ROGER Round-up: What's up with Flip and Manabayukan Site Visit

I am often asked this specific question:

Flip! Balita? musta na?!

Well, after I got my Master's degree in Electrical Engineering (yey!), I endeavored myself into a string of DOST-funded UP-implemented projects, the latest of which is dubbed ROGER.

ROGER aims to develop, test, and deploy a reliable communications platform that will enable efficient communications between emergency responders in times of disaster. Basically, it is a system that will be rapidly deployed AFTER a disaster, when power and commercial GSM lines are down. ROGER will link a disaster-stricken area to a command center to expedite the rescue and disaster response efforts. Once power and communication lines are restored, ROGER will then be dismantled.

The project is working with parallel timelines - developing setup protocols and user-case scenarios at homebase EEE, and looking out for pilot test sites out in the field. Joining me in this journey is a formidable team composed of young and energetic engineers; namely, Ronel, Mia, Thessa, Giselle, and IZ.

One of the sites that we visited is Sitio Manabayukan in Capas, Tarlac. It is an isolated Aeta community of around 100 households. It has been a beneficiary site for an earlier project, CloudTop. 

Meeting with the Captain of Brgy. O' Donnell. L to R: Ronel, Kap, Flip, Ate G, Mia

Alta posse at Capas Municipal Hall

First official group picture of the ROGER deployment team (minus IZ)

To better assess how the system will be deployed, we headed out for Manabayukan. To get there, we have to rent a 4x4 to conquer the terrain. We were all smiles at first, but as the ride got nasty, expletives are thrown all over the place.

All smiles before the bumpy ride

Smiles starting to fade

But at the sight of this view, all our pain started to vanish.

After spectrum analysis, its selfie time!

The site visit got me thinking of other isolated communities in the Philippines, where access to social services is poor. I hope that in the future, we can help empower these communities through technology. For me, this is what a UP-educated engineer should strive for.

UP College of Engineering Recognition Rites 2009

April 24, 2009 (Friday)

Epic fail dahil magalaw ang kamay ko. :)

98th General Commencement Exercises - UP Diliman

ang araw na sobrang init...

mas natuwa ako sa univ kasi kewntuhan lang kami nang kwentuhan

How I Spent my first day as a College Graduate

obviously not bumming around.

I, together with some WCEL RFID peeps, went with Doc M to San Miguel Packaging Plant in Pandacan, Manila.

Mission: to see how we can help them.

For 198ers, sabi nga ni Doc M, kung hindi immediate need ang research project ninyo, mapapaisip ka nang "Sino naman ang gagamit nito?", "To what end?", "Para san tong pag improve/pag explore ng RFID applications"

Ang tanong naman ng San Mig sa amin, "RFID has been around for more than 10 years now, why has it not been implemented on a wide-scale basis here in the Philippines?"

This is where we come in.

San Mig and hopefully, the UP team, is brewing up something: to develop an RFID framework for tracking San Mig's pallets on a nationwide and archipelagic basis.

Win - Win situation: they get improved chain supply management system, we get a chance to apply the skills we learned in the industry.

Ang sarap ng feeling na at long last, may mapag-aaplayan ka na ng skills mo na natutunan mo sa 198.

We visited their plant, talked to San Mig personnel, heard what their problem is, and met halfway to see how we can help them through RFID.

Doc M introduced us - one by one - proud na proud sa mga dinala nyang tauhan, tulad ng incoming faculty na sina Iris at Sieg. prinesent nya rin ang current and past researches ng lab on RFID. angsarap din nang feeling na binibida ng adviser mo sa audience yung research project mo. Nagpresent na kami sa San Mig before, pero iba kasi pag si Doc M ang nagpresent, napapatango nalang ang taga san mig.

grabe ang planta ng pallets (pallets - yung pinapatunan ng cases ng beer, etc, yung finoforklift, in fairness, kumikitang kabuhayan ang san mig sa pagpaparent dito tsaka mahal ang isang pallet kaya gusto nilang i-track kung nasaan lahat), parang unsafe for workers. ang saya pag marami ang nag-iisip kanina kung anong flavor ng RFID ang gagamitin at kung san ilalagay ang tag sa pallet, pano babasahin, etc.

nakabalik kami ng EEE ng mga 5. tapos umuulan, tapos wala akong kasabay sa venue ng gradbash, tapos tinopak ng pagka anti social == di na pumunta ng grad bash.

marami naman akong natutunan sa aking unang araw bilang graduate. :)
 

Current Status Update 3 (because my career is an open book)

declined the sun cellular job offer. 'rejected' is the more appropriate word. nauna ang HR sa paggamit ng term. umoo lang ako.

tinawagan ng Shell, pinalagay ko nalang ang resume ko sa pool. :)

currently working on the requirements for masters and scholarships. hindi alam kung pano sisimulan ang CV at narrative

may hit sa nbi. papatayin ko tlaga si philip aguila martinez.

ang pinakahihintay kong email. teaching demo sa tuesday.kung kelan inclined na talaga akong mag ERDT (hindi pwede ERDT kung lecturer eh)

 

WCEL 7 Final Presentation Pics

that 25 minutes that summarizes your 5 year journey in EEE.

thanks issa badissa for capturing

other WCEL mems included...

ang weird kasi most of the time "trace" lang ako, napaka maaksyon ng mga nangyari....

198 Testing

mas mabilis kasing mag - upload ng pics sa multiply. for doc m purposes ito. ;)

Grad pics

Formalan!

Graduation Pictures, he he

that sudden progress report

ill give you 5 minutes to do your slides

yan ang sabi ni doc m. ang akala kong meeting eh on the spot progress report pala, biglang naglabasan ng laptop dahil wala kahit isa ang meron. we should have known better

buti nalang cooperative yung projector, di xa mtino nung oras na yun, naging 20 minutes yung 5 minutes namin

ganun pala ang progres report, titingnan kung meron ka nga bang ginawa...

nung ako na, binasa ko lang slides ko, as in sa projector ako nakatingin. to think na dapat di na ganun after 190

pero parang dumaan lang ang akin, ni hindi tinanong kung totoo ang pinagsasabi ko. at wala ring tanong sa akin, di ko lam kung good thing yun o bad, feeling ko nga di xa nakinig eh, huhuhu

kala ko after engg week ang 198. well, hehe

I LOVE WCEL SONG

In tune to Discovery Channels' "I love the world song"

I love the WiFi
I love the RF Cage
I love antennas
I love when noises fade
I love the wireless lab
and all its sights and sound
Boom de yah yah, boom de yah yah

I love the frequency
I love to correlate
I love Transmission Lines
that don't attenuate
I love the wireless lab
and all its craziness
boom de yah yah, boom be yah yah

I love the spectrum
I love my 198
I love room 404
I love to go home late
I love the wireless lab
its such a brilliant place
boom de yah yah, boom be yah yah

PRAYER FOR MY BATCHMATES (INSPIRED BY CHARLES' BLOG)

Lord,

Thank you for the past four and a half years. by making us stumble at times, we got back on our knees, refreshed, enlightened, and determined to take another shot.

Thank you for EEE. Maybe it was your way that our stay in the department was plagued with hardships. but true friendships are forged and tested at the hardest of times. Not only friendships, but personalities. I, for once, will never be as strong as i am now if not for EEE.

Thank you for my batchmates. I can never ask for another set of people traversing the same dusty road. though some of us are ahead or behind the pack, i am grateful that we are able to check each other, offering a helping hand to those who needed it most.

Thank you for being there. they may be instances that we may not notice your presence and guidance, say a mental block in an exam or oral defense, you always see to it that there is something in store for us in your time.

As we go along this journey, we ask of you this tiny favors:

1.) Give us presence of mind.
so that we may be observant, not blind.

2.) A keen sense of engineering.
so that ones, zeros and other formulas to have their meaning.

3.) extensive comprehension
so that we may ace through sets of equation.

be it a probset, an mp
the list goes on, its a never-ending story

we only ask you to be near
as we strive to become an EEEngineer

 

Sabit at iba pang alalaa ng buhay (dahil ayaw ko muna sa Plurk...)

kagabi, pagtapos ng bday celebration ni loulou, pumunta kami nina ian, debbie, jeb at chap sa cello's. antagal na pala akong di nakakapunta dun at nakakakain, noon parang 14 pesos lang yung donuts, ngayon 28 pesos na! 100% increase grabe. (nga pala, paborito ni archel ang cello's...grrrr)

tapos nun umuwi na ako, sabit ako sa katips jeep, tapos pag-alis, biglang bumuhos ang ulan,grabe, kawawa ang laptop ko na nasa bag...para xang charmander na kailangang ingatang di mabasa...salamat sa bag ko at water-resistant nga pala....

habang binabagtas ang katipunan, basang-basa ako. pero ok lang. bigla akong nag-emo. that was my second time na sabit along katips, the first time was nung first year ako, talking to another sabit bout life and all habang nasa kahabaan ng katips. this time, parang pinapaalala ang lahat ng nangyari sa UP life ko

marami akong sabit. as in 3.0. he he. feeling ko tumagal ako sa eee dahil dun.

41,43,51,53 lahat yan 3.0 ako. sabit. not to mention yung 5.0 ko sa ES 11 at ES 12
(pati nga pla 190 ko, 3.0, pero naging 2.25 sa di malamang kadahilanan)

ngayon ko lang na realize na sana nag-aral pala ako ng mabuti, sana masipag ako. sana sana sana

bawat patak ng ulan na dumaplis sa mukha ko, masakit. pinararamdam sa akin ang aking mga regrets sa buhay....

hay life

sana ok na ako sa 198
sana maayos ko ang mga di-pagkakaunawaan ko sa ibang tao, di kasi ako minsan makatulog eh...(he he he, pero sabi nga nila imposibleng n=mabuhay ka ng walang kaaway, or umaaway sa yo)

ang haba na pala nito. di to pwede sa plurk eh,

parang patak ng ulan ang luhang nanggaling sa mata ko , tumulo, bwisit.

Canon Field Trip

EEE 190 Canon Field Trip @ Eastwood

Di makakalimutang pangyayari:

- Pinakamaliit kong serving (so far) ng McDo Chicken Fillet
- Si Rey ng HR .... E E E 190, parang si boy abunda...susunod
- Overflowing C2 and Coke

ERG 04 Super Barkada Pics

Courtesy of Marky...

In fairness ang hirap bumoto...kailangan iconsider ang pose ni chap...hahaha :)

pasensya kung contact prints muna...hehehe

grabe, sana maging matagumpay tayo...

190/198 mode na!