Friday, October 9, 2009

What do you think is the role of research topic in deciding your future career?

Choosing a research topic is a hard task. You have lots of things to ask yourself before finally selecting a topic. The role of the research topic in deciding your future career..................

Friday, September 18, 2009

"METHOD" and "METHODOLOGY"

method - A means or manner of procedure, especially a regular and systematic way of accomplishing something

methodology - A body of practices, procedures, and rules used by those who work in a discipline or engage in an inquiry; a set of working methods


(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2005, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated 2005.
Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved. http://www.ask.com/reference/dictionary/ahdict/51462/method)

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Shukudai Ichiban

A Biologically Inspired Immune System for Computers

Jeffrey O. Kephart
High Integrity Computing Laboratory
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

Ichiban

(Provide a concise summary of the paper.
Evaluate the paper by way of assessment, identifying positive and negative sides, unclear points etc., regarding substance, presentation, formats, figures, etc)
Keep to the point at issue, and have a respectful and constructive attitude
The review must be performed in a friendly atmosphere and with a humble mind)

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Happy or Sad

If a good person died
should we be sad for his death? for why should be the better one died? why not the one bad one?
should we be happy for his death? when we know that he would not suffer any worldly difficulties? when we know that he is now with our Creator? when we know that now he would have the eternal happiness that our Creator had promised to us?

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Anime...anime...anime

My all time favorite anime are back...unfortunately i can't watch them... so frustrating...argh

COMDDAP DAVAO '09

COMDDAP DAVAO

Last July 3, 2009 at one o’clock in the afternoon I arrived at the Grand Ballroom of Apo View Hotel to join the COMDDAP (Computer Manufacturers, Distributors, and Dealers Association of the Philippines) Davao Expo 2009. As I entered the hall as expected there are a lot of exhibitors and participants are already inside. At past one or two o’clock we went to a room where the seminar by the Nexus Group of Companies had been held. At first, I thought that there would be a lot of people who would be gathered in that room. When I went in, the room was so small; I think our rooms in our school are a lot way bigger than that room. So much for that, after signing the registration sheet I find a chair where I would sit. I sat on the second row. After a few minutes the first exhibitor started his talk.
The product is about a Dealer Management System which had features of:
• Monitor Sales Executive Activities
• Sales lead monitoring from initial inquiry to actual close
• Sales quotation processing
• Supports sales of new and used vehicles
• Multiple pricing and discounting schemes
• Financing and insurance transactions
• Vehicle reservation and deposit collection
• Vehicle inventory
• Customer incident and resolution recording
• Interface to manufacturer system
• Reports and queries
• Highly graphical technician assignments and loading window
• Customer appointments
• Repair orders and estimates
• Customer/vehicle service history
• Technician Time-in/Time-out
• Parts requisitioning and Picking
• Control Parts and Consumables cost
ERIC DMS by Jupiter Systems, Incorporated is an end-t-o-end software solution for automotive sales, parts and service businesses. ERIC DMS covers the full range of dealer activities-from marketing to sales and services. At first his presentation was quite boring for me since I can hardly relate to this topic. When he showed some screenshots of the system I had started to have interest. My classmates and I were wondering what programming language did they use, how many employees developed that system, how many months or years have they spend before they have finished that system which had so many features. I also wondered how they put a check box in their tables. The user interface was very simple. After about an hour I guess the presentation was done. The exhibitor asked if there would be some questions, as what I have expected there are a very few questions, since most of the participants where students.

The next exhibitor talked about HP Thin Clients. I was excited about this topic since I’m fond computers. But this is not just an ordinary computer. Thin clients are made in exchange of the old school system units. It is best used for libraries, internet kiosks, companies who need a very low downtime such as banks, call centers and the like. This thin client is also eco-friendly; its size is a lot way smaller than the old school system units which require smaller boxes and minimum use of Styrofoam, it has no hard drive, fan or other moving parts, and it uses less power which is great. Viruses couldn’t attack the system since it has no hard drives. Sudden block outs without saving your work will not be a problem since the client is connected to the server. The presenter talks quite faster than a usual presenter which is great since I was getting sleepy that time. After explaining about the thin client a question and answer was held. Lots of prizes have been given away. The questions were so easy to answer I tried to raise my hand but I haven’t called even once. It is okay though I haven’t been called, I learned a lot from that presentation. After the presentation most my classmates left the room since they aren’t registered to that exhibit. I went out for awhile signed

The third exhibitor talked about Window Server 2008. I found the presentation boring for me because just like the first presentation I can hardly relate to the topic. The product is used for companies who have a lot of branches around the world. By using this system you could do your inventory remotely. When his presentation had ended another questions and answer had been done. There were only a few questions, the participants doesn’t seem have interests on that topic I guess, and also as usual the participants where students, they wouldn’t need that kind of software. It was the shortest presentation among the four, since they are running out of time and there is still one more exhibitor who have not presented yet.

The last exhibitor talked about Open Source, he is from the Spinweb Production Incorporated. I was interested at this topic since this is our topic in our Elective subject. The presentation was fun, we were asked to name some icons, some of which are new to me while some are not. A short history of Open Source had been discussed, who is the founder of Open Source. He asked the participants what comes on our mind when we say Open Source. Some answered free software, free license, free to study and a lot more. He showed some websites which they have developed. The presenter had asked the participants who among us had developed a website or who had some knowledge about doing it. Two guys had raised their hand. They were asked to estimate how many days they could finish a project doing it from scratch. After a couple of minutes, the guys were done estimating, one of them estimated for about 60 days and the other is about 30 days. The presenter said with the use of open source they could finish the project within I guess that was 15 days. He added if there would be some existing software that could help you why not make use of it. After the presentation he asked the participants if there would be some questions, an interesting question had been asked. The question is about open source versus proprietary software. For me, both answers were right, it would only matter how they would make use of the software.

About five o’clock in the afternoon the seminar had ended. That day was fun and educational as well. I’m looking forward for some seminars like this again.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Kapitan Sino

ABNKKBSNPLAko?!
Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino?
Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas
Alamat ng Gubat
Stainless Longganisa
McArthur

Who loves to read Bob Ong's books?

Though it has been released a for a month or two, I just want to tell you people that Bob Ong had released his latest book...Kapitan Sino...haven't read it though...but it's Bob Ong men...i know that this book would be fantastic just like the first one...i wonder who's his subject at this book...




Can't wait to read...

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Was it the right decision?

During this time of economic crises, one can place the blame on various individuals, groups and institutions. Most of conservatives put the blame to the government while the leftist blame the capitalist system. Without having enough time to reflect and validate during failures, almost everyone put the blame to one another.
One of the effects during economic crisis is the high cost of capital that may also affect the daily lives of the people as prices of prime and other commodities soar high. So, if one is to engage into a noble undertaking, what’s in mind is how much can be saved or gained from his investments.
Accordingly, all economic systems, regardless of ideology need capital and sees to it that the said investment grew. Recent studies show that human capital has a lot of contributions in order for the economy to grow. It is on this aspect that the university is tapping the human capital in its endeavor to achieve unison of new system. Eventually act as a model from among state universities in the country particularly in the field of utilizing in-house resources.
The university tapped in-house resources because of various reasons. One that is highly considered is the financial aspect. It is a fact that finding for the operations and maintenance of the university is relied through the general appropriations coming from the central government. Because of such limited resources and budget constraints it is but proper for the university to tap in-house resources may come from within the ranks of the competent instructors and students alike in the university.
According to Paul Hawken in his book “The Next Economy”, “to make a company more intelligent, to bring a workforce together, to create and design products, to eliminate waste, and to constantly receive innovative techniques and ideas from employees”. Employees of a company need to work hand in hand in order to have a healthy working relationship with each other. Having this kind of relationship among colleague’s means that they could analyze and design better systems, not only the employees could have the benefit but also the company that they are serving. Also with a good working relationship from among employees will result to new collaboration efforts that lead to new and better innovations. Though some arguments may rise up which is not impossible in discussions this would just mean that the employees are working and creating new ideas. So the main question is why did the University tapped in-house resources? Is it because of financial aspect? Are they not satisfied with the old system that they were using for perhaps several years? Or is it because they want to utilize the skills and potentials of their in-house programmers? In my opinion, the University tapped in-house resources could be because of various reasons. One of which could be the cost, another is effectiveness of the new system. Also the much easier in monitoring and immediate response for any trouble that maybe encountered during the implementation. And the last could be that they want to make use of the skills of their instructors.So it is proper for the university to tap in-house resources for creation of a new system.
In our previous subject, we have also been asked for some kind of the same question, which is better hiring an in-house programmer or buying or renting certain software. Of course in every decision that we would make their, would be some trade-offs has to be considered. First, having an in-house programmer would mean that you would have to pay his monthly wage though he is not doing his major job while if you would just buy or rent you don’t have to pay monthly wages for your programmer. Next, if you would buy or rent you would only have a small number of privileges that you could do to the program, while if you would make your own, you have all the privileges that you could have most especially updating the program without paying a large amount for the updates and without any legal responsibility. So during this time of crisis, cost of any undertaking should be highly considered. The cost of tapping in-house programmers is much lower compared to renting software. Although in-house programmers are to be paid starting on the inception of the system it would mean that immediate take-off of the project begins. Also if you owned the product you could install it as to how many computers you have to install it, though in renting or buying the software you could also do that but now with higher rate.
The next reason could be because of effectiveness. The old system has been made quite a long time ago so as we would expect lots of maintenance and upgrades has to be done to reach of what the University needs. So instead of upgrading and maintaining the University perhaps decided to tap the in-house programmers. Also having let them do the task means a lot of time in enhancing and improving the new system since they were always present to monitor during the implementation. Any questions and problems could easily be answered.
The big question that lies ahead is how each and everyone respond to economic restructuring. Will everybody still points each fingers to one another because of failures that they are experiencing?
Maybe as of the moment, no exact answer could be arrived at. However, if everyone will help one another and to accept failures and appreciate success of any endeavor, then we can say this is a happy place to live.
In closing, Paul Hawken says “for an informative economy to succeed, we must inform each other about what we do and how we work”. He added, “There may be complex interrelationship between individuals as entities in an economy, but there is no real dependence because economic growth provides an abundance of new wealth”.
Now, was it a good decision that the university had tapped in-house resources? The answer is yes. It was a good decision, not only the government or university had benefited for that decision but also the one who analyzed and designed the enrollment system.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

SY 2009-2010

Another school year started....Drag me to hell...

Monday, April 20, 2009

1234 by Plain White T's

1-2-1-2-3-4
Give me more loving than I’ve ever had
Make me feel better when I’m feeling sad
Tell me I’m special even though I know I’m not
Make me feel good when I hurt so bad
Barely getting mad
I’m so glad I found you
I love being around you
You make it easy
Its as easy as 1-2-1-2-3-4
There’s only one thing
To Do
Three words
For you
(I love you) I love you
There’s only one way to say
Those three words
That’s what I’ll do
(I love you) I love you
Give me more loving from the very start
Piece me back together when I fall apart
Tell me things you never even tell your closest friends
Make me feel good when I hurt so bad
You’re the best that I’ve had
And I’m so glad I found you
I love being around you
You make it easy
It’s easy as 1-2-1-2-3-4
There’s only one thing
To Do
Three words
For you
(I love you) I love you
There’s only one way to say
Those three words
That’s what I’ll do
(I love you) I love you
(I love you) I love you
You make it easy
It’s easy as 1 2 1 2 3 4
There’s only one thing
To Do
Three words
For you
(I love you) I love you
There’s only one way to say
Those three words
That’s what I’ll do
(I love you) I love you
(I love you) I love you
1-2-3-4
I love you
(I love you) I love you

http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/plain_white_ts_lyrics_3758/big_bad_world_lyrics_84563/1234_lyrics_833774.html

I just love this song... nothing much special

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Moment of Truth

Perhaps this is gonna be goodbye for me...

ouch! How sad... after 4 yrs of hardships... i got nothing... haiz...paitah... :((

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Conversates, grudgeges, the soon future and other boob-tube booboos by Nestor U. Torre

Host: WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO MAKE sure that a marriage will last for a long time?
Guest: Above all, don't hold any grudgeges.
(--That's a lot of grudges!)
****
Host: We keep getting different reports, so what's the real score? Are you and your girlfriend getting married this year, or not?
Guest: Yes -- probably -- siguro.
(Hey, that's really definite!)
****
Host: How can you tell if the president is getting angry?
Gust: By the way she that conversates, you actually know that she is angry.
(Conversates? Congratulations, you've just coined a new word.)

Famous Father
Host: What don't we know about your father? For example, for the viewers' benefit, ano'ng favorite food ni Dad?
(Why would knowing that be of "benefit" to us?)
****
Host: Bakit golf ang napiling sport ni Presidented -- bakit hindi basketball?
(Obvious ba?)
****
Film awards presenter: The Best Supporting Actress goes to is -- (name of actress)!
(No comment!)
****
Host: Is it true that there are more overweight people now?
Guest: Yes, unfortunately, ang mga obesity natin dumadami.
(No comment na naman...)
****
Host: What is the objective of your rally?
Guest: From experience, we know that the only way to get action from our officials is if they are pushed into the wall.
(Huwag naman, baka mapisa ang official.)
****
Host: Bakit hindi pumasok si (name of TV colleague)?
Cohost: Namamaga daw ang ngipin.
(Ouch!)
****
Difference
Host: What is the difference between the palikero and the babaero?
Guest: It's because of gender, e --pag palikero, lalaki; pagbabaero, babae.
(--Huh?)
****
Host: Why are you mounting your campaign against teen gangs in your neighborhood?
Guest: Because they're dangerous.
Host: Why are they dangerous?
Guest: Because they have arms!
(No comment pa rin!)
****
Host: When will you announce your decision to run for senator?
Guest: Hopefully, in the soon future.
(Don't run for senator -- please!)

Monday, March 2, 2009

Special A

Its about a young girl named Hanazono Hikari who wants to beat the always number 1 Takishima Kei...

Weee!!! I have just finished watching Special A...
And from ep 23-24 i never stopped crying... I love this anime… How I wish I could have a story like this…(tee hee!) ;)

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Happy Tree Friends

New Episodes

Enjoy Watching!!!

Note: CARTOON VIOLENCE
Not recommended for small children or big babies

Fushigi Yuugi

At last, I finally saw the last episode of Fushigi Yuugi...
I really love this anime....
Because of love Tamahome became a real human and found Miaka...
Seiryu was sealed and Nakago died...
Surprisingly Miaka passed her entrance exam in college....

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Cat and Dog

Why is it that a cat and a dog always paired-up together?

Monday, January 26, 2009

Activity Diagram???

An activity diagram out of my use case diagram

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Watch TV online

Don't miss your fave tv shows.
Visit Hayag

enjoy watching!

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Use CASE Diagram

A brief description of each use case identified.
  • Pay for local fees. The student pays for his financial obligations.
  • Evaluation. The student lets his adviser to evaluate his grades and standing. The adviser selects the subjects that the student may take on that semester.
  • Encode. Encodes the subjects taken and produce a C.O.R
  • Pay for tuition fee. The student pays his tuition fee and miscellaneous fee at the cashier.
  • Register. The student present some important documents needed by the registrar.
  • Validates Library Card. Validation of the library card of the student.
  • Officially Enrolled. The student is now officially enrolled.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Introversion

According to Wikipedia Introverts are more reserved, less outgoing, and less sociable. They are not necessarily loners, but they tend to have smaller circles of friends, and are less likely to thrive on making new social contacts. They generally do not need to seek out excitement in others because they are already stimulated with their own thoughts and imagination.

Introversion is not the same as shyness. Introverts choose solitary over social activities by preference, whereas shy people avoid social encounters out of fear.

A questionnaire consisting of ten "agree or disagree" statements. If you agree for the last five questions, there is no doubt that you are Introvert.

1. I am the life of the party.




2. I enjoy being the center of attention.




3. I am skilled in handling social situations.




4. I like to be where the action is.




5. I make new friends easily.




6. I am quiet around strangers.




7. I don't like to draw attention to myself.




8. I don't like to party on the weekends.




9. I like to work independently.




10. I often enjoy spending time by myself.

Interview

Good day!

Hmmm… among the data gathering techniques that has been mentioned I am comfortable with interviewing. Though I am an introvert, I am not that bad in dealing with some people (especially when I know personally the interviewee). In interviewing I could easily gather the most important data that I need, I could easily ask some questions that would pop-up from my mind in the middle of our interview (though this is case-to-case basis). I could easily understand the data when they are explained well to me, so using the other techniques isn’t enough for me to understand and gather important details.

Rosario + Vampire II

Good day!

Rosario + Vampire II Chapter 15 is now available.

Read here Rosario + Vampire II

楽しむ

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Holidays for 2009

Holiday Schedule for 2009

April 6 Mon ............................................ Araw ng Kagitingan
April 9 Thu ............................................ Maundy Thursday, until
April 12 Sun ............................................ Easter Sunday
May 1 Fri ............................................ Labor Day
June 12 Fri ............................................ Independence Day
August 31 Mon ............................................ National Heroes Day
November 30 Mon ............................................ Bonifacio Day
December 25 Fri ............................................ Christmas
December 30 Wed ............................................ Rizal Day

Special Non-Working Days:
August 21 Fri ............................................ Ninoy Aquino Day
November 1 Sun ............................................ All Saints Day
November 2 Mon ............................................ All Souls Day
December 24 Thu ............................................ Christmas Eve
December 31 Thu ............................................ New Year's Eve

So, there will be a longer Christmas holiday in 2009 and will start on December 24, Christmas eve. (PIA 8)


source: http://www.gov.ph/news/?i=23238

Sunday, January 4, 2009

SDLC model…Predictive…Adaptive…

Planning from the beginning up to the end is easy. After that life would flow smoothly according to plan, but what if a problem would arise? What would you do?

Using a predictive approach in life is like playing chess. You always predict what would be your opponent's next move. And when some things happen that was not according to your plan your game plan would fail and you would lose the game. I was just like that back then; I used to plan things in order to achieve my objectives. But when I have encountered a problem, I don’t know how to solve it and so my plan failed. It’s hard to accept that the plan that you think was already perfect would just be ruined with just one simple problem that you might just have over-looked as you plan things.

After this tragic event, I combined the predictive and adaptive approaches. Using the adaptive approach I have options on what road to take without worrying that my plan might fail.