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It's been a while...

Got invited to a party. A very important person invited me to a party. And I went, saw, and enjoyed. Bon voyage to Ms. Sacha Chua bound for Japan.

Ok, there are a lot of things happening in life, and I am very eager to say that I'm swimming again. I have the nerve to say this after 2 chicken sandwiches from Burger King, after not swimming today. But nonetheless, I am now starting to train myself again for competitive swimming -- although I might not qualify for any of the regional contests as a member of the UPLB swimming varsity. I do this, because I love swimming, and I know that swimming will help me achieve a sexy body I so yearn to have someday... But then again, I'll take it one step at a time.

Been hacking on problems using Java, and I'm rediscovering the joys of libraries, ready to use ADT's, and lowe and behold: Object Oriented bliss. Now I'm in touch again with my object oriented paradigm of work, and getting the hang of it as I go along. However, I need to polish my skills especially when it comes to API familiarity. I just hope practice will eventually get me to where I want to be.

Aside from hacking in the comfort of a VM, I'm having problems debugging an implementation of my thesis algorithm. The implementation has SEGFAULTS!! What a big NO NO for someone like me obsessed with keeping the code working and in proper conditions. This is where I hope there was something like JUnit tests for components in C that has support for MPI applications. If there was something like that, I would assume that it would cost a whole lot of moolah.

But then again, there's always vi, gdb (which I should get to learn ASAP for my own good), gcc, mpicc, and good old man. I hope I'll last as long as those tools will.

Chill...

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  1. mapetWednesday, August 25, 2004 12:48:00 PM

    "sexy body I so yearn to have someday"

    hehehe.

    ah, yes. the joy of libraries.

    wala lang. hehehe. sana makapag-blog na ako ngayon. :)

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