I already figured out what’s the problem! The soil itself is infected with a pest! I remember that I placed a cloth in every pot and box to prevent soil erosion. However, according to what I’ve read, cloth in contact with soil increases the moisture driven pest attack.
Therefore, I will dry-up all the pots and box so the pests in it will automatically die too. I prematurely harvested the previous batch of Pechays.
I learned that it is better to record and post calendar to remind of the exact age of the plants. This can be as simple as paper and pencil clipped in stick and erected near them.
Now I’m more excited to learn new discoveries with the fourth batch of Pechay planting experiment. I have already prepared the replacement seeds, they are now four days old!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Got my Flu Vaccine against N1H1
My arm is still aching a bit. I had my flu shot against N1H1 yesterday for free. The free vaccine shot is part of the precautionary measures of our company aside from alcohol, LYSOL, alcogel and other supplies pouring all over. The flu shots will be also for free for all our students.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Protection by screen…
I have been planting Pechay and have grown them healthy for a month then suddenly I scraped out the whole plant. Then the cycle keeps on repeating. This is because the leaves were attacked and eaten by the “unknown”. Until now, I really don’t know what insects were eating my Pechays’ leaves. Is it the worm, rat or bird?
Since I still can’t figure out because I didn’t catch them in the act, I bought a wire screen. The screen serves two purposes, protection against the “unknown” and strong direct sunlight. I think my Pechays are happy now :).
Since I still can’t figure out because I didn’t catch them in the act, I bought a wire screen. The screen serves two purposes, protection against the “unknown” and strong direct sunlight. I think my Pechays are happy now :).
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Urban gardening on the side again….
The rain poured the whole day. Raindrops signaled by brain to sleep all day. However, my green thumb said “It’s a great day for gardening!”. Therefore, it’s a gardening day once again.
I cultivated and gave my 2 months old Pechays a breath. Then, I cut and propagated my Basils. Basil is one of the medical plants for Hydrosis.
I really can imagine myself doing gardening as one of my healthy hobbies when I become a retiree.
I have finished two books today. Yay! What a day!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
BE AN OPTIMALIST
The Primer for Pessimists suggests to be an “optimalist” instead of optimist.
The OPTIMIST believes everything happen for the best while the OPTIMALIST makes the best of things that happen. This article still revolves around the power of positive thinking and serves as a guide especially in our current recession crisis, be it in corporate or personal levels.
The topic is an inspiration for performing and gaining companies even in tough times like ours :).
But still, one should not make the current recession as an easy excuse for things we should be doing.
Below is the complete full article.
A Primer for Pessimists
Obesity and smoking may be the most conspicuous causes of illness in this country, but physical factors don't account for everything. Your psychology--namely, your personality and outlook on life--can be just as important to your well-being as exercising and eating right. And especially these days, with the world's economy tumbling toward a depression, it's a good time to prevent yourself from slipping into one too.
An entire science has grown up around the perils of negative thinking (as well as the power of positive psychology), and the latest findings confirm that a pessimistic outlook not only kindles anxiety, which can put people at risk for chronic mental illnesses like depression, but may also cause early death and set people up for a number of physical ailments, ranging from the common cold to heart disease and immune disorders.
Optimism, meanwhile, is associated with a happier and longer life. Over the course of a recent eight-year study, University of Pittsburgh researchers found that optimistic women outlived dour ones. Which may be good news for the motivational gurus out there, but what about the rest of us who aren't always so chipper? Are we destined for sickness and failure? Or is it possible to master the principles of positivity the same way we might learn a new hobby or follow a recipe?
The answer from the experts seems to be yes. But it does take effort. Seeing the sunny side doesn't come easily.
Be an "Optimalist"
Most people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of deluded cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor who taught the university's most popular course, Positive Psychology, from 2002 to 2008. "It certainly doesn't mean being Pollyannaish and thinking everything is great and wonderful."
Ben-Shahar, who is the author of Happier (2007) and a new book, The Pursuit of Perfect (April 2009), describes realistic optimists as "optimalists"--not those who believe everything happens for the best, but those who make the best of things that happen.
In his own life, Ben-Shahar uses three optimalist exercises, which he calls PRP. When he feels down--say, after giving a bad lecture--he grants himself permission (P) to be human. He reminds himself that not every lecture can be a Nobel winner; some will be less effective than others. Next is reconstruction (R). He parses the weak lecture, learning lessons for the future about what works and what doesn't. Finally, there's perspective (P), which involves acknowledging that in the grand scheme of life, one lecture really doesn't matter.
Studies suggest that people who are able to focus on the positive fallout from a negative event--basically, cope with failure--can protect themselves from the physical toll of stress and anxiety. In a recent study at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), scientists asked a group of women to give a speech in front of a stone-faced audience of strangers. On the first day, all the participants said they felt threatened, and they showed spikes in cortisol and fear hormones. On subsequent days, however, those women who had reported rebounding from a major life crisis in the past no longer felt the same subjective threat over speaking in public--and did not show a jump in cortisol. They had learned that this negative event, too, would pass and they would survive. "It's a back door to the same positive state because people are able to tolerate and accept the negative," says Elissa Epel, one of the psychologists involved in the study.
Accept Pain and Sadness
Being optimistic doesn't mean shutting out sad or painful emotions. As a clinical psychologist, Martin Seligman, who runs the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, says he used to feel proud whenever he helped depressed patients rid themselves of sadness, anxiety or anger. "I thought I would get a happy person," he says. "But I never did. What I got was an empty person." That's what prompted him to launch the field of positive psychology, with a groundbreaking address to the American Psychological Association in 1998. Instead of focusing only on righting wrongs and lifting misery, he argued, psychologists need to help patients foster good mental health through constructive skills, like Ben-Shahar's PRP. The idea is to teach patients to strengthen their strengths rather than simply improve their weaknesses. "It's not enough to clear away the weeds and underbrush," Seligman says. "If you want roses, you have to plant a rose."
When a loved one dies or you lose your job, for example, it's normal and healthy to mourn. You're supposed to feel sad and even depressed. But you can't cocoon yourself in sadness for too long. A study by UCSF researchers of HIV-positive men whose partners had died found that the men who allowed themselves to grieve while also seeking to accept the death were better able to bounce back from the tragedy. Men who focused only on the loss as opposed to, say, viewing the death as a relief of their partner's suffering, tended to grieve longer, presumably because they couldn't find a way out of their sadness.
Smile in Your Profile Picture
If all else fails, try "catching" happiness from your friends. We are social beings, of course, and our outlook is influenced to no small degree by that of our friends and family. Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a professor at Harvard Medical School, documented in a 2008 study just how extensive and powerful this network effect is. Compared with glum people, those who were happy were more likely to be surrounded by other happy people--even the friends of happy people's friends' friends (who might be complete strangers) tended to be happy.
Christakis and his colleague James Fowler at the University of California, San Diego, are now studying happiness contagion in perhaps the largest social network of all, Facebook. They noticed that people who smiled in their Facebook profile pictures tended to have other friends who smiled. This might simply be peer pressure at work, with members feeling obliged to flash a smile to fit in with the rest of the group, but Christakis and Fowler are investigating whether there isn't a more infectious phenomenon at work.
If you still aren't convinced that your doomsaying ways can ever be changed, consider this: only about 25% of a person's optimism may be hardwired in his genes, according to some studies. That's in contrast to the 40% to 60% heritability of most other personality traits, like agreeableness and conscientiousness. Science suggests that the greater part of an optimistic outlook can be acquired with the right instruction--a theory borne out in a study of college freshmen by Seligman. Pessimistic students who took a 12-week optimism-training course devised by Seligman--which included exercises like writing a letter of gratitude then reading it aloud to someone--were less likely to visit the student health center for illnesses during the next four years than their similarly pessimistic peers who weren't tutored in positive thinking. And a larger study of more than 3,000 middle-school students who are being taught resilience techniques is under way in England. "It's the largest-scale validation that optimism can be taught," says Seligman, who developed the techniques used in the study.
The thing about being optimistic, though, is that it takes hard work--and that's a drag. It's an active process, say psychologists, through which you force yourself to see your life a certain way. Indeed, the leading optimism and happiness experts consider themselves born pessimists. But if they have learned over time and with lots of practice to become more hopeful, take heart. So can you.
By Alice Park Thursday, Mar. 26, 2009
(Wellness Section in Time Magazine)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1887872-1,00.html
The OPTIMIST believes everything happen for the best while the OPTIMALIST makes the best of things that happen. This article still revolves around the power of positive thinking and serves as a guide especially in our current recession crisis, be it in corporate or personal levels.
The topic is an inspiration for performing and gaining companies even in tough times like ours :).
But still, one should not make the current recession as an easy excuse for things we should be doing.
Below is the complete full article.
A Primer for Pessimists
Obesity and smoking may be the most conspicuous causes of illness in this country, but physical factors don't account for everything. Your psychology--namely, your personality and outlook on life--can be just as important to your well-being as exercising and eating right. And especially these days, with the world's economy tumbling toward a depression, it's a good time to prevent yourself from slipping into one too.
An entire science has grown up around the perils of negative thinking (as well as the power of positive psychology), and the latest findings confirm that a pessimistic outlook not only kindles anxiety, which can put people at risk for chronic mental illnesses like depression, but may also cause early death and set people up for a number of physical ailments, ranging from the common cold to heart disease and immune disorders.
Optimism, meanwhile, is associated with a happier and longer life. Over the course of a recent eight-year study, University of Pittsburgh researchers found that optimistic women outlived dour ones. Which may be good news for the motivational gurus out there, but what about the rest of us who aren't always so chipper? Are we destined for sickness and failure? Or is it possible to master the principles of positivity the same way we might learn a new hobby or follow a recipe?
The answer from the experts seems to be yes. But it does take effort. Seeing the sunny side doesn't come easily.
Be an "Optimalist"
Most people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of deluded cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor who taught the university's most popular course, Positive Psychology, from 2002 to 2008. "It certainly doesn't mean being Pollyannaish and thinking everything is great and wonderful."
Ben-Shahar, who is the author of Happier (2007) and a new book, The Pursuit of Perfect (April 2009), describes realistic optimists as "optimalists"--not those who believe everything happens for the best, but those who make the best of things that happen.
In his own life, Ben-Shahar uses three optimalist exercises, which he calls PRP. When he feels down--say, after giving a bad lecture--he grants himself permission (P) to be human. He reminds himself that not every lecture can be a Nobel winner; some will be less effective than others. Next is reconstruction (R). He parses the weak lecture, learning lessons for the future about what works and what doesn't. Finally, there's perspective (P), which involves acknowledging that in the grand scheme of life, one lecture really doesn't matter.
Studies suggest that people who are able to focus on the positive fallout from a negative event--basically, cope with failure--can protect themselves from the physical toll of stress and anxiety. In a recent study at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), scientists asked a group of women to give a speech in front of a stone-faced audience of strangers. On the first day, all the participants said they felt threatened, and they showed spikes in cortisol and fear hormones. On subsequent days, however, those women who had reported rebounding from a major life crisis in the past no longer felt the same subjective threat over speaking in public--and did not show a jump in cortisol. They had learned that this negative event, too, would pass and they would survive. "It's a back door to the same positive state because people are able to tolerate and accept the negative," says Elissa Epel, one of the psychologists involved in the study.
Accept Pain and Sadness
Being optimistic doesn't mean shutting out sad or painful emotions. As a clinical psychologist, Martin Seligman, who runs the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, says he used to feel proud whenever he helped depressed patients rid themselves of sadness, anxiety or anger. "I thought I would get a happy person," he says. "But I never did. What I got was an empty person." That's what prompted him to launch the field of positive psychology, with a groundbreaking address to the American Psychological Association in 1998. Instead of focusing only on righting wrongs and lifting misery, he argued, psychologists need to help patients foster good mental health through constructive skills, like Ben-Shahar's PRP. The idea is to teach patients to strengthen their strengths rather than simply improve their weaknesses. "It's not enough to clear away the weeds and underbrush," Seligman says. "If you want roses, you have to plant a rose."
When a loved one dies or you lose your job, for example, it's normal and healthy to mourn. You're supposed to feel sad and even depressed. But you can't cocoon yourself in sadness for too long. A study by UCSF researchers of HIV-positive men whose partners had died found that the men who allowed themselves to grieve while also seeking to accept the death were better able to bounce back from the tragedy. Men who focused only on the loss as opposed to, say, viewing the death as a relief of their partner's suffering, tended to grieve longer, presumably because they couldn't find a way out of their sadness.
Smile in Your Profile Picture
If all else fails, try "catching" happiness from your friends. We are social beings, of course, and our outlook is influenced to no small degree by that of our friends and family. Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a professor at Harvard Medical School, documented in a 2008 study just how extensive and powerful this network effect is. Compared with glum people, those who were happy were more likely to be surrounded by other happy people--even the friends of happy people's friends' friends (who might be complete strangers) tended to be happy.
Christakis and his colleague James Fowler at the University of California, San Diego, are now studying happiness contagion in perhaps the largest social network of all, Facebook. They noticed that people who smiled in their Facebook profile pictures tended to have other friends who smiled. This might simply be peer pressure at work, with members feeling obliged to flash a smile to fit in with the rest of the group, but Christakis and Fowler are investigating whether there isn't a more infectious phenomenon at work.
If you still aren't convinced that your doomsaying ways can ever be changed, consider this: only about 25% of a person's optimism may be hardwired in his genes, according to some studies. That's in contrast to the 40% to 60% heritability of most other personality traits, like agreeableness and conscientiousness. Science suggests that the greater part of an optimistic outlook can be acquired with the right instruction--a theory borne out in a study of college freshmen by Seligman. Pessimistic students who took a 12-week optimism-training course devised by Seligman--which included exercises like writing a letter of gratitude then reading it aloud to someone--were less likely to visit the student health center for illnesses during the next four years than their similarly pessimistic peers who weren't tutored in positive thinking. And a larger study of more than 3,000 middle-school students who are being taught resilience techniques is under way in England. "It's the largest-scale validation that optimism can be taught," says Seligman, who developed the techniques used in the study.
The thing about being optimistic, though, is that it takes hard work--and that's a drag. It's an active process, say psychologists, through which you force yourself to see your life a certain way. Indeed, the leading optimism and happiness experts consider themselves born pessimists. But if they have learned over time and with lots of practice to become more hopeful, take heart. So can you.
By Alice Park Thursday, Mar. 26, 2009
(Wellness Section in Time Magazine)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1887872-1,00.html
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
iBlog5: The 5th Philippine Blogging Summit
iBlog5: The 5th Philippine Blogging Summit
Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, UP Diliman
May 9, 2009 (Saturday) 8 am to 5 pm
Registration :FREE
To register :
http://iblogph.org/iblog5_registrants.php
I'm in number 298.
Program (as of March 22, 2009)
Morning session: (some can be sponsored talk)
* 9:00 - 9:20 Blogging 101 (Micaela Rodriguez & sponsor slot)
* 9:30 - 9:50 Photo Blogging 101 (Faith Salazar and Fritz Tentativa)
* 10:00 - 10:15 Break
* 10:15 to 10:35 Video Blogging 101 (Azrael Coladilla)
* 10:45 - 11:05 Mobile Blogging 101 (sponsor slot)
* 11:15 - 11:35 Do’s and Don’ts of Blogging 101 (Benj Espina and Juned Sonido)
* 11:45 - 12:05 Blog Promotion & Traffic Generation Strategies 101 (Winston Almendras and Coy Caballes)
* 12:05 - 1:00 Lunch break
Afternoon session:
* 1:00 - 1:20 Legal issues in Blogging
* 1:30 - 2:30 Preparing Bloggers for the 2010 Elections
- COMELEC on Blogging & Bloggers
- Citizen Journalism for the 2010 Elections (Oliver Robillo, NAMFREL Chairman - Davao City)
- The Bloggers Election Handbook project release (Janette Toral)
* 2:40 - 3:30 Blog Advertising Situation in the Philippines (Yehey and 2 sponsors)
* 3:30 - 3:45 Break
* 3:45 - 4:45 Blogging to the Next Level (Fitz Villafuerte
and Anton Diaz)
* 4:45 - 5:00 Raffle & Group picture taking
7:00 pm onwards After-Event Party (sponsored)
Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, UP Diliman
May 9, 2009 (Saturday) 8 am to 5 pm
Registration :FREE
To register :
http://iblogph.org/iblog5_registrants.php
I'm in number 298.
Program (as of March 22, 2009)
Morning session: (some can be sponsored talk)
* 9:00 - 9:20 Blogging 101 (Micaela Rodriguez & sponsor slot)
* 9:30 - 9:50 Photo Blogging 101 (Faith Salazar and Fritz Tentativa)
* 10:00 - 10:15 Break
* 10:15 to 10:35 Video Blogging 101 (Azrael Coladilla)
* 10:45 - 11:05 Mobile Blogging 101 (sponsor slot)
* 11:15 - 11:35 Do’s and Don’ts of Blogging 101 (Benj Espina and Juned Sonido)
* 11:45 - 12:05 Blog Promotion & Traffic Generation Strategies 101 (Winston Almendras and Coy Caballes)
* 12:05 - 1:00 Lunch break
Afternoon session:
* 1:00 - 1:20 Legal issues in Blogging
* 1:30 - 2:30 Preparing Bloggers for the 2010 Elections
- COMELEC on Blogging & Bloggers
- Citizen Journalism for the 2010 Elections (Oliver Robillo, NAMFREL Chairman - Davao City)
- The Bloggers Election Handbook project release (Janette Toral)
* 2:40 - 3:30 Blog Advertising Situation in the Philippines (Yehey and 2 sponsors)
* 3:30 - 3:45 Break
* 3:45 - 4:45 Blogging to the Next Level (Fitz Villafuerte
and Anton Diaz)
* 4:45 - 5:00 Raffle & Group picture taking
7:00 pm onwards After-Event Party (sponsored)
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Continuing the Rotaract Legacy...
The Pilipinas Multi-District Information Organization (MDIO) has been very busy the last three (3) months and so I was too. We are now on our 4th series of meetings for Manual of Procedure.
The aim of coming out with standardized (but still always subject for respective DRRs’ discretion) is to provide a tool for DRRs in decision-making over common but needed district functions and concerns.
It’s been addressed that the existing districts have their own ‘version’ of policies which are sometimes chaotic. Remarks such as bias and unfair or no basis at all are the roots for standardization of these procedures.
Done manual of procedures are for District Rotaract Representative Election, MDIO Chair Election and DRRs’ Aide to MDIO. Targeted to be finished on 4th meeting are Sister Club / Twinning Guidelines, and Award Pointing System covering the four (4) avenues of service, finance and public image.
I’m happy that I’m healthy enough to continue to guide the growth of Pilipinas MDIO. It’s an exhilarating feeling to witness and contribute to what I thought as my legacy to Rotaract – the establishment of Pilipinas MDIO. For two years, we’ve been helping DRRs but now we are now also ‘creating’ future DRRs and MDIO Chair. I guess, along the process of trainings, seminars, discussions and fellowships, involved Rotaractors gain the awareness and enlighten them to aspire the positions. This in turn means continued leadership or life of the organization per se. This leads me through John C. Maxwell’s Law of Legacy states that a leader's lasting value is measured by succession.
And now is even easier as I have also fellow PDRRs who dedicate their time and expertise to our most cherished organization – Rotaract Club.
The aim of coming out with standardized (but still always subject for respective DRRs’ discretion) is to provide a tool for DRRs in decision-making over common but needed district functions and concerns.
It’s been addressed that the existing districts have their own ‘version’ of policies which are sometimes chaotic. Remarks such as bias and unfair or no basis at all are the roots for standardization of these procedures.
Done manual of procedures are for District Rotaract Representative Election, MDIO Chair Election and DRRs’ Aide to MDIO. Targeted to be finished on 4th meeting are Sister Club / Twinning Guidelines, and Award Pointing System covering the four (4) avenues of service, finance and public image.
I’m happy that I’m healthy enough to continue to guide the growth of Pilipinas MDIO. It’s an exhilarating feeling to witness and contribute to what I thought as my legacy to Rotaract – the establishment of Pilipinas MDIO. For two years, we’ve been helping DRRs but now we are now also ‘creating’ future DRRs and MDIO Chair. I guess, along the process of trainings, seminars, discussions and fellowships, involved Rotaractors gain the awareness and enlighten them to aspire the positions. This in turn means continued leadership or life of the organization per se. This leads me through John C. Maxwell’s Law of Legacy states that a leader's lasting value is measured by succession.
And now is even easier as I have also fellow PDRRs who dedicate their time and expertise to our most cherished organization – Rotaract Club.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
THE PALAWAN EXPERIENCE
Palawan is such a forest within a city!
Our company is still lucky to sponsor expensive company outing in spite of recession felt around. How fortunate I am to enjoy Palawan for free!
Day 1 was filled with city tour. Visited were Puero Cuartel, Cathedral, Butterfly Farm, Crocodile Farm, and Iwahig Prison.
Day 2’s itinerary was bound to the Underground River which I missed.
Day 3 tour was island hopping. Islands hopped were Bat Island, Pandan Island and Snake Island. Snorkeling was such an attraction but I prefer to just swim near the banka to hide from the sun. In Snake Island, a remarkable itchy thing marked the memories of the swimmers. It’s the mating season that’s why the fish fries were all around the snorkeling area. Skin reacted irritated with fish fries.
Pure honey, cultured pearl earrings, cashew nuts and dried fish are the must buy in Palawan.
Our company is still lucky to sponsor expensive company outing in spite of recession felt around. How fortunate I am to enjoy Palawan for free!
Day 1 was filled with city tour. Visited were Puero Cuartel, Cathedral, Butterfly Farm, Crocodile Farm, and Iwahig Prison.
Day 2’s itinerary was bound to the Underground River which I missed.
Day 3 tour was island hopping. Islands hopped were Bat Island, Pandan Island and Snake Island. Snorkeling was such an attraction but I prefer to just swim near the banka to hide from the sun. In Snake Island, a remarkable itchy thing marked the memories of the swimmers. It’s the mating season that’s why the fish fries were all around the snorkeling area. Skin reacted irritated with fish fries.
Pure honey, cultured pearl earrings, cashew nuts and dried fish are the must buy in Palawan.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Unleash the Highest Potential of Your Relationship (with focus on Marriage)
Wedding Preparation
Last March 14, 2009, we attended Unleash International’s seminar on relationship with focus on marriage.
As originally designed, a man and a woman have their own differences. In this differences emanate the natural likes and dislikes that may lead to conflict and chaos. However, knowing the common purpose and own responsibilities will surely solve these differences.
The most unforgettable and funniest fact cited is the being nagger of a wife. As explained, women can produce 25, 000 words compare to 12, 500 only of men. Naturally, women love to speak and talk than to have sex. Women love to talk about ‘nothing’. In opposite men cannot live without sex and must have a topic when talking in a group.
The very basic but eye opening biblical couple responsibilities are “Husband must love his wife” while the “wife must respect her husband”. Love and respect are deeply defined as mutual sacrifices and responsibilities. As such that one will serve one another the way that the other naturally wants it. It is like loving and respecting someone the way that someone likes it.
The seminar / workshop was fun and experience filled, truly living to Unleash’s Edutainment mantra. I and my fiancé were very happy and fortunate that we have attended this seminar because we are now more rightly guided in the beginning of our lifelong journey as a couple.
Last March 14, 2009, we attended Unleash International’s seminar on relationship with focus on marriage.
As originally designed, a man and a woman have their own differences. In this differences emanate the natural likes and dislikes that may lead to conflict and chaos. However, knowing the common purpose and own responsibilities will surely solve these differences.
The most unforgettable and funniest fact cited is the being nagger of a wife. As explained, women can produce 25, 000 words compare to 12, 500 only of men. Naturally, women love to speak and talk than to have sex. Women love to talk about ‘nothing’. In opposite men cannot live without sex and must have a topic when talking in a group.
The very basic but eye opening biblical couple responsibilities are “Husband must love his wife” while the “wife must respect her husband”. Love and respect are deeply defined as mutual sacrifices and responsibilities. As such that one will serve one another the way that the other naturally wants it. It is like loving and respecting someone the way that someone likes it.
The seminar / workshop was fun and experience filled, truly living to Unleash’s Edutainment mantra. I and my fiancé were very happy and fortunate that we have attended this seminar because we are now more rightly guided in the beginning of our lifelong journey as a couple.
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Weekend's Summary
At Work
Conducted Time Management to Subordinates
-The idea of collecting participants’ inputs as sharing of experience in relation to the presented theories was very effective. Both sides learned, not the typical “students only learn from the teacher” approach.
My Rotaract
2nd Philippine Rotaract Assembly in Quezon City
- Relieved because, at last, the procedures and guidelines for Phil MDIO Chair Election were set. Probably, 1 to 2 years from, I can focus on my family life without the worries that the next generations of MDIO Officers will be out of the direction.
-Pendings:
1. Format for Certificate of Candicacy
2. Policies for Sisterhood Agreement
3. Point System for Community Service Award
Financial Management
-Found a wheel for law of averaging with a minimum of P1,000.00 and P30,000.00 for long and short terms. This is compounded every month and not per annum.
Conducted Time Management to Subordinates
-The idea of collecting participants’ inputs as sharing of experience in relation to the presented theories was very effective. Both sides learned, not the typical “students only learn from the teacher” approach.
My Rotaract
2nd Philippine Rotaract Assembly in Quezon City
- Relieved because, at last, the procedures and guidelines for Phil MDIO Chair Election were set. Probably, 1 to 2 years from, I can focus on my family life without the worries that the next generations of MDIO Officers will be out of the direction.
-Pendings:
1. Format for Certificate of Candicacy
2. Policies for Sisterhood Agreement
3. Point System for Community Service Award
Financial Management
-Found a wheel for law of averaging with a minimum of P1,000.00 and P30,000.00 for long and short terms. This is compounded every month and not per annum.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
WORK MANAGEMENT TALK (Part 1 - Setting Priorities)
Important Notes:
-Small group is easier to control.
-Audience focuses when there is an exercise for the points.
-Giving time allowance for questions, clarifications, and interruptions tends to be a good idea to maximize allotted timeframe while covering all important points.
-Reaction and level of understanding depend on age, position and status of the audience.
-Small group is easier to control.
-Audience focuses when there is an exercise for the points.
-Giving time allowance for questions, clarifications, and interruptions tends to be a good idea to maximize allotted timeframe while covering all important points.
-Reaction and level of understanding depend on age, position and status of the audience.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
MICROSOFT WEB RAMP UP 2009
MICROSOFT WEB RAMP UP 2009
Topics revolved around Web Development. Launched were Windows 7 and Windows Azure, both in beta version. Interesting to note is PHP on Windows was also featured! The Sharepoint session showed easy web creation. I never tried yet Excel-based business intelligence with chart in sharepoint.
(During one of the breakout sessions)
Event Organization…
I can feel recession is evident the way Microsoft organized yesterday compare to their previous events.
Reflections..
I think I should study how Mr. Jojo Ayson caught the crowd and hold the interest until the end of his speech. He is a great speaker!
Things to search:
Cloud Computing
Microblogging
Facebook
Twitter
WCF
Drupal
PHP
FastCGI
On the lighter side….
I was delighted with the full touch screen feature of Samsung Omnia. Evidence: Took picture with the demo unit.
I accidentally met Cathy, my friend, in the plenary. Therefore, we had extended soiree after the event. Yahooo…I also bumped around with fellow Rotaractor IPDRR Flo. Analysis: Common interest holds together common friends!
(Delighted by Samsung Omnia's Full Touch Screen Feature!)
(Mr. Jojo Ayson of Microsoft)
Topics revolved around Web Development. Launched were Windows 7 and Windows Azure, both in beta version. Interesting to note is PHP on Windows was also featured! The Sharepoint session showed easy web creation. I never tried yet Excel-based business intelligence with chart in sharepoint.
(During one of the breakout sessions)
Event Organization…
I can feel recession is evident the way Microsoft organized yesterday compare to their previous events.
Reflections..
I think I should study how Mr. Jojo Ayson caught the crowd and hold the interest until the end of his speech. He is a great speaker!
Things to search:
Cloud Computing
Microblogging
WCF
Drupal
PHP
FastCGI
On the lighter side….
I was delighted with the full touch screen feature of Samsung Omnia. Evidence: Took picture with the demo unit.
I accidentally met Cathy, my friend, in the plenary. Therefore, we had extended soiree after the event. Yahooo…I also bumped around with fellow Rotaractor IPDRR Flo. Analysis: Common interest holds together common friends!
(Delighted by Samsung Omnia's Full Touch Screen Feature!)
(Mr. Jojo Ayson of Microsoft)
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Penne with Cream Beef Sauce @ P79.00
Yesterday, I was one of the lucky people to experience fine dining at very low price, P79.00 only.
The menu is below:
Penne with Cream Beef Sauce
1 Garlic Bread
I Iced Tea
Small Gift
Plus a post valentine token!
It was a Hotel and Restaurant student organization (The Connoisseur) sponsor event.
I’m wondering if they were able to at least have break even with all the ingredients plus the token:)…
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Adult social networking: why it's powerful and how it works assignment
What do you want?
All you need to start networking is pen and paper and about 15 minutes of time.
First, think about how you want to use networking in your life. Maybe you want to get ahead in your career, or perhaps you want to switch into a different field. Perhaps you want to build a network of people to help a cause dear to your heart, or maybe you just want to expand your social scene.
Next, write down your networking goal(s).
Finally, make a list of every person, group or company you can think of that is in some way connected to your goal. At this stage, the idea is to brainstorm, so no idea is too small or too big. You might want to include the name of a neighbor with an enviable job, or the name of the top five corporations in your field.
Keep this list handy—you'll be coming back to it many times.
http://h30187.www3.hp.com/sessions/lessons/viewAssignment.jsp?assignmentId=41047&lessonId=45117&courseSessionId=127216&courseSessionId=127216&lessonId=45117&webPageId=1000003&courseId=17398
An interesting assignment.
All you need to start networking is pen and paper and about 15 minutes of time.
First, think about how you want to use networking in your life. Maybe you want to get ahead in your career, or perhaps you want to switch into a different field. Perhaps you want to build a network of people to help a cause dear to your heart, or maybe you just want to expand your social scene.
Next, write down your networking goal(s).
Finally, make a list of every person, group or company you can think of that is in some way connected to your goal. At this stage, the idea is to brainstorm, so no idea is too small or too big. You might want to include the name of a neighbor with an enviable job, or the name of the top five corporations in your field.
Keep this list handy—you'll be coming back to it many times.
http://h30187.www3.hp.com/sessions/lessons/viewAssignment.jsp?assignmentId=41047&lessonId=45117&courseSessionId=127216&courseSessionId=127216&lessonId=45117&webPageId=1000003&courseId=17398
An interesting assignment.
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Friday, January 02, 2009
MISSION 101 - 101 THINGS IN 1001 DAYS PROJECT
101 THINGS IN 1001 DAYS
The Mission
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple goals such as New Year’s resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organising and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.
DEVIE’S LIST
Start Date : January 5, 2008
End Date : March 15, 2011
Physical / Health
1. Visit dentist twice a year
2. Spend 1 Saturday a month walking in Sunken Garden
3. No fast food for three months straight
4. Cook meal for 1 month straight
5. Get 2nd opinion
Self-Improvement
6. Take a foreign language lesson
7. Read 10 books on Financial Management
8. Read 20 books (different topics)
9. Spend an Unplanned Day
10. Record Expenses
11. Take sewing lesson
12. Spend the day reading only once a month
13. Attend to a non-mandatory seminar
14. Take lessons in herbal therapy / medicine
15. Take lessons in self defense
16. Research / Implement GTD (Getting Things Done) System
17. Take a dance lesson
Spiritual
18. Read the Bible at least once a month
19. Attend Sunday mass at least once a month
20. Read Daily Bread at least once a month
Financial
21. Have at least 50K at hand after the wedding
22. Start personal retirement fund
23. Achieve 20-70% Cash Reserves
24. Pay at least 50% of Funeral Plan
25. Increase income by 10% annually
26. Increase savings to at least 20% monthly
27. Save for Thesis
28. Pay off all personal debt by 2009
29. Study investing in the stock market
30. Increase income to 5-10% /yr
Career
31. Search for 50 Ways To Increase Your Income Without Quitting Your Job
32. Learn new programming language
33. Empty My Work EMail Inbox At Least Once a Month
34. Create a Five Year Career Plan
35. Create a Ten Year Plan
36. Create a Fifteen Year Career Plan
37. Attend a Toastmasters Meeting
38. Make a conscious effort on what I wear to work: for 2 weeks
39. Write in a work journal for 1 month
40. For one week, get up two hours before work
Relationships
41. Help start Family Move to Siquijor
42. Spend Christmas in Cotabato City
43. Get married by 2010 with P100K budget only
44. Have a baby after 2 years of marriage
45. Attend school / family reunion
46. Research for Family Tree
47. Meet all my 1st cousins on my father side
48. Continue giving Metrobank Fun Savers Club bank account as Christmas gift to 3-10 Children
49. Find out all the family birthdays, anniversaries, and email addresses. Write on calendar and circulate
50. Do something good for our anniversary
51. Make a new friend outside work, family and organization
52. Attend festival outside Quezon City
53. Try to be nice at least once a month
Projects
54. Print on-cam pictures and create an album
55. Finish Masters
56. Start a small business
57. Earn from blogging
58. Make a new list of 101 Things by the time my 1001 days are done
59. Make a 10 to 20 year life plan
Hobbies
60. Start a farm house
61. Buy a cow
62. Make my own Christmas gifts for 2010
63. Organize / Compile websites
64. Start a private journal for this 101 project
65. Update my personal site once a month
66. Plant a balcony garden
67. Publish blog entry twice a month
68. Attend a local blogger meet-up OR a blogging conference
Travel
69. Travel 5 local destinations
70. Travel 1 international destination
Social / Community
71. Host 2 fundraising events for RAC Cubao
72. Attend at least 10 major Rotary / Rotaract events
73. Sell / Give away 101 materials I own
74. Participate in a book club
75. Vote in Presidential election
76. Vote in local election
77. Help MDIO have 8-10 districts
78. Help RAC Cubao garner RI Most Outstanding Project Award
79. Apply for Group Study Exchange
Stuff I want
80. Buy laptop in June 2009
81. Buy digicam
82. Replace all my old undies
83. Get an external hard drive and back-up
84. Get a really good pair of jeans
85. Do a hair spa treatment quarterly
Etc.
86. Clean up Computer Files
87. Renew my passport
88. Apply for library card again
89. Write your life story in less than a day
90. Write a list of 101 Things that make me happy
91. Learn to locate major cities for 50 countries
92. Open a credit card master to avail Cebu Pacific’s Zero Seat Sale
93. Journal every day for 1 month
94. Compile emergency kit for home
95. Scan all of our old photos
96. Figure Out What I Want To Do With My Life After 10 years
97. Create a “Emergency Kit” of Important Documents
98. Print this list as a constant reminder
99. Start personal mini-library
100. Try 2 new things haven’t tried before
101. Hold simple thanks giving party after Masters’ graduation
After 5 to 10 year things that popped up in mind are:
-Buy my first home
-Travel to another continent after 10 years
The Mission
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple goals such as New Year’s resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organising and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.
DEVIE’S LIST
Start Date : January 5, 2008
End Date : March 15, 2011
Physical / Health
1. Visit dentist twice a year
2. Spend 1 Saturday a month walking in Sunken Garden
3. No fast food for three months straight
4
Self-Improvement
6. Take a foreign language lesson
8. Read 20 books (different topics)
10. Record Expenses
11. Take sewing lesson
13. Attend to a non-mandatory seminar
14. Take lessons in herbal therapy / medicine
15. Take lessons in self defense
16. Research / Implement GTD (Getting Things Done) System
17. Take a dance lesson
Spiritual
20. Read Daily Bread at least once a month
Financial
22. Start personal retirement fund
23. Achieve 20-70% Cash Reserves
26. Increase savings to at least 20% monthly
27. Save for Thesis
29. Study investing in the stock market
Career
31. Search for 50 Ways To Increase Your Income Without Quitting Your Job
32. Learn new programming language
33. Empty My Work EMail Inbox At Least Once a Month
36. Create a Fifteen Year Career Plan
37. Attend a Toastmasters Meeting
39. Write in a work journal for 1 month
40. For one week, get up two hours before work
Relationships
42. Spend Christmas in Cotabato City
44. Have a baby after 2 years of marriage
45. Attend school / family reunion
46. Research for Family Tree
47. Meet all my 1st cousins on my father side
48. Continue giving Metrobank Fun Savers Club bank account as Christmas gift to 3-10 Children
49. Find out all the family birthdays, anniversaries, and email addresses. Write on calendar and circulate
50. Do something good for our anniversary
51. Make a new friend outside work, family and organization
52. Attend festival outside Quezon City
53. Try to be nice at least once a month
Projects
54. Print on-cam pictures and create an album
56. Start a small business
57. Earn from blogging
58. Make a new list of 101 Things by the time my 1001 days are done
Hobbies
60. Start a farm house
61. Buy a cow
62. Make my own Christmas gifts for 2010
63. Organize / Compile websites
64. Start a private journal for this 101 project
65. Update my personal site once a month
67. Publish blog entry twice a month
68. Attend a local blogger meet-up OR a blogging conference
Travel
70. Travel 1 international destination
Social / Community
71. Host 2 fundraising events for RAC Cubao
72. Attend at least 10 major Rotary / Rotaract events
73. Sell / Give away 101 materials I own
74. Participate in a book club
75. Vote in Presidential election
78. Help RAC Cubao garner RI Most Outstanding Project Award
Stuff I want
80. Buy laptop in June 2009
81. Buy digicam
85. Do a hair spa treatment quarterly
Etc.
86. Clean up Computer Files
87. Renew my passport
88. Apply for library card again
89. Write your life story in less than a day
90. Write a list of 101 Things that make me happy
91. Learn to locate major cities for 50 countries
92. Open a credit card master to avail Cebu Pacific’s Zero Seat Sale
93. Journal every day for 1 month
94. Compile emergency kit for home
95. Scan all of our old photos
96. Figure Out What I Want To Do With My Life After 10 years
97. Create a “Emergency Kit” of Important Documents
98. Print this list as a constant reminder
99. Start personal mini-library
100. Try 2 new things haven’t tried before
After 5 to 10 year things that popped up in mind are:
-Buy my first home
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
101 THINGS IN 1001 DAYS
Trying to start the year right by drafting "101 THINGS TO ACCOMPLISH IN 1001 DAYS". I'm now also starting 5 to 10 year "to accomplish" things in mind. More details to follow.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Urban Gardening -19th Day
19th Day - Pechay Experiment
Notes:
1. 5 leaves instead of the 2 leaves on the 4th day pictures
2. Transferred in the styro box
3. Pale green color
Notes:
1. 5 leaves instead of the 2 leaves on the 4th day pictures
2. Transferred in the styro box
3. Pale green color
Sunday, November 09, 2008
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