Just Jeric! | a personal blog

Today, June 18, 2008, officially marks the 100th Foundation Day of the University of the Philippines. A lot of activities were lined up today. One of them is the flag ceremony at the Oblation Plaza. The night before, I decided that I would be attending the flag ceremony at Oblation Plaza around 8am. I even memorized the lyrics of UP Naming Mahal so that I could sing along with everyone. It’s a shame if I don’t know the lines of our Alma Mater Song.

I woke up at 5:30am and was thinking if I would still join the flag ceremony. There are a lot of things running on my mind. How will I go there? Traffic? Who will accompany me throughout the program? And a whole lot more. I even contacted some of my schoolmates hoping that they could accompany me. Unfortunately, I failed to contact them. We are not really close. We just know each other by face. In fact, I’m the only one studying in UP from our school that doesn’t belong to the cream class. After few minutes of contemplating, I decided to just stay at home. I think I’m the most kill joy student of UP who didn’t bother join any of the centennial activities.

I have a 1:00pm class today. So while bumming around the house, I waited for any announcements regarding the suspension of classes. Sad but true, class were not suspended. I normally leave our house at around 11:00am but for today, I left at 11:45am. I’m avoiding the Oblation Run because I know that the vicinity of the campus would be traffic by that time. I arrived in UP Diliman at around 12:45am and waited for a TOKI jeep. After a few minutes, I noticed that there were no TOKI jeeps at all. I found out that the Academic Oval was closed so the jeepney routes were changed. I decided to walk from University Avenue to Vanguard Building to make it to my 1:00pm class.

That was a pretty tiring walk! I went to our classroom and almost all my classmates were there except for my favorite classmate. ? Anyway, I’ve met Crystal a while ago. She is the one whom I discovered to be one of my classmates in PE 1 through Multiply. We didn’t talk that much but at least I gained a friend (or should I say an acquaintance). At around 1:45pm, everyone is already in the classroom except for our professor. A few moments after, one of my classes announced that our professor won’t make it. We all decided to leave the room and go wherever.

As we go out of Vanguard Building, it started drizzling. I waited at the nearby jeepney stop hoping to find a North Edsa jeep. I’m still cluecless at that time that the Academic Oval has been opened to traffic once again. A couple of jeepneys passed by and the rain started to get hard. It’s raining cats and dogs! It’s getting dark too! I thought I’ll be stranded on that jeepney stop forever. I decided to just ride the IKOT jeep. I later found out that the jeepney routes are back to normal. And the rain hasn’t stop!

Anyway, I found my way to University Avenue and waited for a North Edsa jeepney. Luckily, one passed by and had just enough space for me. And then, I finally arrived at SM North Edsa safe. I spent a couple of minutes there and decided to went home.

On my way home, one of my churchmates rode the same jeepney I’m riding. I smiled at her. And then she asked, “classmate ba kita?” And I said, “Hindi churchmate kita, diba?” Upon going down the jeepney, we chit-chat for a few moments while heading home.

That’s all.

Hello everyone! I would like to introduce you to the new blog the my sisters, my mom and I manage. The blog is called So Sick of Taxi. This blog is all about motion sickness, taxi horror stories, transportation and others. The blog is Philippine based therefore, must topics covered from the Philippines. But we are open for contributions coming from readers across the world.

If you got anything to share that falls into our niche (thats motion sickness, taxi horror stories and transportation), then head to our blog and contribute today!

We hope to see you there!

For the past few days, I’ve been thinking of buying myself a dedicated server. First, I got a lot of websites to host and maintain. I just feel that the shared environment is not enough for me. Actually, I just filed a ticket reporting an abuse on the shared server I’m hosted on because the CPU use is above normal, which made my sites load slowly. I got my reseller right now and I’m hosting a couple of websites and blogs. I think I host more 10 websites (excluding this one).

Aside of hosting the websites I own, I’m also planning to get serious with my hosting business, BrinkNotes Hosting. I would be staying at home more often than before for I’m studying at UP Open University in distance education mode. Getting serious with my hosting business would also give a little income to be able to support myself.

I really want a dedicated server. But there are several things I need to consider before buying a dedicated server.

MONEY. My first concern in buying a dedicated server is where to get the money to pay for the monthly expenses of the server. The dedicated server would cost me around $95 (approx. Php 4,000) per month. The monthly fee includes the prices of the upgrades I want on my dedicated server like additional hard drive for back-ups, additional bandwidth and additional RAM. I told my mom about it and I think she’s interested on supporting a portion of the monthly expense. The monthly fee of a reseller plan is quite far from the monthly fee of a dedicated server. Where do I get that big amount of money?

SERVER LOAD. If ever I get a dedicated server, it would host all the websites I own or co-manage and the rest of the space would go to my future company. I am just worried if the dedicated server I would be buying can handle all the websites that I would be hosting in the future.

And other things I don’t include in here anymore.

The dedicated server I am playing to buy has the following specifications:

• Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz
• 1GB RAM
• 80GB HDD
• 1000GB Monthly Bandwidth

I think buying a Virtual Private Server is a great idea to test the waters. The thing about buying a VPS is that the allotted disk space and bandwidth is lower to that of a shared / reseller plan.

So that got me thinking! WHAT SHALL I DO?

I know how much I neglected this blog. I do know that the previous blog posts are very amateur. I’ll be cleaning up this blog and make in into my real personal blog. I’m quite depressed that the page rank of my main blog become 0. JustJeric.com is the only blog I managed which is not hosted on my reseller account although this hosting account is under the same company. I bought this hosting account for only $12 a year. I’ll be moving this site on my reseller once the expiration date of this hosting account nears.

I’ve got a lot of pending blogs to open so please do watch out for that! One of the blogs that I’ll be opening in the future is a group blog which is open for contributors (which could be you!). So, I’m very much into this problogging thing. Recently, I opened a blog dedicated to Kim Chiu. On the other hand, the official website of Toni Gonzaga is now updated. ToniGonzaga.net will be demoted into an unofficial website of Toni Gonzaga within next month as I resigned as a webmaster already. I turned over the responsibilities as a webmaster to a group of people who can dedicate much time in updating the site. Apparently, they decided to change the domain. Hence, I’ll be keeping ToniGonzaga.net because in the first place, I own the domain. When that happens, I’ll still keep the site up as a fan blog for Toni Gonzaga. They want the dot com but the price when I last inquired amounts to more than $1500. So, instead of buying the S1500 domain why not settle for the next best thing which is the dot net?

I’m currently trying WordPress MU. I’m still thinking if I would migrate my self-hosted WordPress blogs into WordPress MU for easy management as I own a lot of blogs (a lot more will come). I’m thinking of launching my own blog network as I got a lot of blogs already. To date, I own and maintain 8 blogs and as I’ve said a lot will still come in the near future.

So, I guess that would all for now. See you around the net!

Yesterday, I bought myself (yes, with my own money) an iPhone (16gb) as a graduation gift. I’m very much happy with it. I unlocked, activated and jailbroken my iPhone last night and now it’s fully functional. I’m very much contented with it. At the moment, I don’t know what to do with my Starbucks Planner as the iCal application of the iPhone serves as my planner already.

So you may ask, “what’s with the post title?”

I posted about my iPhone on my main blog with a picture. I limited my post to 3 sentences or less to avoid people labeling me as “boastful” and whatsoever. So now, the World Wide Web knows that I have an iPhone. But every good thing has its bad side, just like owning an iPhone at this very young age.

Why?

People may label you as boastful, pretentious and whatnot. Who will own an iPhone at 16? Aside from that, people will question if your unit is really an iPhone or just an iPod Touch with the appearance of an iPhone. I admit that at the very first my wish is to have an iPod Touch and make it look like an iPhone. But I didn’t settle with an iPod Touch instead, I buy myself an iPhone. I know that the iPhone is ONLY available in the USA and some parts of Europe –and we all know that I’m in the Philippines therefore iPhone is not available here. But thank you to the Internet and those nice people who brought iPhones here in a discreet way. In fact, it is no doubt that a lot of Filipinos own an iPhone nowadays with the birth of iFonePH and Applei community.

Another thing is that people will start questioning the originality of your iPhone. Yes, iPhone is not available here but there are MANY ways on how to have one in the Philippines (check the previous paragraph). It is no doubt that China clones of latest gadgets (iPod, iPhone, and other branded gadgets) are hot items here in the Philippines and you could buy them almost everywhere. It is a bit hard to explain to these people that my iPhone is original and manufactured by iPhone. The only difference is that I unlocked it, activate it and jailbroken it to be able to use with the local networks here (Globe, Sun, Smart) which is hard to explain to not technically inclined people.

Plus, people would question if the iPhone is really mine or am I just borrowing it from my parents. Yes, it’s all me. This iPhone doesn’t belong to my parents or my sibling. I bought it with my own money – thanks to freelance work and blogging.

Thank God, for finally, I have my dream phone – the iPhone.

I never left you alone

Even though you kept on pushing me away

I was there when you needed help

But you shoved me away

You are always in my thoughts

For nothing could surpass

The force that will bind us forever

 I hope that someday you’ll learn

How to appreciate the simple things

I’ve done for you

For my heart beats for you and only you.

‘Cause I love the way you

smile.

walk.

talk.

laugh.

‘Cause I love everything about you