Graduation and Beyond

Graduated last Oct 9. I still can't believe that I already graduated. Oct. 6 was the practice date, picture taking, getting my "toga" or academic attire. Need to find a job or I might be kicked out of my house.

While doing nothing, My attention is now focused on pRO. I switched back to the chaos server last Sept. due to some reasons like my brothers' guild is forming a new one and they need more people and some reasons about the Iris server that I would not like to discuss. I made a blacksmith and still named it reikoku. It is now lvl 76 and going to 77. We already got an "agit" so the formation of the new guild's objective was already met. The only problem now is to defend it more and get the people to be more organized.

The other day accenture called and ask if I'm interested to work for them. They saw my resume at jobstreet. I told them yes and that I already took one of their exams 2 years ago. They said that they will look at it. Waiting for them to call again. This may be my chance to get a job.

Time to Graduate

Sorry for the late post. We finished the thesis and we passed. We just need to finilize the requirements like a 15-minute video of our thesis and softcopies of our documentation. Finally I am now entitled to have this degree and find a job. I finished the lessons that I needed to study in my special class. Just need to ask my professor on what to do next and I am off to graduation.

First Few Problems Solved!

We already solved few of the problems that we have been encountering in our thesis. The problems that we are encountering were mainly on the filling part. The solenoid valves that we used seemed not to work properly. We made about 10 trips to the machine shop just to solve the problem. Finally, last Monday we finally finalized the design for the filling part and solved the problem of filling the bottles too slow. We just connected the pipes directly from the main tank and just a solenoid valve will keep/allow the oil from flowing. The controller will just time how long the valve is to open. The capping was solved quickly using the design of a cylindrical device that turns with a dc motor.

Right now we are waiting for the frame and the solenoid valve to be assembled. I hope there will be no more problems in the filling when we get back to the machine shop.

Still am worrying about the pace I am studying the notes about C# for my class in programming. 4 weeks have passed and still I'm at Lesson 9. I better finish lesson 18 next week or else I will have trouble programming the final project.

Thesis Defence Proposal

Yes our third topic defence proposal got APPROVED!!! I think we are becoming experts on topic defence proposals. The panel, which composed of the previous panel, ask many questions on how the final experiments should be and we arrived at a conclusion. The time study made by my thesis mate really helped alot in explaining what and how we are going to do the thesis.

The fabricator is already asking for money to start the fabrication of the prototype. We need to come up with the money ASAP so that we can make it in time for the Aug 10 reliability run. I hope the drawing I made will be enough. My groupmates have not seen it yet and we need to present it already to the fabricator on Monday. hay...

The rel run, final thesis defence and my special class on programming is all that are on my mind right now and I should be starting on my special class cause it is almost the midterms.

A Day Off...

Wow! I finally got a semi-day off from our thesis. I said semi because I still have to draw the frame of our prototype in CAD and it will be tiring to also do it. I have the house to myself today because my sister started her classes last monday. Defence proposal is on Friday already. This thesis has already been changed and it is our third thesis. Hope the proposal goes well. This will be our last shot at getting our much awaited graduation.

Our first topic was about arranging buttons. We changed it to cutting card boards because our thesis adviser left us and have to find a better thesis adviser. That topic about the buttons also is too hard for us to design. The topic about cutting card boards is alot easier than the first but it is too expensive to make. The machine shop owner told us that the cutters that we have to use will be big and expensive.

Somehow we were stuck with it. Our thesis mate who has a business with lubricants has been hearing her father talking about a new business and wants to let us make a machine for him. We pondered about it but we thought that it is already late and we do not have the time to start another thesis.

Then when my thesis mate went back to her province, the calling to really change our thesis to the one her dad wants was there. We talked about it and decided to change it. So these are the reasons why I am so tired these past weeks going double time/triple time for our thesis. We are somewhat 10% complete on the prototype. We just need to first propose this thesis and have it approved on friday; test the first part of the prototype tomorrow and where to at a good pace to finish it. Wish us luck!!!

Tiring weeks

My body now aches from the different errands I have been doing since last week. I went to my old highschool which is also my sister's highschool to enroll with her and buy her books that are still lacking last week twice only to find out that there are no offices those in those two days that I went there. On top of that I have to go to my university to attend the countless meetings that I have to go to to finish the thesis. This week I already went twice to the machine shop where our prototype is being made. It's a little far from where I live and it took me more time to go there than the time I stayed there. I also went back to my old highschool to help my sister enroll. It's a good thing there are offices that they or I would have gone MAD. hay..............

Phlegmatic

My friend has been asking me if a description of a personality type really fits her personality on the way I have observed. So I told her there were some similarties. She asked me if I wanted to answer the same and find out what type my personality is and this is what came out. I am a PHLEGMATIC. The explanation came from www.oneishy.com

Strengths of a Phlegmatic

The Introvert | The Watcher | The Pessimist

The Phlegmatic's Emotions

• Low-key personality
  


• Easygoing and relaxed
  


• Calm, cool and collected
  


• Patient well balanced
  


• Consistent life
  


• Quiet but witty
  


• Sympathetic and kind
  


• Keeps emotions hidden
  


• Happily reconciled to life
  


• All-purpose person

The Phlegmatic As A Parent

• Makes a good parent
  


• Takes time for the children
  


• Is not in a hurry
  


• Can take the good with the bad
  


• Doesn't get upset easily

The Phlegmatic At Work

• Competent and steady
  


• Peaceful and agreeable
  


• Has administrative ability
  


• Mediates problems
  


• Avoids conflicts
  


• Good under pressure
  


• Finds the easy way

The Phlegmatic As a Friend

• Easy to get along with
  


• Pleasant and enjoyable
  


• Inoffensive
  


• Good listener
  


• Dry sense of humor
  


• Enjoys watching people
  


• Has many friends
  


• Has compassion and concern

Thesis, Thesis, Thesis...

It's already time to do my thesis. Still can not post my experience on my internship on intel because I'm LAZY LAZY LAZY. I migh already forget the details but still the idea is still there. hehe.

Wood Element

You are the chinese element of Wood. People who
are under the element of wood are practical,
focused and like to learn. Wood, you are a
natural leader, but you also like to control a
lot, you're never still and especially hate to
lose. The color of wood is blue/green and your
symbol is the dragon. Spring is the season in
which wood shines, and it's months are
January/February. Your weather condition is
rain. Wood is the direction east, and your day
is Thursday, while your planet is Jupiter.
Animals under your element are usually scaled.
People under you are the Mongols. Your sense is
sight, your taste is sour, your sound is
calling and your virtue is benevolence. Your
organ is the liver. You were created by Water
and you control Earth.


Which of the 5 Chinese Elements Are You?
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Dreams

I have been dreaming things since I can process events in my head. Some of them weird, some of them frieghtening, some I can not remember. I remember dreaming of monsters when I was still a kid. I was pretty scared of them when I was a kid but as time pass the dreams about those things stop. I just dreamt of other things.

I also dreamt of running up or down in our old house and someone chasing me but I can not remember who or what it is. Sometimes I also dream of falling of the stairs and suddenly waking up. Most of my dreams since I became an adolecent were dreams that I can't remember doing in the past but later in the future remembering somewhat just like those dreams. Dejavu as they say.

I also dreamth of being with a group of adventurers fighting of a creature. We succeeded in the end. It had a part 2 after a few years but the creature is a new kind and we suceeded in the end.

Last night I dreamth another genre of my dreams and that is proposing to a girl which I can't remember and marrying her. hmmm.... This is just the second time. My first was more of a backflash of getting married and seeing myself with my wife and child. Last night was proposing to someone and getting married. Both dreams do not have similar settings. The first was a more glamorous wedding with a grim ending and the second was a more realistic wedding me marying my woman at a simple wedding. With all these things I can't seem to remember who the ladies were or more of the details of what happend.

They say dreams are events or things that have kept your mind busy during the day or unresolved things that you still needed to tackle. Some even say that dreams are our inner most desires/fears. I don't know if the dreams that I have are in these categories.

This Love

I'm addicted to this song right now and here's a video of it.

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Hoohummmm......

I really should post something about my internship here at Intel Philippines but I still am in no mood to write about it. Maybe when I actually finish the internship. hmm....

Wow!!!

Can't think of a title so I just made up something. hehehe /gg

It has been almost a year since I started my internship and it is about to end. Learned alot of things here at Intel. Technical and non-technical. I even learned a few things about life. Thanks for the Q&R folks especially FALMG for making my stay at Intel not only memorable but quite rewarding. /thx I will now be focusing my attention on our thesis with mon as my thesis mate. I hope we finish this soon so that we would finally graduate. (yey!)

Still addicted to pRO. My assassin in the Iris server is now level 70/41. It took me approximately the same time to finish my internship here at Intel to reach my character to that level. T_T Really don't have time to play on the weekdays because of staying in Dasma, Cavite during weekdays.

Am I Evil?

I am 24% evil.




I try to stay away from evil deeds but succumb to temptation every once in a while. I'm not quite on my way to hell but I certainly have some explaining to do.


Are you evil? find out at Hilowitz.com

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Monay Monster made an ad featuring yours truely...

WHAT MAKES A LEADER?

When leadership experts Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas embarked on a study of exceptional leaders older than seventy or younger than thirty-five, their main goal was to determine how era and values shape people who lead. Along the way, however, they discovered something even more profound--why some people become and remain leaders while other, equally talented individuals do not.

In Geeks & Geezers, the authors assert that it is our response to the "crucibles" of life, those "utterly transformational experiences" that either shatter us or make us stronger, that determines whether we have what it takes to be a lifelong leader. Each of the 43 "geeks" (individuals under thirty-five) and "geezers" (leaders over age seventy) that Bennis and Thomas interviewed had undergone at least one such defining moment, and all emerged powerfully emboldened to learn and lead.

The crucible experiences described were as varied as the interviewees themselves. One was transformed by surviving sixteen years in a Chinese prison; another was forever changed by working for a year in a Japanese factory. The death of a child, important mentoring relationships, service in World War II and a even a Girl Scout troop’s discussion about deforestation were among the other defining moments cited. "Whether the crucible was harrowing or not, it is seen by the individual as the turning point that set him or her on the desired, even inevitable, course," the authors write.

To put it mildly, the two groups of leaders surveyed came of age in vastly different worlds (Bennis and Thomas devote two fascinating chapters to describing and comparing the "age of limits" that the geezers grew up in and the "era of options" that helped shape the geeks). But despite the stark cultural and societal differences that existed between these two eras--and despite the different ways the two groups viewed everything from career and family to heroes and making wealth--the authors discovered that the leaders they interviewed shared some critical characteristics. These traits, they believe, are what set the enduring leaders apart from less successful people.

Topping the list is adaptive capacity, which Bennis and Thomas define as an "almost magical ability to transcend adversity, with all its attendant stresses, and emerge stronger than before."

"People with ample adaptive capacity may struggle in the crucibles they encounter, but they don’t become stuck or defined by them," the authors write. "They learn important lessons, including new skills that allow them to move on to new levels of achievement and learning."

The other common traits include the ability to engage others in shared meaning, a distinctive and compelling voice, and a sense of integrity (which the authors say is made up of a balance among ambition, competence and a moral compass).

Geeks & Geezers doesn’t include much practical, step-by-step help for people who are looking to become better leaders. It does, however, offer a great deal of perspective about what influences and drives individuals from different eras. This could be particularly beneficial for older leaders and Baby Boomers who may have a hard time understanding employees under the age of thirty-five.

Finally, there’s something very inspiring about people who refuse to be defined by their age--seventy- and eighty-year-olds who, although "ripe with hard-won insight and ability," are also hungry for the next big adventure. Regardless of our age, we can all use a bit of such inspiration every now and then.

-Review by Lois Flowers, Maximum Impact consulting editor

Music video...

Here's an interesting video from a site. A Korean music video called kiss. The way the story goes seems a little tragic, but it is somewhat "bitin".

An interesting email about an essay of an Atenean...

Eduardo Calasanz was a student at the Ateneo Manila University, Philippines, where he had Father Ferriols as professor. Father Ferriols, at that time, was the Philosophy department head. Currently he still teaches Philosophy for graduating college students in Ateneo.

Father Ferriols has been very popular for his mind opening and enriching classes but was also notoriousfor the grades he gives. Still people took his classes for the learning and deep insight they take home with them every day (if only they could do something about the grades...)

Anyway, come grade giving time, (Ateneo has letter grading systems, the highest being an A, lowest at D, with F for flunk), Fr Ferriols had this long discussion with the registrar people because he wanted to give Calasanz an A+. Either that or he doesn't teach at all...Calasanz got his A+.Read the paper below to find out why.

PARTNERS AND MARRIAGE
By Eduardo Jose E. Calasanz

I have never met a man who didn't want to be loved. But I have seldom met a man who didn't fear marriage. Something about the closure seems constricting, not enabling. Marriage seems easier to understand for what it cuts out of our lives than for what it makes possible within our lives.

When I was younger this fear immobilized me. I did not want to make a mistake.I saw my friends get married for reasons of social acceptability, or sexual fever, or just because they thought it was the logical thing to do. Then I watched, as they and their partners became embittered and petty in their dealings with each other. I looked at older couples and saw, at
best, mutual toleration of each other. I imagined a lifetime of loveless nights and bickering and could not imagine subjecting myself or someone else to such a fate.

And yet, on rare occasions, I would see old couples who somehow seemed to glow in each other's presence. They seemed really in love, not just dependent upon each other and olerant of each other's foibles. It was an astounding sight, and it seemed impossible. How, I asked myself, can they have survived so many years of sameness, so much irritation at the others habits? What keeps love alive in them, when most of us seem unable to even stay together, much less love each other?

The central secret seems to be in choosing well. There is something to the claim of fundamental compatibility. Good people can create a bad relationship, even though they both dearly want the relationship to succeed. It is important to find someone with whom you can create a good relationship from the outset. Unfortunately, it is hard to see clearly in the early stages.

Sexual hunger draws you to each other and colors the way you see yourselves together. It blinds you to the thousands of little things by which relationships eventually survive or fail. You need to find a way to see beyond this initial overwhelming sexual fascination. Some people choose to involve themselves sexually and ride out the most heated period of sexual
attraction in order to see what is on the other side.

This can work, but it can also leave a trail of wounded hearts. Others deny the sexual side altogether in an attempt to get to know each other apart from their sexuality. But they cannot see clearly, because the presence of unfulfilled sexual desire looms so large that it keeps them from having any normal perception of what life would be like together.

The truly lucky people are the ones who manage to become long-time friends before they realize they are attracted to each other. They get to know each other's laughs, passions, sadness, and fears. They see each other at their worst and at their best. They share
time together before they get swept up into the entangling intimacy of their sexuality.

This is the ideal, but not often possible. If you fall under the spell of your sexual attraction immediately, you need to look beyond it for other keys to compatibility. One of these is laughter. Laughter tells you how much you will enjoy each others company over the long term.

If your laughter together is good and healthy, and not at the expense of others, then you have a healthy relationship to the world. Laughter is the child of surprise. If you can make each other laugh, you can always surprise each other. And if you can always surprise each other, you can always keep the world around you new.

Beware of a relationship in which there is no laughter. Even the most intimate relationships based only on seriousness have a tendency to turn sour. Over time, sharing a common serious viewpoint on the world tends to turn you against those who do not share the same viewpoint, and your relationship can become based on being critical together.

After laughter, look for a partner who deals with the world in a way you respect. When two people first get together, they tend to see their relationship as existing only in the space between the two of them. They find each other endlessly fascinating, and the overwhelming power of the emotions they are sharing obscures the outside world. As the relationship ages and grows, the outside world becomes important again.

If your partner treats people or circumstances in a way you can't accept, you will inevitably come to grief.Look at the way she cares for others and deals with the daily affairs of life. If that makes you love her more, your love will grow. If it does not, be careful. If you do not respect the way you each deal with the world around you, eventually the two of you will not respect each other.

Look also at how your partner confronts the mysteries of life. We live on the cusp of poetry and practicality, and the real life of the heart resides in the poetic. If one of you is deeply affected by the mystery of the unseen in life and relationships, while the other is drawn only to the literal and the practical, you must take care that the distance does not become an unbridgeable gap that leaves you each feeling isolated and misunderstood.

There are many other keys, but you must find them by yourself. We all have unchangeable parts of our hearts that we will not betray and private commitments to a vision of life that we will not deny. If you fall in love with someone who cannot nourish those inviolable parts of you, or if you cannot nourish them in her, you will find yourselves growing further apart until you live in separate worlds where you share the business of life, but never touch each other where the heart lives and dreams. From there it is only a small leap to the cataloging of petty hurts and daily failures that leaves so many couples bitter and unsatisfied with their mates.

So choose carefully and well. If you do, you will have chosen a partner with whom you can grow, and then the real miracle of marriage can take place in your hearts. I pick my words carefully when I speak of a miracle. But I think it is not too strong a word. There is a miracle in marriage. It is called transformation. Transformation is one of the most common events of nature. The seed becomes the flower. The cocoon becomes the butterfly. Winter becomes
spring and love becomes a child. We never question these, because we see them around us every day. To us they are not miracles, though if we did not know them they would be impossible to believe.

Marriage is a transformation we choose to make. Our love is planted like a seed, and in time it begins to flower. We cannot know the flower that will blossom, but we can be sure that a bloom will come.

If you have chosen carefully and wisely, the bloom will be good. If you have chosen poorly or for the wrong reason, the bloom will be flawed. We are quite willing to accept the reality of negative transformation in a marriage. It was negative transformation that always had me terrified of the bitter marriages that I feared when I was younger. It never occurred to me to question the dark miracle that transformed love into harshness and bitterness. Yet I was unable to accept the possibility that the first heat of love could be transformed into something positive that was actually deeper and more meaningful than the heat of fresh passion. All I could believe in was the power of this passion and the fear that when
it cooled I would be left with something lesser and bitter.

But there is positive transformation as well. Like negative transformation, it results from a slow accretion of little things. But instead of death by a thousand blows, it is growth by a thousand touches of love. Two histories intermingle. Two separate beings, two separate presence, two separate consciousness come together and share a view of life that passes before them. They remain separate, but they also become one. There is an expansion of awareness, not a closure and a constriction, as I had once feared. This is not to say that there is not tension and there are not traps. Tension and traps are part of every choice of life, from celibate to monogamous to having multiple lovers. Each choice contains within it the lingering doubt that the road not taken somehow more fruitful and exciting, and each becomes dulled to the richness that it alone contains.

But only marriage allows life to deepen and expand and be leavened by the knowledge that two have chosen, against all odds, to become one. Those who live together without marriage can know the pleasure of shared company, but there is a specific gravity in the
marriage commitment that deepens that experience into something richer and more complex.

So do not fear marriage, just as you should not rush into it for the wrong reasons. It is an act of faith and it contains within it the power of transformation. If you believe in your heart that you have found someone with whom you are able to grow, if you have sufficient faith that you can resist the endless attraction of the road not taken and the partner not chosen, if you have the strength of heart to embrace the cycles and seasons that your love will perience, then you may be ready to seek the miracle that marriage offers. If not, then wait. The easy grace of a marriage well made is worth your patience. When the time comes, a thousand flowers will bloom...endlessly.

Prince Jeffrey!!!

Which Royalty Are You? Find out! By Nishi.

Very touching story...

It was a busy morning, approximately 8:30 am, when an elderly
gentleman, in his 80's, came in to have sutures (stitches) removed from
his thumb. He stated that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at
9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it
would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him.

I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy
with another patient, I would evaluate his wound.

Upon exam, I saw that it was well healed, so I talked to one of
the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress
his wound. While taking care of his wound, we began to engage in
conversation. I asked him if he had a doctor's appointment this morning,
as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the
nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife. I then inquired as to her health.
He told me that she had been there for awhile and that she was a victim of Alzheimer Disease.

As we talked, and I finished dressing his wound, I asked if she
would be worried if he was a bit late. He replied that she no longer
knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now.

I was surprised, and asked him. "And you still going every morning,
even though she doesn't know who you are?" He smiled as he patted my
hand and said.. "She doesn't know me,
but I still know who she is." I had to hold back tears as he left, I had
goose bumps on my arm, and thought, "That is the kind of love I want in my life."

True love is neither physical, nor romantic.

True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.