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will be brewing something before next month fall to not to rot this blog..

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:44:09 +0800

will be brewing something before next month fall to not to rot this blog..

nybg: uglytomatoes: jojoworksout: isnaberoman: -My Nerdy...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:37:27 +0800

uglytomatoes:

jojoworksout:

isnaberoman:

-My Nerdy Nerdiness expresses itself :)

As a chemist, this makes me smile!

Huh, kinda interesting in a “I have no idea what this means” sort of way.

I will admit to having looked a few of these up to be sure I was interpreting them correctly. What you see are the chemical formulas of various substances used to mimic plant-based aromas and flavors. Pretty, and pretty neat. ~AR

Because of ARROW, the TV series, I tried green for my Start...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:54:26 +0800

Because of ARROW, the TV series, I tried green for my Start screen. haha.. I’m always fond of blue, I’ll be back soon. :))

brettleland: Stanford was extra beautiful this day

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:53:02 +0800

brettleland:

Stanford was extra beautiful this day

What has been.

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:46:42 +0800

Time and again I guess I will be saying this to you, I’m back! That’s still better I guess when really, I can’t maintain this whole blogging. With such demanding academic schedule mixed with train of unfortunate events, I just can’t.

Again, I’m doing this not more likely for my readers (if there are) but for myself. Or I would just like to pretend that there were at least people who happened to pass by my page and care. And when they saw it for almost two months now without any update, ask what happened.

What a shit it would be if after with such drama I had with the first part of this post I’ll just say nothing much transpired with me during those idle time.

Again, I have all my right to pretend that you care.

THE GREAT FLOODS: Well, aside from the Habagat downpour that took Manila by storm (by flood actually), any heavy rain is now seen to affect UST and nearby places regularly. Darn the government, it’s been our problem for epochs now! I got stranded again, classes were suspended, schedules were ruined.

THE UAAP CHEERDANCE COMPETITION: Before the competition proper, we first watched the Tiger Pep Rally. Judging their performance, our spirit for grabbing back the title went down but nevertheless hoped and prayed for the best until the very last minute. As everyone knows by now, UST-SDT placed fourth for second straight year. Needless to say, we are still proud of UST. We did not watch it live though, the ticket selling of MOA Arena was such an epic failure! Congrats UP!

THE UAAP BASKETBALL FINALS: Even before Season 75 started, sports analysts have counted out the Growling Tigers AGAIN! And yet, we (i always use the pronoun) did not only made it to the Final 4, we made it to the FINALS! Did I mention we queue for more than three hours just to buy tix for Game 2? And another 2 hours to get inside the Araneta! haha, small sacrifice as support to the team! As I’ve said before call it “tsamba” or whatever, we left everyone in awe and proved, yet again, the doubters wrong! We may not be able to snatch the title but the whole Thomasian community has shown tremendous support and the whole team feels like the same! Congrats Ateneo, I already moved on! :)

THE FINAL EXAMINATIONS WEEK: Alongside the UAAP Basketball Finals, we had our own fight academically. Mine went well, I’d like to believe. Grades will be out soon and I’m hoping that I’ll get what I worked for.

ENCHANTED KINGDOM GETAWAY: This trip was planned long time ago but turned out to be unplanned. I wasn’t prepared at all! It’s always good to unwind after the tiring week of Final Exams let alone to be with friends I haven’t gone out with for a long time. Endline, we had fun.

Of course, behind the curtains are the drama I opt not to mention. I want this entry to feel just right.

I got happy and sad. That makes me normal. Epiphany, but consequently still leaving me confused. Doubts, despite the proof presented. Longing, after seeing you everyday. T’was roller coaster.

Lastly, I just finished reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which really made me sad. The good sad.

I always have fun reading the incoming college freshmen’s predicament, issues, etc.,...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:28:00 +0800

I always have fun reading the incoming college freshmen’s predicament, issues, etc., especially those who will be future Thomasians. This wasn’t the same during 2008 yknow! haha

Well guys, I will be happy to answer your questions if you have one especially regarding the Faculty of Engineering and Chemical Engineering Department. Don’t worry, I won’t crush your idealism, that’s just so soon! hahaha

Life is unfair in a fair way strikes again.

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:28:51 +0800

Companies to go to for my OJT? Not my problem! Modesty aside, I had a handful for myself to choose from, and that I would have to turn down the others. It wasn’t just fed to me, I worked for them all: Nestle, Coca-Cola, and finally, Unilever! I deserved the damn opportunities because, boy, I know how to chase them! But life never forgets to give me my share of problems. Need not be told, they’re finances, yet again! I always asked why don’t it give me a break?! You know, I feel like I don’t deserve such and that those people who didn’t believe in me, I also feel that they are still dragging me down. But I shall not falter, He always backed me up, and always will! I can prove them wrong and slap their faces with my success. One step at a time, I will hurdle this off, and I can pay those who people whom I owe.

Carry on, Chal, you will do great! You know you will go places!

#NeoVation #latepost

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 02:16:01 +0800

#NeoVation #latepost

The Ruby Jubilee of the UST Engineering Class of 1973

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:06:00 +0800

(This post is long overdue and for a long time I can’t figure out how I should present it but what the heck, I don’t have an editor! I may just emphasize that the accounts of the events could be subjective to my observation and I do not claim them to be complete.)

After 40 [insert adjective here] years, they have gathered to celebrate. The class of 1973 of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Santo Tomas shared the night of 11^th of February with joy, cheers, and memories. They are the ruby jubilarians!

Thanks to technology that they have restored their connections, though some, still, were not able to make it because some were abroad and for some personal reasons just didn’t make it; maybe some due to old age, and some were already one with the Creator. Nevertheless, everyone’s been celebrated for!

Professor Alberto Laurito, former Dean of the faculty, our Reaction Kinetics and Separation Processes instructor asked us to assist their batch organizing committee with the event. The deed mostly includes documentation and material preparation, plus a medley number. Having seen their pictures in the Thomasian 1973 (the yearbook of UST), the eight of us were excited to see the attendees even before the event started. How those faces evolved with time, if you may. :)

~~I cannot recount all the happenings during that night anymore. No one would want to read that, this ain’t news.~~

The whole event was an experience for us, witnessing the priceless moments of them seeing each other after a long time, hugging and catching up with each other. Some of them didn’t even see each other after their graduation, as they said. These were all not caught by cameras, we regret, because it was all spontaneous. The joy in their spirit exudes in their action and smiles. Many of them are already retirees; some are travelling and seeing the world and some are just active with organizations or overseeing their own business. Almost, if not all, of them were actively participating with the prepared activities.

The photobooth where they have to strike a wacky pose is just a statement how game they still are and which, by the way, is my favorite. Some of which are shown below.

The theme of the occasion was “Still Smart and Gorgeous @ 40” and justice, I think, was given; intimidated as she said was the current Dean Dr. Marcelo who graced the event. With her is Asst. Dean Balog, Faculty Regent Fr. Luanzon, and USTEAAI President. Also present were their living professors who were just but right given honors.

My classmates and I can’t help but putting ourselves in their shoes. Thinking of how are we gonna end up after 40 years. To whom of the attendees are our fates most likely to be similar? The thought that they were also once students like us that just made us think of what future holds for us. But then, only time will tell.

All in all, the night has been long, tiring and stressful but fun!

ianbrooks: Strange Attractors by Chaotic Atmospheres The...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:52:02 +0800

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ianbrooks:

Strange Attractors by Chaotic Atmospheres

The darkest art known as Chaos Theory is perfectly embodied in the form of its strange attractors: vast looping trajectories of variables that, when plotted, conjure gorgeous yet insidiously disruptive patterns. Chaotic Atmosphere’s Math: Rules series pays tribute to the beautiful form of chaos and its inevitable collapse of all our efforts to predict it.

Artist: Behance / DeviantArt / Twitter

This is so cool. I am a frustrated mathematician. However, a chemical engineer is a friend. :)

Here's the thing..

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:13:20 +0800

I’ve never been drunk, never partied hard! Have I lived a life?

I’m always taken aback when I always have a chance. I see, then, drinking differently. Though I know it’s not as bad as it seems, I really don’t think it was unnecessary but I never tried it. I didn’t think it was super cool either. Just right. I blame it to my high school friends who are conservative by definition! haha Family setup didn’t help either, there are drinkers but not my age and they never asked me to take even just a swig, so I didn’t take any.

Don’t get it wrong, I’m drinking alcohol but not tonnes of it. Damn I’ve studied brewing and fermentation processes back in our Industrial and Organic Chemistry classes, respectively, but never had I taken the chance to fully appreciate its products.

So I want to take out calculus one day and test my limits. HAHA

After deciding not to pursue Nestle Philippines - Cabuyao factory, we’ll be heading to...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:04:06 +0800

After deciding not to pursue Nestle Philippines - Cabuyao factory, we’ll be heading to Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines Inc. - Canlubang plant on Monday!

May the universe conspire with us!

Congratulations! I’m so proud of you! I wouldn’t say...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:33:00 +0800

Congratulations! I’m so proud of you! I wouldn’t say much, I don’t want anyone wasting their tears! haha :) Yes, I’m fine! Don’t you worry, susunod kami! :)))

I’ve been pondering about it for days. Am I a bad leader? Like how bad? This is rhetorical. (I...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:45:18 +0800

I’ve been pondering about it for days. Am I a bad leader? Like how bad? This is rhetorical. (I will opt not to expound on it.)

Read:...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 01:39:00 +0800

Read: http://chalwrites.tumblr.com/post/42107580789/repost-call-for-additional-member-s

REPOST: CALL FOR ADDITIONAL MEMBER(S)

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:34:00 +0800

Fourth year UST Chemical Engineering students are looking for additional members to complete their teams for the RCNAS-organized “NeoVation”. Extension of submission of entries was given to us in effect of coinciding our department’s event, Product Innovation Expo. Consequently, they allowed us to expand our group from three to the allowable number of members for the Neovation which is 5-8.

Only bona fide students of UST are eligible to join the competition.

Anyway, I can only speak for our class and I can tell that they have different preferences. Some would want a CFAD student for presentation aspects, others would want it from CBA for marketing strategies, others would want a Food Tech student because their product is food, etc.

Contact me as soon as possible so that I can coordinate with my classmates right away. Deadlines are getting close! Thanks!

Contact me here:

https://twitter.com/ryuchaL

http://www.facebook.com/ryuchaL

+639263072876

CALL FOR ADDITIONAL MEMBER(S)

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:44:00 +0800

Only bona fide students of UST are eligible to join the competition.

Contact me as soon as possible so that I can coordinate with my classmates right away. Deadlines are getting close! Thanks!

Contact me here:

https://twitter.com/ryuchaL

http://www.facebook.com/ryuchaL

+639263072876

New year's notion.

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 09:18:28 +0800

I feel the need to give a head’s up for everyone. It is 2013 yknow! I mean, TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN!!! If you know what I mean. Happy new year yo! :))

This year is sending some promise in every vein in my body.

I know not everyone doesn’t have a good year’s start just as all other day of the year. We can’t all be happy all at the same time, universal. So please, I don’t want to be toxic and send the wrong energy.

I want to accomplish so many things this year. Academics is given, I need to excel beyond my own standards. That will not be easy. Materially, I know it’ll just be the same; rubbery hard. Better relationships; with God, family, and friends. For bonus, love maybe?

Another thing is that on January 3 our classes will resume and that’s just like a blink away! We have quizzes, deadlines to meet as soon as we come back! Screw it, I haven’t had a good feel of this (a little over than a week) vacation, I’m going out with a date with my friends! I will be one with all other Thomasians on cramming tomorrow! wohoo!! NEW YEAR WITH A BANG, SURE WILL!

Yesterday’s so last year, we’re on a new ride! Enjoy folks!

Afterday.

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:12:27 +0800

My first quizzes for my subjects this semester are garbage! I have said. The results are not yet out but I surely know how to gauge. The streak continued until the first quiz of two today. I sometimes do not know what’s happening to me during quiz, I am just doing it all wrong. Realizing it once I passed my paper. However, I was able to pull myself together for my second quiz. I badly needed that to gain back my confidence!

Having recently discovered my new drive to strive harder, if not for perfection, I am up for redemption.

CARRY ON.

Some Little Things I Miss.

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:38:38 +0800

I haven’t had a chance to squeeze my creative juices lately. Yes, I design for a small number of times for UST Chemical Engineering Society but that wasn’t it. I mean, more of my artistic expression, i.e. creative writing.

Not that I do much in the past but I had a handful compared nowadays. Today, mainly, it wasn’t called for.

You know, I used to dance. (Even to chip in some choreography.) My friends in college might be surprised to know that because I haven’t showcased it. :) I love to dance more for the sake of its art than for others to enjoy it watching. I’m afraid that I don’t have the groove anymore for the current trend though. I MISS PRACTICING ROUTINES TO SWEAT.

Also back in high school, I directed a play for our drama club. I WANT TO DO IT AGAIN. I also did some small roles.

There were also times when I almost everyday play volleyball, even trained for it back in elementary and high school but always ended up picking badminton to officially play for school. I MISS THE BADMINTON TRAINING.

These, together with all other stuffs make up my frustrations in life. HAHA

Sure there are enough grounds to expose these while I am in college but I opted not to for some checkered reasons. :)