_the keeper's sanctuary

Air

2009-01-20T14:01:00.000+08:00

Finally. Home again after 10 months. Fortunately, the plane’s request for permission to land was granted by an air traffic controller without delay, so we did not have to circle the Zamboanga skies while waiting for one - like the two planes last 26 Dec, because not even one of the four air traffic controllers who were supposed to be there was present when the two planes arrived. About two

Water

2008-11-17T07:22:00.002+08:00

One day in September, when I stepped out of the building after my shift, I witnessed Heaven’s Punishment. I forgot my umbrella at home. The sky flashed and roared and cried for so long that I have to seek shelter from a popular and unreasonably expensive coffee shop (I preferred to stay there ‘coz it had, and most of the time has, the least number of tambays compared to the neighbouring Jollibee;

Fire

2008-09-13T11:50:00.001+08:00

It was near noon when I arrived at the airport, which is in Pasay City. As I walked my first-ever steps in Metro Manila, I felt the unforgiving sun radiate this heat scorching my skin. It was like my skin cells were beginning to mutate into cancer cells and will continue unless I find a shady spot to hide. I didn’t get it. My hometown is closer to the equator, but the metro’s sun is harsher. But

Unwritten

2008-08-16T13:08:00.001+08:00

I stayed up until 3 AM last night reading and editing all the posts below that I imported from my Blogger account for the sake of making this Multiply profile have more content. The previous post was more than a year old. It was published few days before I left Zamboanga City. When I arrived in Manila, I never found the time or gusto (if there is time) to blog until now. I've removed blogging

Manny, Manny, Manny...

2007-05-07T10:54:00.001+08:00

I will never be able to save myself from regularly blogging irregularly. Get it? Oh well, it's hard to break a habit.For the sake of breaking the blogging silence, I am again going to talk about my beloved Manny Pacquioa. <-- I know it's misspelled, but I dont care! So he won his last boxing match again. I'm not surprised. Although his last opponent was by then undefeated while Manny had already

Commencement

2007-03-26T13:10:00.000+08:00

A friend sent me a text message during the Baccalaureate Mass last Saturday. Aside from a congratulatory message, she also included in the message an insight about graduation day: Graduation is not the end. It is a beginning. That's why it is also called Commencement Excercise. Commencement means start - specifically the start of another journey, which is the journey towards a fulfilled life.

Another Resolution Goes Blooey!

2007-01-29T07:00:00.000+08:00

So says Garfield to Jon when the latter once again put on pants with its back in the front. The fat cat's remark also goes for me - not for wearing pants like what Jon did, but for unfalteringly neglecting blogging. Oh well, New Year's resolutions are myths anyway. I mean, if you really want to change something, don't wait for New Year! Start now!As for me, I don't think there is any resolution

Carol of the Bells

2006-12-25T16:47:00.000+08:00

Hark, how the bells, sweet silver bellsAll seem to say, throw cares away...Throw cares away?? I just can't, not especially this very Christmas. So many things to finish. The thesis simulation application is not even half-finished. And considering that I'm doing the half of our group's thesis, I have just finished almost one-fourth of the entire thesis. I just hope that my other two groupmates are

The Very Christmas to Me

2006-12-02T06:55:00.000+08:00

:( Ateneo Fiesta Week will be officially over by the end of this day. I have to refill my academic vehicle's tank with academic fuel so I can drive it, bringing this academic burden without dropping it lest I fail to reach the finish line that is graduation. *sigh* But hey, it was the start of December just yesterday! It's the month of Christmas! We have actually decorated just last week.But

The False Prophet

2006-11-29T10:53:00.000+08:00

False prophets are sent by Satan to mislead people; to derail them from the path of righteousness where God calls them to constantly walk on. Well, Mr. Horned One will not be happy with my first job as a false prophet.“All I say is thanks to the God…” said Manny stupidly when he was interviewed after winning his third match with the humbled Erik Morales, “Erik is big to me…” Get an interpreter or

Idle Hands Are a Devil's Workshop

2006-11-16T08:07:00.000+08:00

I noticed that lately I have been slutty - I mean SLOTH-y with everything, from my academic life to even the mundane activities, like blogging. At last, now I have finally picked the enthusiasm up for posting another set of musings, for now. But still, I feel my hands are idle. Hmmm... But where's the Devil? I don't see him anywhere in my hands... Oh my God! Maybe I am the Devil! *LOL*OK, I have

Joke Time!!!

2006-10-28T07:21:00.000+08:00

More text jokes that I have to delete from my cellphone inbox but I choose to remember here. Note: Text words are converted to their proper spelling.----------------------------------------------------------From Joval----------------------------------------------------------You're the perfect person that I know.So sweet, so nice, so kindAlways on my mindAnd very special for meBut there's

Entertaining God

2006-10-22T19:01:00.000+08:00

submitted on 09/25/06 as reflection paper for the religious-philosophical movie Dogma********************************************************** “There’s a million questions I wish I could ask, most all questioning what I'm sure is your great plan, and that would be really arrogant of me, I know. But there is one I'd like to ask, and I'm sure you get it all the time. But how many

In Defense of the Divine Architecture

2006-10-22T07:05:00.000+08:00

submitted 09/25/06 as Reaction Paper for Philo 104: Philosophy of Religion************************************************ The teleological argument, as Ernest Nagel wrote in The Case for Atheism, “is based on what purports to be empirical evidence,” which makes it different in character from the cosmological and ontological arguments. From the intricate natural systems we see around us and even

According to the Prophet Jan Carlo

2006-09-27T06:45:00.000+08:00

I have, again, been oblivious with my blog. I have to post something now. So here it is - a prophecy:Ye, Filipinos, shall despair. Thy self-proclaimed, not to mention grotesquely ugly, hero shall fall before one of the Mexicans he has been assassinating. He then shall lose his commercial endorsements, singing contract (which he doesn’t deserve!), bragging rights, and, thank God, his fantasies of

Intelligent Design

2006-08-28T07:07:00.000+08:00

Below was my reflection paper for my Philosophy of Religion class. The teacher asked each of us to pick one of the pro-God arguments, fully explain it and relate it with us and our God. The candidate arguments are: religious experience, cosmological, ontological, teleological, and Pascal's wager. As explained in the paper, I chose the teleological argument or argument from design. I just realized

Paris Hilton's Vow of Celibacy

2006-08-07T07:19:00.000+08:00

Only for a year however. A while after the Stupid Girls blog where I maligned Paris Hilton as if I really knew everything about her, I've been bumping into a few pieces of news from TV and online about Paris' morally upright side. The first one I've encountered was on ET, where she was shown spending time with a devoted fan who had cancer. She said that it felt great helping one of her fans

Oblivion Part 2

2006-07-30T06:48:00.000+08:00

I'm back soon, as vowed by me.So a while after that BlueVoice blog, I was planning to post about the brief change in our group's independent practicum project and about Manny Pacquiao's win (again!) and how much I hated him even more. But it seemed I did not find the timing, or right mood, to blog about it. Perhaps I was too worried of academic concerns and school duties.Oh by the way, I was "

Oblivion

2006-07-29T07:35:00.000+08:00

Wow. The start of my (hopefully) final year in AdZU was a humongous pain in the ASS that kept me from wasting time on blogging. Well, actually, my layouting "duties" in the college magazine was the royal burden, which cut majorly into my academic and family life. The poky office PC and late articles just made everything worse. At least just last Wednesday, I finally got rid of the printout dummy

BlueVoice It Is

2006-06-21T06:47:00.000+08:00

The three paths seeking a final project have finally met at an intersection. And at the crossroads was BlueVoice, as coined by one of the group mempers. This project that the three of us will attempt to successfully develop is a mobile application that, if installed on both cellphones, would enable the two users to talk with each other through bluetooth - for free! But the distance is limited

First Day High! Kinda...

2006-06-15T08:19:00.000+08:00

The countdown clock to graduation day has finally started to tick last Tuesday. I just really hope that the clock would end on time and would not delay. But our group still hasn't settled on a final project! At least we did narrow down our options. No Automated Lumber Species Recognition. Image processing is a field too risky for us to experiement. We feel that a school year is not enough

Blogthings Test

2006-06-08T11:30:00.000+08:00

www.blogthings.comHey! This site is nice. I discovered this while I was really bored, surfing in Friendster. It's the Fourth Year enrollment day. I have to wait until afternoon for my freakin' scholarship form. Got nothin' else to do but wait. And I'm not patient!So I tried to entertain myself by taking a few tests in this website. Some results were shocking and exagerrated. But some were kinda

Preserving Text Jokes

2006-05-23T10:40:00.000+08:00

What a surprise. Just when I thought I'd have to sing or dance for being late, the morning session was cancelled. Thank God! I didn't care that I had to run to the canteen in the middle of the campus to buy a burger so I can have change for tricycle fare just to discover that the vehicle had already left when I returned to the gate. Maybe he misunderstood me by thinking that I was suggesting not

Chaka Niya

2006-05-20T12:13:00.000+08:00

At last! I have acquired the full lyrics of my favorite gag song by watching and listening thoughout its music video I've found in YouTube. Where did they get this video? I'd love to have one of my own but videos cannot be downloaded from the website. But at least I can watch it.The lyrics are more hilarious than I thought. Before, I only knew the chorus. Now I know the rest, and they're

Sa Likod ng mga Tala ni Darna

2006-04-24T15:06:00.000+08:00

Ooops I did it again. Been dead for a while again. I just cannot think of anything worth posting these past few days. I just had to wait for the first week of Summer IT training to finish so I can talk about something. And here it goes...At last, after being stagnant from practical programming for three years, my mind was enriched with MySQL integrated in PHP. Finally! Something worth including

Two Decades of Living and Learning

2006-04-05T07:21:00.000+08:00

It was my 20th birthday just yesterday. And 20 makes me shudder.Twenty. That sounds so OLD.Twenty... Twenty...I don't feel twenty at all. I thought twenty is supposed to be mature and stable. But I don't feel quite like that. However, I've met others who are over twenty but feel that they are younger. Perhaps a high level of maturity at twenty is a myth. *taking a deep breath* Relax...So

FoxPro Agony

2006-03-30T08:05:00.000+08:00

We just finished defending our database application project yesterday morning. It's a good thing that our CS 312 teacher extended the deadline because the RC Marketing Database System is relatively complex. We have been excruciatingly hoping for the friggin' FoxPro to cooperate with what we want it to do. We have been revising codes and layout several times that we cannot even keep track of a

Nature's Appreciation Part 2 (after centuries!)

2006-03-28T07:50:00.000+08:00

I thought I posted the "Nature's Appreciation Part 1" here in Blogger. But I discovered that it has been rotting in my dusty Friendster blog. Oh, poor blog: My Friendster Blog: Nature's AppreciationSo right now, I'm pulling this experience out of the sea of oblivion. Let's pick up from where I stopped in my post (seven months ago!).So when we arrived at the very remote, very far-flung Tolosa,

So it's true...

2006-03-21T07:44:00.000+08:00

The Ubuntu CDs I have requested from shipit.ubuntu.com have arrived just yesterday. Wow, I cannot believe that they would actually give out free CDs for distribution. I thought there are no free stuff these days. 10 pairs for PC, four for Mac, and eight for 64-bit computers - all free. But my father had to pay P35 for the delivery or something. But then the package itself is free! It's a

Classes are over... Practicum doom is starting!

2006-03-20T07:04:00.000+08:00

I just recently realized that for the next two months, I will never return to the classrooms for anything except exams. Classes are over. Why isn't there an exclamation point after that sentence? Hmmm. What's wrong with me? I should be in a festive mood. Perhaps it's because I feel that I am going to have a hell of a schoolyear ahead. And the warning came just last Friday, during a reserch

Stupid Girls!

2006-03-15T07:29:00.000+08:00

I love Pink. And also her newest video mocking stupid girls like Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson. Just watch the embedded player below. It's so funny how she impersonates those whores:Paris Hilton especially deserves this! I hate her and her show "The Simple Life." She makes fun of people who live a simple but dignified way of living. Plus, she's talentless! I haven't watched "The House of Wax,"

Not Another PC Disaster!

2006-03-08T06:49:00.000+08:00

Whew! I thought I'd have to bring this sick PC over to a computer shop again. I don't know what's wrong with this thing! Just two days ago, the PC mysteriously restarted. It could not normally log-in to Windows then. But the Ubuntu was fine. But I can't live with the latter alone. All my important files are in Windows. Plus, I could not connect to the internet through Ubuntu, which is another

Ubuntu!

2006-02-23T05:50:00.000+08:00

Ubuntu is the ancient African word for "humanity to others." Now I have humanity in my PC!I just installed a second operating system, Linux Ubuntu, just last night. I thought I only had to do two things: partition and install. But it's a good and safe thing to call a Linux-devoted friend to guide me through the whole process 'coz its sooo complex for me. He made me do these weird things to my

Garfield Returns!

2006-02-20T06:17:00.000+08:00

Ultra Stampede: Deadly Blend of Greed and Sloth

2006-02-11T05:47:00.000+08:00

The widespread news of the stampede was evident that even one of my classes had devoted around 15 minutes of the period to discuss about the tragedy. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion about it. The teacher definitely has his stand on this, but it was remarkably different from everybody else's sympathetic viewpoint.As the news expressed remorse about the tragedy, our teacher laughed and

Current Events

2006-02-08T06:47:00.000+08:00

Since I have no idea on what significant personal info I may post about, perhaps it's time to stop being self-centered and instead blab about the national occurrences, which have caught my attention because they are disturbing.First stop, Manny Pacquiao! Yes, he has uplifted the Filipino people. And the response to him was overwhelming - cornily overwhelming! For the love of God! From the minute

It's a miracle!

2006-01-25T06:44:00.000+08:00

Hmph! Okay, I take back what I said about our Philo teacher. He just gave me 100% for my philo paper on a-morality! That paper was done on a rush. I thought it was just a five-page pure rambling about just one decision in my life. I can't believe he'll mark it "An Excellent Paper!"My friend also got the same grade. But her paper just occupied two and a half sheets! It's like I have to write more

Midterm just finished!!!

2006-01-20T14:23:00.000+08:00

Wohoo! I am here in the school computer lab after a predictable Philo exam. Midterm week is officially finished and I now have the right to... uhm...uhh... Oh God, I don't respond to changes well. I have been enslaved by student duties for a long time. Now that I am free, I don't know what to do. I'll think about it later.I actually arrived late for the morning batch so I was reprimanded out of

I'm back so soon!

2006-01-20T07:26:00.000+08:00

Hehe! Hello again after a few minutes. Hey! I just broke my record of posting my next post several days after the previous post!I am here to post an excerpt of the script of the Will and Grace episode I typed about two posts ago. I'll give a brief back ground:- AA means Alcoholic Anonymous, a therapy for alcoholics who desire to stop their drinking habits- Val is, I think, a long-time-no-see

Midterm week just reached a SHITTY climax!

2006-01-20T05:51:00.000+08:00

Oh God! I just got an unpleasantly, semi-surprisingly difficult exam yesterday! It was CS 216: Logic Design and the items were - oh I don't want to talk about it! It destroys the start of this day, which is the last day of the midterms, thank God! Today, I'm about to take another nerve-racking exam on the ridiculously objective Philosophy class. I see another Siansi Sai. I shall call him...

Midterm Week just started

2006-01-13T15:04:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, I just finished taking the RS and Math exams. The first one was okay but the second... hell! How unsurprising for me. The first numbers were fine but as I descended through the given problems, they got weirder and harder. "Let go and let God."Ha ha! Now that last quote reminds me of the last episode of Will and Grace. Studio 23 has been airing reruns but I can't help watching it

Happy New Year!

2006-01-08T05:56:00.000+08:00

I know. I'm eight days late. But at least I get to recognize the new year in my first post for this year. We didn't have free calendars for 2006. We had four sets of giveaway 2005 calendars. This year, nada! People have been unsurprisingly austere again.On other news, I have finally borrowed Harry Potter 6. I just finished the 17th chapter last night. So far I have confirmed that Snape really is

A Belated Merry Garfield Christmas! So cute...

2005-12-27T06:39:00.000+08:00

Merry Christmas!!!

2005-12-25T06:45:00.000+08:00

The title says it. It's Christmas!It's been a looong time again. I should've rambled about the Recollection and the very late Christmas break, but these events were too tiring to reflect on. So I rested for a while so I may have the enthusiasm to attempt to type about them. Here goes...Although I am making steps to apostatise Catholicism, or Christianity in general, I admit that I have this

Ateneo Fiesta ends...

2005-12-05T06:20:00.000+08:00

It was a draaaag. At least for me. I guess others always find a way to enjoy this week-long holiday but for me? Lazy days again. Aside from occasionally going to school to write an article about an insignificant event and win second place in quiz bowl, I stayed home and slept and ate and watched TV and slept and ate and watched TV and played some game and ate and slept and watched TV... It's the

Ateneo Fiesta begins!

2005-11-27T06:15:00.000+08:00

Even though I was sick, with my throat plagued with phlegm that made me barely breath, I was still forced to go with the parade because my CS312 teacher bribed us with 10 additional points to quizzes if we do so. *cough cough* So I am still sick. It was raining before the parade. So the cold moisture of the air just worsened this cough. I don't want to write or even think about this. It makes me

Another blah blah

2005-11-24T15:30:00.000+08:00

My throat feels funny again. I guess I should minimize cold drinks. I can barely speak comfortably. The cold air of my usual, no-choice hang-out places, which are the library and computer labs, worsens this throat as it passes through my nose to the lungs. I keep on having this awkward coughs which make me look like someone who wants attention from anyone near me. Enough of this...Just yesterday,

The usual blah blah...

2005-11-20T06:04:00.000+08:00

I just watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire last Thursday. It was great! Although I didn't really like the dark plot of the novel it was based on, the movie was an excellent interpretation of the book. I think the special effects have actually gotten better compared to the previous three. I was disappointed however that it was tremendously compressed. It didn't show the whole Quidditch

Garfield strikes again!

2005-11-14T06:27:00.000+08:00

School again... :-(

2005-11-08T16:48:00.000+08:00

The classes have started yesterday... but not exactly. I had three subjects on the first day of school and none of the teachers showed up! Shame on me. I have been studying in the same university for four semesters now but I'm still naive with the first days of classes. I should have learned that such days are like the waking hours of people who are magnetized to their beds every morning. Today's

My Apostasy of the Catholic Faith

2005-11-03T07:19:00.000+08:00

Just two weeks ago, I had my oral defense for Literature. I was late for my chosen schedule because I arrived around three minutes late. Ma'am Temple only allowed four minutes. According to her watch, I am late. But I made an arrangement so I was able to defend at a later time.As replecement for the final written exam, she asked as weeks before to read the book 'The Prophet' by Khalil Gibran and

My High School Self

2005-10-28T13:06:00.000+08:00

Since it was sem break and there was nothing to do at home, *yawn*, I attempted to re-organize my high school junk in my cabinet. Aside from the shoe boxes with knick knacks from those years, the four envelopes, each containing 'memorabilia' from each year level, were torn. Now I don't understand why I kept those and why I thought that they were sentimental. I wanted to throw away some,

I'm a Pancit!

2005-10-28T10:00:00.000+08:00

I just took this insignificant quiz online (http://quizilla.com/cgi-bin/result/result.pl) that tests which Filipino food the quiztaker is. And guess what I am?It says that my sidekick is lumpia and I am popular - everyone knows me and loves my simplicity... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Very funny... : But the latter might be true, which says that I can be moody.

A Paper-filled Semester

2005-10-05T07:22:00.000+08:00

This is the most unusual semester. All subjects demanded paper from us! Econ101 had us photocopying several chapters of the Mankiw textbook for our discussions. Recently, Father required us to write a ten-page argumentative research paper on the implementation or repeal of EVAT. Philo102 also had us photocopying articles in the Philisophy of Man book and writing reaction papers on

Stuff to do! Stuff to do!

2005-09-26T04:14:00.000+08:00

I have so much to work on today. No time for procrastination! Yet I am still here wasting my time on blogging. At least I'm getting a break. I need one right now. We have to finish a 10-page research paper on Economics, make stupid DFDs and make a presentation report of them, finish up a 20-30-page documentation on a pragramming language with mobile computing capabilities and also make a

Of Love and Hatred

2005-09-19T07:34:00.000+08:00

Hello blog! It's been a long time... again. I run out of stuff to post. I had to take a break to pile up reflections and reactions on my observations in my wretched existence. Still got nothing noteworthy though.So what I did was to look at others' blogs. I realized then how different we really are. There was a couple of suicidal blogs, some journal-like as mine, some are posts of

A Tragic Week

2005-09-12T08:42:00.000+08:00

Last week was horrible! I had tonsilitis with fever. Swallowing really hurt. I can't enjoy eating. My face frowned at every gulp. The warm salt solution meagrely relieved the soreness. I can't drink cold liquid, which I miss right now. I had a fever (that I exaggeratedly thought was dengue), which surprisingly lasted for two days. I even had a singaw where my wisdom tooth is struggling to grow.

Text Jokes! (continued)

2005-09-07T06:38:00.000+08:00

OK. Fully charged na ang cel ko... From Bernie:***************I was planning to kill the most LOVELY and the most CHARMING person on earththen I realized... that would be SUICIDE! bad yun...***************As I watched the ants crawl upon the wall, I noticed that no matter how busy they are, they still stop and communicate. I hope we could be like the ants... nga makalakawlakaw sa walls!**

Text Jokes

2005-09-06T00:24:00.000+08:00

Hindi muna ako magsusulat tungkol sa Nature Appreciation. Yung previous post ko introduction pa lang pero detalyado na. Kaya dapat detalyado rin ang Nature Appreciation Part 2. Hirap pala! Hindi naman ako magaling magsulat ng kuwento. But I'll take it as a challenge.Dahil magpopost ako ng tungkol sa isang contemporary Filipino culture, Filipino muna gamitin ko. Pero informal lang. Mahirap

Nature Appreciation Part 1

2005-09-05T06:55:00.000+08:00

This year’s Nature Appreciation venue is Tolosa, Guisao. Sounds very far-flung to me. So I wasn’t surprised to see splashing water and a lot of green all around. But before getting there, there were… unfortunate events. Unfortunate, but worthwhile. Instead of heading to school, I decided to wait for them at a store right beside the highway. There is no other way to get to Guisao but

So-so post...

2005-09-02T08:05:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was the Feast of the Ascension of the Prophet Muhammad - a holiday! But it's not the same holiday mood if I have posted yesterday. Actually right now I don't know what to say. I had a lot in my mind yesterday (that is the fourth 'yesterday' word I said... and that's the fifth!) but I don't remember them today. Sometimes I hate holidays. Got nothing to do. The 'day before today' (that's

Phenomenology of Death

2005-08-30T12:52:00.000+08:00

Before the midterms, we were asked to submit a reaction paper or book review in our Philosophy of Man class. An article that caught my attention was "Martin Heidegger's Phenomenology of Death." At least the title made me grab the book because I thought it would satisfy my search for the true meaning of death and everything after it. But it was disappointing. I expressed it in my paper. However,

More Garfield!

2005-08-29T06:13:00.000+08:00

Isn't he adorable? Click on the thumbnail to view a larger picture.

Not Another Tardiness Mishap

2005-08-27T10:26:00.000+08:00

I am late for the teaching! No. I am on time. Actually I'm earlier. I really remembered in the text message that we would be leaving at quarter to nine. I arrived around 8:40 - and they're gone! How could they! Mga no hay palabra de honor! It's a good thing that I have something else to do. Else, I will call one of them and ask - no, demand the driver to return here and fetch me and an aspirant