Criticisms and Opinions

"Everyone has an opinion :)

Did you know there are many people that HATE google.com?!"

This was an email sent by our boss.

I agree..

Kahit sa showbiz, kailangan mong gumawa ng malaking issue para makilala. Thanks to Mon Solo for making one. Hindi lang ikaw ang nakikilala, ang Eskwela.com din. Hindi ko na ililink yung yung blog mo, tataas pa ang traffic ng site mo e.. ;)

Sometimes, may sense din ang mga negative comments sayo, personally or sa ginagawa mo. Sabihin man nila na mataba ka, payat ka, lampa ka, boring kang kasama, masungit ka, makitid ang utak mo, slow ka, mayabang ka, whatever, siguro pag-isipan mo pero wag nang patulan. They're just seeing one part of you anyway. Hindi kailangang maging bitter. Mas makakatulong pa nga para malaman mo ang mga negatives sayo and to be better person. And sometimes it helps din para hindi lumaki ang ulo and malamang pare-parehas tayong may kapintasan. ;)

Have you ever been fired from a job? :'(

You know? It didn't really feel good and I think it will never be.

LJ. We have to talk.. He said.

OK. Then, we went to a coffee shop just near the condo.

We appreciate that you're working hard, but I think you're not smart. Do you think you are?

Kasi we're worried about your code. For us, design is more important than your hard work.

We have this guy that we think that could replace you.

We know LJ, you're the Founding Engineer of Eskwela but if you were in my shoes, what would you do? Will you give yourself another chance?

You know LJ, It's hard for me. Firing people is not really easy.

LJ. Are you OK?

Yes. (Pero sa toto lang, hindi. Gusto kong umiyak ng umiyak na lang.)

So, how long do you want for another chance? 1 week? 2 weeks? Ay, may turn-over pa pala no?

Hindi ako nakasagot kagad. Hindi ko alam.

Habang papalapit kami sa pabalik sa room, gusto ko nang umiyak. I wanted to see Aldous and cry.

Pero pagdating namin sa room, wala sila. Nagpunta sila sa bagong office namin.

Ang bigat-bigat na ng loob ko. Wala pa rin si Aldous.

Now, ano nang gagawin ko? Hindi ako makapag-isip ng maayos.

Then, I heard them singing "Happy Birthday to you..... " and I saw Aldous holding a cake.

Hindi ko na napigilan ang sarili ko. Umiyak na ko. Umiyak ako ng malakas covering my face with my hands. Halong kaba, lungkot, saya. Grabeh! Hindi ko maintindihan ang feeling.

After few minutes of crying. I was still in shock. I was speechless. I didn't know what to say. Andun pa rin yung feeling na I was fired. Nakalimutan kong birthday ko pala.

Nilabas na nila lahat ng food. Ako, tulala pa rin. Ang sama talaga ng feeling ng tinanggal ka sa trabaho. Isang oras pa siguro bago ko nahimasmasan. Obviously, pinagtripan at pinaiyak lang nila ko.

Well, what can I say. That was really a surprise. Touched ako...

Thank you. Thank you for the food and effort. Thank you for the time you spent in planning the surprise.

Thank you very very much, T, Ross, Anne, G, Jopes, Jolo and Aldous.

I will never forget this day, really.

hotdogs and cheese	Macaroni ni G
Happy Birthday Ross & LJ!	Yum!
Hindi ko maubos food ko. Nabusog na ko sa iyak.	Jopes love Greg... love G?
Mga alak na ininom nila (in 6 months)	Table with food, laptop, cables, etc. Ang gulo ng workstation namin..:D
The Pikitchen	Aldous, LJ, G and Greg

New Write-up on Eskwela.com

We're in the news again..
http://technology.inq7.net/infotech/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=28473

"A brainchild of LJ Delgado, founding engineer and alumni of the University of the Philippines Diliman, Pua said Eskwela.com is seeing more people signing up to the service....."'

Minsan na nga lang ako mailalathala sa dyaryo at sa INQ7 ang pangalan ko, mali pa.. :(

The Family and the Company

Three days straight ang pinakamahabang stay ko sa office. Dahil sa hindi siya corporate style na company, ang parents ko windang.. Bakit naman daw ganun? Baka hindi na daw ako kumakain ng maayos, or natutulog ng maayos.. Sabi nila may opening daw sa PLDT, mag-apply daw ako. Tahimik lang ako. Sabi ni papa, "Wala ka bang planong magUS?". Sagot ko, hindi pa po ngayon.

Sa loob ko, kasi masaya pa po ako sa trabaho ko ngayon. Sa susunod na lang. Gustuhin ko man o hindi, darating din naman din kc ang araw na mapipilitan akong magtrabaho, yung nagtatrabaho ako dahil sa pera na lang. Pero hangga't single ako, magpapakasaya na muna siguro ako. Minsan lang naman darating sa buhay ko to. Well, kung makahanap ako ng mas masaya pa dito, edi OK, pero saka ko na iisipin yun. Yung ngayon muna ang iisipin ko.

Ayoko na muna magUS or mangibang bansa. Mamamatay lang ako sa lungkot dun. Sa Makati nga lang, ilang araw akong hindi makauwi naho-homesick na ko. Saka na lang siguro pag kailangang kailangan talaga at siguro pag may kasama ko "hubby" ko or kasama ko mga kaibigan ko.

Nagpapasalamat ako dahil kahit "kakaiba" ang work ko ngayon, naiintindihan pa rin ng parents ko. Ever since college ako, kahit ano pinagpupuyatan ko, kaya siguro hindi na bago sa kanila na kahit sa work ko, puyat at pagod binabale wala ko pa rin. Sila na rin kc ang nagsabi sakin na pahalagahan ang trabaho. Na sa trabaho dapat ganito, dapat ganyan... Alam ko din naman kc na nararamdaman nila na masaya ako kaya OK na rin sila.

Ang nanay ko nanggaling sa mahirap na pamilya pero dahil sa pagsusumikap nilang mag-asawa nakaahon sila. Pero may mas mataas pa rin silang mga pangarap. Di bale, sabi ni T may share naman daw ako sa company. Konting tiis na lang, mangyayari rin ang lahat....

Take a look..

Ey guys.. If you still haven't had an account at Eskwela.com, let me show you some of the interesting stuff inside.


Here's the new Notepad of Eskwela.com. You can see here the things you need to do. Authorizing friend request, big mouth, photo comments and messages to read.


Class profile is next on the list. You can see the reviews and conversations about the class. For example, you want to know under who's professor should you get in Math 17 class. Should you get Prof. Santos? or Hermosilla? You can share you experiences as well as ask questions here..


You can also see the people who took and taking the class. If you have questions, using this feature, you can ask them directly by sending messages. Or if you have someone you don't know or interested with in your class or in other section, you can probably find him/her here.

Isn't that cool?

As of now, Eskwela.com supports around 20 universities including big universities like:
- University of the Philippines
- De La Salle University
- Ateneo de Manila University
- Mapua Institute of Technology
- San Beda College
- University of Santo Tomas
- St. Scholastica's College
- University of the East
- AMA Computer University
- Holy Angel University
- Polytechnic University of the Philippines
etc.

Wanna join? Eskwela is by-invite-only. But you can send me an email at lj@eskwela.com so I can give you an invite.

Unpublished blog: Spending money

Sometimes, spending much money was not that bad especially kung ang kapalit ay nakakapagpasaya ka kahit sandali lang.

Minsan naiisip ko kaya siguro I work too hard para may ipanggastos sa pagpapasaya ng ibang tao. Hindi man sobrang laki ang maitutulong ko, at least kahit konti or mas konti pa, napapasmile ko sila. That's the most important thing I think.

Costless.

Unpublished blog: Can't sleep again

(saved on my phone)

3am.I'm on my bed and still up. Got home from work about two hours ago. Hm.. di pa ko masyadong antok. Tapos medyo uncomfortable na rin ako sa kama ko. I've got lots of stuff na kc kaya mainit. Imagine, I have 2 pillows, one hotdog pillow, the stuffed toys from edu and belly, another cute stuffed toy from aldous. Hm.. kelangan ko yatang magbawas ng unan..

*yawns*

Antok na mata ko pero katawan ko, alive pa rin. 4pm na naman ako makakapasok nito. Haay... o well, matutulog na rin siguro ko, nagpapaantok lang.. gudnight.. :)

Stealing some time out of my day to blog...

Been very very busy with the Eskwela Alpha v2.. Thank God I'm home. I've never got home since Thursday.. Good thing I can still get 6 to 7 hours of sleep.

It's 4:25 in the morning and I'm still up.. Maybe I'm just too excited with Eskwela Alpha v2. I'm hoping more users will join since it's open to other universities (and not only to UP Diliman students). But it is still by-invite-only.

All these stress, more-than-8-hours-work and pressure, it was nothing. Iba talaga kapag masaya ka sa ginagawa or sa work mo.

Given a situation: you have to work in a company with a salary of 40k, (same thing; stress, pressure, hard projects' included and sh*t) then napipilitan ka lang pumasok for some reasons, maybe because of your boring officemates or something. OVER you have to work in a company with a 20k salary na masaya ka.. PERIOD. What would you choose?

Hm.. mas mahirap humanap ng trabaho na mag-eenjoy ka compared sa mataas ang salary. Never look for a high-salary-job. `Coz for me, when you enjoy what you're doing HIGH salary follows.

No, I didn't get drunk.

1AM, last Saturday I was still in the office working when the generator got fucked up or maybe they just turned it off to save energy. Obviously, I can't work. There was no light and internet connection. I waited for a while wishing to have an internet connection back again. Because there's nothing we can do, one of our officemates decided to just go home. And the rest... went to Ice. Ice is a bar located in Greenbelt 3. It was my first time to go to that kind of bar. Cool, I didn't look like going to a bar. I was just wearing shirt, pair of pants and "Sandugo" sandals. The funnier thing was, T was just wearing slippers and his pair of "pajamas". Who did look mas kawawa? Hehehe..

T ordered one bottle of artic, melon flavor. I tell you, the taste was good. We (G and I) were joking T to get us some chocolait (the chocolate drink). Of course it was funny 'coz it's a bar, it was impossible to have chocolait, right? But you know, T took the joke seriously and he ordered a chocolate flavored alcohol for us. Waah.. We were just joking! Ok? But it was too late, the drink was already place in front of us and we have to drink it. Oh no! I am not a drinker! I was really afraid to drink. My worry was I didn't know, I haven't know my limitations, I don't know yet. Well, I drank it anyway and it tasted chocolate with alcohol. Fortunately, I was still alive and didn't feel wasted, not yet. And then we got this another drink, "subano".. "sukoba".. "subako".. whatever... I'm still alive! After 3 shots! Huraay! Then we played "bato-bato-pick" in group (til the bottle of artic got empty). I was so lucky that I always win the game. I didn't have to drink.

It was 4am when we went out the bar. We're the only people left. It was already 4am but T was still asking us to go to another bar with boys dancing. Uh-oh. Not the one you are thinking of. Hahahaha! It was the boys doing tumblings, verticals, acrobatics and whatsoever. We decided to go but unfortunately, it was already closed. Monica, T's wife suggested to just go to Aristocrat to have some food somewhere in Roxas Blvd. So we said OK. A lot of things were discussed, a lot of stories were shared and a lot of laughs were had. It was fun! And funny analyzing "how to eat using chopsticks". Hehehe!

This whole experience was really different. I really enjoyed that day! Sayang hindi ko nadala camera ko.

Anyway, thanks T.

(Note: It doesn't mean that because I enjoyed that experience, magiging part na ang alcohol sa routine ko. Of course not!)

Missing a lot of things..

It was almost 13 years ago (I was Grade 4 then) when I found out that I have this small talent in drawing. The program which was sponsored by Nido needed three representatives from each school to join. Luckily, I was one of those representatives. The program was fun, it was called "Nido's Mga Munting Daliri". They provided us the materials like brushes and paints and they also taught us the different techniques to draw and to paint.

Sept. 19, 2006, I was sitting inside and waiting for Aldous who was getting our food at Tokyo Tokyo Grenbelt 1 when I got interested with the paintings near the said fast food. I went out to see the paintings. That moment, I realized how much I missed drawing. I was inspired by the paintings which were really amazing. Because of that, we went straight to the National Book Store, just near the Tokyo Tokyo to buy stuff for drawing/sketching after we ate. I bought 2 kinds of brushes, 3 charcoal pencils and the 20pcs-drawing paper.

It was just today I had time to draw again. I still find it fun. My subject? Who else? Of course, my niece. Hm.. Let me see. I think, my drawing is not that bad. What do you think? ;) Maybe, I can draw you too if you want. Just send me your favorite pic. I'll draw you when I have some time. ;) Hehehe..

I was so busy with my work and you know I am really having fun, honestly. I was blessed to have a work like this. That's why I have no regrets of spending almost all my time for work, which most of the people don't understand. But you know, I think they're right. And I think I should have enough time for myself. I have a life, my personal life too and realized that I am missing a lot of things, so lot of things. I even reached the point that I didn't even know myself because of this busyness. But now, I am trying to put back the pieces of me again. I'm planning to have a just small activity once every, maybe a week is enough. Activities like drawing or sketching, watching movies, baking a cake (again!) or going to a gym or spa (still thinking of something else). I'll be getting the weekend for that. Well, you know I'm really glad to say that I'm happy... and I'm inspired again... :)

Thanks to "Love Story in Harvard" (natapos ko na sya! :D). Promise, that was really inpiring story.