The Review Starts!

Hi guys! I apologize for the lack of content the past few months. I just graduated college. Yes! And not yes. Yes, because I am finally a degree holder. Not yes, because I think the knowledge and experience I gained in 5, 17 years of education is not yet enough to prepare me for the real life. 

My girlfriend is already preparing for her life as a professional, and it makes me think of mine. I will still be taking my licensure exam, so I will have to review for about 5 months. By then, Andrea will already have a career. 5 months is a long time to think for my career, because as of now, I am still wondering what field am I going to specialize in. 

As an ECE graduate, there are a couple of fields of specialization to choose from: telecommuncations, semicon industry, aviation, medicine, navigation, broadcasting, audio, and networking, among other fields. 

I am personally interested in computers, so I am thinking of joining the IT bandwagon. Specifically the in the Networking field. I have little to no experience about networking though, as we barely scratched the surface in our lectures and limited lab equipments. I am planning on taking a cadetship or any job that has a training before employment. I also plan on becoming a CCNA. (Cisco Certified Network Associate) And continue that path.

The ECE board exam has a lot of pressure in it. Our school had passing rates below the national passing rate I think for the last 3 years. I hope this batch will break this rating. In the previous April ECE Board Exam, only 2 out of 12 first timers passed. (8 failed, 2 conditional) 6 out of 14 repeaters passed. (7 failed, 1 conditional) with an overall performance of 8 out of 15 passed and 3 are conditional. Wow. Our board exam is dubbed as "One of the hardest board exams." and I accept this challenge!

Anyhow, I apologize for the lack of posts for the next few months. We will undergo rigorous training (loljk) to finally become a registered ECE.

To my friends who's also reviewing for their board, good luck to us and may God help us!

To my readers, thank you for understanding!

And to everyone else, cheers!

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! ✌

'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."

Rufus, the Life Saver.

Last November 30, I finally decided to reformat my laptop and change operating systems. My current systems were Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 8 Pro. Yes, I while back I decided to dual boot. My main OS (Operating System) was Windows 8 Pro, and because of that, some of the programs I use are not yet supported by Windows 8. So I decided to dual boot. 

Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

Yes I finally set up my Projection Screen!

Good day! Recently my room just got rearranged to get my laptop connect to the wifi. Yes, unfortunately my laptop can only connect to the wifi in some parts of the room. It's picky. I can connect here, I move a little and it connects! I was just frustrated. That place is in my bed. And I can't do my assignments there. *Sigh. That's why I stay outside, where I have my other room. It's our old kitchen. It's almost my "living room" because I stay here most of the times. I only go to my room to sleep. We'll go to that some other time. I am writing this because I finally set up my room for a Projection Screen, the thing that you use to project the image on your projector. Haha! 

My new bed arrangement. 

Just a little update.

Oh glob. My life's outdated! I'm really sorry for not being able to continue to post these past few months. One reason would be school. Yes the second semester has a lot of vacations and programs but I think it's also the time to work on projects, given the time of vacations. Truth is, I have two draft posts. Both of them are still both unfinished. *Sigh* But when I finally find time to work on them, I will finish them. They are both set on a scheduled date, so they'll just pop up when they're finally done. 

On my studies, I don't really know. It's like I'm not using my full potential. The last time I think I really studied was last school year. (During my sophomore year) I don't know what happened to me. I was doing quite well this past semester. Maybe it's this certain instructor, again! It's our second time taking up math under him. And it's not really productive. We rely on classmates and self study. And you know what? It's kind of making me lazy to study that subject, since the instructor himself is a bit lazy sometimes. Other than that, my performance is quite decent, although I'm trying to give it my best.

Anyways, I'm really hyped about the MMSU Intercollegiate Film Fest. It was announced last November 18, but we just received information this morning that the storyboard for our film must be submitted next week Friday. What? 1 week to do the storyboard? You do know how hard it is to make one, right? The film is said to be 30 - 45 minutes long. We, the ElectroCraft Production was planning some stories awhile back. Unfortunately, due to laziness and lack of communication/motivation, none of those stories were inked. All of them were just ideas. I was tasked to do a script for one story but I couldn't because I don't really know how to make it a cohesive and believable story. It was about this guy who got an amnesia and tried to (I'm sorry I can't disclose the rest of the details yet) Wait, I think it's the other story about these two guys. Ugh. I think there were about three topics, but it ended up becoming a single story. Oh crap. Haha!

We had the Pre-Production meeting earlier this afternoon. Faye discussed the story with the SAC and the adviser of the COE Talent Team, along with us to finalize the story. Equipments, props, and casting was done, although they weren't final yet, we still to confirm if the actors are willing. I am excited because it's the first time I am working with different people (aside from ElectroCraft Crew), shoot on a location aside from the college and our house (lol), and some more that I have yet to experience. I think I should blog about this, yes! Well, that's all for now. Kindly wait for my overdued  posts (which are quite long by the way). Cheers! ✌

-ber Months have Started!

Hello friends! How're you? I'm sorry I have been inactive (online) for the past few weeks. Well, August has been a very busy month for us. I will also expect September to be the same. Today I will just make an overview of what I did this August. (My memory betrays me, so I will only put what I remember. lol)

Let me begin with exams. August is the "Midterms" month and expect a huge wave of exams approaching! But since we're on engineering, we don't usually have midterm examinations, just our minor subjects. Then again, since we don't have midterm exams, there are A LOT of long exams! It's like exam every other week! 

And then there were the Programs organized by our organizations. The Peer Facilitating Training-Workshop that was held last August 30, 2013 at the University Function Hall, is an annual

Simple Door Lock Mechanism

Good day! So I booted up my old desktop the other day and saw some images I didn't know I had. Some of these were already uploaded on my facebook but I don't remember I uploaded them. LOL. Anyway here is a simple door [un]lock mechanism that I devised. As of then (actually until now), it was only an unlocking mechanism. But I have been thinking possible ways to also make it a locking mechanism which I will discuss in the Suggestions/Recommendations later.

This is only a prototype. I will make another one in the future

My old friend, revisited after a year. 

A Fansign from my Idol and our Almost Failed Report.

Sorry for not posting last week. You see, the week before last week, I lost a battle of RPS. (Rock - Paper - Scissors) You can read about it on my last post. Well, we, I'm sorry, I did a lot of research of the dances that hit in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, the 2000's, here in the Philippines. But unfortunately, I kind of failed. :/ The only resource that I had are the threads from certain forums where the users post about their experiences in the said time periods. 

The report was OK in the beginning, I did the "Twist", but as the time went on, the teacher's interest became lesser and lesser by the decade. He was looking for some Filipino dances, but we didn't have any until the 1990's! The teacher almost stopped our report, and we would've failed, until in the 2000's, he asked who are my other group mates. And since we're reporting on dances, he made my other group mates dance, including Cyril, a passive and silent student.

Warning: Long Post

Hello friends! How's life so far? My life has been so crazy these past few days. Here are some of the details, and we'll go through them later. Last July 13, I was asked by a friend if I can edit/create a video. Of course I can, we can. Since we have a crew that was formed from our Human 1 Class. We had a LOT of exams. My false teeth are kinda loose, much more!

Let's begin with the video thing. I started video editing in high school. This was the first video I ever edited (Click here). I got into editing when I came across a compositing software called FX Home VisionLab Studio. It had some pretty good effect presets. (as you can see in the video) All I did in the video was drag-and-drop. Then I saw the 'light saber' effect in the program, and I immediately planned a shoot. This was the outcome. (Click here, Facebook link) Post production (editing) took two days because I had to keyframe everything. Haha. And there were no sounds because my old desktop had no compatible audio drivers. :(

Anyway, from accepting the video editing, I learned a lot. When she was stating how she would like the opening sequence, I already knew I was going to use a 3D program, since I (think) cannot do that using a compositing program. The opening sequence was a gate, in which you have to enter the correct password to get into a building. Here's a snapshot of what I came up with.

Picture was slightly edited. I added the sky in the background.

Blog Post #4 - An Awesome Week

I was supposed  to post this last week but the internet was out again *sigh. We were already thinking of switching ISPs (Internet Service Provider) then the first awesome thing happened, the afternoon we were talking about that, the internet worked itself! Haha. I missed the internet during those days without connection so last weekend I indulged myself in internetly goodness. (Read that with Ryan Connolly's voice)

Last Monday, (July 8, 2013) we were supposed to have a class at 11am-2pm but the meeting that the instructor attended wasn't adjourned yet. So our class was again suspended for the nth time, and it was our last period for that day. We finally had our first meeting for that subject (Draw 21: Computer Aided-Drafting) this afternoon. Anyway, since we were in the library, why not make use of it? So me and my awesome friends went to the American Corner of the University Library to enjoy some games and some air conditioning goodness. (Again, read it with Ryan Connolly's voice)

Blog Post #3 - 2 Weeks of Inactivity

Good day fellow humans! Sorry I have been inactive for the past two weeks. First all of, I have my school works, and secondly, there's this thing that I had to do for a friend. Besides those, nothing interesting have been happening with my journey through life. 

Well, there were some good things that happened last Tuesday, July 2. We had an exam in Mechanics. It was all or nothing because the teacher only gave us one problem,
and only one (I think) got the correct answer. Yes that's right. Only one in our whole class got the correct answer, all of the rest got 5 marks for effort. The problem was very tricky because you have to apply what you know about circles and rectangles. And here's the good news,

Blog Post #1 - End of Summery Days

Okay now summer is almost over. . Wait! It's already over! Haha. I had just enrolled in my university, and boy! That was really exhausting! Could you imagine 5 hours waiting in line? Of course you can. Anyone can. Here is a photo of what it looks like, click here, credits to Glenn Dave. (Can you find me there? lol) 

Anyway, how did you spend your summer? Did you visit other places? Did you enjoy your 2 months vacation? Did you do any productive things? My summer? Well, its. . . cool. Yes, I did visit some places and yes, I kinda enjoyed my 2 month vacation. But I did not do any productive things. Why? Haha. I would be asking you the same question.