AUDITOIRE: July 2008

COFFEE @ two o'clock AM

COFFEE @ two o'clock AM
A post on baking a midnight cake

Yes! Pulling again an all-nighter...

Here are my reasonable reasons:

1.) 8:30 - Quiz on EnE 31: Wastewater treatment!
2.) 2:30 - 2 POST Laboratory Report on Chem 31.1
3.) 1:00 - Quiz on Chem 31: Alkyl Halide Synthesis Reactions

My current table setting is not so bad.. I organized a little of my stuff a while ago.

I should, for once, ACE my quizzes tomorrow!
GO! Go!

As for my coffee, i had 1 intense NESCAFE 3IN1 at 12 o'clock midnight and another one, a Bon VIVANT 3IN1, this time @ two o'clock... YOu know what? 3in1 coffee mix are overrated, i tell you. don't even try to go to grocery stores buying this cancer stuff, it kills people (statistically incorrect!).

Nescafe Intense: zombify your eyes
BON VIVANT: reincarnate you.
Believe me, it works! (bangag state!)

Why always an all-nighter? one reason is that it's a little quiet around here from midnight till dawn. You see, my roommate is gone and i don't know where he went and why. We had a party a while ago and it was noisy and all: running around the corridor butt-naked, banging doors and screeching yells across the west wing, unreprimanded outsiders come and go, roomhoppers as usual. And believe me, the pathology of male Ipil Dormer is much worse than that. But i'm glad i can suppress everything and deal with it in a more mature perspective this time. I am less confrontational and more open-minded to such barbaric beings.

Kuya glenn's party hat!
I never went to that party, it's borring and futile!
Useless! disorganize! Weird!
I hate Dorm parties!
It doesn't make sense!
it's odd to have a party with someone you usually
see everytime you walked by the corridor.

Ciao!

I ALMOST DESTROYED MY BLOG

I Almost Destroyed my Blog Page
A post about a lesson on customizing a blog page

This is what i'm talking about!

I couldn't satisfy myself. I sat after eating dinner and fingered my laptop like the usual. Then i thought, why customize my profile!

And then i search the google bar for downloadable templates and boom! i uploaded a single XML file and everything that i started with went berserk!

My blog page is destroyed! It looks like all hell break loose!

It took me four hours to bring back the old blog page and it's elements. THank GOd! I'll never do that again! And beware, all of you bloggers out there!

Ciao!

ERRATUM

To all my readers, please forgive me for my fallacious introductory words of every post that i made. It should not be "A blog ....." . This erroneous statement should be corrected to "A blog post..." to refer to the post that i recently posted. Sorry for the error!

cIAO!

RAIN and Blogging

RAIN and Blogging
A blog about my unblogged two-day rest period

A clear sky at Casiguran last summer!
It makes a lot of difference.

Ipil Kiosk July 25, 2008. Before the rain!

It was raining outside. I thought it would be the time for me to blog about the past few days. i still want to find a distinguishing character for my blog. If this would be permanent and irrevocable, then i would consider a singular monochrome of color that would suit my idea of blogging. Food, Fitness, University Life, Engineering frenzy, study tips, photoblogging, daily journal, i couldn't think of an specific idea for my blog. It should be something distinct and original.

Any way i'll just continue this blog after watching dark knight this evening.

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sO I'M BACK AGAIN FROM THE DARK KNIGHT with my friend Keith. And this blog?

Well Keith says that i should write about it three days after watching it because i get so fuzzy with the details and i do not know where to start. That means this blog will not be about the Dark Knight, this will still be about the two-day rest period that i hAD.

Some junk mail updates from U.P. people:

1.) A Forum at Malcolm Hall with Law students to grind Arroyo's SONA this Comming July 28, 2008. Here's the invitation so i want you all to come to interact... Maybe i would be there, depending on my schedule. Of course i have a class and a quiz on EnE 31. But then if youre are really, really free on the said schedule, this is a must as social citizens of our country (and i do sound like a politician)!

UP Law Student Government

invites you to

"SO[ano]NA?"

a post-SONA assessment forum

July 29 (Tues), 9AM-12NN

Malcolm Theater

With guest speaker:

Ms KARINA DAVID

Former Civil Service Commissioner

Dr. LEOCITO GABO

CSWCD Faculty

JILLIANE JOYCE R. DE DUMO

University of the Philippines - Diliman

Mobile: +63917 887 58 40

Alternate Email: jrdedumo@yahoo. com

2.) Namets movie! it will be on JULY 30, I guess.... I don't know the whole story but it's about a love story over Negrenese Cuisine, food and falling in love kinda stuff! Which i don't normally watch. Practically because it's boring. Not that I hate the movie "NO RESERVATIONS" of Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart (who is also a main character in the DARK KNIGHT). But the fact that it's something that i never tasted before (No offense to some people!) is quite unsentimental! But then if you want to watch, then so be it.

3.) IBON Midyear Birdtalk: The Philippine Economic & Political situation from the People's Point of View. THursday 1-4 PM @ UP School of Economics auditorium (student reg fee 50 PhP, inclusive of snacks hmmm..) Get the hard facts of current crises and Learn the Logical Solutions. See pic bellow :

or follow the link (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_WxSiySK12TjKzgUEwiejPfau_pGyYanafjeQCQRjq2q_tT02CUr8jJsTkkQ1dYGa2vu5OHtMPpNENCYbboDkEGKDHSegMp3BBuL3vZZFQsatUa-_7UoQG_sim4NXB-2ShlJqxBJaHCh/s1600-h/ibon.jpg)

4.) RALLY! sa SONA

Don't worry mama i won't go there!
So anyone interested in the Universiy Student Council's stride towards mendiola, join this rally.

Brutal! Patalsikin si Gloria ritual doesn't work either!

MY TABLE SETTING!

My current table setting right now is hell. Let me take a pic:

Two things: magulo at SB!

I still drink starbucks and eat a bacon twist oblivious of my weight gain for a couple of days now. So what happened for the last two days?

1.) Eating so much JUNK in Front of Physics Pav.
2.) Engineering Power Speakers Session 1
3.) Molave elections and some interesting surveys.
4.) UP College of Engineering UPCAT Frenzy
5.) Gossips from Molave (my old dorm)

Apparently, if i have time, i could spend a whole post about this stuff. But anyway, let's begin.

EATING SO MUCH JUNK IN FRONT OF PHYSICS Pav

I had this great idea, before my lab i should eat Pancit Canton in front of Physics pav. So i went there and ate my lunch. This is primarily the consequence of not having a canteen inside the dorm, you eat junk on street sides. And the most credible excuse from that is that i had a gym session a day before. What a lame excuse i have! I ate it anyway.

Preparing my pancit canton meal in a three step process:
1 Cut and Open
2 Boil
3 Filter
And that would be an hour!

Ate looking for my C2 Apple. I still couldn't believe that it's
27php this time.

Eating Junk food with my planner --- i plan things a week ahead
but food? it's an impulsive treat!

I bet i do have a flowery bookmark for my planner!
HAHA

Rooster at Physics pav: "I'm hungry, hey, is that a worm?"
reffering to the pancit canton noodle!

ENGINEERING POWER SPEAKERS 2008

I just talk there as usual. Haha! Yes, Mr. Jamandre of CAL lectured us about ETHOS, whatever that is, and 5 Steps of Public Speaking. I don't even remember each one. i'm so dumb! We had this activity where we talk infront of a group of people and each one of them would constructively critize the content of my speech and the method of dilivery. Unfortunately, this is what they think of me and it's pretty brutal!

I arrived early at Geo. eng'g Theater. Anybody here?

The comment sheet: My content was an applause but
i lost eye contact with my

MOLAVE ELECTIONS

Molave hit it! A few weeks after Ipil Elections i'm pretty excited on Molave elections, who's-who and da-whos appeared before everyone in front of molave lobby. too bad, the hotties are also posted. Check this out:

Hunks and Babes: Keisha Halili (alleged cousin of celeb hottie
Katrina Halili) topped the Babes... Pia Ubalde
(a sorsoganon) is also here.
Adrian Macrol? Who are you! not worthy!
Dapat si Pogi (former Kalay
floormate) nalang yung number one! waha

Lopez? what are you! Chairpersons are overrated!
Cainghog, sinuka! i mean sino ka?

Facilities Committee wants Keith Hernandez Cipriano!
may arrow pa tlg pababa! Obvious ba?
Si keith ang panalo sa appointee for Faci.

Blur but comphrehensive view of Molave elections tally!

UP COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING OvErPrEps for UPCAT

I mean what's the fuzz with engineering painting the walls before upcat.? It's overpreparation to the max, but gladly it's a simple validation: Engineering people have this sense of self, an inner egotistical persona who tries to prove that they have money, or more importantly we have money to boast our ass off for UPCAT takers. And hell i'm proud of it! We can manage to do this and other colleges don't even bother to clean the corridors i.e. CAL, AS, others! what does it implicates? We rule! A sorry ass for CAL (hehe this message is intended for keith)! There are only two colleges in UP: Engineering and other low-ass colleges wahaha!

Melchor hall at it's pristine!

A banner tag for engineering building!

Overpreps for eng'g: workers dutifully removes
corroded paint off the wall.

Working 3 storeys high. Do they have gears and ropes
for all these?

Hope noone dies here!

Engineering RULES!

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ISSUES, People of special interest

BLINDED ITEM:

Sino tong isang mokong?

Na alledgedly nagkaroon ng madugong tunggalian with CH[u]M?
Dahil ba sa toot! nung nag welc (as in welcga? mali, tanga!) toot! sa RH[u]M? i'm getting sum vibes pare na dis pearly guy pare is a menace optimized! bangag! haha! but i don't hate him! sorry! but i don't hate him personally! just concern with my RHUM friends' concern, okay! (redundant ba?) Mga RHUM friends, hi! So itong si pearlyguy or (sumtin) na fall guy or (sumtin) naman ng Reyna ng mga POSHangI (PoshangI nga ba? haha... What does posh mean by the way? any cono out there who can decode for me?) ay Hari din ng isang bery bery prestigious-democratic-contradicting-so-many-membered-1.75 league under the sea of captain nemo! Na Yakie din, wherein sa yakie nag welc toot sila a day after na macancel ang welc ng RH[u]M. THat would be so unfair Pearly Guy! Yakie ka pa naman, you know how this things goes! youre so concern with your palpitating-kayakie! Magsama nalang kaya kayo! No offense! Isama mo na si palpitating-kayakie na gumugulong sa takot ng SShit ng RHUM! No OFFENSE! PEACE!

Siya ay walang iba kundi si pearly as in THE-PEARLY-NOT-CURLY GUY!

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SWIMMING CWTS ON A SUNDAY

We had our first swimming lessons for CWTS Surivival program at Amoranto Stadium along Pantranco, Quezon Ave. It was exciting, fun and tiring. My face is white-spotted after being soaked for three hours at a 70% Chlorinated Pool. We made bubbles and some water exercises, it's tiring that's all!

inside U.P. Pantranco Jeepney!

my teammates! Excited!

other teammates looking forward for Bikini Babes!
Haha!

The pool! this is just a third of the pool's lenght.
It's an olympic size pool. We are tasked to
cross the pool for our practicals.
it doesn't look easy!

All women wear bikinis, all men wear trunks!
Cool huh!

Funny Add along the Amoranto Stadium! Weigh[t]less
Center. THey happen to have an anti-gravity room in here!
Cool huh!

Ciao avid readers!

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About the BLOG

AUDITOIRE is a eclectic film blog about world cinema chronicling canonical and non-canonical films. The blog is based in the Philippines. It started as a one-man blog last February 23, 2008. It was initially owned by an eccentric Filipino cinephile Adrian Mendizabal for three and a half years, and was later co-authored by Filipino-Canadian cinephile Chris Eriz Sta. Maria last July 25, 2011. It gained a following from various cinephiles around the world especially from parts of North America and Europe.

About the ADVOCACY

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Yesterday once more

Yesterday once more
A blog about another day of blogging

I know, i know, i push you people to read my blog. I'm sorry but you still have to read it. It is a must to read Adrian's Blog. Why?

1.) Some times you need a diversion from crappy internet sites like google, friendster, multiply. Give those tires overloaded sites a break. Tune in with my site. Not that you get to know me more, but more of appreciating the good morals of making mature decisions in life. (men! that's too deep!)

2.) need some friendly advice from the expert on methodological writing? comment me!

3.) Or you just wanna hang out, just check me out.

So yesterday's post wasn't really what happened during the day. My Tuesday's are way better than that. So here are some photo's that i took from my chemistry laboratory class when we did the experiment on Aliphatic and Aromatic whatsoever.

My goodie groupmate holding tubes. From left
to right, Cindy, Camille, and my lab partner Jana

Joash slicing oranges for extraction. Cool!

Meet Sponge Bob! by our artful groupmate Joash.

The distillation set-up. We improvised the base of the
Erlenmeyer. The orange one is where we extract
the organic substance called limonene. it's actually
interesting...

Another blurred photo of out set-up with
some people.

So tonight i've just finish Kyle XY season 3 and i've been researching about blogging.
So i found this. The Blogger's code of conduct. This is taken from wikipedia (a not so accurate site, well, just to give you the picture)

The Blogger's Code of Conduct is a proposal by Tim O'Reilly for bloggers to enforce civility on their bloggers by being civil themselves and moderating comments on their blog. The code was proposed due to threats made to blogger Kathy Sierra^[1]. The idea of the code was first reported by BBC News, who quoted O'Reilly saying, "I do think we need some code of conduct around what is acceptable behaviour, I would hope that it doesn't come through any kind of regulation it would come through self-regulation."^[2]

O'Reilly and others came up with a list of seven proposed ideas:

Take responsibility not just for your own words, but for the comments you allow on your blog.
Label your tolerance level for abusive comments.
Consider eliminating anonymous comments.
Ignore the trolls.
Take the conversation offline, and talk directly, or find an intermediary who can do so.
If you know someone who is behaving badly, tell them so.
Don't say anything online that you wouldn't say in person.

In later comments, O'Reilly gave a tacit endorsement of Jon Garfunkel's Comment Management Proposal ^[3]: "Jon, your post at Comment Management Responsibility: A Proposal is very detailed and thought provoking, as well as way more comprehensive than anything I'd thought so far."

I was astonished by how blogging is taken seriously by serious people. And it is a serious thing. Once you step out of the cocoon and enter cyberspace it is a lot of risk, i know. This is important because web blogging is not just a fun stuff, and this goes with multiply, friendster, youtube and my space accounts. Death threats and pranks can go from mediocre to serious stuff. Each blogger should know this. Every post, every comment is essential and part of the system. So co-bloggers out there, we all should know how to handle this kind of stuff.

Don't give out any personal information including cell phone no, permanent addresses, credit card numbers, ID numbers, passwords. If you don't get this then your nuts or practically dumb and should discontinue blogging immediately.

That's all for now.

Ciao!

The Hours: An Introspective Day

The Hours: An Introspective Day
A blog about the Voice

There was this voice rattling inside my head. I was not sure what i said but then i wrote it:

"A solace in a mind's heart is rattling. For there was a window, and in a window was a view of a city. And every time loneliness would shook Leonard's heart, moments of disfigurement intoxicates his mind. He was lonely. He was a writer.

What does one see's with a mind's eye? When he crept into the balcony where Dostoyevsky's book laid sodden on the floor. There was rain a night ago and it slipped into his mind that moment when he gathered up, the pages he clutched, the pen he smudged on his fixtures, the books he read a thousand times. For there was a window, he saw light coming from the distant air off the top of the Hererra Tower --- fugitive as he would think."

What does a writer think?

If you ask me a question like that i would cite an author and give you his or her perspective on such luminous question. For when a writer thinks he does not write. If a writer writes he does not think. In a life's worth, every writer has two lives: a life he is leading to, and some book he is writing. And when that two lives are submerged into philosophical loneliness, the writer leads two lives together, intertwined in such a fashion where the moments of being happy is coupled with the moments of being sad. What could be a writer writing?

There is no answer to the question yet, for writing is a strict language, it does not cite tolerance on shallower thoughts such as awkwardness or triviality. The moments of being a writer is not with writing but in being who he is and what he would do with his insipid predisposition of his true expressions.

Like what i did today, when i arrived at my chemistry room looking for a chair. A sudden thought rammed through my head, and i was head-on collision with my own conscience. It starts with a question: what if in a writers life, one day, one whole day he would not live his life? To choose another life and be free? What if he never writes? What if there was another life to live? Would i escape such inescapable life i had? What if i would choose death and live for it?

And then, as if the doors were slammed, the winds are broken, and all that i could hear is voice that lives in me. it says: the writer, whoever he is, must live.

i could say that this day, of all the beautiful days i have, i must live as writer and be glad for it. For there such one life, one living stone to breath, and in one day to put it away.

I could have been much happier if there is this proximity to unexpected lives, the ones that are terminal and disposable. i know such a life, and it is a life of the greatest author that i have ever known. her, not his, life became clearer and clearer when she became terminally closed to her own extinction. I could have had such life, but then i did not choose to be such terminal and end life so abruptly. What does she, a writer, a fiction writer, to live when she had writing in her hands?

Virginia Woolf, author of many books that i
do not read but loved because their first
sentences are as captivating as the
authoress herself.

She may have had manic-depressive illness,
but during those times, a large literary figure
was formed. She known herself a feminist.
She has a voice that resonates inside my head.

:)

I'm BACK PUMPING

I'm BACK PUMPING
A blog on going back to the Pumping business

Some facts that you currently don't know about me:
1.) My Body Mass Index is 28.7 kg/ cu. m
2.) My weight is 82 kg/180 lbs
3.) My height is 5 ft 6.5 "
4.) My fat index is 24.9%

in other words, i'm not a normal 19 year old male!

if you don't know being normal here are the stats:

a normal 19 year old young male adult should have a BMI of around 18.5 to 24.9. If you go up a little higher then you are overweight and if you go down a notch from the lower limit, then you are underweight. Either way, you're not normal. My normal weight should not exceed the limits from 52.8 kg to 71.1 kg, and my body fat index should not exceed 14-20%. This makes me an outlier from the normal 19 year old male and i was shock to found out abotu this.

Anyway, here is the printout of that dianostic machine at Mercury Drug Philcoa, you know, the one besides the counter?

It even has a heart rate sumtin graph!

i had a rapelling class this morning and i got some interesting pics. We did the Ausie Walkdown and i was sweating like hell.

This is not me, but one of my teammate. He's doin Ausie
Cool, huh?

On top of the tower, Arolf, the big guy and also
my teammate is motivated by out J.I.
Kuya Jeff (not clear in the picture)

Some of my teammates laughing about something
Anyway, i took a shot a little further away from them
so i couldn't hear them, but i'm sure it's funny!

My sneakers on a wet grass.

Other kampo-uno people!

Mosquito breeders. Series of tires filled
with stagnant water (arghhh! i didn't apply OFF
this time)

So i finally decided to enter the University Hotel Gym's Fat reduction program until i have lost weight. After having a strong motivition of the fact that my fat index is way higher than normal. It just freaks me out. When i was in high school, my BMI is 23.4, and that's a little closer to the upper limit. 3 years later, i ballooned like hell. So i decider to consider a three-day per week ritual. MWF 2:30 to 4:00 adjustable according to circumstances. My goal is to loose weight and to lower it down by 15 kg. and after reading countless stuff about lossing weight i am more determined than ever.