The Happy Laboratory: October 2009

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Art & Design / Shell National Students' Art Competition Awarding and Exhibit @ Ayala Museum, Part 2

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Here are some of the works from the Shell exhibit. The finalists' works are on display now at the Ayala Museum (though I'm not sure 'til when so if you know, fill me in).

↑ Very Chuck Close-y, no?

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More Photos:
[1] "October 20 2009, Shell Awarding + Exhibit Opening @ Ayala Museum, ND60"

Events / Shell National Students' Art Competition Awarding and Exhibit @ Ayala Museum, Part 1

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Last week, Kate, Curves, Bivan and I went to Ayala Museum for an event—the awarding and exhibit opening of Shell's annual National Students' Art Competetion! I didn't enter this year but my friend Xara did and yay—she's a finalist! Four other schoolmates were finalists too (one schoolmate actually got an honorable mention, this is his work). We got there just in time for the main event, the awarding and exhibit opening (we missed the first half of the program). After the program, they served packed dinner for everybody (and a sit-down dinner for the extra-special guests). Booze was served too I guess, but it didn't matter much to us because we don't drink. It was a nice night.

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More photos:
[1] "October 20 2009, Shell Awarding + Exhibit Opening @ Ayala Museum, ND60"

Blog Update / Tech Booboo

Am I on a multi-month/extended mercury retrograde mode? Or I'm just malazz tech-wise? I don't want to be nega and all but I can't help but share my tech boo boo list, haha.

A few months ago, I lost my phone (on my birthday eve, of all days).
My external HDD is still as frozen as the fish and peas in our freezer (read: sira, can't say the C word for OA/OC reasons).
Every time I try to post something and/or blog, the innernet decides to stop working. And just recently, the power lines decided to take some time off.
Now, my poorita-neanderthal-stone-age-piece-of-metal and plastic junk-machine we usually call a laptop decided to give me a headache and not work well. It's not totally dead yet. Something is wrong—I can't figure out what it is. Probably hardware related. I spent the whole saturday night trying to troubleshoot the darn thing (of course, I did that in between MMK, PBB, and NNNN + Bananasplit + Sports Unlimited! Look at what no-pc/internet is doing to me, I get to watch lots of TV!), but it still won't werq well. Now, I'm left with this ultra-slow-neanderthaltastic-stone-age-ice-age-times-two desktop computer. My brother has an okay laptop but nevermind (the P word is as big as Texas hahalol). A slow/chaka PC is better than no-PC at all. Bye.

But I'm okay. I just have to take my mind off these things for a while. I have other things to do anyway, like go through my growing pile of unread newspapers; or actually read my magazines (hahaha...aminin...), or make lists of other things to do, plus other random things.

Speaking of techie things...CEL Manila 2009 is almost here!