I’m happy to share a new means of transportation I discovered at Trinoma mall. Operated by MetroAsia, a queue of brand new Innova cars is located at the taxi stand near BreadTalk along Mindanao Avenue replacing what is used to be dominated by LPG-fueled taxis.
A concierge welcomes you and asks your destination. You will then pay the fee to the concierge and shall receive a receipt.
I was charged P120 and P170 going to UP Diliman and Katipunan respectively and approximately P50 on top of the usual taxi fare. I assume the difference would widen as the distance takes longer. It is implied that the customer is also paying the round trip because these Innova taxis are not picking up new passengers as they go back to the camp.
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Engineering Week is the most anticipated celebration of the college. And since it is the centennial year of the college and recently concluded series of college-wide events had already set the bar of prestige and success, it is expected that we shall experience extravagance from Eng’g Week to a higher level one could imagine.
A single idea from the human mind can engineer events. An idea can transform the college and rewrite all the rules. Which is why I have to plant it. If I were part of the dream team to orchestrate the grand plan, hopefully this idea would “kick” off this December.
More than just the inception, which the blockbuster film of the same title had offered, the unifying theme revolves around dreams and aspirations. We can produce more ideas and play around later as we “go deeper”. After all, the College of Engineering is a concrete jungle where dreams are made and engineered.
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When supposedly I should only be proving my graduate thesis during my remaining semesters at UP Diliman, I found myself devoting my time in serving the Engineering students big time. When the main reason of taking masters is to move ahead as I step back in the corporate world, I found myself working with a great team of public service. Masters. Servants. One of the ironies of life that I like.
We came from different Engineering courses, idealogies, walks of life and you bet, age! I just crossed the quarter-life crisis while some of them are still teenagers. But you wouldn’t notice it when you see us. We’re close with and open to each other. Close. Open. Yeah. Like.
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This application the brings the Jejemon out of me. It’s called Facade. It is a little application from Facebook that allows you to add emoji or icons to update your Facebook statuses.
After you authorized the application to use your profile, you can post update with cute emojis. Hit the toggle button for a sumptuous serving of emoticons.
I’m officially a Jejemon. On the other hand, Facade is a giant step for all Jejemons to Friendsterize and Myspacize Facebook.
In celebration of the jejemons’ victory after the word has been chosen as the Filipino word of 2010, I enumerated some pet peeves online that I consider 13 of the worst FFFFUUUUU- annoyance and which jejemons normally do at Facebook, Plurk and their haven, Tumblr. Their manner of writing and “tnx po kuah” are trivial here.
13. Liking Own Status
I’m not really sure of the orgasm one gets after liking own Facebook status.
Kawawa ka naman. ‘Nuff said.
12. Bed Shots As Profile Pictures
Jejemons add more colorful text in Comic Sans over their profile pictures of themselves with an Asian pose. But taking a low resolution and blurred picture of oneself lying on bed hurts my eyes more!
11. Autoplay of music
Sometimes I got intrigued of my followers so I visit their profiles. Unfortunately, few of them have embedded music players that autoplay their favorite song list. Worse, if you can’t locate the stop button. And to combo it, just right after the music has been streamed, the background of the HTML will finally load and cannot be unseen.
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