We Shall Return Part III

Continuation...

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." ~Gilda Radner

9. IBM Thinkpad Laptop
This thing may not be the newest laptop now but it really is the best we had in our busy days (imagine it edgematched 23 maps). Wow! That is definitely an accomplishment.






10. Sandals
Our bossing’s sandals. When he left for Australia, I borrowed it even though he didn’t know. Hehe. It helped my feet breath for a while.







11.UPS
Loads of times NPA bombed TRANSCO’s electric pylons thus numerous Mindanao-wide and citywide blackouts occurred and this little buddy helped me several times in saving my work.






12. Cabinet
The jam-packed cabinet in the room consists of map books (ArcView, ArcMap, and Edrisi manual/tutorial), map newspapers and bond papers.






Plus, I’d also miss these things:
Classified image of Mt. Hamiguitan made by one of our former colleague located right at the door, our bossing’s working area (na nilulumot na) because no one is using it, our little buddies (stapler, scotch tape, pens, etc), bin of scratch paper (the one I used in printing the gazillion pages of Harry Potter), another pc unit I used in edgematching maps, and the poster of our project which I really don’t understand why it is place inside our room rather than outside.






After living and working here for 20 months now, this thing called maps is our job, digitizing, quality control, overlaying and edgematching.

June 30 is coming and yet I don't even know what I will feel when that dreaded Monday comes, but as for now it is better to say goodbye (sayonara) to our beloved office because as they say "All good things will come to an end".

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." ~Ivy Baker Priest

We Shall Return Part II

Moving on.. hehe :)

5. Epson Stylus C65 Printer

My buddy in printing my beloved maps (overlays)

6. My Working Area

My favorite place in the office, with my PC, headphone, scanner, and printer. The most comfortable place ever designed. When our office is cold, this is where I cuddle myself, and sleep when my eyes were tired checking the maps (most especially the contour lines). My PC unit is the greatest thing ever, everything from contours, spot heights, roads, hydros, ArcView, ArcMap, downloads (MP3’s, youtube video, software, cracks, veoh videos, dailymotion, serial key, series, movies ), tutorial, Photoshop, to internet surfing (Work at Home jobs such as Surveys, PTC, MysearchFunds, Blogging, all sites related to boasting my pagerank), and lurking to forums to satisfy the madness I had for Asian Series (soompi, dadddicts, SilentRegrets.com) and tech forums. The most satisfying experience ever in my life is being stuck at my PC for 8-10 hours a day, 5 days a week. Boredom may get into me sometimes, but having an internet connection and my PC will made my day.

7. Brother HL-2040 printer

When the famous J.K. Rowling released her last installment of the popular Harry Potter Series (the seventh book entitled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) I was really happy. Since I was broke and didn’t have money to buy the said book I downloaded the e-book (5 days after it was released) and printed it all here. "Ika nga ito ang aking katuwang sa aking paghihirap".. haha. My sincerest gratitude to the best printer and my sincerest apology to our bossing. Hehe. Sorry Sir! :)

8. D-Link 10/100 Fast Ethernet Switch

Everything I know (fixing computers, tutorials, troubleshooting) and have (movies, series, e-books, installers) right now I owe it all to this thing.. haha..

We Shall Return Part I

“All good things will come to an end.”

Time surely flies fast; June 30 (the last day of work) is right at the corner waiting for me. Being an employee (my first work right after graduation) of the foundation for almost two years has been fun, with all the experiences and the friendships made.

No more taking the same route while going to the office. Our office is like a home to us, the most luxurious and the coziest place in the whole building. Hihi.

“When I was at home I was in a better place”

– Shakespeare (1564-1616)

As You Like It

It is like home to us because of these:

1. “Astig na Aircon”

Everybody in the building envies our office, since it is the most relaxing place they could find in the building. It is so cold because of our “astig na aircon”, with only three of us living there.

Temperature: 18 degrees Fahrenheit (with the current state of the weather in a tropical country, it is definitely cold)

2. Coffee Freak

Before our “bossing” had his sabbatical leave (PhD study at Australia), we had our free supply of 3-n-1 coffee and FITA (as in red) biscuits.The office is so busy because everyone in the building wanted hot water. Hihi.. Coffee freaks!

3. Conference Table

The most fine-looking conference table in the building, most conferences, meetings,discussions, and consultations in the building would take place in the office.

Also it is where we eat our lunch and merienda.

4. “Tukar-tukar” na phone

The most erratic telephone ever, sometimes it's active, sometimes it's not. Grrr...

Perfect Couple (Korean Movie 2007)

Soo-Jin (played by Hyunyoung) is a young news reporter who accidentally hit a cop named Jae-Hyuk (Lee Dong Wook) with a skewered fish sausage (odang). Jae-Hyuk, who in that time was chasing a drug dealer on foot when he accidentally collides into Soojin. To make it worst, he (Jae-Hyuk) suffers from an acute fear of sharp pointed objects.

This movie is a bit flat. I don't think it reaches a very good climax, somehow. The flow is good at first, but again, it is not climactic. The storyline of the movie is simple and it has a very down-to-earth vibe to it. No over the top crime case, news stuff, and such. The roles of the main leads are very human, and believable.

The title did not really go with the movie. There was no romance sense in the movie between the two, well not until the last part. It was a okay movie, the beginning was kind of boring but the ending was getting cooler. The only one who made me crack up was Hyun Young in the movie. She was mad crazy.

Overall, I actually love this movie. It doesn't try too put in too much stuff or trying to be more sophisticated. Its main objective seems to be to please and entertain the audience.

Cast:
Dong-Wook Lee - Jae-Hyuk
Yeong Hyeon - Soo-Jin

Su-kyeong Jeon
Jeong-heon Lee
Jae-jin Jeong
Jae-man Kim
Myeong-Jin Lee
Hyeong-seong Jang

Wordless Wednesday!

PHOTO CREDITS: Google Search Image, Sibuyan ISLE,Inc and Kasimanwa Ko Foundation

Fixing my dusty, old printer

After long months of searching and surfing the internet for possible answers on how to fix my dusty, 4-year old Epson C43SX printer at long last my quest has paid off. Lurking on tech forums and applying their suggestions at my own risk, I successfully made my printer work. Plug and play parallel port was not detected by the system is the main problem of my printer. I keep on removing and installing the cable, yet the system won’t find it. After goggling (if there’s such a word) it, I found out that there was a possibility that the parallel port address was disabled in the BIOS setup, so I enabled the port address and tada my beloved printer work.

Virgin Snow (Korean movie 2007)

Virgin Snow/Hatsuyuki no koi is a romantic movie collaboration of South Korean actor Lee Junki (starred in The King and the Clown) and Japanese actress Aoi Miyazaki (starred in Nana). The movie takes place in Kyoto (first part of the movie) and Seoul. Lee Junki plays Kim Min, a South Korean high school that moved with his dad to Kyoto while Aoi Miyazaki plays the role of Nanae.

This movie obviously showed the expected language barriers. The lead cast used a little bit of Japanese, a little bit of Korean, some broken English and a whole lot of hand gestures in communicating with each other.

It wasn't that great but it wasn't that bad either. The storyline is simple. This movie might be okay for people who have never watched dramas before because it is kinda cute, but that might be as good as it can get I think. Miyazaki Aoi was really cute in it though. Also the pinky promise, stamp, sign and copy thing was cute.

Cast:

Jun-ki Lee - Min Kim

Aoi Miyazaki - Nanae Sasaki

Ayaka Morita

Otoha

Shun Shioya

Miyu Yagyu

Kimiko Yo

Firefox Download Day Certificate

Flaunting my certificate.. hihi :)

The end is near!

June 30 is coming, the last day that I will be working for the eagles.. haha.. no more maps, contour lines, road, hydro, ArcView, ArcMap, overlays, free foods and stuffs. I have been working since October 2006, it's been 20 months, and 5 days. Working for the eagles has been fun, and the experience taught me a lot. :(

PHOTO CREDITS: Stuart Arnett and Philippine Eagle Foundation Official Website

Wordless Wednesday!

After spending 3 hours a day for 2 months playing Spider Solitaire, at long last I WON... Waahh.. I am so happy, just wanna share my happiness.. :)

Streaming sites banned!

Many school and computer laboratories banned Streaming sites such as youtube, veoh, and dailymotion because of the decreasing bandwidth of internet connection. Here are some tips to access banned sites:
1. the use of proxy servers-
Proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) which services the
requests of its clients by forwarding requests to other servers (Wikipedia)
2. TOR - A free software implementation of second-generation onion routing, a system enabling
its users to communicate anonymously on the Internet (www.torproject.org)
3. UltraSurf - flagship software product from UltraReach Internet Corp. for Internet
anti-censorship. It enables users inside countries with heavy Internet censorship to visit any

public web sites in the world safely and freely.
(http://www.ultrareach.com/company/download.htm)

Drawback of these is that it won't guarantee the user a nice time viewing their favorite videos, thus there's a site that will help the user enjoy the videos from Youtube, zamzar.com. This site is use to convert files without installing any software for free, and the user can download files from youtube and automatically convert it to different video formats.

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