Rejected!

Hey guys. A lot has happened since my last post. This one will specifically talk about the experience about creating our regulated power supply (Because I forgot some of the things that occurred so, blame my memory). So it has been two weeks. Two weeks that we didn't have class for ECE 136. The instructor discussed a regulated and an unregulated power supply before giving us the instructions of computing, designing, and building our own power supply. We had to gather and compile all our knowledge of electronics to analyze and compute for the resistance values. 

Schematic Diagram of the Split Power Supply
Note: The values in the diagram are different
from the values computed. However,
the same transistors and rectifier diodes were used.

Capturing the Milky Way

Photo Credits: YANXIN WANG

Hey guys! Next week will be our Finals, and our schedule is very hectic. So I'm going to post now before I forget, again. Last October 8, the "Blood Moon" phenomena occurred. I went outside to check it out. Ilocos Norte was one of the places that was lucky enough to have an unobstructed view of the celestial phenomenon. What I saw was more beautiful. The Moon was in the East (from where we are). I went outside to the west first. I noticed that there weren't any clouds present, and I could see more stars than I could see before. Then I went to look for the moon. There it was, in all of it's glory, disproving that it's made of cheese. Then I went back to look at the stars instead. I took time to just stare at the sky, because it's so beautiful. I can't help to think that I'm actually looking at the past! 

Radio-Active!

Hey guys! Haha. I can't believe my last post was 3 months ago! :O Time really flies, doesn't? Specially when you have so many things to do, you just lose track of time! Well, this past months have been really hectic. I'll just go over them really quick. 

In June, I was suggested by friends to be a video editor for the local Enactus Competition held last June 20. Pre-production began at around (if memory serves me well), June 2; that was creating the script. I believe almost all of the data that was needed was already collected. There were three groups, each with their respective projects and members. Ours was the "LUCKY THEO'S : A Potential Industry Giant." It was about a woman who is the first producer of dried mango in the province. The winners in the competition get to represent MMSU ENACTUS for the National Competitions, and the project was the conglomeration of the projects in the local competition. Also, the IT Experts (that's the video editors) are automatically a part of the team MMSU as well. So I had the opportunity to help represent the University in the National Competition. Working beside me was Jezar, a second year Marketing student.

La Virgen Milagrosa

Hey guys! Last Friday, (May 16,2014) we had our last class in our summer class. And last Saturday, we went out to La Virgen Milagrosa, Badoc, Ilocos Norte to have fun and celebrate because we can finally start our summer vacation!

La Virgen Milagrosa Chapel [Click image for larger view]

The story behind this saint is that there was a crate (or crates) that washed up on the sea. The fishermen found these crates along the boundary of Badoc and Sinait. In these crates were the Black Nazarene and the La Virgen Milagrosa statues.

Matlab Codes for Numerical Methods.

Hey guys! So I mentioned earlier that I will share the algorithms I programmed. The night before the deadline of checking, some of my friends came over to my house. But before that, we were working on a Fixed Point Iteration code in the afternoon when manong (term used to refer to a male that is older than you, manang for a female.) Karlo asked me to try a code for HIM (get it. lol) In there, it says the we must use an "inline" function. We didn't know both what it was so I searched it over the internets. Turns out it is one of the key in programming these solutions. The other one is the eval() function. I learned that while doing a False Position code.

(I apologize for the code. I couldn't use the blockquote tag because I can't get it to look right.)

First Summer Class: ☑

Hey guys! We can finally have our summer vacation because our classes has officially ended! Hurrah! Last Friday, May 16, 2014 we had our final practical examination in our Numericals, and last Thursday, (May 15) we had our last long exam for ElectroMag.

So how was our summer class? Exciting and partly boring. Exciting because in Numericals, you have to do a LOT of simple and repetitive arithmetic solutions. Sometimes the quiz/exam is solved (in earlier lectures, using different methods), there's this thrill and adrenaline when you push the equals button, crossing your fingers and hoping that you get the same answer. Otherwise you have to carefully inspect your solution and say, "Where the hell did I go wrong?" I said that many times; during seat works and exams. There was this one time that I finally arrived at the 'answer', and upon seeing the problem, I got one variable wrong. And that was 10 minutes before the exam was over. Lol. And boring because our ElectroMag (Electromagnetism) was a report type class. No further elaboration needed. 

What is Summer.

Hello fellas! This summer, we will have our first official summer class. Which is kind of a bummer because 3rd year 2nd sem. really takes a lot of a student, having a summer vacation before 4th yr (remember that part where almost all of the class failed in one subject?) would've been nice. I'll endure. It's only until May 19.

So, last April 8, my dad sent a surprise package! Yay! It contained the ice shaver (lol sounds weird), my mother's bangles, a tablet, and a camera. Whoa. Didn't expect those things. Thanks a lot, Dad! :D Since then, I reviewed the videos I downloaded almost a year ago (this is what I did last summer 2013, watched videos in photography lol excited much?) to refresh my knowledge. The camera is a Canon 600D and the tablet is a Lenovo IdeaTab A2107. The camera I asked, but not the tablet. If only I knew, I would've just got a Nintendo 2ds/3ds instead of a tablet. I already have a phone and I am very contented with it. So, with the new camera, I recently got into photography, while learning the basics. As of writing, I am still absorbing the core values.

3rd Year is.. Almoost Done!

Hey folks! How're you? How're the exams? I hope they were fine, and I hope that you passed all of your subjects. If you didn't, well at least you tried and gave it our all, that's what counts, isn't it? As Patel Piscine said, "And above all, don't lose hope." (Life of Pi, 2012)

As the 2nd semester of our 3rd year in college is coming to a close, all I can say is this has been the busiest semester.. Yet! Haha. To be honest, the first two years, I was relaxed and very petiks. It's only this year that I really experienced stress and exhaustion (physically and mentally), pulling out all-nighters, and confusion. It has it's own share of ups and downs. Fun and misery. You get the point. 

As of writing, I still haven't collected all of my class cards, and there's a slight problem. I still have a conditional grade (4.0), and we're having the removals next week and hopefully, pass it. There's a lot of confusions and problems why the instructor gave us a conditional grade. There are at least 25 of us who got a conditional grade. *Sigh. And we still have to get the illusive Mech 103 class card. >_<

Fortunately, those subjects weren't a pre/co-requisite for our summer classes, so we were still able to enroll without them. I got officially enrolled this afternoon, because our subjects weren't on their database this morning. -__- So we had to wait. 

Sorry if I took too long to post stuff. It's just that this has been the most stressed semester.. Yet! Haha! Brace our selves! Almost (or more than) 50% of the 4th year ECEs failed in their power amp. Whew! There are some lucky ones who had an Inc. grade. Frightening? I take that as a challenge! loljk. Again, sorry if I haven't been active lately. I'll try to post in between activities this summer. Let's all take a short vacation then return to school! Cheers! ✌

My Definition of A Busy Week.

Hey there! I have been really busy this past week. Busiest productive week ever! It started Saturday last week when we attended the YOUnique Conference at Victory Center, Batac. The next day (Sunday), there was a free Finance Seminar for the first 170 registrants of the conference. Luckily we met that condition. Since it's free, why not grab the opportunity? 

Monday, we had a long exam in one of our major subjects. Aaaand yeah.. Why? Haha. Tuesday, we made the circuit for the same subject which was supposed to be tested Thursday, but got postponed. Wednesday afternoon, we had no class but me and Melchor started to edit the video we were tasked to do, but it seems that there were some files missing so we just finished what we could. Thursday morning, we had no class because the circuit testing was postponed, but we did our take home exam/problem set for Math 60 (Probability and Statistics) which was due Friday! Friday, we only had ONE class, and we were supposed to pass the Math 60 problem set but again, it got postponed because it was too much to handle. (90+ problems). Saturday, today, we attended the Sirib Express 2nd Familiarization Tour. Sunday, since Melchor went home to his hometown, we weren't able to continue editing the video, instead I accepted a favor from a friend to add some opening and ending credits to their video. So there's the summary of the week.

I'll just leave this for now, since our Finals is coming in fast! I'll post the happenings when I have some free time. 'Till then, cheers! ✌

HVD!

Hey! How ya'll doing? I hope you're having a good time, after all, it's Valentine's Day! So how do you plan on celebrating? I don't get it why some people are bitter towards this day. I mean, it's Valentine's Day! It's the time to show people that you love them! It's not necessary that it's your gf/bf. You have friends, family, why not show it to them? Give them some homemade Valentine's Card! (lol I didn't prepare anything xD) By the way, here's my gift to you: [HVD]

Or you can alternatively do this. It's more appalling.

'Sup?

Photo grabbed from GooglePlay. Look at that bird fly.

Oh hey! Me again. lol sorry for being inactive. How're all of you doing? So yesterday I downloaded this game called Flappy Bird. I tried it out of curiosity because based from my feed on Twitter, it was actually quite hard and most of them can't even reach 5. (Yeah, it's that hard) The game is quite simple, you're playing as a bird trying to go through Mario's pipes. It's like Mario + Some tap to fly game (like Copter Mania, Zombie Tsunami, Jetpack Joyride, etc.) + Angry Birds (because there's a big possibility that you'll throw your phone)

2014

Another year has ended and we welcome another. Well, 2013, as with any other year brought some lessons and obstacles. It had it's fair share of ups and downs, rights and lefts, and all other directions you may think of.

Happy New Year friends! 

Here's a little something: Why do we use firecrackers when celebrating a new year?

The answer is, to drive away evil spirits. But where do we usually use firecrackers? Outside right? Then if we're driving away spirits outside, where will they go? Yes, they'll seek peaceful and silent places - in other words, your homes! WHAAAT!? So, it's ideal to use firecrackers inside of our homes to drive away those spirits. (Just kidding, you don't want to burn your house down do you?) Haha! I got this from the legendary Isko Salvador, commonly known as Brod Pete. 

Have a safe new year! And let us make 2014 a prosperous year! Cheers! ✌

"Live Long And Prosper."