Ooops!

What I've been doing lately?

The highlights of this week activity is that I have to tender my resignation to the Knights. It's hard for me to leave the company (my boss & my office mates) because they were all nice to me. I never experienced any bad experience working with them. Mind you, this is my first job here in the US of A. The job is not as toxic as running a Human Resource Department or heading a team for the candidacy of those Senatorial and Presidential candidates, or be a Committee Head for ISO certification of an organization when I was still in the Philippines... It's less complicated and stressful. I never experienced any discrimination in the workplace. They always give me credit... of which in my mind "napaka-simple lang naman ng trabaho". Maybe, one of their nature (Americans) is for being vocal and appreciative. No boss that will bug you on your sleep to get those and that, or no boss that will bother you while your enjoying your poop just to ask what's going on with these and that.

I miss HR. I miss working with my dedicated staff, Lorlie, Nhory, Thess, Melody, Fatima, Corrine and Michelle. I also miss the nerve wrecking voice of our VP Miss Godornes... Lorlie took over my place. I still have contact with them, as Lorlie tend to ask me labor issues. In a way, I am still part of the organization eventhough legally speaking, ties was already severed.

By the way, you may ask why all of sudden my post is pointing at my past acquaintaces? I also don't know. I don't usually plan what I'l be posting about. Maybe because this has to do something with the Christmas Season fever. Yeaaaaaaaaaah! Tonight is our Company Christmas Party. Almost 200 employees signed-in that they will attend the party, including me. I shop at Macy's Bridgewater Commons for my dress tonight, but guess where I am right now? The party starts at 7PM (as per the memo circulated)... But here I am, right in front of my laptop busy keying up - unplanned! I am supposed to attend the party, but I fall asleep and just woke-up and now don't feel like going. I don't know, I am not really excited to go. I just started working with this company last November 17 and basically, I do not feel (yet) the urge of belongingness. I am still on the stage of "getting-to-know" the people within the organization. Although, this x-mas party is a good avenue to socialize and get acquainted with my new environment, but I just don't feel like going. I don't have escort anyway, because Tom just had his dental implant (yes, 4 dental implants and a bone graph and sinus lift, and mine 3 dental implants, I don't wanna count how much it cost us to fix our dental needs...ugh....) done the other day and technically speaking he's not yet okay...

So instead of going, I am here as all the thoughts about Christmas Party fever floods in my memory. I used to head the planning committee of x-mas parties in my previous employ (Philippines). I was also involved in this "kawang-gawa" or outreach program to selected families in my province. We used to handout a pack of "noche-buena" to them. We feed street-children, gifts or "aguinaldo" to underprivilidge families and to our dear oldies.

I may not have what I have right now in the past, but everything, all that I have been through are worth remembering. I hope I would be able to write about it and share it with people who would have the time to read it.

Till the next episode...

Okay, to CUT the POST short --------- here I am PARTYING with my BLOG, instead of going to the xmas party TONIGHT!!!

Fresh from the Oven

To satisfy Warshocks's fantasy of how the gooble gooble looks like once cook, so here it is, fresh from the oven....




We're supposed to spend the Thanksgiving day with Theresa & JP, and other friends (Stine, Bits etc.) in Bergen County, however, Tom & I decided to fill-in the house with a cooking aroma coming from the kitchen.



It was just a simple dinner for two. Main dish were the Turkey filled with stuffing plus Cranberry, 4lb King Crab Claw bought from Costco, mashed potato, my own version of rice ala kamatis and Apple Pie, some veggies, then red wine and punch.





After dinner, had movie marathon c/o The Red Box. By the way, the movie marathon would not be complete without popcorn and Chestnuts...

So, belated happy gooble gooble....

Happy Thanksgivin to all!!!

It's turkey time, and we're now busy in the kitchen prepping for our dinner tonight. We bought a medium size of Turkey at Wegman's and its now being thawed on the sink. Tom is my Chef today, and I'm with him to prepare the stuffing such as chopping or cutting the celery, onions, garlic, and mushroom.

I will complete my post later........ I just wanna say hi and happy Thanksgiving day to all of you, my blog friends, followers and chatters....

Thanks God it's Saturday!

Yes, thanks God it's Saturday! Thankful because I don't have to worry getting-up at 7 in the morning and hit the shower while I'm still half asleep. Winter is coming, so the weather last night dropped to 22F. When it's cold, I'd prefer to cuddle and hide underneath the blanket...

Had an eye appointment at 9:30AM, so we're up at 8. We went to Sears Optical and looked for frames. The Rayban looks okay, but Sears Optical doesn't carry the brand of glass that we want. We prefer crizal. Then from Sears we also looked for frames at Lens Crafters. I picked the Burberry frame. But then again, Lens Crafters doesn't carry Crizal Varilux Progressive Lenses. The eyeglass we're shopping is for Tom. I was just his "alalay (sidekick)" today. So the whole day was consumed looking for a "frame" and finally, we're left between the Burberry and Rayban frames.

By the way, here is my eyeglass. Bought it last July. It's Rayban, but I don't really care for the brand of the frame, as long as the glass is made of Crizal and yong bagay sa ilong kong pango, and one na hindi malalaglag (hahaha). Anyway, I have contacts to back me up. On your next eye glass purchase, be conscious of what kind of glass or lens your getting. Do not focus more on the frame. Without you knowing it, you might get a plastic or a lesser quality of glass/lens.

By the way, this is not a paid advertisement of Crizal. And since its Saturday, I'm free to blog and blog around. So, Thanks God it's Saturday!!!

How to set up wireless printer sharing?

I'm in the office right now and technically, I mess up the wireless setting of the PC (desktop) versus the laptop.

I already did my assignment of googling (searching on google) on how to set up wireless file and printer sharing, but what i found is for Windows XP. Okay, here's teh catch, my desktop PC uses Vista. This desktop (vista) is plugged to an HP printer, of which I know is capable for wireless setting (as it normally works before in our former office)... The laptop, of which I wanted to connect wirelessly to the printer is an XP.

So what should I do now? We don't have an IT here.... and I don't wanna waste time on the phone with our IT in the head office to settle this mess.

I hope, you guys can help me.

Thanks a lot...

Intruding Someone's Privacy

I took this picture while enjoying an afternoon walk at Rizal Beach in Sorsogon. In my home country, this scene is normal. This has been part of our daily life. We saw these dogs once in a while, whenever their biological needs arise. I don't want to invade their privacy, but I can't help it not to take a closer picture of the couple. I said "hi doggie, can I take a picture of you?" Of course, neither one of them say "yes, that's fine." As I get closer to them, the couple looked at my direction. The male dog seem not comfortable me standing in front of them. But the female dog looked proud of what their doing. That gesture, I presumed is a sign that capturing their moments together is okay. They want me to take picture! lol One shot, then am done, and gone. Leaving them the serenity and romance of that cozy afternoon beach along the shore of Rizal Beach in Sorsogon, Philippines.

Like human, animals have also their biological needs. That is also their way to procreate more cute little pups. This is their natural way of conception. I have no idea if doggie's can have assisted conception, or sort of In-Vitro fertilization.

To you buddy (dog couple), if your following my blog, this post is for you.



How babies, err puppies are made??? The photo above is the answer!

Thanks to Princess Sutil

Joroan, Tiwi, Albay, Philippines


Did you notice some changes in my blog settings and design? I wouldn't be able to do this without the help of Avee aka Princess Sutil. The word "help" doesn't really fit, because I didn't help her at all! I 'email' her the photo, told her to change the font and font size, and she took care of everything.

By the way, I took that photo during my last trip in the Philippines. Dear readers and intruders, please don't steal any of the photo's I posted otherwise...

Once again, thank you so much kapatid, till the next 'episode' of editing and revising...

BUSY DAY

What a toxic day!

Have to get-up at 6AM because Tom have to catch the train bound to NY as early as possible. Then have to report to work which is 27 miles away from my residence, via I-78. There is a shorter way to get to the office, but I want to avoid the heavy flow of traffic in Highway 22. (Employer 1)

I left the office at around 12:30PM for a job interview (Employer 2). I don't wanna be late, and I have to drive another 20 miles. The interview went smoothly. It was more of an orientation rather than a regular job interview. Luckily, I was accepted as a full time employee......I was only looking for a part time job. What will gonna happened now to the other job that I accepted last week?!! And my schooling too... I just wanna do something while waiting for the result of the bar exam, and while waiting for the clinical rotation (if, I wouldn't make it in the bar). You know, I need something to do in order to keep me busy... I hate counting the days, the ticking of the clock.... and the welcoming of 2009. Why? Because of "April" or "May". To cut the story short - I just accepted a full time job - for the first time, in my 2 years existence in the United States.

Going back to how busy I am today, well, at around 4PM I got a call from our medical doctor that my medical papers (medical requirements) are now ready for pick-up. So, I rushed to the medical center and picked-up my papers. I was on a hurry, I didn't even bother to check what's inside the packet, then drove to Employer 3 (another employer who just made a job offer a week ago), my navigator hang-up - have to reset it, and while doing so, I didn't even noticed that I'm hitting the red light and Oh My! I almost hit the school bus crossing the intersection . . . . Thanks God no surveillance, and no Police around...

To cut the story short, I handed over my medical packet to the HR and bingo, the X-ray report was missing! I called the Doctors office and asked them to fax a copy to the HR, otherwise, I would not be able to start on Monday. And here I am now, have to read and fill-up this thick employees file, and tomorrow have to undergo Drug test.

So that was it...

Help Needed - Domain Not Working

On November 6, 2008 I paid $10 for www.bicolnet.com through google blogger. Avee and Elba warned me already to get one from GoDaddy, but still I bought it through and/or within the settings of my blog - the blogger google (tigas kasi ng ulo eh). All the while I thought it would be easier for me to easily redirect my blog to the new domain as what google blogger promised.

Since Google Blogger Domain is powered by GoDaddy, I called customer service of GoDaddy for several times, but I was turned down. Telling me to contact Google/Blogger directly. GoDaddy Customer Service gave me the email add of Google Apps. What a disaster. I've been jumbling around calling this and that number, posting queries, sending emails... and all they'll give you is a link to set-up DNS, CNAME etc. I go gaga, despite the fact that they are supposed to set-up everything (configuration). I maybe wrong, but that's what I understood when I made the purchase !

As you can see, my blog is still under the free blogspot.com I tried publishing it through the settings of this blog, and still to no avail.

Any help from you guys, is highly appreciated.

Thank you.

Transition

Thanks to Avee for giving me this link http://freeskins.blogspot.com/, I was able to get a lay out with 3 columns. For a non-techie like me, I've gone crazy reading and understanding the instruction though for some of you here it’s not biggy at all.

Now that I have new lay-out, I lost some of the widgets (widgets? well, a blog lingo)... So, those who are already on my blog links, please bear with me as I am trying to upgrade my site. I will definitely add your links back. As you can see, I am still waiting for google, for my domain www.bicolnet.com operational.

Google said:

"Your blog is in transition

Your blog's new address is http://www.bicolnet.com/. Since it takes time for this new address to be available all over the Internet, you can still get to it at http://barex.blogspot.com.

Your new address should work for everyone after at most 3 days. At that time we will redirect your readers from your old address to the new one."

Today is the 3rd day, so I believe, it will be up on the 4th day onward.

www.BicolNet.com

I just bought a domain and I registered www.BicolNet.com

You may wonder why Bicol? Or, maybe some of you didn't know what BICOL means? Bicol Region or the Region V is one of the 17 regions in the Philippines. It occupies the Bicol Peninsula at the South Eastern part of Luzon island. Bicol Region is composed of six provinces, Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes, Masbate, and Sorsogon.

Albay is my home province, and we're known for the majestic, perfect cone, and active Mayon Volcano I picked BicolNet, simply because I am a pure breed Bikolana...

To my regular co-bloggers, please don't get confused if soon you'll be redirected from http://barex.blogspot.com to www.bicolnet.com

Keep blogging...

Unlimited Earning - Fun & Earn while BLOGGING

A year ago, a friend introduced me how to earn some $$$ out from blogging. Since I don't have the passion in writing and the patience in reading and learning all the mechanics involve in creating my own web or blog page so I just ended up opening a blog and wasn't able to update and maintain it.

Her name is Avee. She now runs several blogs online and she's now earning a thousand $$$ out from writing. And another online friend ('coz we haven't met in person yet) encouraged me to sign-up in Pay Per Post to make use, or shall I say to convert the time I spent online into a $$$.

I'm not sure if my PPP application has been approved, but since I can now get these Codes so i guess I am already approved!!!

So now, I am inviting everyone, a newbie like me, to explore the world of unlimited income... Let's make use of our internet connection and join the fun of blogging.

Ohio voted Obama

I've been following up the progress of today's election, and tonight, Ohio will mark Obama's win as the next President of the United States.

As Obama lead McCain by 7 points, Ohio was considered a must win for McCain. However, it seems like the latter is on the losing end.

A new President will be named before midnight...

Make History Tomorrow

My Friend,

From the time I entered the Naval Academy at age seventeen I have been privileged and honored to serve my country.

Throughout my years of service, I've been faced with challenges where I could have taken the easy way out and given up. But I'm an American and I never give up. Instead, I choose to show courage and stand up and fight for the country I love. Today, I am asking you to stand with me and to fight for our country's future.

Our country faces enormous challenges and our next president must be ready to lead on day one. My lifetime of experience has prepared me to lead our great nation. I'm prepared to bring solutions to our economic challenges, bring our troops home in victory and improve our nation's healthcare system.

Time and time again, my country has saved my life and I owe her more than she has ever owed me. I have chosen to show my gratitude through a life of service to our country and tomorrow, you will have a choice before you.

I humbly ask you to make the choice that will allow me to serve my country a little while longer by casting your vote to elect me as your next President of the United States.

Finally, I ask that you never forget that much has been sacrificed to protect our right to vote. We must never forget those Americans who, with their courage, with their sacrifice, and with their lives, have protected our freedom. It is my great hope that you will exercise your right to vote as an American tomorrow.

I thank you for your kind support, your dedication to our cause, and most importantly I thank you for your vote.

With sincere appreciation,


John McCain

(email received from John McCain)

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Deal

2 years ago, a US Consul asked me "Catholic?" and I said "yes" and a follow-up question "by act or just by the name?" - bingo! I refused to answer . . . I just smiled back at him.

a month ago, i made a deal, some sort of personal discipline - that I am going to comply my Sunday obligation to Him. Why? Tons of 'because' but I don't wanna elaborate things. He knows what it is, even if I don't say a word. Prayer mode? it's more of a personal approach... not patterned to the lengthy prayer found in any booklet.

it's Sunday, got to go now... and pray for World Peace and Economic Stability ... (kuno)

October Snow

It's so nice to wake up in the morning with pouring snow on the ground. Watch the video here...


and my snow-covered car....

Wall Street Jumps

The market closes at 10.88% today, with the Dow Jones hit nearly 900 points. I've been keeping an eye to the stock market for a while and this is one of the best day of Wall Street for the last 2 weeks. European and Asian Market closes with a "green" color, which indicates a favorable effect to our portfolio. I wish, it will continue to soar at least 10% everyday for the next 2 weeks in order for us to recover some of our $$$...

Song's I love....

1. CHANGE OF HEART by Olivia Newton & Jim Brickman
2. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS by Journey, Arnel Pineda
3. NEVER ALONE by Jim Brickman & Hillary Scott (this is for you Manny & to my Mamay & Tatay)
4. FAITHFULLY by Journey, Steve Perry
5. THE GIFT by Jim Brickman &
6. LOVE of My LIFE ........ (ahhhhhhh)



bukas naman....

Dancing with the Stars

I am not sure if this is violative to blogspot rules, but I just wanna share this pic that I just received from the mail (email) tonight.

Wake Up America!!!

Eleven days to go and American's will finally cast their votes of who will be the next President of (they say) the world leader, United States of America ... err as some Youtubers calls it "United Islamic States of America" if Obama will win. This should not be a fight of black and white, of race, of culture and color. American's should make a WISE decision. I am more into the economic side as as the Walstreet goes down as high as 300points again yesterday, we're losing a huge amount of money out of our portfolio.

I was reading todays issue of The USA Today while having coffee with Tom at the nearby Dunkin Donuts and the ad paid for by Marry Taylor, Chairman/CEO of Titan International Inc. The one full page ad calling American's to wake up caught my attention, and thinking that this will not going to harm me if I share this ad to other people who frequent my site. (hope am not violating Adsense policy....lol)

A stunning opening question, "Do you like high gas price?" - - - Of course not! Who wants to pay gas as high as $3.99/gal in my area in Central Jersey?

Then the next question says "Do you like falling home prices?" - - - No, No, No, No! We have a townhouse and we have to sell it the price I want, and I hate to see the appraised value of our residential house falls down.

Then "Do you like the economy in the tank?" - - - - Absolutely Not! We're not rich, but the current market is eating our resources.

The point the advertiser wanted to convey to the public is that people blamed this all to President Bush saying, as the ad goes:

"Yes, you have heard all these problems and more blamed on President Bush. Well, he will be out of office in a few months, and you know, he couldn't have done it all alone. If American voters don't think and vote with a brain, we'll only see it get worse.

There are good Republicans and good Democrats, but the facts are that the Democrats in charge are real losers. Here's the facts: the Democrats are against drilling for oil, nuclear power, and you name it they don't want to upset the environmentalists. We elected these men and women, so if you want CHANGE, vote them OUT.

You see, Congress leaders are those with seniority. Representative Conyers, who is from Detroit, has been in Congress for 40 years. THINK: Democrats have run Detroit for more than 40 years. Get the point, folk! Do you like the shaft the politicians are giving you?

They spend millions of dollars to collect a $170,000 job. We should only pay them $100 per year - that's all they worth. Some points for all of you who worry about global warming and carbon emissions:

1. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and has cooled so the crust of the Earth is between 15-25 miles thick. Our Earth is 8,000 miles in diameter. The earth gets its warmth from the Sun but is slowly cooling.

2, You are traveling at 1,000 miles per hour as the Earth spins on its axis, and 67,000 miles per hour around the Sun. The moon spins around the Earth and creates the tides. This, folks, is what makes our weather. Man really doesn't mean much to Mother Earth.

It is also believed that the earth rotates its North and South Poles every 500,000 years. But don't worry about that, you won't be around then. If you live 80 years, you're a .000000006 of a factor.

Whoever you vote for, they should support drilling for oil, gas, clean coal, nuclear everything, and Congress should pass laws exempting all regulations that would delay these programs.

Think of the one million jobs that would be created."

And on the right column of this one page ad, photo's of the following Congressmen we're presented, saying "These people have run the Congress for two years and they blew it."

1. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House - Democrats
2. John Conyers Jr., Judiciary Chair - Democrats
3. John Dingell, Energy and Commerce Chair - Democrats
4. Barney Franks, Financial Services Chair - Democrats
5. Charles Rangel, Ways and Means Chair - Democrats
(poor Charles can't even pay his taxes--he didn't think he should pay--now he's in charge of policy)
6. Henry Waxman, Oversight and Gov't Reform Chair - Democrats
7. Harry Reid, Majority Senate Leader - Democrats
8. JOE BIDEN, Foreign Relations Chair - Democrats
9. Jeff Bingaman, Energy and Natural Resources Chair - Democrats
10. Chris Dodd, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chair - Democrats
11. Patrick Leahy, Judiciary Chair - Democrats
12. Carl Levin, Armed Services Chair - Democrats

Then a photo inset of Barack Obama with a caption "If you believe this group is for CHANGE, you really should believe in the Tooth Fairy", and inset photo's of Obama's Advisors:

"1. Bob Rubin, Citigroup Board, Former US Treasury Secretary earning $100Million+++ salary from Citigroup 2. Franklin raines, Former CEO of Fannie Mae, earning $90Million as Chairman/CEO Freddie/Fannie 3. James A. Johnson, former CEO Fannie Mae, earning $50Million as President Freddie/Fannie 4. Chris Dodd, Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Chair, highest recipients from the Freddie/Fannie fallout 5. Barney Franks, Financial Services Chair, used donations from lobbyists to push banks to lend money to those who couldn't pay."

This one page full length paid ad sum up, to call American's why do we really need CHANGE in the Whitehouse.

Whoever you'll be voting for on November 4th, make sure that you exercise your civil right to vote is not just based on race, skin color, culture and the political hype and heat that is going on. I have high hopes and respect that politicians in this country is far far away better than the politicians in my home country (no comparison at all). American's and immigrants like me love America. I know, you will not hand over the America to wolf posing on a sheep coat.

Obama or MacCain, Biden or Sarah Palin - it's your choice!

Goodluck America.