videoke night with college classmates

me and my CS '06 batchmates had a great time singing in the videoke. we sang to our heart's content. and three of us guys were almost drunk, i think two of them are actually drunk. i was able to score a series of 99s and one 100. mind you though that i don't have a great voice, my voice is just too loud that i was able to get high scores. hehe.. i miss my girlfriend so much last night that i wanted to hug any girl in our group. *sigh...

haven't started my self-training for web development and my flight to cebu is next week. yikes! *cramming mode again ^_^

see y'all! ^_^

Merry Xmas! ^_^

Merry Christmas to everyone! God bless and take care always... ^_^

kids and nieces

kids are a total menace at home. but i love kids. i love to play with them. i like the way they laugh when i tickle them. i haven't experienced much fun being with kids than here in my auntie's home in bulacan. as i'm blogging now, my nephew is going its way out of our room. wheeewww.. good thing he's out because i'm afraid that he might accidentally step on my laptop (i'm on a cushion on the floor by the way). my 7-year old niece meanwhile is busy fixing her stuffs and shoe. she talks a lot, yeah she really does. she can never run out of stories or things to tell. she's quite pretty too.

not a kid anymore but my 12-year old niece is someone i like to talk with about a lot of things. an intelligent and beautiful lass, we have so many things in common like playing computer games, striving for excellence in studies, being in a school drum & bugle corps. and etc. i hope that she'll have great achievements in her studies.

my other two nieces, both 14 years old, the first one is a bit chubby but still pretty and the second one is the most beautiful of them all . the latter wants to become a flight stewardess. i haven't talked to her that much but i believe she's a smart girl. the former is also a computer game addict. i just hope they'll prioritize their studies among other things.

well, that's all about my nephew and nieces here. sad to say thought that my father and i will be leaving on saturday evening to catch our flight to Davao on 4:20am of sunday. i'm looking forward to coming back here. for me, they have become my siblings... quite an annoying thing to say for someone who has been used for having no siblings. hehe..

5 days to go before xmas ^_^

start of vacation

tomorrow is the start of my vacation. my approved vacation actually starts next week but i will file a personal leave tomorrow 'coz my father requested me to be in bulacan tomorrow.

at last vacation. i'd still be doing a lot of self-learning endeavours this christmas vacation. i would be studying asp.net 2.0, css, javascript, and .net 3.0 particularly WCF. it's all for work. i hope i can gain enough knowledge for me to work smoothly on our upcoming projects. i'm gonna miss making stand-alone applications. i'll still be involved with some windows apps but it's just for bug-fixing and RFCs.

i hope i can finish nfs carbon during this vacation also. no random crashes hopefully. i want to try trackmania united too. i hunger for more racing games but there's nothing new in the market since nfs carbon.

advance merry christmas and a happy new year to everyone... ^_^

nfs carbon sucks; nba live 07 fever

@punzki and bele - thanks for the greetings! ^_^

nfs carbon sucks because of its frequent crashing during the gameplay. at one point in a race, in a particular location of the track the game suddenly crashes. in addition, the career mode is less challenging than the usual NFS game there was. In fact, one can finish the game (if there are no crashes) in less than 12 hours. i'm stucked at conquering two other territories in career mode because of the crashes. i hope EA can make up for the next installment of NFS next year, they better should.

in the meantime, i'm playing nba live 07 in dynasty mode for most of my free time now. my standing is 12-1. if only i didn't rely on the simulation versus utah jazz it could have been a no-loss record hehehe.. that's all for now. i'm eyeing to play FPS games like splinter cell or call of duty. i hope i can buy one soon..

catch you later guys... ^_^

@ 21 ^_^

It's my 21st birthday today. weeee!!! ^_^

the party; gift check

@exander yeah quite early.. hehe..

the party was fun. one band performance by our officemates (not part of the band contest proper) was really hilarious because of their songs and the vocalist's voice. his voice suits their songs and we the audience would go wild laughing. our group named Davy Learns to Rock, which I proudly suggested to be our groups name, won the 2nd place with an average score of 93%. the first place got an average of 93.33% so I was quite to hear that considering that they're actually band performers while our group is composed of dancers and choir members haha! my right hand ached after our performance. It was my first time to play the drums after 8 years wheeeww. And after our dance number I was gasping terribly for air because I have a cough. Man! It sure is tough to dance with a cough.

I received an NBA Live 07 pc version game and a NFS underground 2 game. weeeeeeeee!!! another game in queue to be finished. we were also given SM gift cheques worth 1000. we'll be going to SM after i finish this blog. hehehe.. I'm planning to buy a pair of long pants for an office wear. Now what other things to buy... hmmmm...

Xmas Party!

@exander yeah, the movie is a total disappointment. I feel sorry that the characters were made in a story like that. They could have been used greatly in a more exciting and fun story.

It's our Christmas party today. Yeah, I know it's not yet December *cough. Our party was supposed to be tomorrow (Dec. 1). But because of the Bonifacio Day being moved tomorrow so the party was moved today. Our party's gonna start at 6pm. I have a shoulder bag for my manita. I hope she'll like it. She better does or else. hehehe! ^_^

Catch you later guys! ^_^

happy feet; work on asean summit; nfs

me, my girlfriend and a batchmate in college (also an officemate) went to watch Happy Feet today. Like Punzki, I wasn't happy with the plot of the movie. In fact, during the middle part of the movie I kept saying to myself "where is the story leading to?" If it wasn't for the cute penguins, tap dancing genius Mumble, funny Latino penguins (as Punzki describe them), the movie would be a total disappointment.

And oh by the way, we'll be having work (as unexpected) during the ASEAN Summit here in Cebu from Dec. 11-14. A lot of our officemates are complaining because they'll be a having hard time to get to our office because there'll be roads that will be blocked during the summit. as for me and my girlfriend, we have no problems about this because we live near our office.

I'm nearly halfway of completing NFS Carbon. Hopefully I can finish it for the next two weeks. I can't really play it continuously because there are a lot of things to do. *sigh.

See 'ya around guys! ^_^

PS 3 overpricing

PS 3 is being sold at Toy Kingdom at 45, 000 for a 20GB and 60, 000 for a 60GB. Whaaaatttt??? What a price. Its' way too much than the original retail price in the US. I miss playing console games. It was during my elementary years that I was able to have lots of time to play one, a PS 1. Men, it really sucks to buy a console with that kind of price. I wish I'll be able to buy one when I settle down with melay.. ^_^

On a side note, I had a fever last night. Thanks to melay I was able to take biogesic twice, which made me recover just in time for work.

sick; drums

i have a cough and tonsilitis right now.. and my eyes just want to close... *sigh.. i hope i can make it through the day. we'll be practicing our dance number too around 6pm..

anyway, me and my teammates had our first band practice for our christmas party's (Nov. 30?!) contest entitled Banda Rito. We'll be playing Narda, Walking on Sunshine, and an original composition which doesn't have a title yet. I'm on the drums and it felt really good to play it. Yeah!!! I missed playing drums. The last time I played it was during our parade in celebration of the Sinulog Festival in Digos City. That was way back 1998, my first year in high school. Last night was my first time to play the drum set. I only use my imagination to practice playing the songs when I'm at home. And boy, Walking on Sunshine was really tough to play. The difficulty is the endurance to play it because of an upbeat tempo. My right foot surrenders because of it.

That's all for now, *cough *cough. I hope this cough won't last for long. I hate cough...

Mighty Fist

Pacquiao won! woohoo! Morales was definitely overwhelmed by Pacquiao. I didn't expect the fight to end that quickly though. Morales looked so awful because of his weight-loss training. He became so weak to handle the punches of Manny. The latter had even polished his techniques which is too much for Morales to handle.

'Till the next fight Manny!

Photo courtesy of inq7.net

A Happy Night

My girlfriend bought for me a UniSilver chain bracelet. This is supposed to be her gift for me during our anniversary but due to unforeseen circumstances she wasn't able to buy one. Weeeeee!! After so many years, I finally got one that is a genuine silver. What i always had before are just fake silver that failed to last a long time. I'll make this one last forever (hopefully). ^_^

After buying the bracelet at Ayala Center Cebu. We then went to SM to buy gifts for her family. We were only able to buy a perfume for her father and a toy car for her nephew. I also bought a Molecules shirt for myself and upon paying for it I decided to give my girlfriend a surprise as I was looking at the leaflet attached with the receipt. (An ad about buying a bracelet for a discounted price. Those typical coupons you get when you buy a minimum of Php300.) Instead of buying a bracelet though, I ended up buying a gold bracelet, earrings and a necklace for only Php299.00. The original price of the set was more than a Php1000! Great deal right? After paying for it, I gave it to her and told her to open it when we get to home (at her boarding house actually). But upon getting in a taxi she opened it immediately and she has full of smile and saying "Wow! Ang ganda (Wow! So beautiful)". I'm so happy to see her smiling all the way to her boarding house while holding my hand so tight. What a happy night it was.

P.S.
I'm 8% away from completing the career in NFS Carbon. I'll be posting a review about it tomorrow, hopefully if I have time.

Finally!

I finally got a copy of NFS carbon. I've just installed it and I'm gonna test it by playing just a quick race. I also bought a copy of Call of Duty 2. Unfortunately, the store didn't have a copy of GTR 2, which is a great racing simulator. It even got a rating of 9.0 at gamespot. NFS Carbon, meanwhile, was only rated at 7.6. A lot of bad comments have risen about it by gamers. I still would play it though because I have loved NFS ever since its PlayStation 1 days.

I'll be posting my comments about the games. See ya!

Regular at NCR

I just became a regular employee at NCR Cebu. I learned so many things for my first six months of stay here. Hopefully, i'll be learning a lot more in the coming months as i undertake new projects.

It's payday tomorrow. wooohhh!! with 13th month pay too.. ^_^

next-gen console war

who will win the next-generation console war? Nintendo Revo, Xbox 360, or PS 3? i read an article from T3 magazine a few months ago about this and it states that all three console platforms will have a decent number of fans all over the world. this means that there'll be no loser in their competition, which officially started on nov. 11 when PS 3 was released (finally!).

what to dance

i'm halfway done on mixing our music for an intermission number during our christmas party this december 1. and right now, i have run out of songs. waaaaa!! i want to finish the mix tonight or tomorrow evening. after the music will be the choreography... wheww... but i can't help it, i love dancing so much.. ^_^

basketball; growing up

I played basketball this afternoon together with my officemates. we played at the Sacred Heart School managed by the Jesuits. Whenever I play at their courts, I always remember my college days at my alma mater (Ateneo de Davao University). And I can't help to tell myself that "times flies so, so fast.. I never thought I'm already working."

sometimes I wish that I can get back to work at Davao. But, there are no companies that can attract my interest there... How I wish there is one.

hehehe.. enough of this stuff.. any ideas what i can give to a girl for an exchange gift?

chow!

Vista as the end??? No way...

I found an interesting article by John C. Dvorak at the PCMag website. It's entitled Is vista a Dead End?. He said that Vista might be the end OS of Microsoft because the software giant has no more ideas left. He even stated that if Apple loses ideass and so does Microsoft. Anyway, I also thought about it. Not that Vista being the end OS but what OS will Microsoft create next after Vista. Mr. Dvorak theorize that Microsoft could work on an OS that will fully utilize the multicore CPUs that we have now. That would be very interesting... hmmmmm...

I wonder, what would be the next OS after Vista. What will Microsoft have in store for us in the future...

Notebook for a mad scientist

This is the most bizarre notebook computer that i've ever seen. This is NEC TYPE NO-1 developed by NEC and Takara. This has a 15.4-inch WXGA display, 1.6GHz AMD Mobile Sempron 3200+ processor (Turion 64 X2 TL-50), 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 80-100GB hard drive, dual-layer DVD burner, and 802.11a/b/g wireless networking capabilities.

The red button on the side is the power button. Neat right? But I really wouldn't want to own one like this. hehe..

For more info: NEC and Takara unveil Duke Nukem-approved notebook: the TYPE-N01.

a month before 21

only a month left before my birthday... weeeeee!!! ^_^

Racing games

need for speed: carbon has been released last week. i'm dying to play one but the datablitz here in cebu (both in sm and ayala branches) don't have copies yet. there are a couple of bad feedbacks on this game, but no matter what they say i'll still play this one. i've played nfs games from the playstation one console and continued playing it on the pc versions of nfs underground 1/2 and most wanted.

i'm also drooling to play GTR 2. datablitz has it but i don't have the money to buy for it yet. *sigh...

for those racing game fans out there you can also try GT Legends and TOCA Race Driver 3. That's all for now... ^_^

globe visibility or pldt weroam?

i'm torned between choosing globe visibility or pldt weroam as a mobile broadband connection for my notebook. visibility cost P2000/month while weroam is P1700/month. they both serve unlimited wifi, hsdpa/3g, gprs and edge. i heard that weroam doesn't have a stable connection and so does visibility too. as it turns out, pldt weroam has the advantage right? but which is which?

i can't provide any papers for a proof of billing if i will apply 'coz i don't have a credit card yet, darn. i guess i'll just have to stick with using my n70 as a modem to connect to the internet.

About me

for those who do not know me yet, my name's joemelle bacus. i'm currently working at NCR Cebu Development Center Inc. as a software development engineer.

so what's more about me.. hmmmm.. my birthday falls on december 8 (next month, weeeee!!) and it's the solemnity of the immaculate concepcion (cool!). i have a girlfriend and her name is Melanie Mamugay. i love computers and technology. i like anime (watching anime episodes and reading manga). i love chocolates!

i guess that sums up the things about me. oh, i love to dance too! ^ __ ^

hi

hi! this is my first blog after 2 years of non-blogging experience... that's all for now.. i'll introduce myself later on.. ^_^