Procrasti Nation

7:27:17 AM sebanis_xev: crap my alarm clock didn't go off

7:27:24 AM sebanis_xev: now I'm stuck at home and I'm coding...any suggestions

7:33:27 AM sebanis_xev: guess I'll skip BEM, try to get there during the 10 to 3 window

7:49:47 AM carlo_p: Yea I figured youd overslept. Well, I think you can still use your helicopter. Unless, of course, its out of order

7:50:10 AM sebanis_xev: man if only that monkey didn't get into the wiring, it wouldn't have been a problem

7:50:14 AM sebanis_xev: but you know how it is with those monkeys!

7:52:07 AM carlo_p: Oh yea. I always forget about the battalion of army monkeys you keep in your house! Ha ha. Bet they're really usefull but boy then can be a handful sometimes

7:52:57 AM sebanis_xev: yeah. At least they keep me safe from the space hamsters next door. Those things are scary

7:55:04 AM carlo_p: SPACE HAMSTERS!! Fuck! Dude you have to be fucking crazy to think that army monkeys will keep you safe from space hamsters. Don't let their small size fool you, they're actually really huge!

7:56:53 AM carlo_p: Actually my friend Stephen ( you know Stephen Hawking) and I have been working on a Space Hamster Pacifier Cannon precisely for this purpose. Its got a few kinks in it though. Every time we fire it it turns the Indian Ocean into cheese. But I think we've almost got it:D

7:58:34 AM sebanis_xev: Wow, I need to get me one of those...once you fix the cheese thing of course. Though I'm sure the technology could be applied for cheese loving purposes too. I smell a cash cow coming

8:00:50 AM carlo_p: Well possibly, though we may have to apply the technology into another product and develop that seperately. The cheese that thing produces smells like rose petals but tastes like barbecued grandmother:-&

8:01:12 AM sebanis_xev: you've tased bbq'd grandmother?

The conversation actually started to get a little bizare after this so I'll ommit the rest.

Nuninuninuninu....fucking thesis >:P

I think what makes this work so well is that Sting has taken such good care of himself over the past two decades what with all his veggies, yoga and tantric sex. He's still got the looks and the energy and the voice. Even Stewart Copeland looks well, if a bit gray. Andy Summers (is that his name?) looks a bit like an old rock star but no one pays attention to him anyway. I am saving my last kidney to pay for a front row seat if they come to Manila:)

I find that there is as much difficulty finding an excuse to pick up LJ again as there is in letting it go in the first place. And yet, there is something about this time of year that compels me to attempt to start posting regularly again.

There is too much to catch up on so I'm not even going to try. Whats the point when most of you know the stories already. So what do I have to say. Well, maybe i'll start with something easy...

What am I watching?
( Battlestar Galactica )
( Avatar: The Last Airbender )
( South of Nowhere )
( The L Word )

Have a lot more to say but I’ve spent too much time with this already. Thesis awaits. Oh joy.

Part of the problem of re-starting an LJ after a prolonged absence is trying to find a topic interesting enough to justify writing about it. A lot of stuff has happened to me since I came to AIM that I haven’t felt compelled to write about. Or maybe I did want to write, but had just forgotten how.

Maybe this entry is precisely about that, remembering how to write.

First off, I’d like to share an article from New York Magazine

http://newyorkmetro.com/news/features/15589/index.html

Now, of course stuff like that doesn’t happen around here (or at least around me) but I think the fluid nature of relationships between friends, lovers, men and women as portrayed in the article is becoming more universally true nowadays. La lang.

I’m pretty happy about my grades from the first sem. Lots of surprises, most of them good ones. I passed all my number subjects (Accounting, Finance, Quantitative Analysis, even MCP) and not just by the skin of my teeth. I know I should aim for more but I believe, that that’s about as good as can be expected from myself and a lot of the other math-phobes here.

I generally did well on the “talky” subjects. Was pleasantly surprised when I was exempted from the OM(Operations) final. Management Communication was high but not nearly as much as I expected it to be. Oh well, it gives me room for improvement. I think the grade I’m most proud of is my HP- in Marketing. I practically aced the final exam and my CAN group got the highest grade in the class for the research component of our Marketing Research Report. My crack-team of stat-heads subjected our humble 100-sample survey to what seemed like every statistical model known to man. In the end, I got one of the highest grades in my Marketing class and my teacher keeps reminding me of it. It does put a bit of pressure on me to keep it up but I am looking forward to doing even better this sem.

I always expected that going to AIM would means a lot of hard work. But I never expected to have so much fun and meet such great people. It feels like I’m in college again except it’s a lot more intense, both academically and socially. I don’t recall ever being quite as “involved” with others and my own learning as I am here.

It does, however, get a bit much sometimes, and it’s usually during those times that I start thinking what’s going on outside this monastery’s walls. I think about my mom, who is still healthy but no longer as spry as she was at 50. I can see the aging pains and stress at work starting to take their toll. I remember one of the things my mom found difficult about moving to the states before was leaving lola behind. She knew that lola was getting old, and that whatever time we had left with her was limited and precious. Now I think I understand what she felt back then.

I miss my friends and wish I could be more involved in their lives. It really bothers me that I can’t. I feel like something slipped and it bothers me.

Sigh. Well, I tried to put something down. Maybe I can do better next time.

Des and I spent the weekend up in Baguio. We did a lot of eating, drinking hot chocolate and watching the clouds roll past our balcony.



( ...and the inclination... )

I would like to thank the all-mighty kurozukin_a for lending me some webspace☺

The AIM admissions department finally saw fit to inform me that I will be starting business school in two weeks. I’m not waiting for that fact to sink in before I begin preparing and tying up loose ends. So, on that note…

( Emigrant Meanderings )


Next Episode: A Bridge Over Badwater or The Salt Beneath My Feet

This is very true.


You Are The Key Character
"It's what I was meant to do."
You are the true enigma. No one knows much about you, you do not understand much of yourself, and your life seems to carry no purpose. Yet regardless of everything around you - everyone knows that you are here for some reason, even if no one yet knows what that is. Things seem to simply fall into place for you. Almost as though some force is working either through you, for you, or around you. No matter your troubles, you have been sent here to unlock something. This is your destiny.

Which Classic Story Role Do You Play?
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( Scary, but also true. )

( Here be Episode 3 spoilers )

Feh. Alright enough geeking out;p

Yeah, I guess it fits. Watch out guys;p

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Hello all. Sorry it's taken me this long to post about my trip to Death Valley. I think I got a little carried away obsessing over which pics to post up and how best to present them. At one point I had this ambitious plan for a kind of travelogue complete with pictures, sidebar and linear notes about photography and image processing. But it was taking way too long and I was just nitpicking my text and photos to death so I decided to scrap that and start fresh. So I'll try to keep it simple, just pictures and some (hopefully) witty and informative commentary.

( The Portentous Prologue )

( Where the Road Begins )



Next Episode: Emigrant Meanderings(sp)