Career Paths for Programmers

 Reposting from developerdotstar.com

 since I may never see this article again. It's a great article and I don't want to lose it.

College Video

Back in 2005 or 2004, two org-mates of mine made a video with me as one of the actors.

Chowking Tiger teaser v2

This is a low quality video which I downloaded from youtube. The original copy is with the owner. I don't know if he still has it.

Weird Insect

I saw this insect(s) while I was studying. I was bored and it was the first time I saw these things so I took a video.

Celebrity Crush

Regine Angeles
We went to Robinson's Galleria to have her autograph and get a picture taken with her. Unfortunately the line was already too long when we arrived and we didn't make the cut. So we just waited and took a video of other people who were getting their photos taken with her. Imagine the envy.

 June 07, 2011 - Robinson's Galleria

Regine Angeles was really kind. After the activity, she still signed other people's magazines even if they didn't make the cut. I was actually shy at first but I still managed to get her autograph. I was the last one to get it.

Group of Friends

I'm compiling pictures of my group of friends from different stages of my life. Let's start with the most recent one. Right now, I only have a copy of several groups in the laptop. I'll try updating this post as soon as I get my hands on the other pictures.

1. MBA friends

 (L-R) Tomas Vargas, Peps Ferrer, Ferdie Anabo, Dennis Ramos, Toffer Dela Cruz

 (L-R) Don Laudencia, Tine Lopez, Dennis Ramos, "Bart" Bartolome, Dex Santos

2. Vinta Systems, Inc.

3. ESC (Engineering Student Council 06-07)

4. CURSOR

(L-R) Peps Ferrer, "Rap" Raposas, Tienne Mogarte, Nhiza Alcala, Charm Cayetano, Kai Agbulos

(Below) Mari Manso

5. BS Computer Science

6. UPIS

(L-R) Vittorio Encarnacion, Ayin Tamondong, "Peps" Ferrer, Dax Cuaresma

7. UP Varsity Swimming Team

Life's Instructions

I do not own this article. I'm only re-posting this from Amazing Posts: Life's Instructions because there's a big probability that I will forget the link.

THE GREATEST ADVICE

I was organizing my mail and stumbled upon an old email that I sent. Showed this message to a friend way back in 2007.

Other Pictures

Having some spare time to photograph the area around me. (LRT Station)

Cute slippers I saw inside Manila City Hall

Will add more in the future

UP Diliman, College of Engg. Miss Engineering 2003

A CURSOR applicant was looking for pictures of the only CURSOR candidate that won 1st place during the Miss Engineering pageant of 2003. I actually suggested that mission to a member thinking that those pictures were still available online. As time passed, those websites that had those pictures have closed down and picture-hosting websites have deleted albums of accounts that never generated revenue. Since this guy had a hard time finding the pictures I decided to try and find it on my way. Apparently, there were really no more records left as far as I know. Luckily, I backed up those souvenir CDs during CURSOR week that contained some of those pictures. So, here are the pictures of our Miss CURSOR (Kenneth Oliver Gallo) candidate and the only member that won 1st place during MS.Engineering 2003.

He transformed from this:
 

  

 

 To this!

Hope this blog site doesn't close down.

PS. And oh yeah, I also stumbled on a picture of Wawel Lim. (Could be his talent's night costume)

New Eng'g Library @ Melchor Hall

The new library looked like a coffee shop. It was awesome! Mas nakakaenggaynyo mag-aral

My Alma Mater

UPIS year 2002, I graduated from this prestigious high school which I have attended since Kindergarten. Yesterday, I passed by to retrieve my TOR to be used for a petition I filed in court. (Re: NSO birth certificate)
Since I was already there, I decided to roam around their campus and saw that a lot of things have changed.

There were a lot of improvements and also a lot of unmaintained assets. Some people and employees that I have seen before I graduated were still there. The chairs have been replaced. (I wonder if our vandal is still on some of those unreplaced chairs.) Then there are those large hand wash areas. The drinking fountain has been replaced. And the students, they aren't as many as they used to be. The school didn't look as active as before. There was even one batch that consisted of only 80+ students.

I was teary-eyed while I was looking at different posters and scenes, not because I was sad, but because of all those emotions after not being in that school for several years. I think >10. I looked for some teachers that I am still familiar with and found out that there's only a number of them that works there. A lot of them has already resigned. Ma'am De Villa in particular was about to resign next semester and she was the person I wanted to talk to the most. Ma'am Vargas was there, although she never became my teacher, she remembered my name and the profession that I wanted to take when I grow up. Ma'am Laarnie, was at the guidance office and she was very accommodating and told me a lot about the school. They were the only teachers that I was able to talk to.

While roaming around I spotted several posters of things that reminded me of my youth. The boy scout organization that I was a member of has made it big. Back then I was the only member in our batch. The bulletin board that I saw looked like they already have a lot of willing members. Then The Peer facilitator's organization has a lot of activities. They also have a out of town trips. Lastly is the UP varsity swimming team. They have grown from what I last remember. I think there were only 9 of us back in the day, now there are more of them now. Here are some photos I managed to capture.

      Image above: UPHS Varsity Swimming Team now.

                               Above: Our coach since 1998. Coach Bernie Cavida.

I plan to pass by the UP Pool in the future to talk with coach Bernie.