blogging in manila no.1

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 quite 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 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 usingHTML (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 while 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. It's like HTML meets Java. I haven't been 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. This is getting piggier everyday.

Oooppss...session is over. Gotta go!

Oh, first here are some pics:

SRP: on the way to the airport (for my first plane flight)

My first plane ride

Marianne and I (with Ma'am Jen at the back) at Solomon's Guest House night before the training

CIT gwapa and sexy team to Smart ADIS Training

This is our first lunch during the training. It looks tasty but it's quite bland, sadly.