First and foremost, I have a new layout (again)! And this time, I made it all by myself.

That means, I can tell everyone with a straight face that I am pretty much familiar with PHP and CSS.  Woohoo!

Special thanks to Stock.Xchng for the free use of the photo in the header and footer, Theme Viewer for the free themes I can choose to base my site on, and, of course, my Dearest for all the useful tools and tutorials. Talk about spoon-feeding. I really do feel spoiled.

Even if I pretty much like the layout and the site will stay this way for a very long time, I would still like to read more about PHP and MySQL. I got excited to see that PHP has a similar form as C — only that it is used for webpages. Since I’ve been programming in C ever since first year College, studying the conceptual part of PHP was like a breeze making me inspired to dig deeper in the topic. Kiko also gave me a brief explanation about the bugs in the ESC website he was working on and I was interested to know the details of it all. That means, I should learn more about MySQL databases and how to process them to understand the bugs better. Who knows? Maybe I get to help him on the website. Would that solidify my geekiness? Hehehe, maybe.

Now that site layout is done, I could concentrate on the actual content of the site. I have been meaning to write a post on the family trip I just had more than a week ago so I better start with that.

I really hope everyone likes this layout as much as I do. BTW, I already used a higher JPEG compression for the images so that it could load faster. It would be nice if I actually have feedback on the layout *hint* leave a comment *hint*

As anyone can see, I have changed the site’s layout to a more personal design. This way, I have smaller chances of having the same look as another random blog.

Don’t get me wrong, though. I still have yet to read on PHP to implement hardcore programming. Thanks to the WordPress Theme Generator and a few photo manipulations here and there for my header and I was done. WYSIWYG modules still works for wordpress newbies like me. Not that I hated the new theme, I pretty much like it. This gives more character to the objective of the blog anyway. Learning more about PHP would allow me to tweak the layout at the point when self-nagging comes to an end.

By the way, the photo in the header came from stock.xchng — the best site to go to if you’re looking for free images for your own personal use.

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.