Last Friday was my last day at DME. For years, I've been keeping it a secret where I exactly work. Though I've been saying that I'm working for a gaming company, I seldom name it. Just so that I do not get customer support related issues from people.

I took a few shots just when I was about to leave, and took pictures with friends I often hang out with. I did not feel like crying, but I was sad.

Working in DME was the best and funnest experience I had so far. The people are fun, the work itself is fun (despite the super toxic jobs at times) and at the same time, you learn a lot.

I'll miss these people and a bunch of them that I failed to take pictures (Berwin's fault, for giving me a lot of work that I totally forgot to take pictures when they're still around the office)...

And the McDonald's across the street where I ate its food every single day for 3 whole years!

I was sorting out and backing up files to free some space in my hard drive and I happen upon this The Simpsons-style art drawn by Reynan Parico, or Kuya Rey or simply Kureiii to all of us. Each of us were turned into cartoons and what's interesting about it, is that our cartoon versions looks exactly like us, IRL.

First row, from left to right: Kelvin Baluyot, Sherwin Malit, Pongstr Ordillo, Isook "Michelle" Noh, Jhon Bonifacio, Reynan Parico
Second row: Gerry Dizon, Benz Carreon, Me, Jay Limpin, Rixie Liwag, Edson Nuqui

Originally, I was a part of the Site Design team, of which Kuya Rey was the head, before I transferred to Product Development where I shifted from the usual web dev stuff with a little bit of UI and graphic designing to plainly PHP programming.

We were formerly known as Auction.ph's UED Team, or to complete it's name, the User Experience and Design Division. Our division's name sounds cool, doesn't it? It has to sound cool, since it's been changed like, what? More than three times since the time I got hired. And I'll have you know that all the name changing was done within a span of a few months. And by few months, I really mean 2-3 months. XD

Our division was a part of a huge department called the Research and Development Department in which was composed of everything related to the development of the site – from UI, graphic designs, programming, down to system administrations and quality assurance. It was a pretty huge department composed mostly of half the company population, I think. Within our division, there are two teams – the site design team, on which I'm a part of, is in charge of the site's over all look and such, and the Promos and Events team. Sometimes, we help the other team out. Especially when they're press on deadlines. The Promos and Events team are super busy and never runs out of work.

I've grown (not physically) a lot from working there, and it was a lot of fun. There are different types of LOL and WTF moments, every now and then, but I wouldn't throw it all out the window.

PS: I kinda miss 'em guys! =)

In October, Chette and Philip are celebrating their 7 years of service as  Christians. Now that I think of it, I've been an atheist for 7 years 2 months already. I chose to become an Atheist a few months before Chette and Philip got converted to Born Again Christians. That's right, became an Atheist by choice. It is the religious path I've decided to take, in conclusion for my futile attempt  to search for my life's purpose. I've been religion hopping and going to several religious services for trial until I met Tony, who introduced me and offered me to join the conversations, debates, etc, in Pinoy Atheists group for a peek of their beliefs and philosophies. And few months later, I officially joined the group.

I remembered those days back in my early years in college. When Chette and Philip met Ran-nii, and got them converted to Christianity, there were so much drama going on that things became way too serious that I kinda got annoyed, but decided to simply stepped down. "It was their choice to begin with, they looked happy with it, so let them be." was what was in my thoughts and remained quiet. Freedom of self-expression is the one thing I wanted to grant to people around me, at least.

Several months after that, things started to settle down. Yet, to my surprise, I found Ran-nii (that friend who converted Chette and Philip to Christianity) posting in the Pinoy Atheists group. I got curious and started to wonder why would somebody of that status (religious-wise), post in the group. I simply welcomed him to the group and left him alone since I don't want to get myself involved with their religious drama. And then, several months later, he told me that he officially converted from an Agnostic to an Atheist.

Isn't it ironic?

WARNING: Currently IC
Probability of different personality is high.

When you see my status like that, it means that I'm roleplaying.

IC is short for "in character" often seen and used in roleplaying. While you're "in character," you should follow the personality, manner of speaking, mood, etc of whom/what you're roleplaying. Therefore, when I am "in character," I am bound to have a different personality and my mood may shift often too. I used to change my name and avatar to that of the person or character I'm currently roleplaying.

OOC, in the other hand, means "out of character." When this is indicated, it means that the person is speaking out of his/her roleplay character. This is often used when the person roleplaying wants to comment, give up additional info, clear up something or just plain say anything random while roleplaying or while in a roleplay thread.

I used to be an active roleplayer years ago. I've roleplayed a lot of characters both from anime/manga and original ones. Those characters that I remembered roleplaying were:

• Hidaka Ken, Weiss Kreuz
• Tenou Haruka, Sailormoon
• Lenneth Valkyrie, Valkyrie Profile
• Mana-sama, Malice Mizer
• Amdis Anima (original character)
• Sanctus Kaine (original character)

I started roleplaying about the same time I started writing fanfiction - around the age of 11 or something. Back then, I still have the confidence to write in total proper English. I got a private tutor for the said subject and my hands are always getting slapped when I get lower than 85 remaks. T^T Math, however, is out of the question. I got a Math tutor when I got to highschool but I don't even need a math tutor. The standards of education in provinces are way too low. I didn't even shed sweat and blood or cram during exams like I used to. That's when I learned how to be lazy and skip class. But don't worry about it, when you start working, you'll get your butt back on track and get serious or else, you'll starve. After all, no work, no pay. No money, tummy empty. =D

<?php

for (i=1; i<=100; i++) {

echo "I will not play GaiaOnline at work anymore."

}

?>

Even just logging into it.

Really, really.

=]

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Edit: I take it back! XD