hello starcity !!

Ah. this is something me and my friends had been planning about for yeeeaarrrsss. A starcity getaway is just what we need to de-stress away those acad stress. :))




Here is the link to join the contest! 
http://thefoodandtravelbuff.com/2012/01/08/the-food-and-travel-buff-giveaway/


SPONSORS:


http://www.thefoodandtravelbuff.com http://www.thejournalisticview.com http://www.fadandglamor.com http://www.pilipinasngayon.com http://www.hotfunstuffs.com http://thenewsmakers.info http://caraeclesiblings.info http://www.divinefully.blogspot.com

*fingers crossed

a camera, finally

You can't always get what you want... instantly.

I spent a whole year working for the biggest Operations Research project I could ever imagine. I'm so happy it was over. Having the company actually use the recommendations, plus the experience of handling a serious project. Seriously, the money was just a bonus.

I saved all my salary. After countless times of going back and forth to malls, camera stores it is an amazing feeling to finally own my own (FIRST) digital camera. On my 21st birthday, I bought a canon a1200 of the powershot series- worth Php 4,000, with batteries, charger, case and a year of warranty. 32scenic modes, 4x zoom, 14.1 megapixels. It has canon lens bitch! best.deal.ever.

Canon a1200

More on this: http://www.photographyblog.com/news/canon_powershot_a2200_and_powershot_a1200/

My parents are apprehensive with these kinds of technology. They don't see the value in purchasing an apple or mac products when you can buy the same thing, different brand, functions in the same way, in a waay waay more cheaper price. They don't see the fuss about extra harddrive space when purchasing computers. Plus, more often than not, the shelf-life of these products, they say, depends MORE on the user. As a consequence, I have to buy my own stuff. Which is okay, really, since I learn to value them more. I take care of 'em nicely as my hard-earned money is waay waay to precious to turn to nothing.

So hello blog, you shall now be bedazzled with loads of pictures. :)

SOLILOQUY

I think I may be on the verge of madness. I often find myself in a plethora of wild vivid daydreams. Like today, I was on my bed the whole day, eyes closed, far from slumber. I retraced myself from as far back as I could remember and delved on all the big time decisions I've made. I decided to imagine my life thinking what happened in the alternate universe where I chose to be an athlete, or a painter, or a  politician, or a hippie, or maybe an out-of-school. I hated the feeling it brought (exception: fantasy on being hogwarts student) but I can't seem to stop the fantasy. At first I was so sure it's a graduating thing.  But the more I think about it, I think it's my fear of what will happen after college, of being completely independent, of being in constant pressure of responsibility. 

I hated the fantasies. It made me realize my life is dull. No matter how much I delude myself into thinking I'm contented, deep inside I know I can do more with what I was given. I'm going to be a year older this december. I am growing old and yet, it seems I am not growing up. 

It scary to think death can take its toll at any time and I haven't felt like I'm living my life. 

Having said that, here goes an oath.

I, Camille, otherwise known as Bas, shall promise to put my utmost effort in completing my bucket list. May it be that I finish said list before I lie eternally on my grave. May I reiterate that I do, solemnly swear that I will do WHATEVER it takes to succeed in this mission. 

So help me God.

Goodnight stranger.

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS...

PRESENTING!! MY WISHLIST!!
hello secret santa, make my dreams come true :)
Note: number of asterisk directly proportional to weight of preference




1. snorlax jacket **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

there! no further explanation needed!

2. External Hard Drive****************


>Masyadong maliit ang 500gb ng laptop ko para sa tambak na movies at series haha!




3. BOOKS*******


*Dahil sumasakit mata ko kakabasa ng e-books, gusto ko naman ng totoong libro


>Conan Doyle's SHERLOCK HOLMES :)) 





>HUNGER GAMES!! :) nabasa ko na yung tatlo pero gusto ko ng hardcopy ng first book :)) pero pwede din kung kumpleto yung tatlo :)





>The Hobbit



>Lord of the Flies, William Golding

4. DVDs of my favorite tv shows*******


>Criminal Minds (Season 1-6)





>Detective Conan(season 1-20) OHA! 637 episodes to date



>House (meron na ko ng season 1-3, so if ever season4-7)



>Grey's Anatomy (season 1-7)



>Ally Mcbeal (5 seasons)





>Doctor Who





5. Working Camera! ************************************************************







EKK!! cross this out


new #5. 
EARPHONES/ HEADPHONES basta pag nakahiga ako hindi uncomfortable, plsssss yung magandang klase at hindi yung ganito kasi palaging nawawala yung white squishy stuff
 


6. Vintage rucksack*******
(pweds nadin sling bag)

wag masyadong malaki. dapat kasya payong ko ah :)

7. http://www.monopodmanila.com/ :)) dahil gusto ko kasama ako sa pic





Narealize ko mahirap pala ang wishlist ko soooo...


Additional:


*superman shirt exactly like the picture below.. at maroon UP baseball jacket! :)

*me likey some slouchies!! blue,green,black or grey

*shoes na parang ganito:

*BLAZER! :) foldable sleeves, black, light brown, blue

*light colored blouses(with smart casual feel) yung pwedeng isuot kahit mainit,kahit nakapants or slacks :)


*i want a set of plain colored shirts!!! hindi v-neck, hindi tight fit, cotton (black,blue,violet,green,yellow,red)


*eyes. yung nakakakita ng matino. seriously.


ADIOS!

SM's bullcrap labor agenda

*just because i miss writing editorials.

Maria needs a job. There's a newly built SM on their province and apparently, just started hiring salesladies. Wow. Imagine that- a job which pays you with just standing up and guarding the stalls, wearing a nice uniform on heels with nice make-up on, and best of all - you work inside an air-conditioned mall. 

She applies for the job. She buys her own uniform to wear - too expensive, so she'll just have to deal with washing the same uniform every single working day. She needs to pass SSS, TIN, Brgy and NBI clearance, Mayor's permit (WTF right), medical certificate and x-ray, and she needs to pass an interview. 

She got the job. The contract runs up to five or six months only. After which, to get back the uniform investment, she wishes to be a regular employee to somehow increase her daily wage by a whooping Php80 along with thousands of other sales lady. The unlucky ones will go through the whole application ONCE AGAIN. 

Monday to Saturday. Imagine having to stand up - on heels for 12 fuckin hours six days a week. She cannot sit. She must not sit. After a grueling day, she has to wash her uniform to wear them neatly the next day. All this work for the love of a minimum daily wage.

Desperate times - desperate measures. When sales are low and the salesladies are not much of a help, Sy lays some of them off for some time - oftentimes weeklong. Poor Maria, cruel luck, jobless for a week, no salary.

Poor Maria. No one to run to. Apparently, Henry Fuckin Sy repressed the employee's trade union rights. All of them are prohibited from discussing union matters during work - of course, Sy gets them monitored. He'd rather pay for spies than increasing the salary of his puppets - no problems, less costs.

Contractual labor, the very euphemism hiding its true meaning - massive slavery slash human coercion and extortion. Maria gets no benefits, no vacation leave, no sick leave, no 13th month pay, no job security, no individual development. 

Fuck Henry Sy and his fuckin $3 billion net worth of an ass. I hope you meet Moses soon enough.

source code

yessss!! another movie that cripples an entire movie plot with an underlying plot. if you watched shutter island and inception, and enjoyed it.. then you will enjoy this movie equally.


So, this is my own interpretation. I warn you for spoilers ahead.


The whole movie revolves around this new technology-they call it the source code. wherein they have to use functional brain waves from someone to access another someone's parallel reality. It's the first time they use it and they used Colter(Jake G.), former member of the army, who was basically-dead. The other reality they were trying to access was from a Sean something, a teacher supposedly on a date with Christina. The source code allows access for upto 8minutes before the bomb goes off in the train Sean was boarding. The belief is that this alternate reality can be a means of decoding who the bomber is(as they believe there is another bombing incident to happen) - and that no matter what happens in that alternate reality, there is nothing that can be done to save the lives of the people who died on the train. So-the mission is to find the bomber, not save the train from the bomb. ok? (look at the visual below that I got from google to get a better picture) So after a few 8-minute tries, Colter succeeds in finding out who the bomber is :) also, he found out that he was- as good as dead.

Ah but there was a twist. Since the mission was finished, Colter asked- no- begged for Goodwin(one of the operators that communicates with him) to give him one last try and cut him off(LET HIM HAVE HIS DEATH). so this time-he'll reaaaally try to save the passengers. BTW- the last 8 minutes of his life is amazing. watch it. i actually almost cried hehe. anyway, in that 8minutes, he fully disarmed the bomb and he had sent a message to Goodwin(saying that if she receives this message, then the source code can do more than what it is meant to do) After 8minutes, he did not come back to being Colter. He continued his date with Christina as Sean.

HOWEVER. the movie goes on and Goodwin receives the message that Colter sent her and the scenario at the lab is that the source code has never been used before. 

What happened? Colter's consciousness enters Sean's body(Sean's already dead) --and it leaves his half- body. (hehe) This is what I think: when Goodwin terminated the source code, Colter's consciousness remained at Sean's reality. They were accessing another reality--that entails time travelling. Colter was able to create new realities every time he enters the 8-minute reality as Sean. In the last- new reality that Colter created, he succeeded in saving all the people in the train. When you think about it-this is the only time he did not die. So- he continued living on as Sean XD (and the body that Goodwin saw, yeah Colter's consciousness was no longer living in that body.) And its like the whole thing never really happened. ((:

However when you think about it, he travelled and failed six times(?) through the source code (i dunno if my count is right) SOOOO.. that means he created a lot of new alternate realities every single time he enters Sean's body.  One time he even saved Christina-so that means there is another alternate reality where another Christina is alive. And these realities do not really end every 8 minutes.

One last problem: Colter was able to get back info's and he was able to access the parts Sean didn't even knew or you know- wasn't even part of Sean's memory.

Of course I went for the more complex explanation when really- it is also plausible that everything that had happened after the frozen scene can be post-death -or you know- just Colter's idea of "heaven." 

artemis fouls

This week was both thrilling and exhausting, physically and mentally. I did things I normally deem stupid like watching a movie without prior notice to my wallet and schedule, starting a debate over almost pointless topics, cutting whole day of classes (dysme and uti--not a very good combo), buying anything online, blurting out anything that I had an urge to say no matter how little(sparked trouble I tell you), lying to someone I never lied to, joining an essay contest, and lastly, eating too much that I barfed. I just want to detoxify this weekend.

My friend, my instincts are not just instincts because I absolutely make sure I have data to support whatever claim I make before I even tell anyone about it. (I make sure I insert a "my-hypothesis-is" phrase before the claim if data ain't sufficient/available) Yes, I'm pretty sure I didn't use it this time.  One more thing, you are a pretentious fool. You think you have successfully fooled everyone, you are wrong. I am watching you and later on, the truth will always come out in some way. I'll be waiting for that day, and when it comes, you better think of a better excuse this time jerk or you'll eat your words.

okay. detox, commence.