A day in the life of me.

Programmer. Web Designer-Developer. Aspiring App Developer.

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Getting over vs. Getting back together

It might seem a bit bitter or hopeless of us to think whether to get back or just get over someone you’ve learned to love. Especially if that person has already admitted and accepted to themselves that they don’t love you anymore. 

But why would you want to get back with that person? Did that person get to change the way you view things or live your life(in a good way of course)? 

Or did that person bring misfortune and hurt to you that you ultimately admitted to yourself that you don’t want anything to do with them just because everything given to you was hate, and anger. Which was the cause of which wanted you to get over them.

In my case, I’ve met the person that I would get to say changed my life. And I never thought someone would. (I guess you were right, people who told me I would meet my match. I guess this serves me right! Right?) I, admittedly, used to play with other people’s emotions and end up leaving them for no damn reason until I got to meet this person. Even my own friends couldn’t believe I stopped “playing” and being a complete arse because of her. And weirdly enough, she may not have seemed like the type of girl I would go out with since I did have a crush that time and I have been thinking of seeing someone, but I ended up liking this girl(which ultimately ended up as my girlfriend, now my ex.)

She might have had quite a few flaws, but seeing past that, I would get to tell myself she’s the one I could say made my day special despite our turmoil and arguments. I was happy that she was there by my side despite us not even saying a word; I was happy whenever I saw her smile; I was happy because she understood me despite being a complete dirtbag(I didn’t know what to call myself since I honestly was a complete wreck back then) Not just that, but she laughed at my jokes despite them being extremely corny, she was concerned about me even for the little things, etcetera, etcetera.

Despite sounding as if our chemistry is perfect, I’m the grumpy one and she’s the understanding one and many more, she just had to give up. 

I understood why she had too since we had other conflicts(But it’s never because we fought about our relationship being bad then our argument turning into a battle of pride then turning into World War 3. No! It’s not like that it. It was something else. Something more personal), but it still left me in doubt because everything she’s been clamouring to me was that she fell out of love. And as much as I wanted to get her back, it seems as if she really wanted to end things. Who am I to get her to change what she has already decided, right? Right now, I’m torn between getting over vs. getting back together because I’ve never in my entire life encounter the type of person that would change the way I live my life and view it. And all because of just one girl.

You may not have it now nor understand what I’m going through, but you’ll get there. So, once that time comes, will you simply get over your past relationship or strive to get things back?

[thefrogman]

Hi there! I remember you found an image of a pilot taking a selfie "mid-flight" and then the original image below it, which was in an airport. Do you have an idea of how the photoshopper was able to change the reflection on the body (blue part) of the aircraft? Thanks!

I think I can be of assistance. 

First you must mask out the plane. You can use the pen tool or polygon lasso to cut around everything. I recommend zooming in to 800% so you get a lot of accuracy with your selection. Once your selection is done, create a layer mask from it.

Next thing is add a nice sky background. Just copy and paste behind the plane. 

To get the reflection, add the sky background again on a top layer. Free transform and warp it so it roughly has clouds over the place you want. I gave my clouds a good spherizing filter so they had a warped look to them. 

Do your remember that layer mask you created for the plane? If you control + click on that mask, you can bring back the selection. Now you can add a layer mask to our mess of clouds here. Change the layer blending mode to Soft Light. 

Soft Light may not always be the right choice. You’ll have to play around with the different modes to see what works best with your image. You can also reduce the opacity if they are coming in too strong.

Now we need to do some clean up. I recommend just getting a large eraser with hardness set to 0%. (heh, hardness) Slowly eat away at the spots where you don’t want the clouds reflected. 

The next step is to add a nuclear holocaust. Find yourself a nice mushroom cloud and bring it into the picture. 

With a soft eraser brush, just eat away at the bits you don’t want. This doesn’t have to be super accurate. A little softness on the edges will help it blend. This particular mushroom cloud has way too much yellow. Using Hue/Saturation, I went to the yellows and just dragged the saturation all the way down. Then I moved the cloud into place.

Add an orange photo filter to the clouds to make them a bit spooky. 

Let’s give that fella a laser. 

Just fill a selection with white and add a green outer glow.

OH NO THE ENGINE BLEW UP! 

Find some fire on a black background and set the blend mode to “screen.” Add smoke with soft brushes on low opacity. Just build it up one click at a time until it looks smokey. OR, you can find smoke brushes on the internet. Don’t forget to duplicate your firey engine in the plane’s reflection!

And the final step is to add some aliens shooting nuclear death beams.

Just click the “alien death beam” button under the “Filter > Noise” menu. 

I hope that helped!

[ieatcrayolaaa]

Peolpe mkae Mistkaes (People make Mistakes)

There are some points of your life where-in you commit mistakes. Whether it'd be the cause of minor problems or sometimes major problems. Everyone makes mistakes. Even the smartest person on Earth, I bet had made quite a few. But why do we put stress on a single or maybe a couple of faults? Why do we choose to neglect the good things done and focus on a single fault and probably stress yourself thinking of that fault?

I've read somewhere in the internet that if you've done something wrong, you'd have to compensate it with 10 good acts. I'd say it'd make you feel a little better but then again it still sounds too much. It might grant you a feeling of fulfillment but still, the trade is pretty much unequal. Why does it take too much to regain what was lost? Can't we just forget it and live life the way it was? Yes, the action done might be a little bit too grave but it has already been done. You can't change the past but you may fix the present if you try hard enough. Sometimes, it make just take some time. Time has a way of healing or so they say. But, why is it that even time cannot fix even the most gravest faults? 

It has been done; everything has already taken into action. People might react to it at first and later keep it in. Saving it for a later date and react to it once more. Well, only until the mistake is still fresh. People, though, still tend to react to it despite it's long lost popularity.

To cut things short, I'm not just merely pointing out why you should forget what has happened. No. I am pointing out that you should admit what has already been done and just let it pass; forgive and forget. Because life is too short for you to dwell on past mistakes.

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Whenever I see quarrelling like this on the internet.

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"You don't take pictures because of the quality of the shot, you take pictures because of the story it tells." - B.Planas(2013)

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A life lesson worth pondering on

Have you ever wished for once in your life that the life you lived were a movie? A movie of which you are the protagonist taking on different challenges and moving on from rising action to climax to happy ending? Have you, even just once, thought your life is just your own movie waiting for you to get your dream job, get your dream girl, get your dream house? Basically, get all you've ever wanted all according to your plan. This year, I have learned an important lesson that just changed my view of how I see my life. 

#2013TaughtMe That life doesn’t solely revolve around me; life isn’t a movie that circles only around you, the protagonist vs. himself.

— David B. Domingo (@iomnomcrayolaaa)

December 21, 2013

"That life doesn’t solely revolve around me; life isn’t a movie that circles only around you, the protagonist vs. himself." Life is more than just seeing yourself as a protagonist going through antagonists and facing mental breakdowns, battling himself. It might seem as if your own life is a movie where-in there are ups and downs and in the end attaining a certain goal or achievement but it, unfortunately, is not. Not all plans come together to happen the way they are expected to be. There are no happy endings. In movies, after attaining a certain goal, there will probably be a picture of a nice setting, the beach, maybe. Maybe even a couple holding hands or a really picturesque vantage point. Of which, of course, then would fade towards the credits. In real life, it isn't like that. It is very contradictory as to how we live our lives. After attaining a goal, it doesn't officially end there. You have only finished a chapter of your life. No happy ending cue or background music accompanying it. Okay, maybe just a little background music to cue the end. But even so, life is unpredictable. Anything can happen. It may rain on a completely sunny day, you may lose something valuable to you, or relationships may end even at a snap of a finger. Life is full of mysteries. Mysteries that, still, up to this point leave me dumbfounded and at awe. There are upsides and downsides to life, times when you feel pissed at someone not knowing why, times when you feel hyper and probably run around causing chaos and disarray, times you sit in one corner thinking too much and probably looking at blank space, times when you leave everything and just shout at the top of your lungs, "YOLO!". Or probably, whisper on the back of your mind, "Save all regrets for a later date." 

"Life is what you make of it", as quoted from the once innocent Miley Cyrus. I mean, "Hannah Montana." ;) You, yourself, make an effort into writing your fate. Making semi-impossible lists like...

Become a movie star

Become rich and famous

Live a Bohemian life *WTF?!*

Live life carefree;

Travel

...of which, in the end, becomes just another ball of paper in the trashbin.

I, myself, would like to compare life with a line. A line is ,according to my dictionary, a long, narrow mark or band composed of dots lined together. *Whuuuuut?* Like a line, our lives are full of dots, dots that make up everything that has happened during the course of our life, milestones as other call it. You wouldn't know when it'd stop until it just stops. And the longer it gets, the longer you might be wondering what's ahead knowing what already has been, already passed.  To sum things up, in a nutshell, I learned that life may look as if it were suitable for a movie screen but, I might say, it's far more better than that. Life is full of surprises; life may or may not go as planned but it's a roller coaster ride worth riding.

[ieatcrayolaaa]

Google? No way! Pinch me. I must be dreaming.

It looks like I'm going to the Google Student Leaders Summit 2.0 this saturday. I can't believe it! :'D I'd like to thank God and Google for giving me this wonderful opportunity. I really feel suppppper happy! =))))))

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What a surprise!

As I was walking home, I passed by Lover's Lane. There, a group of CFAD freshies recognised me from the freshmen walk video interviews. They didn't remember my name but they did recall me saying "Awesome!" all the time during the interviews. Still lol-ing at "Uy! Si kuya Awesome!" =))))

Throwback! Freshmen Walk 2013 >:)

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High School Logic

Things I never learned in High school.

How to: Pay bills  Buy a house Apply for college

But thank the universe! I learned how to graph systems of linear inequalities.

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Random Post

Let's segway a bit from making blogs about relationships. It would be highly appreciated if you'd like this photo on facebook. Thank you; God Bless. :)

 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=330230957116404&set=a.330229237116576.1073741830.330214927118007&type=1&theater

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A bunch of probable reasons why you're still single

We all have our own reasons as to why we're single but here are some of the most common reasons you hear from us singles:

1.) The person you like is either in-animate, a celebrity or is impossible to find. Let's be honest here, we all have standards, right? And it just so happens that yours is soooo effin' high that it'd be a miracle if you find your dream boy/girl. And once you find them, chances are, their either taken, uninterested or is looking for someone else because they also have high-standards. Talk about high-standardception.

2.) You're scare of taking risks. Why? Because you've done it before. You've tried your very best, your all, but rejection hits all of us. Not all the time you get what you want; not all the time your assumption is correct. The feeling of rejection hurts. And knowing that fact, you're pretty much just frightened to get rejected again that's why you're scared.

     But, if you haven't taken risks before, it's probably because you wouldn't want to freak out the person you're interested in; you would want to leave an excellent first impression. So, you just wary-off. Let's admit it, we're all just so awkward sometimes. We get scared that the conversation might just get really awkward either because you might say the wrong things or you might run out of things to talk about. Bringing us to the next reason …

3.) You're just so awkward when it comes to initiating conversations. Let's face it, not all of us are smooth talkers. And sometimes, it just takes the confidence in us. Picture this, you're in a park, mall or let's say school and you see a pretty attractive guy/girl. Chances are, you'd want to get to know them, probably talk to them. All is fine until, you suddenly freeze, your mind goes blank, you get really nervous and everything you've thought about wanting to say becomes, "Hi, my name is *insert name here*. I think I'm in love with you. " Afterwards, you'd feel like a total loser because of so much awkwardness. So, you just stare at the person and probably just get satisfied just by doing so.

4.) One of the most famous reasons, your parents are strict. They'll be like, "No Boyfriend/Girlfriend until you graduate college." or "No Boyfriend/Girlfriend until you get a stable job, house and car". And you just had to comply, right? Because if you didn't they probably won't get you those cool pair of shoes you just saw in the mall or that awesomazing gaming console. OR WORSE, KICK YOU OUT OF THE HOUSE. Of course, they won't do that. Unless they were dead serious. O.O

5.) You're waiting for the right person; you have this belief that "the right one will come at the right time".  But, how long do you have to be waiting? I bet the person who started that belief never got a boyfriend/girlfriend *Yeah they did*.

6.) Finally, the last reason. It's because you just love being single. You don't really care at all what people say or think, you love it. You love the fact that you're single because this way you don't really have to commit to anyone and you can have fun with tons of people without someone strangling you *not literally*or monitoring you constantly or, probably because, you've loved someone before and took risks and ended up with a broken heart. So, you stop trying, taking risks, because you know that the right person will come at the right time. And you fill yourself with things that would satisfy you like dreaming about your in-animate guys/girls or probably fall for celebrities until the right person would come, the one who'd accept you for who you are and laugh with you when you're being awkward and also laugh at your jokes. Someone who'd, despite his/her standards, will still choose to love you. And that's why you're single. Because, you just love the thought of the girl/guy of your dreams coming into your life. That's why you wait.

And those are the reasons why you're still single. For those people in a relationship reading this, kill yourselves. Just kidding! I'm very much glad you've found the guy/girl of your dreams. And for those singles out there, don't worry he/she will come, in time.  =))))

[ieatcrayolaaa]

Is it really over?

At the brink of an inevitable relapse, was a feeling of acceptance and relief.

"It's over", the words were echoing in his mind.

Every single word, phrase, sentence, he tries his best to forget and not amuse himself. Why? Because the feeling of relapse is but an unpleasant guilty pleasure.

[ieatcrayolaaa]

10 Reasons why I like AB girls better.

1.) They're super intelligent

2.) They're liberal

3.) They're logically talented

4.) They're artsy(literature) 

5.) They're good with words

6.) They're fluent in English

7.) They know how to speak a foreign language, other than English and Tagalog

8.) They're overflowing with confidence

9.) They're future Politicians/ Journalists/ TV Prods/ Actors, people. Isn't that just smexy(smart and sexy at the same time)? :))

10.)Their uniform make them look like a high school student. Talk about major cuteness.

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10 Reasons why I like CFAD girls better.

1.) They are creative in nature

2.) They are not KJs

3.) They love partying

4.) They dress pretty well.

5.) They are very talented.

6.) You gotta love that conyo vibe when you're around them

7.) They are fun loving in nature

8.) You can be as illogical as you want around them

9.) They can express themselves freely through art

10.) CFAD is where the cool kids are. B-)

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All I want to be is to be happy. That's all.

Jullian Allen Valondo

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Reason behind the username

My all time favorite sweets is Skittles. And Skittles' trademark phrase is Taste the rainbow. Well, there came a time that I had no Skittles and it bothered me that I had a box of Crayola. Thus, I thought of this hilarious sentence that kept me chuckling as if I were in a mental ward, "No Skittles? Eat Crayola instead. You still taste the rainbow anyway."