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Well my anger and frustration has ebbed tremendously since thursday
when i found out that CRS changed the enrollment procedure for this
summer. They made it online and they announced it the day before the
first day of enrollment!
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Aside from stupidly not informing the
students, they also conveniently did not inform the (in my case)
engineering administration, the engineering registration commitee, even
the other engineering departments, so on the day of registration
everybody didn’t know what to do.
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The enrollment process used
to be, pre-enlist online, go to your department to fetch the your list
of pre-enlisted subjects, go to the departments that offer the subjects
you want and have them manually (as in written in paper) encode you
into the class list, have your reg form checked and then pay.
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they changed it into, pre-enlist online, go to your department to get your list of pre-enlisted subjects, enlist online, print your enlisted subjects, have your subjects checked or they’ll be cancelled, pay.
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Now
here is the first stupid. If they’re going to impose online enlistment,
why didn’t they just give all the slots during pre-enlistment?
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Stupid
no 2: They imposed online enlistment, but the servers for the
enlistment isn’t able to accomodate all the influx of people logging
in. So instead of eliminating lines, they just concentrated all the
lines into one BIG line behind the computer center because of stupid
no. 3.
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Stupid no. 3: The online enlistment can only be accessed
through dilnet but they didn’;t provide enlistment computers. As one of
my friends said, even if we overloook the blatant miscalculation of
bandwidth needs how the hell are people going to access online
enlistment? The answer was of course the computer center, where people
lined up for hours just to get to the computer terminals only to  find
out (after constant window refreshes) that the subjects they want is
already full. At least during manual enlistment, you’lll find out your
subjects are full the moment they are becuase it’s going to be
announced when you fall in line for that subject.
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They could
have at least informed reg com earlier then maybe regcom would have
provided computers at the  engineering lobby or somewhere else. I’m
sure other reg com of other colleges would have done the same.
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Stupid
no 4: They rushed the implementation. Wi eman what else could oyu
conclude from an announcement that came out on the day before
registration period and a registration commitee that doesn’t know and
weren’t briefed of the new protocols?
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Personaly I pity the
engineering regcom because people ask them for information which they
themselves do not know becasue they weren’t briefed. So the students
end up venting their anger at the regcom. And when the regcom goes to
the admin for help, the admin isn’t able to help either because,
whaddaya know, the admin wasn’t  informed either.
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Stupid no. 5
Colleges need to go thorugh tons of paper work and signings just to
input subjects into the system. Sometimes colleges get petitions for
making osme subjects available for summer. And they get these petitions
during registration period itself. Before, one the subject is approved,
the department offering that subject can easily release an announcement
so that the students can enlist. But now they have to get permission
again just so they can input it into CRS. That’s ok if the permission
is given instantly but it’s not and slow permitting is ok if the
registration period is long, but the registration period is only for
two days.
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Gawd I can go on and on about the stupid things that they failed to foresee. But my day is just going to get ruined.
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Fortunately, due to sheer luck, I was able to enlist ES 11 and Che 123 or else I’m toast.
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just hope they don’t use this  for the 1st sem registration or rather
have the common sense not to try anything stupid like it again.

Well despite my previous entry, we got on to going to Bolinao this weekend. The place we went to was good looked good great facilities, but too expensive for my taste. I’ve got pictures at my multiply site, and also a full review of the place.
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Anyway, after trying to even out my tan lines I ended up having too dark skin. Hehehe it doesn’t show in the pictures I uploaded but you see, after we went to the resort, we visited my grandmother at Santiago Island and the boat trip and tricycle trips under the burning sun called all my melanin out.
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Anyway it was fun spending some time with my parents and my sister, I just wished we could’ve stayed there longer. I was a little disappointed with the beach though, it never got very deep, but the sand in the deep part was more like mud than sand, maybe because the beach was right beside the opening of the River Malinao. The waves never got to the beach because there appeared to be something blocking it off shore. We later found out that the place where the waves end is a deep drop. i tried to go there but I was stopped by the mud-like black sand which was really gross.
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Anyway I just confined myself to looking at the bottom of the about hip-high water where I found lots of shells, a few fish lurking in the dead coral and the newly sprouted seaweed and one dead fish floating into oblivion.
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My feet had it’s own share of exfoliation when we walked the beach into Puerto del Sol, which was only a few meters away from Punta Riviera. The waves hit their beach and as far as I know, they don’t have the icky muddy sand, weel that’s because before I got far enough out into the deeper  part of the water, I was blocked by a WALL OF SEAWEED!
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Here I was thinking that maybe we finally arrived at a better beach. me and my sister, with my neice went further, so as not to be scolded by the Puerto del Sol people, then while my neice enjoyed the deeper water which was full of dead sea weed, I tried to explore the deeper parts. With my goggles on I swam out but before I could get deep enough to practice my swimming skills, there I was tangled in a wall of seaweed. Seriously, I thought I was going to die, it was soooo gross and slimy, I felt like Harry Potter in Goblet of fire when he went thorugh the wall of sea weed, but this was icky and slimy and as far as I know, there were no grindylows.
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Anyway, I got home safely, but not without an allergic attack because I went into the pool. I think I’m allergic to pool chlorine, because i didn’t get any allergic reactions from the sea water.
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Owell that’s my Ilog Malinao adventure, hopefully we get to go to Patar beach this last weekend of April. Either that or I’m going with my higschool friends to Puerto Galera…. But I’m crossing my fingers because this kind of planned stuff almost always gets cancelled.

Well i found out yesterday that our outing on Saturday is cancelled. Good now there’ll be nothing to look forward to before summer classes, just my luck.
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Also I failed ES 11, and rumor has it, they won’t be taking 2nd takers this summer.
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And to top it all off, I gained 3 pounds since I haven’t been going to the gym.
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I haaaate it!
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Well at least I’ve got a new raket, I hope I stay on this one, and I truly hope that i can balance this, execomm duties, acads and everything else that seems to come to my life at worst of times.
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I guess life can only be what you make of it.
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Right now I’m craving an extra cold Venti sized Starbucks Frappucino, unfortunately, the nearest Starbucks is about three rides away if I commute, so I’m sticking to my instant coffee with ice and topped with my just bought, non-fat whipped cream. But it doesn’t taste the same so it did little to boost my optimism, but it did keep me awake.
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Anyway, my room’s a mess because of the past acad rush from the last week of the semester, and I’ve been procrastinating ever since to clean it up.
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My mom says my allergies were because my room was… ehem… dirty, but I get allergic reactions everywhere I go recently, heck i wasn’t even able to enjoy the FR properly because I started to have really bad allergic reactions to the Pool water.
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Although I am glad that I never was allergic to alcoholic drinks and caffeine, because if I was, I think I’d die.
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Anyway I still have to do some general cleaning in my room, scrub the walls, dust the mattress, vacuum and stuff so that’s not really something I’m looking forward to. But at least I have this laptop so I can watch Casablanca and continue my starwars marathon while I clean up. Haaai. Here I go. Thanks for reading my nonsense hehe.

It’s funny when something you’re so sure of turns out to be something unexpected.
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Right now I am home alone, not knowing where my parents are (hehe orphan). I just came home from our org’s Final Rites and semender hoping that I will arrive at a home where a steaming bowl of something delicious is waiting for me as my dinner, unfortunately, I came home to an empty house and no food. So I had to fend for myself and cook my own dinner.
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Anyway, speaking of the semender, it’s kinda sad that there’re very few people who attended, maybe because of the wonky schedule which is a sunday-monday overnight event, or maybe because most people still have requirements to finish for acads.
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Well it was kinda fun and tiring at the same time. Of course the applicants were put through a series of tasks that they had to finish before they can be inducted, after the induction was of course the videoke busting singing marathon!
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This was my longest marathon that’s org related if memory serves me right. I think i went to sleep at 5am, of course not before I was caught sleeping open mouthed on the chair I was sitting in. hehehe. i also discovered a new way to ruin a perfectly good alcoholic drink… grape juice. We called it gin-ubas, and I don’t suggest trying it. Unfortunately we had no choice because it was the only juice available at the 7-11 outlet we bought it from.
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I’m not really in the mood to write, I just thought I had to document the event. heheh.
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Actually I’m hoping that my inspiration comes back in a few days… Well, I kinda need it ‘cuz I’m planning on re-entering the writing scene. I desperately need a gig to finance my… ehem summer escapades. Hehehe.
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I’ll make sure to document my sumemr escapades too though.

Well it’s almost vacation time and I just can’t wait to leave my problems behind with Manila and go to Pangasinan! Whoohooo!
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My mom promised that after we visit my grandma that we could go somewhere we could snorkel. Yeah! Ever since my first time in Anilao, I’ve been dying to swim in the sea again and watch the fish. Nyahahah finally some water-fun that doesn’t require you to go up flights of stair just to feel the fun. *cough splash island cough*
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I miss Splash Island though. We used to go there yearly with my cousins, back one none of them had children. It was the number one choice for summer activity for us.
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I remember going there for the first time and being too afraid to ride the slides. The next time wwe went, I went berserk and won’t stop climbiing up the stairs for the slides. nyahahhaha.
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But now, I have to level up, to something more challenging, swimming in water deeper than 20ft! Nyahahaha I’m already excited, and it’s this Holy week already!!!
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Anyway, i’m not done with school requirements just yet. I have to finish my 135 paper before Sunday and layout PURGED!, before Sunday as well. And it’s already Saturday tommorow.haai.
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Oh well gotta get back to work, as they say, you have to work beofre you can have fun, so off to work I go.

it’s been a while,since I said I’m sorry.
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It’s a line from a song by the goth band staind.
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It has been a while, since I last posted an entry, since the last time I really reflected and most importantly, since the last time I liked the words that I write.
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I think it’s time for an update on my life. After all, If I expect to chronicle my life properly then I should record it properly right?
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Well the past month has given me brand new responsibilities to attend to. I am now head of the External Affairs and Publications Committee of UP ALCHEMES as well as Features Editor of the Engineering Logscript. I am to step down from the EIC position of PURGED! and Reactor, and am now finished with all the exams that I’ll need for this semester.
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Unfortunately, it seems I may need to repeat some subjects yet again, but I know not to dwell on the negative.
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I now have a laptop and am currently downloading new movies for my summer enjoyment.
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Actually I had a much better entry in mind while I am here lying on my bed typing in my laptop, but a certain glisten in the western direction prompted me to look at a picture that wasn’t supposed to be there. A picture that was hidden under a one of the cds that scattered by bedroom floor. And said cd’s middle hole just happened to
show one person, in that group pic, that made me lose my creative juices in that instant that I saw it.
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The person who stopped my creative juices from flowing. *sigh
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Some people say that one should be optimistic and focus on the positive things that can come from negative events.
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I guess things like that are easier said than done. After all, how can someone not in any predicament be able to quantify the feeling of thinking positive when everything around him points the opposite way?
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I used ot be like that. Or rather i always took effort to look at things positively, if not, then fully ignore the negative aspects entirely.
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Apparently, ignoring negativity doesn’t really make it go away, because in the back of your mind those negative thoughts are incubating waiting for the right time too burst and infect you with greater force than when it was first conceptualized.
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Negative thoughts have a way of staying benign and then one day becoming active, just when you thought you were safe.
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Maybe, being pessimistic is better. At least, you won’t have the additional pain of failure, because in your heart, you already failed.
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Wasak ka na noon pa, kung alam mo nang di ka na mabubuo ulit, bakit mo pa pipiliting pagdikit-dikitin and sarili mo diba?
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Mas maganda siguro kung tinaggap mo na, sa gayon, mas madali kang makaka-move-on patungo sa mga bagay na mas importante.

nothing cool really happened today. I just got a bunch of laptop brochures. Apparently, my laptop scavenging isn’t just wishful thinking… yay!

Well this is my birthday week… yay!
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Ooooh, I dunno if I mentioned last Feb 14 that the day after that was my birthday… or did I?
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Anyway, I really felt like going loner on my birthday so true to my mood, I never showed my face in the tambayan.. a weird thing because I don’t usually stay away from the tambayan for more than 20 hours.
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Well maybe because I had this procedure done that made my face look like somebody sprayed mud all over it. But I guess it looks a bit better now that the scars have healed and all that jazz.
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Well just in time for the UP fair last Friday, which is also the one I asked Jules to go with me to, then cancelled at the last minute. Sorry dear, the call of booze was much louder and more appealing to me than staying up late watching JJ’s and fretting the moment when one of them might actually jump towards me.
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Anyway, the next day, I had to go to Jay’s house, he’s my classmate at MS1 and bunk at his place together with 2 others to finish our MS1 project, which is a diorama of the Guimaras oil spill. And during the time I was there I again constructed another expressionw hich my three groupmates will identify me with (the first was pro-active) and that is the expression all that jazz (a replacement for etc.).
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Well we were supposed to do a project that had relations to each of our fields, namely psychology, political science and chemical engineering. Yeah apparently, political science and psychology had lots to do with oil spills and such.
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Anyway we’re almost finished with only the finishing touches left. Althouhg I must say we wouldn’t have had to go overnight if only all of us were productive. hehehe. Of course it comes with the whole enchlada that doing group work comes with a bit of horseplay and this time it was youtube madness, a bit of tuksuhan because of Jay and Lady, courtesy of me and Tristan, as well as hangovers (ehem) and puyat modes that had to be remedied by a good dose of Z’s.
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We ended up painting neon colored houses to represent the coastal villages, and a not so scale model of my proposed oil recovery plant (the Chem eng’g part) with, of course, neon colors.
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I forgot to take a picture but I really did good in painting the island green and doing a bit of shading and blending. (heheh self- praise)
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So we ended up watching youtube for the rest of the morning on Sunday, while Lady did most of the work on the diorama (she slept during the night while we painted and stuff). And just before going home, I had an unplanned lunch/merienda with Tere and we looked for cameras at cyberzone so Tere could take memorable pictures during her graduation this march (congrats!) and she promised me a starbucks tumbler… yaay!
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Anyway I went home to see that my sister bought me a webcam and a mic-headset combo ( although I already have a mic, two actually) which my mom immediately asked me to use so she could talk to my sister (who is in Japan.
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So during the talk blah blah blah I discovered that I owned a big chunk of land. Nyahahah I’m filthy rich! Joke-ness! Anyway my sister was looking for a house, so she could finally y’know separate herself from the family and my mo offered to sell her the land. Then we later found out that all the land titles were already in our names so that when it was time to inherit them, we won’t be burned by the inheritance tax.
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Apparently, being the youngest gave me an advantage. Because my sisters had to share the smaller land in Bulacan, while I had the 3x larger one in Cavite all to myself., Nyahahah just cuz I was born late.
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Anyway, the sales talk and my mom saying that the cash my sister would pay her would be refunded once she (my mom) dies and the convincing that looking for a place to live in Manila is gonna cost a helluva lot more than 1Million the conversation moved towards me buying a laptop.
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Layo noh?
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Anyway since my birthday just finished, I fianlly picked up the courage to go thick faced on my sister and ask her to buy me a laptop. But since she’s gonna buy a house, then the phrase "not a chance" would be most appropriate. However, I previously had a deal with my mom that if I was able to sell this PC, this new one I am currently using, then she’d buy me a laptop.
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Well I guess my mom gets overwhelmed with all the technology, that or she’s just very stingy.
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Buuuut! My sister’s husband was looking in the market for a desktop PC, and whaddaya know, I was able to sell this one, to him! nyahahah. And tomorrow I shall go laptop window shopping. Nyahahah! My dream finally came true… sniff.
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And here Iw as thinking that this was the worst February of my life.
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Nyahahha… And all that Jazz

It is once again that day when everyone gets to be all sweet and mushy. Creepy thing is, people allow them to!
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Hehe bitter.
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And since I am still painfully single, I’ll do what I do every valentines…
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Shop!
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Nyahahah. Walking around the mall has that calming and cooling effect. (Aircon?)
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Actually, I already did that yesterday.
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Right now, I’m concentrating on writing my novel.
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I just hate that I woke up early this morning just to remember that I don’t have 135 lab today. Sheesh.
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Anyway at least I have time to update this blog.
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I was going to add a few entries yesterday, but walking around SM North Edsa took all the energy out of me. So after a quick snack last night, I went straight to sleep.
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Anyway it’s good that I got enough sleep last night, at least I won’t be squirming in agony at the gym later today, not to mention I’ll be needing the extra hours sleep because I’ll surely be staying up late tonight to get some ES 11 lovin’.
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The darned exam is on my Birthday!
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But I guess it’s better to have just one exam tomorrow instead of the three exams previously scheduled that confounded day.
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I still wish I could do some more shopping later today… Hehehe to release those Valentine blues.
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And to end this post, here’s a pretty good pic of the Eng’g lawn. I dunno but I really like this pic and I jus t wanna share. View this photo
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I took it while walking outside the Chemical Engineering Department Faculty Room.