my spot

Check out my favorite spot when I'm at my cousin's internet cafe, Amigoas. When I'm working on something, I usually stay here.

the blinds.

the ceiling.

my stuff.

see? i'm working.

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i don't mean to brag but i want to inspire people and let them know that there is really money in blogging.

I'm so happy coz I had my paypal account verified today! Thanks to ate shie who let me use her visa card.

50 ways to annoy your parents

If you want your vacation more fun, do these things. *evil laugh I especially love # 17 and #38.

WARNING: DO THESE AT HOME. PARENTAL GUIDANCE is sometimes fun.

1. Follow them everywhere.

2. Moo when they say your name.

3. Pretend to have amnesia.

4. Say everything backwards.

5. Give yourself a swirly.

6. Run around with a lampshade on your head yelling, "The sun!!! It's dying!!!

7. Run into walls.

8. Sing at the top of your lungs while running around the house in your underwear. Or
naked for that matter.

9. Have nervous breakdowns at spontaneous times.

10. Say that wearing clothes is against your religion.

11. Pretend to worship the devil.

12. Stand over them at 4 in the morning with a HUGE grin on your face and yell, "Good
morning Sunshine!"

13. Snort loudly when you laugh and then laugh harder.

14. Run in circles.

15. Recite a whole movie 3 times.

16. Pretend to beat yourself up.

17. Pluck out someone's hair and yell, "DNA!!!"

18. Slither everywhere.

19. Wear a sticker that says, "I'm a retard!!!"

20. Wear you pants on your head and your shirt onyour waist...tell them you're making a fashion statement.

21. Try and drink out of a glass the wrong way.

22. Super glue your finger up your nose.

23. Talk to a pen.

24. Have 20 imaginary friends that you talk to ALL the time.

25. Lay face down and chant like an Indian tribe.

26. Try to climb up a wall.

27. Spread out on the window and buzz, pretending you're a fly.

28. Take your ice cream cone and put it on your head...say you're a lovely unicorn.

29. In public yell, "No Mom/Dad, I will not make out with you!!!" (this is gross though...ewww!)

30. Make weird animal noises at night, and when they come to see what's wrong, pretend like
you're asleep.

31. Do what they tell you to do.

32. Switch the light button on and off for a while. Then say, "Ooooh...I get it!!!"

33. Eat your hair.

34. Tell them whatever they're eating looks like a certain animal.

35. Eat anything obviously not edible. (try not to poison yourself.)

36. Jump off the roof, trying to fly. (try not to kill yourself.)

37. Say your pet is mocking you and chase it around the house.

38. Hold their hand and whisper to them, "I see dead people...)

39. When you shower or bathe yell, "I'm drowning!!!"

40. Try to snorkel in your fish tank. (or even better, in a fish tank at a fancy retaurant.)

41. Ask them quietly, "Pardon me, but do you have any..." then yell, "SHOELACES!!!"

42. Chase an imaginary tail.

43. Demand your own area code.

44. After everything they say yell, "LIAR!!!"

45. Pretend to be 326 years old.

46. Hang upside-down in your closet.

47. Pretend to be a phone.

48. Try to swim on the floor.

49. Tap on their door all night.

50. Pretend to have multiple personalities.

Found this on multiply. Thanks for this.

Light Fixtures

Hey guys! I’m back and I have good news for you. I found this amazing site that sells indoor and outdoor light fixtures. You can purchase lights that are trendy and very low in price. You’ve got thousands of them to choose from. The light fixtures that they offer are manufactured by world renowned light manufacturers such as Maxim, Metropolitan, Ambience and Sea Gull to name a few. You can check their amazing light fixtures from ceiling light fixtures to kitchen light fixtures by style, brand, finish and price range. What I really love about Farrey’s is their stylish chandeliers. You can choose from Casual, Contemporary, Natural, Tiffany, Traditional, Traditional Mini-Chandeliers, Chandeliers and Transitional Mini-Chandeliers. You can choose the best chandelier perfect for your home.

ate bambie saves the day

At the office:

One busy afternoon, sofia came to me and said “Ate, kelangan ko ng attire for the play tomorrow.” I replied “So?". She said “Sabi ni mama kaw daw bibili.” Before I could react, my phone rang. It was ate bing, sofia’s mom and my officemate. I totally forgot that she and sir jay, his husband was in Manila for sir jay’s visa processing. She asked if I could sneak out of the office to buy sofia’s attire. She said I was her last resort coz the kid badly needed the attire. I’m doomed! So as soon as I finished my task for the day, I grabbed sofia and rush to the nearest mall.

At the mall:

Gaisano South is the nearest mall from our office in marfori, so we were there after 5 minutes. It was 3pm so we still have 2 hours coz sofia’s carpool will arrive at 5pm. Then we rushed to 4^th floor to the kids section first. Our goal is to find a green pants and a green jacket with hood. She’s going to be the turtle for the play so she needs to appear all in green.

When we got there, we instantly found sofia’s perfect pants and it’s very cheap. Finding the green pants was effortless but finding the jacket was chaotic. We found a jacket but not a plain green. We also found plain green jacket but without hood. Sofia and I argued a lot along the shopping coz I want to give up and just pick one of those jackets but she insisted what her teacher told her. She keep repeating “Ate, dark green jacket with hood po ang sabi ni teacher.” My last resort was the ladies section. So we dashed down the third floor and look all over the place. Eventually, we found a light green jacket. But before that we argued once again coz earlier she keep on saying that her teacher asked for dark green jacket but now she said that its okay as long as it is green. Knowing sofia, she won’t stop ‘til she gets what she wants. As expected, she keeps on reasoning out. She told me that people won’t notice the difference but I can tell she really like the jacket not just for the sake of having an attire but more than that. Funny thing was she found another green jacket that I like. So we went to the fitting room to check it out. And she was like sales-talking me the jacket but I really find it too undersized for me. In the end, I bought the jacket for her and went home tired. It was 4:45 in the afternoon, just in time for her carpool.

With the experience, I realized that having a daughter or son is no easy thing. Especially at sofia’s age who already know and will argue what she wants to wear. I really thought that you can make every kid wear anything. It was stressful but at the same time enjoyable.

thinking out loud

I love taking pictures. It’s very obvious for those people I’m connected with in friendster and multiply. As of today, I have 313 photos in friendster and 13 albums (I lose count of the photos) in multiply and not to mention my rarely updated facebook, myspace accounts and pictures in my laptop.

I don’t only take narcissistic photos but also photos of sites and sceneries as long as it looks fascinating to me. Here comes the revelation. I took all my photos with my handphone (N6630). L Of course I’m happy with my photos but I’m not satisfied. For the record, my phone has 1.3 megapixels. With that, my photos aren’t that sharp or detailed. I’ve been to beautiful places but when I take pictures with my phone I always wish I have my own digital camera. To make the most of this wishful thinking, what I really want is a DSLR Camera and to be specific, an Olympus E-510. Here’s how it looks:What really amaze me about this cam are the features such as 10megapixels, dust control, a live view LCD screen and built-in image stabilization. There’s this filter in the cam that prevents dust contamination to your cam. Dust is actually those irritating dark spots in your photos. Live view LCD screen is actually nothing new to digital cams. After you take pictures you can view immediately the upshot. What I like most with this cam is the built-in image stabilization. Because sometimes I have shaky hands when taking pictures that I get really annoyed with the outcome. So this camera is really perfect for me. The last time I checked, this cam costs $585 which is really cheaper than its introductory price (of course). I hope before this year end, I’ll be able to buy this cam. This is so going to my 2008 wish list.

IMMEDIATE HIRING

The Philippine Eagle Foundation, a non-government organization dedicated to saving the endangered Philippine Eagle and its forest habitat needs YOU to help us spread the word about this unique, magnificient species!

Associate Communications Officer-Creative

Terms of reference:

• Functions as in-house designer and artist
• Primarily responsible for:

- Maintenance and development for the Foundation website

- Production, layout and design of Foundation publications including the quarterly newsletter, annual report, brochures and other publicity materials

- Management of Foundation information and communications resources (photos,videos, brochures)

• Assists the Communications Officer in the conduct of communications activities including:

- Conduct of Foundation events and exhibits

- Drafting of press releases

- Interaction (in coordination with the Communications Officer) with the Foundation’s donors and partners

- Delivery of information to Foundation staff

- Development of new materials (posters, brochures), programs or services that will improve or sustain the Foundation’s communications campaign

• Full-time position, based in Davao City

Qualifications:

• Artistic and creative, with sensibilities towards nature and the environment
• Knowledgeable in Corel and/or Adobe, Dreamweaver, Frontpage and Publisher and similar website management, photo editing and layout software suites.Knowledge in Flash is an advantage.
• Able to write and speak articulately, with excellent command of English and Filipino
• Excellent attitude; works well under pressure; a team player

Application letter,curriculum vitae, picture and folio of artistic or layout/publishing work may be emailed to sunbird2371@yahoo.com or send to:

Mr. Dennis I. Salvador

Executive Director

Philippine Eagle Foundation

Val Learning Village, Ruby St.

Marfori Heights, Davao City

writer's block

Kinda can relate to this...

Thanks!

I learn something today…

… NEVER leave your friendster account logged in. Especially if you access it in internet café’s.

Before my sister leave for Cagayan de oro, she passed by my cousin’s internet café to check her email, friendster or multiply account. When she arrived at my aunt’s house in Cagayan, she tried many times logging in her friendster account but she failed. So she started worrying. So she asked her bf to check her friendster profile. And presto! Flashing in her shoutbox is: "owned by punkskaPRINCESS88". Aside from this, her featured friends are all gone. Instead, the sole featured friend is punkskaPRINCESS88’s profile. After few minutes, this text flashes on screen in black background: owned by: punkskaPRINCESS88 http://www.friendster.com/punkskaprincess88. So my sister ym-ed me for help. The perpetrator really is the punkskaPRINCESS88. I checked her profile but it was suspended by friendster. So what really happened is that, my sister forgot to log out her account, someone use the same pc, changed the email and password of the said account so its like claiming it her own.

I am a friendster addict. I always check and maintain my account every day, twice or thrice. During my free time, I do some modifications on my profile like my personal info, put some applications, design my own background image and upload my latest photos. So it’s really a BIG deal for me if my account’s get stolen.

If you know who this punkskaPRINCESS88, please let me know. I want her to know that it’s very unethical for someone to steal someone else’s belonging.

New york fashion schools

When we say fashion the first thing that register to our minds are fabulous clothes and gorgeous models. But what really amazes me is the one who designed those fabulous clothes to be worn by those gorgeous models on runway. Fashion designers are famous, rich and being idolized. And most of them come from famous cities and popular fashion schools.

If you want to join the world of fashion designers, you better enroll to a prestigious fashion school. You can visit this website to check the best fashion school if you prefer fashion school in new york. The website will provide their recommended new york fashion schools for you to check. These fashion schools new york offers different courses pertaining to designing. These schools will enhance your skills in designing for you to get ready for the real world of fashion. Aside from this, the schools also teach you other skills like coordinating runway, merchandizing, sales, marketing and many more. These schools will really be a big factor in your chosen field which is designing. Featured new york fashion schools are Katharine Gibbs School, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Westwood College Online. Check their website to know more details about these fashion schools.