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These are two of my pet peeves. I hate late — either me or the person I’m meeting. Last Sunday, I was the one who was late by half an hour. To make things worse, it was for Sunday Mass.

I have a small book thats lists most of the mass schedules in Metro Manila and in some of the provinces. It said Sunday Mass over at Christ the King Parish on Green Meadows Avenue was at 6:30 am. I had gone there for a 6pm weekday Mass last May 1, so I was confident that the schedule list was accurate. See my post on the Loretto chapel.

How wrong was I to assume that the schedule had remained the same for Sunday Mass. I was off by 30 minutes for an event that only lasts about 50 minutes to about an hour. I asked one of those who appeared to be in charge and she said that the next mass would be around 7:30. That’s going to be a long wait for me. So, I decided to go to nearby Eastwood in Libis, knowing that there was a chapel in that area too. When we got there the guard said that mass would be at 11am—an even longer wait.

So we high tailed it out of there and went for a sure schedule, an hourly mass at St. Francis Church on Shaw Boulevard—7am! Got there a few minutes right after the previous Mass and was had enough time to choose seats and settle in before the next one started.

Now, this strengthens my resolve to fix up the mass schedule site that I’ve been putting off because of—of all things—my schedule. I’d need volunteers to help encode schedules and confirm that those schedules are correct. I’ll post again here once I’ve got the basic plans all laid out. I’d want it to look and feel web 2.0, so I’ll probably build off either YUI or GWT or some other framework running AJAX. Time to break out the keyboards and try to be a rockstar coder!

Feel free to comment here if you got ideas on how I can fix this up with as little effort as possible. I’d rather not reinvent the wheel if I can find some sort of open source schedule listing system.