Duty manager. TeG. System owner.
Downgrading Ticket Severity.
Dispatched Tickets from SM.
Deliberation on Three Shifts.
Doing Things in Security.
Downloading Tons of SP’s.
Detecting Threats of Systems.
Doctors Traumas of Systems.

Duty-bound To Serve.
Dwelt Thirty x Seventeen.
Delivers Twenty-four x Seven.

Doomed To Survive.
Descending Team Statistics.
Deprived To Speak.

Desires Tripled Salary.
Dreaming of Timely Sleeps.
Doomed ‘Til Saturday.
Deserted ‘Til Sunday.

Delighted Tuts/Shububu.
‘Dance’ To ‘Seraphim’.
Despedidas To Scrapbooks.

Destined To Shine.
Determined To Succeed.
Decided To S___.

Zaido and other the descendants of Shaider already came out. When our conversation started with those characters, we traced back to the era where Shaider is one of the stars along with all sentai cartoons and texts (not the SMS thing).

1. Shaider – Ang Pulis-Pangkalawakan. Lahat tayo ay nag-enjoy kay Shaider habang nakikipag-away siya sa shigi shigi army after niyang mag-’time space warp, ngayon din!’. Ganundin si Annie na laging nakikitaan kapag lumulundag. Alam mo ring matatalo na ang kalaba ‘pag dumating na ang malahiganteng plantsang magiging pistol.

2. Bioman, Maskman – Siyempre, sinong hindi makakalimot dito bago dumating ang Might Morphin Power Rangers. Umiyak ka nung namatay si Yellow 4. Kahit ang end credits tinatapos kahit paulit-ulit na lang nilang nililinis ang robot nila. Ang masaya naman sa Maskman ay na nagiging Mask-u-man kapag kinakanta na ng Pinoy dubbers. Sina Tito, Vic at Joey ba yung kumanta? Kaboses eh. Halos gayahin mo namang mag-levitate with matching aura powers around at gumawa ng kung anu-anong star and double star sa goma. Remember the end credits?

3. Masked Rider Black – Channel 13 pa rin ang panalo nun dahil kay Mask Rider Black. Ala-5 ng hapon yata yun after ng Candy Candy. Siyempre makalaglag panty si Robert Akizuki nun bago siya mag-’Rider Change’. Tatawagin din nya si Battle Hopper. Mortal na kaaway niya ang Gorgom.

4. Nano-Nano jingle – Sweet, sour and salty… nano-nano

5. Takeshi’s Castle. I haven’t been deceived by Anjo Yllana and Smokey Manaloto as the original author of this post claimed. Ang inabangan ko talaga dito ay kung meron ba talagang nanalo laban kay Takeshi. Isipin mo naman water gun versus water pump yata ang labanan. Although nakapanood ako sa Channel 7 na nanalo yung contestants sa final round. Gusto kong round dito is yung maze na maraming doors at 2 goons.

6. Shake-Shake Shampoo, Monkey-Monkey-Annabelle, prikidam 123, Langit-Lupa-Impyerno, Syato, Luksong-Tinik, Luksong-Baka, 10-20 – Kumusta naman ang Shake-Shake Shampoo, hindi ko natandaan na nilalaro ko yun. What’s Prikidam 123? Marami pang maka-saksak-puso-tulo-ang-dugo nakakapagod na games aside from these. Naalala nyo rin ba ang Bahay Kubo na apatan na mag-a-up-here up and down, left and right. O kaya yung ‘Sen sen chimpoy champoy Josie Kalawa’ or whatever. Pambata talaga!

7. Hindi lang taga-Milo ang rumuronda sa elementary schools. Pati ang Ovaltine na madalas magpa-film showing. Ganundin ang Chiz Curls. Tuwang-tuwa ka naman kahit ang haba-haba ng pila eh kaunti lang makukuha mo.

8. May malaking away ang mga Metal, mga punks na naka-itim, at mga Hiphop, mga taong naka maluwang na puruntong na kahit makita na ang dalawang bundok. Hiphop ako nun kasi mas mahilig akong magsuot ng maluluwag. Naalala ko yung baseball outfit ko nun. Astig. Sikat ang kasabihang ‘Punks Not Dead!’

9. Alam mo ang universal uwian song na Uwian Na! na kinakanta sa tono ng Wedding March.

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Another August 2004 article but this time a republish on Engineering Logscript, a student publication of the College of Engineering. 1999 is originally titled Untitled and was submitted on Centro Escolar University Integrated School Department’s Junior Gazette paper. This long poem (no, I think ain’t a poem) includes the songs in my playlist, my song hits and my memory last 1999 and backwards including old tunes of Air Supply.

it’s when the WILL OF THE WIND was cruel
when i was ALL BY MYSELF, so cold inside
you LIFT ME UP out of sad times
i felt LIKE A CHILD whose LIFE has just began
i thought DREAMS don’t come true
until IN MY LIFE you come through

you’re THE GIRL OF MY DREAMS
i’m THINKING OF YOU, TIME AFTER TIME
LONELY IS THE NIGHT without a glimpse of you
worse, i’m starting to get CRAZY,
a HOPELESSLY ADDICTED one,
TRULY MADLY DEEPLY in love BECAUSE OF YOU

my EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD
YOU’RE THE INSPIRATION, i say out loud
EVERY MORNING i wish i could see you
because i CAN’T SMILE WITHOUT YOU

IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND
they’re only 10,000 PROMISES to love you
for ALL MY LIFE not to be broken
FROM THIS MOMENT ON

so i THANK GOD I’VE FOUND YOU
and EVERYDAY I LOVE YOU, now, FOREVER
ALL I HAVE TO GIVE is MY LOVE
SO PURE is what you will receive

SOMETIMES i find myself asking
will your eyers look on me SOMEDAY
but IF I LET YOU GO, then i’m undone
I’LL BE MISSING YOU, WHEN YOU’RE GONE

WHAT GOOD IS A HEART
if i’m scared to GIVE IT TO YOU
why RUNAWAY from my feeling
if i knew it’s ALWAYS you

if my love is BETTER BEST FORGOTTEN
if you BELIEVE i was not meant for you
tell me WHAT CAN I DO to forget you
if a PICTURE OF YOU made me blind
if you’re the LAST THING ON MY MIND

THE HARDEST THING is to walk away
saying I NEVER LOVE YOU ANYWAY
but NO MATTER WHAT pain it will be
my feelings will keep on coming BACK HERE
YOU’RE STILL THE ONE i will beg for
it will STAY THE SAME, FOREVERMORE
UNTIL THE TIME IS THROUGH
YOU’LL BE IN MY HEART always sweet
and NO ONE ELSE COMES CLOSE to it

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After 8 years, I’ll start collecting titles again and very soon I will come out with 2007.

Three years ago I made my first stint for UP Parser, a student newsletter of Department of Computer Science, with this fun article.

Aries
Tigilan ang paggamit ng photos ng iba sa Friendster at Myspace. Face mo lang kung problema mo ang face mo. Daanin mo na lang sa profile at humingi ng maraming testimonials.
Lucky Number: Number of Friends
“Don’t do to others what you can do today.”

Taurus
Kung trip mong mag-artista, magpadiscover ka na rin. Tumambay sa AS. Madami kayo dun.
“Bato-bato sa langit, ang tamaan sapul!”
Lucky Number: (Channel) 2, (Channel) 7

Gemini
Galingan ang laro sa Eng’g Cup para hindi makulelat.
Lucky Number: 0
“Practice makes perfect. Nobody is perfect. So don’t practice.”

Cancer
Huwag mag-ROTC para iwas skin cancer. Huwag kang mag-smoke para iwas lung cancer. Huwag kang hihinga, mamamatay ka.
Lucky Number: 50/50
“Oiliness is next to ugliness.”

Leo
Hindi ka masaya dahil hindi mo nakatuluyan si Ara sa Sana’y Wala Nang Wakas.
“Kay haba-haba man ng prusisyon ay hindi makakarating sa paroroonan.”

Virgo
Magkakabalikan na kayo ng ex mo. Magkakabalikan kayo ng regalo sa isa’t isa. Sasabihin mo sa kanya, “hindi pa tayo tapos, babalikan pa kita!”.
“Blood is sweeter than water the second time around.”

Libra
Inis na inis ang fans club ninyo dahil hindi nanalo ang bet ninyong si Sandara. Ganundin si Rainier. At ang ikakamatay mo, natalo rin si FPJ sa eleksyon. Tigilan na ang pagiging fanatic.
“Birds with the same feather, pray together, stay together.”
Lucky Color: Jolina’s technicolor

Scorpio
Kakapusin ka sa pamahase. Huwag mahiyang mangutang o magpalibre. Tumingin-tingin sa paligid baka may kakilalala.
Lucky Number: 5.50
“Ang hindi marunong tumingin sa pinanggalingan ay kung matinik ay malalim.”

Sagittarius
Mag-ingat at may uutang sa iyo. Sabihin mong hindi mo siya kakilala.
Lucky Number: 4.75
“Huli man daw at matsing ay napaglilinlangan din.”

Capricorn
Tatambakan ka ng MPs at problem sets ngayong linggo. Iwas gimik muna.
Lucky Numbers: (Math) 53, 54, 55
Luckier Numbers: (Physics) 71, 72
Luckiest Numbers: (CS) 11, 12, 21, 32
“An apple a day is seven apples a week.”

Aquarius
Huwag makinig sa tsismis. Walang pasok bukas.
“May tainga ang lupa, may pakpak ang balita, may buntot ang sirena.”

Pisces
Alagaan ang inyong kalusugan. Kahit uso ang mga isda sa TV, bawal sa iyo ngayon ang sardinas at fishballs.
Lucky Number: 555

This was published August 2004 where Ikot fare was 5.50 pesos and the number 1 telenovela on primetime is Marina.

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The Conspiracies shares the plots, subplots, conflicts and climaxes of the legendary world of Chakoria.

Before the grand exposure of the conspiracy took place, the Shububus were fed by the Ministry about this prophecy:

According to the Oracle of the End of Chakoria, the hope of the empire not to suffer from the grand disorder called Indefinite Outage depends on the outcome of the Great Wave. It is also said in the Oracle that the fate of the existence of Chakoria will lie on one hewlet, a transported human from another multiverse. The hero shall be united with the Chakorian heaven. The ceremony will transition powers to defeat the Eccantur, the One Who Will Bring Chakoria To An End.

Main Plot of Ministry and the Triad

As the Shububus arrive in their world, they inform these Hewlets of the mission to save the Chakoria from Eccantur who they identify as a god of the Dark. All of the life-threatening evil manifestations come from Eccantur’s attempt to conquer the world with the help of its minions, the Hopkins. As they explained it, the Hopkins collect the Seven Escabi pieces to form the Windows of Wishes and Wants to let Eccantur in.

Shububus and the Hopkins are not aware of such plot. It appears to Shububus that Hopkins attempt to hinder the former in acquiring the escabi pieces is for fulfillment of Eccantur’s desire. As for the Hopkins, since Shububus are working for present sovereign of Chakoria, they need to stop them.

In order for Rafia, the Dark Man, to complete the Triad, he needs to bring the Dark Spirit with the Dark World into the Chakoria. He succeeded to bring Dark Lady into life with Lea. The third member of the Triad should pass through the Windows of Wishes and Wants.

Truth on Eccantur

Chakoria could come to an end if the complete Triad had conquered it. Eccantur is a deception character formed by Dark Man to cover Dark Spirit. However, Eccantur as one which the Ministry called the holder of the seventh element, void, could also destroy any world including Chakoria. Ian happens to be the owner of the element void.

Indefinite Outage: What Happened Before

Forza 10 is the first group of Hewlets called to save the Chakoria. It was later revealed that the caller of Forza 10 is the mother of Mykos, the The One Who Would. She also called the Hewlets to save the her boy from Rafia who competes with them for the Seven Elements of Chakoria. These elements would open the portal for the Dark Spirit to pass through Chakoria and complete the Triad.

However, in the end of their battle against Rafia, they were defeated. Rafia managed to disassemble the group by deceiving Narf. He intentionally let Narf discovers sapistah, the object where the element void resides. Narf, being jealous with the affection Lea is receiving from Chad, unlocks it. When Chad had a chance to kill Lea, who is now turned to Dark Lady, spares her life. With Narf’s initiative, the group was divided to those who disagree with Chad’s action and those who sympathize. Rafia made use of Narf to orchestrate a Narf-Chad affair to take away Lea’s feelings to Chad.

In the final battle against Rafia, Chad, who has the capability to control all seven elements among Forza, was almost killed by Rafia. Rafia thought he really killed Chad. While Rafia attention is to free Dark Spirit, the weak Chad asked Wolfo to kill Chad so the power to control the elements will pass to him and not to Rafia. Dark Man cannot completely open the gate. He recognized that he didn’t kill Chad. Wolfo aimed the Sword of Chakoria, previously owned by Chad, and stored the spell that controls the seven elements to Window of Wishes and Wants. The Window cracked before Rafia hit and killed Wolfo. Ri-An went to Wolfo hopeful to rescue and was Rafia’s next target. Ri-An struggles Rafia until she get herself in the front of the cracked Window. While Rafia, to his dismay that he won’t complete the Triad, is chanting his spell to use void to destroy Chakoria, Ri-An wished to the Window that their (Ri-An and Wolfo) love won’t fade on their next lives. As soon as the energy of void started to break loose, the Window totally broke. The void did not succeed to destroy the Chakoria. However, the memories of all with the exception of Rafia were washed away. Ri-An has random memories of what transpired from the start of their mission till their final battle with Rafia.

Ri-An and Wolfo were displaced somewhere after the Indefinite Outage. Dark Man found out that Dreau, Una, Regie and Leila, who all detach themselves from Chad and his supporters, are still alive but dying. He promised life to each of them only if they will submit themselves as His loyal apostles. They were able to find Ri-An and imprisoned her.

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Treaty

It does not need for a contract to be written in black and white. I get a hold of a certain debt when they give me QMR as a response to a technical responsibility that I asked for. Although that’s how I understand the “treaty”, some could argue that, it is also their task to shape one’s career path as what the onboarding posts.

It is not pleasant to run away with something that I haven’t started. QMR is something new. Until now that I’ve done the first dreaded month of patching and upgrading, there is so much to learn in this area that I haven’t bumped into yet. Process wise, I’m over. And it’s over since we had just established a new process on handling patch and release management to relatively irksome customers.

Maturity of Processes

When I dive here in the pond, processes laid down have been established. Of course, this quality of service was sold to big time customers. Even being the service provider, I am impressed on our procedures listed on the ITIL. It’s more encouraging to contribute on polishing up such processes because it’s prone to frustration to introduce new methods to a company owning a less standardized processes. However, if it happens that one manages to kick one for the latter, you’re big time!

If one is leaning more on the technical aspect of SAP Basis, maturity of processes is certainly a factor. It makes the job easy because one would not have to think on it. And as of the moment, since I want to concentrate on building my technical skills, less engineering of processes should be served in my plate.

Friends

Definitely, they are the biggest reasons. Oh yeah, decisions must not depend on one’s friends since at the end of the day, one will left his own workspace and make way to home alone. But then again, in the middle of day of frustrations and satisfactions the work had brought, friends are whom you shared these. I could not take others’ emphasis on informing the managers first before my friends on these delicate and heated decisions unless the managers are my friends (which should be the case if they only know how to manage their social skills).

Unfortunately, it seems the ball was passed on the Parokya. Month after month, the headcount of the barkada is descending. It is really emotionally painful to create a memorabilia of friendship and financially aching to organize a send-off party. I don’t want to end up on a time where no one could give me scrapbook and the like.

Jannie is right that it would really be hard for someone to win the attention of a new crowd even you have a good sense of mingling with others. I am a people person but it takes time to take the centerstage. When I attended computer science as a shiftee in college, I got no constant barkada for two years. It was only on the third year that I learned what to sing on the centerstage and be a star.

I have a hitlist. If all of these people leave, then I will go with them.

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The Legends explains the world and its inhabitants and objects including the magic, science and technology that governs Chakoria.

Chakoria is one of the fictional stories I am currently working on. The outline of the tale is laid below. If there’s a certain group that would appreciate the legends more that would be the Parokya since they are the inspirations of Chakoria. This is evident in the characters of the stories who will I introduce next time once the mini plots per character have been polished. And if one is too observant and knows how to read between the story lines, Chakoria is fantasy parody to a series of events. The name Chakoria itself is a clue.

First Two Story Arcs

Ten individuals from the Earth are transported to a planet parallel to Earth called Chakoria. They meet the superiors of the alternate planet who explain the peril awaits Chakoria. They are knighted as the Hewlets charged with the task of saving Chakoria from the opposition called the Hopkins. Trapped in the situation with no other choice, the Shububus, as they call themselves, decide to rescue Chakoria in the exchange of bringing them home after their mission.

In the first story arc, their mission is to gather the Seven Escabi pieces that fuse within the bodies of the living creatures of Chakoria. These broken glass-like stones were scattered throughout the planet after the Hopkins destroyed the Window of Wishes and Wants. Since these are objects of desires, the carrier can be easily deceived and controlled by its power which turned them into Monstro.

During the course of their quest, they have discovered secrets behind a Hewlet. The machine called Zed Transport 417 has chosen them to be saved from their death. They are destined to die on Earth on the day they have been transported to Chakoria. They also find out that they are actually the second batch of Hewlets brought in after the former batch failed their mission.

At the end of the first arc, it is revealed to the Hewlets that they are working for the dark side under the existing sovereign of Chakoria. Shububus and Hopkins unite to defend the Chakoria from their true nemesis, the Triad.

The new team formed realizes that the Window can serve as an entrapment for the Triad to come out. They continue to take shape the Window with the Seven Escabi in the beginning of the second story arc. They learned that without the Elements of the Chakoria, the Window cannot be formed. The next mission then involves the search of these Elements.

Shububus battle and have encountered their previous mentors that are serving for Triad and each is holding an Element. The group meets another greater challenge that they have identified the Eccantur or the World Destroyer in Ian.

The Oracle unfolds as the Great Wave of Three Changes take place. The Migration of the Temple is its resurrection from the grounds of Chakoria. The Eccantur graces with Ian’s presence to the Consolidation ceremony. Kaedo who had the control of the Seven Elements recreates and opens the Window. They learned that the Windows of Wishes and Wants is a hoax. The Window is actually a passage of the Dark Spirit of the Triad to Chakoria. Dark Man of the Triad splits Elia’s body as a sacrifice into two entities: the spiritual and the physical. Dark Spirit enters the Elia’s body completing the Oracle on The Good and The Bad Being as One.

Elia urges Ian to join her in the thrown but Ian have conspired earlier with Kaedo. Kaedo aims Elia but Dark Mother of the Triad, Elia’s real mother, covers. With the love felt by Elia, Dark Spirit separates itself to her body. Kaedo cages the Dark Spirit and brings it to back to the Passage. Ian enters the Passage and uses his power to destroy the world of the Dark Spirit including Dark Spirit.

At the end of the second arc, the Oracle is then understood as between the Good and The Bad, the Good Will Become The Only One.

Third and Fourth Arcs

The third and fourth arcs are underway. At this new beginning, Ian decides to go back to Earth. However before he passes through the time gateway, someone thrusts a dagger on his body. Since no one knows about the crime, everyone thought Ian make his mind not to return. The ill Ayam, who attempts to kill Ian, takes advantages of Elia’s loneliness. Ayam is destined to be son of the Dark Spirited Elia and Ian. Because of such action, the order of time is wrecked when the future and present Ayam meet at the same time frame. As one of the consequences, the previously transported Hewlets are scattered in a random time and in space.

The third arc will revolve around the mission of Mykos, the One Who Would, to bring owners of the Seven Elements back to Chakoria. The fourth arc will spin on the new battle of holders of Seven Elements against Ayam and other dark forces.

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When a standard database user needs to execute high-privilege commands but has no authority to do so, the normal user opts to log in as a superuser orasid. This flip-flop is comparable to a superhero’s switching to an alter ego, ayt?

But what’s Orasid got to do with me? My teammates, the perpetrators, gave me such moniker. It’s not that they caught me changing costumes but according to them, there is a noticeable shift from a withdrawn guy to a gentleman who tries to be as suave as possible (but can’t) when his leading lady is around. They often tell me about my aura powers reflected out of my smile. They also keep on asking the status of my mission and stuff like that. And they even taught me a signature gesture to signal them… Hey, I’m saving my future right now… DND. I like to make it clear that Orasid-ing is not about scoring. Orasid hates to be a scoring machine fluttering around her. I still believe that pure and simple moves have big impact. Let’s see after few days…

Do I switch to Orasid in other situations? Yes. Orasid-ing is toggling the super powers within. It is simply stepping up to achieve my goals (and far more than courting someone). If there is a need to double the effort, I just do it. I never doubt on what I can do even some forces of “higher kind” already did mistrust. One’s will is one’s power and it will…

Unleash the Orasid in you!

I had received the best and most logical advice from Mr. Destiny himself, Myk.

Well, let’s say if that girl has the same feeling towards you, but she has a boyfriend. At the moment, it’s useless.

That’s when I was moved.

Lately, I’ve been thinking the possibility of “our” mutual feelings but it had shadowed the fact the she’s currently has a boyfriend. I’m easily carried away to love the feeling of being in love. Maybe that’s what believing in destiny and enjoying pop culture of TV series had brought me. Damn being hopeful romantic! And Myk is right! Regardless of how ambiguous our connection is, the fact remains that someone is still committed to another. Disregard LarSon effect for the meantime. Joke!

Now, I won’t immerse myself on those lovely thoughts and simply enjoy the friendship.

Huwag na lang muna tatablan.

Well, I can attest this could lead to a best best friend relationship. No more. No less… for now.