stop and stretch…

think on this: know your priorities, be responsible for it and just enjoy doing all of it…

i repeat: enjoy!!!

i’m having a great 2 weeks ^_^

thanks for the gift irc…

ms1 exam tomorrow

redbox + swimming on wed..

alvin’s birthday on sunday..

^____^v

july 28 – pictorials

i’m so dead

1. i’m very poor!!! (dami kong liabilities.. nahihiya naman ako magpadagdag ng pera sa atm.. :/)

2. no creative shot yet!!! (no time to look for costume… omg… i’m very unprepared!)

3. hair cut or no hair cut dilemma

4. pimples should not grow!!!!! wahh…

5. no birthday plans..

6. extended abstract submission on july 30

7. ce22 exam on the same week

oh noes…

my 2 month old camera got broken

I failed taking responsibility of getting our allowance because of I woke up late

I almost blew the org recognition

I am stressed…

I am bothered by the future happenings on our thesis

I have lots to do but unable to think properly

I am losing my confidence

I am still the same old me… helpless… gullible… a loser…

waaaaaaaaaaaaah

i’ll start picking up the pieces and build myself right…

i can do it! more power to me and to alvin and to my eee-mates..

I’ve been busy playing Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 2 (I downloaded it today and may finish it tomorrow )… I’ve put our CoE115 Machine Problem on hold since I think were ahead of many.. we’re done on the alphanumeric stage of the keypad.. numlock and capslock to go… IRC work is piling up which includes finishing our long overdue turbimeter and some Core work which involves testing the GPS module while travelling… Our first trial for the GPS test was a waste since we made a mistake in creating a new file.. aww shucks.. 1 hour of walking and testing gone gone gone.. haha.. I haven’t gone to the Jobfair because of lack of time and company… Hopefully tomorrow I can go for a visit… ece 151 exam on Jan26 which happens to be the submission of Coe115 mp2….1st week of February would be the coe115 exam… also, the ece117 project proposal(which can be equated to half a thesis in terms of load) is due last week of january… there… more strength to me and to my eee-mates! let’s go eee!

Hello 2009!

haha… I was really bum this vacation.. I finished honey and clover I and II then completed the first season of Chuck …  Then I thought what to do next??? Obviously, I’m looking for options so I won’t go studying!!!

Checking the top PC games of 2008 gave same results which is World of Goo created by 2D Boy… Good thing It’s not some first person shooting game that requires a lot of memory space. It’s actually a simple game of applying the knowledge of physics or maybe just common sense to strategically use  “goo” balls to complete a certain task. Bloggers were right about it being addictive! It was a very unique game which had a simple user interface with amusing graphics…

I finished all the chapters of the game but it doesn’t end there… I’m still on the goal of obtaining Obsessive Completion Distinction (OCD) Flag to every level… Furthermore I’m still on that goal of building the highest Tower of Goo I can possibly make!

Hurray for World of Goo!!!

^_^

Happy new year!

Happy Birthday Niki!

1. I am sensitive with the people that revolves around me. I don’t want them to think wrong of me. I don’t want to become a burden. I cry easily. I am easily offended when the people close to me criticize me.

2. I am insensitive with my sorroundings. I don’t pay attention to things around me. thus I am not good in directions. and I am clueless when it comes to general knowledge.

3. I am clumsy. My reflexes are not good. My senses are not oriented enough to prevent blunders. Luck is not in my side.

4. I am not physically fit. I can’t lift heavy objects. I can’t run fast. My body aches the next day after some stretching and exercise.

5. I am lazy when it comes to eating. I only eat when I am hungry.

6. Wrong study habits. I tend to memorize the procedure how the problem works and rely on the sample exams. Understanding things does not fulfill me. I am naturally not thirsty for knowledge but am trying to.

7. The only person I can fight with is him. that’s wrong.

8. Others first before Me. I don’t want that, but it happens..

9. I envy people and thinks selfishly sometimes. I brag too.

10. I lack talent. I don’t play musical instruments. I don’t sing nor dance. But I can make animated characters. 

The reason I wrote this is to set clearly who I am now and who I should be in the future. I really want to change. Sometimes I feel hopeless because I was born this way. It has been 20 years since and nothing has changed. This is my lifestyle and I have to step up and say that I can control my decisions. I have to go for what’s best for me. I have always searched for recognition, appreciation and friendship but wanting so made me the loser that I am today. I don’t want to get depressed because of the truth but I think of it as a challenge for me to become stronger and wiser. Less than 2 years left before I enter the Real World it’s time for the transition. It’s time for change.

*Obama won…

So sapphire (my acer aspire 4730z) has been well. But I noticed some missing softwares from acer that should come with it… or so i thought… half of the user guide mentioned about the ‘Acer empowering technology suite’ and it happens that my model (4730z) do not accompany it… I checked the CD but there was no installer.  I am deeply dissappointed.. the ‘e’ button at the side of the speakers only runs the launch manager which is another shortcut button to any application you choose. And as I studied it further, the only ‘technology’ that is present in sapphire is the crystalbrite and the signalUP. I haven’t tested the wifi access but it should work…   As my brother pointed out, my notebook looked generic because of  the few acer programs put to it.. wah! Downloading is a possibility but would the compatibility be an issue? as of now no drivers are available for the 4730z model in the acer website… *sigh*

Setting this fact aside,  I’m still enjoying my new notebook… I have a new cooler and sleeve.. yippee..

Sapphire happens to be the name of my new laptop…  Funny it may seem to baptize it, our family likes naming things… very much.. haha..

anyway.. I spent plenty of hours in deciding which laptop to choose… I have taken every pricelist at gilmore and SM north edsa when I was still in Manila… but this came to nothing when my parents decided to buy a laptop  here, in baguio, in SM, at Octagon for 0% interest for 12 months… so my choices was put down to two. An Acer Aspire 4730z and an Asus X80… Both have similar specs except on the Hard Disk (160-Acer,120-Asus) but Asus x80 was P3,000 worth more than that of Acer (29k)… Both were good but I was so attracted by the scratch proof design of the X80. The price difference was not worth the design according to every member of my family…:( Which lead them choosing Acer Aspire… It’s not really a big deal… really.. no it’s not… haha.. well, she’s in her 2nd day with me and she seems fine to me…

The Good

- very nice camera…

- 160GB is sooo plenty…

- nice volume controls

- faster than Lappy (Acer Travelmate), well it should considering the processor upgrade…

-smaller and lighter…

The Bad

-Vista Starter only

- 2 usb ports only

- no bluetooth

So my Notebook dilemma have been solved sooner than expected. I think this was a better choice than taking  an MSI VR340 or a NEO Vivid even if the specs were better.  Now the real challenge is taking care of Sapphire… aja!

My whole academic life I have lost a lot of ballpens, and I mean a lot… I can only count the pens that lasted with me until it had no more ink… back it highschool, I also had problems of cheap pens spilling ink in the pocket of my skirt… but now, that doesn’t seem to be the case. This college I have switched to Standard pen seldom available at Shopping Center. The Standard pen got loads of nice feedbacks from the users which it truly deserve. So the only problem lies is misplacing them… It gets me frustrated since the rate of me losing a pen would be 5/month…  well, come to think of it, losing an umbrella is more frustrating.. But the fact lies that I am wasting money because of my carelessness and unresponsiveness to these simple things… So.. Now..  I’ve decided to make this certain major objective.. and posting this in my blog makes it a big deal. I have bought a g-tec pilot pen that is worth 5 times more than the ordinary Standard pen. My theory is, the more expensive your pen, the more you would take care of it.. the more you are determined to not lose it.. And an additional psychologic way is that I am mentioning it to everybody that this pen will stay with me until it’s last drop of ink. So the challenge is will I be able to prove to be better in this? or will I prove that I am a loser for life? 

My New pen had it’s first day through…:D We’ll just see..

I have more to talk about like Molave Week and the Projects I am currently doing in the lab and in my subjetcs, but I have to first ensure that I would pass my subjects this sem.. hence.. back to acad mode..

Wish me Luck!

^__^

Oh happy that I have done the agonizing machine exercise on time!!!

Hopefully all Inputs would work (Please Do!!!)

We were asked to make a program that does Floating Point Addition and Subtraction. The Floating Point Numbers should be in IEEE Notation and Truncates using Rounding Off to the nearest even. The machine exercise actually have a procedure in our text book so it;s just a matter of how to translate the procedure into code.. ^_^… It’s super confusing!!! I reached 120+ lines! So basically there’s brute force that is involved in my code so it’s somehow inefficient.

Here’s a glimpse of my documentation

Flow of Code:

· Input to Data registers

· Extract Exponents -> E1 and E2 to D4 and D5

· Extract Mantissas – > M1 and M2 to D6 and D7

· Check if Inputs D1 and D2 is Not a Number or Infinity

· Determine real operation (operation x sign of operand2)

· Equate both exponents (lower exponent to higher and shift it’s mantissa). Set the exponent of result,D5, to higher exponent.

o involves Rounding Off (subroutine)

· Perform addition or subtraction

o In addition, get the sign of any operand

o In subtraction, if negative result, negate mantissa and let S=1 else retain and S=0. S->D2

· Normalization

o Normalization_Add – shift once to right to form 1.xxxx, involves rounding off

o Normalization_Subtract – shift to left until 1.xxxx is reached

· Build Final Answer in IEEE Floating Point notation using D5(exponent),D6(mantissa),D2(sign)