Badminton Tournament II: Lose-Lose-Win-IDK!

Despite my body protests to wake up, I still did; still not figured out how I will tell my parents about today's badminton game. Today is the part two of my tournament schedule. I'll be having four games for today: Game 6,10,12 and a standby game. To convince my parents to allow me to play, I sent a text message to my dad asking him to just pick me up from the badminton court so that he'll be assured that I am safe. He agreed. Conflict resolved.

The time of the tournament has come and the women's tournament was a big L. We lost to two games straight, for two sets only. But it's okay, we had fun and enjoyed the whole game. The win from the doubles made up for the previous loss. As for the last game, I don't know what's the result since it was converted to a singles match because of the absence of the other team's teammate. Kuya Julius, my mixed doubles partner, played on our team's behalf.

What's fun during the tournament is that my mom and dad came with my cousin Balong. My officemates got the chance to see how cute he is! :)

Programming: Disable All Breakpoints

Have you debugged a program using a breakpoint? It is pretty helpful right? You get to determine the bugs you have in your code by stepping into the program's methods and see if it worked the way you want them to. But isn't it annoying when you are so confident with your code fix and you forget to remove the breakpoint and you test your program and it moves back to Visual Studio because of that red dot?

During one of my programming tasks within this week, I am assigned to refactor codes to make the system work faster. Part of my task is to determine the frequency of the method calls. For this task, I used breakpoints and placed them in each method. During the testing phase, some codes didn't work because it was being barred by the breakpoint. I removed the breakpoint and it worked. But still, I need to know the frequency so I added the breakpoint again. As expected, it was barred once more.

To solve this issue since it is pretty annoying to the programmer to add and remove breakpoints, I used the Disable All Breakpoints command from the Debug menu. As the name implies, it disables all breakpoints but it still stays where it was placed. With this, the program can be tested smoothly. If there is a need to use the breakpoints again, just hit the Enable All Breakpoints from the same menu.

Photo from MSDN Blogs

Badminton Tournament: Win-Lose-Win

It should be first a big thanks to the Father for making me recover from my virus last week. My cough and cold are gone and now I am ready to smash some shuts (my shortened term for shuttlecocks).

From the previous badminton games. Ü

I joined our company's badminton tournament. My previous schedule, which was last week, was cancelled due to my poor health condition. Gladly, the organizers re-scheduled me for this week; today and Wednesday. I almost forgot my game for today because we just returned from Laguna yesterday and thanks to my poor decision on what to wear I remembered that I have to play today. So before going to the office I decided to wear a ready-to-play attire and grabbed B'bee (my Dunlop badminton racket; named B'bee because its color is yellow and black, the same as the Transformers Autobot Bumblebee) then went off. I told my mom that I'll be going home late because of the game. They didn't know it will start by 2000H until 2300H as per schedule of my game which is Game 1, 6 and 12 (the last game). I'll be screwed.

Two hours before the game I called my dad, saying that I'll go home by 2300H. He was furious and that is an expected reaction. He said that he'll be tired and won't be able to pick me up after the game since he will be driving my aunt and cousin to the airport (they'll be returning to Canada). I told him I will try to switch games with the other players for me to leave early. He told me to update and him and once again reminded me to go home early. After the conversation, my boyfriend asked me what my dad said. I told him that he was unhappy about what I said about the game time. He told me to tell my dad that he will just accompany me home for them not to be worried. I told him if he's sure because I'm pretty hesitant since I know he lacks sleep and if he was to accompany me he'll go home late. He said yes, and I know he is.

We arrived at Smashville by i30 (Shisho's car) with Mitc and ate a sundae cone before the game. Our first opponent was Mitc and Sheila. Me and Ate Jamie, my partner, won. As for the mixed doubles game, my partner was Kuya Julius, we unfortunately lost to Kuya Ace and Ate Jamie. The last game was with Ms. Alia and Ms. Jen, and Ate Jamie and I won again. It ended by 2300H as expected and I also expected a disappointing text from my mom. As planned, Ray accompanied me home and told me to just relax and let my parents say their side then after, I'll be the one to explain. I agreed and thank God we both had a safe trip home.

Under Cover

After one week of this daily routine of singing and singing and singing, I finally uploaded my version of Sobakasu by Judy and Mary. The motivation to cover this came from the evening when we were going home from Las Piñas. Kuya Fesh, my officemate, asked me to sing Yuzurenai Negai, the theme song of Magic Knight Rayearth. I was not in the mood that time so I let it pass. After two days, I decided to record the song he requested and posted it in his Facebook wall. I was happy with the outcome, so I decided to do another cover from another anime; which was Rurouni Kenshin.

I've been singing the opening or ending themes of my favorite anime series when I was still a kid even without that good-enough talent to belt it out. Thanks to compliments and appreciation, I gained confidence in pursuing this hobby of covering songs.

I call myself the one who sings in secret.

For the past six months.

I wasn't able to blog anything for the past six months. There are a lot of things going on in my life and in my head that I want to share. It's just that maybe, the mood keeps pushing me away. Maybe, when the mood is right there, the resources are nowhere to be found.

What happened in the past months? I've graduated from college, I started working before graduation and I found new friends. There are a lot actually, and it is hard to phrase it all. I started earning money and started spending like hell. I've been inclined to badminton and table tennis, thus a sporty me was born despite of those past 13 years with no sport at all. I became addicted to Transformers and Marvel comics. I became a cosplayer to nurture my addiction to anime which started since I was a child. I became a model to display my "to be sold" cosplay costumes yet enjoyed and still hoping to have another shot on posing. Altering what I said lately, I just started to hold a DSLR camera attempting to be my dream of a hobbyist photographer. There was also this singing during noontime breaks which triggered to a secret channel in YouTube. Say hello to the software engineer who did it all.

There were achievements, experiences and mistakes. But I guess, I became someone different from who I used to be. Yet, I am still this emotional girl with too much sensitive outlook and habits. Despite all the things that happened that changed me, there is still a small part to remind me of who I used to be.