<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:39:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>whisper of my heart</title><description>Poem, Art, Architecture, Life, Leadership, Service, Essay, Story</description><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>123</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-5887550692243412396</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-01T10:33:17.756+08:00</atom:updated><title>2010: Green Year</title><atom:summary type='text'>Happy new year everyone! 2009 is n awesome and meaningful year for us. there are a lot of trials, learnings, mistakes, understandings and opportunities for us. May we all learn from those things.2010 is here. Let's all assure that this year would be a year of green activities. Let's be aware that our planet is slowly deteriorating. You guys may not agree on what I'm saying so let me have this </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010-green-year.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-2704517937381627800</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-25T17:31:45.463+08:00</atom:updated><title>Merry Christmas!</title><atom:summary type='text'>Merry Christmas everyone!</atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-550529680984516260</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-09T23:46:44.786+08:00</atom:updated><title>Truth and Justice Must Prevail</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....Today, the Philippines (as you may heard over the news) is facing different political obstacles as the 2010 National election come nearer and nearer. One of those political issues that we are facing right now is the recent decision of the Commission on Election to unseat Gov. Grace Padaca as Isabela's current governor. I have just finished reading the email message that was sent to me by </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-3675999723855317801</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-09T06:47:00.784+08:00</atom:updated><title>Just dropping by</title><atom:summary type='text'>Good day everyone! I've just finished doing our minutes of the meeting. I'm just dropping by to check if I can acces on this site. Sigh. It's really hard for me to access blogger. Too bad... I so miss this hobby</atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/12/just-dropping-by.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-1095220717696071612</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-24T11:20:16.022+08:00</atom:updated><title>Stand Up: A Call for Duty and Responsibility</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post_23.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-1910898536220152232</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-02T22:38:44.635+08:00</atom:updated><title>Playing Hero, Acting Hero</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....Who knows Facebook? I bet majority of my readers know about it. Facebook is just one of the many social-networking sites that I visit regularly. Facebook always gives me that "hook" feeling and that explains everything about why I need to visit it regularly. What are those elements that hook me, if you may ask. Well, my friend's status are always updated, lots of interesting surveys and </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/11/playing-hero.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QqtpKGZywqQ/Su5HinxWAGI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/J6MHcbvJ8Hc/s72-c/hw_facebookBK.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-8844157513919315822</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-26T10:37:32.058+08:00</atom:updated><title>22nd Birthday: Unleashing the Blessings in Me</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....October 17, 2009 was a very special day for me. It's my birthday. Yeah you read it right. That particular day made me 1 year older as I turned 22 years old. This is actually the first and only birthday (so far) that I'm very proud of. .....If you ask me "why", the answer is just very simple. I'm very vocal about my birthday and I did celebrated it with my friends and employees here in the </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/10/22nd-birthday-unleashing-blessings-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-3693087198736585297</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-22T11:42:58.468+08:00</atom:updated><title>Blog Action Day: A Call For Action</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....I'm currently staying here in the construction site that we're managing. I'm actually stranded and couldn't afford to go home because of the typhoon. We have witnessed G.I. sheets that were flown by strong winds, overflowing floods on major roads that surround the vicinity and of course... traffic. Me and the others will stay here for a night due to the impracticality of going home. .....</atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-action-day-call-for-action_26.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-3216493016923656975</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-22T11:43:42.369+08:00</atom:updated><title>A Message of Hope and Inspiration</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....Good day everyone! It's nice to finally be back again here in my first and original blog. If you're wondering why I'm not around for a long long time... well, the answer is pretty much the same: Busy on my work and on my second blog, "Druoun X Images". Since I did mentioned my second blog, let me have this opportunity to talk about it and its current status. .....Druoun X Images is doing </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/09/message-of-hope-and-inspiration.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-8579773771972265694</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-26T13:31:30.953+08:00</atom:updated><title>Rapidshare: The Sould-Be-Tool of Downoad Addicts</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....It's good to be back here in my first and original blog. I'm quite busy with my work and I've got limited time to surf the net and blog about the things I love. If you are getting confused to the sentence that I've said about blogging when in fact I never had a chance to post on this site, actually I do manage two blog sites and I'm dedicating solely most of my free time in developing my </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/08/rapidshare-sould-be-tool-of-downoad.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-3111455992689115996</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-28T13:03:36.391+08:00</atom:updated><title>Slumdog Millionaire</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-4231059706250952481</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-13T21:44:55.985+08:00</atom:updated><title>Real Property Management: Valuing Somebody's Treasures</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....There are a lot of things that we may consider valuable. I'm trying to be literal right now. Yes, things that we want to be secured and handled well. These material things may eventually perish but then as long as it's still there, people may continue their desire of valuing that certain thing......I'm currently working as a construction manger and I do a lot of monitoring stuffs for the </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/07/real-property-management-valuing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-8838428122272941807</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-11T00:31:42.347+08:00</atom:updated><title>DirecTV: An Extreme Boredom Solution</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....There is a moment in our life that we experience boredom. This is the kind of uncertainty that we can only erase through relying on someone or something. Yes, we can rely on someone when we want to entertain ourselves but sometimes we also need to be honest that a "something" is more reliable than a "someone" when extreme boredom strikes. With this kind of scenario, digital entertainment </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/07/directv-extreme-boredom-solution.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-299226786565455910</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-23T00:07:08.911+08:00</atom:updated><title>DXI: A Multiply Version</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....I'm inviting everyone to visit my multiply account. It is actually the multiply version of Druoun X Images. Here, my visitors may directly view all animated photos that I've created which aren't visible on my blogspot (the original) version.   I'm hoping the you'll enjoy your visit and don't forget to participate, interact, and most importantly is to have fun!</atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-6484151534870518677</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-21T16:01:12.017+08:00</atom:updated><title>Dilemma of Confusion</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....Yesterday was a tough day for me because I have a very big decision to make that will really affect my career. I'm in a dilemma of confusion especially when the one-on-one confrontation took place. I was so confused. My mind was filled with different "what ifs" and one thing that I'm really sure of is to seek help and guidance from my peers......Then there it was. I did seek advice from my </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/06/dilemma-of-confusion.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-2907658179797489959</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-22T11:48:52.752+08:00</atom:updated><title>Earth Day 2009</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....Today is Earth Day and one thing to be part of this annual celebration is by making campaigns for us to influence other people. I'm inviting everyone to take time to read and reflect of these messages......Thank you for your time. I hope that these banners would make a difference in your daily actions. </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/04/earth-day-2009.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QqtpKGZywqQ/Se6RsQQEcTI/AAAAAAAAARA/9XCxLFxPWHM/s72-c/ED09+3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-6363167909962202979</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-16T19:14:50.382+08:00</atom:updated><title>Beauty And Functionality</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....My life as an Architecture student has just ended. This only means that my journey has just started as a practitioner of my chosen field. This journey is about me walking towards my dream and ultimate passion......Let me have this opportunity to share some of my insights as a servant of Architecture by writing this post:.....Architecture is an art and considered as the highest form of art. </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/04/beauty-and-functionality.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QqtpKGZywqQ/SecP-FK2O3I/AAAAAAAAAP4/TQS1pfyBqHg/s72-c/yhst-44948651470926_2049_49894838.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-451637851052356845</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-05T17:21:35.181+08:00</atom:updated><title>Award Of Hope</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....To receive an award is a fulfilment especially when that award is a recognition of your hard work both as a person and as a leader. .....Last Friday, after our baccalaureate mass, the school officials gave away several awards to its graduating students and one of these awards is the Most Outstanding Graduating Student. The mechanics of the said award is that the candidate should be excellent</atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/04/award-of-hope.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-8182000001137808058</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-02T22:31:12.846+08:00</atom:updated><title>Flight Rush</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....Tomorrow will be our baccalaureate mass and it will be held in our school premises. My parents have just arrived from our province. Their flight is suppose to be on April 11 prior to my graduation day which is on April 13. They have to cancel the scheduled flight because I told them last March 31 that they should attend our baccalaureate mass which will happen tomorrow, April 3. A very very </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/04/flight-rush.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-4787209393114673300</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-01T23:44:23.754+08:00</atom:updated><title>Towards That Dream</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....Ahh... Graduation day is almost near and I'm scheduled to march my way towards the center stage and receive that piece of rolled paper that they call diploma. Yes, I'm scheduled to receive my diploma as a proof that I have officially finish a degree in Bachelor of Science in Architecture. .....This upcoming event will mark a whole new beginning. The beginning that I'm talking about is the </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/04/towards-that-dream.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-8558957332057025969</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-15T20:18:42.402+08:00</atom:updated><title>Leadership Calls</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....Yesterday was an ordinary start of the weekend. That's what we may hear from others. But for me, it was totally different! Yesterday is a very special and awesome day for me because I have given a chance to participate in the first ever SSG Team-Building of both two branches of our school. The team-building was designed for the current ongoing and incoming SSG officers and it is done in a </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/03/leadership-calls.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QqtpKGZywqQ/SbzxJgvh3DI/AAAAAAAAAPg/H9dp6ne5G44/s72-c/img_plates_happenings.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-4644832586415382510</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-09T10:36:17.519+08:00</atom:updated><title>For Passion's Sake</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....Remember this edited picture of mine? Well, I'm actually using this picture as the background image of my laptop ever since. Most of the architecture students and professors like this photo and most of the time, it gets a lot of "wows" from the viewing public. .....Yesterday, my aunt, uncle and cousin saw this image and were all very horrified by what they've seen. They even asked me if I'm </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/03/for-passions-sake.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QqtpKGZywqQ/SbR_ZIRvM-I/AAAAAAAAAPA/XHoJ-avtzig/s72-c/dark+invader.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-5570198661099807639</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-06T23:52:13.630+08:00</atom:updated><title>Next In Line</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....Yesterday seems to be another fruitful day for me because my thesis rating got even higher right after I've submitted all of the recommendations that was given to me by my panel of jury. On my previous post, I wrote about how my thesis went during my deliberation and you may verify it later if you want......The other thing that made my day great was when our Department Chair asked me if who </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/03/next-in-line.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-4049441092479122159</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-04T13:20:49.779+08:00</atom:updated><title>Result Of Glory</title><atom:summary type='text'>.....At last! I have deliberated my thesis proposal and I've passed. It's nice to know that the the panel of jury that was scheduled for me were all came from top universities in terms of architecture. I'm now in a worry-free zone and I'm taking the next step towards graduation......In additional, my thesis proposal isn't purely in the field of architecture. It's an urban planning type and I'm </atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/02/result-of-glory.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QqtpKGZywqQ/SZ96fYfUXYI/AAAAAAAAANk/gdTYQ0piqtg/s72-c/BACKGROUND.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12593538.post-6829620979365730294</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-04T17:56:18.231+08:00</atom:updated><title>Druoun X Images: My Newest Blog</title><atom:summary type='text'>2009 is here and as announced, I'm going to launch my second blogsite here. Druoun X Images is finally and officially open and I'm inviting each and everyone of you to come and visit my newest site and be part of its new and exciting free services.Come on, be one of Druoun X Images' avid followers!The site is located at http://www.druounximages.blogspot.com/For more information, kindly watch this</atom:summary><link>http://artistmat.blogspot.com/2009/01/druoun-x-images-my-newest-blog.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Chua)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>