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Archive for April, 2010

Anyone can start a business  even with a low capital. Anyone can start small businesses which does not involve a lot of complicated works. Sure, any business really requires some work. But, for small businesses it can go along even without things like insurance advertising.It can thrive by focusing on just the essentials.

I have so many business ideas. And I am hoping that someday it will come to pass. I keep this vision in front of me and it’s one of the things that keeps me excited about life. If I have a business, I would love to have my own ice cream business. I love those soft serve ice creams which come in different flavors. It’s very easy to make. You just have to mix the ingredients in the soft ice cream maker and it will automatically produce the product in a few minutes.

Our company Summer Outing will be this May 30 and 31. Since last month, we have been  very busy preparing for everything. I myself, is the one who is very busy. I am one of the people leading the core committee. This is so new to  me but I have taken the responsibility to myself to see how good I will be in organizing big events like this. There will be probably more than 500 people who will be attending our Summer Outing, because each employee can bring along a family member for free. This has already been a tradition in our company. All expenses are paid for by our company.

I am very proud to say that I am the one who chose the venue. I am the one who searched for the beach resort where we will have our Summer Outing. I took the rest of the committee with me to visit the location and they all liked it. We were even served with free food. They were oh so delicious and the CEO who attended to our site visit was very very warm. So, we decided to go for the location that I suggested. As of now, we are busy preparing other details. We already released the teaser poster and now we are working on the t shirt. Each employee will be given free shirts. Isn’t it amazing? We have decided on the giveaways also. So, no need to worry about it. We will also be giving free bags with the company logo on it. I saw the main product and it was just pretty, plus it very usable. The bag was specifically a backpack. With all these prepations, I won’t wonder why I would lose weight even if I am not using weight loss products such as the popular Lipofuze.

Our company is having the biggest loser challenge to encourage employees to lose weight and keep the right body frame. Many people are joining. They would use money as motivation. Every week, they will pay I think around 100 peso each and the biggest loser for the week will get the total collection of money. They have regular exercises together and it’s really fun seeing people becoming more conscious with what they eat and with their exercise routine. I am not joining though as I don’t have any problem losing weight. I need to gain weight though. I wish they could have the reverse, The biggest gainer. haha! Bad idea.

I just want to cheer this guys up and encourage them to continue taking care of their body and their health. I know they have been busy exercising, sticking to a diet and even making use of fat burner pills just to achieve their goal.

Before I do the alli reviews I am tasked to do I would like to have this opportunity to thank everyone who visited this site, read and commented on my post for the BC Blogger’s Party. I am very very touched with all the comments I received from my entry for the BC Blogger’s Party. Thanks to Paula for this, as always. Thank you very much to everyone who shared their warm comments and sentiments on my post. I really enjoyed reading all your comments and I am very happy I am able to touch your lives through my writing. I hope we could be regular friends and I will try to make it up to you. You will see me as well in your blogs. You see, I am a very young person like most of you says, and of course, I believe I’m still young, but then, I already had so many experiences in life which really helped me understand life earlier than other people my age.

I just want to share to everyone the great, challenging, moving, simple, dramatic life that I have. I believe every life has a story. Every person has a great life story. This is the beauty of life. And I really really wish that we all would live happily in this earth which could be full of sorrows and problems at times. But, it’s all up to us, which we would choose. To be happy and to look at the bright side of life or to dwell on the negative and sad things. We make the choice. As Paula says in her blog banner, life is what you make it. And it really is.

Sorry for the late post but I don’t wanna miss sharing my life to you. I’m 23 years old, working as a Quality Analyst in a call center. Before I became a Quality Analyst, I was a regular call center employee. Just like any other call center employees, my life was a roller coaster because of the monthly change of schedule, the pressure to meet the metrics, the pressure from the management, the changing workstations every month, the exhaustion brought about by talking al day long on the phone solving problems of people who shout, nag and demoralize you. Yes! that was my life. And I carried on, unlike my other batchmates who eventually ended their work here in the company where I work. I was given an opportunity for a promotion and it was everything that I have hoped for.

Blogging has been a tremendous blessing to me and my family. I can’t tell you exactly how it changed my life and my life. It brought so many opportunities and new friends. It became a channel for my CREATIVE THOUGHTS which usually dwells only in my mind. Before I discovered blogging, I was scammed and lost around 2,000 pesos to invest on something which was not real at all. But, I never gave up. I knew there had to be a way to earn online. And I did after few months of researching. Blogging came to my life and it has been a wonderful journey as a blogger for more than 2 years.

If there’s one thing I wouldn’t exchange for anything else here in this world, that would be my family. I finally found my one true love through my hubby. All my life, all I ever dreamed was so find someoe who will love me. I was a hopeless romantic. I so love reading love stories and fantasize about them often. I ended up having boyfriends who didn’t really measure up to my expectations. I was a perfectionist. Until, I found the man who would never leave me even if I tell him to do so and the man who was made to be my soul mate.

Through him, I became a Christian. Yes, we are a Christian family and my life has turned a lot better ever since I started living in God’s grace. Everyday is a miracle, everyday is full of happiness. I now know that I can carry on with lif’s challenges because I know that God is with me no matter what. I was born a Catholic ever since I was a kid, and I never had a close personal relationship with God until I finally became a Christian. I am still a work in progress up unto now and it’s just wonderful.

Last year, was full of challenges. We experienced the first ever and the biggest fire in our place, but the house where we are renting was saved. It was one of the scariest moment of my life. And it was a day after this fire that I also encountered the most challenging part of our life as a couple. We almost broke up, after I learned that my hubby was having an affair with someone from work.

Read the following articles if you want to know the details:

I Almost Lost My Husband

I Almost Lost My Husband Part II
To tell you, I don’t want the same thing to happen again, but if given the chance, I won’t prevent the thing from happening. I will just allow it, just the way it is. Because, our relationship has gone so much better than before this happened. We are much stronger, and hubby is more loving and cautious of his actions. He is now the kind of man I always wished he would be. It caused so much pain that I almost gave up but God gave me the strength to do what is right and to move on.
If you tell me, any woman can do it, to me, it was so difficult because of my character. I have always hated men who are unfaithful, because of my father. And I used to think that I wouldn’t  be able to forgive my hubby if ever he did something like this, but through God’s grace, I found the strength to forgive, forget and move on. I just learned from this experience, that even Christian men and woman can fall. Nobody is immune to sin. The biggest problem was, my husband was not so protective of himself. He did not keep his guard to stay away from those things which will do him and our family no good.

If there’s one thing I am proud of about myself, that is my ability to bounce back. I am very resilent and I also have the drive to move up and higher than my previous status. My motto in life is to strive for excellence and keep getting better in everything each day. There is always room for improvement. There’s always a room to get better at something. I am very goal oriented and driven in my life. I know where I want to go and I know what I want in my life.

WHY I LOVE PAULA AND HER BLOGS?

I think it has been more than a year since I started to visit Paula’s Blog, happy thoughts, happy tot. If you ask me what it is that I love about her? It’s her memory of events. She writes in details. Yes! It is very true. When you read her writings, it’s like you are in the place or event that she is talking about. I salute her memory! If you have read Corrie Ten Boom’s Hiding Place, I would say, Paula writes just like her.

I also love her the way she takes care of her family. That’s what every woman should do. To value her family, her husband and her kids more than anything else. To be a great mom and a great wife. Ahhh! Nothing is even better than the feeling of accomplishment this can ever give you. I wouldn’t exchange the feeling with the accomplishment in the work place, no matter how great it can be. She inspires me to be a great person, to be a great mom and wife.

She is also drive driven and focused just like me. When she wants something, she sets a goal to get it. And that’s very me. So, these are just a few reasons. I would also say, she’s a really really good friend. She is. A lot would agree on this.
So, belated happy birthday Paula and I’m really sorry this is so late that almost never got the chance to do this. Anyhow, happy birthday and I wish you good health, happiness, more luck and success in your family and career (work at home) life.

Love lots….

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Last night, while in bed and about to sleep, I and my hubby reminisced old times when we were still in the dating stage more than 3 years ago. We were “so kilig” and we can’t help but laugh at all the silly things we did as a couple. We made the reminiscing fun by having a contest on who can remember the most events in our boyfriend girlfriend lives. As usual, I am the one who could remember most events and he’s the one who really smile from ear to ear because he just remembered those times. By all those events, I would say that we were really meant to be. There were so many happenings at that time which could have stopped our being together forever, but we were really brought together. And I am really really really glad. More than glad that I really stop and thank God every single day that He made my hubby to be my partner in life.

During the times that I get in touch with Dad, he always sees to it that I feel his care. We’ve had no communication for about 3 years, since I left and lived here in Cebu. I thought he was part of those people who were mad at me. And I am no longer in strange of such lost of communication because he left us for many years to be with his “other woman”. And he suddenly came. I knew he tried to win us back.

But, this time, after many years, all I have for him is love and respect as my Dad. I have totally forgiven him in my heart and I just feel that there were so many lost years. When a friend of mine wanted to have a tour in Bohol, she was looking for someone who could tour them in a van. I contacted my dad right away and asked for his rate. He surely gave us a really affordable rate. And he gave me this pasalubong which I never really expected. This is what you call, “BROAS”. Thsi is made of milk, sugar, and eggs. Boholanos are very good is making the most delicious Broas nationwide.

The crackers are already sweet but it was made sweeter because of the fact that my Dad took time to give something for me. When he asked me what I wanted I was really moved. How I missed Daddy…

I heard a personality say on television that nowadays with all the beauty products and technologies designed to enhance one’s physical look, one should no longer have a reason not to look good and feel good. A very important factor in one’s physical health is exercise. You should be determined and disciplined enough to follow through with your set plan for exercising. No matter what it is, it is important to enjoy the process instead of complaining that your weight is not changing.

There are so many products and gadgets now that allows you to have your exercise anytime, anywhere. One example is nordictrack audiostrider 990 pro. This product is surely high tech and advanced because it can allow you to track your daily workout progress even the calories you burn every time you exercise. You can save these on your computer under your own iFit profile and you can acess them so you can analyze what works best for you.

My sister who’s in New York is thinking about taking the LSAT exam. And of course I wanted to help her by giving her information regarding the test. I searched in google and eventually end up giving information to my sister which I thought would be of help to her goal. I sent her to this site which offers lsat prep. We found out that if she signs in to that site, she would surely get a huge savings while getting a high assurance that she would pass the test. The price is more than half of the price you have to spend in an old school LSAT preparation setting.

This site allows her to view LSAT preparatory materials such as online quizzes which she can carry anywhere she likes as long as she brings her laptop with her. She also told me that there’s even an option for her to print the questionnaires and answer them on paper. With this information I knew that I did not make a mistake in what I suggested to her. She’s on her way to go now.

I am not an artsy person but I surely do appreciate great work of arts. Though, I can’t relate much on great great  paintings, I surely appreciate a little work of art here and there. When I go to the mall, I love to look at printed boxes and often get tempted to buy them. But, I often end up realizing it would only add clutter to the house and besides, the price is usually high for boxes like these which have been crafted by some artsy people. I wish I could make boxes as beautiful as these. A talent in art usually comes in handy during celebrations and occasions when one has to give gifts to friends and loved ones. With this talent, you don’t have to spend your bucks buying commercial made gift products.