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 Friday noon

Today started with a great breakfast. Thanks to all the "bisdak" guys
for sharing us their delicious tummy-filling breakfast. Well, special
thanks to Sir Christian and Sir Rey, who sacrificed their own breakfast
so that all four of us (Mam Jen, Mam Cath, Miss Marianne and I) can
enjoy a very hearty breakfast. [Hehe, murag PBB noh, my
pa-sacrifice-sacrifice pa.] For days they’ve been treated with a very
satisfying early meal in their hotel, while we (the ladies) settled for
the not-so-satisfying meal served at the cafeteria. They had two extra
meal tickets they wanted to share with us, but there are four of us so
two guys didn’t avail of their meal tickets. Yey! The meal was so BIG
that we weren’t hungry at all during lunch time (but we ate anyway).

The training today is not so nosebleeding. We are more relaxed today
and everyone is excited about the weekend. Since we don’t have
trainings during weekend, everyone not from Manila is scheduling their
own lakwacha. I arranged to meet my sister who is in Nueva
Ecija Saturday morning and we are planning to spend to entire weekend
together going around the city. I can’t really go shopping coz I don’t
have the budget. This afternoon we are going to Mall of Asia just to
see the one of the largest malls in the world.

I now have a new found interest in taking pics of food. I have been
taking pictures of the food that we ate during this training. I’ll
compile and post them later.

Thurday noon

OMG, laziness is totally owning me! When I woke up this morning I practically dragged my butt out of bed just to be on time for the training. The breakfast served this morning didn’t help. It looked same with almost all other breakfasts we had. We had to work on an activity and I was really not into it. I tried so hard to stay focused. All I ever thought of was when lunch was gonna be.

We just had a better lunch earlier. I mean, it’s at least tastier than all other lunches we had in here. The previous ones were too bland for my taste. As what we’ve done the past days, we "documented" our meal by taking pics of it. I already have lots of food pics taken on my cam.

This afternoon I hope there’s not much to do. I’m too tired to do anything (other than blog, that is). I’m going to somewhere north of Manila to attend worship services. I asked Jiena for directions. It’s gonna be quite challenging getting there coz I’ll gonna ride the LRT for the first time, then the MRT, and then a bus. I hope I don’t get lost. Wish me luck. Haha.

OK, I’m sleepy now. I think I’m gonna doze off a minute first before we begin the afternoon nosebleed session.

Wednesday morning

Uggghhh…I feel like I can’t last the morning session. My head is soooooooo heavy due to lack of sleep. It’s like I’m about to doze off any second. But it’s alright coz I had fun last night anyway. I went out with two of my bestest friends, Jiena and Joseph, to catch up and all since I’m in Manila and this happens like almost never. It was great catching up and telling stories and laughing and teasing and reminiscing older times with them. The best is them treating me to a great dinner and coffee at Starbucks. Our session ended at around 11pm and since it was already late for me to go back to the guest house, Jiena made sleepover her apartment. In the morning, I rode the MRT by myself to get back to the guest house. Yey! haha (mabaw ug kalipay) This afternoon we have another laag plan. I think we are going malling. This is really a way of draining every last bit of energy we have. But we are having fun and this is a rare chance so that’s ok. This is the bisayan people’s bonding session after the very nosebleeding training sessions. I can’t wait for lunch. I don’t know how I’m gonna get through the entire day!

Tuesday around 4:30 pm

My head is soooooooooo aching right now with all the coding we were doing earlier. Actually the others are still coding; I have just done mine and I figure I still have time to blog til we have our snack break. We’ve been coding since yesterday Day 1 of this training. Yes, I’m in a training (more like a trainers’ training) right now, trying to learn whatever, sitting in this quite comfy swivel chair in a quite hot airconditioned room inside CSB somewhere in Manila. The training has been a bit tough. Well, at least for me it has been. It wasn’t really THAT tough, I don’t I just end up draining all my energy. I wanted to see Manila once and for all (this is my first time here) but I just don’t have the energy to go anywhere. From what I see it’s just like Cebu only bigger and more buildings and more of the dreaded traffic too.

Yesterday I was forced to learn HTML programming in record time. We were given a warm up activity on writing HTML codes using notepad (hard coding kumbaga!) just to understand on how it works. And so since I never had "true" experience with programming using HTML (unless writing HTML tags in replying to forums called experience) I have to start from scratch (yes, you can laugh at me). I wrote my codes at the same time learning it. Not bad! It’s not hard at all. I completely understand it’s logic, I just hate having to memorize tags and reading about what things I can do with it. Today we are starting with JSP and so far it was quite easy. More like HTML meets Java. I kinda know Java so I no problem there. My problem would be when reach databases that’s really one of my weakest CS points. It’s all basically programming for the web with databases and all that. I haven’t been really into web programming, maybe this is a good start for me.

I feel like I’m gonna get really big by the time this training is over. WE ALWAYS EAT! The pattern is like eat-sit down-eat again-sit down-eat more-sit down-eat eat eat-sleep. I’m getting piggy-er by the day!