Chinmi #6

珍味 ＃６。（ちんみ＃６）Chinmi #6. trans. Tidbit #6.

Stall vendors at our school cafeteria have a sharp memory. Ridiculously sharp even with the longest lapse.

Case in point: Since my freshman year I've been going to Chillers and buying a 16oz. Mango Shake. Always the same size and kind. The one who was there remembers me after a while and the trainee with her is the veteran now. And after weeks if not months of not eating at the cafeteria I went to buy yesterday.

The assistant was asking me what I wanted and the trainee-turned-veteran dictated exactly what I was going to buy.

Ain't that great? xD

Chinmi #5

珍味 ＃５。（ちんみ＃５）Chinmi #5. trans. Tidbit #5.

A few minutes ago while lazing about on my bed using my laptop perched on a side table juxtaposed to my bed, I felt my butt vibrate. Skeptical for a moment, I paused and furrowed my brows asking myself "What the hell is vibrating?"

Seconds later I hear the ring tone emanating my phone to realize that it was my phone.

My dad was calling me. xDDD

Hitojichi

人質。（ひとじし）Hitojichi. trans. Hostage Taking.

One of the little reasons why staying here doesn't seem to feel so safe. Today there was a very alarming hostage situation that lasted some 12 hours over at Manila. The poor tourists. Sure there were hostages still alive but the whole situation was just so. ugh. I still think it could have ended much, much sooner if our country had better police force. I mean, why don't we have negotiators for these types of situations?!

*watches too much J-dramas to expect stuff like Koshonin to come to life*

*sigh*

I shouldn't expect much. Makes me want to leave here much sooner.

Atarashii Sanpatsu

新しい散髪。（あたらしいさんぱつ）Atarashii Sanpatsu. trans. New Haircut.

I'm back with a new haircut~ *cheer cheer*

Though you don't see much of a change from my previous haircut I'll try get more decent shots of it when it settles. xD Maybe tomorrow? xD

.....Seeing this picture of myself reminds me of Watanabe Daisuke in his blog. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY.

Otaku-shin

オタク心。（おたくしん）Otaku-shin. trans. Geek Mind.

I'm a bit skeptical of the translation Google Translate gives me when I come up with my entry titles, but that's beside the point. xD

So. Geek Mind. It's a game created by Dom2D and it's a little game on the internet. The objective is quite simple: guess the game from the screenshot presented. If you want to give it a try the link is down here:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Dom2D/geek-mind

I first stumbled upon this game I believe a week ago when a few of my classmates were playing it after our CS177 class last Saturday. So for the past week we've been playing it after our CS classes, especially during CS152. We eventually formed a little group during that class when even Sir Diy joined in! Yesterday we got a score of 80,025 but were forced to cut it short because there was a class after ours.

Today, I played the game on my own and got astounding results. This was mostly due to the fact that images started to repeat themselves so the time practically piled up to the full 60 seconds time and time again. Earlier this afternoon I notched up a score of 209,050 and just a few minutes ago, brought my all-time hi-score to 306,400. Screenshots below.

I owe this to everybody on the "Geek Mind team": Lev, TC, Sir Diy, Albert, Gabby, Drox

About an hour's worth of gameplay up to level 700+

Two hours worth of gameplay up to level 1100+

Ensei

遠征。（えんせい）Ensei. trans. Road Trip.

Road trips are fun~ Me and my Philosophy 101 groupmates went to Calamba, Laguna for our group project. The objective was to 'find Plato in the local government unit or LGU of our choice', and we definitely did!

The road trip was smooth with minimal traffic. Our only stop in Laguna was at the New City Hall where we took various pictures for our paper!

Since we had time to spare, I decided to practice doing close-up shots of the various flowers and whatnot found there, and I must say I'm satisfied with the results! ^_____________^b

Shashin to Tanoshii

写真と楽しい。（しゃしんとたのしい）Shashin to Tanoshii. trans. Photography and Fun.

Kai and I went to Eastwood since she needed to take some shots with her camera. I decided that we go to eat at Jack's Loft for dinner before having to go out and point and click. It wasn't drizzling so we managed to go out and walk around, giving Kai an opportunity to take the shots she needed. And of course I decided to take some pictures as well with Ree my digicam~

After that was said and done we headed off to the arcade for some night time fun! Sung some fun karaoke, went racing and air hockey and some Tekken 6 button-mashing goodness. But what took the cake was that I was lucky enough to get Kai at Flip Flop solar-powered swaying pig from that game contraption whose name I forgot.

Koneko to Gemu

子猫とゲーム。（こねことげえむ）Koneko to Gemu. trans. Kittens and Games.

It's surely been quite a while since my last blog entry, so it's about time I came back with a new one. So this one shall be a compilation of a number of entries I've wanted to post but was lazy or didn't have time to compose on the actual day so howell. :P

So what happened these past few days with me? Well, for one thing I spotted some cute kittens licking off a plate left behind by some silly student who ate there during my school organization's 'Tambay Week' held last week and took a heap's worth of pictures (and some videos). Here's a few!!

Besides that, I spent this weekend at Kai's house again to help her re-shoot some scenes for her preliminaries. I'm happy that at least I'm starting to warm up to her family seeing them on Sundays. 8D Accomplishment! TuT

And, my Pokemon fandom returned when I started trying to finish my Pokemon Platinum game on my DS. I guess I'll blame Kai for playing her own game and our Pokemon RP for making me want to make-believe me being a trainer again. Currently I'm trying to win against the Elite Four with my team named after several TeniMyu people: Taito (Infernape), Shougo (Staraptor), Doori (Luxray), Hiroki (Floatzel), Ueshima (Garchomp) and Konomi (Giratina). With luck I can get through the Elite Four and the Pokemon Champion!

CS177 piqued my interest in trying out 3D graphics, so I went and tried to get Blender installed into my laptop, reminding me to fix out the messy organization of files littered here and there. I really need an external or a bunch of DVD-RWs to transfer my files. *sigh*

21 Kagetsu no Oiwai

二十一ヶ月のお祝い。（２１かげつのおいわい）21 Kagetsu no Oiwai. trans. 21 Months Celebration.

For purposes of expanding my blog archive, I've decided to type up a new entry instead of editing my earlier post regarding this celebration. So, recap is in order!

Last Monday, Kai and I celebrated our 21st Monthsary, or 1 year and 9 months together. After my class we decided to go and try out Cerealicious, a tasty cereal (duh) place along Katipunan that opened recently. Kai was in her craving stage and didn't really have a knack for trying anything right now, so I was the one who ended up enjoying myself some.

I forgot to take a picture of what I ordered! And even yesterday! (>__<) So just the cup! But anyway, what I ordered was 'The Karate Kit', composed of Frosties, Kit-Kat and Marshmallows. Yummy, yummy goodness. ~u~

Then after we had a late lunch at Teriyaki Boy to address Kai's craving for sushi. This time around we tried out the Shake Roll (salmon) instead of our usual Teka Maki (tuna). It's actually quite good. ^^b

That day I was wearing my Fedora and Kai enjoys snatching it away from me, so picture opportunity right there! My girlfriend is so photogenic. 8DDD Now she wants her own Fedora! xDD

21 Kagetsu

二十一ヶ月。（２１かげつ）21 Kagetsu. trans. 21 Months.

Twenty one months in! Approximately a year and nine months long! Three more months and Kai and I hit the big 2 year anniversary! The thought of that in itself is already exciting me! o(>u<)o

Kai and I plan to meet each other after my class for a little celebration, so there will most probably be a part two, if not an edit of this very blog post, allotted for whatever happens late today!

Sana Waakushoppu

サナワークショップ。（さなわあくしょっぷ）Sana Waakushoppu. trans. Sana Workshop.

Yesterday I attended a Sana Mobile Technical Workshop that tackled briefly the following topics:

Sana Android Development, Sana OpenMRS Administration and Module Development and Sana Mobile Dispatch and SMS Server Administration. It was surely a lot of fun!

Two speakers from MIT conducted the workshop: Chris Moses, Project Manager of Sana and a recent graduate from MIT, and John Blakeney, Lead Developer of Sana who's still an undergraduate from MIT.

We got certificates!

Yesterday I went to an impromptu sleepover at Kai's last night as well, so it figures why I only made a post now. xD

Youkoso Hachigetsu ni

ようこそ八月に。（ようこそはちげつに）Youkoso Hachigetsu ni. trans. Welcome to August.

We've finally entered August! Time apparently flies rather quickly, doesn't it? Not much longer and the first semester is well and over with! Woohoo~

So anyway, some of you may have noticed that I haven't been on for a while. And basically that's because I was over at my girlfriend's house helping her with her film for her preliminaries for Film Theories class.

Last night while we couldn't really go to sleep just yet I decided to do some impersonations from the A Very Potter Musical/Sequel. Particularly Draco, Snape, Lupin, Harry, Ron and Dumbledore. I tried my hand at Ginny, Rita, Cho, Umbridge and Hermione with little progress. But I'm happy I got to give Kai a good laugh that night. :P Yei~

I would suppose the best one I could do is Lauren Lopez's version of Draco Malfoy with the slight British accent and drawls and all. It's a lot of fun!! Perhaps when time permits us Kai and I will do another radio show with a segment of that! 8D