What's up?

Updating my blog after a long time, so what's up with me for the past months?

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After being nagged by my father to go to an interview from an want ad he found in the chinese newspaper, I found a job. Basically what I applied for in this job is to handle computers. The company engages in selling lenses and "sako" bags imported from China. They currently have 2 stores, 1 in divisoria and 1 in quiapo both in Manila. Summarizing my experience here, the computer part of my job is just to encode inventory datas from my boss' store. Working for 6 days in week for 10 hours a day. First few weeks are like hell. Cleaning the stockroom to convert it from a warehouse to an office with 3 PCs. Became a translator for everyone that he cannot communicate with. Following weeks are more than hell. Everyday I have to walk a few kilometers back and forth from the office to the store in divisoria and back again opening and closing the store. Counting stocks almost everyday to keep track of the inventory. The thing that made me fed up was when we had an order for customize bags, the customer change their mind and I have to take responsibility for it. My boss thought that the pattern has already been made and it costs alot. His voice blaring in my ear for almost half the day. The next day after taking a lecture and his blaring voice I got scolded again for the letter writting me and my collegue made for him for the Philippine embassy. The timing was right for me to leave this job with an AWOL, because during this time its almost the 15th of the month and I just needed to get my salary. I really hated that job.

Currently, I am now working in a japanese trading firm. 80% of my experience is good and the rest is bad. hehe. I am thanking Joy for helping me get this job.

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During my free time I am still engaging in pRO. My character with the job of a blacksmith is already level 99. Yehey! After 1 year and a few weeks I finally made my first level 99 character in pRO.

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.