Changes….

Nothing…. I just want to use my time instead of looking at it, rotting away not being used. I am so lazy to work on our report for tomorrow so let me just write a couple of stuff that’s going around in my mind right now.

LSAT. For the past registrations, I’ve been the head on one of the teams of this group. I learned so much about the team-lead position and I kept on realizing more and more things as I continue to serve the university until my graduation day. This group made me realize some stuff that would cater to the needs of the members of the group. On my side, it made me more tolerant to unwanted events and utterly disappointing moments. It made me more calm to work on things.

The people… Sometimes, that statement “Do I really have friends?” strike me. A high school classmate of mine said that before, she plurked it and I replied “Do not say that, you have friends.” And I cannot believe I said that. I did not know where it came from and went on my nerves to command my fingers to type those words. It made me think again, what if I was the one saying those words? Do I really have friends?

What I figured out wrong in that statement is that, you do have friends. It’s just a matter who are the TRUE ones. My teacher in one of my Philosophy classes said that the person who has a small number of friends has the highest chance that those friends are true friends. I think that’s true. 😀 I only have few friends and those people, when I call for a small conversation, they would open as long as circumstances permit them. They were a big help in any aspect whether acads or life.

In college, it’s really hard to find true friends. There are people who think in the class of their own. There barkadas that only gather people with the same ideologies as theirs. There are people who do “accept” you as a friend but only because they benefit from you. Some treat you as a friend but once other interesting people kick in, you’re gone as a ghost forgotten in the past. But what can you do?

Although despite all of these, I am still here, smiling. Taking all of these things as God’s challenges. I love it when God challenges me because I learn so much whether I win or lose. And God also tells me I have friends, TRUE friends in fact. They may not be around me at times that I need them but when they are around, they take full responsibility as a TRUE friend to me and so do I. 😀

Free Starbucks Treat from Kuya Pau~!

To my Friends~!

If ever you encounter my Y!M Status as “Sinong may gusto ng Starbucks?”, get a chance to win a treat of any Starbucks drink you like! Just as long within that period or my schedule, you will be able to go to Katipunan as I cannot go out within Katipunan’s vicinity. 😀

This is no Joke~! 😀

Figuring some stuff out

Let me open a topic here. I know it’s already late but let me just discuss it here. I’ll start with a question. In the organization I recently joined in, which is Gabay, I was wondering why not all scholars are into this organization. People told me that this is an organization FOR scholars, not OF scholars; even if the whole organization consists mostly of scholars. 😀 It got me, this question because before, I intended not to join this organization. Then I joined the next year and found out that I cannot be active enough to pass the organization’s retention requirements. I remained outside and then joined once again in my senior year. Of course, joining this organization and doing the same thing all over again would be pointless so I decided to be active on the activities of the organization as long as time and circumstances permit.

However, in those times that I was a member, not a member and until now, that question of why not all scholars are in, still bothers me. Let me, then, dig into this question. I saw two general reasons that can come out of a scholar not joining this org. One, they just don’t want to be part of this organization and second, they prioritized other organizations. Reason one is quite broad or vague. For freshmen, not joining this might be a result of not hearing about it. However, for some upperclassmen scholars, it’s could be a different story. It’s basically the clarification between the statements “Org OF scholars” and “Org FOR scholars”. The second reason might be a bit confident for the students who belong in it. Probably they don’t need the service of other people to guide them around or they think the other organizations would be enough help.

Until now, I still cannot figure out why there are scholars who don’t join this org. I’m stuck at the general reasons I came up with. Well, I guess people who join this organization are quite ready to dedicate some time of their own lives to help. That’s actually good. In my case, I still don’t know if I will be able to dedicate time to this org although I’m trying my best to put some effort. The reason for this uncertainty is the question above, the question that bothers me. There are also other stuff that bothers me regarding this organization but I guess I will not write it here. It may be against the organization’s people or platform.

It might be nice if I write it here but sometimes, there are people who jump into conclusions and might say that I’m an idiot joining an org and started criticizing the people and platform inside. If I am the one being criticized though, I should settle down and think why would, just one person, be criticizing my org? Of course, if you’re the sort of person who envelopes the org’s ideologies strongly, you wouldn’t mind one person’s criticisms. However, the fact that someone is criticizing you means that particular person sees a hole in the org. 😀 Clutching ideologies created within the org will cause insensitive actions. And those actions will lead to killing off that person who criticized the group, if the ideologies remain strongly intact. So, like me who *might* have some issues to discuss regarding this org, might be thrown away and be considered as an idiot, I think I’ll not write down those stuff here. I guess I’ll wait for the right person who’s ready to accept those issues, if ever I have one.

I’m not here to complain about the org. There are just some things that I found quite disturbing.

Does it sound like I am not liking the org? Hell no. 😀 why would I join there if I don’t like it in the first place. 😀 I’m enjoying in this org and I joined this org for one good reason: To find the answers I need. 😀

Day 18 – A picture of your room

Unfortunately, I don’t have my own room so I took a picture of my space instead. 😀 No academic-related stuff because I’ve placed them on my shelf somewhere in the room. At one end of the bed, there’s the 2.1 (I think) Edifier speakers I bought before, my laptop, phones and gadgets. 😀

Chat with a Friend today~!

Oh yes, it’s one of the best fulfilling things you can do everyday. 😀 Today, I ate lunch with my fellow Bec-Classmate in high school. It’s nice to update things from your friends, no matter how big or small that update is because it’s not the update that matters really but it’s the time that friends give time to each other. In the busy world of college, it’s a big struggle to get a decent conversation with your friends. It’s really nice to have a small chat with this fellow as we discussed a lot about some people we know. 😀 I hope I will be able to do this more often despite my schedule.

Day 17 – A picture of your mp3 player

Nope, I don’t have an iPod because I’m not a big fan of Apple products and as a result, my music player is also my only gaming console, the PSP. I would’ve love to get the iPod rather than this but this comes with games and music. But instead of ranting, I just turned this thing into a music player. Quite large, compared to iPod, but it has better entertainment offering compared to iPod and it’s as easy as a Flash USB stick to use compared to Apple’s iTunes. 😀 If this thing runs out of batteries, all of the music in it is stored here:

Yup, on my phone. 😀 but I use the PSP more as a player than my phone because I don’t want saying several reasons to people that I did not get their calls and messages plainly because I lost battery power. xD

Day 16 – A picture of your dream cell phone

Not really a dream phone because I’m satisfied with what I have right now. But, if I want to get a new one, it would better be this, the Nokia N8. It’s the latest in Nokia’s touchscreen platform and from the headlines, the most remarkable feature was its High-Definition Camera that can record clear, crisp, high definition videos. xD

specs:

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 2100 /1900
	Announced	2010, April
	Status	Coming soon. Exp. release 2010, 3Q

SIZE	Dimensions	113.5 x 59.1 x 12.9 mm, 86 cc
	Weight	135 g

DISPLAY	Type	AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches
		– Multi-touch input method – Proximity sensor for auto turn-off – Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate – Scratch-resistant surface

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Speakerphone	Yes
		– 3.5 mm audio jack

MEMORY	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Detailed, max 30 days
	Internal	16 GB storage, 256MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
	Card slot	microSD, up to 32GB

DATA	GPRS	Class 33
	EDGE	Class 33
	3G	HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2.0 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, UPnP technology
	Bluetooth	Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go support

CAMERA	Primary	12 MP, 4000×3000 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Xenon flash
	Features	1/1.83” sensor size, ND filter, geo-tagging, face and smile detection
	Video	Yes, 720p@25fps
	Secondary	VGA videocall camera

FEATURES	OS	Symbian ^3 OS
	CPU	ARM 11 680 MHz processor, 3D Graphics HW accelerator
	Messaging	SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
	Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM transmitter
	Games	Yes + downloadable
	Colors	Dark Grey, Silver White, Green, Blue, Orange
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps 3.0
	Java	Yes, MIDP 2.1
		– TV-out (720p video) via HDMI and composite – Dolby Digital Plus via HDMI – Anodized aluminum casing – Digital compass – MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player – DivX/XviD/MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player – Voice command/dial – Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) – Video/photo editor – Flash Lite v4.0 – T9

BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh (BL-4D)
	Stand-by	Up to 390 h (2G) / Up to 400 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 12 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 5 h 30 min (3G)
	Music play	Up to 50 h

Fiddling with the camera again. [and photoshop. :D]

Yeah. I was bored yesterday night and as I walked to the kitchen, I saw my brothers mini-tripod and suddenly decided to shoot a couple of pictures of my gadgets. I only chose the ones that can fit my mini studio. 😀 Since I decided to set the White Balance to Auto, some pictures needed post-processing. I will be uploading the pictures as soon as the bandwidth of our internet becomes more free. 😀

Day 15 – A picture of yourself

Family reunion, Afternoon drink at the beach. 😀

Day 14 – A picture of your favorite teacher(s)

Even if rave a lot about bad-ass professors in my school, they are no match to the best teachers I’ve ever seen. My parents are the best teachers and I think the same applies to everyone. They taught all of the things I need for school and for life. Of course, they cannot teach me the things I need for acads because I chose a different field. But they never failed to teach me the necessary moves and strategies so that I can solve all of the academic problems I encountered. I am proud to say here that I won’t be able to make it to where I am now if they have not been that eager to make our lives at a decent level.