Category Archives: Life Oh Life

Thrown Away

09 Monday Jun 2008

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Napakaraming metapora ang pwede mong maisip sa larawang yan.

Itinapon.

Hinindian.

Inayawan.

O di kaya sadyang hindi na lang binigyan ng kaukulang pansin.

Rejected.

Unrequited.

Kawawa naman ang nagbigay niyan.

Pero kailangan niyang tanggapin na may mga bagay talaga sa buhay na wala kang kontrol, na may mga resultang hindi mo inaasahan, na hindi lahat ng inaalayan mo ng lahat mo ay tatanggapin iyun nang buong-buo.

Sa panaginip lang nangyayari yun. Hindi sa tunay na buhay.

It’s the stuff of fantasies but never of reality.

Kaya isipin na lang na ganun talaga, ganun talaga, ganun talaga, lintek naman na yan talaga.

Pero ayos lang yan. Kasi sabi nga ng tatay ni Calvin (ng Calvin and Hobbes), “it builds character”.

“It builds character.”

Para namang nakakawala ng sakit yang “it builds character” na yan.

Kung ang buong pagkataong inaalay mo ba ay itinapon, anong karakter pa ang mabubuo mo?

Meron pa ba? Meron pa kaya?

Itinapon.

Hinindian.

Inayawan.

Kawawa talaga ang nagbigay niyang bulaklak na yan.

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Nakita ko ang bulaklak na yan na nakalupasay sa may semento habang ako ay nakatayo sa harap ng Minami-Osawa Eki kanina at naghahanap ng mga lolo’t lolang magkasama na pwede kong isali sa aking They Come in Two’s set. Naintriga ako sa maaaring naging istorya niyang itinapong bulaklak.

Haha, pero baka kelangan i-apply dito ang Occam’s Razor  Principle (shave away all unnecessary assumptions and get to the point the easiest way possible). Baka naman kasi nalaglag lang siya ng kung sinuman at hindi naman talaga ni-reject. Hehe. Di ba?

Always Low : I'm Wired That Way

05 Thursday Jun 2008

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Define NEGATIVITY

– the character of the negative electric pole
– characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands
– the name given in philosophy to the negative element determinative or definitive of things and all ideas of things, whereby a thing is this because it is not that, and is seen to be this because it is seen not to be that, an antagonism essential to all forms of being, spiritual as well as material, and to all definite and distinct thought.

We can illustrate that using logic gates and the resulting logic circuit would be like:

or as Kaye suggested:

The Input-Output Table would look like:

INPUT OUTPUT
0 0
1 0

That just means that whatever goes in would always go out as NEGATIVE, it doesn’t matter if the input is AFFIRMATIVE or NEGATIVE, HIGH or LOW, the result will always be NEGATIVE || LOW.

I think I have that kind of circuit in my head. Maybe that’s why I always answer half-empty (or fully-empty, if I’m exceptionally negative that day) to that penultimate glass question. Hah. Awesome.

PS — Gabby, di ko rin sure bakit ako nag-ECE, eh galit nga ako sa analog. Puro gray areas (haha, at babalik talaga ako sa topic na yun). Sana pala nag-CoE na lang ako buzet.

Ang Mahiyaing Memory Gap

04 Wednesday Jun 2008

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Minsan ako ay balahura, minsan wala rin akong pakialam. Minsan makapal talaga ang mukha ko. Pero sa tunay na buhay, ako po ay mahiyain (wahahahahahahahahaha). Hindi nga. Totoo. Tignan na lang ang sumusunod na dayalogo kung saan naging usapan namin ni Meemax sa YM ang tungkol sa susunod na Tokyo Flickr Meet.

meemax: bat ayaw mong magconfirm?
meemax: go go go. walang hiya ka naman online ah. joke!
tinats: :))
meemax: hihihihi
meemax: sabihin Hi, I’m Tina. I’ll be coming so that I can show you my awesomeness.
tinats: amfufu
tinats: ikaw na lang hahaha puhleeez?
tinats: i’m kinda shy
meemax: tapos pag nag-meet kayo, yung Hi I’m awesome. And you are?
meemax: wahahaha

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Kailangan ko na yata ng mga assistants 😛 Hindi na nakakatuwa itong memory gap syndrome ko (pero di ko pa rin sure kung tunay ba to or ginagamit ko lang minsan na dahilan wehehehe — saka na nga itong topic ng selective memory loss, medyo malalang diskusyon yun eh). Enihu …

(Kadugtong ng usapang Tokyo Flickr Meet)
tinats: meemax! “she’s a cool”?
meemax: ilalagay ko dapat she’s a cool self-photographer
meemax: (a photographer that’s only interested in shooting his/herself)
tinats: =))
meemax: me tatlong tao ata dyan na may fisheye
tinats: eh wala naman gustong magpose ng concept kong mga pose no
meemax: try nating manghiram
tinats: fisheye!
meemax: willing naman ako ah
meemax: wala lang time at wala yung mga gusto mong costume
tinats: hahaha
tinats: oo nga oo nga
tinats: wala rin sa timing eh
meemax: hehehe
tinats: impulse minsan ang ideas ko.
tinats: at nasa pakiramdam na.
meemax: bat di mo hiramin yung tripod ni ramil habang nasa nagayama pa
tinats: mabilis rin mawala.
meemax: diba gusto mo ng top shot?
meemax: dapat nililista mo eh
meemax: hehehe
tinats: ay oo nga.
meemax: miniprojects
tinats: di. kahit ilista ko.
tinats: kunyari feel ko ngayon, bukas di ko na ma-feel eh.
meemax: pag naging sikat ka na, dapat me assistant ka na talaga lista ng mga ideas mo
meemax: at isa pang assistant na tagakulit
tinats: wahehehe
meemax: =))
tinats: kelangan talaga ng assistant eh
meemax: oo.
meemax: kelangan mo nang bayaran ang tao para kulitin ka ng kulitin
meemax: hehehe
meemax: tapos mas mahal ang bayad ng isa pang assistant
meemax: yung assistant na pipigilan kang matulog nang matulog =))
tinats: hahahahaha
tinats: mahirap ang trabaho na iyun
meemax: uu

(Tanghali — sa a-LINK Office sa Shin-Yokohama)
ish: tinats, may papabigay ako sa yo, pakibigay kay jem.
tna: oki.
ish: (ibibigay ang flash disk) pasabi bigay niya kay jr.
tna: oki (ilalagay ang flash disk sa isa sa mga bulsa ng bag).
tna: paalala mo mamyang gabi ah? for sure, limot ko na yan.
ish: okay.
(Gabi, 2300H~ish, kakauwi ko lang from a nosebleed session sa Bic Camera, nag-YM ang Ish)
ish: tinats, yung pinapabigay ko kay jem ah? remind lang.
tna: ha? (hala, ano na nga yun?)
tna: …
tna: …
tna: ah oo!
(Tatakbo sa bag at kakalkalin lahat ng pockets para makita ang flash disk. Lalabas ng door para puntahan si Jemu)
tna: jemu, may pinapabigay si ish (sabay abot ng flashdisk).
jem: ano to?
tna: ewan ko haha.
tna: teka.
tna: processing …
tna: processing …
tna: processing …
tna: aha — ayooown! pabigay daw pala kay jr. shet na memorya to.
jem: oks
tna: haha

Ugh. Ano ba gamot dito? Kelangan ko na ba uminom ng Enervon Prime? Or kelangan ko na talaga ng assistant? Wehehehehe. So kung ganun kelangan ko na ba mag-post ng specs for da assistant(s)? Oki oki oki. Ja, eto na ang preliminary specs:

(1) Makulit. Pano naman pag di makulit eh kelangan ko nga ng makulit na taga-remind.
(2) Kaya akong hindi patulugin. Oo, sobrang makapangyarihan na siya kapag pumasa siya sa requirement na ito.
(3) Madaldal. Para hindi makatulog. Parang sa pagda-drive sa road trip lang yan eh, kelangan madaldal ang nasa shotgun para hindi mag-snooze ang driver (*guilty*).
(4) Malupit ang memorya — aba’y dapat lang, kasi kung olats din ang memorya niya, eh bakit pa ko nag-hire ng assistant di ba?
(5) …

Hay naku nakalimutan ko na naman ang isusulat ko. Buset. Hanggang dito na lang muna. Dagdagan ko na lang kung maghimalang maalala ko yan mamaya.

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POTEKNESS!

Seattle lost to New York.

AAAAAARGH!

Fuzzy Logic

30 Friday May 2008

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“Ang hirap kasi sa yo binary ka mag-isip.”

“Eh bakit ba … eh ikaw ang fuzzy ng logic mo.”

I’ve always been a fan of Binary Logic. In it, you only worry about the 1 and the 0, the BLACK and the WHITE, the TRUE and the FALSE, the YES and the NO. I like reducing everything to two states. I hate gray areas. I hate in-betweens. I can’t help it, I’m like wired that way.

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Schrödinger’s Cat

28 Wednesday May 2008

Posted by in Geekdom, Life Oh Life, TV/Movies

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Schrödinger’s cat, often called a paradox, is a thought experiment devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger around 1935.

Anyway, it’s like this: a cat is placed in a sealed box with a sealed vial of poison that will break open at an uncertain time. Since no one knows when or if the poison is released, until the box is opened, the cat is thought of as both alive and dead. One can only pick a state — dead or alive — when the box is finally opened and the cat is seen.

It’s like … hmmm … maybe it’s like when you like someone and you are not sure if they like you back or not and you haven’t even opened the box — crossed a line, dropped hints, told them, asked them out, argh, whatever else analogy you can think of — what that something between you and that someone can be actually thought of as REAL and IMAGINARY, THERE and NOT-THERE, FACT and FANTASY blah-blah-blah-yakkity-blah. Not until you take that risk, tell them how you feel, and find out once and for all what the heck is going on around here, will you know IF THE CAT IS ALIVE OR NOT.

Right?

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Blame The Big Bang Theory for this. It filled my morning and evening train rides with entertainment but rendered me unsociable since my friends couldn’t talk to me what with my ears covered with my gigantic headphones. I don’t care though if I looked like an idiot desperately trying to prevent myself from laughing. Ugh. Anyway, I already finished this season and will be waiting for the next so y’all can have my attention from here onwards — all the other TV shows have gone into hiatus anyway. Bummer.

Disoriented

08 Thursday May 2008

Posted by in Japan Stuff, Life Oh Life

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it’s not often you encounter something that totally rocks your world, renders you out of balance, makes your head spin like crazy, and causes you to be scared that much for the first time in your life (okay , well, not for the first time, but for the sake of exaggeration, just let this blooper go, hmkay?).

i stayed up all night (well, almost) because of that something. hell, i was already sleeping before it frikkin woke me up twice!

stupid bloody 6.7-intensity earthquake. who knew you could render me disoriented huh?

Those Were The Days

04 Sunday May 2008

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THE COLLEGE CYCLE

every new semester:

after first week:

after second week:

before midterms:

during midterms:

after midterms: before finals:

after knowing schedule of final exams:

7 days before a final exam:

6 days before a final exam:

5 days before a final exam:

4 days before a final exam:

3 days before a final exam:

2 days before a final exam:

1 day before a final exam:

night before a final exam:

1 hour before a final exam:

during a final exam:

after walking out of the examination hall:

after the final exams, during the holiday:

[Golden Week 2008] Nosebleed Sunday

04 Sunday May 2008

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Our building had to change gas companies and we scheduled the inspection/change for our unit today. Jemu’s not around so I had to “talk” with the gas man (ahahaha) regarding the change and all the chenes that comes with it.

Nosebleed!

I really really really need to study (again) nang hindi na sumasakit ang ulo ko kakausap sa mga Hapon.

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[+] Suimasen, Jemu-san ima inai kara …
[-] Ah. Demo kono tokoro ni ha sunde imasu?
[+] Uh. Hai?
[-] Inai?
[+] Ima inai.
[-] I’m sorry, do you speak English?
[+] (Halleluiaaaaaah) YES!
[-] Ah (laugh laugh laugh) eeeh tooo…
[+] (Nasan na ang English?!) …
(At nagpatuloy pa siya in Nihongo — nasaan na ang English niyaaaaaa?!)

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OMFG, kelangan ko mag-review ng katakana! Nakalimutan ko yung katakana for N! Amfufu!

[Golden Week 2008] Lazy Saturday

03 Saturday May 2008

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this is just an attempt to wade through the sabaw that’s currently occupying the space in my cranium. oic while my brain is vacationing somewhere.

it’s a very lazy saturday — start of the much awaited golden week, actually. no jap class because our rakista pasyonista lola sensei is off to god-only-knows-where and no tennis-slash-whatever thing because the weather got screwy. i don’t have any back-up plans. tssss.

i have nothing to do. and no one to talk to. well, scratch that out, there are people everywhere but i just wanna keep to myself for a while and mull over some thoughts (after-shock from last night, i guess).

alright, so i’m actually following a storm pre-season game in sacto now but there’s no audio and it’s really hard to get yourself into the game if you’re just watching the scoreboard and the play-by-play. plus birdy and lj aren’t yet around and *ugh* i’m just so lethargic this morning.

wait, omfg, why is sacto leading? grrr. we were on top just a few seconds ago.

i didn’t see swoopes in the line-up. she’s not playing, i guess. swin’s been in there a time or two. k.gearlds, come on, show us that smooth shot. yoyoyo griffith, cool, you just tied the frikkin’ game. now, i know that brian agler doesn’t care about winning just yet and he’s trying out combinations blah blah blah but wouldn’t it be nice to see a WIN this early? and yeah yeah yeah, i get that sue and lauren aren’t still around, as well as jb, but hey, a little enthusiasm wouldn’t hurt, right? (i will not mention tanisha, i will not mention tanisha, i will not mention tanisha — gad, why on earth is she still in a storm jersey?).

swin just fouled someone and we’re now down 2. and now the rookie beck just fouled some monarch again. anubuzz.

amfufu, down 5. swin just turned the ball over. oh come on, swin! team timeout.

what to do what to do what to do?! might head out to some park to play volleyball with laizee. and i’ll prolly take noodles with me so i can finally take a shot of those (oh wait, a gearlds three! yey!) flowers (or damong ligaw) along the road heading to the nagayama-eki.

argh, this game is just too long. i’m already hungry. 55-55. who scored? who scored? damn html play-by-play is not refreshing. oh, wait, two free-throws for beck.

amf. (sacto) tangela “pocahontas” smith fadeaway. lech. come on, swin, katie, yo, ANYONE! bawiiiiii! alright, swin scored a hook, but a monarch had a jump shot, swin had a layup, and the same frikkin’ monarch had a jump shot again. amfufu where’s your defense, storm? and what the bloody hell — pocahontas for another jump shot. grrrrr.

oh wait — why on earth am i live-blogging an exhibition game anyway?

2 more minutes and then hello lunch! gearlds missed a three, shyra ely rebounds and then turns the ball over. a cash turnover, a pocahontas steal, an a.rob foul. i can’t wait for this game to be over. i’m really hungry. and now we’re down 8. two lawson free throws. team timeout short.

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i’ll peel my butt off my chair for the meantime and will just update this entry when i see the score later. gotta scourge for food.

just a random (yeah, right, random) thought:

ano ba ang tamang sagot sa tanong na “ano ang wala?“?

[#]: anong meron?
[~]: wala.
[#]: anong ang wala?
[~]: hala, papano ba sasagutin yang tanong na yan?

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oh, waittaminute, we were down 8 and now we’re just down 2? woohoo @ beck for that three. 15 seconds left. why isn’t there no frikkin’ audio?!

down four on kara lawson’s free throws. are we dropping two games in a row? find out later.

kennedy for three! down one now. but oh no, beck fouled someone. please let not someone be kara lawson.

(why on earth am i so invested in a preseason game? because i will miss the opening game, that’s why! stupid check-up, stupid lungs.)

six seconds. down one.

beck fouls again. pocahontas misses the first ft but sinks the second. we’re down two. 4 frikkin’ seconds. i wanna eat naaaa!

oh. it’s over. 68-70.

whatever. let’s move on. the world is still turning.

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speaking of the world is still turning shit, i remember reading a thread in peyups.com and i picked this little nugget from there:

[+] axis ka ba?
[-] huh?
[+] kasi sa ‘yo umiikot ang mundo ko eh.

what the hell di ba? sarap batuhin ng sapatos — ay no, i will not insult my shoes that way. will find another object to throw na lang.

amfufu.

osha, (late) lunch na.