Hell Week!!!

March 28 - Monday - Deadline - Thesis Final Paper - Cha, just finished it today!!!
March 29 - Tuesday - Final Exam - Math 180.1 - I just need 96% to pass.... waaah!!!!
March 30 - Wednesday - Deadline - CS 173 IT Forum Paper - Making it now....
March 31 - Thursday - Presentation - Final Demo Thesis - The application's not working yet!!!!
April 1 - Friday - Exam - Psych 101 - I don't even have the notes yet!!!!

I just wish I pass this week! Please.... let me pass this week....

Decisions Decisions...

It took me more than an entire semester to decide what I would do after college... I had my options and I had my dreams. I was quite confident that I would make the choice easily and have no regrets. But when I was already there, faced with that decision, I guess all that thinking, preparation and confidence did not pull off...

It was a choice between doing what I think I want to do and doing what I think would help my family survive a few more years. Then, there were also times when I thought of leaving people behind and the fear of facing the real world. It's scary if you ask me. Every move you make may have an impact that will affect the rest of your life. That's your entire life that we're talking about and I am not that keen in ruining my life as early as now. I don't... I'm so confused...

I have made the decision but I do not know if I have made the right one. There are people who say I did the right thing and there are others who say that I could have given it more thought. I wonder if my decision to try out the industry for a while will do me good. I hope it will! But I still have my reservations...

Darn, sometimes I think that I would be best that I don't graduate first. I don't think I'm ready yet. I feel so immature; like a kid alone in the busy busy business world. I still don't know if this is the direction I want in life...

Why does this have to be so hard?

Which Fantasy/Sci-fi Character are you?

Putting your appointed path ahead of any inner conflicts, you make your own rules for the benefit of all.


If my life or death I can protect you, I will.


Aragorn is a character in the Middle-Earth universe. There is a description of him at TheOneRing.net.

Congratulations Carlos Miguel M. Lasa!

Congratulations!

Carlos Miguel M. Lasa!
P&G Student Excellence Awardee 2005

We are very proud of you!

Thesis Abstract

Facilitating Single-Sign-On and Enabling ECommerce using JavaCards

JavaCard runs a Java Virtual Machine on a processor card. Its strong data storage security is resistant against intrusion and tampering. JavaCards may store programmable applications independent of each other. It doesn't pose breaches as information leakage and traceability or non-authorized card reader listening.

This system's JavaCards have multiple applications installed to perform user identification through the holder's profile, academic status and health information. The card is also configured to contain non-static information for cashless transactions thus enabling debitand credit through the use of e-money. Furthermore, automation of the logging and timekeeping system is now possible since ID information is electronically accessed. This also realizes online signing-on to any web applications.

This study shows how such system was developed and proves how Javacards are deemed to be fit for the applications.

Quiz Time Again

You are Architecture.
You are the most functional art form and rarely do
anything without some practical purpose.
Although you are capable of easilly outstaging
the other arts, you usually prefer to go
unnoticed.


What form of art are you?
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We have a new President!

The UP Association of Computer Science Majors has a new President.

Carlos Miguel M. Lasa
Former Computer Science Represntative
Engineering Student Council
Managing Editor
Parser

Congratulations!!!!

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President: Carlos Miguel Lasa
Internal Vice President: Patricia Gagno
External Vice President: Elmira Gay Sto. Domingo
Secretary:
Treasurer: Eunice Grace Maximo
Academic Affairs Committee Head: Daryll Mariano
Activities Committee Head:
Information and Public Relations Committee Head: Julia Isabel Teehankee

To the new set of UP Cursor officers:

Congratulations!
We hope to see much better things to happen!
Do your best, for the org... in the service of your orgmates!

To the Engineering Varsity

This may be a little late but...

ENGINEERING VARSITY!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE ARE VERY VERY PROUD OF YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!

The period is now pressed.

The period is now pressed. A new chapter is about to begin.

There are many interpretations to this the statements above. At end of our term as part of the ESC 2004-2005, we can see it as the end of our service for the college and the enter of a new set of servants. In another way, we can see it as the end of our service to the college and the start of a search for a wider range of people to serve.

I am at conflict between these paradigms and thoughts. I feel an end of my service now that my term has ended and yet I feel a sense of doing more, wishing of doing more. I don't really know if you are going to understand my dilemma but I can't feel sad but I don't feel happy either. It feels like something important kas been taken away from me but I still don't want to let go.

Many people see me as if I have already passed this stage. I know many people who are going through this same stage right now. Sad for not being to work with one another again, frustrated of not having done as best as they could have done, yet there are also those who are eager at finding newer ways of doing service. Higher positions, some job offers, founding organizations, and a lot more.

I, myself, don't know what is in store for us the next few days and months and years in our life. My visions may have gone their but the path seems so unclear. It excites and at the same time pressures me... I know many who read this blog may feel this same way too. I guess we'll just have to do our best. Cope up, move on and at the same time never forget the experiences we learned.

ESC 2004-2005, all the best in our future endeavors!
UP Cursor, full speed ahead!
Parser, shine your brightest!

Graduates of UP College of Engineering, all aboard!

To us all, the best of luck! God bless!

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.... and they are off!!!!

This will be the last time I will ever use this signature...

Michael James O. Sepulveda
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Computer Science Representative
Engineering Student Council

Managing Editor
Parser

External Affairs Committee member
UP Association of Computer Science Majors

Staff
Career Handbook
UP Career Assitance Program for Engineering Students

Student
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
University of the Philippines
Diliman

Quizzes only for CS majors

Which File Extension are You?



Which OS are You?

So ends one year....

It is both sad and emotional to leave something you love doing and have given your most in doing for one year. One year is too short to effect a lasting change to a college or even to a department. One year is too short to even establish a perfect working and friendly relationship. I guess this one year has been one hell of a roller coatser ride; and it is a roller coaster ride I would never forget.

I have learned so much this past year both in dealing with people and in dealing with myself. I have met people who have change a lot of things about me and have inspired me to be a better person. At the same time, I have learned that I can be strong in the face of challenging circumstances and I was able to develop my own ideologies and principles in life that would help me and guide me in making decisions in the future. I have learned to be more independent at the same time learned to trust the capabilities of others.

One incoming department representative asked me, can you that you have become a better person after this term? I gave a resounding "YES". The me before is very much different from the me now. It seems like years when I recall the first time I step into the council office and yet it only feels like yesterday that we began to get to know each other.

I am feeling sort of sad and frustrated as I could only watch on as a new council take over our shoes. I feel being left behind as a new set of officers are given the reins that would lead this college's students into a new, clearer and fresher course that has a new vision and direction. You can only do so much and one year, and sometimes the feeling of not being able to do a lot of things continue to stalk the subconscius and disturb the hindbrain. I wish I did push for the establishment of EASP, I wish I defended the CS department more, I wish I spoke much more strongly for the cs students, I wish I did this and did that...

One can really do only so much in one year. I can not justify my feeling that I didn't exactly give the stellar performance that I really wanted to give and that stellar performance the students and our department deserve, but I guess history will be the judge, I guess the students who we served will be the judge, I guess I would be accountable to the department and its students and whatever lack in my performance will be a learning experience for me.

I guess, in the end of it all, whatever service or project that we offered the department and its students will be judged by the students themselves. If our projects would last, I might have been effective after all. Otherwise, well, I did my best. Not exactly my all but I guess, best is enough.

My thanks!

Thank you to the faculty of the Department of Computer Science for the effort they have given in helping us realize our dreams.

Thank you to UP Cursor for their never ending support; even with every odd against us, you have never left our side. Thanks! We owe you big time!

Thank you to the staff of Parser for their never dying enthusiasm in our plans, in supporting what we thought can not be done and being a symbol of undying service.

Thank you to UP CompSoc, UP ACM, and UnPLUG for being around during CS Week. Your support and help will always keep us going.

Thanks to the incoming CS representatives 2005-2006 for their show of service and the roles they readily took to make this CS Week successful. To Geo, Dino, Jeff and Marvin, we believe that you have great potential and you can easily match and surpass our performance as CS reps. A lot more is in store for you, just don't forget that the formula to a successful term as department representatives lies in the teamwork shown by those representatives. Help each other out and no job will fail.

Thank you to the ESC 2004-2005 for the learning experience you have given us in preparation for CS Week. It was surprisingly invaluable. For the friendship and the love for service, thanks!

Thanks Carlos for being the spirit of freshness that gives us the will to move on, for being always there and for providing your creative input on all "creative" stuff, and for being both a visionary and a realizer of dreams.

Thanks Ponch for being the calming water when typhoon its our shores, for being the money keeper, the task sink , and the jest provider, for being who you are, for knowing your limitations, and for reminding us of our obligations as students.

Thanks Chix for being the older brother in a brood of four, for leading when no one whats to lead, for making sure some details do not go unchecked, for the backup you provided when we where in the losing end of the thesis, and for being the one always looking forward and not dwelling on the mistakes.

Thank you to the entire CS studentry for being our inspiration, for being our guiding light, and for being our only source of strength. Everything we did would not have been possible if it weren't for you...

And most of all, Our deepest and sincerest and most heartfelt gratitude to the only Source of Light when we tunnel was covered with darkness.

This has been our one year. This is what we could give in one year. Thanks for the one year! Thanks for making your one year ours!

Low-Rank Nerd???

For lack of better things to do,

ORANGE SHIRT DAY on SATURDAY!

Friends,

Let's support the Engineering Varsity Teams! All three teams have made it to their respective FINAL Games. This is a first where all three teams might just win all three Championships for the UP Intrams! The games will be held at the CHK Gym...

3:30 Men's Volleyball vs CHK
3:30 Women's Volleyball vs CAL
and
4:30 Men's Basketball vs CHK

Go Engg! Go Engg! Engg Go!

Dante's Inferno Test

I guess I have a high tendency to go to hell.... I just hope I have greater chances in going to heaven... :D

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Moderate
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	High
Level 2 (Lustful)	High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very Low
Level 7 (Violent)	High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Very Low

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

Late Nights

I have been reprimanded almost every night for the past weeks... Why? Because I have been going home passed 11pm. But what really hits my nerves is that they do not understand the reason as to why I keep on going home late.

In my frustration, I was able to write a two-page essay...

Of Late Nights

I study at the Universityof the Philippines. At this institution, we are taught not just the formal, academic load; we are also taught to think critically, uphold academic freedom, pursue basic human rights, and most of all to serve our country and its people.

This is probably one reason why Tito Jun and Tita Fids have not tried to leave this country in hte first place. UP instills the importance of love for this country to serve, inspire and continue to hope for it to ba more peacful, more progressive and to have a better future.

As a student, a graduating at that, I tried to ind ways and venues for me to pursue my vision and my role in my passion for service. I found this in the student council. Here I work hard, all day and all night. I think about it in and out of sleep. I look forward to projects, envision and plan endeavors, concretize dreams and wishfully think of a better future.

I go to school for only 2 things, acads and my service to the department, college and university. People rely on my uniqueness, my plans, and my vision in every project and in every undertakig that we do. I could not and will not let them down. I was elected because people believe in me and in an elected position, it is my duty, my sole duty to serve and protect the interests of the students. Acads has in fact taken a back seat just for the sake of this passion of mine to serve.

It is a personal sacrifice and it is a sacrifice I am willing to take. No curfew or time or any person and any one is going to stop me in fulfilling my role; for living God's will for me as a student leader. This is His plan, I know and I'm sure, no matter what, he will protect me. I will exhaust my remaining days as part and probably even after this student council to continue to serve this nation. As long as I am part of this university or even after which, I will always be of service. That's a personal oath for myself.

UP has taught me what I need to know about life. It is not about how much you earn but how you lived your life. Has your dreams been fulfiled? Have you realized you full potential? This is what drives me in what I do. I seek to find the answers to these questions. For I know, when I die, these are the only things plus faith, that I could bring before God.

Service and passion for service. Only through this will I find my personal sense of hapiness...

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I have to apologize for this being a "me" thing... it just been so irritating that people do not understand that I enjoy what I am doing and even if it means putting myself in more danger than the usual, e.g. going home very late at night, I am willing and will do so...

Once again, I apologize for my ranting...