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Training Dead and Gone

2009-11-20T20:50:00.001-05:00

Training week has come and gone and expectations grew higher as I continue on with SCADA integreation with RTAP/Plus. Lectures were boring at times but the labs were rigidly intense. I was in definite need of a roborant after such a intensively exhausting week. Sleep is now my new companion though I find it harder to sleep in now. I can't sleep for ten hours straight anymore but that doesn't

iPhone Noob

2009-11-18T21:06:00.000-05:00

I can now officially consider myself as an iPhone noob as i have jumped on the band wagon. It just makes sense since I can go in the best corporate plan Bell has to offer for Enbridge. I'm gonna be glued into finding apps and applying all the functionalities of my new device to seemlessly make my life easier and better.Technorati Tags: kikomonster

Acrnym Mtng... Ddnt ndrstnd a thng

2009-10-28T21:10:00.003-04:00

I attended a meeting at work today regarding the LINUX Porting that is about to be rolled out. Rtap, SVN, Artifacts, Build, DB, Debug and HP-UX are the only ones that rang a bell. It lasted for 2 long hours of acronym jargon in which 95% of it I had no clue what they stand for. The flow charts comprise the other 5%. All in all, I hope that I can understand what the hell they are refering to

Back in the Game

2009-10-23T23:17:00.003-04:00

Recent events have given an upturn to my dismal existence as I have acquired new employment. A far more satisfying career with a great working environment adds up to a progressively uplifting morale. Recession can just suck it! Suck it good!Working downtown exposes a great experience both in culture and professional work. However, the cost of supporting such environment also has it downside.

Beatbox mash-up on Audiolabs

2009-09-10T14:46:00.004-04:00

Here is an entertaining video of Nuerosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. on head turntable and drums that beat box. Enjoy!Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.Technorati Tags: kikomonster

Time lapse travels

2009-09-01T14:43:00.003-04:00

Watching this video struck up thoughts of how time passes by so quickly and what I have been doing with my life this last 12 months as I compare it to what Christopher Rehage was doing in this video. What do you consider important doing with your life?The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.Technorati Tags: kikomonster

Life in a standstill

2009-03-04T03:11:00.002-05:00

February has come and gone. How fast has the month passed that in a blink or a wink I could not believe to think that March is here and my life is still in a standstill. Remnants of the past few months are barely worth remembering. Stuck in a rut and I can not get out. Things need to change or else nothing will happen.Hence to break the habit, I have signed myself up to a gym membership.

And then there was one...

2009-02-09T15:07:00.004-05:00

Out of the three of us who set out to move to Alberta a year and a half ago, two have moved back to Ontario and I am the only one left here to tough it out. Now that I am staying in Edmonton, I no longer have an excuse to drive down to Calgary. Except for one last trip.The weekend sure was exhausting and expensive. Sushi Tokyo pig out and Flames game night which they won on Friday. UFC fight

Tong-its, Recession, and Sprite Cans

2009-01-26T21:45:00.003-05:00

A deep freeze has come over Edmonton this past week causing frigid temperatures up to -30 degrees Celsius. I was in for a surprise when I did decide to go out and go for a drive to pick up a couple of things. Looking inside my car at first glance gave me the impression that every molecule of moisture has been frozen providing a white exterior to my car seats. However, bigger lumps of frozen

The year that was...

2009-01-05T14:16:00.007-05:00

A new year tends to bring people to reflect on what they have done in the year that has gone and set new goals for the year to come. I have been wondering whether I should highlight the things that I had accomplished or layout my plans. Both seem to be hard to do. I tried writing about this subject but I can't bring myself to do it. I wrote two drafts now but ended up deleting both of them.I

Luckily Selected

2008-12-22T23:32:00.002-05:00

The phone rings and interrupts my concentration in the mind numbing, adrenalin raising Need for Speed: Undercover on PS3. I place the game on pause as I walk over to answer the phone.Me: Hello.Caller: ....Me: Hellooo...Caller: Hello. Good Evening. Can I please speak to the homeowner.It was a woman's voice. And with that introduction I had an inkling that she was a telemarketer.Me: May I

Pacquiao vs. De la Hoya Dream match

2008-12-07T22:49:00.006-05:00

We went out last time Pacquiao had a bout against Diaz but this time around we stayed in and brought the party to us and ordered PPV instead. Food and alcohol plus the company of friends and family watching the pride of Philippine boxing scene is a night to show your support to the man that brought halt to a whole country during his dream fight.It was a one-sided battle. Pure domination from

Fender Bender

2008-12-03T23:25:00.001-05:00

Yesterday was definitely an eventful day for me but not in a good way. It was the first heavy snowfall in Edmonton in which I courageously undertaken to take a drive to run a few errands. Little did I know that it would end with me skidding down the snow covered road and hitting a metal fencing that would break of a piece of my front bumper.This is my first, thus I had no definitive clue on

Re: Email Capsule

2008-11-21T21:48:00.006-05:00

Back in 2005 I blogged about a project done by Forbes.com called Email Time Capsule in which they let readers create messages for themselves and have it emailed back to them after a specific length of time. Now three years later, I received my message:So its 2008. By now you have finished (hopefully) studying engineering. You better been looking for a job related to your field. I know its

Blog Gender Analyzer

2008-11-03T14:28:00.003-05:00

A new website is using Artificial Intelligence to determine whether a blog was written by a man or a woman. It got mine right, try out yours. Here is the link to the Gender Analyzer website.Technorati Tags: kikomonster

Box of Pics

2008-11-02T17:54:00.005-05:00

Photos from the past resurfaces in our house as I have dug through a box full of my childhood pics that nobody should set their eyes on. I thought that we left all of these back home in the PI but apparently it was brought back here by my parents after their last trip. Browsing through them was excruciatingly difficult as I have no recollection to the majority of them. And to those I do recall

Eat Fat Baby D!ck

2008-10-23T17:59:00.002-04:00

One of my favourite videos on youtube is Aries Spears' rap on The Woody Show @ live105.com that has over 7 million hits as to this moment which I have blogged before as Its ya boy. If you haven't seen it then I've taken the initiative of embedding it here.But now he has graced us with two new videos that he produced and posted himself. Dedication and self promotion to be rivaled by others. To

Striked Out

2008-10-22T21:37:00.003-04:00

Panning over to my Blog links will reveal that I am not the only one who hasn't been writing on their respective blogs. Blog entries has drastically dropped at least to people that I knew were once into it. Now its down to the dedicated few that still manages to keep it up to date. Can I be one of them? Time will tell.A few more overhaul is needed. Leased space is going down as I am not

Back on the Grid

2008-10-21T19:48:00.005-04:00

Excuses for my lack of enthusiasm in writing anything to this online entry that somewhat might resemble as a blog are merely a pool of pathetic attempts to justify my laziness and procrastinating nature. I admit that I have dropped off the online grid for sometime now but this is no excuse as to why I deprive myself in writing random rantings that at times help relieve stress, boredom and spark

Movin' on to Calgary

2007-09-20T21:45:00.000-04:00

Much to my surprise, it did happen. I have moved to Cowtown, home of the Flames, with two of my buddies to start life after university. New beginnings as they say whomever they are. It's our second week here and our first day was a weather shock since it rained, hailed, and went back to sunny in a span of half an hour. No one else seems to be shocked but us. Moved in date was pushed a couple

Three Month Round Up

2007-08-25T17:35:00.000-04:00

I have been very busy and had no time or enthusiasm to write on this deteriorating blog of mine. Now that I had found some time to write, I thought the a three month summary should do to cover all what I have missed in entries. Changes are happening. I finally finished my studies in Electrical Engineering and wrote my final exam ever as I am not planning to go back for a Masters Degree. Also,

All Locked Up

2007-05-26T18:07:00.000-04:00

This bike pretty much sums up what life is. As much as you want to ride freely, something is always holding you down. And unless you release yourself from all the things that is keeping you tied down, you won't be able to go to where you want to be. Or it can really just be a bike filled with bike-locks. What do I know.Technorati Tags: kikomonster

XBMC: Installed

2007-05-11T21:47:00.001-04:00

I have successfully soft-modded my Xbox and has transformed into a media center. My thanks to the developers of XBMC and all the forums (most notably, xbox-scene, productwiki, and xbmc online manual) that helped me figure this one out. Now that its installed and able to stream media from my PC, I will now explore all the other features that it has to offer.Technorati Tags: kikomonster

XBMC: Action Replay

2007-05-10T14:24:00.000-04:00

Looking through ebay a couple of weeks ago, I found an auction from Saskatchewan for the action replay that I needed to Process the mod. However, I was busy during the last day of auction and it completely slipped my mind only remembering a couple of hours after it ended. It would have been perfect since its coming from Canada and I wouldn't have to pay duty on it. So I searched for another

Cleaning Out my Desk

2007-04-26T17:36:00.000-04:00

Thunder is roaring outside with the rain pouring down like a drunk that has been holding his piss and finally letting go. The sattelite signal goes down leaving me one less thing to stare at in between calls. Tomorrow is my last day here at work so I started cleaning out my desk. I've actually managed to make quite a clutter as I dispose of all of the unnecessary paper work and memos that has

Last week working

2007-04-23T17:02:00.000-04:00

Five days left and i'm done working! What a relief. Now I can finally have a change in pace and be able to relax for two weeks back in Windsor. Fortunately, Scott is coming down to Toronto this weekend and offered me a ride back to Windsor. Good thing he called me last Saturday as I was planning to purchase my tickets yesterday and would have screwed everything up. I guess I could carry more

XBMC: Mechassault

2007-04-21T16:34:00.000-04:00

I was expecting to find the specific Mechassault for this hack to be the hardest one to find. But the first local EB games store that I checked it on had a stack of it. With a grinning face, I asked the kid working that I need a specific disc that has the serial no. that I need. Baffled he asked "Is it for a cheat?". I replied trying to lose the grin in my face "yes, you can say that". He

XBMC: The hunt begins

2007-04-20T18:05:00.000-04:00

Ever since XBOX 360 arrived into market, I knew that my XBOX's functionality will fall as less games will be produced for this system. So I decided to harbor in games that would keep me entertained for the long haul (i.e. sports and racing games mainly). But due to the allotment of my time in surfing the web while I am at work, I have stumbled upon a hack for my system which is everything that

Registration Debacle

2007-04-13T20:19:00.000-04:00

Countless email correspondences to the office of the of Dean of Electrical Engineering has kept me busy this week. Why you ask? Well, there have been changes in course audits in my program which affected me directly as they have dropped the "old ways" of selecting an option (i.e. electronics, communication, etc.) and compounded all courses together so as to result in a more general field

Bringing Blogging Back

2007-04-04T19:29:00.000-04:00

I'm bringing blogging back. Yup.First off, I thought I would be able to blog more this past 3 months since I was in my semestral break but it turns out that I had more free time when I was at school than when i'm working. Now, I will try to make a conscious effort to post more entries. Yes its true that I said this before but what else would motivate me to write anything than the motivation

Give my url back

2007-03-31T22:52:00.000-04:00

Help me get my URL back to kikomonster.blogspot.com Update: April 3, 2007After posting my problem to google groups on March 31, I received a reply from Jordan, a Blogger Employee, and straightened out this mess.Technorati Tags: kikomonster

A Christmas Special

2006-12-30T18:49:00.000-05:00

Christmas gives a lot of people headache in figuring out what gifts to give and share to their special someone. The genius of Lazy Sunday has produced another hit for the SNL Digital Shorts this time with the guy who brought Sexy Back. Enjoy!Technorati Tags: kikomonster, Digital Short

Can I get a....

2006-11-30T21:46:00.000-05:00

Christmas is right around the corner and all I want is this Monaco V4 watch by TAG Heuer. The first of its kind that generates power from an oscillating linear weight that falls back and forth within the central shaft. It has the first patented drive belt transmission in a watch movement. To clarify all this technical terms, watch the video in this link.Technorati Tags: kikomonster, gifts,

Its ya boy

2006-11-10T21:52:00.000-05:00

Aries Spears is back for another verse better yet another curse and he is spitiing one that is worst than the first. Its ya Boy.{Click on the white box}Technorati Tags: kikomonster, college humor

Red Wings Game

2006-11-05T14:13:00.000-05:00

Finally got to watch a NHL game yesterday in Detroit at the Joe Lewis Arena where the Red wings played against the Blue Jackets. 32 Oz. beer, half a pizza, two stadium franks, and a foam finger later, I snapped some photos of the experience as to relive the moments. Here are some for you to see.At the start of the second period, we were able to move closer and got seats 10th row from the glass.

Power steps

2006-10-19T16:02:00.000-04:00

A tokyo rail company has been generating electricity from the footsteps of the commuters that pass through the station. It generates 100 milliwatts per second for each person that walks thorugh having an average walk-in traffic of 700,000 commuters. They are using the generated power to supply the electricity needed for the ticket wickets and display panels. LinkTechnorati Tags: kikomonster,

A bit preoccupied

2006-10-11T14:51:00.000-04:00

I have been a bit preoocupied causing a lag in entries to this blog. I blame this mainly for the idea that I have to take on a part time job as I have been having too much free time lately. Now the outcome has shown that I have been keeping busy and thus preventing me to blog which I usually delve into when I have too much time in my hands. A dilemma soon to be solved with a bit of

Seafood and Spitfires

2006-09-24T18:04:00.000-04:00

Casino windsor has a seafood-fest buffet this week so we, being starving students that we are, had to crash that buffet. Of course buffets doesn't come cheap but we dined at the end of the lunch buffet rates so we can take advantage of the dinner entrees. We took our time on the appetizers before the seafood buffet was served. After filling our stomachs with king crabs, mussels, and shrimp, we

Cottage trip

2006-09-22T17:34:00.000-04:00

Here is a few pics of our cottage trip to Stanwood, Michigan.And so it begins...Preparing for the week aheadLearning tennis one serve at a timeAfter schooling TravPower breakfastJon's bonfire accidentDowning it all nightFuck you FrankieCya all next year!Technorati Tags: kikomonster

Two months gone

2006-09-20T23:24:00.000-04:00

In the deep expressive saying of Lil' Jon, "WHAT!". I haven't posted a single entry for two months. What the hell have I been doing with my time? Did I actually have better things to do than write an entry for this blog? Things has to change. I will try to update this site more often this coming month to make up for all the missed entries that I should have posted. And to start off, I will

Death by caffeine

2006-07-21T18:34:00.000-04:00

Have you wondered on how much caffeine you can ingest before it actually can kill you? Energy Fiend has a handy calculator that will determine your limit so you can know when to stop. It seems that it would take 337 cans of Coca-Cola Classic to take me down so i will keep in mind to stop at can no. 336.Technorati Tags: kikomonster

Blog DNA

2006-07-06T00:43:00.000-04:00

Here is my blog's DNA thanks to websites as graphs for generating this applet. The following are the color codes of the graph:blue: for links (the A tag)red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)green: for the DIV tagviolet: for images (the IMG tag)yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)black: the HTML tag,

Rollin' with Saget

2006-06-18T00:55:00.000-04:00

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Macfarlane at Harvard

2006-06-14T00:26:00.000-04:00

Seth Macfarlane, creator of Family Guy, visits Harvard University to deliver a class day speech. He tries to explain what to expect in life after university on the point of view of the characters of the addictive show. Here are the youtube links: Part One (Intro), Part Two (Peter), Part Three (Stewie), Part Four (Quagmire).Technorati Tags: kikomonster, Family guy

Zoomin'

2006-06-06T19:43:00.000-04:00

There are no limits on the zooming capabilty of this infinitesimal image. Take a closer look and zoom your way into this great pixel imagery.Technorati Tags: kikomonster, pixel, image

Las Vegas photos

2006-05-23T21:54:00.000-04:00

Six days, five nights and over two gigs. of photos later, we flew back home withempty wallets, bag full of souvenirs, and minds filled with memories. In view of the fact that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, I will post the pictures and let you piece everything together. Enjoy!