Yodaism

When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not / Wars not make one great / Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things / You must unlearn what you have learned / Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try / Luminous beings are we ... not this crude matter / That is the way of things ... the way of the Force / A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind / Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will ... / Beware of the dark side. Anger ... fear ... aggression / You must feel the Force around you / Through the Force, things you will see. Other places. The future ... the past. Old friends long gone / Size matters not / If you choose the quick and easy path ... you will become an agent of evil / Control, control. You must learn control / Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.

1. yodaism - Yoda, the biggest little stoner from the Star Wars movies would awesomely switch up the words in his sentences because he was high 99% of the time. (http://www.urbandictionary.com)

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sTARwars!

My colleagues were going to Zamboanga City to attend a conference there and I decided not to join them. Since our laboratory technician Lowell is getting married again in Cagayan de Oro City, I volunteered to be his photographer for me to have a reason to go to CDO and then watch Starwars! The wedding was supposed to start at 3 PM and they said the door will be closed when the ceremony begin. We almost did not make it! We arrived at the Iglesia ni Cristo church at 3:10 PM and happy to found out that the ceremony hasn't began yet. I've never been inside an Iglesia ni Cristo church so I was a bit confused how to behave there. I was briefed shortly what are the do's and dont's and I was feeling relaxed. To make the story short I took some pictures, the wedding got finished, went to the reception, and ate a lot of meat. There's a hot bridesmaid and I hit on her at the reception. She's so sexy and she smells so good, I had wanted to hug and kiss her!.

Anyway.. after the wedding I went to Lim Ket Kai Mall and watched the Starwars Episode III. I wasnt able to start the movie so I watched it TWO times! Man the movie was fantastic! I love Yoda! And Natalie Portman was hot!

The movie ended at 11:30 PM. I decided not to go home in Iligan coz I need to go shopping for new clothes. I looked for a place to sleep but I have no idea where to start so I walked along the highway hoping to find one. After a while I had walked for I think a kilometer and still I could not find a place to stay. It's already 12 midnight and I was in the middle of the place Im not too familiar. Im getting a bit vulnerable to danger so I decided to flag a taxi and told the driver I need to go in some place to stay. The driver took me to a hotel but it was full. Freakin hell I paid P90.00 for the taxi for nothing. The taxi driver told me he knew a place near so I jumped to his cab again. I thought it was free coz he's the one who volunteered to bring me there, but freakin hell he asked me for another P30.00!! This is too much! I checked in at the hotel but there was no available single bed room. The twin bed room was just a hundred peso higher than the single bed so I just paid for the twin bed. There were three cute girls at the lobby when I checked in, at first I thought they were hookers. I learned later that they're not. Nope I'm not thinking of getting laid that night but Im on the brink of getting into. I actually asked the guard on duty "how much" would it be to get a "service". He said it was P800.00. Hmmm.. now I know how much it would be. I actually bargain for P500.00 too, but the guard said it's P800.00. It was very funny! Hehehehe. Im not really wanted to get laid, Im just fooling around to know how things worked in this kind of thing. Phew.. after few minutes I was sleeping bare naked coz I still had to wear the same pants the day after. Good thing I bought an extra shirt.

The next day I shopped till I dropped. I bought several clothes and some stuffs. I was tempted to watch starwars again but I decided not to. Hmm.. finally I took the bus home at 7:30 PM. I arrived home just in time for AXN's LOST TV series, and I was happy to found out that Miami Heat won game 2 of the 2005 NBA Eastern Conference Finals. Yehehehe.

Recent Travels

Uh! Never had time to blog for the past weeks so Im gonna sum up all the travels I've been into these past weeks.

5/13-15/2005: Davao City.
Me and some of the Tadman staff went to Davao to submit our articles to the printing press. Trave time to Davao from Iligan is about 7 hours. We passed Cagayan de Oro City and the cool Bukidnon province. It was fun! We submitted our articles and visited the Eden Nature Park, had some midnight sale shopping, had some fun bonding moments with the tadman geeks, bought some mangosteen, durian candies.. I've also met my highschool friends which were in Davao and we had fun recalling our highschool moments..Hmmm.. photos uploaded here.

5/8/2005: Tadman (Outing) Location Shoot.
I didnt know they were serious about this trip so I wasnt able to prepare. I had slept that night at around 5 AM. We were supposed to leave at 8 AM so they woke me up at 7:45 in the morning. Ugh! grabbed some biscuits and coffee for a quick breakfast. We roamed around the city taking pictures of the different cool sites. We went to the City Hall Amphitheater and sight seing the panoramic view of the city, Ma. Cristina Falls, Timoga Spring Pools, Taytay Resort, Mimbalut falls, Bukana beach, Sabac Beach, and the Centennial Park. It was very hot that morning and it suddenly rained in the afternoon. I took the pictures the whole day under the scorching heat and I was so dead tired coz I had only slept for barely 2 hours. I went to sleep that night at 6:30 and I woke up the next day at 2 PM.

4/29-30/2005:Duka Bay Resort, Medina Misamis Oriental.
I have been to this place only the third time, we went there for the SPVM planning conference. Medina is about 5 hours from Iligan and on our way there we encountered a huge traffic jam near the new Coal Power Plant site. The plant were transferring it's huge machines to the new site so they had to shutdown the highway for a while. First I thought there was an accident. Out of impatience or just plane curiousity, we jumped out of our van to check it out. We saw a very huge thing right in the middle of the highway covered with plastic sheets and I thought there was a chemical spill or something. We went closer and we found out it was a machine for the the new plant. There was two of them. It was so huge that the truck that carried them consumed the whole width of the highway. Hmm.. anyway, Duka Bay is a cool place, there's a lot of marine animals there to watch. A good place for scuba diving and snorkeling. When the conference was done, it was already low tide. We took a swim and I didnt enjoy what I was doing at all coz there's so many dead corals, sharp rocks, and spiky things along the beach. I got a cold the morning after and I wasnt able to finish the conference due to headache.

4/5-6/2005: Sinacaban.
We're back again to the Misamis Oriental Aquamarine Park. The semester ends and we held the IITHEP scientific conference here, this is also the culmination of our friday meetings. I was the Friday Meeting treasurer so I was in-charge of the funds. I took charge of all the money matters including food, cottage, fuel, water, etc. Hmm.. I was happy coz I managed to do my job succesfully. Yehey! There was wild animals in the Park mini zoo. Plenty of fish in the hatchery. The cottages are nice. But the main attraction is the White Island which is about 2 km from the beach. We almost could not made it to the island coz it's still under development. There was a construction going on for the Dolphin Show. Anyway after some negotiations, we were able to go to the island. We strapped ourselves with lifejackets and ride a motorboat. When we reached the island, the place was a mess coz the construction were not yet completed. We had fun snorkeling and watching the dolphins, whales, giant sea turtles, giant starfish, sea corals, nemo (clown fish), and some other fish varieties.


At the white island grand stand. This is the future site of the Dolphin Show.

At the bamboo ramp. This ramp is almost 500 meters long from the beach to the restaurant and the boat docks.

Skim Interrupted

I actually woke up very early today at 5:30(which is unusual for me) coz I finally had the courage to skim by my self alone in the beach. I was thinking about it for a long time and actually planned to go skim by my self one time, but when I woke up that day, Im again overwhelmed by a desire to go back to sleep. That changed everything I planned to do that morning.

This morning was totally different, I got up quickly before sandman put me to sleep again. Ate some leftover bread and sipped a hot ovaltine. Soon after I arrived on the beach minutes later, the sea was calm just as I wanted. But to my horror, the beachline is covered with rough and jagged pebbles! Maybe due to the mild waves, the pebbles just got wedged on the beachline and never left there. I checked around to see any good spot but freaking hell there's none. I dont want to waste my morning so I just tried to ride my board few inches away from the dreadful little pebbles. As usual, I fell and hurt my butt so hard. Please dont laugh at me, I still could not ride my board perfectly. Soon I can.

Some 30 minutes of running and rolling, Im starting to feel good and more determined to conquer my fear of falling. Just when I happen to pass where I left my backpack, I checked my things and found out my right slipper was gone! I remember there were so many stray dogs on the beach so I immediately suspected they ripped it off and dragged somewhere. I am not planning to go home and walk with one slipper in the middle of the city so Im furious to find where the freaking dogs trashed my slipper. I asked some people around and they all say they did not see my slipper. I checked around by my own, looking stupid, walking around barefooted while holding one slipper that was left for me. I could feel and see the eyes of all the strange people at the beach that time looking at me as I walk past them looking up, down, left, right, looking for a lowly slipper. I think they think Im crazy.

Im not going to give up and go home with one slipper. That would make me look more crazy. I asked some guys who were cleaning their turf and they say they dont see any slipper that looks mine. Still I will not go home with one slipper. More determined than ever, I keep on looking. Finally after 30 or 45 minutes I think, the guys who were cleaning saw my slippers in their backyard and they called me. Lo and behold, there it is!! My slipper was dragged by freakin beastly fidos for about 5 yards somewhere in the bush. I have never been so relieved for a decade than seeing my slipper once again. It has served me for about 3 years! We have developed a somewhat close bond.

But anyway I swim a little bit after pretending it never happened and mount my board to start skimming again. This time I lost my interest and the sun is starting to heat up. I decided to pack and leave. Well, I looked like a fool looking for my slipper so I think it's a better idea to exit and leave that damn wild-canine-infested place.

Scripting Scripted Script

The whole day yesterday I was figuring out how to make a PHP script that sends email to someone. I have read and read and try and try until I made it. My goal is to have a sort of "on-line" registration for the upcoming National Physics Conference which will be held in our university sometime in October. I designed a webpage in PHP that would do this and it took me the whole day! Hmm.. I am not that "expert" on PHP, everytime I have a specific project to make I end up figuring out myself how to construct a PHP script out of it. I went home very late yesterday night, and since I was succesful in realizing my project, I was having a good sleep. Sometimes when I couldnt finish what I have in mind, I had a habit of making ideas and thinking over it even when Im already in bed. I hate it coz I almost could not sleep. So funny when ideas came flying even in my dream!! Weird.

Today I was planning to make my project more elegant by adding some images and design but the university shuts down its power for almost one day. Holy Crap! I learned that some brilliant entities want to cut down some tree branches near the power lines, that's why they want to turn off the power. Grrr.. just for that they had to turn off the power for almost a day? WTF! I ended up doing nothing the entire morning. At noon I kicked dust and roamed around the city looking for a nice PC to buy. I haven't seen a decent one so far.

The power returned at 3 PM and I was able to install a new software on my PC. I had plenty of plans this morning for my project but having to wait for so many hours until the power goes back made my ideas fizzles out.

Im not in the mood of writing so pardon me if you find my entry weird.