NOW'S THE TIME - VISUAL TALKING -- PUT IMAGES WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS!

Dneero is in conversing on Visual Talking. It is fun and interesting as well.

SPLENDOR AND BEAUTY OF NATURE

Forgive me that i still can not work in front of the computer up until now. Well, not for a long period of time, that is. I will just share beautiful photos that were sent to me by a dear friend. Friends and co-workers, Ted and Mj went to Nasugbu Batangas for nature tripping and for a little fun. I would love to go with them but i can not because of responsibilites waiting at home. By the way, i have the permission of Ted and MJ to post these pictures. Anyways, here are the photos and i hope you would enjoy it as much as i did.

These pictures are taken by my co-worker Ted. He is like a son and a friend to me. For me, this is an angle that will be taken in the eyes of some one who understands photography. At least that is my impression after seeing the photos he took. He is not a photographer, he is a computer programmer. In fact, my lay out, my template really messed up and Ted was the one who worked using these html codes and arranged every thing for me. So, you are looking at the work of a person who understands the language of photography, the beauty of nature and the complicated language of computer programming as well. I will post some of the pictures he took in my upcoming posts. All, of course, with his permission.

I am a nature lover, you see. I really appreciate sights like these one. Wouldnt you say so, too?

Have a good day to every one

LESSONS IN LIFE

As they said, life is never easy. One should really sweat and exert effort specially when you are a provider. When some one is depending on you. Regardless of whether we have a job or not, our bills would not go away. We can not say to Meralco or to Maynilad that we can not pay our bills because we do not have money or we do not have a job. If we have a child going to school. We can not say to the University "I can not pay the tuition because i do not have any money" Of course, you can get a promissory slip. However, a promissory note means a delay, not an omission of our obligation. Obligation will always be there and whether we like it or not, we have to meet them. That is one of the reason why a person can not afford to stop working. Once, i told myself i am ready to give anything and do anything to sustain my dependent. I did not care about my self nor my body nor my physical health. What matters was that i am able to meet my responsibility. I thought that was the way to do it. However, as years passed by, i realized one thing. We have only one body. Whether we like it or not, this same body will be the one we will be needing to meet those obligation. In business, manpower is the most important asset. I could not imagine how a business will operate without manpower. For an individual, the most important asset in order to continue moving and meeting our obligation is our health. I realized that if i am really smart, i should make sure that my body could sustain me for as long as possible so i could sustain my obligation as well. There should be a lesson learned on every corner as we go through this journey. It is different when we just hear them. It is entirely different when we are already the person in that position. I suppose life is an unending process of learning and living.

Have a great week day my friends and thank you for wishing me well.

Always take care.

DNEERO FLASH EMBED V2 TEST

Dneero is heating up a conversation about V2. What do you think about it?

PHYSICAL CHALLENGE.........AGAIN !

Lately i had been having some challenges...again. I had been continuously feeling pain, not to mention i sometimes felt my vain in the neck being stretched out. Well, that only happen if and when i have to exert physical effort or i am in a very stressful situation. Ignoring further i had been waking up with numb fingers. Scary....but nothing that could not be handled. Just last night, i collapsed, i do not know why. Again..nothing that could not be handled. My father and my son is worried for me though. Again..nothing that could not be handled. I just have to lessen my work loads and get more rest. Perhaps, on my free schedule, visit my therapist or a doctor. My apology i could not really talk long today. I promise to make it up to you as soon as i am up and running.

Take care always my reader. For my blogger/virtual friends, you will always be in my mind and in my heart.

BASIC COMPUTER ISSUES

We talked about the basics when you are getting good internet signal but can not pull up a web site. We also talked what browsers are and how you could determine what browser you are using.

When I was a newbie in computer troubleshooting field, there was a point when my customer had been having issues with her internet but not related with her internet provider. I encountered a lot of issues like that. I had this customer with the previous account I worked with. She thought she have no internet connection because every time she pulled up a web page, she was getting this error message:

“This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an action of the folder of the control panel”.

The above error message simply means an application in your computer is not available. Perhaps an outlook express.

The above error message had been popping out every time she surf so she told me “I have no internet connection”. As I mentioned in my earlier entries, not being able to pull up a web page is not conclusive that you do not have internet signal from your internet provider. There are a lot of reasons why you can not surf to the internet. It could be your browser, your security application, your computer or the internet provider. In this case, because the issue at hand is her inability to surf to the internet, it is just a matter of changing her default browser. How do you that?

1. Click on Start

2. Click on Control Panel

3. Click on “Add/Remove Programs”

4. Choose and click on “Set Programs Access and Defaults”

5. Choose Custom

6. One of the option you will see is “Set Default Browser”. If you want Internet Explorer, click on the radio button beside internet explorer. Bottom line, choose the browser you want. Personally, my friend, I would rather have Mozilla firefox. There had been a lot of issues with IE now. If you do not have Mozilla browser. You may download it for free. Just go to http://www.Mozilla.com.

7. Click Apply and/or OK

That should do it. In my case, it took re-starting the computer for the system to read my command. It is easy, right? By the way, this is for Windows OS.

I hope I am able to share something to you today.

By the way, the picture is taken from images.search. yahoo.

Have a great week and as I always say, take care.

200 POUNDS BEAUTY

I approached a friend. It is almost our day off and I really want to watch a good movie. I am hoping he could give one of the series of CSI-NY. Instead he gave me a Korean movie CD. I think I raised my eyebrow when he handed the CD in my hands. As if he read my mind, he smiled and said “It is a good watch, I promise you”.

The CD is entitled 200 lbs Beauty. It is a romance film. Thing is I am not into romance and/or love stories. Oh no! That is not my cup of tea. However, I had nothing to watch anymore. So, as I played the CD, I am not expecting anything. However, while watching it made me sit and really watch the movie. It has a way of capturing its audience. The plot was very light and it is funny. Even my son who was playing PSP at the time stopped and watched. In no time, we were both watching and laughing. I liked the song “Maria”. No, wait.. not like, I loved it! In the end, we both enjoyed the film. Romance films are not that bad after all. Not to mention it was funny. I felt good after watching the film.

200 lbs. beauty is about Hanna who had been showered with such a gracious vocal chord. Unfortunately, despite her overflowing talent and singing niche, she have a very low self-esteem. This is because she is obese. After an embarrassing encounter, she decided to have a total change. A plastic surgery actually. When she made her come back as another person, she thought she will be happy. Only to find out that she missed the person she really was when she was just the plain, ugly Hanna. It starred Korean singer Kim Ah Jung and Ju Jin-Mo.

Picture taken from ph.images.yahoo.search.

Let me post the song Maria for you.

Maria Lyrics (200 Pounds Beauty OST)
Singer: Kim Ah Jung ??? / Romanization by Kreah

cha chigum shija-khae
chogum-sshwil ttokob-ke
uhh… turyowo-hajima

pyolchyojin nunape
cho tae-yangi ki-reul bichwo
uhh… chol-tae-momchujima

Maria ave Maria
cho hwim-kurum kkeut-kaji nara
Maria ave Maria
gochin-paddowin sang-gwa-nobshi

cha chigum shija-khae
chogum-sshwil ttokob-ke
uhh… chol-tae-momchujima

Maria ave Maria
cho hwim-kurum kkeut-kaji nara
maria ave maria
gochin-paddowin sang-gwa-nobshi

Maria

mamchwo-borin shim-jang chon-chega
koncha-bulsu-ob-shi ttwi-yo-wa

(Repeat 2x) Maria ave Maria
cho hwim-kurum kkeut-kaji nara
Maria ave Maria
chojin-paddowin sang-gwa-nobshi

KATHERINE IN MY BLOGGER LIST

One of the recent member of my blog list is Katherine. She maintains three sites. All are interesting blogs. These sites are Mom's Place, Sparks Of Wisdom and iTravel1. Her blog is all about her family, friends and of course their pets. Katherine is a blogger from Davao, a proud wife of Roger from North Carolina, USA and a happy mother of two energetic boys named Jason and Jan Clark. One of the things i noticed in her blog are the number of opportunities where one could earn more income through internet. That is way too cool. Her latest post in iTravel1 amazes me. The post is entitled Australian Speed Hump. It surprises me i have to really stare to confirm if i am seeing what i think i am seeing. Click and see for your self. Her Sparks of Wisdom is very interesting as well. I like the poems she posted. It makes me glad i loved reading. Makes me glad as well i am now a blogger. Mostly, makes me thankful that Katherine is one of my blogger links and is included in my blogger friend.

To Kat, thank you for being a member of my blogger list.

The above image is the picture for her site. I hope Kat would not mind if i posted the picture to this entry dedicated to her and her blogs.

And to you, my dear reader, thank you for dropping by and always take care.

EMOTION

We all have our mood swings. Who doesn’t? I think it is perfectly fine for us to have these moods every now and then. Most of the time moods transcends into strong emotion. It could be envy, anger, love or simply happiness. During younger years, I had this perception that emotion was divided into two. The good and the bad. If I was feeling the negative emotion, I am bad. If I am feeling a positive emotion then I am good. Elders told me that being angry or envious is bad. Hence, when I got angry, adult would tell me, “you are bad”. As I grew into adulthood. I realized that there is no bad or good emotion. Anger, fury, hostility is a feeling. Feeling is part of being a human being. These emotions are basically the same as love, compassion, happiness. What makes them good or bad is how we react to such emotion. Let us say Mario got mad. He could either hit the person who caused him to be mad or overcome and control his emotion. If he chooses the first option, hitting makes his emotion bad because he opted to do the bad decision. If he chooses to overcome his anger then that is when he converted the emotion into a positive result. Now, let us go to an emotion which is labeled as good. They say love is a good emotion. What if Maria fell in love with a family man? Love is good, right? If Maria chooses to take this man away from his family because she loves him. That is a bad decision. However, if she reinforces to him that he have a family and he should know his right place, then that is when I could state that the emotion is good. Simply because Maria used her mind before reacting to the emotion, which is love. Hence, for me, any emotion can not be tagged as good or bad. What makes it bad or good is how we react to such emotion. It is important that as adult, we are always in control of that emotion. Simply because that will determine the correctness or the wrongness of such emotion.

Any input?

The picture is taken from yahoo.search.images

Thank you for your time reading and always take care.

STEPHEN, A NEW MEMBER OF MY BLOGGER LISTS.

Just recently another blogger that had been included in my blogger follower is Stephen. His blog is Nikon Sniper. According to Stephen, Digital photography is like sniping with a machine gun. If you get up every day, turn on your camera and put your life on continuous fire, sooner of later, you're bound to hit something. Actually, Stephen did hit a lot of things. His mastery in photography takes us to different scenery with various concepts and meaning. It is a very interesting site, actually.

Photographic work that astounds me are : Corn Siloutte, Action In Blue, Beached Saturday Morning, Sidney Siloutte, Bird Of Paradise , Thoroughbred Sunset, Flooded Volcano, Seriously, Enough With The Flash Unit made me smile and Seasons Change is equally lovely as well.

I do not really have to go out of my way, beautiful sceneries are actually a click away with my laptop.

Thank you Stephen for being one of my blog follower

For my blogger friends, always take care and have a great week day!

MY SUNSHINE THRU THE RAIN, MY SON.

When I arrived home today I am soaking wet. It had been raining dogs and cats here in Quezon City. When my son saw me he told me I should take a bath or I might get sick. I actually confirmed and told him he could go ahead and eat lunch. I will just change and take a bath. After i changed i went downstairs to take my bath when I realized some one is in the bath room. In fact the door was open. Vincent was inside placing my towel in the dry area of the bath room. Water was flowing and he was mixing it with hot water. Confused and surprised I asked him “What is that for?” He said “For you, you should bath with lukewarm water. The water might be cold as is and you came from work, you are surely tired.” Before I could speak he was already heading towards the door. Before he shut the door behind him he told me “Do not be long, you might get sick”. Before I could reply, he already shut the door behind him. I am already alone in the bath room and still surprised. I am supposed to say “I thought you are already having your lunch by now”.

You see, my reader, I am used on doing my own errand. Unless the task is impossible for me because of my slipped disk, I do it myself. I did not ask any assistance from Vincent. Vincent is not used on asking my assistance on his personal errand as well. We maintained that set –up so he could practice self –reliance. Hence, it is a surprise for me when he is doing the things I could do for myself. Well, it is not something that happened every day. Specially with matching adult-tone of “Don’t be long in the water, you might get sick”. I know what you might think, maybe he wants to ask for something. Nah … I raised him. He knows I don’t like going in circles. He grew up telling to me straightforward if he needs anything. Hmm… I wonder whats’ going on?

When I am dressed and ready to eat, an added unexpected scenario. I thought I will eat alone. However, when I entered the dining area, Vincent is preparing our lunch. He told me to take my seat so we could already eat our lunch. I would like to ask “What happened?”. However, before I could ask he just kissed me in the forehead and told me “I love you, Inay! Let us eat our lunch now”. So we ate and talk and talk while we eat. He told me about his day and his plan that was unrealized because of the weather. He kept on talking and talking. As I listened, I looked at my son intently. He has grown so much. The boy I took care of is now a full grown man. I can not help but to smile to myself.

I felt how my son cared for me. I suppose, my friend, there are things not needed to be told when you cared for another person. There are things that goes without saying.

I hope you enjoyed your lunch, what ever time zone you are in. I also would like to thank you for sharing your time with me as I mesmerized the simple pleasures and fulfillment of motherhood.

Have a great week day and always take care.

JOHN AND ROSE IN MY BLOGGER FRIENDS

In pursuit of my promise to myself that i will note and dedicate one post to each of the incoming member of my blogger list and friend in the internet, this post is for John and his wife, Rose. I will begin this with the recent members and to the upcoming members.

One of the recent member of my blog friends lists is John. His site is Sailors Adventures and Opinions. His blog is about the vessel where he express his life experiences as a sailor, as a father and as a husband. A journal of his interests and opinions on cars, health issues, product and services reviews, gadgets, music, cultures, and current events. One amazing thing about Johns' blog are the pictures he always posts. For people like me whose life is a routine, everything i see is just the same every day. The building where i work, the overpass, Walter Mart, the market, the jeepney, my house, my room, my laptop. A repeated process every day. Seeing posts and pictures taken by blogger like John, it took me to a different world, makes me astound to the different places and marvel at its beauty. Experience the simple yet beautiful side of life. I also see that when i read Roses' entry. It is nice. It could put a smile in my face while reading.

Johns' wife, Rose is also a blogger. I am pretty sure you read her posts as well. Her sites are Etcetera Etcetera, A Little Bit Of Everything, Our Clan's Marvelling, Rose's Obstacles and Glories, I am a regular reader of Rose's Obstacles and Glories. Rose had been included in my blogger lists since the first few months of my blog. I stopped writing, messed up my template, arranged my site and wrote again..Roses' site had been in my blogger set of friends. I thought i lost her for a while. I am thankful she was and still is a member of my blogger lists of friends. Rose's Obstacles and Glories is about life. the struggles and success that goes with living. Recently, Rose posted an entry entitled Playing with the Sun. I loved how the clouds talked to Rose. It was a nice shot.

John and Rose took me to the world of beauty and great scenery. Mostly, this is to thank the lovely couple for being a member of my blogger friend.

I hope John and Rose did not mind me posting their pictures.

Take care every one.

THE DREAM

A former co-worker and a friend who is now based in Seoul, South Korea shared this story to me. I am fortunate that the source of the story allowed me to post it in my site. I altered nothing. Hence, it is exactly as I had received it. By the way, this is a true story. In fact, if I am not mistaken, I know the boy in this story. Anyways, This story is good because every body dream of having a good house, an improved state of living, a higher education. I am not an exception to that. However, this boy dreamt for another being. A dream that started during younger years and transcends up until adulthood. Is that noble or not? You and only you, my dear reader, could confirm.

Three decades ago lives a young boy in a remote town north of Manila, Philippines. He used to attend a public school on their neighboring barangay. Every morning he would wake up early to fetch water and fill their big clay jar of water for their daily use while his younger sister cooked their breakfast. After that they will walk 20-25 minutes to go to school. During lunch time they would walk again the same distance, have lunch in their house and go back to school, and finally at the end of school day, they would walk again to go home. He and his sister had to do this because their daily allowance is just enough to buy one small piece of bread during recess time.

Everyday that has been their routine since he started going to school. But everyday this boy would pass by a home for the aged being run by a very good priest. He then later learned that this shelter relies heavily on donations and volunteers to keep it going. Sometimes they would stop near the house’s gate and peek inside. There he could see some people known to him are cleaning the house and the yard of the compound. He also learned that he has some relative that go there on Saturdays to help to the laundry. How he wished to help too in that shelter, but since he is very young then, he is afraid to ask as he maybe scolded. Then he said to himself, time will come and I shall be able to help this home for the aged. Every once in a while he would stop at its gate and will said to himself someday…………..and asked God to give him a chance to help the shelter. As he remember the word from the bible “ask and it shall be given up to you”, but one has to wait for HIS time on when it will be given to you, because HIS timing is so precise whenever HE gives what we asked from HIM.

Time flies and he was able to finish high school and he has gone to college. His college days were not easy. There were instances that he has to stop his college years he has not enough money to go on. Every summer vacation, he would ask his father, a carpenter, to allow him to come to him to work in a construction site hoping to save some money to continue his studies. It has becomes difficult for his father to send he and his siblings to college at the same time so he has to help his father anyway he can. There were times that he has to borrow money from his relatives for their allowance for a day. He was able to borrow only after hearing harsh and painful words. Almost every other day that has been the story. But he never gives up, he would always pray and ask God for help. Until he finally finishes his college studies and he recall his dream.

On the his first year after graduating college, looking for work is not easy, but after months of trying and frustrations, he was able to find a job his first. Salary was small, just enough for his daily needs, not even enough to buy him some clothes that he wish he had. So after six months he quit and looked for a new one, lucky for him he finds one. The salary was better than before, Christmas season comes and the he receives his first bonus and 13th month pay, he was so happy. Days before Christmas he went to the supermarket nearby to buy some grocery item and brought it to the home for the aged, and said to himself, ”so long I have waited for this day, and now here I am” and thanked God for the opportunity to help given to him. From then on every year before Christmas or whenever he receives bonus from the company he is working, he would go to the shelter to bring something in fulfillment of his long time dream and also encourage his siblings to do the same. Now he has his own family and nothing has changed, he is still doing it not only during Christmas season but whenever there is an opportunity to do it. He always brings along his wife and their children whenever he went to the shelter to teach his children the beauty of helping and giving.
As his father would always tell him, “helping others is a good deed even if you have nothing”.

So, what do you think? I am correct or am I right? [ Oopps… I suppose that gave you no option, right ? heheheh]

The picture above was taken from http://www.abc.net.au

Always take care of your selves and till my next entry.

LOKENDRA IN MY MYBLOGLIST COMMUNITY

Just recently, another site had been added to my community of “MyBlogLog”. One thing that I feel I should do but was not able to due to procrastination is to acknowledge those beautiful people who had been included in my community and those who had been included in my blog-friends list. Hey, these are my set of friend in the world of world wide web. I will start with the recent site included in my Mybloglog. I will also feature a post for the two recent blog-friends – John and Katherine in the next few entries.

Just today, a new site have been added to Mybloglog. He is Lokendra and his sites are http://karansguesthouse.wordpress.com and http://karans.info. This is the good about internet and blogging. It opens us to different worlds. We are able to see through the authors' mind. We are able to see different perspective and insights. Upon opening his site, I entered the world of Jaipur. It is the capital of Rajasthan State, in India. It is otherwise known as Pink City. Lokendras’ site is about Karan's Guesthouse. So, if you will be having any chance of going to Jaipur, Karan’s Guesthouse could be included in one of your option. Also, if by any chance you would visit Jaipur and would like to do some research, Lokendra had given good sources of information/libraries in his country.

Thank you for following me in Mybloglog, Lokendra and take care.

For my blogger friends and reader, take care and enjoy your week end.

TO THE LATE MRS. CORAZON AQUINO, AN ICON OF DEMOCRACY

(1933 - 2009)

It was almost 5:00am of August 1st when a co-worker said that Mrs. Aquino passed away. Then he said, is this confirmed? Is it true? He caught my attention, really. The thought was very remote for me. Was it yesterday or just the other day when i had a glimpse on the headline of a newspaper that Mrs. Aquino was actually feeling better. Or was it just me? Was i imagining i saw that news? I really can not tell anymore at that time. What i know was that i would not believe anything unless i see it in the national television or in the news paper. Then, in between 7:00am to 8:00am, a friend, Ted, told me we should get something to eat. Hence, we took a quick visit to the pantry to get some food. That was when i saw the confirmation. Mrs. Corazon Aquino passed away at 3:18am that same day. She died at the age of 76 and her death was caused by colon cancer. I was looking at the television unable to move. Seeing her pictures in the television as if she was still alive made me speechless . Those pictures were actually taken before she got ill. I felt saddened.

The late Mrs. Corazon Aquino was the first lady president of the Philippines. Honestly, she is one of the presidents i knew who was not a traditional politician. During younger years, people called a traditional politician "trapo". She had not had any interest of acquiring power for purposes on enriching herself with vast material wealth. The other one that i am referring to was the late Pres. Magsaysay. [ though he is way way beyond my time, my parents used to tell me how Magsaysay was during his presidential seat]. Being already a teen ager during Edsa 1, Mrs. Aquino, for me is more than the title of being the first lady president of the Philippines. She is the housewife who stood against a dictator in order to restore to the filipino people the democracy that we had been yearning for during that time.

Mrs. Corazon Aquino will be on her final resting place in Aug 5, beside her husband Benigno Aquino at the Manila Memorial Park. August 5 had been declared holiday by Malacanang as a commemoration to the late former president.

Mrs. Corazon Aquino is one of those figures that one would remember not just because she is another leader..she is more than that. She was a leader who showed her people what the word noble really means.

The picture had been taken from http://yfred.files.wordpress.com