CATHastrophic Mediocrity

August 31, 2009

Maasin Outing

Filed under: Personals

Below are one of the pictures we had when we went to Maasin, Leyte. See for yourself. 

 

By the dim-lighted shore

 

Itsura ko after the rainy dance by the beach

 

Nakamoto Sensei and the peeps

 

The sea can be viewed from the shrine (after making morethan a hundred steps.) You can see Mindanao on the left side and Bohol on the other side. Sugoi!!

 

Enjoying the sunlight by the seashore!

 

Minna(everyone) at high!

 

August 29, 2009

Working with Miss GINA(.dll)

Filed under: IT Stuff

Here I am again, trying to figure things out. Hmm.

We were assigned a project that deals with information security management. And lately the team are still trying to figure out how to work with MsGina.dll in Winlogon. Winlogon is the one responsible for interface functions and creating desktops for windows stations.

If I am not mistaken, customizing the log-on interface is possible by replacing the Gina.dll (Graphical Identification and Authentication), which WinLogon executes upon booting. Replacing Gina.dll would include changing registry values. User authentication can then be customized (maybe biometrics, or use of peripheral devices as unique keys) upon logon. GINA is also responsible for bringing up the Task Manager during Control+Alt+Delete event.

(to be continued)

 

 

August 15, 2009

Questions

Filed under: Personals
After our routinary week-end badminton drills, we had our lunch in IT Park. I just don’t know why their voices were vague, and I don’t seem to understand what they were saying. It’s like sitting next to someone who exists in another dimension. I felt like I was alone drifting in space.
Someone asked me "だいじょうぶですか。(Are you ok?)". I said "はい。（Yes)." I don’t know why sometimes I prefer to say "YES" even when I really mean "NO". And why sometimes I choose to keep my mouth shut even when answers are all laid down infront of me.
When we were young, we asked simple questions. Even though how simple it may sound, the adults still can’t give us an answer. "Why is the sky and the ocean blue?""Why do I see my own self in the mirror?" "Why do each flower smell so unique from all the rest?" It’s amazing how a child sees things differently from an adult’s perspective.
I am not a kid anymore. Neither am I considered an adult although I am at legal age. I’ve gone through the stage of asking those kind of questions. And begin dreaming and asking what the future might hold for me.
And still, I don’t know how to understand the complexity of things. Can life be just simple enough for us to survive? Or are we humans entirely responsible for this because we have the heart and the mind to perceive things more than what they really mean? Or is it because we have the will to choose what we believe in? 
Are dreams only for those who sleep? Does anyone have to believe in dreams? Do they hold false hopes for an impossibility, or can it lead someone to a realization? And when do dreams become nightmares?
When a person dies, do all things he worked for also get buried six-feet under the ground? Are successes and failures just part of someone’s personal fancy until that person have to surrender everything when he longer owns the body he just borrowed? What is life then? What for? When in the end, lives become dust.
When a person chooses a religion, in the end of time, whose god will claim true their promises of salvation? I am not an atheist nor a faith defender. But I sometimes wonder who will be saved. 
Maybe I am asking stupid questions, but I was thinking, if I myself makes life a bit more complicated for me alone. When choosing between "YES" or "No" is a very difficult thing to do, how much more difficult it would be to find the answers to my questions? 

August 13, 2009

GMAIL1.1

Filed under: Personals

A poem made by a friend I left in Davao. We usually talk through Gmail. A good and a reliable friend.

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I don’t know how to start
the things i want u to know
please read this poem
quite and slow

when my world was down
you were there to listen
when my world was down
you were there to speak

I just cant see the reason
I cant find an answer
Why would someone like you
Be paying attention

To my nonsense
and ignorant ways of perception
leading me to something
ive always been preventing

hurting myself that’s what I do
but you made me think
the other way around
and made it easier than it sound

your words really helped me
they are my way
the guide that led me
to see the reality

hay.. I don’t know what to say
throwing my life for 1 day
is just a waste of money
hehehe gmail is for free

I want you to know
That deep inside my heart
Im thanking you
Very much its true

And I will be here (in davao hehehe)
Ill listen and speak (gmail)
Give my thoughts.
That’s all thank you. hehehe

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