Came across this one in Kim's Friendster account. My hair! I feel so old.



Ang lamig sa lab. Looks like bagyo again. :(

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Whattadayyy. I had a stressful weekend so (surprise! surprise!) I missed Doc Mana's class again for the nth time. I was fretting the whole morning because I couldn't remember what time I should see Stedy for my .NET orals. Turns out I signed up for the 4:00-4:30 slot. But my stupid diskette didn't work, and stupid me forgot to bring the much more reliable CD copy. So I ended up going home sometime after 2:00 since Theo period was just used for a quick group meeting. (Interruption: Our attempt to keep away from each other (Zi, Phi, Ken and me) during Doc V's class was half a failure. I swear I could feel some mysterious force slowly bringing us all closer to each other--para dumaldal at huwag na namang makinig ng lecture. Oh well, at least we tried.)

Phi went home with me, kasi si Patty walang silbi, hindi madala sa school yung CD ko! Anyway, I saved all my project files (PictureArray, TicTacToe and Etch-A-Sketch) in a folder named "VANNIEng maganda" para lang asarin si Phi at tapatan ang mataas niyang self-esteem. Well, little did I know that it would cause me quite an embarassment later on. Hay. On the way back, ang ever-hungry Philip ay nagpakain ng chicken balls. We chatted the afternoon away (abrelata?!) while waiting for my orals.

Orals: The computers at F224 did not have CD-ROMs. So Stedy had to go to the other room to transfer my files to his flask disk. Janjararan! Ang ganda ng folder name ko!

"Me-gen-dah?" with weird smile.

Aaaagh! Well I was just smiling sheepishly and unable to explain why I had such a grreat folder name.

"What's the '-ng' for?"

"Oh, just to connect the two words together..."

What the hell! The orals were okay, until he asked me to do a "memory" feature for my Etch-A-Sketch--which had a blank screen whenever it was repainted.

"You can make a 2-D array with 1000 or so elements and make it remember what lines it should redraw."

"Okay."

"Do you get what I mean?"

"Yes."

Silence.

"Could you do that?"

More silence.

"Umm, now??"

"Yes."

"Owwwkay."

Hay. I struggled with the 2-D array syntax of C# and ended up redrawing only a single line. But Stedy was really running late with his oral exams and RJ was waiting outside already. So he said defeatedly, "It seems like you knew what you were doing, anyway. You just need to debug..." And so I was free! I caught up with our basketball practice with Kim, Mia, Keri, Em, Beng, and 2 other girls (Anna and Betz, IIRC). It was fun--puro comedy at kalokohan! And Kim's usual expression of "Wala!" right before her three-point shot goes straight into the basket. Si Mia parang baliw talaga sa katatawa.

It rained hard just when we were finishing up. Among the four of us (Kim, Mia, Keri and me), only I had an umbrella and a small one at that. So Kim and I claimed our free foot spa as we went to her car and braved the raging rivers ahead. Then we made daan Mia and Keri at Manang's. I was so engrossed in making kwento to Kim about my orals that I forgot I was supposed to go down and fetch the two with my umbrella, so they just ran to the car! At that moment, I said "Ay oo nga! Dapat pala bumaba ako para sunduin kayo!" Then Kim added, "O nga, may malaking payong pala ko dito sa car!" So ayun, kagulo na naman kami sa kakatawa.

Mia got off at Burgundy Place, at takot na takot masira ang basketball shoes niya. Keri got off at Burgundy Plaza, while I got down at Jollibee para mag-trike na pauwi. Ang lakas ng ulan! I guess I'd appreciate the hot tinola we'll have for dinner now. :)

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Sabog-sabog ang body clock ko ngayon dahil sa matrix project ni Doc V. I slept at 6:30am, got up at 12:00nn so I could at least catch up with the afternoons sessions of Aghamunti. I ate my "breakfast" at 4:30 this afternoon. Now its 12:00mn and I'll eat lunch/dinner in a while.

Let's rewind to Thursday. We were scheduled to have our report for J2EE class, and of course I was totally unprepared. Some of my groupmates did have something but since very few of the members turned up for the reporting, it was postponed for Tuesday. I wish I had teh powers to contribute, but I was swamped with other schoolwork and Eclipse is still an unsolved mystery for me. I know its a lame excuse since the report was assigned a long, long time ago but everyone knows I'm one helluva crammer. I would've at least been able to read up on our topic, but this week was just as hellish as the last one. :( Bottom line is, we have to come up with a decent report (at least, because Sir Migs has the right to expect a _really_ nice one) for Tuesday. Apache, sapian mo ako!

Anyway, may story pa ko kung bakit hindi ako nakapasok nung Tuesday. I would've turned up to support the group but I had a weird (but realistic!) dream sometime after I turned off the alarm clock that morning and drifted back to sleep. I actually dreamt that the report was postponed. Somehow, I subconsciously believed it. And didn't wake up until it was super-mega-over-grabe-na late.

Hindi ko na kinakaya ang kakulitan ni Stedy ah.

Friday was a busy day, though I didn't attend any one of my classes. I cut 130 since I spent the entire night fretting over the matrix project. Nakakasira ng utak. Kapag malapit ng sumikat ang araw at nakatitig ka pa rin sa computer, weird ang C++ code na maiisip mo kahit simpleng i-j chuchu lang pala yun para kay Zippy, haha. I showed up for half of the lab period for Doc V's CS21a class. Nakakatuwa, yung mga taong nababaliw dati sa pagprogram sa Java, aliw na aliw naman ngayon sa paggawa ng applet. Doc V "declared" a free cut for 112. I cut theo class so I could get back to matrix programming ASAP. We dabbled for a while with the code here at home (while some people played DotA) then submitted our contact prints, and went back to school for three GAs: conjugates, proctors, and aghamunti. I was able to attend only the last two.

Then we went back home to work on the matrix. Zippy did not fall asleep *gasp* at his usual bedtime. Yes, we finished it (which was good) at about 5:00 in the morning (which was bad). Aghamunti's call time for volunteers was 6:30am. Whooopee. And as I had mentioned above, this was also the time I fell dead on my bed. Actually medyo nangisay muna ko bago ma-dead. Di ba Phi? :p I woke up to find myself all alone, dahil inabandona ako ni Patty. I forced myself to resurrect from my deathbed and go help Phi in AMS' string art workshop. Kaawa-awa naman kasi sila ni Ken, walang idlip man lang.

Ang saya-saya maglaro at maglandi ng pintura with the kids! Hahaha! :D

I went to MyPlace with (half-sabog and half-asleep) Philip who submitted his contact prints. Then I ate my KFC "breakfast", feeling like the day was just starting when it was actually hapon na. That's why I'm still wide awake now.

Mamwah and Patty will be here tomorrow/later with Tita Mayette. I still have lots of work to do. Ugh, biglang inaantok na ko.

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/* This isn't me... I think. Emode-ing during Sacksteder class. Muhahaha.
OT: Interesting dream last night... :P */

vanyei, your high school reunion wish is to Make Fun of Everyone



Go team! Ha — like you ever went to a pep rally! So maybe high school
and all that goes along with it — the jocks, the cliques, Homecoming —
wasn't exactly your cup of tea. Now that it's behind you, though, you
can laugh about it — and all those silly things that went with it.


Never one to go along with the masses, you march to the beat of your
own drummer. Part of you enjoys rattling people's cages and making them
think twice. What better chance to do just that than by showing up at
your reunion? You're bound to have some laughs and maybe reconnect with
your old rebel friends. How sweet.


/* Hmmm...*/

Read about other reunion wishes:

See Your Old Flame

Whether they're "the one who got away," you don't have anyone better at the moment, or you just wanna relive your first love, seeing your old crush — and hopefully sparking some new flames — will make your reunion a dream come true.

A hopeless romantic, you take affairs of the heart to the, well, heart. So at your reunion, see if your old flame is as easy on the eyes as you remember and find out if the sparks still fly — you might want to see where things lead. If not, maybe that bookworm in your Algebra class has blossomed into a total hottie. Have a blast!

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Memorizing two pages worth of thesis statements, quotes and their exact sources has paid off. :) Whee!

Now I only have to worry about:
- LISP
- J2EE Report
- CS21a Projects
- C++ Project
- Translation work
- a vague memory about lex.... ana?
- other repressed memories

*sigh*

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• Not being able to check my mail even for just two days makes me feel so LOST.


• I cut classes left and right without hesitation, guilt, or second thoughts. It's a sad thing, but these things happen when you're the typical stressed-out college student. Reasons (or excuses) vary:
  
  
  
  1. can't wake up early enough
  
  
  2. can't walk to school fast enough
  
  
  3. want to have breakfast
  
  
  4. better to cut than show up really late
  
  
  5. have to study for another subject
  
  
  6. and lastly... just because I can! (and the teachers won't care anyway)
  
  
  
  
• Walang kanerbyos-nerbyos sa pagsuway sa deadline ng projects. (Actually CS lang, and under a certain teacher only.)


• Appreciate the caf satellite at CTC.


• Being close to tears and pulling at my hair when a midterm exam (ahem, theo) is postponed. Dahil ang exam na yan ang pinaglamayan ko at pinili over my CS midterms. $@#%^@!!! Drives me nuts!


• Enjoy watching UAAP basketball games.


• Choosing basketball practice over studying for my subjects.


• Watching TV just because I want to. PBB! To hell with exams, papers, and all!


• Going to school when my hair's still a mess.


• Having 'neglected' subjects. Minsan na nga lang umatend, late pa at lipad ang utak.


• BUT, I still believe that I'm generally a good student and a good person. Haha, ang labo.

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