i'll get a job soon...

ok, being a bum doesn't work well for me... i wasn't able to get the bike and i feel really sad about it... turns out i have to buy the more expensive ones because the one i had my eyes on is good til 170-180 pounds only and i weigh.... NO I'M NOT TELLING YOU! hehe... anyway, my mom said i could keep the money she gave me... it serves as my grad gift... so i think i'll get a wii fit. =)

my experiment did not work so well. when i was getting the cup of water to see the results of my water evaporation experiment, the cup was gone and i lost interest in going for a second try so nevermind. but i checked on it a couple of hours after i placed it outside and the water did go down. my dad said i should have done this experiment when i was in kinder. hahahaha! later that night, he was doing silhouettes in the light. he was doing a talking deer so i told him, dad, you should have done that in kinder as well. =))

i got my first bentosa treatment ever and it turns out i have a lot of colds in my legs! bentosa is cool! it IS the SHIT! i feel lighter. anyway, i'm excited for lunch later. i'm meeting my friends(presly, cat, nadine, mia(?)) in The Fort to have lunch. I'll be with them two days from now to Subic! WOOOT!

anyway, after our trip, i'll start looking for a job cause i could see my money disappearing right before my eyes. it's sad but it's reality. i can't mooch off my parents forever and my parents are doing a good job not giving me money so i should really get a job so i could have money to spend already.. but i still have enough for like 3 months. pero still, i should get one by the end of April. I'll start applying next monday since we'll be back here in manila on friday. WOOOOOT!

SIDE NOTE:
i damaged the car cause i did not notice the gutter had a huge hump and the street was really small. my dad said he'll take care of it. i said i would pay for the damages but he got pissed.

he said, wag mo ko daanin sa pera at wala ka pang trabaho!

and i said, naguiguilty kasi ako. ako may kasalanan eh! ano dapat kong gawin?

he said, kalimutan mo na lang! ok lang naman kasi!

i said, well, sorry talaga.....

he said, wala ka namang kasalanan kasi masikip talaga doon.. pasong tamo na lang next time ha?

i said, ok, sorry...

then i called nadine cause she calms me down and makes me feel everything'll be ok... thanks nads! =) see you guys in 2 hours or so... =)

hotta! hotta!

i felt like it was a hundred degrees today and it won't even be in farenheit, CENTIGRADE!

despite the fact that it rains, the ground easily gets dried up because it's so hot! precisely my point. the heat is enough to evaporate water! i'm thinking of doing an experiment tom. i'll leave a cup of water outside our house tom and see how much of it would be left by night. i think it'd be interesting. DON'T YOU THINK SO?? haaaayyy... iba na talaga ang bored.

anyway, i was actually pretty busy today. jc, tim, kish and i worked on our paper and we decided to delegate the other stuff to those who did not go to the meeting. so i hope they'd get the job done tom cause everything's in their hands already! i think we did well earlier though.

after we finished working on our paper, i decided to drop by jav's place first. my decision was based on the following reasons:

1.) my sis was already on her way home from the baguio bus terminal (makes sense?) so she no longer needs me to pick her up
2.) my other sis is on a date
3.) i will be alone when i go home
4.) i don't want to run errands today. I'M ON VACATION HERE... HELLO!
5.) our drinking session was cancelled last night because of our paper (btw, we did not drink)
6.) i miss my friends... =)

so thank you jav, tito and tita for stuffing our stomachs with two family pan sized pizzas (three of us finished everything... hahaha) and jav, you're welcome for all the files you got from my laptop... hahaha!

anyway, sigit told me about this HS teacher job in indonesia. at first, i thought teacher? for my first job? in a diff country? but then he told me standard of living is cheap and i would earn a thousand to a thousand five hundred USD. so i changed my mind. hehehe... that'd be way more than what i'd earn here so i gave him my resume and hopefully, i'll be qualified. (crosses fingers)

tomorrow, i'll be getting my advance birthday gift-stationary bike! WOOOOT! i'd also get my ipod to stereo jack and jav said we might go out... ano na updates dun?

SIDE NOTE:
jav and dio said there's a "party place" on top of starbucks pearl plaza called 6 underground and it sucks that i study in UAP and i've never been there... i was like, it's ok! who the f**k parties in front of the school anyway? hahaha! so he said i was a nerd (and i would admit, there's some truth to this, hehe...) but i thought i'd stab him back..




you see, he was delayed for graduation cause he was deferred (he already graduated, otherwise i would not joke about this) so i told him:





I might be a nerd BUT at least I am not DEFERRED!



(sana nga, wala pang grades eh... hehe)



wahahahaha! take that! have fun nga pala sa date(?) niyo ni celine.... WOOOOOT! :D





i wonder how the earth day went? hmmmm....

i don't like this but i'll bear with it

i honestly thought school was over... today's supposed to be my first day of vacation but presly kept on bugging me about the powerpoint and i won't say i enjoyed how we argued earlier. most of the time it's fun arguing with him but sometimes it gets a li'l bit too edgy. but all's well that ends well.

i wanted to buy an ipod to stereo jack and a stationary bike but i obviously couldn't leave the house today cause i'm coding. my dad asked me to run some errands (go to the bank and pay the bills using our top of the line PUVs of course) and i was pretty much stuck in the house watching twilight, made of honor and FRIENDS. i was supposed to go to my friend's (philip from HS) place tonight (after coding hours) to hang out but i just found out i gotta be in school early tomorrow to revise our paper and jav has another thing later at 9 so we decided to reschedule. so i'm a li'l pissed that i wasn't able to go out tonight and surely i'm not happy i won't be able to buy my shit tom but hopefully we get to finish our paper so we won't have anything for next week anymore. anyway, i'm excited about the stationary bike cause my uncle broke the other one. i wanted to get a treadmill (tama ba spelling?) but it would take too much space and i intend to keep this in my bedroom cause stuff tend to get broken whenever my uncle uses them. love ya tito!

anyway, i better get some sleep cause it'll be a long morning for me. can't wait to hang out at flip's (again, from HS) tom evening. i'll just buy my ipod jack and bike on sunday.. i hope i would remember to bring my econmet book and extension line tom.

au revoir!

soceconess

not only did i finish my RRL on time last time i blogged, i also finished my volunteered parts for today! let's celebrate!=)

the last requirement

as most of you may know, classes and exams in UA&P are over and for us who do not intend to take the 5th yr, college life is over. however, we still have this last requirement for one of our subjects. aside from our take home essay exam, this paper will be our professor's only gauge on how she will grade us for our performance the entire semester.







and it is quite horrible for me to not have the drive to finish it.. it is due on friday so i actually have ample time to prepare for it IF i was doing this whole thing on my own... however, this paper is a group paper so if i do not finish my RRL this afternoon, i will cause my other groupmates to lag behind their work as well. haaaaayyy... the only motivating factor for me right now is the fact that i do not want to let my groupmates down.. but i am really feeling lethargic today.. i hate it! i shouldn't be like this...








i tried so many things to motivate myself to finish the paper but somehow i just couldn't..








ok, i'll try to start again.... i'm not letting you guys down... i'll keep my word. you'll have my RRL this afternoon. =)

i just want to whine... hehe

i am really exhausted today. i feel like i did 2 weeks worth of labor in one day. i was up as early as 1am struggling through my soc eco global financial crisis readings so that i would be able to answer our take home essay exam. it was terrible. i enjoyed the readings because i love financial and business stuff but i could not help it but take a nap once in a while.

soon i realized that it will take me a long time to finish reading my stuff so i took a bath first because i won't be able to do so anymore once my eyes get strained and i have a morning meeting. it was a little funny cause i watched the videos that i made yesterday for my soceco exam. well, after finishing episode 3 of commanding heights, i thought it would be a good idea to keep track of the details in the movie but i didn't want to write them down so i took out my videocam and i recorded myself narrating the stuff that i learned from the documentaries. i'm still thinking if i should post the video here... hehe... it's embarrassing and it's 200 mb so... maybe not... hehe...

come 7:30 am, i ate breakfast while i was skimming through my soceco powerpoints and i realized i would not make it on time to my meeting at 9am so i texted jc i would be late. the main factor that made me know i was gonna be late is because i didn't like what was served for breakfast. i do not like hotdogs and local corned beef (i only like hereford and armour). so i asked manang to fry me an egg and open a can of sardines (i love spanish and normal sardines!). anyway, i was able to finish my paper around 930 and i sent it to miss's email immediately cause i thought it was due 12 noon. JC called me and i found out we no longer need to submit a hard copy so i drove off to philip's place (i am never going to take a car to north ave. again! unless i'm in the backseat =p). anyway, we had a lot of problems regarding our regression. The economic model that we worked so hard for has a poor Durbin-Watson result and so we had to look for other variables to put in our model and after hours of toiling... bagsak pa rin yung durbin-watson! waaaaaaahhhh! so i decided to call dr. de vera and dr. u for help and dr. de vera agreed with me that it'd be ok to have a bad DW test since our model won't be used for forecasting so we summed up the meeting and agreed on our variables. however, when i got home, dr. u told me that failing DW could indicate biased t stats so i started to sweat... hehe... but all is well that ends well. he said i could use newey-west to correct my t stats but i'm using white cause it gives me better results... =)

anyway, we have a pretty good model and i hope we would be able to pull this off.

we are off to kish's house tom to finish the paper. i don't wanna drive tom so i'll just take a cab... napagod ako sa traffic kanina...

anyway, tulog na muna ako cause i really need it... i'll wake up early morning to do further research...

personalized quote for the day (inspired by the QC traffic and the durbin-watson failure):

"you do not give up on anything half way. when you are stuck in traffic, you don't stop in the emergency bay, you stop when you already reach your destination.."

SO I ONLY HAVE ONE THING TO SAY: NONE OF YOU CAN STOP ME!!!! GAGRADUATE AKO SA JUNE! AND I'LL GET A N OFFICIAL JOB OFFER SOON!

I hope my profs. and companies read this... hehe... =p

P.S. Mia, I'm really sorry for telling you the wrong deadline. It really said 12nn in the text message.

time is a commodity and you shouldn't waste it

it is fairly accurate to say that i have been following what randy pausch has done over the last couple of months... i DID NOT know that he had another talk in the University of Virginia.. so i was searching through his account in Carnegie Mellon and i found out that there are links to his powerpoint slides and some of his talks that have fortunately been recorded and uploaded to youtube and google video. so anyway, i found one of his talks about time management.

i think he was really in authority to talk about maximizing the use of time considering that he had terminal cancer during the talk. i would like to share a particular part of his intro. Time is a commodity. When you would be working, how much does your time cost? how much would i pay you for an 8-hour work? think about these things. how much does an hour cost? i mean, hearing from dr. villegas is definitely more expensive than hearing from a graduate school student.

it's quite interesting to look at things this way because when you place a price on your time, you don't want to watch TV anymore... hahaha!