Be Patient

I am in the middle of the school term and so far... I can't say. It is getting harder everyday. Well, I am not liking my philosophy class because there are just too many info to memorize for the next quiz. I don't know how well I'm going to do for the next quiz and I don't know how well I did the last quiz. Let's pray that everything is going to be fine.

Enough about that, let's talk about other things like art updates. As usual, I told you I was busy with thesis and it is now becoming a little tiring. I uploaded some of the things I did for it. If you are following my deviant I uploaded these weeks ago (here and here). And of course, valentines was last week, I had to do a little art for it here. It's really quite simple. I don't have tablet so it has a lot of flaws. I also did a sideline for some people. They wanted me to do a video edit. Compiled, edited and exported in Adobe Premiere and I also used Adobe AfterEffects for some of the effects. Too bad I can't upload it. Well, I'll just keep it for reference. I like these kinds of work.. I like variations too keep me interested.

I still cannot study 3d because of my schedule. When I have the time, I will. I am also planning on changing the banner for this site and again, when the time permits, I will. So many things to do, so little time. Bear with me.

I'm a free-lace artist. If you like my art, you can contact me through my gmail which is: sly.ja9@gmail.com or reply here in my blog. :D

Updating

Oh my. I did not notice that my last blog entry was before Christmas. I was supposed to write a blog entry around new year but I got lazy. New year passed by and valentines is just around the corner (and Chinese new year which is also the same day as valentines).

I have been busy with school stuffs, thesis and other things. I also got hooked with Glee. I watched the first episode i think around 2nd week of January and I love it. I did Glee marathon the next week. I can't wait for the next episodes of Glee and Gossip Girl.

I don't have new projects except the tribal art I did which was week ago. Visit here and here. It is my first time to do vector art in Illustrator so don;t expect too much and they are more of tattoo designs. Thesis keeps me occupied recently. I am thinking of learning 3d in 3ds Max. I will keep you updated as often as possible but since there is nothing much going on with my life right now there are no interesting things to write. So, until next time.

Xmas Wish List

What is a Christmas without a Christmas wish list? My wish list 2009!

1. All I want for Christmas is my very own laptop!
2. And my very own Tablet
3. And another iPod Nano color yellow
4. And then you can add a touch screen cell phone preferably iPhone but Nokia would do
5. Please someone buy me a Canon Digicam
6. Add books I can read (fiction, romance, teen drama)
7. Put a little love in it (cash cash cash)
   

Or just greet. Merry Christmas Everyone!

Do You Have the Heart?

I went to Baguio just this weekend. Too bad I could not take a picture of the scenery while I was going down back to Manila. It just made me appreciate Philippines a little bit more and at the same time disappointed me so much. The irony.

Today, in the year 2009, I thank God I can still marvel at the beauty of mother nature. Thankfully, I can visit some parts of the Philippines. Specifically parts that I could actually afford to go to. The scenery is just so beautiful while I was going down. It was mountains and mountains of trees, plants and all greeny things you can think off. It was still so nice. I appreciated the scenery more as I went down Baguio than while I was going up. Maybe because I had the advantage to look at it from above, or may because it felt like I was leaving something behind and who knows when I'll be able to see it again.

Yep, and to perfectly catch how wonderful this experience is, I am actually writing the "will be" blog in the bus and on my cell phone. I should have reminded myself to bring a pen and paper next time to come in handy at times I want to write. Anyway, it is just so nice that I had the chance to see the beauty of nature. Although it is evident that we are abusing it like the trails of dried water falls or land slides from the last bagyo. A part of me wished that I could have seen the Philippines before all of those destruction. It could have been breath taking. It brings up questions like: Could have Manila been like this if cleanliness was preserved? or How beautiful the Philippines would have been if it was not exploited of its natural resources?

The possibilities. Oh, the possibilities.

The most frustrating about this was and is that I have seen these scenery. It made want so much to preserve this beauty. But... I always ask myself what I could do. I am still a student, I don't have an advocacy organization or anything that could help.I could not even convince myself I could do something that would make a difference. I do try and try to help what I could I hope other people would do to. I live in the Philippines and I'm proud of it because there are still things to be proud off. I hope to those who are also living here do not destroy these reasons.

I just want you to think about that nature is the Philippine's pride, should we just take it away so freely? Preserving and taking care of this country is something a person could not do alone.

Do you have the heart? Let's do our best to help.

Com Sci ka?

Just some of the things I think that are very helpful when you are a com sci (computer science) student:

1. A com sci student knows how to stalk properly and effectively.
   Perfect for stalking your ultimate crush on the net
   
2. A com sci student knows how not to get stalked
   We would not want to get stalked would we?
   
3. A com sci student knows how to cheat in games (i.e. facebook games)
   Why make life hard when you can just cheat the game and get away with it?
4. A com sci student can get away with making simple things complex
   Example:
   "there are too many context switching that are happening inside that the computer cannot handle. We have to prevent that"
   Which simply means:
   "you just have too many programs opened, close them!"
5. A com sci can get away with playing games/ doing other stuffs while saying to parents that they are actually studying
   *com sci playing a game*
   "Anak tulog ka na"
   "Mamaya na, inaantay ko ung file transfer"
   *stop playing*
   *alt+tab*
   *wait until parent leaves then alt+tab again*
   *continue playing*

Just playing with stuffs. :D

Typhoon Ondoy

It's 1am and I can't seem to get some sleep. For some of the reasons:

1. I am worried about my dad who is stuck in a truck for roughly, I think, 12 hours of continuous driving in traffic with no food and little water. He is stuck somewhere between Liana's Sucat and Sm Sucat.
2. I am waiting for Jeric to reply!
3. I am worried for the people who are stranded else where.
4. Last I am somewhat pissed because I believe casualties could have been lessened if we were warned a bit earlier.

*rant starts here*

Are PAGASA's equipment so lousy that they couldn't even warn us that there was this big typhoon? Damages could have been lessened if they were able to warn us for the approaching typhoon. It is, after all, the goverment's duty and responsibility.

I don't get it, is it better to have billions of personal property damage than invest in billions of Philippine peso in PAGASA'a equipments or improvement or the drainage system or something that will ACTUALLY benefit us?

*rant ends here*

I really really believe that damages could have been lessened if we were forewarned.

I pray to those people who are still stranded it would be their second day on their rooftops without food and water. I pray to those people who have lost their belongings in the flood and even lost their lives.

2nd Commings

I'm beat. I'm tired. I'm burning up. This is just the second week and I think my body can't take my schedule. MW has 3 classes straight and TH has only one class. I am starting to have this weak body feeling. I think i'm catching a fever.

Anyway, recently I could not connect to the internet as much as I want. My modem was broken. I got it changed. I called PLDT last night and just this morning they were here just before I got to school. They replaced my modem with a new one without charge. I also asked for an additional LAN cable if it was also free of charge and it was. I got a free LAN cable and a new modem. Yey for me!

Also, gossip girl season three started last week! I was soooo excited. Thanks to Joc, I got updated with my weekly bad habit of watching gossip girl. OH YEAH! And I just finished watching this week's episode. I can't wait for the other one!