On Nametags and Retirements

I took Visual Design in hopes of getting something substantive out of my photoshop skills. I normally don't take criticisms well so I say this has been a humbling experience to say the least. @_@ I learned that if I'm designing something, I should always put my best foot forward. I have to juggle a lot (creativity, function, recall value and the like), and seeing how design is always made for "someone else" I have to work with differing tastes, which do not always agree with mine. Believe me, a lot of clients will be clods with no sense of design but you have to make it work somehow. ^_^

Our first assignment was making a nametag.


I got a C because 1) it wasn't legible enough, 2) the material sucked, and 3) the design was, I don't know... lacking. I see that Ali is difficult to please here. I have to pull all the stops now if I'm to complete my cuatro sem. Haha. I love challenges. ^_^

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Chong kicked me out as Know Your MEAn columnist because I was too lazy. I said, "You can't fire me, I quit!" Haha, I guess I couldn't hack it anymore, and seeing how MEAns are so accustomed to keeping deadlines, I guess I simply lacked the initiative. @_@ I know there are a lot of unanswered requests and whatever, but I guess it was a good stint all in all. I just hope the new columnist would be less lazy. Haha.

Easy Come, Easy Go

I went to Escaler for the Mr. and Ms. SOM final leg. I had nothing to do between 4:30-6pm anyway other than to endure my hunger strike. @_@ They had this contest were people could win a round trip for two to Boracay given that they stay until the end of the show to personally receive the prize themselves. So I wrote my name on a piece of paper thinking, hey who knows? There was an obvious lack of seat in the place and besides, MEA has already reached its 20-person quota. So I went out thinking, hey what are the odds? :-?

En route to Cabochan, I ended my hunger strike with the usual late-class hotdog and mami. ^_^ I also broke my zero peso expense policy in the process. The time then was 5:50. It never occured to me to at least visit Escaler and at see who won the damn thing. After a few minutes of Cabochan's class, Chong texted. I thought it was another one of their cruel jokes, but apparently it was confirmed later by MGT-H people who I believed had little motivation to play this sort of prank. I thought, hey, I was lucky. Wait, no I wasn't. >_<

I should've stayed. I should've tried my luck. Well, everyone would say, what are the odds? But that does not discount that fact that I did have a chance, dammit. >_< I should've at least stayed. There is definitely something wrong with fate's humor in this one. Now I just want to see the guy who won. I want to see how it feels like if I stayed because I seriously don't know how I should feel knowing that I could've won but freely chose not to take the chance. T_T

And for what? Just so I could be an early bird in Cabochan's boring-to-death class. There is absolutely no consolation in this one, by far the greatest could-have of my life. >_< O well, nothing is really supposed to be this easy. I just pray to God that the person who finally won will enjoy it.
So what say our readers? The verdict is that it is not fun to go to school anymore. If I may quote Lady on this, "Mas malala pa tong sem na to sa SMEG." I had to agree. @_@

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We made lots of moolah in Powered by Paint. ^_^ Unofficially, the total net would be P50 thou. That would be a P140 thou improvement over last year's Siklab. I'm the man. No not really, much of the credit really belongs to Nati. @_@

Havaianas sold like hotcakes (but if you think about it, selling hotcakes is not really in our collective experience so we can't really tell how they'll sell, if they ever sell at all @_@). Anyway, point is, we all had a spanking good time. Ryan is P50 thousand richer and Chong has one successful project under his wing. I, on the other hand, shall take joy in the merits of having made new friends (or enemies in the administration) and having nurtured meaningful relationships. Bottom line is it was all worth it. ^_^

I made this poll in the hopes that somehow, tsinelas will win. But no, sneakers are more popular, or so it seems. I just wanted to illustrate a point. Well, anyway it's this: Ang tunay na pag-ibig ay parang tsinelas. Sa dinami-dami man ng sapatos, pag-uwi tsinelas pa rin ang hinahanap. ^_^