As a celebration for my sister’s 20th birthday, she and my mom decided to spend it in Puerto del Sol in Bolinao Pangasinan. It has become a tradition in the family to go someplace new every year especially in summer, although there were times that we went to some places at least twice.

The place was nice considering it was Pangasinan. For those of you who didn’t know, the beaches surrounding Pangasinan has become somewhat tourist-unfriendly because of aquaculture — particularly the bangus industry. Snorkeling would definitely be unsatisfying if you have already been to beaches and islands known to be as poplar diving spots. The view above the shoreline is another story. The developer must have made it a point to infuse the away-from-the-city-paradise feel so that customers would keep coming back, which makes it a plus factor for me. As a matter of fact, a couple was getting married on the night of the 30th.

Too bad we didn’t have time to visit the Hundred Islands. Alaminos was about 45 minutes away from Bolinao and my parents would rather be home as soon as we can.

All in all, I guess I could summarize the trip to be bittersweet. I just couldn’t help to be distracted amidst the loveliness of the scenery. And if you know me personally, you would have guessed why.

Here are some of the pictures of our trip!

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Suddenly, I find myself with tons to do despite not being enrolled this summer.

For one thing, preparations for all Engineering Student Council (ESC) events have started. Now, I’m actually relieved that I’m part of the Engineering Cup instead of the Opening Week. I might not take the nightly meetings too well considering the massive traffic on the way home.

Next in line are the Department events, which come simultaneously with the Eng’g-wide events. All my other co-reps are gravely overwhelmed with our situation. It was hardly a week after all the tasks for Recognition rites and here we are again. I do hope the list for our volcorp grows. We badly need all the help we could get because quite frankly, large events is too much to bear for 7 people (correction, 6 — one is still on vacation till June).

Last is my personal blog. I’m still using the wordpress theme from my old wordpress blog. I want to create a personalized template for Same Blank Space but sad thing is, my website programming has become rusty… if not outdated. Heck, I am not even familiar with PHP! Shame on me! The reading list just keeps growing and growing. It’s funny that my programming language is expanding compared to the other language.

Let’s take a look:

Spoken Languages: English and Tagalog (observe the absence of any foreign language )

Programming Language: Basic HTML, C, BASIC, Assembly, MATLAB IDE and DSP (Digital Signals Processing) board programming (coming soon: PHP and FPGA — Field Parallel Gate Arrays)

I wouldn’t be surprised if my English keeps on deteriorating.

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Not all to-do list have to be draining.

Fortunately for me, I have two events to look forward to: the Family outing in Bolinao, Pangasinan and the Movie Date with my moviemate the day after (Yay! Malapit na ang Spiderman 3!).

For someone who is supposed to be bored this summer, I could use a little r and r.