Happy Birthday Karen

zzzzzzz... it's been a loooong time. I got quite BZ for a while I totally got no time to visit my blog.
(Semester ends and I got so many things to do. Naa pa jud lech na SPVM)

It's saturday!!! Today we went out with my ever best friend Psi to celebrate in advance Karen's birthday (26september). We planned to meet at exactly 11 AM at Karen's house, but with my daily 1 hour ritual in the shower, I arrived there at 12 PM. A whooping 1 hour late. Hehehe.

Karen Mae Uy is the first to get married in our barkada at age 22. She had now a cute baby boy too named Inky. We ate lots of seafoods at Tatay's Grill (gi-atch ang mahal pala dito!!) and cone twirl at jobebs (eto mura lang hehehe).

Seeing her again made me realize that Im really coming on age. Im still acting like a kid somehow. I cant help reminiscing the good old days. Back when it was my first day in university, she's one of the few friends I had made. Actually of all my girl classmates, she's the first one i noticed. First day of school, our professor made us stand and introduce ourselves to the entire class. The moment she stood and say her name, I was kind of saying to myself.. "whew that chick is cute..". Hehehe. I always likes chinitas. Tiny eyes are cute.


Jay(top), Psi, Me, Karen, Inky

100% hand-made hologram

(I have been making holograms using silver halide emulsions for quite some time. I had wanted to make a "hand-made" hologram a looong time ago. Out of curiousity. Ngayon ko lang na-fulfill. Hmm.. it's basically very simple and e.a.s.y. Anyone can do it.)

..It's a very hot morning and Im roaming around the city trying to find a piece of flat dark glass. I dont intend to buy. I want to get a piece for f.r.e.e. This one store owned buy a chinese said they dont have a stock for that kind of glass. Ows? Maybe they're not willing to give me a piece for f.r.e.e. Luckily this one guy in the next store gave me an awesome piece from a scrap.

Next stop I went to a school supply store and shop for a cheap mechanical divider, the one with two sharp end points. This time I have to shell a ghastly P45.00.

Well, basically I have now a complete ingredients to make a HOLOGRAM. The first time I made a hologram, it cost me about P12,000. Basically holograms are made by lasers, photographic films, and chemical developers. I have made laser holograms before and it was NOT easy. But this time a hologram I intend to make is 100% hand-made. A.K.A. made only buy hand!! I would have to scratch the interference pattern from a 2D object on a dark glass using a divider. Basically you will just have to point the other end of the divider to your object and scratch the other end on the glass surface creating an arc. (images from http://www.amasci.com)

and create a pattern that look something like this.. (the object is the letter V)

The more lines you scratched, the better the result.

For the whole afternoon I've done nothing but scratching, scratching, and scratching. I spray painted the glass on the other side and leave it to dry. Not 1 minute later one of my officemate, having NO idea what Im doing, accidentaly dropped my scratched glass and broke it in half!!! I almost kill the bastard!! Luckily the scratched portion were intact. Phew.

I had to wait until our weekly friday meeting ended before I was able to test my work on an overhead projector (sunlight would be enough but it's cloudy today). Yipppee.. it was a success!! The "V" figure floats majestically behind the glass!! I immediately called my colleagues and boasted what I have done. They we're all amazed. They're all eager to know how I did it. All I gave them was a silly grin. Nyeknyeknyek. I promised them I would explain the whole thing on our scientific conference next week. =)

(I forgot to bring my digital camera.. I'll post the pictures of my first hand-made hologram later.)

losing coolness

..I woke up this morning finding out my school bag scatterd in a corner. I suspect *too(censored)oot* did it. SHE used to exercise every morning to trim her fat but doesnt seems to work out for her. I dont like someone messing on my properties. She could have lay them neatly in a place somewhere before doing her hopeless exercise. But I guess she just threw my helpless bag violently in a corner. I did my best not messing with her properties and I would not dare even touching them. Grrr.. How dare she!! Whew. Good thing I didnt lost my cool there.

..Im about to wear my newly washed white pair of shoes. Just as Im about to leave for school.. it suddenly rained. What a delay!! Too bad. I have to wear some other pair. Hmmm.. I realized I have about 12 pairs already. Time to buy a new one. Whew. Good thing I didnt lost my cool again.

..Oh that pesky stupid serbidora in a carenderia just mess with my lunch order again. "I want the fish! Isda! kasabot ka?! Dili nang pasayan!!" Grrr.. If only she would listen attentively. How can she mess a very simple job for the 5th time? And oh, hearing the words "kaon? balot?" everytime I make order is very annoying. Can't she remember? I buy lunch from her almost everyday and not a single time I want it "balot". Whew. Good thing I didnt lost my cool there.

..Hmm. Free food. It's *too(censored)oot*. There's cake, spaghetti, soda, etc. I didnt bite the bait. I know there's no such thing as FREE in this world. Sooner you'll PAY for what you eat in some other form. A job request maybe. When that time comes, you wont be able to refuse. If you refuse, you'll be BACKSTABBED! Grrrr.. damn polyanilines! I just treated myself a lowly rice cake. I bought it with my OWN money. Hehehe. Whew. Good thing I didnt lost my cool there.

..Time to go home. I don't know if my coolness would stay. I'll try my best not losing it..

macromedia flash

hmm.. the templates here are b.o.r.i.n.g.

Well I have just completed my flash animation and figured out how to embed it to the code. Now I got a nice header. Cool.

If I have plenty of spare time I would build my own design. HTML is as easy as 1,2,3 to me. PHP too. I'll just take note of the <$variables$> first so I can map them in the design. =)

ana ka? unsaon?

Phew.. this would be my first "decent" entry to my blog..

"... ana ka? unsaon?"

For those who doesnt understand what it means, it would be fun asking someone who can. But why bother? You wont appreciate the meaning of it anyway. So never mind.

You probably heard someone say that phrase (well if you're in IIT).. Usually it's the best comment to what have been said to you by anyone.

e.g.
miggs: "gwapa kaayo ka karon ay"
rachel: "ana ka? unsaon?"

see?

I dont know what's with it.. but I would laugh out loud upon hearing it. It could be some brain defect or some innate mannerism. Maybe just a manifestation of a sense of humor. Oh yeah it could be. I dont know why but I could easily make a person laugh, and I would blurt out easily even if wasnt funny at all. Weird. Tsk tsk tsk.

My sole intent in starting this blog is to write write and write whenever I can about me, people around me, and everything. I have a colorful and rich life story but my brain cells are limited. It would be impossible maybe 1 year from now to remember what stupid things or breakthroughs I had made.

Sometimes Im very lazy on finishing my compositions. I would just instantly stop