I can still feel the gaps

I. Hollow Woman II. The Freeloader's Guide on How to Get an XBOX III. My boss backed up on my car. I. Hollow Woman Okay, let me summarize what happened or will happen this week. Last Tuesday, I attended DevDays 2005 at Edsa Shangri-La. I met up with my mentors when I got there. Then yesterday, I drove my dad to the airport, did some errands, went to a meeting then went to work at Ortigas. On the way home, my boss accidentally backed up on my car. Good thing nothing bad happened. Tomorrow will be our second month of our celebration of emotional fiasco. It feels like she's not there though. Oh well. On the less interesting notes, the war has begun last Wednesday. It was our midterm at NETCENT. Jobert was late and came in furious. She marched in and said, "No cheating, once caught, you will automatically fail this course". We scrambled to our seats as we discovered that this ain't good. I could really tell she was pissed off ...at me. Last Monday, somebody approached the acting dean about her teaching methods (refer to a previous post). I admit that it was me. I could've had an accomplice but who can tell? Mwahahaha! Anyway, I'm not afraid of her. If she fails me, she will have to give proof. I could fail but I have proof that it is a teacher factor not a student factor. I even have witnesses and [will have] evidence to back that up. II. The Freeloader's Guide on How to Get an XBOX So last Tuesday I drove to Edsa Shangri-La, Ramel hitched a ride to Bicutan on the way there but I had to take the Skyway since the traffic was getting heavy so I dropped him off at Sucat instead. Ian was supposed to accompany him but somebody beat him up the day before because I think he said something at another player over a game of DotA. It was unintentional (it's a special mental/emotional condition for Ian) but the pissed off fratmen didn't know that it was possible. So now, he's hiding and leaving tonight (or left tonight; he's so afraid he couldn't tell anyone when but he said Friday). Inuman's cancelled too. Going back to DevDays, I was with Ms. Jheng and Sir Alain. It was mostly bashing MS and stuff. They demonstrated Vista (I'm not a big fan of fancy GUI but it was well applauded) and introduced Visual Studio 2005 and the new server family. I could barely remember half of the stuff in the afternoon session. We couldn't tell how Vista was better to XP technically excluding IE and UI-wise. I think the UI should be the last thing demonstrated to developers. It looked like more of a show than a demo. Based from what I saw in Avalon, it looks like that there will be a big change in UI and presentation. Much like when XP went out, most stuff will not work. Or maybe not but I can predict a complete transition to Avalon maybe after two generations of Windows. The freebies were cool. Sort of. I got a bag, much like everyone else, but I like it because my laptop fits in it. I'm thinking of getting it "modded". I also got a lousy keychain which we lined up for two hours (standing up), it's free anyway. I was hoping that I could get a jacket. Here are the pictures (courtesy of Sir Alain and his camphone), just click on them to enlarge it. DevDays? DevDays! DevDays. Welcome remarks by Stanley Tan Vista stuff by Jojo Ayson Before lunch Lunch time, should I say more? Lunch time, so this is where everyone went. More of lunch, err, everyone lining up for lunch. This is THE line for the XBOX raffle. It takes about five minutes to move one person down the line. The bag. Conquering the World: Phase One, making everyone look alike. (R-L, foreground) Me, Ms. Jheng and some saleswoman. See that smile by Ms. Jheng? It's the "annoyed" smile. God, that saleswoman was annoying. She couldn't even sell. Everyone leans forward as the name for the XBOX winner is being picked out from the bowl of names. Vista, mid-2006; WinFS, later-2006. What's next? Why so long? III. My boss backed up on my car. So I went to work yesterday. Before that, I went to school to attend an RSO meeting. Only three of us were present. I felt like I wasted time, money and gas. On the way to the office, I passed by Caltex to buy a drink. Jhessel saw me (and I was on a rush already). I was surprised. I still don't know if I was really glad to see him. Apparently, he was there waiting for May-Ann for a gig or something and didn't even have credits on his mobile. I got to the office and got acquainted with Dennis, the new member of R&D. I stayed in the office until the demo. I learned some stuff from Mark Q and shared some of the stuff that I knew. I think I'm really going to enjoy this It was all work until past 21.00 then we went to this call center (that looked more like a condo) for a demo. On the way home, my boss accidentally backed up on my car's front bumper. Luckily there were no scratches or dents. I won't be able to handle additional stress because I was already tired. Past 23.00, I got lost a bit and ended up at EDSA, I was trying to get to C5. EDSA was still congested at this time and the heavy downpour slowed me down even further. 23.30, reached Magallanes (SLEX), slightly less congested than EDSA but with all the rain, I couldn't maneuver properly. I got home past midnight with the car trashed and coated with a thin layer of CO byproduct. Our politicians should really start to get their act together. Our roads are so bad, it's bringing the country down. I guess it's not just the politicians, it's our bad drivers too (that includes me but I can't help it when I get stuck in a jam, I get in to a road rage).

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