Of Recto Book struggle

It was actually my first time to go to Recto by myself and buy the books I need and I realized a lot of things already. One, I thought it was Saturday or Sunday and wondered why there are so many students from U-belt. Hahaha~! Shopping books at Recto on weekdays is like entering a battlefield. You have the entire U-belt as your enemy. Nevertheless, I tried getting these books and I know this will surely sound geeky and nerdy for some of you but here they are:

1. Electronic Devices and Circuit Analysis and Design (I don’t have the book right now, it’s on my shelf and I don’t know if I got the title right but still, it’s the book required on our ELC 107 subject)

2. Digital Design

3. Mechanical Engineering : Thermodynamics

4.Elements of Engineering : Electromagnetics

The first book was somewhere in the middle of “Easy to find” and “Rare”. There’s one at the very first bookstore I visit everytime I go to Recto but a batchmate of mine bought the last in stock. I saw one in another store which I would probably not visit them because of their very demanding prices….and I hate their fat faces too. The second one was easy to find though the stock is few, got one in the first bookstore I visit. The third book, it had its publisher’s store nearby, told by that batchmate of mine and bought one there instead in National Bookstore which had at least ten to twenty peso price difference. Then the fourth one… hahahah, this is the most difficult book to find. Few of my batchmates went there before and they didn’t see the book, even a second hand one. Those batchmates of mine searching with me that day was also having a difficult time searching the book and ended up searching for Philo books. I went on with searching and had the “underground” or “hidden” bookshops as my last resort. Happily, one guy brought out the book and gave me a discount for it. I asked him if there’s any hope of finding one or few more units but unfortunately, the copy I’m holding was the only one he had in his stash. If only there are more units available, I would have chased the people I’m searching with to tell them they can get the book from this particular store.

It was a tough day. Tiring, really… It left me having a headache the whole afternoon. I was suppose to visit Trinoma afterwards but because I’m sooooo tired (and there’s the fact that it was actually SALE in Trinoma meaning it’s crowded), I decided not to go instead. I decided to rest for the remaining hours of afternoon.

Just noticed one thing…

In my team of Assessors, I think all of them are great people. My team consists of freshmen, sophomores as well as juniors who surely excel in their field. Actually, I accidentally lined up Chem majors together with my assistant who’s known for being a “kwatro-kid”. Then a couple of ME (Management Engineering) people who are tough-ass people because their department has a retention requirement which is not to have any single “F” mark in their grades given that they have tough Accounting subjects. My gulay, I cannot do that especially I’ve been struggling with my majors for the past three semesters.  Then there are Legal Management and Management students who also embark on the evil of Accounting subjects. I also have an assessor who came from my high school and she’s with her friend serving under the accounting under SOSS team. Then I have another assessor from Health Sciences who’s really great when I saw her First year, first semester marks…nosebleed. There’s so many of them! Their background makes it difficult for me, then, to tell them to do certain stuff. I can only do that to them since they are in a different field but still. You can see their aura of being WISE around them, so bright~!

Just a rant

yeah, just a rant.

I still can’t believe why people cannot tell me directly what they want to tell me. Why can’t they be frank, tell me that I suck, they hate me, I don’t belong to this particular place and so on?

I don’t know but because of these circumstances, I think I’ll have to resort to one thing.

sheesh.

Like for example, a simple reply on email, how come they can’t do that while they can email someone else? why not the closest person? People make me feel important, place me in an important position and then make me feel annoyingly useless after being in that position for a certain time. I mean, come on, tell me if I’m doing bullshit in my place so that I know what I will do.

For one, at some positions I did not intend to be in there, I just followed what people above would like to do together with the thinking “Maybe I can do this”. But sometimes, people are so discouraging.

Is this college?

Am I gonna experience this again in work?

What the hell is going on?

That’s what I hated way back in high school, people there at that time are “backstabbers”, gossip people. They can’t tell me directly what I am already doing that is, according to them, not-so-normal. I cannot understand why people are like that. Some say so that they won’t be able to hurt the person. Oh come on, not telling that person what he or she is doing bad and then telling it to someone else, aren’t you hurting that person more? You are giving a bad impression to that someone while leaving the “victim” unable to redeem his or herself.

and now I’m in college for nearly three years and I thought those kind of people are things of the past. But I don’t think so. to think this is a private school and yet people don’t act as sophisticated as the school. Take UP for instance, when you’re there, you don’t have that feeling that people would hate you for wearing house attire or islander slippers.

Anyway,

I thought I… well…found the good people around. Yet I’m beginning to retrieve my BAAAD mentality towards people around me because of the… no other way to say this, the people around me. I will be frank here, if you want, that I’m starting to lose some trust to some people AGAIN. and I’m starting to get irritated in college.

 

and please. anyone who will read this please, you know my way.

Choro-Q Light mod – Evo 7 paint jobs. :D

This is just a light modification so I won’t let it have a major page on my blog. Here’s how the car looked after the mod.

Yep, I modified the back with several paint jobs to make it look like it sports a small diffuser and spoiler as well as the tail lights look like evo 9’s.

Your own way

It’s really nice to have something where you can vent your anger, think about things, work stuff out…  For instance, I usually think things over or vent my anger on the hobby I like to do the most: Driving. Sadly I don’t have a car and fuel prices are shooting up so I have to resort to technology for that. I do have another hobby which is remote control modification but it’s such a big task to complete one modification that it leaves me no time for my studies. Which mean I can only do that hobby during vacations. Happily, I do play games but not that immersed because most of the games released nowadays are not my type. I only like simulations and the most recent simulation game I can play, related to my hobby of driving, was Gran Turismo for PSP. I do have a PSP and with a couple of software tweaks, I was able to get this game. This then lets me do my philosophical thinking over a lot of things, decisions and more. I don’t how it works for me but sometimes, answers just pop out of my mind while, for example, entering a corner with a certain fashion.

It’s like what drivers really do: Some of them go out at 4 in the morning, having the whole road network all to yourself.  It’s just you in your little metal shell. Though, in my case, everything’s digital but still.  This lets them get their freedom of mind, because everything’s clear, no distractions, no interruptions. Sometimes, I ask myself why do I pick that gaming device, start Gran Turismo and just do a run. I get up in the morning and start a small run. why? Well, I just love doing it. It makes me happy a bit. 

While driving, my mind, aside from anticipating the next corner, lets me relax a bit and tell myself to calm down a bit so that I can do my stuff properly. And also, sometimes, I do ask myself how to solve a problem the same way I encounter these corners on a chosen circuit or road.

Sometimes, I think what I’m doing is just making myself similar to an autistic person but I think people have their own ways of encountering problems in their life. People might have the same perspective as mine in the general sense but we are all unique in our way and for sure, we also have our own unique way of looking over things.

In the end, it is you who will go around the world. People will help you around, of course, but there will also be some people who will not cooperate with your progress.

After all of these efforts, in thinking, in considering decisions, in getting rid of the possible errors, in your life….

You get to see the fruit of your hardships, see the world yourself and enter in another expedition in your life. Zoom-Zoom~!

[PSP] Need for Speed Shift Review

Knowing that NFS “shifted” to realistic simulation of professional racing, this upcoming title should be impressive and worth waiting. aaand I think it is, though not for the PSP. This title is the greatest proof, so far, that NFS is starting to fail in the PSP platform [together with PSP itself].

Q-steer Photoshoot – Improvised White BG Studio. :D

I’ve been crazy about the silly light box but even though there are tutorials about its simple construction, I cannot put my money into it. I do have the camera and the light but not the peripherals to concentrate the light to the subject. However, I received a brighter lamp and tested this kind of photoshoot using scratch papers. The result is a semi-dark or a bit underexposed despite setting the camera to Aperture-priority and then setting the exposure to +1. The resulting photos were bluish since it’s dark time already and the only thing lighting up the subjects is the bright study lamp. Despite these instances, I brought up another paper facing the camera side to focus the light to the center. After shooting the pictures, I edited them using Adobe Photoshop, adjusting the color balance, brightness and contrast. Here are the results:

Looks nice, for me.

Gallery:

New Gran Turismo PSP Screenshots, New Gran Turismo PSP Package

More screenshots were released from PSP IGN of Gran Turismo PSP. And they also released the news about the release of the Gran Turismo Package for the US Release:
Here are the details:

-A Mystic Silver PSP-3000 unit

-Gran Turismo UMD

-Gran Turismo Car Voucher – An exclusive car download, White version of the Corvette ZR-1 for GTPSP

-PSN movie voucher

-2GB Memory Stick

-Sony Music Voucher for US residents.

When I saw the image of the package above, I was saddened because it didn’t have the good looks of the GT Package that will be released in Japan:

As you can see, it might be a plain Piano Black 3000 system, but the sides are grey, the PSP Ring at the back is also in grey finish and the L-R Buttons are smoked Grey as well. And at the front, the PSP sports a semi-opaque GT Logo. Just how cool and far better is that compared to the US release? But still, I hope they can still change the unit. Or else, I would really wait for the Japanese version.

here are some of the screenshots:

Back into Business

I’ve been out of the groove of Q-steer since hell weeks came. But I’m back. I’m starting to get the other cars I need such as the first Nissan Skyline R34 Bayside Blue. Well, an upcoming chassis is coming and it now bears the Choro-Q name. Cheers.

Plan for tomorrow is to make a temporary circuit using the largest illustration board that can be purchased from National Bookstore. Also, I’ll need to buy more boards and white cartolina so that I can test that silly home-made white box for photography.

Fiddle with Samurize~!

yup, I finally started fiddling with the famous system monitoring program, Samurize. This is actually my first work, inspired by aircrafts as well as Nissan GT-R’s LCD screen instruments. It is named Aircraft Instrument Panel (of course. :p).

If you’re into Samurize, you can try this design of mine by visiting my newly opened deviantart account.