[November 9th at 11:29pm] lala0range Christmas Wish List! Graphic novels: - "Elmer" by Gerry Alanguilan - "The Love Eaters" by Andre Drillon - The "Trese" series by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo - Will Eisner titles: A Life Force, A Contract With God, Dropsie Avenue - Any book from the "Love and Rockets" series by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez. I'd particularly like "Flies on the Ceiling" and anything to do witht the village of Palomar. Things that are not comic books: - Doc Martens!!! Doc Martens! Red or classic black. - Marc Jacobs "Daisy" or YSL's "Baby Doll" - New Mac brown eyeliner - Shue Uemura make-up remover because I'm almost out of it - The best moisturizer and primer with SPF in the world. Actually I'm into anything with SPF. I'm alarmed at the freckles that have formed on my face since I moved here (and Asians are not supposed to have freckles unless you are Erica Paredes) - New hard drive (terrabyte sana) - Point and shoot camera i can stuff in my pocket and run out the door with. Or a Flip! ehehehe - Big-ass computer monitor to work on! - Tickets to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Sydney on January 8. - For Manny Pacquiao to WIN! - Love, peace, happiness; for all the destruction wrought by typhoons to heal itself; for smooth, clean elections; a noble and non-corrupt new president to lead our country forward; a new pollution-free and sustainable way of living for all humanity; enlightenment and compassion for all humankind. - For my big goals to come true next year. Sink, Florida, Sink

Prof and room inquiry. [November 9th at 10:13am] peyups [whatclemsaid] Hi, any feedback for these profs? Film 102 - Palomares Comm 100 - Yokomori Span 11 - Caniza Also, my Comm 100 class is at lec/dsc A 102; where is that? Thank you in advance. Sink, Florida, Sink

COI? [November 8th at 5:10pm] peyups [outinspace] Some subjects on CRS are marked "for X majors only, COI for non-X". I was under the impression that COI meant "certification of instructor", so I asked the instructor handling the elective I wanted if I could get enlisted into it. I wasn't expecting a reply, but she did and I was allowed to get on the class list after I showed the enlistment staff her certification. I finished my 5a, moved on to my 5, and successfully paid for my second semester, including that particular subject. I thought everything was fine. That was last Wednesday, November 4, though. When I checked my CRS records last night, I found out that the department had cancelled my slot in that subject last Thursday, November 5. I really don't understand why they did that when: 1. I already had clearance (aka certification) from the professor (aka instructor) in question 2. I've already taken the necessary prerequisite for that subject and 3. I already confirmed and paid for my slot without any violent reactions from either the department or my home college on the day prior to cancellation. The only explanation I can think of for this is that COI means something else, but that doesn't seem to make much sense. Does anybody know why this happened? 2 Sink, Florida, Sink

Classroom location [November 7th at 10:16pm] peyups [meicdon13] Does anyone know where FB1 is? That's my classroom for Film 10. Thanks in advance! 1 Sink, Florida, Sink

I still can't write about it. [November 6th at 7:53am] zaaid0017 Because it's still so damn difficult. HAHA. Tawa na lang tayo :)) Sink, Florida, Sink

Join the UP Mountaineers! [November 6th at 12:48pm] peyups [cecedog] Exclusively for enrolled UP students. Orientation Schedule: November 13, 2009 6:00 pm Balay Kalinaw (Ikeda Hall), UP Diliman Questions? Email us at join@upmountaineers.org.ph Or contact this number: 09164554417 Add life to living, join UPM! :D Sink, Florida, Sink

LiveJournal Major Notes: Spam counter-attack, RSS feeds again, CSI Deadly Intent contest [November 5th at 1:15pm] news [theljstaff] The empire strikes back In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal. RSS feeds again If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience. Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests! c_s_i If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here. Enveloped in postcards Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits. Photos of the week If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too! ( Read more... ) 216 Sink, Florida, Sink

UP PROFS help :) [November 5th at 6:38pm] peyups [soychristelle] Feedbacks on: MS102 - Dr. Alino Chem 31 - Prof. Irene Villasenor Psych 118 - Maam Bolante ?? THANKS A BUNCH!!!  :D 2 Sink, Florida, Sink

Level Up! Live 2009 [November 5th at 1:08pm] peyups [h_matsumoto] Sa sabado na 'to! :) World Trade Center November 7-8, 2009 Performances by: Kamikazee, Astrojuan, Gorgoro and I-ray http://levelupgames.ph/live2009 Sink, Florida, Sink

Roommate wanted [November 5th at 12:27am] peyups [all_boxed_up] Ive been in this boardinghouse for almost ten years mainly because monthly rent is cheap, Php 1200, for a four-person studio-type room. secondly, my landlady is very agreeable, respectful of our "rights" as bed-spacers, and lenient when it comes to late rentals (very helpful during my tag-hirap college days). lastly, even though pang-apatan sya, seldom siyang napupuno, so parang may sarili ka ring room for a cheap rent (btw with CR na ito). As payback sa mabait kong landlady, naghahanap ako ng isang roommate pamalit sa umalis na bed-spacer na di nagpaalam/bumalik or kinuha man lang ang gamit. For those interested, inquire at #60 Lt. J. Francisco St. Krus na Ligas, gray gate near Laundry Aid & computer shop, brown door to the right. No downpayment Sink, Florida, Sink

ce22 swap [November 3rd at 7:28pm] peyups [chubby_online] Is there by any chance a person here who wants to swap CE 22 with me? I have the WF 7-8.30 class, I need a WF 8:30-10 class. kung meron, please do text me at 09053368950! :D hehe. thaaanks. Sink, Florida, Sink

Network Maintenance - Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 04:00-05:00 GMT/UTC [October 30th at 5:17pm] lj_maintenance [dwell] EDIT: If you're reading this, our maintenance is OVER! The problem was not found on our equipment, which means we'll have to work with our ISP to fix this small problem -- which also means another maintenance window in the future -- but at least we have eliminated our side. Thank you everyone, and a special shout out to rekoil for giving me a great suggestion AND also the opportunity to feel like I've just called in to a local radio station. Have a great day, night or afternoon wherever you may be. --- Hi everyone, sorry for the late notice but I'm going to have to do some testing on 1 of our 4 internet circuits TONIGHT; Friday night or Saturday morning depending on which time zone you're in. Most of us shouldn't notice any impact, though there may be some slowness or lag when I switch traffic on to our other ISP circuits and then another hit when I stop the tests. If a page won't load or times out, try hitting refresh 1 or 2 times and it should load then. If it doesn't work at all... trust me, I'll be typing really really really fast to try to undo whatever I just did. Hopefully you'll have some Halloween candy (if you're in the USA and celebrate that kind of thing) nearby to take away the bitterness of a small site outage. :( Here's the handy-dandy Website That I Always Use to get a feel for when the maintenance will start in your area. Our site traffic historically dips on Friday afternoons until Saturday morning which is why we tend to pick this time for maintenance work. ( tech details ) status.livejournal.org will, of course be updated before and after the maintenance window. Or else marta will get mad at me. :D bt 50 Sink, Florida, Sink

[October 30th at 10:31am] peyups [urei_sachi] Hi, tanong ko lang if Eng 23 has a prereq or kung bawal siyang kunin as a cognate ng Pol Sci major? :D salamat! 2 Sink, Florida, Sink

LiveJournal Major Notes: Search super-tweak, postcards, and amazing user content! [October 29th at 10:53am] news [theljstaff] In response to user comments from last week, we want to let you know that we'll remain LJ cut-free for the next month in order to get more eyeballs on our evolving newsletter. As for product coverage, that continues to be our top priority. For more granular detail, however, we recommend you join lj_releases. Super-tweak for Yandex search Some of our beta testers expressed privacy concerns using the Yandex search engine. Here's why: Last week, when you ran a search, you could see the usernames (and only the usernames) of everyone who commented on an entry, even if that entry was switched to Private or Friends Only after it was originally indexed. You could NOT see the actual comments from Friends Only or Private posts. In response to your input, we've implemented a fix to keep all user activity currently marked Friends Only or Private completely hidden. If you'd prefer your public content not to be indexed by Yandex, click here and use the settings labeled Search Inclusion (this covers your entire journal) and/or Comment Search Inclusion (which covers comments only). To test drive Yandex search now, click here. Postcards from the edge Several years ago, we asked LiveJournal users to send postcards to help us decorate our dull, white-washed offices. Since a good idea warrants repetition, we're at it again (same issue, new address). We hope you'll surround us with LiveJournal love by sending your postcards to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. We'll post snapshots right here. Be sure to include your username, since we'll randomly pick 10 lucky recipients to win free paid account time. Conquer Writer's Block Here are some excerpts from this week's most popular question of the day: If a friend or relative makes a racist or homophobic remark, do you tend to confront them or let it slide? Are you more likely to confront them if it offends you directly or someone else who seems reluctant to speak up? I find it easier to stand up for other people, and i wouldn't let it slide if they made a rude or hurtful comment. Usually if a friend makes a racist or homophobic remark, I tend to let it slide. I think that while i would not say such things myself, I have no right to censor those around me. This happens all of the time. I confront some relatives, but I refuse to if they are drunk or watch Fox News. I'd let it slide if it was just a private remark... As much as I despise bigotry and intolerance, I know that you can't change people-they have to change themselves ... Confront! confront! confront! Politely, but without equivocation. SPEAK UP. Always, always, always speak up. Letting something slide lets ignorance win. No matter if it offends me directly, or someone else, I will confront the speaker and let them know that's not ok. I don't get offended personally. As an immigrant, woman, gay and person of color if I took every single potentially offensive remark seriously I wouldn't get anything done. I punch them in the balls. With my mind. I do speak up, but often very timidly because I feel that I'm white and therefore I don't really have any authority to lecture someone on what's racist and what isn't... Generally speaking, I do not let this shit fly, because it reduces me as a person, to this non-person and it replicates the destructive discourse that makes sure that sexual minorities, racial minorities, women, people with disabilities, trans people and every intersection thereof into something other than human... And sometimes... I'm just too tired to deal with it, so I roll my eyes, make a sarcastic remark and hope the conversation moves on quickly. For more daily questions and user comments, join writersblock. FYI, we don't want to invade your privacy, so we haven't credited individual users for their responses. We'd appreciate your feedback on this! Spotlight community of the week We can't resist making one last midnight trip to the ol' pumpkin patch. If you adore crazy costumes, fiendish festivities, and bottomless candy consumption as much as we do, this community has just what it takes to light up your jack-o-lantern. halloween_fan Photos of the week We received so many incredible photos, we had to close our eyes and point. We uploaded a selection of awesome images at our new lj_photophile community. Please join and start posting (try to keep the width at around 625 for the sake of consistency)! We'd love for you to tell us more about your photos! You can help us select spotlight photos by commenting on your favorites. Once again, we thank you for making our online world more beautiful! shutter pancetta ilya_gorokhov Curtains Thanks, again, for tuning in. We look forward to seeing you next week. 698 Sink, Florida, Sink

Pol Sci 14 (enlistment question) [October 30th at 12:20am] peyups [cat_unicahija] Hey guys!  It's that time of the year again.  I would just like to ask.  How is Verna Viajar as a Pol Sci 14 professor?  Like how does she handle the class and does she give decent grades? It would also help if you could comment on all these other Pol Sci 14 professors, in case you've been in their class: RYE, RANJIT PILAPIL, GENE TORRES, CRISLINE NEMENZO, FRANCISCO FRAGO, PERLITA CAINGHOG, NELSON Thank you so much in advance for your help! Catherine 3 Sink, Florida, Sink

[October 29th at 5:22pm] peyups [ribulose] anong mangyayari pag hindi mo nakumpleto yung mga INC mo? as in, tapos na yung one year na palugit? 5.0 ka na kagad sa subject na yun? 8 Sink, Florida, Sink

GO LOCAL LOCO [October 28th at 8:40pm] peyups [tintin08] In the three years that Yabang Pinoy has been organizing the Global Pinoy Bazaar, a venue that showcases Filipino products made with pride, it has constantly reminded Filipino consumers to continuously be aware of local alternatives. Yabang Pinoy has also inspired local entrepreneurs to take pride in being Filipino, motivating them to believe in their own original creations, and enabling them to develop unique products each and every time.   On its first year, the Global Pinoy Bazaar assembled Filipino entrepreneurs to speak for what it means to be shouting proud Filipinos, in a single booming voice. On the second, it challenged them to come up with products that stand for unique ideas and excellent Filipino craftsmanship, and build brands that hold their own against globally dominant ones.   This year, Yabang Pinoy takes its cause one step further by encouraging these shouting proud Filipino entrepreneurs to better express their love for country and culture by using local natural resources, whose immense potential is still largely untapped. The Philippines is blessed with breathtaking nature, one that provides for the huge variety and richness of the country’s resources, and Yabang Pinoy hopes, will be used by Filipino entrepreneurs for their brands to be distinct and competitive, even superior, in the global market.   In the upcoming Yabang Pinoy Bazaar, to be held on Nov. 14-15, 2009 at the Rockwell Tent, Yabang Pinoy appeals again for the support and participation of these entrepreneurs, to whom it has intensified its commitment to support. At the same time that it encourages them to launch limited edition items at the bazaar. Yabang Pinoy is also publishing the Yabang Pinoy handbook, a directory of Filipino products made with pride which will be given for free to all shoppers, to sustain their momentum of wise consumer spending, even down to the last P1.00.   There will come a time when Filipinos will be more conscious of where the spend their money, even down to the last peso. But until that time, Yabang Pinoy will need the help of entrepreneurs, local companies and Filipino consumers, who will never tire of buying and being Filipino. Be part of the Yabang Pinoy consumer revolution.   For more information, visit www.yabangpinoy.com, or contact Crissy Joson through email atbazaar.globalpinoy@gmail.com or call 0927-8263926. Sink, Florida, Sink

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