| just a break from all the work |
[Mar. 16th, 2009|08:16 am] |
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there's just three more weeks worth of school work i have to finish before i can have my first summer break in almost three years. work has been piling up and so are my pictures. i apologize to some for not posting photos yet (and including some videos). somehow, multiply cannot recognize the vertical orientation of photos so they still end up horizontal.
anyway, i have...three months worth of photos to upload. maybe it'll be four months worth when i get around to uploading it. haha. oh well.
i want a summer job. :D |
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[Feb. 24th, 2009|10:36 am] |
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some people are lucky to have their time at their friggin' fingertips while some people's fingertips do not have access to anything but the keyboard and the coffee mug.
and when everything's done, despite doing a lot of the work, all of you are *still* equal, which is a solid slap to the face because martyrdom's useless in this setting. |
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| YOU ARE INVITED TO THE ILANG-ILANG JAVA NIGHT! :) |
[Feb. 20th, 2009|10:44 am] |
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Ilang-Ilang Residence Hall
Presents
JAVA NIGHT
fashion and music in sync
Featuring:
INGENIUM
TSAKA NA LANG
TED CONTRERAS
THE DENNIS ROLDAN PROJECT
MADE FOR MIDNIGHT MOVIES
THE UP MUSIC CIRCLE
with a special performance from
KONTRA-GAPI
We will serve free-flowing coffee until supplies last!
See you on the 21st of February at the Ilang-Ilang Garden, UP Diliman, Quezon City, 7:00PM sharp! Tickets at P30.
*There will be a mini fashion show launching this year’s Ilang-Ilang shirt featuring the beauty and ingenuity of the Ilang-Ilang residents in 4 categories: ethnic design, designs for the seasons, zodiac signs, and famous guy impersonations.
**for students of Sir Xiao (Michael Charleston Chua), he’ll be playing with Sir Mayo as The Dennis Roldan Project. Sir Mayo will also be making available his first album at the venue. Check out his sound at http://meyoneyz.multiply.com or athttp://odysseylive.net/meyoneyz
Limited copies only! |
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| the MMDA hotline works! |
[Feb. 4th, 2009|10:36 am] |
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this evening, i was pulled over because of beating the red light. it was still yellow when i crossed but somehow the vehicle i was driving caught their attention. they stopped me in the middle of the road and told me that it was reckless driving. i insisted on moving to the side of the road and they asked for my license. i asked how much the fine was. they didn't tell me initially how much, but she told me it was 500 for my "violation", and according to her, "masmahal pa daw sa munisipyo", although it could be arranged, rather bargained for at a lower price *hint hint*.
she told me that my license would be confiscated and the ticket would serve as my temporary license. i refused to let my license be confiscated because from what i know, it is illegal for MMDA officers or for anyone to confiscate licenses. she refused, and i called the MMDA hotline, and asked if that was true. i gave the officer's name to the guy on the line and our exact location, and made the officer talk.
and then, a sudden change of heart--she suddenly told me that i didn't understand what she said, and she insisted that i should understand the conditions first before making any statement. i laughed in my head while my companions were already furious. before letting us go, she said that the fine was lowered ("binabaan ko na yan") from 500 to 150.
the evidence: http://thebassist.multiply.com/video/item/2/MMDA_corruption
unfortunately, i was not able to capture a video of our first few words exchanged. the idea struck me too late, but there's still evidence of "haggling" in the video i have. if you wait for the video or if you scroll to the second half of the clip, you'll hear her say that.
the confrontation may not be much, but i hope in some way, it will inform you about their limitations as officers. they cannot take your licenses, and traffic tickets cannot serve as temporary licenses. try to call the MMDA hotline numbers listed below if you sense that the officer is being dishonest.
09209389861 09209389875
i have to pay for my fine. however, i still have my license, and they didn't get any money. |
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| Mayor Beats Up 56-Year-Old Man and 14-Year-Old Boy |
[Dec. 27th, 2008|02:15 pm] |
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As my friend, BA, said, blogs are viral. An interesting fact may spread across thousands of users in a single given moment. This virulence is a necessary tool for spreading the truth and upholding justice. Let us help Bambee dela Paz get the justice that they deserve, and let us help stop this case of senseless violence brought about by men under an illusion of power and glory. Here is a link to most websites that have posted/reported about the incident. --- Bambee dela Paz So, I just had the worst day of my life. At around 1:30 PM today, at Valley Golf and Country Club, Antipolo City, Mayor Nasser Pangandaman, Jr., Mayor of Masiu City, Lanao del Sur, his father, Secretary Nasser Pangandaman of the Department of Agrarian Reform, and company, beat my defenseless 56-year-old dad and my 14-year-old brother to a pulp because of some stupid misunderstanding on the golf course. This is a golf course. I have been a golfer all my life, and I have never seen anything like this. NOTHING. This is hard to comprehend. And it happened to my own father and my own brother too. Right in front of my eyes. My brother and I were playing golf at the South Course of Valley. We were on the 3rd hole, and we see two golf carts going past us, overtaking our flight, and setting up to tee off on the next hole. My dad goes up to them and asks them why they would do that, why they would overtake us without even asking for our permission. Golf etiquette 101. One of the guys says that they're with the flight in front of us. (So what? That doesn't give them the right to just pass us WITHOUT asking.) So, we go to the 5th hole. The flight behind us catches up with us, and asks us what caused the hold up. We said that this flight just slipped in front of our flight. So we complained to the marshall. We play the 5th hole and walk towards the next hole, where there is a teehouse, and both the flights in front of us were there, talking with the marshall. The mayor of Masiu City, Lanao del Sur talks with my dad. Things get heated up. Voices were raised. But never, in my wildest dreams, did I ever imagine that someone would pull out a punch. Apparently not. He attacks my father. His flightmates, maybe 2 or 3 of them, rush to his aid and beat up my father. My 56-year-old father. My younger brother and I could not just watch. We rushed to break the fight. My younger brother pleads to the mayor to please stop it. To not hurt my dad. To just stop. His words still ring through my head..."Sorry na po, sorry na po...tama na...tama na po..." With his hands in front of his chest in a praying position. PLEADING. The mayor socks him in the face. My brother defended himself. My dad is still on the ground getting clobbered. My brother is the same way. I try to stop the fight, but all I can do is stop one person. There were 4 or 5 of them attacking now. Someone breaks up the fight. I thought it was all over. The mayor shouts to his caddy: "Hindi nila kami kilala! Sabihin mo nga sa kanila kung sino ako!" And believe me, I had no idea who this person was. But now I know. He's the person who, with 4 other men, beat up my 56-year-old father and my 14-year-old brother. He's the person who sacks a pleading 14-year-old kid in the face. He's a person who, I am sure, is gonna rot in hell. I lash out, but my dad held me back. I was screaming my lungs out, shouting to this mayor, telling him about what he had done. I said: "Nakakahiya kayo. Singkwenta'y sais anyos ang tatay ko. And kapatid ko kakatorse anyos. Anong ilalaban nila sayo?" The mayor looks at my brother, point to his face, and says, "Tatandaan kita!" And he tells me that my brother has a bad attitude and that I need to watch him. WHAT THE HELL?! So, my brother's bad for defending his father?! We leave. We walk to the clubhouse to file a complaint. My brother asks for a doctor. My dad could barely walk. Their group comes to the clubhouse, sees my brother. Once again my brother pleads, says sorry, and is crying. He was CRYING, for crissakes. But no. The relentless mayor still punches him in the face, and then sees my dad and goes after my dad again. Him and his friend pull my dad to the ground, pulls at his feet, and steps on him like he's dirt. I run to him and try to hold him back, holding him back by his shirt, while this other guy and this girl tries to stop me. She tells me to just stop it. I scream in her face "they're beating my father up and you want me to stop?!" I pull at his shirt--I don't let go. All I can see was my dad being trampled on. I didn't even see my brother getting beat up. People pull them away. I get my dad, and I saw my brother. His right ear was bleeding. I freaked out. I told the receptionists to bring my brother to the clinic. I pull my dad away. People were separating us. My mom and my older brother come. I tell her Bino's right ear is bleeding. They both look like they could kill. My dad holds my brother off, I hold off my mom. When I finally got my mom under control, my older brother gets away and I hold him off. Two of the mayor's bodyguards pull out guns. I embraced my brother from the back, just holding him back, crying. The receptionists came to us, crying, hugging me, my dad, and my mom, whispering to us to just leave. "Maam, umalis na po kayo, may mga baril sila...Maam...umalis na po kayo please..." I am pretty sure the Secretary of DAR did not take part in the fight, but he just watched all this happen. He watched two of his sons, as we figured out, the other guy was his son, too, beat up my father and my 14-year-old brother. He didn't do anything to stop it. And this person is what now? A cabinet member. A politician. Sounds like something out of a movie, doesn't it? But this is what happened. TODAY. The day after Christmas. To my family. And all I ask for is JUSTICE. The people at Valley Golf did not seem to want to help us. None of the security guards even tried to stop the fight. Right in the clubhouse. I came back after the fight was over and talked to the receptionists. They say they did not see anything. The general manager of Valley Golf would not give us the names of the men who made my brother's ear bleed. It took him an hour. Maybe even more than that. He seemed to not want to help us. Because, we were against the SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM and the MAYOR OF MASIU CITY, LANAO DEL SUR. They were all scared. The world has gone crazy. Two politicians beat up a defenseless 56-year-old father and his 14-year-old son. At a golf course. I swear to God, I thought golfers were decent people. You would think politicians were decent people. I guess not. I guess they gang up on 56-year-old men and beat up pleading 14-year-old kids. Please pray for my dad, my brother and for my whole family. Please pray that we get JUSTICE. Oh God, please, give these people what they deserve. |
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| merry christmas, everybody! :D |
[Dec. 24th, 2008|04:23 pm] |
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Merry Christmas! :D
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having been detached from my phone, i haven't sent my christmas greetings yet. but, please grant me the honor to greet you through the wonderful world wide web. haha. we spend so much time in front of the computer now, venturing into another world that grants us another consciousness. oh, the wonders of technology.
have wonderful days, everyone! savor the moments of freedom before succumbing once again to the painful grip of knowledge, promise and enlightenment. enjoy the break while you still can. :)) |
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| of experimenting... |
[Dec. 1st, 2008|12:03 pm] |
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...and screwing things up. hahaha. try not to experiment with delicate things such as laptops with important data. |
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[Nov. 18th, 2008|01:06 am] |
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an ending is the right of passage to a new beginning. |
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| digression |
[Oct. 30th, 2008|09:36 am] |
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we, as human beings, have this natural tendency to be competitive. from the most mundane to the most eerily complex of subjects, there's that sense of natural satisfaction gained from this competition. your best, your most extreme, your skills and talents show themselves with flying colors. if lucky, you get to be superhuman.
but, at the end of the day, we change into our night clothes and close our eyes, lay our minds to rest and slip into rapid eye movement. at the end of the day, we're still all equal. equally tired, equally eager to sleep, equally human. |
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| weird internet stuff |
[Oct. 28th, 2008|01:26 pm] |
i was looking through wikipedia and i saw this:
and, for the first time in UP history, striptease aerobics is now available as a PE class for the students:
and, last but not the least, geekery:  |
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| being a turbo geek |
[Oct. 25th, 2008|03:44 pm] |
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so this is what i'm doing for my sembreak: installing fonts for openoffice.org (i don't have a problem with docx files anymore. HAHA TURBO GEEK). hahaha. i've decided to try and not push for piracy. i am now an open source advocate.
what is open source anyway?
according to searchenterpriselinux.com, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. (Historically, the makers of proprietary software have generally not made source code available.) Open source software is usually developed as a public collaboration and made freely available.
so please do give it a chance and try it out. there are numerous open source programs that are equivalents of our beloved commercial programs such as microsoft office and adobe photoshop. haha. if you're interested, try to google "open source" and look at the results.
i plan to be a developer someday. hope it pushes through. :P |
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| FOR SALE: Nokia 2630 |
[Oct. 9th, 2008|02:05 pm] |
  it has a VGA camera, 11 mb of memory, bluetooth and an FM radio. barely used. currently locked to sun, but it can be unlocked if you want to use it with other subscriptions. only a few months old. comes with warranty (if not unlocked), a charger, headphones, its user manual and box. all for 3k. :D
complete specs can be found here.
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| when you swallow... |
[Sep. 4th, 2008|12:05 pm] |
your tongue pushes against the upper wall of your mouth to begin the food's journey. your pharynx constricts, your breath ceases, your soft palate elevates to block the nasopharynx, your larynx elevates and your epiglottis closes. peristalsis of the esophagus occurs afterwards. upon peristalsis, the food makes its way through the lower esophageal sphincter, also known as the cardiac sphincter, then to your stomach.
i need to get back to the nervous and circulatory systems after the digestive system. i also need to know microbial shizz. haha.
just a little break. wish us luck. :D
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| did i miss history? |
[Aug. 31st, 2008|12:06 pm] |
the past few weeks buzzed with the news of the band that started the second wave of music insurgence (juan dela cruz was the first) coming back to do a show for one night. i wasn't particularly interested in seeing them live although i love and am pretty familiar with a lot of songs from the eraserheads and sembreak became one of my favorites during sembreak (haha). all the hype, reaching to untimely disappointment and compromise, stayed in my multiply inbox for quite some time. and last night was the big night of OPM history - the ones who characterized OPM played again as a band although cut short because of sudden health problems.
i feel a bit disappointed to not have seen this wonderful event. i just knew the day after that the tickets had a minimum of 800 pesos worth of damage to your wallet. even with the hefty price tag and the concert's untimely end, i still would've paid for such. maybe i wasn't in the right mindset to push because of my *work* (three exams on friday), or maybe no one in my immediate circle of friends was particularly interested in seeing them. or maybe, i didn't grow up listening to the eraserheads.
being aware of the music scene started five years ago for me. i had my guitar and i had lessons. it got me started and soon enough i was playing with classmates making melodies work together. the people i was with was listening to wolfgang and razorback, and the one who played atomica, arise, bought and sold or any other hard song first was praised (because tabs of such songs weren't available at that time). i grew up listening to them (and sort of racing to play licks and riffs by ear) and discovered the eraserheads soon after.
the time i totally dropped the bass guitar was the time i picked up listening to music other than rakenrol and guitar-driven sounds (cue guitar solos). i discovered the beauty of words intertwined with melodies and simulacra without guitar solos. there was an eraserheads album in my PC that i wasn't aware of and i clicked one of the files. then, the 90s came flashing through my speakers. it was colorful - colorful enough to put magasin and tindahan ni aling nena forever in my imagination.
i wasn't interested in seeing them live, but i've realized that i was interested in hearing them live, all for the sake of a new listening experience, all for the sake of hearing something from the artists themselves that's not part of the recorded album - something fresh, something varying.
i doubt that they'll have another concert anytime soon, but if ever they do, i'll try to get myself a ticket. let's just hope that my wallet can handle the self-induced injury.
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| some things are just very, very funny |
[Aug. 15th, 2008|09:35 am] |
This one's an epic win. HAHA
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I'm still left struggling with my school work, but that isn't such new news to me anymore. I'm already halfway through the semester and still, there's not much improvement. I don't have much hope for grades. I don't want to hope on them. They make me feel bad.
I have an exam tomorrow and I'm expecting to screw up again. But hey, it's just an exam. Oh well. Life goes on. :D
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