Graduation

Graduation
I never thought the time would come. But here it is. My college journey's end is just in front of me, waiting for me to walk past it. My life's about to start all over again.

I never thought I'd live through thesis. Always felt like I'd be stuck within one of the hell weeks near the end of the last term. But as all good things must come to an end, the same rule applies to hell weeks. Time does not stop for anything.

Now, I can see the end. The sign which says "End of College" stands beside that part of the road in front of me. Just a few steps away from where the road branches infinitely. Who knows what the future holds in store for me. Do I pick a road now? Or should I take some time preparing myself mentally first.

Maybe, someday, I'll just feel that it's time to take my first step into the unknown. Guess I'll just relax for a while; do some things I've been wanting to do.

That's it for now! Catch ya later! ^^

Update

Update

It's been a while since I just typed in my thoughts. So I'm doing it now. Bully for you. Anyway, right now, I'm having my OJT as a requirement of the school. I'm having it in PSBank, under System Development Dept. It started out slow since the PC took a long time to get to the department and a number of different delays. But right now, a lot of work is piling up for me. For example, after finishing the html page my officemate asked me to do yesterday, I was asked to help test the remote banking system. I believe there are more work in the line.

Despite that, my OJT experience has been fun. My officemates and supervisor have been very nice and friendly to us, trainees. No, not my classmates. Although 3 of my classmates work at PSBank for their OJT as well, I'm in a separate department. When asked what I remember from my OJT, most of the things that will come to mind are the laughters and jokes, just as my supervisor was telling us just this afternoon. As I remember, what he said was like this (Not in English)...

"When you're asked what you remember from your OJT, tell them about the laughter. Forget what you learned and all those things. Just the Laughter..."

Yes sir! Jake Ngo Signing out. Salut! (Just wanted to place that there, in remembrance of  Borgchat) Well, that's it for now! Catch ya later!

==OJT Experience Credits:==

Sir RasDi (The Supervisor)

SerVer (The Server?)

Sir Jids (Rohan Rookie)

Sir Cari (Or Cary... The Demon? Haha)

Sir Christian (P1)

Sir Jan (P2)

Sir Dunstan (The Evolved... Just now)

Sir Alvin (Reminds me of Jason)

Sir Randell (Sir Alvin's Idol)

Ma'am Wilma (The Mom)

Ma'am Ilyn (Senpai!)

Cheslyn (Same level... Ok... So she's also a senpai. But not in the dept.)

=End of Credits=

Taiwan Trip

Taiwan Trip

April 5 ARRIVAL AT TAIPEI
We went to Taipei through a cool plane. Each seat (or most of them) had its own TV. I watched Yes Man. The plane also had YUI's I Loved Yesterday Album in the selection. It took me some time to decide what to do. Anyway, We went to Agora Garden Hotel after arriving. The room is way awesome. We had a living room in our room, complete with some couches. After a few minutes rest, we went snack hunting at the nearby malls. We ate at 7/11, where I had a hotdog in a bun. After eating, we walked around and found the good places to eat at. We explored around before returning to the hotel to rest and meet up with our tour group.

We ate dinner at BullFight Steak and Seafood, a restaurant (guess what type), which was located in New York New York, a mall. I had a short rib steak, Caesar Salad (finished it), mango jelly thingy (like in Pizza Hut), bread, and drank red iced tea. The steak wasn’t good, considering I like most steaks.

After eating, we went to Taipei 101 to explore. Then we returned to the hotel, where my lil bro and I watched One Piece movie in Chinese. After that, we went to sleep. I slept well. The room was very silent.

April 6 TAIPEI TOUR
Breakfast at hotel. It was good. Then we went picture taking in lots of places. We then went to national palace museum (Forgot what was there). Then we had lunch somewhere where we ate siao lung paos (or however you spell that dumpling like thingy with soup inside), dumpling, rice, drank soup, and had a dumpling wrapped red bean.

We then went to other places to take pictures then went to the hot spring, where I found out hot spring water stunk. We then had dinner in a buffet place, with a Mongolian barbeque grill. I had four round in the Mongolian barbeque place. After dinner, we went to a church to tour around then we went to the night market, where only Michelle was able to buy something.

We then went back to the hotel. There was nothing worth watching. But we watched Tears to Tiara (Japanese with Chinese subtitles). My little brother and I made joke dubs. Slept well that night.

April 7 TAIPEI-TAICHUNG
Breakfast in hotel. It was the same as the previous day. We left Taipei by high speed railway to Taichung. We went to a huge Buddhist temple (I’m guessing that was Zhong Tai Buddhist Temple). The stories of the monk guide were very interesting. After that, we had lunch in a place around 15 mins away. I didn’t like the food much.

After lunch, we went to other places like Sun Moon Lake, where we first tried the black sugar lollipop with salty thingy on a side. Nothing else was worth mentioning. Could be because of the rain. Anyway, we had steak for dinner with salad bar (or as Jeremy, the tour guide, says: “all you can eat salaba”). We went to Chinatrust Hotel for overnight. Nothing special about the hotel. Didn’t sleep as well as the previous nights.

April 8 TAICHUNG-ALISHAN FOREST RECREATION-TAINAN
Breakfast at hotel. It wasn’t good. Left for Alishan Forest Recreation, but had tea on a tea shop on the way. The place was just a long trail with a lot of old trees. We had lunch first before taking pictures around the place.

Long story short; Left Alishan, had dinner, went to Wei Yat Toong Mao Grand Hotel, where the room was relatively better than Chinatrust’s but not close to Agora’s. Can’t sleep at first but slept well later on.

April 9 TAINAN-KAOSHUNG
Breakfast at hotel. Aside from the noodles, I didn’t like the food. Went to temples, ate lunch which I didn’t like, then went to buddha land. It was like the small world ride in Star City before (I don’t know if it still exists), without the ride and the music. Ok... So I’m not sure if there wasn’t any music as I forgot. Anyway, after that, we went to Tiger and Dragon Pagoda. Then we went to Ambassador hotel, a 5 star hotel that isn’t as good as Agora. We went to another night market, where we a different types of food for dinner. Went back to hotel after that. Didn’t sleep well.

April 10 KAOSHIUNG-HUALIEN
I’m guessing nothing good happened on that day as my journal only occupied three lines. It said: “Breakfast at hotel. Didn’t like the food. Hard time sleeping, but slept well.”

April 11 HUALIEN-YILAN-TAOYUAN
Breakfast at hotel. It was the least I ate by far among all breakfasts. Hated the food in lunch. Buffet at hotel for dinner, where I ate noodles, 4 siomais, and almond for dessert. I placed the meals first since I didn’t talk about the trip in my journal. Basically, the only part I liked was the visit to National Center for Traditional Arts. It was a place with lots of different stores (imagine Ong Pin). What’s special about the place is that there are times where people there go outside their stores to exhibit their arts, such as glass sculpture, clay sculpture (Which was really good... We saw some of the works and watched how the person creates them), and puppetry.

Anyway, back to journal. My lil bro and I watched Detective Conan marathon in chinese in the hotel room, along with parts of Mr. Bean’s Holiday. Watched FMA Brotherhood (Japanese with Chinese subtitles again) after Mr. Bean’s Holiday. Hated the room. Not only is it not cold, there’s a darn nightlight (exit sign), which we can’t turn off. We might as well have left a light open. Didn’t sleep well.

April 12 TAIPEI-MANILA
Breakfast at hotel then went to airport. I finished Yes Man, watched a little Bolt, which I liked, and listened to YUI in the plane.

Late Thailand Trip

Once more, another delayed post on a trip I've had with my family and relatives. I just read these from my phone journal and tried recalling as much as possible.

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Thailand Trip
12-24
Arrival in Bangkok. We got a flower wreath, basically flowers stuck to a long pink ribbon. I learned that ribbon doesn't feel good around the neck, and apparently, I got the one with the dying flowers. Anyway, we went to Arnoma Hotel. Went to a mall near the hotel to eat. There are lots of food there cheaper than in the Philippines. Ex: Crepe costs 25 baht for two flavors and 30 for three. I ate a lot of free tastes (Don't exactly remember where). According to my notes, leeching is fun. In one mall, we saw a mall Santa with lots of elves (kids). We had dinner at Galaxy Hotel. It wasn't bad. ButI wasn't able to eat too much since I didn't feel like eating that time. The hotel room is noisy, but it was easy to sleep after getting used to the noise. Woke up a lot though.

12-25
Breakfast buffet at hotel. I didn't like the food. Went to Dream World, a theme park. Took a lot of pictures and rode several rides. The most awesome one was Super Splash, a wild river type. It certainly lived up to its name. After impact from the high slide, your view will be as if you're surrounded by an opaque force field of water, seeing nothing but water...It was mesmerizing. After the ride, there's a bridge where you can get splashed. We let ourselves get splashed two times. It was awesome, as if watching a mini tsunami coming at you. Though that was the awesomest in the theme park, the coolest is the snow toboggan ride in Snow Town. Anyway, we ate lunch there. Buffet, Rating: It was okay. Dinner was at Royal Something. The food was full of fried ones, unlike the day before. It was good. Slept at Arnoma again. This time, slept very well.

12-26
Breakfast was the same as the previous day's. Went to Safari and Marine World and watched several animal shows. Orangutan, seal, elephant, had lunch, dolphin, spy world, bird show. The one I liked the most was the seal act, closely followed by bird show then dolphin. I didn't enjoy the orangutan and the elephant shows. Lunch was similar to the day before's, but a bit better. Ate buffet dinner. Loved the barbeque pork. It was like steaks on a stick. Slept at Woodlands Hotel and Resort, at Pattaya. The room's weird. Not only are there no locks for the comfort room, there's also a window that can be opened from teh room to the comfort room. Didn't sleep well at all. I got a sore throat, the neighbor rooms are noisy, things in our room creak, and my lil bro is eating up my space.

12-27
Dunno if the breakfast is better since my appetite was down (I assume this is due to sore throat). Went to Pattaya Beach. Rode speedboat to an island. Stopped for parasailing first. When we arrived, I was too dizzy to play around the beach (not like I wanted to). Just lay around and made sand sculptures. Lunch was fine, but still no appetite. Went back to hotel for shower. Went to elephant show and then to a mall: Something Lotus. Had dinner somewhere, which wasn't bad. After that, we walked around Pattaya, which was a waste of my life. Overnight once more at woodlands. Sore throat got worse, but slept well.

12-28
Breaksfast at Woodlands. Still low appetite. Went to Sriracha Tiger Zoo to watch animal shows. Starting from pig race, then crocodile show, tiger circus, and another elephant show. We had lunch there. Went back to Bangkok. Went to Siam Paragon's Ocean world, then went to Arnoma Hotel. We had dinner in a cruise, which was good. But I didn't feel like eating much. I didn't get dizzy at all. On the way back to the hotel, sticker madness in the bus. Overnight at Arnoma. Slept well.

12-29
Free day. Had Breakfast at hotel then walked around in shopping places. I got into a bad mood while walking around. My sore throat didn't help one bit. Had luch in a fast food place then my lil bro and I went back to the hotel to drop off the stuff the others bought. Then I walked around in Big C. Returned to hotel and watched TV till dinner time. Had dinner at fast food of Big C. After that, we walked around Big C before returning to hotel. Slept very well.

12-30
Ate breakfast at hotel. Pack up and leave.

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One thing I remember from this is that too much elephant shows in one trip: Hateable.

I'll post Taiwan trip sometime...