I am once again a Manila girl.
I tried living independently when I was still taking my Masteral studies, and when I graduated, I was "forced" to live in my beloved Cavite again. So for 6 years, I endured the everyday hassle of heavy traffic, waiting for the car before me to move, or sleeping in buses when I didn't have the strength to drive. Talk about stress.
And so when I had the opportunity to live back here in Manila, I grabbed it, without talking it over with my parents (I didn't feel the need to talk it over with them! Come on, I am almost 30 for heaven's sake!). I've been living independently for a week now, and I am loving it. No more morning stress for me, and my voice started to go back to its normal state! So it was the stress that was causing my "hoarseness".
Experiencing it once more, made me think about the PROs and CONs of independent living. Let me break it down...
PROs:
1. No more curfew. Papa doesn't really need to know what time I turn in. hahaha!
2. No more waking up early! If my classes start at 7:30am, I wake up at 6:30! wooo!
3. No more traffic! I walk to school from my building!
4. No more toll fees, never-ending gas fees and parking fees!
CONs:
1. Independent living means paying for my own place and utilities: electricity, water and laundry!
2. Independent living means I do my own laundry if I won't pay for laundry services.
3. Independent living means I need to do all the chores that I normally rely on Yaya.
4. And now I am sick, independent living means that I have to take care of myself. Buy my own food and medicine. hay!
Overall, I am happy. Being independent means so much responsibility. Now I feel really responsible. (",)
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
I've been feeling very tired for at least a month now. Today, I stopped and "evaluated" what have I been doing lately. I realized I've been spreading myself to little to many activities.
I broke down in number of hours all the things/activities I've been doing in a day or in some days:
1. Work: Basically consumes 12 to 13.5 hours. (Kasama na ang raket dito. hehehe!)
2. Facebook Games: Consumes at least half an hour, actually, sinasabay ko ang pag fefacebook kapag may activity na ginagawa ang mga students ko.
3. Daily commute: It takes about 1 to 1.5 hours from my house to work, and about 1 hour from my work back to our house in Cavite. I make it a point that I leave at 9pm so I won't have to spend so much time waiting for the traffic to move. Nakakapagod din mag shift ng gear ng madalas ah!
4. Consulting: medyo mahaba ito, especially kung may meeting. pero di naman daily. It can range from 3 hours to 5 hours. Isama na natin dito ang site maintenance which takes 10 to 30 minutes of my time in a day.
5. Bonding time: almost daily. Depende kung sino kasama ko. Pag office people, roughly 2 hours a day. Pag outside of the office 3 to 6 hours.
6. Gym: 1 to 2 hours. pero hindi daily. kaya nga mataba ako ngayon di ba?
7. Personal: 1 hour on grooming, conversations with God, email, calls and texting..
Let me sum it up: 13.5 hours (Work) + 0.5 hour (FB) + 2.5 hours (Commute) + 2 hours (Bonding time)+ 1 hour (Personal). So dapat may 4.5 hours pa ako for sleep! But I normally need 7 hours!!!
Kaya pala! Namimiss ko na manood ng TV.. PAGOD NA AKO!
I broke down in number of hours all the things/activities I've been doing in a day or in some days:
1. Work: Basically consumes 12 to 13.5 hours. (Kasama na ang raket dito. hehehe!)
2. Facebook Games: Consumes at least half an hour, actually, sinasabay ko ang pag fefacebook kapag may activity na ginagawa ang mga students ko.
3. Daily commute: It takes about 1 to 1.5 hours from my house to work, and about 1 hour from my work back to our house in Cavite. I make it a point that I leave at 9pm so I won't have to spend so much time waiting for the traffic to move. Nakakapagod din mag shift ng gear ng madalas ah!
4. Consulting: medyo mahaba ito, especially kung may meeting. pero di naman daily. It can range from 3 hours to 5 hours. Isama na natin dito ang site maintenance which takes 10 to 30 minutes of my time in a day.
5. Bonding time: almost daily. Depende kung sino kasama ko. Pag office people, roughly 2 hours a day. Pag outside of the office 3 to 6 hours.
6. Gym: 1 to 2 hours. pero hindi daily. kaya nga mataba ako ngayon di ba?
7. Personal: 1 hour on grooming, conversations with God, email, calls and texting..
Let me sum it up: 13.5 hours (Work) + 0.5 hour (FB) + 2.5 hours (Commute) + 2 hours (Bonding time)+ 1 hour (Personal). So dapat may 4.5 hours pa ako for sleep! But I normally need 7 hours!!!
Kaya pala! Namimiss ko na manood ng TV.. PAGOD NA AKO!
Monday, August 24, 2009
Social Networking Sites: Which ones do you have?
The world just got smaller since the birth of FRIENDSTER, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, MULTIPLY, MYSPACE and other social networking sites that connected families, classmates, former lovers and friends. And in an effort to catch up with all these important people in my life, I first befriended Friendster, then I got an invite to Multiply, then showed my face in Facebook and the latest addition, tweeted my life on Twitter. Allow me to share with you what I really think about these sites.
Let's begin with FRIENDSTER. I got a ton of invites to connect with friends on Friendster. My former students were sending me invites everyday until one day, I signed up for an account. What I like Friendster at first is that it is was like an online resume. I got to see who was visiting my profile, connect with 500 friends (which was later increased, darn it, I had to create a new account 'cause I thought I reached the limit), showcase my pictures on a single album (later improved to have more than one album), customize my profile page with music, video, change the background and colors with CSS and feature my friends on a single page. Too bad, the improvements were slow, people got bored and so people started to move to other SNS.
Enter FACEBOOK. Facebook is very similar to Friendster. Only better. The interface is easier to understand, the layout is easy on the eyes, adding up friends was easier, online chatting, supported more applications, requests are summarized which can be customized and of course, the never-ending games, quizzes and newsfeeds! I love the photo-tagging feature, that by tagging a photo, it automatically appears on the tagged-person's album, no more reuploading! Although there was a major thumbs - down on their policy on photos, but I think they were able to solve it already (I hope, but still, I don't really trust fineprints so most of my photos are still hosted in other sites.) Aside from Facebook's photo policy, what I don't really like is that my profile page isn't customizable. It's the same as everyone else's. I can't express my individuality (well maybe in pictures na lang). Although almost everybody is in Facebook, I still maintain one more site for everything that I want to share the world.
Go and MULTIPLY! This by far is my favorite of the Social Networking Sites. Why you ask? First, it is fully customizable, although the Multiply logo may appear on all sites, but the banner, the arrangement of the boxes and the text colors are fully customizable. It may pass as a personal website if I may say. Second, it allows you to sell stuff. Online shopping has never been more alive! Better than e-bay! Third, music, photos and videos can also be posted or embeded and not necessarily be hosted in Multiply. Sharing can be done on a different levels of relationship; sharing can be limited to colleagues, friends, family, specific individuals or share it with everybody, even people not on multiply! Entries on Multiply can also be posted/linked on Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo! If not for Multiply 4.0, this site would have been enough for me, but since its deployment, I found it slow and a little bit more difficult in the eyes. The interface got a little confusing. haha! I also do not understand the Media Locker and Autouploader features. Maybe I'm just too lazy to read on about this feature so I opted not to use 'em at all! hahaha!
Tweeeeeeting on Twitter!!!!! Twitter is the ultimate stalker/conceited-friendly site! You get to choose who you follow, and if people found you interesting, they'll start following you. You get to inform other people what you are currently doing, will be doing or have done. If you are basically uninterested in other people's business, I advise you not to sign up with this site. It allows you to tweet messages 140 characters long so if you're going to share a video, photo, blog or any other site, use URL shorteners such as bit.ly or tinyurl.com. If you want to be entertained, follow people who are friends even outside of twitter, their tweets are really interesting even funny at times. But that's all you get from Twitter, short messages of what's going on with their lives, another site will still be needed to host photos, music, video, blogs and the like.
So there. I don't have a Myspace account so I really can't say anything about it. All I have are these four. Take your pick. Add me up. Social networking sites are here to stay. Let's wait for the next fad and who knows, the next one may combine all the good qualities of the aforementioned sites. Go ahead, be a FRIENDSTER, add up and MULTIPLY, paste your face on FACEBOOK and tweet on Twitter! The world just became smaller!
The world just got smaller since the birth of FRIENDSTER, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, MULTIPLY, MYSPACE and other social networking sites that connected families, classmates, former lovers and friends. And in an effort to catch up with all these important people in my life, I first befriended Friendster, then I got an invite to Multiply, then showed my face in Facebook and the latest addition, tweeted my life on Twitter. Allow me to share with you what I really think about these sites.
Let's begin with FRIENDSTER. I got a ton of invites to connect with friends on Friendster. My former students were sending me invites everyday until one day, I signed up for an account. What I like Friendster at first is that it is was like an online resume. I got to see who was visiting my profile, connect with 500 friends (which was later increased, darn it, I had to create a new account 'cause I thought I reached the limit), showcase my pictures on a single album (later improved to have more than one album), customize my profile page with music, video, change the background and colors with CSS and feature my friends on a single page. Too bad, the improvements were slow, people got bored and so people started to move to other SNS.
Enter FACEBOOK. Facebook is very similar to Friendster. Only better. The interface is easier to understand, the layout is easy on the eyes, adding up friends was easier, online chatting, supported more applications, requests are summarized which can be customized and of course, the never-ending games, quizzes and newsfeeds! I love the photo-tagging feature, that by tagging a photo, it automatically appears on the tagged-person's album, no more reuploading! Although there was a major thumbs - down on their policy on photos, but I think they were able to solve it already (I hope, but still, I don't really trust fineprints so most of my photos are still hosted in other sites.) Aside from Facebook's photo policy, what I don't really like is that my profile page isn't customizable. It's the same as everyone else's. I can't express my individuality (well maybe in pictures na lang). Although almost everybody is in Facebook, I still maintain one more site for everything that I want to share the world.
Go and MULTIPLY! This by far is my favorite of the Social Networking Sites. Why you ask? First, it is fully customizable, although the Multiply logo may appear on all sites, but the banner, the arrangement of the boxes and the text colors are fully customizable. It may pass as a personal website if I may say. Second, it allows you to sell stuff. Online shopping has never been more alive! Better than e-bay! Third, music, photos and videos can also be posted or embeded and not necessarily be hosted in Multiply. Sharing can be done on a different levels of relationship; sharing can be limited to colleagues, friends, family, specific individuals or share it with everybody, even people not on multiply! Entries on Multiply can also be posted/linked on Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo! If not for Multiply 4.0, this site would have been enough for me, but since its deployment, I found it slow and a little bit more difficult in the eyes. The interface got a little confusing. haha! I also do not understand the Media Locker and Autouploader features. Maybe I'm just too lazy to read on about this feature so I opted not to use 'em at all! hahaha!
Tweeeeeeting on Twitter!!!!! Twitter is the ultimate stalker/conceited-friendly site! You get to choose who you follow, and if people found you interesting, they'll start following you. You get to inform other people what you are currently doing, will be doing or have done. If you are basically uninterested in other people's business, I advise you not to sign up with this site. It allows you to tweet messages 140 characters long so if you're going to share a video, photo, blog or any other site, use URL shorteners such as bit.ly or tinyurl.com. If you want to be entertained, follow people who are friends even outside of twitter, their tweets are really interesting even funny at times. But that's all you get from Twitter, short messages of what's going on with their lives, another site will still be needed to host photos, music, video, blogs and the like.
So there. I don't have a Myspace account so I really can't say anything about it. All I have are these four. Take your pick. Add me up. Social networking sites are here to stay. Let's wait for the next fad and who knows, the next one may combine all the good qualities of the aforementioned sites. Go ahead, be a FRIENDSTER, add up and MULTIPLY, paste your face on FACEBOOK and tweet on Twitter! The world just became smaller!
Monday, July 27, 2009
It's Been A Week of Searching
Kuya Don (Yumang) once criticized me, for a person who loves taking pictures, I don't have a camera of my own. NOT EVEN A POINT AND SHOOT CAMERA. How come I have so many pictures in my albums???? One, I use my trusty Sony Ericsson K800i camera phone. Two, I borrow my brother's Olympus FE-350 8MP Point and Shoot Camera. And most recently, three, I borrow my sister's Sony Cybershot 8MP Point and Shoot Camera. Hahahaha!!!! That's how pathetic I am. No camera listed to my name.
So in response to all the nagging, I finally took the initiative to look for a camera, a DSLR. Been studying which camera to buy and I'm leaning towards Canon's EOS 450D, and as advised by most of my friends. But before diving into the DSLR world, I felt the need to read on what I need to know about these cameras, I didn't want my hard earned moolah to go to waste just because I went out on a whim and bought the first DSLR I could get my hands on. I found helpful websites that helped me determine what I want in my DSLR, and what I could do with it. Now, I want more! I don't think I'll be satisfied with the kit lens of the EOS 450D! And what I want is a lot more expensive!!! I hate it! Now I think I'll have to settle for a point and shoot camera. hahaha!
Here are some of the sites that I found really helpful for someone like me who's totally a newbie:
http://www.digital-slr-guide.com/how-to-pick-a-digital-slr-camera.html
http://www.budget-gadgets.com/2009/01/canon-dslr-camera-prices-in-hidalgo
http://digitalprinting.multiply.com/photos/album/66/Canon_Products#11
Also big thanks to my anak Ronald and Louie for helping me figure out the things I could barely understand with all these DSLR jargon.. Now, what to do?? Off to Hidalgo I go??? hahaha!
So in response to all the nagging, I finally took the initiative to look for a camera, a DSLR. Been studying which camera to buy and I'm leaning towards Canon's EOS 450D, and as advised by most of my friends. But before diving into the DSLR world, I felt the need to read on what I need to know about these cameras, I didn't want my hard earned moolah to go to waste just because I went out on a whim and bought the first DSLR I could get my hands on. I found helpful websites that helped me determine what I want in my DSLR, and what I could do with it. Now, I want more! I don't think I'll be satisfied with the kit lens of the EOS 450D! And what I want is a lot more expensive!!! I hate it! Now I think I'll have to settle for a point and shoot camera. hahaha!
Here are some of the sites that I found really helpful for someone like me who's totally a newbie:
http://www.digital-slr-guide.com/how-to-pick-a-digital-slr-camera.html
http://www.budget-gadgets.com/2009/01/canon-dslr-camera-prices-in-hidalgo
http://digitalprinting.multiply.com/photos/album/66/Canon_Products#11
Also big thanks to my anak Ronald and Louie for helping me figure out the things I could barely understand with all these DSLR jargon.. Now, what to do?? Off to Hidalgo I go??? hahaha!
Friday, April 03, 2009
RECOGNITION FOR MY CISCO BOYS AND GIRL
http://www.mapua.edu.ph/News/News.aspx?newsID=421
Mapúa Sweeps CISCO Tilt ‘09
Mapúa Sweeps CISCO Tilt ‘09
Consistent with its 84th year history of excellence, Mapúa Institute of Technology has again showed academic prowess when it emerged triumphant in the highly-coveted 4th Cisco Networking Academy National Skills Competition. In competition with more than 10 premier universities/institutes representing various clusters from all over the Philippines, Mapua grabbed two major group awards and three major individual awards in the competition held last March 26, 2009 at Holy Angel University, Pampanga.
Mapúa’s School of EECE students Melissa Mae Pasquin, John Millie Dingle, Jonathan Eric Defante and Edmund Ray Milanes were proclaimed as the National Champion in the Basic Category. The team received P15,000 cash prize plus Linksys Wireless Routers for each member. Another group from Mapua composed of Angelito Carpio, John Mark Cornilla, Lorenzo Raralio and Kenneth Garcia were the 1st Runner-up in the Advanced Category. The team received a P20,000 cash prize.
Engr. Wilheim John Sy mentored the Basic team while Engr. Emma Ruth Tiong mentored the Advanced team.
Furthermore, John Mark Cornilla, Kenneth Garcia and Edmund Ray Milanes received the following individual awards, respectively: Highest in Written Exam (Advanced), Runner-up in Written Exam (Advanced) and Runner-up in Written Exam (Basic). Melissa Mae Pasquin was also awarded the second Runner up in the Basic Written Category.
The annual Cisco Skills Competition is organized by the Cisco Networking Academy Core Council of the Philippines. It aims to promote, gauge, and improve the networking skills of Filipino networking students and enthusiasts. The Cisco Networking Academy is an internationally recognized IT educational initiative to develop graduates with networking and Internet skills and prepares its students for globally recognized industry standard certifications.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Losing Weight and Getting Sick
Good News! I lost 7 pounds in almost a week! Yey me! hehe..
For all weight-watchers, I found this ultra-COOOOOOOL sight where members motivate each other, give tips on maintaining, losing or gaining weight. Visit www.belletoday.com. It is so cool and very helpful. And you have an online weight tracker and a BMI calculator. You can blog about your diet and keep a food journal. I really found it real helpful. Hey, add me when you sign up.
For all weight-watchers, I found this ultra-COOOOOOOL sight where members motivate each other, give tips on maintaining, losing or gaining weight. Visit www.belletoday.com. It is so cool and very helpful. And you have an online weight tracker and a BMI calculator. You can blog about your diet and keep a food journal. I really found it real helpful. Hey, add me when you sign up.
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Bad News! I am sick. Not because of dieting, I caught a virus, I have the sniffles. Hopefully, will not develop to a bad cough. The sniffles has been bugging me since early this morning, my head hurt and tonight, I didn't have the appetite to eat. Hmmm... Is it because I am feeling sick or my eating habits have changed? hahaha.. Hopefully, its the latter... (",)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
'Til They Take My Heart Away
Eto na naman, nag eemote na naman ako.. It's been a long time since I last felt this way. Ang sakit sa puso. kaasar.
I will love you, 'til they take my heart away...
I will love you, 'til they take my heart away...
Monday, January 19, 2009
OO. Birthday Ko Nga. Na Naman. haha..
This year it's different, my birthday means so much more. Like an end of an era. I have so many things to look forward to this year that I really don't have the time to be emotional about it. I am actually excited. This year will be the last year that my age will start with the number 2. HAHAHA! Yes, I am turning 29 on Wednesday. And I've never been more excited! So much has happened in the first 3 weeks of this year and I believe more is expected!In my 29 years, I never felt more accomplished, more satisfied and more at peace with myself. Finding the Lord has helped so much with this new found appreciation for life and people. I love my family, friends and my job. Although its very tiring, its ok, because the more difficult tasks I complete, the more rewarding the job becomes. Don't get me wrong, I still get tired! I just realized that its just a matter of perspective. hahaha!
On the day of my birthday, I will not go to work, maybe I'll stay at home or go to Tagaytay to spend some precious ME time. So, to all my students, my birthday will be a break for you, to all my friends, I'll just text you the time and day when I'll see you and to God, thank you for the 29 wonderful years! Cheers!!
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Christmas Breakfast in Tagaytay Year 2!!
This is our second year to celebrate Christmas morning together, but its a little different, we had "1+1" additions to the "family", one is Mina (in 2007 she was in Japan), and the other is inside Janine's tummy (although we were quite unsure that there's life already in her tummy! hehe!)
As usual, after eating, we spent almost an hour capturing jump shot, mas masaya ngayon kasi 5 kami! as usual, di pa din ako marunong ngumiti pag tumatalon! hahaha.. Enjoy the pictures!!
As usual, after eating, we spent almost an hour capturing jump shot, mas masaya ngayon kasi 5 kami! as usual, di pa din ako marunong ngumiti pag tumatalon! hahaha.. Enjoy the pictures!!
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