long time no blog

it's been more than a month since my last post. a lot has happened that i regret and a lot that i also totally enjoyed.

here goes...

last april 25, i went to cagayan de oro (cdo) with some of my officemates. when we got there, we immediately went to our hotel and changed for our rafting adventure. it was a lot of fun. we were first told of the rules, the commands that they were going to use and what they meant. even though i know i wasn't allowed to do such a sport, i still joined. hehe! and after that, i cried because of the pain i felt in my forearms. stupid me, huh! well anyway, i enjoyed the rafting part. it was such a thrill. all we needed was a little coordination. you can view the video of our rafting adventure on youtube. click here.
after we went rafting, we went back to the hotel only to change and go out again. we went to sm cdo to buy some essentials that we forgot to bring. we then went out for dinner. yum! hehe. after that we went back to the hotel because it was pouring. we just stayed in the room and played uno. hmm..don't know what to call it except uno. anyway, it was the type of uno where you played with blocks not the cards.
next day, we went "hiking" at gardens of malasag. it was sort of an ecotour. there were lots of animals and flowers. the view was wonderful. they had this hanging bridge (a small one) and we crossed it. unfortunately, i got cut by the wires holding the bridge up. tsk! bad...
we then went to their famous lim ket kai mall where we took our lunch and bought "pasalubong" for our families and friends. i had a bad moment there though. =( i was supposed to meet someone special to me. but his fear took over him and so he just asked his cousin to meet me. =( bad...
so after malling, we bought something for dinner and went to the pier to catch our boat. had a bit of a cry while everybody else was sleeping and woke up feeling like a zombie. i was tired and depressed. too bad for me.
oh well, at least i had fun before that incident happened. thanks a lot to my colleague for inviting us to his hometown.

after that, our company held a training for Ruby on Rails (RoR). i really really wanted the opportunity to join the training. so i asked my CDG (career development guide) if i could join the training since she's also the manager for those projects using the RoR language. she said she'd talk to the organizers of the training. so i waited. then they told me, i wasn't qualified to join the training since i had a client project. what the?!
it's not that i'm being rude or anything but then it sucks having a project that doesn't really require you to do much. i can't really learn anything while i'm on this project. i've told my superior just that. i told him, this project doesn't give me any opportunity to learn more. i'm stuck to where i am.
yeah yeah. i know what other people would say. i could read up some stuff and learn on my own. yes, that is true. i could and i know that i'd learn but since i won't be able to apply what i've learned to anything, it's practically useless. my learning would only end up to there. i won't be able to really explore whatever it is i am learning.
ok..so back to the topic now. i really wanted to join the training. one fateful day, as luck would have it. one of the organizers of the training asked me if i'd still want to join the training. the training had already started for a week so i'd be coming in late and i'd have to catch up with all their exercises. nevertheless, i was confident that i could catch up and do all those exercises. huh! i was able to catch up with all the lessons. i learned as much as they had learned but i wasn't able to catch up with all the exercises. i failed to pass 1 of the exercises. oooops!! =D
we had a project to end the training. we were asked to create a social networking site in 5 days. wow! that's really fast. we were able to do it but with less features than your basic social network. for one, we forgot to put in a messaging system. lol! anyway, we were able to get the users to login/logout, add existing users as friends, invite their friends to become members of the site, search some members, upload photos and we also had a profile restriction feature. i know we've got a lot of features missing but hey, 5 days was all we had. actually that was 3 days since our first 2 days were spent on planning and discussing our project.
so even though i started late, i believe i was able to learn a lot. i was able to do things i didn't think i could do in a short span of time. and by the way, we won! =p

i'm keeping some things to myself. especially those stuff that i regret having said or done. but those are the highlights of my apr 25 - may 30 life. =)