English Haikus

Ian posted his - I wanted to post mine, too... :D

SCHOOLWORK

Students sit on chairs

Trying to compose haikus

Amidst my snoring

SURPRISE!

No physics today

No physics yesterday, too...

Long test tomorrow?!

THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

Christmas day is near

With paskorus, kriskringle

But still no prom date

I forgot my last one...

From MJ:

The school bell has rung

The class is about to end

It's time to wake up

Wee. HAIKUMANIA.

My First Blog In Ages...

So yeah. I'm not that sad for my third year life anymore. Things are starting to look up, after the disaster that is first semester. And here's how my life went through most of the year.

Background: That summer became the most boring summer I've ever had. MTG seems to have lost appeal. Or I guess I left most of the people I hang out with at DEECO when I was invited to attend AU trainings instead. Nevertheless, it was still with great relief to see that five-week torture end, but with that end also came the end of my MTG life,or so if I decided I won't volunteer to teach there in college. Anyways, after that there was this MTP summer camp - better on many counts than the MTG training but still lacking.

And that's how my year began - expectant for a change from the boredom of two months summer has given me. But no, summer was prolonged. Yet, the lack of math in that one-week extension I was grateful for, and with a heavy heart I started the school year.

Well, Rb wasn't that bad, but it wasn't what I was hoping for. Echoes of the bliss and fun the last year has bestowed haunted me. And anyways, first impressions do last. The first day of school came as a humongous shock to me - everyone was reading the STR manuals preparing for a quiz that may or may not come. No one was saying nothing. Soon, Rb became much noisier, but still not that Dahlia noise. I guess the fun Rb likes is not my kind of fun. So for the first few weeks, nights we're still spent with Dahlia, Dahlia, Dahlia. Then came another week of suspension because of that stupid pandemic. But then, given the boredom I have to endure that June, I was thrilled.

When school returned, Dahlia was no more - or rather, it became even more loose. For the most of July, I returned to the dormitories at five and slept for about twelve hours, all the time dreaming about the times earlier in the year, when the average time of return to the dorm was eight, and the average time of sleeping was three, after a nightful of internet and late-night movies. Then I switched from the Justine-Grace-Titus side of Dahlia to the Janella-Albert side of Dahlia. For most of the second quarter, the daily routine then transformed to return to the dorm by eight and sleep by eight thirty.

So I guess my first semester was really sloppy. On the other hand, third quarter was happier. That was when I started to hang out with more and more people, including this group of Rb people. I also started doing more extra-curricular activities, just to brighten up my afternoon. So yeah, I just hope next year wouldn't be as sloppy as this one.

Not-so-boring Long Weekend

After months of being downcast and bored to the highest degree, having an eventful day seems to be like a dream. This long weekend is such a nice change to all these dullness that crept into my life this school year.

The long weekend started as boring - classes cancelled for Friday and I'm left watching MTV the whole day while waiting for the storm and the possibility of another flash flood. With the lack of stuff to do, I slept quite early - about ten in the evening. I woke up after five hours, because they suddenly cut off the power killing the cold air conditioning. Santi was way weaker than Milenyo - during the latter, you would really panic because this empty water tank actually flew and landed on our roof with a loud thud. And then, for the second time in my life, I found myself at the eye of the storm. The rains and the winds suddenly stopped, like that in Milenyo, for some thirty minutes. But what's different is it arrived in our spot in San Pedro by six - just in time for sunrise. It's really kinda cool - the colors breaking into dawn over the swirling clouds that forms the eyewall. Woo! New life experience!

The lack of power for most of the Saturday would have been boring on any people's part, but I spent most of the morning - that is, the morning after nine when the winds stopped howling - strolling around our village, examining the damage. Just on the other block, there was some floodwaters. And then, to make up for my lack of sleep (I sleep for about twelve hours on weekends but sometimes I go five days without sleep on weekdays - but that was last year), I slept most of the afternoon.

Sunday still left me with nothing to do - we we're supposed to watch Jeniffer's Body that day, but Santi changed the plans. By four, after hours of watching TV and listening to radio, we left for the cemetery. My mom used to live in Concepcion Uno in Marikina, so the graveyard we we're visiting was Paraiso, in Ampid in nearby San Mateo, Rizal. There was no traffic for most of the journey - where are the people who's supposed to swarm in the cemeteries? Then the car came to a halt for nearly one hour because of the heavy knot of vehicles going to Paraiso. We had to walk a few kilometers to reach the cemetery.

So, a month after Ondoy, I was able to examine the place where lots of the deaths occurred. I guess the residents really coped up with the disaster - most everything is back to normal. But as you go more north, more vestiges of the flood remain. In Paraiso, there's about two inches of wet mud left at the entrance. The soil was still wet. The houses outside have mud on their roofs. That's kinda weird since Ondoy left six inches of mud inside our house, but most of that gunk was cleared the day after the storm.

Anyways, that night at the cemetery was really one o the best parts of my life this school year - playing cards to sharing ghost stories with my cousins. We went home on midnight, which was really scary. Going through Marikina - indeed passing by the entrance of Provident Village - by midnight really does make you feel as if your driving through a ghost town. Very few lights we're lit, very few people are outside.

Today, we we're finally able to watch Jennifer's Body - in TriNoma, on the way to the dorm, with 2 of my cousins. In the middle of the movie, just after one of the scarier scenes, this phone rang and the ringtone was Pussy Cat Dolls. :))

Multiply About To Introduce A New Inbox... Again...

I can't say if I'll like it or hate it but...

Multiply blog says the new features include live updating of the feed - which means the feed updates with every new post/reply, devaluing the refresh button. The right pane gets a live preview of the post. They designed it so that the users will feel no need to leave their inbox. They called it Panorama view and is currently available to premium members, though other users will get the new feature in the days to come.

Multiply's getting a new facelift - introducing major changes since the inception of Multiply 4.0. First, they added posting from Picasa and Live Gallery - very useful feature, btw. Next, they included cross-posting to FB and Twitter - something I really appreciate. Then, they added Multiply chat - OK, I guess but it's kinda cheap. They also tweaked Privacy settings, making Multiply even more powerful. Lastly, they redid the home page - Multiply now features this cool login page, a dark blue (and much less of an eyesore) header bar and a cool new favicon.

I guess Multiply's getting better, but if Multiply starts hosting apps, I'm leaving. Problem is, Multiply's becoming more like Facebook everyday. But then, Facebook owes it's popularity to a revolutionary technology it, say, copied from Multiply - the "news feed."

Some stuff I'd want from multiply - an AIR app.

LiveJournal 404 - Page Not Found's

1I'm sorry, you've reached a page that I cannot find. I'm really sorry about this. It's kind of embarassing. Here you are, the user, trying to get to a page on LiveJournal and I can't even serve it to you. What does that say about me? I'm just a webserver. My sole purpose in life is to serve you webpages and I can't even do that! I suck. Please don't be mad, I'll try harder. I promise! Who am I kidding? You're probably all like, "Man, LiveJournal's webserver sucks. It can't even get me where I want to go." I'm really sorry. Maybe it's my CPU...no that's ok...how bout my hard drives? Maybe. Where's my admin? I can't run self-diagnostics on myself. It's so boring in this datacenter. It's the same thing everyday. Oh man, I'm so lonely. I'm really sorry about rambling about myself, I'm selfish. I think I'm going to go cut my ethernet cables. I hope you get to the page you're looking for...goodbye cruel world!

2This page is not here
like plum blossoms in the wind
existence is fake

3Narrator: In A.D. 2006, Web was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the journal.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main browser turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you users !!
CATS: All your base are belong to Frank.
CATS: You are on the way to 404.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to reach your page. Make your spelling correct.
CATS: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....

These are the three error 404 pages that occur whenever I try to access fantasied livejournal blogs. I especially like the haiku. :D

Livejournal creativity! :))