56 % Nerd, 21% Geek, 17% Dork

This is why I am sure that Toffee is not a normal Joe. :)

Your Score: Pure Nerd

56 % Nerd, 21% Geek, 17% Dork

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd, earning you the title of: Pure Nerd.

The times, they are a-changing. It used to be that being exceptionally smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up all of the traits and tendences associated with the "dork." No-longer. Being smart isn't as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label: Purely Successful.

Congratulations!

Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

each player of this game starts with 6 weird thing...

each player of this game starts with 6 weird things about himself/herself. People who got tagged need to write a blog entry of their own 6 weird things. They should as well state the rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" in their comments and tell them to read your blog.

1. When people ask me where I come from or what my hometown is, my usual is "NPA ako." No, I am not part of the New People's Army. NPA means, no permanent address. I have lived in Cotabato City, General Santos City, Davao City, Cebu City, Los Banos, Quezon City, and Makati. Let's not count the number of times we transferred from houses per city.

2. I started studying computer programming (yes, studying not playing with computers) at the age of 11. I first learned to program with GWBASIC and my first program was an employee record where the user is prompted for their details and displays them after. After GWBASIC, we did DBASE 4. I finished the top of my class. My classmates were twice or thrice my aged and copied from me during our final exam. :p hehehe...

3. I still have my gradeschool notebooks and quiz papers with me. I try to clean up once in a while but reading through them brings back old memories. I still have 4 boxes of them at home in Cebu. Im thinking of bring home the one big box of College memories but it's too heavy.

4. For weird, when I graduated high school, I unpurposefully found out my ranking in my class and in the batch. Out of 30 in our class, I was 15 and out of 90 in our batch, I was 45. Hahaha... Imagine being in the middle of everything. Coincidence? You decide.

5. People say, though I seriously doubt, that I look like Jackie Chan. Now they say I own an online Kanji translation website. See www.dsfy.com and you decide.

6. I'm not sure if this classifies as weird, but I have ran out of things to add. Anyway, I have been a stamp collector since the age to 12. I currently have 5 albums. One is a small album which I bring for show and tell. I expect to inherit my grandfather's stamp collection as well as my uncle's. I don't know how many they have but I'm sure its a lot. With the rise of the internal and email, I'm sure this will soon make me rich! hahaha... kidding. :)

Whew! Finally, 6 weird things is hard to reflect on. (Naks! Reflect tlga... hehehe...) Now, I'm tagging:

1. Alvin Uy (http://hellgod.blogspot.com)
2. Benito Ting (http://infernalmind.multiply.com)
3. Mhia Diola (http://miabaybeh.multiply.com)
4. Jan San Jose (http://breakofdawn.blogspot.com)
5. Alex Acapulco (http://alexdgreat.multiply.com)
6. BJ Torres (http://randmcnally.multiply.com)

To undergo transformation, transition or substitution

Otherwise known as "change".

Yet again, I find myself in a middle of a change and to once again decide whether this is a good thing or a bad one will be my choice based on what will happen in the coming days. Frustration often plays long hours in the mind of those who experience change, and sometimes a sense of uneasiness due to known circumstances that may be forthcoming. We'll see what happens.

Three days with a fucked up system with resolution progrssing very slowly and not knowing what to do and the future at the hands of another person... Sometimes forces a feeling of hopelessness and despair. Seeing no end to a causeless case that sometimes makes one wonder what drives people to work on such worthless trash.

But then, its all a personal decision. Circle of life, I suppose.

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My apologies for the incoherence of this entry... every thing will clear up in the end anyway. As Loony Lovegood says, everything has its way of coming back in the end... it only happens when you least expect it.

Sprain pain

This post seems out of date but I'll post it anyway. Got back from a summer trip to Boracay a few weeks back and it was alright. People might start saying that I wasted some thousand pesos for a trip to beach with a lot rain. Just to clear things, I did not go their for the sun. I have a lot of that already here in Manila. I really just wanted to get to the beach, rain or shine. It really does not matter, for me at least.

Some highlights of the trip though:

1. It's always best to have a Piso fare ticket when you know you'll be missing your flight. I got to the Check-in counter 30 mins before the actual flight. With 3 seats left and 4 of us that needed to board, the lucky person who had to rebook and add an additional PhP 1008.00 was the late comer that had to travel all the way from Diliman at 6am and faced the daily commuter traffic.

2. Five shots of Baccardi 151 = 15 shots of what Boracay's Cocomanga's had to offer. Got a free shirt and, supposedly, my name engraved in their Hall of Fame. Didn't get to check that one out though due to highlight # 3.

3. Skimboard until around 7pm on the last day of your vacation and stop only when you get your right ankle sprained. Just be glad though that you still had to ride more times than the person who got sprained on his first ride (ei BJ! hehe...). :-) Also, be glad that it happened on the last night. You did not miss out on the pasalubong shopping and good eat-all-you-can dinner your vacation mates enjoyed while you were in your room with a cold compress.

4. Walking on a sprained ankle the next day and catching a flight in the next 2 hours is tough! At least I got to ride wheel chair when I reached the airport, great consolation prize for the work I had to do going up and down tricycle, banca and van.

All in all, it was a trip worth remembering. I still got the sprain though I was able to bowl a 121 game which is good enough for me. Reflecting on everything though, at least I now understand why some people are scared of getting hurt. It's painful. But to decide on whether you prefer to enjoy that short moment of bliss and suffer a great deal or remain unscath for the rest of your life but never really fully enjoying all blasts of emotion even for that short period, I'd rather prefer to go sprained for 3 weeks.

I will have to save up this July. August will definitely be much more heavier on the pocket plus I can't afford to be late on that flight! :-)