Leo, Lyand, Mark, Micael, Pau, Tiyaw and I were all present during our Bowling/Billiards "tournament" at Xybrbowl Katipunan Ave./Aurora Blvd. Our dinner was also mouth-watering and came in an almost unlimited supply (spaghetti in white sauce, chicken barbecue and java rice with bottomless iced tea, fruit salad and cakes from Red Ribbon). Here are some of the moments stolen by Pau's digicam.






After the event, I, Danes, Ivy, Leo and Mark decided to spend the night at Amiel's house where we had a movie marathon and, as usual, food trip. We were able to watch Click, Just My Luck, Just Friends, Curious George, Scary Movie 4, Cassanova and Over the Hedge - seven movies straight!!!


Happy Birthday

Happy 22nd birthday to Liz (Oct20), Winston (Oct29), JFel (Oct30) and Emil (Oct31) and happy 23rd birthday to Almond (Oct31). Painom naman diyan!!! Haha.


Happy Halloween

Trick or treat!

Arrovo

I declare this day my lucky day. I went to Phillipine National Bank UP Campus Branch and withdrew PhP400.00. Just like what I always do whenever I need money and ask McATM for back-up, I checked the 4 100-peso bills and to my surprise - this time, all are Arrovo bills! Arrovo bills are limited edition paper notes which were accidentally printed with the wrong spelling of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's name (obviously, the "y" was replaced by "v").

I immediately told my pakner Ivy, who was with me that time, regarding my "fortune" and she requested me to withdraw some more for her. All in all, I now have 8 Arrovo bills plus 5 more which Ivy bought from me. I heard that each can cost up to PhP1000.00 when sold to money collectors and museum/antique houses. I gave Ivy a friendly rate.

For those who are interested, and if you think you are my friend, tell me and I can bargain the other 7 (I want to keep at least 1).

Tagged

by Ivy.


Once tagged by this entry, write a blog entry of some kind with six random facts about yourself. In the end of it, pick six of your friends and tag them! (No tag backs). This explanation must be included, of course.

So here it goes:

1. At any circumstance, I can manage to sleep or take a short nap (even when riding a jeepney, when bombarded by loud noise, when the lights are ON, under extreme heat or during a "standing-room-only" scenario inside the MRT). I am the kind of person described by the phrase "masandal tulog".

2. Ironically, I can stay awake for around 48 hours straight.

3. I am an E-AJI addict.

4. I have recently doubled my appetite as compared to what I had a couple of years ago. I currently weigh 145 lbs (...and counting).

5. I love taking a bath.

6. I sing whenever I am in the bathroom (except in EEE).

(To know me more, read: Ten Things You Didn't Know About Niño)

Now I'm tagging Dyan, Elma, Fil, May, Danep and Winston. Keep it going!

DSP - Digital South Park

BER-days

The Yuletide Season starts today in the Philippines with the first day of the first BER-month September falling on a Friday. It's exactly 115 days before Christmas Day and, ehem, 5 days before my 22nd BIRTHDAY!!! Who would've thought? Haha.

Speaking of BER-days, err, I mean BIRTHDAYS, many of my loved ones and friends (Barkadahan, Berks, LICS, LYC, etc) are celebrating their own birth anniversaries within this season - before 2006 bids farewell. Let's have a quick run down of these beings - you might want to prepare them presents on their special days.

AUGUST
18 - Tatay
30 - Paolo Enrico Encomienda
31 - Norman Edward Valdez

SEPTEMBER
1 - Rica Ana Magbalana
2 - Ryan Joy Mabilin, Arthur Ryan Peña
3 - Mark Anthony Carlos
4 - Mr. Alfred Rivera, Annie Rose Sanoria
6 - Who else? ----> (: ME :)
8 - Anna Katrina Almeda
14 - Baby Krystal
16 - Mark William Despi
17 - Romeliza Ejercito
20 - Leon Marco Ebarle
25 - Marien Dy
29 - Marie Elma Domingo

OCTOBER
5 - Maria Rochelle Diswe
7 - Adrian Menguito
18 - Marco Paolo Florcruz
20 - Elizabeth Sagucio
29 - Winston Sumalia
30 - Juan Feliciano Cuevas
31 - Almond Mendiola, Emiliano Pugoy

NOVEMBER
2 - Kristine Espinosa
4 - Carlos Miguel Castro
5 - Ma. Zasha Alano, Jose Alejandro Angeles
7 - Jim Ruther Nill
13 - Allan "OCHIE" Eviota (Bestfriend1)
17 - Baby Matthew
18 - Romarie Lorenzo
21 - Regina Unsay
22 - Ivy Jhoanna Chua, Arolf John Hubilla (Bestfriend2), John Carlo Lara, Ralph Francis Miranda
23 - Charmaine Diaz
24 - Ate, Maria Filonila Alcaraz, Larisse Gale Garcia, Ann Frances Gondra,
28 - Norilaine Castillo, Ma. Clarissa Contreras, Francis Dave Magbalana

DECEMBER
13 - Neil Michael Axalan, Ron Kelvin Palacol
25 - OUR SAVIOUR
30 - Karlene Denolo, Eugene Opelinia
31 - Joeleth Francisco Al-Bugami, Israel Polintan

Did I miss anyone? I hope I did not. Well, if I did miss any important figure in my life, please notify me immediately so I can update my calendar. Haha.

To all the celebrants/celebrators, HAPPY BIRTHDAY and many more to come! Also, MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR to all (in advance, hehe)!

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Halfway-Point Presentation is just a day away...


Pray for our success. Wish us luck.

Give us enough strength. Help us God.