The Final Cut

Posted on March 29, 2008 at 06:00 Down the Drain 10 Comments

From our laboratory, I can clearly see the morning light now. We’re at school again, not that we’re exaggeratedly early birds dying over the Internet, but it’s our fourth time for this semester alone that we stayed overnight to do a project. It was only during the first one where I got the chance to sleep (and my classmates took picture of me which a classmate considered as a non-convincing scandal 😆 ). The project we are trying to do right now is, at last, not on SE but on database design. If it weren’t for this, I would have already packed for my summer migration. This is actually scary, since our teacher really informed us beforehand that we’ll get an INC if we won’t be able to pass this. The problem here is, I don’t know how to do a freaking JDBC.

For two consecutive days, I went to school without taking a bath :tongue: (now, the number of such days has really become countless). The first one was last Thursday, when we also had an overnight for the final version of our project prototype and I came back at the dorm around 6:30 only to face my computer and jot down notes for our report on Solaris at 8:30. I wasn’t actually able to report that day, since we were the last group. That afternoon, our labor paid off when we had our defense fast and smooth unlike the group preceding us. Yesterday was the second. I woke up at 10:30 when our report was set to start at 9:00. When I arrived at our room, our group was already the one reporting (this one’s not yet on Solaris, but on IBM DB2 Universal Database). Of course, I drew attention from everyone — I had an obvious haggard look of just waking up. :laugh:

It was 3:00 in the morning when we watched Sweeney Todd today. A little two-hour break from tapping the keyboards was just necessary. It was morbid, ugh. I really liked the fact that the kid was the one who killed Mr. T. Many said that his dying position was cool but for me it was just…okay. I still can’t look straight when it comes to watching scenes of throat-slitting. The heck. It’s as if I can feel it.

Sweeney Todd Trailer
Story 05: SWEENEY TODD!!! – Hiatus

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Still Not Getting Any

Posted on March 24, 2008 at 02:40 Down the Drain 12 Comments

Guess where I am now?! For sure, most of you won’t know no matter how hard you guess. I’m in the computer room of our dorm right now. Yep, obviously, this is not the time to goof around and use the computer (Internet, that is). Actually, I have been devising a plan lately on how to get in and I already tried it last Friday night. Too bad, I have no card that’s brainy enough to slide the door open (if you know what I mean). Fatefully (or so), tonight, as I passed the door, I turned the knob, and eureka! It was unlocked!

This is one of the (and perhaps the most) wildest things I’ve ever done in my stay in the dorm so far. Breaking rules sure is fun, huh? The staff for tonight is the most strict compared to the other two but it still didn’t scare me together with the fact that he’s just in the adjacent room! I can hardly imagine typing at this hour and place and it’s even harder to imagine what would happen to me if ever I’d get caught. Expulsion, most probably. Nevertheless, if that’s the case, I have a partly honest reason of doing this — I’m trying to check the CRS if it’s already catering our batch. We, Computer Science students of the graduating (hopefully) batch, still need to get a non-major subject and we’re looking forward to taking Literature 2 because it’s the only Humanities subject that we need that’s relatively easier compared to writing (Communications 2) and speech (Communications 3). If it weren’t for the change of pre-enlistment schedules (graduating students, instead of incoming 2nd years, used to do it first), then we wouldn’t be left worried. But then, I won’t be here for that matter! 😉 I guess I’ll really have to wait for daylight then, or maybe tomorrow.

Sigh, what I’m doing now is really crazy. Haha. Maybe tonight is my lucky night. However, I also realized that the key to this room is never kept. It’s just in its usual box by the counter. Then again, I think I won’t be doing this again. It’s just…weird. :tongue: