Bumpity-bump in the night

Having a great vacation with grandma so far. Playing video-games and Pokemon cards with cousins, visiting relatives, and drop by my Grandfather and Uncle's graves. It drizzles a lot here in Batangas. So I get a runny nose once in awhile.


Something creepy happened at the house thought. My cousin was using the PC upstairs, opposite the door of the room I stay in. While working he said he saw a Shadowy figure pass by, which got him s*** scared that he actually got a fever the next day. That same night while I was watching a show in one of the local networks, I heard footstep just outside the master bedroom. They were these heavy steps walking across the floor upstairs, but I didn't mind it was having a good laugh with the show.


So today, I decided to visit my Uncle and Gramps graves, 'cause my Aunt thought that naybe there just 'sending a message' that they need a visit. Coincidentally, July 16th is My Grandfather's, Nicolas Delrosario's death anniversary. When I got to the memorial park. I was irritated and annoyed that they dumped trash and dried leaves on top of their graves. I thought that's why they made their presence felt, someone dumped stuff on their graves. I first cleaned their grave stones, pulled out some grass, and put up two candles, one for my Uncle and another for my Grandfather.



When I got back home, my Aunt said that maybe spirits like to ahng around me. 'Cause the only time things go bum in the bight here, it's when I'm around. I don't know what to think now. I think I'll be off the graveyard shift on my online life. Haha, lay low, don't wanna see things.


Signing off..

I’m signing in early ‘cause I wanna get some good sleep tonight.

I’m at staying over at my grandmother’s house. Had a short 3-hour road trip, which I slept through. I was just gonna see roads, trees, cars and more cars, nothing special. Got down at a road diversion, took a ‘Jeepney’ (the famous public utility vehicle of the Philippines). Then got down at the local market, visited my aunt’s loading station then bought some bread, after which I took a tricycle (aka trike) to my grandmother’s house, which took less than 10 minutes to do all in all.

Had lunch of course, just got done playing a game in PS2 then went through my card box. And lo and behold. Beyond my Magic cards, lay my first cards, Pokemon cards. So I decided to make a deck out of all the cards in the pile. I came up with a Fire-Fighting Deck with Machamp, Raticate, and Arcanine as key monsters. Gust of Wind, Bill, Energy Retrival being the key Trainer cards.

My Budget Bant/Budget Blue-White or Blue-Green deck I still under creation. So hard to make an effective budget deck that revolves around the colors of Bant (Blue, Green, White). So, to make the deck a little faster, I decided to chip in cards that allow you to Cascade, and my favourite card so far Finest Hour. To top Finset Hour off, I added cards that provide Exalted ability. Now all that’s missing are the creatures. Tsk!

So anyway, before today (yesterday of course) I fried Bangus (Milk Fish) for lunch. When I put the fish in the hot oil, oil splatterd and scalded my right arm a little. So today my featured topic is about Burns and Scalds.

Step 1:

You will need

• 1 non-stick sterile dressing
• 1 roller bandage
• 1 adhesive tape

Step 2:

Soothe with cold water

Now help the person hold their injured limb under running cold water for at least 10 minutes. This will ease the pain by helping to cool the injury and keep the skin well hydrated. If there is no water to hand, try cold canned drinks, milk or any other harmless non-flammable liquid.

Step 3:

Make the person comfortable

Make the injured person comfortable. If possible, help them to sit down at a table where you can put your first aid supplies.

Step 4:

Wash hands thoroughly

Now, using soap, wash and dry your hands thoroughly and put on a pair of disposable gloves if available

Step 5:

Remove jewellery or restrictive garments

Remove any jewellery, watches, belts or restrictive clothing from the injured area in case of swelling
If blisters develop be careful not to burst them

Step 6:

Apply burn cream

Read the instructions carefully before applying the burn cream. If there are any blisters be careful not to burst them, as this might cause an infection.

Step 7:

Apply dressing

Cover the injured part with a non-stick sterile dressing to help stop infection. If there is blistering, make sure the dressing extends well beyond the edges of it.

Step 8:

Apply bandage

Next bandage the dressing loosely in place. Watch VideoJug film ‘how to apply a roller bandage' for the full technique.

Step 9:

Check circulation

Once you have finished, check the circulation of the injured limb by pressing on one of the nails or skin of the hand until it becomes pale. Then release, and if the colour does not come back within 2 to 3 seconds, then circulation is likely to be impaired and the bandage too tight.
Take the bandage off, if this doesn't improve circulation, remove all restrictive bandaging, hold dressings in place and immediately seek medical advice.

Step 10:

Seek medical advice

You should seek medical advice if you are worried about the severity of the burn. Be aware that when any skin is burned away there is an increased risk of infection which may develop at any point before the wound is fully healed

Delayed Flight

At last, the first day of a short vacation before the new school year and new term begins. Nothing out of the ordinary occurred. Just a regular day. Went to school just so I could not stay at the house. I don't have anything to do anyway. Of course as usual I played Magic the Gathering with a friend. He didn't have a deck so had to deck share. But it was ok, was able see what what areas my deck needed work on.

Before heading home a went to a hobby shop on the way and played there. Met this guy named Chuck, Chuck of the Many..decks (it's an MTG joke, you won't get it if you don't play..so play!). Chuck had 4 decks, which I only saw 3 in action. First one I saw was his black-red Goblin deck for standard, which was an aggro (aggressive) type deck of course. Since the goblins were small, it got backe up by Voracious Dragon. The other two were both aggro decks, Esper and Naya. I did fairly well against his naya deck. But against the 'robots' of Esper, well it wasn't that easy since I couldn't block flyers early in the game. Only choice was to charm or path the critters. But overall,had a good time.

I'm supposed to head to my grandmother's tomorrow to visit. Of course I'll be staying for a few days there. But I decided to delay the visit 'till friday. The houes needs wtching the whole day tomorrow. I'm not that disappointed, just that I'll be alone. The house, all to myself. Oh~ yeah! Hehehe.

I have no feature today. I'll go into the world and think about one.

Signing off..

Rap-sody Rewind

I wrote this for my mom this mother's day. She loved it. It's a rap song for her.I wanted to share to the world how i would appreciate my mom. Ma! Para sa'yo to! Not only her but to all those who have been a mom to me! I know this had extra feeling 'cause it's in English (i find it hard to rap in english). just wanna double blog tonight. Ahah

*beat box*

MOM, I LOVE YOU
I’M REALLY HAPPY FOR YOU
IT’S BEEN HALF A CENTURY
BUT NOTHIN’S CHANGED IN YOUR ITINERARY
U STILL COOK, CLEAN,
CARE THE SAME WAY
U STILL GOT GAME AS TIME PASSED,
AND YOUR LOVE UNSURPASSED.

I WANNA THANK YOU A LOT MOM,
FOR HAVIN’ ME,
AND NOT GETTING ME ABORTED
THANK YOU FOR TAKIN’ THE PAIN AND THE HURT
JUST SO I COULD LIVE IN THIS BEAUTIFUL WORLD

MOM YOU NEVER PUT ME ON HOLD,
YOU ALWAYS HAD TIME FOR ME
I COULD TELL YOU ALL THE THINGS
GOING THROUGH MY HEAD
EVEN IF IT BE POTENTIAL GFs AHEAD

I’M REALLY SORRY MA,
THE TIMES I DISOBEYED YOU
I DIDN’T THINK THINGS THROUGH
I WAS TOO DAMN SELFISH
TO SEE THE SH** I PULL WAS HURTIN YOU
I REMEMBER YOU NEVER SPANKED ME
YOU THOUGHT I’D SEE THE WRONG IN MY DEEDS,
BUT THEN I WAS A JERK
WHO JUST ATTENDED MY OWN NEEDS.

NOW I’M ALL GROWN UP
I WANNA BE THE MADE MAN
BE THE BEST I CAN, JUST LIKE MY OLD MAN
I’LL FINISH AND CARE FOR YA’LL
EMBRACE YOU WHNE YOU FALL
MAKE YOU LAUGH WHEN YOU FROWN
I’LL SUPPORT YOU THROUGH IT ALL.

I’LL BATHE YOU WHEN YOU GET OLD
EMBRACE YOU WHEN YOU’RE COLD
I’LL CARE FOR YOU AND DAD
NO THE OLD FOLKS HOME
I HOPE YOU BELIEVE ME
‘CAUSE IT YOUR UNIC HIJO
YOU’RE SON, YOU’RE NUMBER ONE FAN
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY MOM
PLEASE TEACH ME TO LOVE YOU THE BEST I CAN.

signing off again

Mixed Feelings

Well, I just finished my Mechanics finals. I was so tense, got mental block. Probably will fail Mechanics. On the brighter side, I got really high grades for my Architecture subjects. So I hope, my average gets pulled up.

Now, instead of school and magic. Our topic is Cake. That's right cake. When we say cake, you probably think flour, icing, ovens. Well, not really hehe. This is what we call a sandwich cake, i dunno where the recipe was taken from but it's easy, simple and good.

OREO SANDWICH CAKE

You need:

- 1 Loaf of white bread (preferably Gardenia)
- 2 long rolls of Oreo cookies
- 1 small can of Evaporated Milk
- 1 small can of Condensed Milk
- 1 small carton of All-Purpose Cream


What you do:

1. Separate the oreo cream from the cookie. Then take the cookie pieces (the black round pieces) and crush it. How fine the cookies are crushed is up to you. Set aside.

2. Take a bowl and mixed in the oreo cream, condensed milk, evaporated milks and all-purpose cream. Mix it very well, set aside in the fridge.

3. Take your white bread, and remove the sides, leaving only the white bread itself.

*The excess bread sides can be blended with the cream sauce you set aside in the fridge. Or you can rip it into shreds and turn it into something creative, like croutons or just eat it as it is.

4. Take a rectangular container and thinly pour in the cream you previously made.

5. Then put in your bread slices eventually making a layer of cream and bread.

6. Then, agan evenly and thinly pour in some more of the cream, after that evenly cover the cream with a layer of crushed oreo cookies.

7. Repeat steps 4-6 until you get a layer of cream-bread-cream-crushed cookies-cream-bread-...

It should look something like this

*the oreo part should be thinner, but it's your cake so get creative! :)







8. Refrigerate for 3 hours. Then eat

Signing off at 9:15pm

Finest hour

I went to school for nothing yesterday.. Only to find out that the professor was absent. But anyway, the day wasn't all bad. I got a copy of Plant vs Zombies and tested my new Bant Deck.

I deviated a little from the usual bant deck build in the Alara block, chuckin in Capture Sunlight an Enlisted Wurm. The cascade abilty of both those cards made the difference. With captured sunligh, allowing me to play cards with 3 or less casting cost, and Enlisted Wurm Giving me a free Rafiq o the Many or Battlegrace Angel! Here the run-down of th two decks I play tested my deck on:

Esper Mid-Range Aggro: 8 games
7 Wins, 1 Loss, 0 Draws

Jund Aggro: 11 games
5 Wins, 6 Losses

I think my win rate was this black die that i found on the table I was playing on. It was just sitting there the whole time I was playing. So, i just took it when no one came to pick it up. My first good luck charm..hahaha.

What gave me vistory in those matches? None other then Finest Hour nd Captured Sunlight. So here were my star cards for yesterday night.






It's 4:15am, Ronn signing in

50/50

Once again, it's a 50-50 day.

I screwed up my Mechanics mid-term. So I'm gonna make it up in the finals, this Tuesday. It's the day of reckoning for Mechanics and the last day of hell week. Another crap thing that happened is my older cousin got sick, and not looking that pretty.

On the brighter side, I barbequed an almost perfect pork barbeque and catfish. Furthermore, I had my first online article published in MTG Iloilo's website. I know it's about Magic the Gathering and deck building only. But still, it's not everyday that you get an articleof yours published online. Thanks Magic Iloilo.

Finally, check out this 1/1 scale Gundam modle made by the Japanese! According to source, they built this because of this statement to the Koreans... "They may have nukes, but we have GUNDAM!".

It's sunday, and night's still early. I think I'll watch some TV or play a video game.

A 50/50 day, as always...

7:34pm ronn over and out

Could be better..

It's a long tiring and sickening day. My body had problems in its sewer lines, and had a sinusitis attack. To make it worse, I wasn't able to study for my Mechanics quiz.

So lazy and care-free side kicked in, I decided not to take the quiz. I won't be able to answer anything anyway. Instead, went to University Mall and played Magic the Gathering at Ongkeco. Where part 2 of a bad day began. I lost in all playtest, my Bant (Blue-White-Green) deck didn't stand much of a chance. Bladers run over, Angels shot down, Rhox's sent back to monasteries. *sigh* I don't know what to build anymore. I'll be trying White-Green, hope it works.

But this day wasn't all bad. It started out well hen I talked to my mom over the pphone while I went to school. Unloaded some stuff, which i usually do. Thanks mom.




Next is this cool Pop Cap game Plants vs Zombies. Get ready to soil your plants! A mob of fun-loving zombies are invading your home, and your only defense is your arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants. Use peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more to slow down, confuse, weaken and mulchify 26 types of zombies before they can reach your front door. As you battle the fun-dead, obstacles like a setting sun, creeping fog and a swimming pool add to the challenge. And with five game modes to dig into, the fun never dies.


11:19pm ronn siging off..

1st fruit of deck building

I love Magic the Gathering and we all know it's an expensive hobby. So I made this deck that is cheap but still competitive in ARB tournaments.

CREATURES: 27

4 WILD NACATL - PhP40.00set
4 CERODON YEARLING - PhP40.00set
4 STEWARD OF VALERON - PhP40.00set
4 WOOLY THOCTAR – PhP150.00
4 GLORYSCALE VIASHINO – PhP150.00set
4 BLOODBRAID ELF – PhP350.00
3 ENLISTED WURM - PhP90.00


SPELLS: 11

4 NAYA CHARM – PhP120.00set
4 COLOSSAL MIGHT – PhP50.00set
3 OBLIVION RING – PhP15.00-PhP20.00ea

ARTIFACT: 2
1 BEHEMOTH SLEDGE – PhP70.00
1 MAGE SLAYER - PhPp20.00

LANDS: 24

4 NAYA PANORAMA - PhP40.00set
7 PLAIN – PhP 14.00set
6FOREST – PhP14.00set
6 MOUNTAIN – PhP10.00set


SIDEBOARD: 15

2 CELESTIAL PURGE – PhP 80.00
3 QASALI PRIDEMAGE – PhP30.00
2 GLORY OF WARFARE - PhP120.00
4 VALERON OUTLANDER – PhP40.00
3 SIGIL BLESSING – PhP30.00
1 MAGE SLAYER - PhP20.00

TOTAL: PhP578.00 (US$33.50 approx)

Here's the card-by-card analysis


If you hvae some more cahs, add Planeswalkers like Sarkhan Vol, Ajani Vengeant and/or Elspeth




Signing off..

Signin in...

10-day Holiday (quarantine) until July 1 ended with unfinished homeworks, an incomplete portfolio and compilation, a sore throat and having made a budget deck in my most beloved TCG.

Finals exams on History of Architecture and Built Environment went better than expected;nearly perfecting one exam. It was a 'yellow trash bin' that stood between me and that 100 in Built Environment. Remember, yellow trash bin is used for toxic waste. History, well, could've been exempted if i just passed a complete portfolio but, decided to take the exam and got a 100%. Not bad eh? Verdict is to be given tomorrow.

Only passsed 1 out of 5 quizzes in Engineering Mechanics, so I'm screwed. A quiz tomorrow, a pre-final exam on sunday, finals on tuesday. Hope i make it through this one.

11:15 in my clock..now signing off..