How I Started Blogging

I never knew that I can be attached to blogging as intensely as now. It just started as a try out when my friend introduced me to it. I started out in bravejournal which is a free hosted blog and that lead to another and another. I’ve tried blogspot and that encouraged me to move from free hosted blog to my own domain name. I was very excited to purchase a domain which carries my first name. It was a new experience for me as I would say my first name with a dotcom every time my friends ask me. Redirecting my blogs to its domain name was another thing as I’ve diligently followed my friend’s tutorial on redirecting blogs. JennyL was way ahead of me with owning her own domain and redirection so I have a willing tutor.

I was amazed at how fast time flies as I began blogging in 2007 and still actively updating my blogs especially three of my five blogs as they’re all hosted with two of the top ten web hosting companies we have. Why I know the top ten companies? I learned them from searching and from reading reviews. It’s very important to know the capabilities and features of web hosting company you’ll get because it will determine your blog’s capacity also. Anyway for those who want to get into the blogging world be sure you have the right knowledge before picking on the right web hosting company for your blog. And when you’re into it be patient with instructions and you’ll soon blog intensely like me.

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10 Things That Makes Me Feel Old

This week's theme are those things that make us feel old. Actually I'm not much of the type who think of my age all the time. I think being so busy with life deprived you of thinking too much, now I'm thankful that being busy has its own advantages :-) Anyway as I think about it here are my list (not so serious though)

1. Slow metabolism as I gain pounds so easily even if I'm super active.
2. My 12-year old eldest daughter suddenly looks like a young lady and she's almost my height now
   
3. Slight change in my vision, I'm nearsighted since college but even if I'm reading near objects I used to wear my nearsighted eyeglasses, now when I read small printed documents I have to remove my eyeglasses to read it perfectly.
4. My hair has never been dyed since birth because I used to have very black hair, now that I reached 41 years few gray hairs started showing in my hair. Well I should be thankful as it's only now that I experienced that.
5. More and more people call me 'Ate' which makes me feel that I'm older than them even if sometimes they look matured than me.
6. I'm acting like my Mom used to be when we were teens :-) I read somewhere that when you grow old you tend to be like your Mom.
   
7. I can walk 2 kms. in 20-25 minutes unlike before (around 10 years ago) that I can walk the same distance in 15-20 minutes! I used to join walkathon :-)
8. I'm more patient and understanding now and I think it goes with the age
9. Seeing officemates come and go and you're still left. Then they will all call and email and ask you if you're still with the company and you're the only person left in your batch.
10. Receiving certificate of length of service on company anniversaries and christmas parties and when your co-recipient is much much old, it really makes me feel old :-)
    

Happy Tuesday guys! See other participants here!

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Losing that Belly Fat Fast

I started having exercise again after several months of not including it in my schedule. Actually my activities of going to some places walking and household chores can also be taken as an exercise especially the walking which is very good for our health. It’s not a task for me as I’ve always love walking even when I’m still working full time. It stimulates my whole body to be more effective in doing activities and I feel very healthy. It also help those who are searching on how to lose belly fat fast which is very common to women who gave birth to many kids. I just noticed it with some of my friends and officemates who gave birth just like me. After giving birth sometimes it’s really hard to return to your previous form but if you maintain having healthy foods, exercise and a lot of discipline you’ll soon reach your goal.

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Feeling Dizzy!

My eldest got slight fever coupled with headache and dizziness yesterday that she felt like she will not have strength for schooling today. I told her to relax rest and eat healthy foods which I purposely bought for her easy recovery. When my kids are sick I ask them what they want to eat because I know that their taste buds reject most foods. I always buy fruits so they will feel fresh and revived. I limited her television viewing time to lessen the pressure on her eyes and told her not to open our computer so she will have more time to rest. It’s also her first time to drink paracetamol in tablet form as she always drink the syrup type. Anyway it lessened her headache and dizziness and she’ll be ok tomorrow when she

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Gifts for Newborn Babies!

My cousin’s daughter gave birth to a healthy and cute baby girl last night. We were so happy that even if there’s an advice from her first doctor that she might undergo caesarean operation her current doctor successfully helped her to have a normal delivery. The baby weighs 7 pounds and resembles her father so much. Actually they went home already right from the clinic to her husband’s home in Antipolo. After the storm that flooded their apartment they chose to stay somewhere else after giving birth, after all the granny there has excitedly waited for the little princess. Luckily they’ve saved their baby’s things including baby clothes, feeding bottles, sterilizer, Baby Bedding, crib and some accessories.

I’m fond of searching and shopping for baby’s accessories that’s why I found the Baby Bedding Palace a good shop to go to when you want to shop online for baby beddings especially now that they’re on sale. Imagine this pink floral brown nursery baby crib bedding 12 pc set costs only $59.98 now! By the way this set is already complete as it includes crib bumper, crib quilt, crib skirt, fitted sheet, decorative pillow, diaper stacker, toy organizer and window valences. They have different designs for boys and girls or you can chose unisex design if you want to be safe with gender. They’re made with 100% cotton and they’re all cute, best for cute little angels.

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Car Allowances for Account Executives

I’ve worked for a small telco company which offers affordable termination calls to corporate and DID to private individuals in US. I was in-charge of accounting and mainly of billing and collection. We deal with local and international clients and we hire marketing staff to offer our services. These staff will look for prospective clients locally and when they have signed an agreement they will start with demo and test period. They have a quota of closed accounts for the month so they do their best to look for clients.

These account executives or marketing assistants were given reimbursements for their travel costs. When they have their own personal cars they were given Car Allowance which they can used for official business or office transactions. It’s a lot of help for them as they really have many travels and trips everyday. There are some rules regarding how much and when to reimburse and they have to follow in order to get their allowances.

Well for me it’s just right to set rules on giving allowances such as this but it’s better to get the services of consultants like Corporate Reimbursement Services, Inc. to help in customizing programs for employees. The program should benefit both the employer and the employee. Of course rates will vary depending on the current gas prices, tax, actual business miles run for the period and some other conditions.

Since creating a good database reimbursement program for employees takes time CRS comes very helpful with their vehicle reimbursement system which helps the client in customizing vehicle reimbursements and saves a lot in the cost of purchasing and issuing a car for employees. Well let’s just leave those things to the experts!

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:Food Friday - Parmesan Pasta

Just craving for white sauce pasta this night as I remember our lunch in Outback Steakhouse where we ordered Parmesan Pasta together with other sumptous meal and drinks. This is their version of Parmesan pasta, Fettuccine noodles tossed in a creamy Parmesan cheese sauce. Up the flavor with the addition of grilled shrimp, scallops or chicken breast, or choose two. We choose grilled shrimp. And though I'm not much of shrimp I'd say it's perfectly good on his one. The sauce did the magic.

I'm rather late today and I'm not sure when to submit this as I'm only taking advantage of a 4-hour schedule rotation of Meralco for Metro Manila and nearby towns. After the storm now we're suffering from rotational brownouts, what a situation.

Happy Food Friday to all, see other yummy foods here!

Food-Friday

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An Edge Over Other IT Staff

For the past two years I’ve been writing up for my blogs which started as one and now it accumulated into many domain blogs. My passion for writing led me to open up more than one blog but it really didn’t occurred to me then that maintaining a blog seems just appropriate for me because somehow I can use some of my education skills here.

I’m an IT graduate several years back and my last work deals mainly with telecommunications and some other technical jobs. Due to my hectic schedule I wasn’t aware that the job also led me to update myself with my computer education and in the process of doing my job I was able to hone my skills pertaining to some hardware and software requirements of being a staff of telecommunications company. I was handling call termination and directly responsible with carrier settlements of termination minutes consumed by clients.

Suddenly my education played a great relevance to my job tasks especially in understanding the flow of works in technical department. We’re handling VoIP and if you don’t have education on IT and other related courses you’ll be lost. That made me thankful for my bachelor’s degree that even if I haven’t landed a high IT position job I was able to use some of my knowledge in doing my job.

Since I handle bidding also I had the first hand information that multi national companies here in the Philippines offering bids for companies requires IT personnel to have certifications of specific fields they want to be employed with. Our company experienced looking for certified personnel to be our key staff but we failed to get as many certified staff as we need. If only many IT graduates would enroll in one of those Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) training camps being offered by cbt planet we would have more qualified personnel then.

Anyway for those interested you can be assured that your skills will be enhanced and you’ll learn expertise on the field you chose to get certification from if you enroll now. Now that CBT planet announced its inclusion of MCITP training in their various distance learning and onsite training you can have certification on any IT course you want. You’re sure to get quality training with professional instructors to teach you the skills and knowledge you need to get that certification you long for and in the process you’ll have an edge over some other IT staff.

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Browout Rotation

Sis called me from her office and informed me of the power interruption schedule which would last until Monday. We were monitoring power because we need our cable fixes and if the cable’s technician arrived at the wrong time he wouldn’t be able to fix it if there’s no power. It’s a little disturbing on our part as we have just enjoying electricity after almost a week’s brownout. I’ve been running after connection and power ever since the storm stopped. After the fire in Taytay Rizal’s (next town to us) power plant electricity was on and off that’s why people and even companies are complaining now.

So now we’ll have 4 hours rotational brownout in Pasig, Eastern Rizal and some other parts of Metro Manila. That’s not enough to finish all my online tasks and some household works that need power but it’s fair enough as long as they follow their schedule.

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MCITP Boot Camps now in CBT Planet

With the fast upgrading of computers, hardware and software you’ll have to update yourself of these recent changes in order to keep track of the latest technology. It’s a field where changes happened overnight. There’s just too much to upgrade on mobile technology, computers, software’s, gadgets and even on IT education. I’m a graduate of computer engineering way back several years ago and I can say I had a hard time keeping up with the times as my job was in different field. Even if I was doing work other than IT I still want to be updated in respect for my education. At least partial update would be nice as I can use it also on my online job.

Now it’s not enough that you’ve taken a course on Information Technology or a graduate of bachelor’s degree on computer education because when you apply for work on IT-related jobs some positions require you to be a certified individual. And what do I mean with certified? Well you have to be a Microsoft Certified IT Professional on specific technology and job like that of MCITP enterprise administrator, server administrator, enterprise messaging administrator and many other IT positions depending on what the job requires you. It certifies the individual through training that the holder has the proper skills and expertise to handle the IT job he’s going to work at.

Now cbt planet, an IT training provider included MCITP boot camps in its courses offered for 2010. They have integrated it with their various onsite training and distance learning courses. What’s even more exciting is their slight changes in the MCITP training, they will be compressing the period of training decreasing the usual period which lasted for months to a much shorter period like in a week’s time. Everyone now can have a chance to have certification in a more convenient duration.

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