Ratatouille

Chase convinced me to watch Ratatouille with him last night at gateway mall. I don't usually watch animation movies so it took a lot of convincing from him for us to watch this together. I remember watching The Incredibles with my family and sleeping halfway through the movie. Anyway, Ratatouille was surprisingly entertaining! The story revolved around a rat, who had real talent for cooking and who really wanted to make use of this gift. For me, the main concept of the movie is that, anyone can really cook! I particularly liked how the ending was crafted. How this little rat, made a big difference in people's lives. In addition, the movie has its funny moments. Don't really want to spoil, but the health inspector scene and the "Ratatouille blast from the past" scene was truly hilarious!

It's a relaxing movie which I would recommend to my friends and family.

HEAT!

I've always wanted to eat at Shangri-la's HEAT buffet, and guess what? I was finally able to eat there, twice, two consecutive weeks, and both for free!!


The first time was a lunch out treat by the bosses!



The second time around, it was a surprise dinner! And luckily, it was a seafood specials night! How lucky can we get?

IPO Resurgence

The continued IPO resurgence is taking a toll on the market. People are liquidating their stock position in order to buy these IPOs. IPOs are most likely instant profit for the investors. I remember when I bought the IPO of LOTO priced at 8.80 pesos, if I can remember right. Opening day it surged up to its ceiling of around 16 pesos! That's practically 100% increase in your investment.

But not all IPOs perform similarly. Take for instance the recent Aboitiz Power IPO. It closed flat on opening day, and then even went down further the next day.

But I think the GMA IPO, which will beging trading end of the month will make it big.

Daytrading!

Seeing an actively traded stock earlier during trading hours, it took me a while to actually gather up the courage, to sell some existing holdings of mine, at a commission loss, and try to ride up with the current trend. And I was able to do so.

I was observing the stock when its price was hovering around 0.64... and saw it go all the way up to 0.74. By the time it was hovering around 0.72, that was when I decided to sell my other holdings, and buy this one, hoping it would hit up.

And it did.

I was able to get in at 0.72, and sell during its intraday high of 0.75. Not bad. Around eight hundred to a thousand peso profit for the day. Not bad at all.

Moreover, the excitement was better. :) Every refresh of the sellers' and buyers' bid gave me chills!!!

I'm gonna try this one again next time, when another opportunity shows up! :)

Anna's quote for me.

it's a matter of dealing with pain while maintaining enough respect for yourself - Anna Chan

Thanks for the talk. I needed that.

thanks abro

My programmer friend Abro messaged me earlier about getting the new template for the website we are developing. Since he works in Makati, and I in Ortigas, I usually ask him to give the materials to Chase so that Chase can hand it over to me when we meet up. This time, I had to hesitate and told him that it would be best if I get the materials from him myself.

Abro, the ever sensitive guy asked if things were ok. I didn't tell him anything, just told him that just some serious stuff has happened recently, and if I'm ready, maybe, just maybe, I'd share it to him so that I can just get it out of my system.

And I was really touched by what he said afterwards... almost brought me to tears.

Abro: "...but i can keep u company if you need some to talk to"
Me: "Thanks Abro, I really appreciate it."
Abro: "gaganti ako dun sa friendship na binigay mo nung nagccrumble ang mundo ko"

During times like this, it's really heartwarming to know that you have friends who will be there for you no matter what happens, which makes you want to be there for them even more when they are also in need.

Love Lost.

I always thought he was the one.

I never thought that in a relationship, you reach this point where things just go idle. Who's to blame? He probably wants his life back. Tells me that this thing, this issue with have, isn't fixable anymore. That was a heart crushing statement. I was hoping to make things right, given the right time and space. However, that wasn't what I got. If one side of the party doesn't make it work, then the whole relationship isn't going to work. Who am I to force the situation?

I felt so sad last night, that when he left after we talked, that was when I literally broke down, in the car crying. Just like one of those television or movie scenes where it's pouring rain outside and there goes one of the lead characters in the show/movie, crying over a guy.

I guess love's just not enough to make it work.

And if indeed this is not fixable, then I guess I better start trying to move on.

How? Maybe I'd better start doing what I've postponed doing for quite a while, since it will require a lot of time and effort for me. Right, maybe I should start doing that already.

But still in my heart, I know, this decision we made, or maybe the decision I had to agree on is a decision I'm going to regret this forever.

I'd always love Chase no matter what. It may not be the right time, it may not be the best time, etc etc... those are just excuses for in the end, my heart will still be hurting for a very long time.

LOC

LOC - Line of Codes

I was asked by our current development boss Josie to check out programs that can count the lines of codes from the source code of our project. Having looked through them, comparing each other if their resulting statistics are similar, I decided on using LocMetrics.

Counting lines of codes, logical lines of codes, blank lines of codes, is not consistent with all applications as each LOC application uses different algorithms to implement this. However, what I liked about LocMetrics (aside from the fact that it is free) is that it provides us with statistics and summary, and even creates excel files for the data extracted. It also has support for C#, C, SQL, Java. In addition, its application is just sized at around 530kb.

Yellow Rose

Chase surprised me last week with a single yellow long stemmed rose he bought from Holland Tulips to celebrate our 23rd month of togetherness last June 28, 2007.



Flower's a little off though, as I took the picture two days late.

Yellow means friendship right? :) If there's another thing I've gotten to really appreciate with this relationship, it's the friendship that we have as well.

Patience???

My patience is being tested...

My second liners are down even if they're fundamentally sound.

And my work life's shit.

Wtf?