Education

I just found out today that I make a pretty damn good teacher. The only requirement being that those I teach should want to learn. I can’t imagine being in a room full of kids teaching them stuff I know they wont remember, but learn as they go along anyways (wether too late or not).

I just finished training some people today about programming. Looking back in the day’s events, I often noticed myself generously explaining more than was required, and that magis was taken in a positive light. I even noticed new people who had nothing to do with our “session” who had just popped out from the other offices to hang out and listen to what I had to say.

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Excuses excuses

An email from Chrise, to our barkada’s mailing list revealed some really lovely, retarded excuse letters.

They are allegedly real, notes from parents (eep!) including original spelling, collected by schools from all over the Philippines. Read More

Rest in Peace

Rest in peace, dear

Another angel to watch over us

Third texted about a friend of ours who met her untimely demise on her way to the US Embassy. At first I was in denial… hoping that somehow it would be corrected as a false alarm. After Jem posted, I guess that was that.

She was a batchmate of mine and math classmate. I distinctly remember her patience with me as I kept on asking her questions and having her tutor me (I was a lousy math person in college).

As Jem would say; it’s surreal that a bunch of innocent people seem to be dying one after another. I could think of a couple of people more deserving to go, take me for example (and one other “Che” in particular). You can read the details:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=1888

Public transportation is the bane of our society… or at least one of them. Stupid-assed drivers allowed to drive big, powerful machines. They should just blow up every goddamn bus and jeep. You could leave the trycicles – they may be annoying, but they’d die first if they ever tried to go against normal traffic and fail. The trains, LRTs, MRTs are fine too since they’re isolated.

Remember when people say that there is no hell, because we are already in it? That may be true, since God seems to be calling the good people. And I’m in total fear that I may be immortal!

Catharsis

Next time, someone just better remind me not to change my way of thinking.

I’ve been through enough good and bad experiences to know how to get the best out of them… at the risk of becoming “evil” to others’ eyes (but with no intention of being so).

But then there are a few goddamn times I let my guard down totally. I revert to being that loser I swore never to become again, and end up experiencing the same pain that made me the man I am today.

This too shall pass I guess, but not now, not yet. I’ll let myself enjoy this pain, since it’s been a while since I’ve felt it, and it keeps me grounded somehow… and quite frankly makes me glad that I was jaded in the first place – there’s no place like home, I guess.

So when it does pass, I’ll once again be steadfast with my ideals, and just continue being the juggernaut I usually am… despised by others, but loved nonetheless by the people important to me.

Who am I kidding, I can say this but at the end of the day, I’m still a sucker. I know that all it takes is one feeling to mess with my mind totally. So what if I’ve had so much experience, it’s not like they ever helped me get what I really wanted… only once did that happen, and that too crumbled sooner or later. And I know I’m a sucker for it.

It’s no wonder we humans are so damn violent: even at the emotional level, we seem to make it a point to get ourselves into really painful situations.

We are all suckers, it’s just human nature.

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iPod photo

Ipod Photo

I finally got my iPod photo a while ago. Initial transfer was a pain even if it was via FireWire.

Some new stuff (aside from photo support of course) that wasn’t present in my 4th-gen. The colored screen is great. It’s like the first time I switched to color with the Nokia phones: at first you don’t think its a big deal, and continue to do so… until you start using a B/W again.

The package was pretty good as it had lots of stuff:

  • Charge/sync dock
  • AC charger
  • FireWire cable
  • USB cable
  • Belt case
  • Case for the belt case (well at least that’s what I call it)
  • iPod sock
  • Video cable
  • Earphones, software CD, etc. Read More