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Archive for March, 2009

Contrary to what the picture suggests, no, I’m not gonna be rewarding myself with beer, cause I do not drink beer and any alcoholic beverages.  But yes, I would like to reward myself, for making some small yet remarkable improvements and achievements for the past few days, or weeks. I would like to reward myself, cause finally we were able to buy our own refrigerator which we have been wanting for some time, but has not been able to buy, because of some financial constraints. We don’t want to have any debts, so we really saved up for it. Aside from that, I would like to celebrate the fact that our 3rd blog, is now live via wordpress. It took a few days, almost a week or so, for the transfer because of some slight issues.

So, I am celebrating this success with a lazy day. Which means, I will just relax and enjoy this day. That day is today, Thursday of March 12, 2009. For the past few months, I am restless when I am not moving or doing anything productive. As much as I like, I like to be doing something productive all the time, and I feel guilty if I’m not. There are just so much to do. Right after work, even if I am still so stressed, I usually go ahead and take care of the baby or do other errands at home. But, today, I am just gonna go back to my lazy mode.  It’s my reward for myself, for all the hard word I did. I am recognizing and appreciating what I am doing, and I love and respect myself for everything that I am doing.

So, speaking of marking today as lazy day, let me stop myself from making too long of a post, that proves otherwise. Till next time, when I am not in the lazy mode. Bum..bum..bum

I wrote about an article stating that we already bought a refrigerator for our home plus our little sari-sari store. The new refrigerator is perfect cause now there are a lot of business ideas that we can finally implement. I’ve always wanted to sell softdrinks and ice candies. And now, finally it has been fulfilled. We were so excited in making the ice candies. At first, we made buko ice candies, and I was so surprised that it became an instant hit. It becomes tastier when it is already ice. When, we were still mixing it, it didn’t appear to be that delcious. But, every one kept buying over and over again, specially the children and young ones. So, we sold out around 160 ice candies in a matter of two days. So, we made the 2nd ice candy bath last night, and that has kept me busy. The hubby was very hands on and he also helped me in  mixing the mango ice candy and also in packing it. It was fun, making it. We made a total of 120 ice candies, 2 pesos each, so that will sell 240. And the capital was only less than 100. I’d like to see how the 2nd batch goes.

We already ordered softdrinks, and we still have a lot of plans. We want to sell halo-halo, barbecue and also we want to sell different kinds of viands cause no one is doing that here in the neighborhood and I have noticed its a need that we must fill up. We really have lots of plans, and we are really excited with every step and every improvement. We are just enjoying it. I used ot be very strict about numbers and data when it comes to money, but I realized now, I need to have fun. I really do.

We are very active now, in the business side, and I like that. Thanks to God!

I am finally finished with the installation of our 3rd site, and its live now. I like the theme I have just installed few minutes ago. It was difficult, and I had to wait for a week to make all this happen, but its all worth it. Today, I am just at home, taking a rest. I am absent at work cause I had headache earlier, cause I was unable to sleep last night. So, I will be staying here taking a rest. I also had to have a check up, so I can submit a medical certificate.

Just 15 minutes more and I will be logging out of work again. Just an ordinary day at work. My eyes are tired as usual for stayin 9 hours straight in front of my pc. Hahays. I really feel so tired right now. We really had lots of calls as usual. Most of it, were very difficult cases. So far, I had 34 calls now. Imagine? Each call in average lasts about 10-15 minutes. Huhuhu. This is really a tiring job. Imagine, while working if I am waiting for calls, I also blog and posts and drop cards? If only you could see me. And if you only knew, how fast I am typing my assignments and this post now. It only takes less than 5 minutes to do a 100 word or 200 word post. And imagine, how tired I am when coming home, and I still have to do a lot of things in the house, plus with a little baby girl? Imagine that. The complex life of a superwoman, a working mom.
But, I have no right to complain cause God gave this job to me, so my family can live and have something to eat. Thank you Lord for everything. I know all my hard work, will pay off someday. I know, that someday you would give me a reward, that is fulfilling. I know, everything I am doing is not wasted. Even if I wanted to cry a lot of times out of stress and fatigure, and even if it seems impossible, but I know there’s something more to this. This is just a preparation for your real plans for me. I knew it, and I believe it.

I am wondering sometimes, how come it is so hard sometimes to follow your dreams, goals and what you really want out of life? Why are there so many tests and difficulties before you get the sweet fruit of success? Is life really just like that? I often wonder why some people get it without difficulty. Like, it just comes to them, with no effort.
For me, it has really been a struggle. It has been a struggle in a lot of things, though I am not complaining nor am I giving up? Perhaps, its just because you can’t have everything?
Maybe. Or perhaps, this is just all a test. A test to help me grow and to prune my character and strength. A test I need to endure and survive. I sometimes wish that life is as easy as finding an unlocked phone. Perhaps, we could all spend our lives enjoying and having fun. Funny!
Every day, I am working on improving our lives. It has been slow and gradual. Slowly but surely, and I guess that’s better than an instant success that you cannot really appreciate very well.

Anyone woud love to get a chance to travel places they’d love to go. Some people even have a list of places they want to visit before they die. Some people work hard the whole year and treat themselves by spending their money on travels and vacations. A travel and vacation is indeed a good break, something that will refresh you after a year of working hard. Those are mostly for wealthy people. That is just their lifestyle. If you’ve been dying to have a great vacation, you can search on the net now for some travel deals. There are a lot of them, you just need to be patient in searching. You don’t really have to spend a lot for that great vacation you’ve been dreaming of.

We will be buying a refrigerator today. We decided to buy one, so we can use it for some extra money. We are planning to start selling ice candy which needs refrigerator. We will also sell fish, to the neighborhood. Plus, we can add softdrinks now on our little store, so that will mean additional income. Plus, we would be selling barbecue. We need a refrigerator for that too, so we can preserve the meat. We are really thinking of increasing our income right now, and not just spend and spend. We have save enough for this, and hopefully it will be a success. We are taking some risk, and we are placing our trust in God that everything will be a success.

We will be heading to Colon, right after my duty. The last time we went there to the appliances store was to buy a new television, and now we would be heading back there cause the last time I inquired their refrigetator was nice and affordable, so we would like to buy from there so we can save money instead of buying from department stores like SM. But before that, I need to google a toll free number of the store so I can ask for some details first.

I just want to capture the comments from our QA, since its very positive and I don’t want to miss it. I’ve been getting 100 % always, but I decided to take note of it and record it starting now, so I won’t forget it and it will make me more confident and happy about my job.

Here’s my assessment:

Grade: 100 %

Melody (My American Name)  calmly walked the guest through the troubleshooting steps, making the troubleshooting process very organized and systematic. She spoke fluently and politely so not only was she able to show her expertise with the issue handled, she showed her admirable personality as well.

Thank you Lord, and thanks to our quality assessment evaluator.

I’ve been looking for this movie cd, for years. I first watched this when I was a kid, still in grade school. I think I have watched it 10-20 times, so I’m kinda familir with the scenes already. From then, I declared it as the best movie I’ve ever watched. Even when I soon watched other movies which are great too, this movie is still in my mind. I never ever forgot it. Every time I am asked whats the best movie for me, or every time I write the favorite movies part in autographs, this is always on the list, if not the only one on the list. I’ve been searching for a tape for this, so I could watched it over again. When I went to video city today to rent tapes, I was so surprised to see Jumanji. I never saw it from there before, perhaps it was always out. Or, I wasn’t just looking into the DVD section. I always choose the VCD’s only. So, I never hesitated to rent it. It was so amazing. It was so much better now that I watched it when I am older, cause I understand the things I missed when I was a kid. A lot of children from our neighbors, and their parents watched it with us. Our house is an open house. Whenever we watch, we let others watch too. It’s more exciting that way. They really loved it. They kept laughing, and I know from their expressions they were so thrilled. It wasn’t a mistake choosing it. Hope I could buy a DVD or VCD version of this and keep it as my own, so when baby bless is bigger I can share it to her.