Hello! I've been having an interest in OS-tans , a Japanese meme which depicts personifications of operating systems, especially in the Windows family. While I'm not an otaku for Japanese anime culture, I got the interest of OS-tans because I am learning the Japanese language, and I am sick of being bored yet in love for my customized Windows XP SP3. So I searched for something interesting about Windows, and I came across a OS-tan of Windows 7. So I studied and came across a collection of OS-tans from the Windows family, to the Apple line, and to the Linux distributions. See the collection here . I subscribed to Dell's YouTube page and came across a number of videos which gave me interest. One is implementing Ubuntu Linux 8.04 in their Inspiron Mini 9. Also I also watched an introduction to one of Dell's luxury offerings, the Adamo. I wished I had one of these laptops with brushed metal finishes, glass-lined screen edges, illuminated keyboard, and all-aluminum ...
I dared to ask this question in my mind: “Will I be a person who will be remembered a lot here in UP?” To that, Rumi “answers” through a line of one of his poems: “Fall into his hands and you will weep like a cloud; Run from him and you will freeze over like snow.” While pondering upon Rumi's “answer”, I thought if I became too proud of myself lately. I became too selfish and self-centered. I did not care if I ruined the pride of my family, my friends – my whole circle of life. I began to catch a realization that the pronoun him refers to my God. I ran away from God and turned to my own way of showing myself that I am a student of UP, without recognizing my relationship to him. These days I feel so cold about my relationship to God, to my family and friends. I feel so empty inside that I am not really enjoying my growth as a person and as a part of the society. The Word of God says that when we draw near to him, fall into his hands, then we will weep in our sorrows while we...
Next year, I'll be finally starting my undergraduate Special Problem, or simply "S.P.", an equivalent to the Thesis or Dissertation in my degree program here in UP Mindanao. Here I'll be thinking of a project that must contribute a large part of the society around me. Here's a repost of Sir Loy Torres ' blog post about his experience being one of the judges of the best SP in the year 2009. He has always commended UPMin students as producing the most number of passers in the PhilNITS FE examination here in Davao. The first passer from Davao was Ate Raissa Yu in AY 2007-2008. I have always had a high regard for University of the Philippines ' (UP) students and UP graduates, as I believe they have one of the best curriculum, professors and students amongst the universities here in the Philippines. Here in Davao, there are a few admirable universities producing top quality IT engineers (CS, IT, IM, CoE, ECE, etc.) every year. But the fact that majority...
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