After 2 years and 2 months

I'm posting again.

Why? Because I got inspired by Tet's blog to write, even if I may not be much of a writer.

Anyway, on to my post.

- STUFF -

This Sunday, I bought 4 cheap DVDs at the Good Shepherd Bazaar (aka "Ruins in BF"). They were not so recently released movies so they were all of very good quality. The complete list is: "My Big Love," "Kung Fu Panda," "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" and "Make it Happen."

I also got myself 2 PC Games (after 4 years of not buying any) - "Command and Conquer Red Alert 3" and "Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition." Both of them are sequels of games I have.

- WORK -

Got to the office in record time because I drove my truck today (I'm considering driving more because diesel has gone down 20 pesos per liter since it hit a high of 56 pesos this year). Federico cracked me up within 5 minutes of my arrival because he copied the way I talked and did a pretty good job.

Samuel said we were going to have a project meeting. When I asked him what time, he said after he eats lunch. Once he was done eating, Joel and I sat down with him. He said Joel is to continue developing the administration part and that I'm going to take over his work on Thursday because he has to work on another project. So, I'll get to study some advanced and extremely complicated C# code later. :)

Aethen, one of my company's new recruits, joined Federico and I for our midday snack. He seemed pretty tense and excited about developing extensions for Joomla. I think that he's going to do fine, afterall, he wouldn't have made it to the finals of TOSP 2008 if he wasn't smart and hardworking.

My day consisted of writing stored procedures in T-SQL and programming in C#. I hit a wall at around 8 PM; there was a problem I had been working on for four hours that I just couldn't solve. So, I asked Samuel for help and 10 minutes later, he nailed it.

Samuel helps out his co-workers on a regular basis because he's got 15 years of experience in software development and is extremely smart (he was able to solve a tough Mensa test in just a few minutes). Thank God he's there to save young, inexperienced programmers like me.

- GAMES -

Mob Wars on Facebook entertained me for a while - I fought other mobsters, did dirty jobs, bought properties and sent invites to people who might want to be part of my mob.

Earlier, I played Chessmaster GE and went through Josh's Art of Learning, which I found pretty informative (there's a lot of stuff on chess theory) and inspiring (he talks about his biggest losses and how he's utilized them to bounce back).

- REALIZATIONS -

Being focused and hardworking is good but being playful is great. I believe I was focused and worked hard today, but in retrospect, I think I could have solved my problem sooner if had I tried to play around with the commands just like Samuel.

So what did I learn? I must never underestimate playing around\trial and error\"brute force" because I might just uncover a solution that I normally wouldn't.

- QUOTE FOR THE DAY -

"A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work." ~Steve McConnell