Thinking about you

After weeks of sleepless nights and stress in creating our website for the cyberfair, we are happy that we had finished it already and we will just do some little revisions to our website for the final output.

Preparing for the cyberfair competition is not easy, we got to do lots of preparation and even though sometimes our group has misunderstandings we still manage to fix it and we know that arguing on that won’t finish our project so we must fix it immediately. There are a lot of great experiences and memories to remember on this project. One of the best experience I had during the making of our project is when we went to our chosen historical landmark which is the Diplomat Hotel or which is now known as the Baguio Heritage Hill and Prayer Hill. This is one of my best experience because I haven’t gone into that place and when we went there to have some pictures of that place and to explore it, the feeling was like “Wow! Finally I have been into diplomat hotel”. When we got home the pictures were uploaded and while I was going over our pictures my mom saw it and at that time I feel so nervous. Why? Because at that moment I have that feeling that I can be scolded by my mom because I didn’t told her that we were going to that place but when she talked, she asked me if the place is beautiful, at that time I feel so relieved because I wasn’t scolded. Another experience or memory on this event is when we are all rushing to finish the project because the deadline is near. We still have to do a lot of translations from English to Filipino. A problem we encountered in doing the translation was the grammar of the translated Filipino sentence. Some of us even made use of Google Translate just to finish the translation but we all changed that so that there wouldn’t be any grammatical errors on our translations. Another problem is that we don’t know what the Filipino counterpart of specific words is, so we asked the help of our Filipino teacher in translating the English paragraphs into Filipino paragraphs.

If there is a thing that I wouldn’t forget from the cyberfair, it is the unity among our group. The competition ain’t a one man show but it is a team effort. Now, we are just doing some revisions on our website and after that we are just going to wait for the results if we won or not. 

A great Experience

Preparing for the Cyberfair competition is very hard. We got to do lots of research, on-field activities, video shoots, photo shoots and especially designing the web page. For me this experience is once in a lifetime because not all of the sections in our school can participate in the said competition. We are lucky that our section (3 Mapagpakumbaba), and 3 Mapagmalasakit could join the competition, with the combined teamwork of our sections, we had a great time doing our project and most of all we had the time to know each other  better. In our project our topic is the diplomat hotel, some of our groupmates including me, had never been gone to diplomat. When we first went to the place to take some photos of the place there was a great joy because finally I’ve been into diplomat, the place where others consider it as creepy. Based on our experience there were no ghosts that disrupted us in our work. We also invited some of our friends that doesn’t belong to our group and the pictures that were taken was even uploaded in Facebook and because of that our teacher, Sir Vincent Tabor, eventually reminded us to have him known that we were going to that place so that if something happens to us he knows where to find us (how sweetJ). We learned from that mistake, we learned that if we would go to a place to make a project, proper authorities must know it first before we proceed to our venue of project making.

Another good thing from the project is that we developed unity among ourselves; we can’t finish the project with one only who is working on that. Even if we didn’t have much time on working with the videos, we still had time to accomplish it before the said deadline of making those videos. We also had enhanced our skills in HTML, CSS, and Photoshop.

This Cyberfair Experience is a thing that will be memorable to me and even if we won’t win, at least we had a great time and we can’t buy that experience we had during the making of our project. We learned many values and most especially the unity among us. 

Apple iPhone 4 on Verizon

iPhone 4 Available on Verizon February 10

Verizon Wireless and Apple today announced that the iPhone 4 will be available on the Verizon Wireless network beginning on Thursday, February 10. Qualified Verizon Wireless customers will be given the exclusive opportunity to pre-order iPhone 4 online on February 3, ahead of general availability. iPhone 4 is the most innovative phone in the world, featuring Apple’s stunning Retina display — the highest resolution display ever built into a phone resulting in super crisp text, images, and video — and FaceTime, which makes video calling a reality. iPhone 4 on Verizon Wireless will also include new Personal Hotspot capabilities allowing customers to use iPhone 4 to connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices.

source: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/

New Zodiac Sign?

Astrological Changes For 2011, Ophiuchus Is New Zodiac Sign

By James Lane

In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) declassified Pluto as a planet since its mass was only 0.07 times that of the mass of the other objects in its orbit (Earth’s mass, by contrast, is 1.7 million times the remaining mass in its own orbit).

Now I wake up this morning to find out that some frozen eggheads in Minnesota are claiming that I’m no longer a Taurus, but an Aries. James is getting angry now!

Long story short, according to Minnesota Planetarium Society board member Parke Kunkle the signs of the zodiac have changed because the gravitational force of the Moon has managed to tilt the planet’s axis a bit since the Babylonians determined the dates of the Zodiac five thousand years ago.

It is also learned that not only the way you read horoscope has changed, and they claim to have also discovered that there may be a 13th Zodiac sign called Ophiuchus.

However, Parke Kunkle’s discovery only addresses sidereal zodiac, that is based on constellations. Therefore this change only concerns people in the East. Westerners adhere to tropical zodiac that is fixed to seasons (equinox to equinox). In conclusion, your zodiac sign has not changed.

Yeah, it’s all pretty confusing (the reason for my sub-headline on this article).

For your reference, the following is the list of proposed changes based on yesterday’s findings:

Capricorn: Jan. 20 – Feb. 16
Aquarius: Feb. 16 – March 11
Pisces: March 11- April 18
Aries: April 18 – May 13
Taurus: May 13 – June 21
Gemini: June 21 – July 20
Cancer: July 20 – Aug. 10
Leo: Aug. 10 – Sept. 16
Virgo: Sept. 16 – Oct. 30
Libra: Oct. 30 – Nov. 23
Scorpio: Nov. 23 – Nov. 29
Ophiuchus: Nov. 29 – Dec. 17
Sagittarius: Dec. 17 – Jan. 20

Source: http://www.hotindienews.com/2011/01/14/1031363

SLU LHS: My Home

Saint Louis University Laboratory High School (SLU LHS), it is one of the exclusive school for boys back before until it became coed and the last batch of the pure boys was the batch of M6M, how did  I knew it? It is because my brother, a nurse now, is one of the last batch of boys in Saint Louis University Laboratory High School or known as Boy’s high. Another reason is because I study in SLU LHS, yes, I am studying at LHS and now currently a third year high school and I belong to the science section of our batch. They often tell us that we are the cream of the crop of our batch because the science section of our batch has only nineteen students and I am indeed proud to be one of the nineteen students that belong to the science section of our batch. I think that we are the only science section that has the least number of students in class and we hope that when we reach fourth year, we will still be nineteen.

In our school there are various types of students, there are the so called “gangsters”, the smart ones, the populars, the rich, the dependents, and the sports players that are sometimes to be liked by many girls in the campus. Even though we have these types of students in our school, we the LHS family is still united. The school also have different clubs to join for some extra co-curricular points that can help a student have a high rank in the overall. The students is led by the SANAMA or also called the student’s council. Every year, we elect our executive officers and our year level officers that will help in improving the lives of each student in the school. This election is always held during the second month after a new school year had started. Some candidates just makes many promises but they do not do their promise while the others are sincere in doing what they had promised and they are doing what they can just to fulfill their promise to the students who voted them.

Our school is facilitated by a good administration. Our teachers are good and they are also kind to the students. Some of the teachers are easily irritated by students who are not following what they are saying then they will get mad to the students. Even if that is the attitude of some of the teachers in our school, I learn a lot from them. There are also many activities held in the school like outreach programs, acquaintance parties of the different clubs, culminating activities, intramurals, and the class teams.

Saint Louis University Centennial Celebration

This 2011, the Saint Louis University will celebrate its one hundredth year. According to the administration, the centennial celebration would be a year-long celebration. There are various preparations held for the opening or launching of the centennial celebration. One of it is the “Handog ng SLU sa Baguio” held last December 4, 2010 at the Melvin Jones. Students and Faculty and Staff of SLU, elementary, high school, and college, were present during that day.

Hearing that our school will celebrate its one hundredth year, it is so nice to part of it because this only happens once every one hundred years (that’s why it is called centennial right?), haha, just kidding. We, the students of Saint Louis University, must be proud of our school because we are one of the many students enrolled in the school that will be given the chance to celebrate this centennial event and maybe the next celebration would be celebrated by our great grandchildren. If I would think of a great gift to Saint Louis University on its centennial celebration, my gift would be my loyalty to this school. I am proud to be a student of this institution because Saint Louis University is one of the best schools here in Baguio City. This institution gives a higher standard in education and one of the top performing schools here in our city. Even though that there are some complains that the school has a high tuition fee, that high tuition fee is repaid by a good education that you will get.

We, the students of Saint Louis University, must be proud of saying “I am a Louisian” because it is a way that we are really loyal to our school and that we really are proud to be a student of this school.

The SLU is founded by CICM priests in the year 1911. It started with only below students and now is about a million students. May SLU have many more years to come. 

Hmm Foods are interesting topics isn’t it? Let me tell you some of my favourite foods and my favourite restaurants.

One of my all-time favourite is chocolates because of its taste. I am really the kind that likes white chocolates but I also like normal chocolates and dark chocolates. I have been addicted to chocolates because when I was still a kid my father, working abroad, always sends us chocolates. “The chocolate that melts in your mouth not in your hand” this is the tagline of M&M’s. I also have a lamp shade that has a design of M&M’s, and a chocolate dispenser. Today I have many favourites when it comes to chocolates like Toblerone, Cadbury, M&M’s, and Hershey’s and many more. I also like jellybeans. When it comes to dishes, Shrimp Sinigang is my most favourite. I also like sisig and baked macaroni. When it comes to chocolates, I like all chocolates except the dark chocolate of Cadbury because it is so bitter.
When it comes to restaurants, Shakey’s and Max’s is my favourite because if there is an occasion or none, we sometimes go to Shakey’s or Max’s to eat. That’s all I have to say when it comes to my favourite restaurants.

If you want to learn how to cook Shrimp Sinigang, Sisig, and Baked Macaroni, I will add the ingredients and procedures on how to do it.

Here’s how

Shrimp Sinigang
Ingredients:
* 1 Kilo Shrimp
* 12 pcs Tamarind (Sampaloc)
* 1 big Onion (diced)
* 3 big tomatoes (quartered)
* 2 pieces Radish (sliced)
* 1 bundle Sitaw (Strringbeans)
* 1 bundle Kangkong (cut into 2" long)
* 3 pieces long green pepper
* 5 cups ricewash or water
* Salt or Patis to taste
Procedures:
1. Boil Tamarind in rice wash or water to soften. Pound and extract all juices and set aside.
2. In a casserole, boil rice wash or water, Tamarind juice, onions, tomatoes and Radish.
3. Lower fire; add in Shrimps, Kangkong, Sitaw and green long pepper. Simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Season with salt and patis.
5. Serve hot.
Sisig
Ingredients:
* 1 1/2 kilo Pork head
* 1/4 cup grilled liver (diced)
* 2 small onions (minced)
* 2 pieces red pepper (minced)
* 1 head garlic (minced)
* 6 pieces hot chili pepper (minced)
* 2 tablespoons oil
* 1 cup vinegar
* 1 1/2 tablespoons liquid seasoning
* 1 teaspoon black pepper
* 1 teaspoon brown sugar
* 1 cup beef stock
Procedures:
* Grill pork head for to remove hair.
* Boil pork head until tender.
* Take out all the meat and dice.
* In a pan, heat oil and sauté garlic, onion, red pepper, pork meat and liver.
* Season with liquid seasoning, black pepper, and brown sugar.
* Pour in beef stock and cook until meat is tender and starts to oil again.
* Add minced chili pepper last.
* Serve on a sizzling plate.

Baked Macaroni
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes

Ingredients:
• 16 oz. elbow macaroni
• 8 slices center-cut bacon
• 1 small onion, diced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 4 Tbsp. butter
• 5 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
• 2 cups half and half
• 2 cups whole milk
• 1 cup shredded gruyere cheese
• 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 cup shredded fontina cheese
• 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
• 1/2 cup French fried onions

Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9 x 13 pan with cooking spray.
2. Prepare macaroni according to package directions for "al dente." Drain.
3. In a large, heavy saucepan, fry bacon until crisp. Remove to paper towels to drain.
4. Add onions and garlic to bacon drippings. Saute until soft, 3-5 minutes.
5. Add butter to saucepan. Whisk in flour. Cook, whisking constantly, 1-2 minutes.
6. Add half and half and milk, and cook until thickened, stirring occasionally.
7. Stir in gruyere, cheddar and fontina cheeses. Remove from heat when cheese melts completely. Toss cheese sauce with pasta. Crumble in bacon.

8. Transfer to prepared baking dish. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese and fried onions over top. Bake, uncovered, 15-20 minutes until top is golden.