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CoARE Babes is how we call ourselves. In a perfectly wholesome way, believe us. We are a group of girls working for the Computing and Archiving Research Environment Facility, an HPC facility in the Philippines. CoARE Facility offers free HPC service to researchers in the academe and other government offices, so if you’re a student with thesis needing supercomputers, don’t hesitate to talk to us.

From creative to technical to scientific, you can count on us… well, we’ll do our best as much as we can. Now, without further ado, let us introduce ourselves to you!

In her dreams, she is Sherlock Holmes. In this reality, however, she gets by with being known as Charlock. A self-proclaimed writer who is so fascinated with letters, and words, and phrases, and sentences, Charlock lives and breathes to become a legendary wordsmith. Music makes her alive, but an introvert and demophobe like her can rarely be seen at gigs and concerts. It will take a lot of persuasion to make her dance. She dislikes being disturbed when she is looking out the window. It will make her happy if you leave her lying on grass to stare at the moon and the stars, for hours. She can never understand when coffee kicks in, maybe, because she is always a tea person. When she is not too occupied in being a writer, she tries hard to learn sick guitar riffs, write complex codes, and unravel the mysteries of the universe...all while trying to survive in graduate school. You can make her smile when you give her ice cream, potato chips, peppermint cookies, and cheesecake. It surprises her that while she is boring to most people, a few select find her bearable. For some crazy reason, one Man is thrilled that she exists...and that is enough for her to continue living.

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

Quoted from C.S. Lewis

Debilog, the Queen of Memes

“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”

Quoted from Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Erangvee, the Duchess of Happy Crush

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.”

Quoted from Jeremy Irons

Glenduuuuuh, the Madam of Tassel Earrings

She's the Lost Millennial.

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

Quoted from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Mind-candy, the Crayola Master

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer."

Quoted from Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Error 404: User not Found, the Mean Girl of the Philippines

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"Maybe you should eat some makeup so you can be pretty on the inside, too."

Quoted from Herself, because she’s mean

Random things about CoARE Babes

Let's start with toothbrush... because we're that [awesomely] random.