i'm going to the 4th level of hell hahahaha :D

Got this from Lyra... hehehehe :D
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The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Fourth Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Low
Level 7 (Violent)	High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Low

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

sleepless in marikina

We just finished a very long overnight sem planning session. I'm sleepy. Very sleepy. My eyes are getting heavier by the minute.

Comm 140 class was canceled. Argh. Back to 15 units, assuming I get Comm 130 and Journ 102. Crap. I need those classes badly.

I'll probably be back on my feet after a long night's sleep. A very long night's sleep. Will be gone jogging on Thursday. Looking forward to a free lunch. Hehehehehe.

It's cold. Very nice. I'll go to bed now.

crusader charge

Yes, I still cannot sleep. Breakfast was more than satisfactory, but I think I'll be taking lunch on time too.

This insomnia will be the death of me. Hahahaha. I need some milk over here, preverably with Hershey's chocolate syrup on the side. In the past that has been one surefire way of getting me to sleep.

I love my life. Today my parents had our subscription to Sky Cable cut. On the plus side that means no more annoying Sky Cable ads cutting in when the schedule of the program I want to watch next is on screen. The bad news though is no more ANC, no more National Geographic, no more Star World, no more Star Movies, and no more Cinemax.

Argh. I'll be losing my favorite news and public affairs programs, I Didn't Know That, My Wife and Kids, reruns of Star Wars, and Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica in one fell swoop.

We're switching to Destiny Cable, whose lineup is half composed of foreign language channels which I will never watch but is way cheaper than Sky, which is how my parents justify the switch. Yes. We must cut back, thanks to rising prices.

We must cut back on everything else, except of course my mom's cigarette addiction. I wonder how much money we could save once that little problem is taken care of once and for all...

Good thing I still have the computer. I installed Call of Duty 2 a few days ago. Yes, I have all three Call of Duty games for the PC. At least this addiction does not pollute the environment. I'm well on my way to completing the game, which is a bit longer than COD 4 but also less graphic.

Every game in the series has one or two missions which really get my adrenaline running (and subsequently end up being played over and over and over again). In the original Call of Duty it was the "Stalingrad" and "Red Square" missions. In the expansion it was the one which put the player as the gunner in a B-17 bomber. In Modern Warfare it was the "Shock and Awe" and "Sins of the Father" missions.

In COD 2 it's the "Crusader Charge" mission. This one has the player as the commander of a British Crusader tank during the North Africa campaign. The objective is a ridge controlled by German tanks. The problem is that the German Panzers outrange and outgun the British tanks. The challenge is that you have to race across open ground under murderous fire from the Germans. Whew.

I love this game.

hunger pangs

It turns out that it wasn't the coffee that was keeping me awake, it was my stomach. Apparently, one side effect of my sleeping at odd hours is a confused digestive system. It could probably be described as being like jet lag, although without the prerequisite flight to a distant continent.

Argh. I want to sleep already! Even now our rice cooker is percolating. I had some corned beef bought from the nearby grocery. My tummy is making weird rumbling noises, already anticipating the imminent arrival of breakfast.

And I can smell it already. Mmmm... Fried eggs to go with corned beef and onions. Freshly steamed rice. Orange juice. God, I love breakfast!

I'll skip the coffee. After I eat I want to sleep. Of course, I'll also be skipping lunch in the process, but I do have to go to dreamland sometime.

Right. The table is set. I'm hungry, really hungry. So hungry that I'll probably polish off every plate at the table later on. No leftovers. No survivors.

No mercy. Hahahaha!

insomnia

This is getting worse. I'm still wide awake at four in the morning. Hahahaha. I woke up at 5 PM yesterday with an aching back and sore muscles.

I had a blast at Wednesday's sportsfest. My first serious game of basketball in a very long time went better than expected, and I found out that I can still play badminton. Hehehehe.

I'm obviously not the sporty type. I'm more comfortable with reading books and playing computer games. The only physical activity I do regularly is walking, and that from my bed to the computer.

We're planning to go jogging on Monday. And, assuming that the weather cooperates, I also plan to play a little Frisbee. Yup, I want to get out of the house and run around once again.

But while waiting for Monday, I'm stuck here in front of the computer at 4 AM. Hahahaha. This insomnia will be the death of me. I think I need sleeping pills to get back to my normal schedule. Of course the coffee I drank earlier did nothing to help matters.

School is around the corner. I need to get rid of my insomnia as soon as possible.

hail, caesar! yes, i'm still awake

Hahahaha. I woke up at three o'clock in the afternoon yesterday. I love my life. Too bad all of this is going to end soon. However, I'm going to enjoy every single minute of it while it lasts.

Who knows how much sleep I'm going to get come next month?

Might as well exploit the cool air, overcast sky, and soft beds while I can. The downside, of course, is that I now live irregular hours. I actually missed lunch today, as I only became lucid enough to eat come dinner time. Dinner, however, was composed of two fried chicken breasts, a steaming bowl of rice, another bowl of mashed potatoes, and all the gravy I could drink- er, have.

Yum yum. My application to the UP Gastronomical Society is in the bag. Hahahaha.

Again, I'm still wide awake in the wee hours of the morning. I did not touch a single paper in my room today though; I'll finish that little chore tomorrow. For now, I'll relax.

I spent much of the day researching for our Applicant's Module. After that I started to experiment with Microsoft's World Wide Telescope program. The WWT is like Google Earth for the sky, as it allows you to see the heavens as never before. It blends nearly all the astronomical information available on the Internet (or so Microsoft says) and brings it to your fingertips. Now, if only I could sort through all that data in front of me...

The past few hours I spent watching videos on YouTube, where I stumbled upon a series called Decisive Battles. I'm a bit of a history buff, and I really enjoy learning about wars and battles of the past, so much so that most of my favorite movies and games all deal with fighting and war.

I especially love the ancient era (maybe I should interview Ron about this) where Roman legions, Greek phalanxes, and Persian "Immortals" had their way. Battles then were not decided by who had the most powerful gun or the most accurate bomb, they were decided by the skill of the men in command and the strength and determination of the men on the ground.

Generals then were at the battles, not in some war room hunched over maps. Some even led their soldiers from the front, actually heading a charge into the enemy. The soldiers were armored with steel and armed with swords and spears. Cavalry charged with lances and archers fired arrows into the sky. That's the kind of "hack and slash" I want to see; not the stylized ballet of two martial artists, but the brutal hand to hand combat of two armies having at each other.

I find it all fascinating. Don't worry, I do not enjoy the blood and the hardship inherent in war. I am no some bloodthirsty, brutal, sadistic fool, mind you. What I find fascinating about all this are the strategies and tactics employed in the battles. That is why I spent the past few hours watching computer-animated (from Rome: Total War, actually) depictions of important battles in the past.

Some you probably know, like Thermopylae and Gaugamela, thanks mostly to Hollywood. Some you most likely don't know, like Pharsalus, Cynoscephalae, and Carrhae. All of these battles were turning points, moments in history where the fates of empires were decided. All of these battles were, in large part, decided by the cunning moves of the victor and the men he commanded.

That is something I want to emulate. I want to be able to change the course of history, to make my mark on it someday. Hahaha. A tall order, I know.

As a future reporter, I'll be where history is made. I'll be there when it happens, where it happens. However, I still plan on making it happen.

Hahahaha. It's four in the morning. I'm hungry. I think I'll go raid the fridge now.

getting down to business

At 12 midnight. Hahahahaha.

My biological clock is seriously screwed up. I wake up at a little after lunch nowadays. I stay in a zombie-like state for the next two hours. I only eat lunch at 3 or 4 in the afternoon.

Lunch usually takes me to dinner time. I am an extremely slow eater, as some of you may have already noticed. A meal, for me, must not be rushed; every bite must be enjoyed. It gets even worse at home, as I cannot eat without a book in my hands.

Hahahaha. Go figure.

So dinner for me ends sometime after 10. As a result, I am very wide awake come midnight. While everyone is asleep I play computer games or read. It was only yesterday that I decided to do something more productive.

At the end of every semester I clean my room. Yes, I do clean my room from time to time. With the summer coming to an end (and with the temperature going down) I finally got around to clearing all the stuff cluttering my bedroom.

I had no idea that I was such a pack rat. My cabinets are filled with all kinds of papers; old books, new books, readings, notebooks, newspapers, and test papers cram into every inch. There is such a thing as compulsive hoarding, and I fear that I am one step away from it.

I find it very hard to throw away my old things - I even keep pieces of scratch paper full of random doodles. I keep telling myself that "I'll need these someday". Yep, I sure will need that sheet of yellow pad with hieroglyphics- er, derivatives, on it in the near future.

The problem with this is that I now have a massive pile of flammable stuff in my room right now, not to mention a veritable feast for all the cockroaches and rats in the neighborhood.

So what am I going to do about it?

Thanks for the memories, but it's about time for a purge. Hahahahahaha.

I will throw out everything older than a year, save for term papers and such. My old readings, outdated books and newspapers, and my "collection" of fliers will be earmarked for recycling, just as soon as I find a recycling station.

By the end of the week I'll have my room cleaned and cleared.

it's that time once again

After long weeks of scorching heat, the rains have come back.

I love the cool air. I love the afternoon thunderstorms. I love the rain.

I hate CRS. If there's one thing I hate about UP life, it's registration. And here we go again.

Online pre-enlistment is supposed to make life easier. It should, if only the guys running it get faster or more powerful servers to handle the load of thousands of users logging on to get their classes.

The website takes an eternity to load, and that usually takes a dozen reloads to do.

The good news is that I now have a curriculum to follow once again. Granted, I am constrained by pre-requisite subjects, but my life is finally on track.

No more general education subjects or free electives for me though. I'll be spending the rest of my days as a Journ major at Plaridel Hall.

I took the "shotgun approach" in enlisting my subjects - I pre-enlisted in every class available for every subject I wanted, in the hope that CRS gives me at least one after processing. Hahaha.

I'll most likely take only 15 units next semester, given the constraints of the pre-reqs. That's more "me" time for me. Again.

Hehehehe.