yep, just like all incremental variables in programming our age does increment. This time it’s my age’s turn to add up. It’s been a crazy whole year since my last birthday, nothing has changed I’m still me, I’m still busy but I like it. Looking forward for another exciting and challenging year! +100 points to God! ^_^

Friday night (Nov. 19) me, 4 photography enthusiasts (Alvin, Jap, Myrbs, Jason) , and Teresa (who wants a get away experience) set off to San Antonio, Zambales to start our most awaited trip before the end of the year. After 4 hours of bus ride and an hour of boat ride at the dark sea we arrived at Nagsasa Cove just in time before the sunrise. It was a great start seeing the sun rise from behind the mountains and as the sea becomes clear and turned blue. Everyone was so busy looking around the place taking pictures. Not a single minute is wasted as my photographer companions are so excited to take a shot of every good angle of the place including me using my cheap lousy digital camera. There’s no electricity, no cellphone signal, no internet, and nothing to eat except for the canned foods and snacks that we bought before hand. We camped eating just canned corned beef, fried and dried fish, and salted egg with chopped tomatoes. We started a bonfire, roasted marshmallows, take shots of vodka and called it a night. The next day we  sailed again going to Anawangin which is the last destination for our trip. We got there early before 7 in the morning and started trekking. We reached the top and took some pictures and then headed back to the beach to take more pictures. Did I ever mention that we never really spend our time swimming? Yes, we never swimmed. Most of our time is spent taking pictures, my companions are so in loved with their cameras and doesn’t want to miss a single spot, lol. But it was cool. Overall, it’s one hell of a trip. I got some scratches and sunburned a bit but no complaints, I had fun. I wish there were more people who joined us, though. Right now I’m still waiting for the pictures and will put up a link when they’re available.

Here’s a photo from Jap Salem, photographer and programmer (zomg) who lives in the same place where I’m staying in Makati. This is definitely one of my fave shot because I’m in it ^_^

Despite my horrible work schedule and unusual busyness I still have a “social” life after all. Glad I’m still able to hang out with some friends and have fun. Oh, did I mention all of them were girls I hanged out with? Awesome! And also, I need to find a girlfriend soon – added in my ToDo list.

I wasn’t so happy about yesterday’s changes. I hate changing the layout because I know it will take me a while to think of one that I will like for more than 2 hours. Luckily, I stumbled upon the Pastie blog which happens to be one of the many sites I visit. This is it, I have an idea. I remember dreaming about having a layout that looks like a sheet of paper and the Pastie blog is a perfect example of that. For the record I am not stealing the design, I am inspired by it. Why did I say that? Because there had been issues about copyrighted “look and feel” which had been talked about in the Pastie blog. I just want to be clear on that point.

Finally, a real update after a long time. Here are the changes:

- Theme. Yes, it may look like I didn’t but I really did changed it. If you’ve been here before you’ll notice that it’s not so colorful anymore. I’ve also removed my picture on the sidebar. It was a hard decision but I don’t see the point of having my picture there. I also added Tags so people can quickly identify the nature of my posts which no one cares about.

- Syntax Highlighting. For nerds only. I hope you appreciate my new code syntax highlighting. It’s simpler than the old one with alternating row colors.

- WordPress. Updated to the latest WP version which is 3.0.1.

- Logo. Changed color to plain white and removed the distorted effect. Still kept the binary background and japanese text underneath.

- jQuery. Again, for nerds only. I updated my Javascript library to the latest version which is 1.4.3.
- jQuery back to top link should be working just fine. Tested and made sure it is compatible.

- Other stuff. Things even if I tell no one will see it.

Looking forward to more updates.

Yes, I’m doing it now. Things around may explode. Done.