Twenty-six years since its creation, the UP Diliman Department of Computer Science (DCS) is finally holding an alumni homecoming on the 24th of February 2007 at its new home, the College of Engineering Library and Computer Science Building. (FYI, that building is right in front of National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS) and the College of Science Library and Administration building.) Registration starts at 3, while the program will begin at 4pm.

You can read the invitation letter from Prof. Evangel Quiwa that’s been passed around to the alumni in Sir Rom’s blog. Actually, there are two more versions of the invitation letter: one reiterated by the Department Chair, Dr. Cedric Festin, and another detailing of a very special surprise for the Department’s most-loved teacher—guess who! (I’ve already mentioned him here!)

If you haven’t registered yet, better do it soon! Here are the latest details on registration and payment for the event (dated January 5):

P 400.00 if reserved by the end of the year and paid by the end of January 2007;
P 500.00 if bought by the end of January 2007;
P 600.00 if bought in February.

All you have to do is to reserve and to get the discounted rates (before February) is to send an e-mail to homecoming.register@updcsaa.com

…The tickets for the homecoming will be out late next week. For those who would like to pay prior to the release of the tickets, you have two options:

(1) Direct payment to Mila Ramos at the CS Department
(2) Bank deposit to Philippine National Bank
Account Number: 275-830501-8
Account Name: Diliman Computer Science Foundation

Please email your name, number of tickets, date, amount and transaction number (first line of the machine validation) of the deposit slip to homecoming.register@updcsaa.com

Upon availability, tickets may be claimed from Mila Ramos during office hours at the CS Department. Alternatively, you can get it on the homecoming itself. In any case, you need to show the receipt for option (1) and deposit slip containing the transaction number for option (2).

For registration inquiries, please email homecoming.register@updcsaa.com

i’m using the old Tecra laptop. i don’t know how i could have survived college with this. i could race tidoy’s turtle with this and the turtle will win. *gapang gapang* sheesh.

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Lord, help me survive the insanity of a Gagno life and the monotony of an Ish life.

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pain is there for a reason. it reminds us how good things really are. after all the drama and hullabaloo, it makes us lucid enough to see the bigger picture.

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Am currently drowning myself in Pinikpikan & Grace Nono.

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i’m no expert in bass, but i could kiss the feet of Kala’s bassist. i play their tracks over and over and it’s all i hear.

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I don’t know when I started to forget birthdays. Probably around the same time I ditched my planner & my watch.

Sometimes, I just feel like I’m losing it. Other times, I feel like I make a big deal out of everything (probably more so when I’m bored). But nevertheless, I still feel like I’m losing it.

Eeeek, Ish, keep it together. I better climb something, somewhere soon.

After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a HAND, and chaining a SOUL,

and you learn that LOVE doesn’t mean leaning, and company doesn’t mean SECURITY,

and you begin to learn that KISSES aren’t contracts, and presents aren’t PROMISES,

and you begin to accept your defeats with your HEAD UP and your EYES OPEN, with the grace of an ADULT, not the grief of a child.

After a while, you learn that even SUNSHINE burns if you get too much.

So plant your own GARDEN and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And your learn that you can really ENDURE… that you really are STRONG.

And YOU really have worth.

[ if you’re looking for a rant post, then scoot. ]

during my birthday weekend, my HS crush, my college crush & my HP crush greeted me. yep, it’s all good.

sometimes, we do feel that we have it all. even if just for a while. even if just for a trivial thing. yep, heaven’s definitely here on earth.

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[ non-geeks stop here ]

whoa. an ancient supercomputer.

and breathe.

that’s something i forgot to do today. to exhale. to let it out sometimes. to do something really worth it.

thank God for Happy Feet yesterday. i absolutely have to watch it again. 🙂

i found this grad pic thumb among my long-forgotten files. eeek. but i won’t trade my 5-minute morning prep time for anything.

ok, minute is up. this is for the lost musings i would have written down, if i weren’t commuting. or wasted. or both.

i’ve seen crap before, but never like this. trust me, never like this.

a sewer section ‘exploded’ in binondo. the stench reaches you a block away. must have been a crappy day for their starbucks & yellow cab. patrons scampered away, eh?

yep, when people see crap, they turn away but can’t wait to tell others about it.

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i know why support’s such a hit. finally, we got to pull together a system wherein we know who should help who, how who should help who with what, and for how much.

uyyy. sinong jaded?

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‘Sorya!’ He was screaming for Sorya. More like barking, actually. And here I was, ranting, while this 6-year old yells for grumpy jeep drivers and stands in smoke all day. damn.

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