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About

Hello, and welcome to the over-digitized complex world of Derivatrix, a very simple web & graphics portfolio and blog (although it can transform into anything).

I am Jessie Jason Macalinao, the sole man-power/boss/[put job description here] of this website. I recently call myself the author, because the word author sounds much better (and less arrogant-like) than being called a webmaster. People call me JJ, JMac or either one of my two names. For my second-year high school classmates, they call me in whatever profanity they would prefer, and I’m okay with it. When I’m online, I call myself (or made my own personal trademark) JMacalinao - and therefore be called by that alias. In my writings, especially when they go cryptic, I go by the name Daisuke Akio, meaning a bright man who is a great help. (What it refers to is beyond the name.)

It was a sunny 10 o’ clock in the morning on the 20th of June when I was born at a local children’s hospital. And now, I am eighteen years of age, healthy as ever. I’m quite the tall person (at 175cm), and I weigh just right (at 140lb).

I’m mostly educated well (with the exception of two grade levels since I studied in a generally bad public school), and I am proud to be a Paulinian, a Letranite, and a Lasallian. I am currently getting a Computer Science degree, with a major in Computer Systems Engineering.

  • Pre-school: Haven Montessori - Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati
  • Primary: Nemesio I. Yabut Elementary School - Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati (1-2); St. Paul College Makati - Poblacion, Makati (3-6) (Batch 2002)
  • Secondary: Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Intramuros, Manila (Batch 2006)
  • Tertiary: De La Salle University - Manila (Batch 2010)

After I graduate, one of my dreams is to go and work in the US, as a programmer/engineer in one of the great companies in the computer industry. It doesn’t matter if it’s Microsoft, Apple, Google, Intel or AMD, as long as they provide a great working environment (a scenario barely existing in the Philippines), I’m fine with that. After I thrive for a good occupation, I’ll earn enough so I can make my own modern home; from its architecture and design to its technological backbone. I plan for it to be completely wired - or wireless, if you know what I mean.

As for my semi-professional occupation, more like a sideline to my studies, which is web and graphics design, I’ve been doing designs for personal use since 2001 (when I first used the ultimately old Microsoft FrontPage 2000), but only started doing semi-professional work since 2003. I used to be making designs to other people for free, until 2006, when I was taught of the old business-type things (may as well call them tactics) in the university. I’ve had several clients in the past years, and as a graphics designer should do, I’ve done the tasks in the best that I possibly can.

On the more personal side of things (the side that I barely disseminate to people), I’m sort of having split personalities, depending on who I’m interacting with, or in what world I am when interacting. Half of me is the English-talking, creative and intelligent, silence freak; you would see this personality very often when you roam through the Internet. The other half is the clumsy, happy-go-lucky talka-tron, and you’d see it when I’m at the university, or when I have friends around. These split personalities do mix themselves at specific events, although it seldom happens.

I have also the desire of possession, and if I can’t get something, one can nearly call it envy. To avoid this type of weakness, I force myself to earn them, and thus, I have some things (if not all, or even most) that I can proudly call my own. I am also inexplicably vulnerable to depression when in the verge of boredom or extreme (okay, not so extreme) preoccupation.

My parents, Jesus Macalinao (a network engineer) and Emma Maramag (a directress), are the best I can have for a lifetime. Their strict parenthood has always been leading me to be a better person. Along with them comes my two siblings, Kris and Jesus Jr. Giving them an adjective such as loving can be an understatement at times, but it can also be the whole truth.

About the site

Derivatrix is simply the official blog and graphics portfolio of the author. Its history is quite short, but its predecessors have had a lot of history (five full years, to be exact), most of them have their own ups and downs.

To make the long story short, the original graphics portfolio of the author started with AprilHasIt. It started in April (hence the name), and the site had several tutorials included. After a year-and-a-half worth of tutorial making, and four redesigns, the site moved to a more recognizable site, called JMacalinao.info. It took three more redesigns before moving to another domain, JMacalinao.net, and that had an amazing twenty-four (that’s the number 2 and 4 combined) more redesigns. In that period, the site became more personal and had a lot of personal blog entries. The JMacalinao legacy (as I call it) went on for two years.

But due to mere boredom, the site closed, and opened another site called vrve, which shifted its content to pure web and graphics portfolios. The site went popular due to its web designs for the underground (yes, it went that deep), but lost other sectors. After nine months and two redesigns, it closed and opened another site called Derivatrix, the friendly-in-all-aspects website we come to know today.

Contact details

If you want to contact me for whatever reason you may have, you may contact me in the contact stuff below. I’m a very approachable and uplifting person when you get to talk to me, and when you do get to talk to me, I find it amusing because, at least, I know I’m not alone in this semi-cruel world. If you want your site linked in this website, just tell me and I’ll do it — as long as you put my site linked in yours as well.

If you want other, more sensitive details like my address (possibly because you want to send me some cool stuff — those cool tech stuff that I can review for all the world to see, for example), or my mobile phone number (probably because you just want to), you can just contact me in the details below, preferrably one of my e-mail addresses, so I can get to you as quickly as possible.

On another note, I am virtually open for communication twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, because every message (from e-mails to instant messages, even twitters) gets pushed to me when there is a message. It just needs time to get to them when I’m not using the home computer.

  • E-mail 1: void at this site (frequently checked)
  • E-mail 2: uohealing@yahoo.com
  • E-mail 3: j2.macalinao@gmail.com (barely checked)
  • WLM/MSN: webmaster@universityofhealing.com
  • Y!M 1: UOHealing
  • Y!M 2: J2Macalinao
  • AIM: JMac9012
  • Skype: jmacalinao (barely opened, no Skype application in my OSx86 PC)

If you’re wondering whether I’m in a particular community or social networking website, or if I am a member of a specific forum, I can tell you that I am, specifically in DeviantArt, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Mahora Academy (where I am the designer for their site), Twitter, and Wikipedia.