UP ITTC Helps You Become A Certified IT Professional
Mar 11th
The University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center (UP ITTC) offers a One-Year Certificate in IT Course to graduates of BS Computer Science and IT-related courses. Graduates from other courses who possess a high aptitude for IT or have been aspiring to become part of the IT industry are welcome as well. Be a certified IT professional!
As part of UP ITTC’s goal in making IT courses and trainings available to more Filipinos, an admission exam for potential students will be held in different UP colleges all around the Philippines (see schedule and venue below). Successful applicants can also avail of the scholarships through the sponsorship of several industry partners.
For those in Cebu, the admission exam will be on March 17, 2010, 8AM-12PM at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas Cebu College in Gorordo Avenue, Lahug, Cebu City. More information at the poster below. Read the rest of this entry »
Am I Ready For The Next Semester?
Nov 6th
Yihee, finally enrolled at school yesterday! And I thought I’d be enrolled next week. Wah the enrollment was quick for me. Though I enrolled on the wrong day (for juniors supposedly), I still managed to finish all the enrollment steps even before the closing time of offices. 
I’m quite excited of next semester? Why? Diversity. Next semester I suppose would be different from the previous ones. Hopefully, I wish, hope and pray, that it’d be my last semester in UP. I just hope I can make it. (My mom won’t accept if I won’t graduate on time; maybe she’d kill me)
So here are my subjects for next semester. Only got 16 units. I did not opt for overload. And I have no lab classes! Perfect.
I have so many vacant time but I guess I’ll either sleep, surf the net, go to the mall or make my SP during those hours. 
I only have one non-CS subject next semester and I hope it’d be fun knowing that the teacher’s cool. I have 5 1/2 free hours on TFs and I don’t what to do with it. I’m gonna start making my SP and I don’t know where to start. We have Project Management and I’m sure it’ll be very useful in the industry. We have a bit and a lot next semester. Rarr.
My subjects: Science, Technology & Society; Project Management; Undergraduate Seminar; Web Engineering; Special Problem; Design and Analysis of Algorithms. Whew.
I’m not much into getting the honors. I’m into graduating on time. Hope I will. Wish me luck! 
The Sipser Wars and Rizal Amazing Race
Oct 13th
Last Saturday, October 10, 2009, we had our final exam in Automata. It was quick and short (but still a bit hard) and we only spent less than an hour answering the exam. Maybe because we are quite excited to play the next activity, The Sipser Wars.
The Sipser Wars is a game thought about by our professor for us (modeled from Mafia Wars daw). Well, maybe for us to relax and enjoy the last formal week of classes before finals week will butt in. Sipser is the author of the text book we are using in class. It is the “tradition” of our batch to use the author’s name in the title of a culminating activity (e.g. Rosen’s Idol). The Sipser Wars’s rules are simple:
- Prepare 5 sets of 5 water-filled plastics (like the ordinary ice water but we used 5×9 instead)
- Two player per team per round
- One, the gunner is blindfolded. The gunner is the only one who could throw the “ammunition” on other gunners. If a gunner is hit by another gunner from other teams, that team is out.
- The other is the defense. He/she will take on the attacks (that meant getting wet) directed to the team’s gunner. He will also be the one to guide the gunner where to throw and attack.
I took on the defense role the whole time while my group mates were shifting in the gunner role. The game was like a riot. Nobody got out. Everyone played till their ammos run dry. I got wet head to foot, receiving all the flying water-filled plastics and running on bare foot in our soccer field. Here’s a short proof:
In the end, we all enjoyed the game even if it meant for the players including me to be wet, whole body. Our professor gamely joined in the next part of the game wherein we used larger plastics for ammo.
The Sipser Wars is truly a memorable game. Made me think about trying more mature war games. 
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One Goal
Sep 28th
“One Goal“. That’s one of the phrases that’s been ringing on my head nowadays just to get me focused. Our teacher in Software Engineering, apparently the one that’s keeping us super busy at the moment, told us this: that we should have one goal while in college, and that is 
to finish our studies. But because of all this busyness that (we) I am experiencing, I’ve been also missing on a lot of things lately.
First, Cebu Bloggers Society. I am already and will be missing on a lot of activities and events. That’s not because I don’t want to attend but at times like these, I just can’t. I can’t help but just miss every event there is for us. I know there are a couple of new members and I haven’t known any of them yet (except one in McDo). I hope I will get to know them on Philippine Blog Awards though (if I can go). I will also be skipping the Cebu-wide Aboitiz projects tour. I really want to go but I CANNOT. Aaaargh. 
My weekends. Apparently, the weekend concept is out for now. My last two Sundays were spent at school. I have no day for my rest anymore. I have no rest anymore. I sleep late, wake up early and spend the whole day thinking and solving and coding… everything.
If everything will go on as planned, this semester will end on October 18, 2009, the day I will be back to my life before this lifeless life — and it would be Philippine Blog Awards 2009 (Cebu). I just hope I could attend the event. I would feel like being reunited again with my blogger friends during this day. 
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Cebu City Heritage Tour Day 1
Sep 5th
Have you ever felt how it is to be on a heritage tour even on your own place? Last August 21 and 31, 2009, Cebu Bloggers Society went on a heritage tour of Cebu City.
Cebu City is the oldest city in the Philippines and is hailed as the Queen City of the South. The city itself, though not very large in size, holds a lot of historical memories that dated even to the time of the Spaniards. I still remember our international project in high school entitled Calles de Cebu which means Streets of Cebu. It won gold but unfortunately, the website isn’t up anymore. Being on that project made me realize that Cebu is not only Cebu because of the Lapu-lapu-Magellan tandem but because of the many historical figures and events that graced this long living community.
This heritage tour, organized by Atty. Ouano includes a video footage of us, the bloggers, giving out lines (e.g. We will impress this message upon our political leaders that we now have this individual and collective political will. We implore our leaders to take heed)Â that relate to protecting nature and society as a whole. We call this project (or maybe advocacy?) Expression of Individual and Collective Will. Read the rest of this entry »
