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July 01 Saying goodbye.....Today is my last day at work. I have decided to take a rest and look for opportunities anywhere, in short take the risk as I cannot stay without a job. I am having mixed emotions right now L but I guess that’s just normal. Saying goodbye is such a hard thing to say but sometimes you just have to do it. As what a friend told me, take the risk and think afterwards. Am I strong enough to take the risk? Is it worth-taking? So many questions have popped in my mind but I know God is always there to guide me and to lead me to the right path. I have just to Trust HIM.
I am going to miss a lot of things at work. I’m going to miss the times when I have to… - wake up early to go to work, open Outlook to read e-mails from friends at work and outside work. In short, not office e-mails or ARs from boss LOL! - have coffee or dinner with friends, or go to the mall to window shop - present updates to the team on our weekly meetings, attend concalls and raise product issues - have long talks with close friends during office breaks, go out at wee hours of the morning to have lunch during graveyard shift - give solutions to those asking for help about our product (mamis ko un ms. lui, help!) and send product updates to the team....hirap isa isahin! hehe! To summarize, what I will miss most at work are my friends.... To my co-SMEs who give their best for the team, cheers!!!! May we all find what we are looking for.. And last but not the least, to my closeness at work and to those who consider me as their friends, thanks guys! Thanks for making my stay at work a memorable one. I will miss you all. See you when I see you..
Signing off.... June 28 Nice quotes...La lang...
"When I lost you, I was the one who loved you most, but between us you lost more, for someday I can love someone the way I loved you but you will never be loved again the way that I did...."
"I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common lady with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..."
June 18 SME’s Day Out
Event: Get together of SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) Where: Enchanted Kingdom (EK) in Laguna When: June 17, 2006
After a wk or 2 of planning this trip, finally it happened. Though some backed out on the day before due to unavailable circumstances, I made sure that I would still enjoy even though I felt a bit bad about it coz we were not complete. Who cares?! LOL!
Here are some of the rides in EK: Rollerskaters (a.k.a. Rollercoaster) Carousel
Rio Grande
This was one adventure that I truly enjoyed. As much as I want to avoid getting wet, I failed. My back and pants got wet and then Jim, the one seated on my left got wet next. LOL! Then someone tried to move the raft (?) so the ones who weren’t wet yet got wet. LOL! We were all laughing and shouting and most of us had started to remove our seatbelts to avoid the rapids, falls but funny thing was, we all got WET!
Rialto 4D Discovery Theater
If you wanna experience what it feels like being in a movie, go inside the Rialto. As for the 4D theater, the film was the same, "Escape from Bane Manor" was shown few years back when we had our group's teambuilding.
Achor's Away
This ride took my heart and soul out the first time I went for a ride hehe! I promised myself I wouldn’t take a ride again as I didn’t feel good the first time I tried it. But I had no choice, all of us decided to and it was fun!!! It felt great when I erratically waved my hands while it swings back and forth. btw, I went for a ride for 3x! wohoooo! Couldn't believe it! Matapang na ko! hahahaha!
Space Shuttle
I missed this ride. I was afraid to try it again. One ride is enough.
I did enjoy this event though it was tiring. It was worth it to spend a day off out in the theme park with my teammates. May be the last time I'm gonna spend a trip with them, who knows?! June 08 Let's take some quiz.....What Is Your Emotional Intelligence Quotient?
I took a test at iVillage and the result was:
You scored 80% correct!
Your score falls in the high EQ range.
Regardless of your score, keep in mind that your emotional intelligence can change. People are always evolving. You can increase your EQ at any point in your life by learning to identify your emotions and taking responsibility for those emotions. And just as easily as you can increase your EQ, you can also decrease it. You must continue to identify and work on areas within yourself that need work.
Your score indicates that you have some signs of burnout.
If you've scored in this range, you do have some potential of burnout. Please remember to do the following for yourself: set realistic work goals, take time for yourself, exercise, change jobs, read books about beating burnout, join a support group, keep a journal, take up a hobby, spend quality time with your family, defeat negative thoughts, becoming active in your church, synagogue, or other community activity and, most importantly, learn how to say no. If you do these things, we have no doubt you will continue to thrive!
Half-Full Glass You try to look on the bright side, and optimism is a skill you've cultivated to help you weather life's rough spots. All the same, you know it's okay to admit when you're angry or hurt. You're neither blindly positive, nor prone to dwell on slights and injuries, and your generally positive outlook helps prepare you to take risks without being held back by bitterness or a fear of failure. Believe it or not, some scientists have theorized that there is an evolutionary advantage to optimism: Human beings may be programmed to view the world as just slightly better than it actually is, in order to recognize clearly any real threats to our well-being and handle them appropriately. Your ability to rise above negative thinking while remaining realistic about temporary setbacks is a great strength.First Song Syndrome 06.08.06FSS: Every Little Thing by Dishwalla
Let me in
to see you in the morning light to get me on and all along the tears they come see all come I want you to believe in life but I get the strangest feeling that you've gone away will you find out who you are too late to change? I wish I could be every little thing you wanted all the time I wish I could be every little thing you wanted all the time some times lift me up just lift me up don't make a sound and let me hold you up before you hit the Ground see all come you say your all right but I get the strangest feeling that you've gone away- you've gone away and will you find out who you are too late to change? I wish I could be every little thing you wanted all the time I wish I could be every little thing you wanted all the time some times Don't give me up don't give me up tonight or soon nothing will be right at all salvation will you find out who you are too late to change? I wish I could be every little thing you wanted ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Just a bit puzzled
 coz I haven't listened to this song for more than a week now.  Anyway, the other day my FSS was Incomplete by Backstreet boys. Corny noh?! LOL!Tell me your FSS this morning...Did you have one?!?!?
May 17 I love, I hateI remember a few months back while I was flipping through the pages of this God
Bad News!!!! May 07 Her and His DiaryGot this interesting forwarded message from a close friend. Read on....
HER DIARY
Sunday night I thought he was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a bar to have a drink. I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late,
but he made no comment.
Conversation wasn't flowing so I suggested that we go somewhere quiet so we could talk, he agreed but he kept quiet and absent. I asked him what was
wrong - he said, "Nothing."
I asked him if it was my fault that he was upset. He said it had nothing to do with me and not to worry.
On the way home I told him that I loved him, he simply smiled and kept driving. I can't explain his behavior; I don't know why he didn't say, "I love you, too." When we got home I felt as if I had lost him, as if he wanted nothing to do with me anymore. He just sat there and watched T.V.; he seemed distant and absent. Finally I decided to go to bed. About 10 minutes later he got up and went to sleep on the sofa. I still felt that he was distracted and his thoughts were somewhere else. I decided that I could not take it anymore, so I decided to confront him with the situation But he had fallen asleep. I started crying and cried until I too fell asleep. I don't know what to do. I'm almost sure that his thoughts are with someone else. My life is a disaster. HIS DIARY Today, we lost the football match. Guys!Guys!Guys! I will never understand you...LOL! April 25 Update!Events I attended these past few days:
High School Reunion Tramway Banawe, QC Apr. 20, 7pm-10pm
The event was a SUCCESS though we have our hands full because of work.
It was one event I wouldn’t forget. I was in high spirit to see my classmates whom I hadn't seen for ages. We talked about almost anything under the sun and it was fun, fun, fun!
Bamboo Concert SM Megamall 9:15 – 10:15 (-_-)?
It was my first time to attend a rock concert. I used to watch concerts back then except rock but this was one experience that I didn't want to miss out on and so I can check out why Faye became addicted as well like Lestat that’s why I agreed to go with them LOL. I really had a great time! His performance was awesome. I am not a fan so I am not that familiar with his songs but it definitely put me in an extremely good mood when he sang some of the songs that I knew. :p
Feedback: I was star strucked with his band member Ira Cruz. He has the looks but looked so serious and didn’t even smile that much. Erase on my list LOL!
This guy, Nathan, looks like this TV host, Paolo Ballesteros. I didn’t notice him at first but when my friend said that he’s cute, I took another glance and watched him perform. He has a cute smile, and yeah, I agree with my friend. He is really cute! :p I will research on you..LOL!
MJ’s 1st Bday Jollibee West Ave. 1-3pm
This is the bday of the son of my close friend, Maricel. I went with my nephew, JC. Finally, I was able to meet one of my closest friend’s BF. He is huge! In height I mean, LOL! But they look good together. Anyway, the party went well, they rented a mascot, Jollibee who was so jolly (now you know why his name is Jollibee, LOL) and all the kids enjoyed it. April 20 SURVIVAL KIT FOR EVERYDAY LIVING1. Toothpick to remind us to pick out the good qualities in others. 2. Rubber band to remind us to be flexible, things might not always go the way we want 3. Band aid to remind us to heal feelings 4. Pencil to remind us to list our blessings everyday 5. Eraser to remind us that everyone makes mistakes 6. Gum to remind us to stick with things we really want to accomplish 7. Tea bag to remind us to relax and reflect on all the positive things in our life.
April 12 *~*~*~*~*~This is A Day for Me *~*~*~*~*~By Ceejay Powell
This is a day for me.
Happy birthday to me! April 07 ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*a Very nice POem...
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Will mis you guys!!!
A Place for Me
name it and that's what I am feeling right now. It seems that the world is against me. I don't know when I am going to be ok, only God knows. Prayer is the one thing that is keeping me alive and strong. And I am clinging on HOPE right now and I hope it leads me to the right path. 
. I have been waiting for this for so long. I should have read the book again so I know what scenes were not included or edited but I had no time. The other day's entry :p
Back to work again! 
Forgot to update my space the other day so here goes:
11/15: After work, I went home immediately and had breakfast. I ate, noodles, black forest cake (yummy!!) and buko salad (one of my favorite desserts). That's too much for a breakfast LOL. Then my sister decided to watch "The perfect Man" starring Hilary Duff and Heather LockLear. Here's the Synopsis which I got from the Internet LOL:
Teenager Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) is tired of moving every time her single mom Jean (Heather Locklear) has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man--an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her shaky self-esteem.
When the virtual relationship takes off, Holly finds herself having to produce the suitor, borrowing her friend's charming and handsome Uncle Ben (Chris Noth) as the face behind the e-mails, notes and gifts. Holly must resort to increasingly desperate measures to keep the ruse alive and protect her mom's newfound happiness, almost missing the real perfect man when he does come along.
An Inspiring story
This story made me realize how lucky I am in spite of all the obstacles that my family went through. There were times when I was about to give up but HE, our almighty, was there and gave LIGHT to our path.
Thank you so much!
I know that trials will continue to come our way and I just have to face it with all my might.
Read on... It may change your views about LIFE
After a conversation with one of my friends, he told me despite taking 2 jobs, he brings back barely above 1K per month, but he is happy as he is. I wonder how he can be as happy as he is considering he has to skimp his life with the low pay to support a pair of old parents, in-laws, a wife, 2 daughters and the many bills of a household.
He explained that it was through one incident that he saw in India... that happened a few years ago when he was really feeling low and touring India after a major setback. He said that right in front of his very eyes, he saw an Indian mother chop off her child's right hand with a chopper. The helplessness in the mother's eyes, the scream of pain from the innocent 4-year-old child haunted him until today.
You may ask why did the mother do so; had the child been naughty, had the child's hand been infected?? No, it was done for two simple words - - - TO BEG! The desperate mother deliberately caused the child to be handicapped so that the child could go out to the streets to beg.
Taken aback by the scene, he dropped a piece of bread he was eating half-way. And almost instantly, a flock of 5 or 6 children swamped towards this small piece of bread which was covered with sand, robbing bits from one another. The natural reaction of hunger. Stricken by the happenings, he instructed his guide to drive him to the nearest bakery. He arrived at two bakeries and bought every single loaf of bread he found in the bakeries. The owner was dumbfounded but willingly sold everything. He spent less than $100 to obtain about 400 loaves of bread (this is less than 0.25 per loaf) and spent another $100 to get daily necessities.
Off he went in the truck full of bread into the streets. As he distributed the bread and necessities to the children (mostly handicapped) and a few adults, he received cheers and bows from these unfortunate. For the first time in his life he wondered how people can give up their dignity for a loaf of bread which cost less than $0.25.
He began to tell himself how fortunate he is. How fortunate he is to be able to have a complete body, have a job, have a family, have the chance to complain what food is nice and what isn't nice, have the chance to be clothed, have the many things that these people in front of him are deprived of...
Now I begin to think and feel it, too! Was my life really that bad?
Perhaps... no, I should not feel bad at all...
What about you? Maybe the next time you think you are, think about the child who lost one hand to beg on the streets.
Finally, I'm back!
I haven’t updated my space for quite a while because of work and it’s good to be back... That's the truth. So many tasks to do. What else? I just updated my Ipod Nano a.k.a. as “Cloud” last Sunday. Finally, I was able to upload most of the songs that I love, a total of 384 songs though there are still other songs I was not able to include because it’s already full! Wish it has a feature wherein you could add a memory card, hehehe!
I am now into beads making. I made a bracelet for myself but it didn’t fit right so I gave it to my mother! LOL! I'm excited to make another one but haven't got a different design though. Have to buy some next week. Nweyz, I am very thankful to my dear friend, Lestat coz she taught me how to make them. She has been a good influence, she has taught me a lot, and I will be thankful to her all my life. Very dramatic?! LOL
Later..
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