on Thursday, July 28, 2011
So yesterday was my Mom's birthday. As with the celebration we headed off for a special dinner at YakiMix in TriNoma. Not wanting to miss out we reserved three days prior to guarantee a table and actually getting in. xD

And it. was. IMMACULATE! I've never had so much Salmon. xD

It's always fun to enjoy a meal once in a while, especially if it's Japanese buffet. Grilling and nomming and dipping and what have you. It was a good meal. Thanks family!
on Monday, July 25, 2011
So I was cleaning my closet some weeks ago and found a nice certificate. This was for my hosting during the JSP Week 2008: Nihon Festival Culminating Activity. Ah the memories. That was during my freshman year in college so yey~
on Saturday, July 23, 2011

So yesterday my thesis partner Jason pulled out a few souvenirs he got during his JTA in Japan. I immediately took interest in this figurine of Archer from the anime Fate Stay Night and he told me I could have it if no one's taken it by the time I left after lunch. And no one did so booyah!

In other news, we received the go signal from our adviser to schedule our proposal defense!! 8DD Finally! That game design document will be the death of me. Next on the agenda is the art components for the game. But after I relax.
on Thursday, July 21, 2011
So as I was walking out of school I spotted a few Potter shirts that I couldn't resist buying one. x)


Props to WitTees for the design. :3
on Tuesday, July 19, 2011
So a quick update on my ongoing thesis with my partner Jason.

Well, we have a deadline of sorts to submit the proposal this week to our adviser. And perhaps the most challenging is integrating talk on agent design more than anything since it's the relatively new topic that we'll be delving into besides brushing up on the plot of the game.

Hoho. Thinking back I don't think I've really talked about my thesis very much. Maybe during the next entry I'll give you all the abstract. But for now, there's some Theology to study for!
on Sunday, July 17, 2011
So today the family and I went to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 at SM Marikina. This was my second time watching since my parents wanted to watch it so hooray~

What's funny was in SM Marikina it was a free seating and the theater was hardly full, and the first two rows of seats in the very front were lazy boy seats. My dad and I decided to watch the movie there once we figured out how to recline the chairs. It was awesome. xD

And afterwards. AFTERWARDS I FINALLY GOT MY DREAM PHONE!!! TuT


My netbook webcam's a little blurry but you see the Samsung Champ Duos phone right there. One of the main reasons I wanted this was for its dual-sim functionality. I've been meaning to get a Sun sim for quite some time to avail of the unlimited texts and calls I could share with Kai. xD Yei~
on Friday, July 15, 2011
IT WAS EPICAWESOMESAUCE!!


That is all I can really say after watching the final movie. A lot of tears surely spilled for some scenes, but also a lot of hearty laughs for the small inserts of comedies splayed throughout the film. But as people have yet to watch it I'll leave out any spoilers for now and just talk about the hours prior to watching it.

So after my 10:30-12:00 class and enjoying from Baked Macaroni for lunch, I zoomed off to Marikina with a coded car to spend the rest of the afternoon with Kai at her place with intentions to leave at 7:00pm once the coding was lifted for the day and headed to Eastwood.

Of course as the showing was at 9, we went to have dinner at the usual place of interest: Teriyaki Boy! And as is the usual with us, we order ourselves some delicious Shake Roll. I took some pictures you can find below. :D


 
on Thursday, July 14, 2011
Today is the day! The premiere of the last Harry Potter movie and as has been some form of tradition I gave myself since the 5th or 6th movie: I dress up a bit with the white polo and red & gold tie and bring along my wand originally made by my uncle and greatly modified (for one shortened and colored) by me for some prop. This is probably the first time I thought of taking a picture of things prior to watching Harry Potter but the phenomenon I've come to love so much is worth looking like a geek sometimes.

If only people knew I was attempting to cosplay. xD Who exactly, I have no idea. xDDDD
on Wednesday, July 13, 2011
"Our childhood ends tomorrow." -Kai, July 12, 2011

That's what my girlfriend said when I showed her the tickets I got us (c/o an Ateneo org ACTM) for the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. 




With the first book coming out in 1999 and the first movie in 2001, it's a bittersweet feeling to know that everything is ending tomorrow. The final book was released 2007 and tomorrow is the premiere of the final movie.

It's been 10 years over the span of 8 movies and I must agree that it is a phenomenon to get hyped up about, especially if you consider the parallelism during some instances when you read a book. Say you start reading the book the year it comes out in 2001 and you're 11 years old (like me!) so you're bound to immerse yourself into the world like Harry and Co. are. x)

This is bound to be awesome. ^o^/
on Sunday, July 10, 2011
This post was actually a day late in creation and publication for the mere reason that I was jumping for joy on one end and bawling the next. Why? Lots of reasons.

But before I go any further I just want to greet some birthdays. Yesterday was a special birthday. Tenimyu Seigaku 4th Cast's Fuji Syuusuke, Furukawa Yuuta. So a happy birthday to him. ^o^/

Now then, onto other things. First things first, we have results of the morning's class. Since it was a networks class we dealt with cables and what not. Yesterday we, learned how to make a LAN cable. Success below!


Then that afternoon, I was taking a nap to wake up to my dad coming home not long after with my new Acer Aspire One Netbook! 8D I'm composing this entry on it right now so the picture with the box is in my other laptop, so I'll edit that in later on. BUT, this wasn't all happy happy since I made a stupid mistake of wiping my USB clean while trying to make the other one bootable. After some searching high and low on the internet I finally found a program that could retrieve lost files. All that's left is to rename them and sort them out properly. Will take some time off my hands but well worth it that I got most of my files back untouched. TuT
on Friday, July 8, 2011
So I rummaged one of my cabinets for my CD cases from when I was still saving up Php450 to buy them at Comic Alley or during conventions when it was a bit cheaper.

I separated them into two piles, so pardon me for the blurriness of the pictures.

So this is the first pile. My Saiyuki album collection. I still have some lacking apparently but maybe in the future when I'm hoarding my own money I'll search for the missing ones and complete this little collection of mine! ^o^/

These are the rest of my anime soundtracks. Quite a variety too. So from top left, then left to right in succession: Fushigi Yuugi, Detective Conan, Beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh! (2), Gundam Seed, GTO, Rurouni Kenshin, Shaman King, Yakitate Japan, Get Backers (2), Fullmetal Alchemist, Ranma 1/2, Gravitation, Slam Dunk and Flame of Recca
So earlier this afternoon I was spending my usual time between 12:30-3:30 in ALLS, and Dr. Wayne Patterson from Howard University, who was going to be giving a Cybersecurity Talk among other things tomorrow, was there. One interesting conversation that took place was when he was inquiring about the venue of a certain event that was going to be taking place at around this time when he was clarifying that it be 'on the roof' of some building in school.

I laughed, of course, and he was asking why.

Then I told him that it's more of a 'roof deck' than a roof because we mean that it's the top floor that could be considered the roof so there we go.

Some new terminology that he and I can laugh about whenever someone mentions having an event on the roof (which is not to say that it's actually on top of the roof itself). xD
My days in ALLS are never without laughter. Recently from my previous CS professor concerning some food being passed around, tone very much like a Pokemon trainer. xD
"Jason, return!" - Ma'am Jess, July 6, 2011 
on Thursday, July 7, 2011

'Tis the season of rain and with it, cold weather and rainfall naturally start a'brewing. 

(@ ̄Д ̄@;) 

So that usually means dressing up and hauling out the jackets and whatnot to keep warm and dry - at least for the most part. As I was getting ready to head off to school when rain started to drizzle/pour. I was initially just supposed to bring along my Invitational Jacket (the red/black/white) one to battle the cold but thought I needed a hood too so I grabbed my Uniqlo jacket as well. 

And so the double layer. ☆-( ^-゚)v

I'm at ALLS right now waiting for 10:15 to come along so I can start heading to my 10:30 class in Kostka which is about a 5 minute walk away. 
on Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Yesterday I desperately needed change to pay for lunch. So after I went up to the org room for the interview I stopped by the LS Bookstore and decided to buy a little notebook for Kai. She doesn't really fancy the Ateneo themed stuff so I normally browse around for general stuff and snagged this for her.

It cost me Php88.00 but it's well worth it since she enjoys doodling and writing so it'll be put to good use. ^^b
on Tuesday, July 5, 2011
So today was another average, lack of sleep, unproductive day. Why? Two reasons.

1. It rained (hard) sometime in the afternoon during my commute home
2. I've been experiencing chronic headaches/migraines through the course of the day.

=______= I may need to sleep to get rid of this darn headache.

In other news I stopped by McDonald's for a snack and decided to grab myself a Coke glass and got my favorite blue color~

on Monday, July 4, 2011
This first semester of my senior year in college rekindled my reading skills. Most of my core subjects (inclusive of Theology, Philosophy, History and Economics) require me to read some sort of material that ranged from excerpts from books, articles and sometimes actual books in the case of Philosophy.

I'm taking Sir Principe for Philosophy 103 this semester (Philosophy of Religion) and as we're his only M-W-F class he asked us to read 4 novels instead of just one. But hey that's less readings and more story so I'm down with that. Now we have a quiz this coming Wednesday on the first two chapters of the book and I'm currently moving along Chapter 2 with ease.

What's particularly interesting is that while it talks about an apparition and all (which I assume is the central message of the story) there are constant descriptions of sex (which are thankfully not explicit descriptions) that I don't really mind. I wonder why. :/
on Sunday, July 3, 2011
So things didn't end up as we thought it would. Apparently my sister reserved tickets for tomorrow and not for today sooooooooooo we ended up not watching Transformers after all. Wanted to eat at Yakimix but was denied that too when the usual long lines stopped us. And so we decided to eat elsewhere: Italianni's. Whee.

Ah, weekend, what are you doing to us?
So this morning before we headed off to hear 11am Mass my sister announced that she reserved tickets for the family to watch Transformers: Dark of the Moon later this afternoon. Considering she's a Transformers fanatic (among many things) I wasn't surprised, but since our family sorta has been watching all the previous movies together I guess it wouldn't be too much to expect to do it again. After all, it's been a while since we all sat down and watched a movie together.

Go figure. :P
on Saturday, July 2, 2011


THIS MONTH IS THE MONTH!

Counting down to the worldwide release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, I can't believe it's almost over. I found this minute longer trailer that just. looks. so. damn. EPICAWESOMESAUCE. *o*

I've already got tickets reserved for July 14 at Eastwood Cinemas with Kai at 9pm so I'm looking forward to it. CAN'T WAIT!! :D

Watching this already made me see one of my favorite scenes from the book (Harry seeing his parents and the Marauders sans Wormtail) so I'm grateful that they stayed true to the book with that one.
on Friday, July 1, 2011
So yesterday because I had a car I went on a whim and took Kai out to dinner after my class. I picked her up with the decision to head off to Max's Fried Chicken to avail of the Chicken-All-You-Can promo while it was still within the period (June-July 10). From SM Marikina we decided to head to the QC Memorial Circle branch instead where there were surprisingly no overflow of guests or even a line prior to 6 o'clock so happy days. ~u~

It was a fun few hours, but despite the rainy drive to and from I'm glad that we got to spend some much needed time together. Love you Kai!