sore eyes

I spent the last four hours playing Mass Effect. Somehow it made it to the top 10 games ever for the Xbox 360. It's an RPG game, the same style of gameplay as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Fables and Final Fantasy. When you start the game, you're given the choice of choosing a character that drastically affects how your character interacts with everyone else. The only problem with this is that the only way that's interesting, is if you play the game more than once. And right now, I'm pretty sick of the game. It was a good run, but I still felt everything was so serious and mechanical. On top of that are all the supplies/equipments/firearms that give you an edge over your opponents -- I pretty much skip those because I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel bad for critiquing the game so negatively, it really is a good game -- it's just not my type of game.

Running Diary – The Microsoft Project 2007/QM for Windows Seminar

Speakers: Bob Reyes & Jeden Tolentino
Time: March 26, 2010 : 2:30-430
Location: L335

[2:55] Microsoft Project 2007 costs half of my term’s tuition – 25,000PHP. That’s insane
Do they really expect us to purchase this program? For one term? For one subject?
I wonder if I could copy the program off a school’s computer. Hmmm…

[2:59] Project Web Access -- I wonder if this is a way around purchasing the program. Could I do everything on a school’s computer, then access the project from my computer at home through the Internet? Genius!

[3:00] You can pay 400USD for an extra menu button! “Collaborate!” If I ever start a super hero team like the Avengers, our call would be “Company Collaborate!”

[3:02] We were just introduced to a multilevel Undo. They should call it a time machine.

[3:08] Woooahh!! Microsoft Project is awesome! It… it…. It’s awesome!!! Sunday’s are working days! It’s automatic, you don’t have to skip days, blah blah blah. Microsoft is so cool!

[3:30] Check this out
http://Openworkbench.org
htt://Ganttproject.biz
http://Sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/files

[3:47] Sir Jeden Tolentino is the next speaker. Awesome. And Awesome QM for Windows program. It’s like a miracle machine. It’s robotic, automatic. It’s a CHEATER!!! If I had this during my quiz in class, I would be getting good grades. Instead I’m forced to pretend to study, which doesn’t give me the grade I want. If only they let us use computer during the quizzes. It makes sense, when we leave college, when we’re in the real world, we’re allowed to have anything. So why be judged on what you remember when everything’s available to you later on?

[3:58] Got a Bright Eyes song stuck in my head. Sing with me:
“All my friends were vampires
I didn't know they were vampires
It turns out I was a vampire myself”

[3:59] Celine is sitting next to me. She’s requesting to be included in my running diary. She’s laughing. She’s happy. We should all have a Celine by our side.

[4:06] Moved on from Single Time to Triple Time. I have the impression that they’re trying to speed us up – threefold. They skip double time and go straight to SUPER FAST. Why the rush? If you want to crash the project, you’ve got to pay me more. More money because time equals money. More money!

[4:09] Aaaarrhhh. My hair itches. The shampoo I found at EGI must have been tarnished with something… or spoiled… what if there are cockroach eggs in the shampoo? I wouldn’t be surprised, that place is infested with bugs.

[4:20] Microsoft Word crashed on me. I lost the second portion of my blog because it didn't automatically save -- meaning it wasn't recovered. Anyways, remember this site: http://jeden.tk

These are a few of my Favorite Things

Diamonds. Are a girl's best friend. Buffets. Are college guy's favorite things.

Went to Saisaki/Dad's earlier tonight with family friends to celebrate my dad's birthday. They were supposed to take us out because my dad's visiting and I can't cook for him, but after five heaping plates they pulled out a mango/caramel cake, then we sung Happy Birthday in eight different keys, simultaneously and all was well. Happy Advanced Birthday Papa!

Layers and layers of layers

If I could sum up this week with a cliche, I would. (I'm drowning in academic puree)

Anyways...

pet peeve: people speaking in puzzles.

they ask questions or statement out of the blue which beckons a question in return, for example:

"How about this Saturday?"

possible responses:

a) Wait, what's happening this Saturday?

b) Did we plan something?

c) Why not this Saturday?

good night

"Hahahahaha!" K held his stomach and laughed uncontrollably as he dismissed himself from the work station.

"It's funny, right?" I say (dumbly), reexamining the t-shirt with the iconic flying bicycle image from the movie E.T. Well, what made it funny was that the biker was doing a back flip and E.T. was falling tragically to his... well, let's not go there.

K was heading to bed when I sidetracked him with an image that I saw on my google reader. He'd laugh and walk away, then come back for more. My other co-worker got wind of the image and found the link and begun her own laugh-fest. Oh the joys of yearbook servitude at 1am.

What we do here at Green and White is eat their free food (budgeted at P150 person), surf and download using the wicked fast internet, and enjoy the laughs of silly things like t-shirt art. And if we find time we work on the yearbook's divider. So this past night, after eating at Ersao, catching up on the latest Colbert episode, and finishing some homework, I decided to revamp my divider and start over. And you know what, it turned out awesome (lowercase A). What made the evening Awesome was turning into the NCAA (not UCAA) in time to watch Murray State beat Vanderbilt with a one point buzzer beater. That was around 330AM and I've been hooked since. It's 7:55 right now and I'm about to enroll for next (and final) term. Yipee!

thoughts on the mrt 10:10PM

If I had twitter and 3G I'd tweet the following things:

-In the last 24 hours I've spoken two words, "stores" and "value."
-When the sign at the fare booth said the met will arrive in 30 minute intervals, they weren't kidding.
-For once in my life I'd like to be squished between gorgeous women than be mobbed by un-deoderized men.
-There are a few things worse than getting a cramp in a confined space.
-If I were to design a car, I'd make it's LEDs illuminate in dark places.
-New level of gayness: listening to Taylor Swift on loud speaker in a crowded train -- repeatedly.

Bryan Adams -- Everything I do, I do it for You

The problem with my alarm clock is that I know exactly where it is located relative to my bed. When I hear it ring I reach over and flip the alarm clock which turns off the alarm (it's not a normal alarm clock with buttons). I can do this without opening my eyes; I can do this in my sleep.

The problem with my alarm clock is that when you place the clock on its side it shows you the alarm, and not the actual time.

So, when I woke up this morning I flipped the clock on its side and fell back asleep. When I woke again I looked at the clock and it told me it was still 7:25 -- so I go back to sleep. When I woke again I looked at the clock and it told me it was still 7:25...

I ended up getting out of bed thinking it was still 7:25 and realizing it was 10AM. Shoot.