My brother found a really funny sign at Pangasinan. The sign says, “On this Site in 1897, nothing Happened!” It really got me laughing. If the picture was shared to me over YM, I would use the emoticon where the smiley rolls over the floor laughing. Hahaha!

The “Ber” months would signify the high influx of people going into the malls doing their annual Christmas shopping. Shops like this one in Goldcrest, Makati have provided their Anti-Shoplifting signs where it says, “Nobody maybe watching but God is Watching You!” This anti-shoplifting sign might work well if the supposed to be shoplifter transforms into a God-fearing and law-abiding citizen even in the midst of the opportunity where the shopkeeper is busy negotiating with other customers as well. The subtle way of saying to do not shoplift is by providing mirrors found in most 24×7 convenient stores. Hehehe!

Happymealiolytis is a sudden urge of eating at McDonald’s not because of the food but because of the need to get the toy. It is like a booby trap waiting for you to munch Burger McDo, McSpaghetti, Chicken McDo, and or the 2-piece hotcake meal (available only for breakfast). And because they have some of the Rockman characters (four of them) as their Happy Meal toys, I am being hypnotized everytime I pass by McDonald’s. Of course, Rockman (the protagonist of the popular video game) was already out of stock in McDonald’s Greenbelt Paseo and in Glorietta as well. What should I expect? That they are overflowing with Rockman toys? Not! Haven’t they got the concept of Law and Supply and Demand yet? It is obvious that more and more people would want to get Rockman. Thus, there will be a supply left of other toys and they will have to come up again with the McDonald’s Ultimate Happy Meal Toy Sale just like what they did before.

Perhaps, the next in line for the Happy Meal toys are the characters from the film Chicken Little by Walt Disney. By the way, McDonald’s USA do have Chicken Little characters as Happy Meal toys. Another marketing strategy from Walt Disney to further promote the more expensive merchandise.

I just got a forwarded e-mail from one of my classmates in college. It was contributed in GreenArcher.net and you can read it here. I just want to share to you a line that really struck me.

My school pride is in no way connected to how well we do in sports, so I really don’t care if they take away our awards.

Just recently, my Alma Mater caught in a crossfire because of the eligibility issue. Apparently, it was reported that two players of the Men’s Basketball Team (Mark and Tim) were ineligible to play for the UAAP. Read more for Quebengco’s statement on the said controversy. (more…)

I have a slight acrophobia and it sucks because I cannot enjoy like what my sister did as suggested by the image above. They just came from Thailand yesterday and they went parasailing. She’d like to try it, and at the same time, she would like to back out as well. But there’s no certainly backing out when you’re already on air. Hehehe! In order to enjoy such experience, I must conquer my fear first.

When I was in college, we tried using the Fire Exit stairs near the College Canteen. But by the time we reached third floor, I cannot take it anymore. I have to use the main building stairs because my heart is already beating fast and it’s as if my legs are being pulled down by a blackhole from nowhere. Also, everytime we go to Enchanted Kingdom, I won’t ride the Anchor’s Away, Space Shuttle, Flying Fiesta and Condor. But I could ride the Up, Up and Away and the Jungle Log Jam.

The image above was rendered using Inventor Studio. In the assembly file, there is a decal on the LCD screen. Unfortunately, Inventor Studio does not have the capability of rendering decals. This has been one of my problems in using Inventor. However, this Q&A about rendering decals has answered my question. The one who answered the question suggested to use the Surface Styles in Autodesk Inventor and use a bitmap file as a texture. All you have to do is to adjust the scale of the bitmap. When experimenting with it, I’ve had problems in being able to put the texture in just one face because that is the one where I’d like the decal to appear. The material selection in Inventor Studio is only enabled for the whole part and not just for the face of a part.

Boys will be boys. Engineers will remain as one. And green jokes will never be colored red or blue I suppose. During the LPEP before I formally entered college which was defined as the first day of June, we were literally outnumbered (35:5 male-to-female ratio). We played a game where we would shout out loud our chosen body part of a cow everytime our block section is called. It was a totally radical experience for me for I graduated from a coed high school where green jokes seemed to be color yellow. Then, there came a time when I was the only girl in class (excluding the professor). That was only true for our Integral Calculus class. Our professor, being of the conservative of all the conservatives, bad words and other words that would trigger the beep sound in TV and or media as a whole were not allowed. And because she’s Chinese, even my classmates that can converse in Chinese were not allowed to say the Chinese translation of the beep-triggering words.

Then, there came the double-meaning words that would be sensed quickly by the true green minds. Of course, there will be always the class Pong Pagong where he/she would just laugh without knowing why it is funny (Erm… Ignorance is bliss?) or the laughing hyena chemical reaction would take place after five minutes or so. On the contrary, I am not ashame to admit that I am one of those who have a la Flash reflexes when it comes to green funny bones. And being exposed to this in the College of Engineering has made me well adaptive in communicating with different kinds of people.

Not only that, whether green or not, jokes are just one of the ways of destressing yourself. Let me give you an analogy, Toilet duck is your blank milliliters of green jokes, the flush is your laughter and your stress is the poop. And if the joke was that bad, please don’t forget to spray lemon-flavored Lysol.

I was not able to catch a single film from the Cinemanila International Festival. I thought I was doomed. Then, I got an e-mail from my High School friend via our batch e-groups. The movie buff in me immediately resurrected from the dead. The question of which film to watch remains unanswered. I still have yet to read some reviews and synopsis of the film. Read more for the schedule for tomorrow up to November 8. (more…)