blogging in manila no. 1

Tuesday around 4:30 pm

My head is soooooooooo aching right now with all the coding we were doing earlier. Actually the others are still coding; I have just done mine and I figure I still have time to blog til we have our snack break. We've been coding since yesterday Day 1 of this training. Yes, I'm in a training (more like a trainers' training) right now, trying to learn whatever, sitting in this quite comfy swivel chair in a quite hot airconditioned room inside CSB somewhere in Manila. The training has been a bit tough. Well, at least for me it has been. It wasn't really THAT tough, I don't I just end up draining all my energy. I wanted to see Manila once and for all (this is my first time here) but I just don't have the energy to go anywhere. From what I see it's just like Cebu only bigger and more buildings and more of the dreaded traffic too.

Yesterday I was forced to learn HTML programming in record time. We were given a warm up activity on writing HTML codes using notepad (hard coding kumbaga!) just to understand on how it works. And so since I never had "true" experience with programming using HTML (unless writing HTML tags in replying to forums called experience) I have to start from scratch (yes, you can laugh at me). I wrote my codes at the same time learning it. Not bad! It's not hard at all. I completely understand it's logic, I just hate having to memorize tags and reading about what things I can do with it. Today we are starting with JSP and so far it was quite easy. More like HTML meets Java. I kinda know Java so I no problem there. My problem would be when reach databases that's really one of my weakest CS points. It's all basically programming for the web with databases and all that. I haven't been really into web programming, maybe this is a good start for me.

I feel like I'm gonna get really big by the time this training is over. WE ALWAYS EAT! The pattern is like eat-sit down-eat again-sit down-eat more-sit down-eat eat eat-sleep. I'm getting piggy-er by the day!