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[Jun. 24th, 2009|12:20 am] |
Didn't feel like writing my blog entry today. Ramble na lang ulit.
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| UPD DCS batch 2004 EB |
[Jun. 20th, 2009|02:37 am] |
Just came back from the batch EB I mentioned in my previous post. Venue was Big Buddha at Greenbelt 3. Service was slow, maybe because it's Friday or maybe we didn't look like highly paid IT people (or both). Transferred to SBC after dinner for air conditioning and coffee.
Wasn't as OP as I'd expected because of occasional groupmates Eymard (the guy who called for the EB) and Dex, and blockmate ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) crazyangelee. Blockmates Paul and Alpert arrived much later because of an unfortunate incident (2 flat tires, what the?!?). I was familiar with the rest of the people who were there, but I didn't know them personally. Still, I was able to join in the discussion once in a while.
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Everyone was generally ok with their jobs and life. Roles ranged from development to QA to bureaucratic/managerial roles. The distribution of people among the prominent IT companies in the country was well within my expectations i.e. after 5 years, people dispersed to multiple companies instead of being concentrated in just a few companies. Sure companies like HP and Lawson each have a good number of UPD DCS peeps, but the concentrations aren't that significant.
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I probably freaked out people by stating topics within CS, EEE, and Math subjects (e.g. why dinosaurs are on the cover of CS 140's Silberschatz & Galvin book, EEE 8's Karnaugh Maps, and Math 180.1's Simplex Methods). I'll blame it on my long term memory (which, unfortunately doesn't work as well on people's names) and recent re-studying of those topics. Kung high school electronics lessons nagagamit ko pa, paano pa kaya college lessons.
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Stuck to my guns and declined offers to apply for some companies. The IT world undergoing massive changes this year, from cloud computing and SOA migrations, to new RIAs, to mobile platforms like iPhone and Android, to Google Wave and new Social Media. Joining a company now might make me miss my big break in one of those fields.
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One of the more interesting parts of the night was when the question about "whether graduating with honors makes a difference in the workplace" popped up. The general answer was no.
Having honors might (theoretically, as none of us had experienced it) make it easier to land a job and might give a slight edge in initial salary (which was experienced by a few of us). In the long run, however, honors don't really matter. We did agree, though, that getting good grades is a good idea as it gives you a safety net preventing you from not graduating on time.
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Even if I couldn't relate to some of the discussions, I still enjoyed hanging out with the CS 2004 peeps. Thanks again to Eymard for organizing this EB! :D |
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| I didn't dwell much on TRC 223... |
[Jun. 19th, 2009|02:35 pm] |
...because I read Bitter Virgin yesterday. Raw emotion beats time paradoxes any day.
Suwa Daisuke is the ladies man of his small town high school, and he has his eye on most every girl, except for one. Aikawa Hinako isn't his type, but when he overhears a deep dark secret of hers, he finds himself thinking of her more and more.
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| CLAMP is batshit insane |
[Jun. 18th, 2009|12:26 pm] |
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles chapter 223 was fine...
...until you reach page 4.
My reaction was: "No CLAMP, don't make this series any more non-cliched than it is already!"
A few pages later it was:
"AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!! CLAMP really did it! They were able to make Death Note and Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu's complicated scenarios look like kindergarten stories!"
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| cheesy halyosy covers |
[Jun. 11th, 2009|10:04 am] |
Been listening to halyosy songs in YouTube ever since Mikko posted Combini and Hello Windows in Plurk.
halyosy is the Nico Nico Douga username of singer/composer Mori Haruyoshi of the band absorb. As a composer, he has composed and posted a couple of popular Hatsune Miku songs in niconico. As a singer, he and his band has made covers of other Hatsune Miku songs, converting the mechanical synthesized voice into a much more soulful one.
I was hooked immediately: pop songs don't cut it for me anymore, but the "amateur composed songs performed by professionals" was appealing to me. My hiatus also sapped me of anything resembling a lovelife so I'm a sucker for cheesy songs nowadays.
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| continue writing |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|11:16 pm] |
Spent the entire day writing CRC articles for the next three days. I'm doing this now while I still have ideas in my head i.e. I don't have writers block.
I still don't feel like doing the stuff that I should be doing right now so I decided that I might as well write a random LJ post (instead of just spending the night listening to halyosy or other random ニコニコ music videos).
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| arrggh... |
[May. 29th, 2009|11:51 pm] |
Updated blog entries doesn't reflect in Google Reader because they're cached. -____-
EDIT: Looks like the cache is updated from time to time. |
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| Ako Mismo |
[May. 27th, 2009|09:26 pm] |
Now that other useless over-exaggerated issues (sex video, low mortality flu) are flooding the media and that the whole Ako Mismo thing has become commonplace already, I guess it's about time I write about my personal take on Ako Mismo.
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| Insomnia × TRC/xxxHolic analysis/speculations |
[May. 22nd, 2009|10:11 am] |
My body clock has been screwed lately. I feel sleepy around 7-8PM, but if I don't sleep (which of course happens) at 9PM, my body suddenly becomes awake until 3AM.
Then I suddenly fall asleep at that hour and wake up at 9AM. D:
The annoying part here is that 9PM-3AM is wasted time. Other than forcing myself to write a blog post, I can't seem to do anything productive during this period. =/
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On an unrelated note, the quasi-sequel-shounen-'nakama'-adventure-series-deconstruction-turned-epic-mindfuck-series Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle and its awesome supporting seinen series xxxHolic are at their final chapters. Thoughts below the cut.
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| One Day in UP |
[May. 17th, 2009|02:22 pm] |
Went to Summer Komikon yesterday. "Summer" because they followed komiket's bi-annual frequency in holding events.
Stayed for around 4 hours in the event. None of the comics sold by established and indie artists caught my eye but the place wasn't boring. Dunno why, maybe it's just because I haven't been to UP since my departure from the former company.
Wanted to pass by the tambayan before going to the event but decided not to when I noticed from afar someone was sleeping/lying down there. Later that day, Juts told me it was just him. Oh well...
Speaking of people I met in the Komikon, as expected, I didn't meet a lot of acquaintances there. Mic and Krinkle were there for daMEAT. Zienta and Charles were also with their artist group but they didn't have a booth so they were just spectators. Mike was there too and he knew more of the spectators than me. Other random spectators were Juts, Tiff, and a few other AME peeps whose names I forgot.
Also met a former co-worker, Niw, and her boyfriend in the event. They're with CreatiVoices and hosting the gig was a way to practice their hosting skills.
Before leaving for a nostalgic but gamo-gamo swarm infested mass at the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice, Mike convinced me to avail of the P100 for 2 packs of Stickfas so that he'd only pay P50 for a pack. I didn't mind because I also need something to tinker with when I get bored.
Went to The Block after mass for dinner. I already had Rodics for lunch and I didn't feel like having Lutong Bahay for dinner.
Oooh... free wifi!
Impulse-bought ×××HOLiC 13 at Fully Booked. I didn't really enjoy the Kohane Arc as much as the Himawari and Dream Arcs (though I'd admit that it's got a better "ending") but I'd rather get one now before the stock becomes erratic again.
Tried out Napoli pizza at the 5th floor. It's not bad (it's actually better than most pizzas), but it's still inferior compared to Italian pizza.
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| Look ma, no <table> elements! |
[May. 13th, 2009|10:57 pm] |
Been tweaking my Lifestream these past two days. maedinn brought up the SweetCron based Lifestream a while back (and uses it in her site) but it was only now that I decided to try it out in order to flex my HTML/CSS knowledge.
Turns out bulok HTML/CSS knowledge ko.
Not really bulok.. more like "rusty". It's just that I've never had to develop websites like this before.
Back in my old company, we mainly developed internal (not accessible via the Internet) government web applications. Big systems with hundreds of similar looking pages doing different things. Long story short, we never got to worry about CSS because the design is already set in stone, approved months before. The only time we get to play with CSS is when we make prototypes. And even that is now being phased out by an internal prototyping tool.
In other words, we're mostly back-end developers.
Regardless, it doesn't hurt to study modern CSS approaches. Besides, I don't have plans of going back to being a rank-and-file back-end developer anytime soon so if I'm still going to be a web developer, I'll have to learn the ropes in front-end development.
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Until recently, I never really realized that you could refactor CSS like you refactor programs/systems/classes.
Removing redundancy, isolating behavior, making code cleaner... sounds like fun.
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The best part about my situation now is having my custom development environment instead of relying on the cookie cutter dev env provided by a company.
quad-core machine with 4GB ram + multiple monitors + internet access FTW!!
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Still considering whether to get a tumblr account like Hoto-chan for random shiz.
If I do that, I'm going to have to make yet another Arcana decision for my Lifestream. :P
It's probably going to be XV, but XII and VII are close.
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Speaking of Arcana, I'm still thinking how to put xxxHolic and Persona motifs in the Lifestream. I already got a placeholder for the former, the swirly background I got off one of its official websites. I'll take it down later once I find a legal swirly-smoke background pic.
As for Persona, I'm still thinking where to place the butterfly and the glasses (both of which are also motifs for xxxHolic :P). |
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