April 23rd, 2008
Not That I'm Wondering
"That," said Isabel, "is the most painful feature of lost love. You wonder what the other person is doing. Right at this moment. What is he doing?" -The Right Attitude to Rain, Alexander McCall Smith
April 22nd, 2008
A New Itinerary to Tagaytay
Breakfast at Mushroom Burger
Malaysian mumps in The Flower Farm
Our tour guide
The Lagoon
Ate at Mano's Greek Taverna for lunch. They serve home-cooked Greek cuisine. Their food was so-so, but I really liked their Mousaka. 
If you want affordable, nicely designed jars, drop by the stall of Unique Finds right in front of Days Hotel. They even export their jars to France, Yugoslavia, the States, etc! 
Dropped by the Cliffhouse to get some ice cream and to check the view. That's Taal Lake over there.
April 17th, 2008
Mixtape 001
Just discovered Tabulas' Mixtape feature. Because I'm bored, I uploaded the top 10 songs which has been playing in my Songbird since this morning. Guess what, you can even actually download these songs. First, right-click the song you want to download, click "Download this song". You will notice that it's in an unrecognizable format once it's in your desktop/my music/etc already. To play it in your player (in my case, it's WMP11), add ".mp3" in the filename as a file extension, so if the filename is "3d3f931bd381f8b25f1658c6b9d43175", change it to "3d3f931bd381f8b25f1658c6b9d43175.MP3". By then, you'd notice that its icon has changed, and it's just waiting for you to open it!
Don't you just love technology? Now I can share to you awesome audio files to add to your playlist. Hoping I can have more relevance to humanity in my present bumhood state, I, will be doing this from to time to time. 
For today's mixtape, here are the list of songs:
- Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy (Easy Listening)
- Disgrace by Essie Jain (Easy Listening)
- Empty by The Click Five (Easy Listening)
- Falling In Love In A Coffee Shop by Landon Pigg (Easy Listening)
- First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes (Easy Listening)
- Going Nowhere by Elliott Smith (Easy Listening)
- Lessons Learned by Ray LaMontagne (Easy Listening)
- Starz In Their Eyes by Just Jack (Pop)
- Wanna Be by Dizzee Rascal f/t Lily Allen (Rap)
- Young Folks by Peter Bjorn & John (Pop)
Ok, enough of the introduction. LISTEN TO IT NOW!
April 4th, 2008
Yey, finally
I've always ♥ Tabulas because it's a mix of Blogger and LJ for me (and it has lots of smilies!
). However, I wasn't able to update here for a long time now because I find it such a time-consuming task to copy paste my entries from one blog to the other. Neither can I just focus on this blog solely. Before I even put up this account, I already have my Blogger and my LJ running already. I cannot find myself leaving Blogger because I have that blog since '05, and I can't leave LJ as well because my batchmates from college are in my friends-list there. I post entries in different blogs in accordance to whom I want to talk to... I used to keep this account only when I want to talk to me. But ever since, I've always prayed that the day would come that Roy, the one man behind Tabulas, will be able to fix the cross-posting issue here, so that if ever I would want my friends to know what I've been telling myself recently, I can just easily cross-post it to my LJ. And guess what? ROY DID IT! Not just that, Tabulas has already a new metweblog api, which now allows it to work with Microsoft Windows LiveWriter as well! Woohoo! 
And I'm really digging the new control panel too!
You're such a genius, Roy, I hope you see that. I also appreciate how you replied to my e-mail about cross-posting and APIs before. I read one comment in the your blog which says that it's your personal touch to Tabulas that makes this service different from all the other blogging platforms out there---I so agree. I hope you keep up with what you're doing.
But please, once Tabulas is out of beta, could you not remove the unlimited slots for usericons and categories? 
(or am I asking for too much? Haha!)
I've been meaning to update about graduation, my summer plans and blues, but there's a lot going in the way! Probably I can do that tomorrow. As for now, I'll leave you with my present motivator:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.“
~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, letter four
To those visiting my Blogger/Wordpress, I'll be xposting from Tabulas from now on!
DISCLAIMER: When your post has smileys and categories in it, it won't xpost to Blogger. I wonder why?
Career Crisis?
pasting from my e-mail to my professor in Media Law:
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Hi Attorney Jo,
I was your student last semester in Media Law during Mondays. I hope you still remember me.
I'm sending you an e-mail to consult about law school/being a lawyer. I hope you don't mind giving your advice on this one.
I
was part of the Ad and PR track in Comm, and never did it cross my mind
to go into law school after college. This is primarily just because I
already wanted to work immediately after grad. However, during the
whole course of my college life, where I took several classes in
Advertising and had my practicum in companies where I was exposed to
different marketing tools and strategies, I realized that dealing with
brands doesn't really appeal to me.
Ever
since I was a child, I wanted to get into a job which will allow me to
deal directly with the lives of people. I've always told my family
that I want to be an agent in helping these people reach their highest
potential. That's why I took Comm, because I thought that if I'll be
working with the media, I can help in exhibiting the essential values
to society. But of course, that's easier said than done.
However,
after my practicum in an advertising agency, I realized that I don't
really fit in its kind of environment. I could opt to be the client of
ad agencies by simply working in marketing, but it was also just
recently when I realized that in the corporate world, at the end of the
day, it's mainly about the profits and losses only. Based on my
inclinations, I know that's not enough to push me up to the ladder
either.
Yet
I was still adamant to pursue this advertising/marketing career, even
if I already lost my drive brainstorming for taglines and storyboards.
Last January, to appease my uncertainty, I tried to apply as a teacher
in an exclusive school in Alabang. When I was about to accept their
offer, my mom held me back. She told me that I can always teach
part-time, and I should at least 'save up' some money first by working
in marketing. But I told her that I'm unsure if I have the passion to
beat my competitors out in the marketing game. I told her that I was
never the 'business person', as I am more bent towards the humanities,
probably the reason why my highest grades are in my Philo and Theo
classes. And that was when she popped out the question: "Why not take
up law?"
At first, I believed she has a point. She told me that it totally makes
sense if I become a lawyer, not just because I like detective and
investigative stories since I was a child, but because I have the knack
for research and weaving its pieces all together. Plus, all I ever
wanted is to pave way for the 'truth' in people's lives, especially in
the lives of the marginalized in our country.
But
aside from that, I suck at time and stress management. I can't bear
all-nighters; I badly need my sleep to survive. Even my memory has been
failing me recently. I don't know if it's relevant, but I had a hard
time with my History classes (maybe because of memorization?).
To
put it short, my heart might actually be bent to become a lawyer, but I
fear that I can't keep up with the pressure even while in law school.
But of course, I can never really tell for sure, because I don't have
an exact idea yet as to what the rigors of being a lawyer are.
That's
why I'm sending you this (rather long) e-mail Ma'am, so by the time I
must decide, I know it's not just purely based on hunches and hasty
opinions. Any feedback from you will surely help, just so I would know
which career path "I need to be and am most needed" (quoted from my
Theo151 professor).
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Patricia Ann Aguila
AB Communication '08
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What's your take? 
