Daily Happy Thoughts

After I posted the previous FF and updated the site, Viola! The new questions were already posted..so I am doing this again, for the second twice.

Appetizer

When someone smiles at you, do you smile back?

.: Yup. Sometimes, I even do the first smile. After all, a smile doesn’t cost anything right?

Soup

Describe the flooring in your home.  Do you have carpet, hardwood, vinyl, a mix?

.: It’s a combo of wood tiles in the bedrooms, and ceramic tiles in the living room and everywhere else.

Salad

Write a sentence with only 5 words, but all of the words have to start with the first letter of your first name.

.: An alligator ate an apple. LOL!

Main Course

Do you know anyone whose life has been touched by adoption?

.: Yup. I have known of this story of a family who had a youngest child who was adopted. She grew up all spoiled. When she was of age, she discovered that she was adopted and made a 180 degree turn after she learned of this bit. I guess she was touched by being so loved even though she was just adopted. And to think no one in the family told her of this bit even though she was behaving so badly.

Dessert

Name 2 blue things.

.: This blue logbook in our control room, and the blue jeans that I have on.

TGIF!! Later allegheyter!

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Uhurm…seems like we haven’t been quite consistent with the memes that we have been doing..blame it on busyness at work, and at play. LOL. Didnt’t have much to do today so I checked out today’s Qs for Friday’s Feast but there weren’t any new ones yet, so I decided to do this one instead..belatedly. Then again, better late than nevah.
 

Appetizer

What was your favorite cartoon when you were a child?

  .: Tom and Jerry. Never quite gotten enough of the troublesome pair. I still watch it now when I chance upon it on the TV.

 Soup

Pretend you are about to get a new pet. Which animal would you pick, and what would you name it?

 .: I think I’d get another doggie. A big St. Bernard, and I’d name him Jordan.

Salad

On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how much do you enjoy getting all dressed up for a special occasion?

.: I am not much of a dresser, but for really really special occasions, like when I need to be in formal attire, I’d say I enjoy it so much I would say 10.

Main Course

What kind of music do you listen to while you drive?

.: Depends on my mood. Metallica works for me on long trips. I just try to avoid the real mellow ones or else I’d doze off. However, if I have someone along with whom I can sing with, then I guess mellow tones are nice too. 

Dessert

When was the last time you bought a clock? And in which room did you put it?

.: It was after we transferred to our current house in Bacolod and it was in preparation for the housewarming, around June last year. It is in the living room, and it is a wall clock with the Phoenix Suns logo as the background.

I hope to be more consistent on our WW, WS, and QOTW posts as well. So, there ya’ go. Happy Friday guys! 

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What is a good posture?

Posture is the position in which you hold your body upright against gravity while standing, sitting or lying down. Good posture involves training your body to stand, walk, sit and lie in positions where the least strain is placed on supporting muscles and ligaments during movement or weight-bearing activities. In a way, it involves carrying yourself well.

A proper posture:

• Keeps bones and joints in the correct alignment so that muscles are being used properly.
• Helps decrease the abnormal wearing of joint surfaces that could result in arthritis.
• Decreases the stress on the ligaments holding the joints of the spine together.
• Prevents the spine from becoming fixed in abnormal positions.
• Prevents fatigue because muscles are being used more efficiently, allowing the body to use less energy.
• Prevents strain or overuse problems.
• Prevents backache and muscular pain.
• Contributes to a good appearance.

In our family, we have been quite fortunate and have been blessed with good posture and without any abnormality in our back anatomy. I remember having a classmate in high school that had scoliosis, and he had to wear these very cumbersome back braces, which really looked quite uncomfortable. I have learned since that there already are new technologies to deal with posture correction. These technological advancements have helped a lot in improving the quality of living of those with abnormalities on their posture.

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Did You Know That….

…the geothermal field we have in the Philippines is dominated by two-phase fluid?

For those of you who are not familiar with this term, two-phase fluid is a term referring to a mixture of fluid having 2 states, i.e. liquid and gas.

In contrast to the “dry” steamfield in other countries, ours in the Philippines consists of a mixture of about 60-80% liquid (which we call brine, partly due to its mineral content), and just about 20-40% steam. Now in order to harness this steam component, the two-phase fluid extracted from geothermal wells must be made to pass through a separator vessel, where the 2 components of the mixture are separated through the cyclone effect.

This is what a separator vessel looks like (actually, this is a pair of them).

I do hope this hasn’t gotten your nose bleeding guys. Just a lil’ trivia for you.

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I have recently signed up for Izea’s SocialSpark. I am talking about this:

From what I gleaned, it is a “social network” for advertisers and publishers/bloggers. However, it has a twist in that, unlike a regular social network, instead of signing up to make friends, instead you join to meet advertisers. So in a sense, it is essentially a matchmaking network for the blogger and advertisers.

If you blog, or you write, why not get paid for it right? You can write about websites, products, services, and/or companies and earn cash fro providing your honest opinion and valuable feedback to the advertisers.

In Social Spark, honesty to the readers is valued, as they have no restrictions on how a blogger expresses his/her genuine thoughts on the Advertiser’s products and/or services, as long as they are honest in writing and reviewing the opportunities. Not being honest will eventually hurt a blogger’s reputation and credibility, so it is suggested that if a particular opportunity doesn’t feel right, then the blogger should just go on ahead and pass up that particular opportunity.

It is very easy to sign up, as I have signed up in a matter of minutes myself. In the SocialSpark Marketplace is where all opportunities will be listed, with their requirements and how much a blogger will be paid. The website has lots of useful features and has a steadily growing active community. One of the profiles I have found online is that one of KML, which is a cool photoblog, being interested in photography myself. However, for now, I find it somewhat a little bit complex to navigate, but I am somehow confident that I will get the hang of it in no time.

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As I may have already mentioned in an earlier post, I am applying for a transfer to another department of ours, the drilling department.

Just last Monday, I dropped by our HR department to inquire on the status of my application, and to get an update how things are progressing. I asked my supervisor, Engr. Bambi, to come with me and help me by lawyering for me, he being familiar with the often long and tedious process of transferring to other sites/departments, having just transferred to our site just 2 years ago.

The HR supervisor joked with Engr. Bambi and chided him as to why he was intent on helping me process my transfer, perhaps he was in a hurry to get rid of me. LOL. After this exchange of jokes, the HR supervisor jokingly told Engr. Bambi that I would be released only after our annual invitational badminton games.

I wasn’t actually thinking that our annual badminton games would still push through this year as our company has just been recently privatized, and we still didn’t know the concrete direction the new management is heading towards. If it pushes through, this will be the third straight year that we will be having our games. The first one was held in our head office in Manila, and the second one was held in Leyte last year, and I have been quite fortunate to have gone to visit our other sites as a result of  participating in these games. This year, the host site would be our Mindanao site in Kidapawan, but I think the games will just be held in Davao. I just learned too that the host site is already doing the costing and planning of this event as representatives from many sites would be travelling there and there would be things to be arranged like the travel arrangements, lodging accommodations, among others.

I think there is a snag in that this year, I think they are thinking of cutting costs and they are  evaluating the possibility of the participants travelling by boat.  If you ask me, personally I think it would still be advantageous to travel by plane as the company would still be able to save on the man-hours, and the difference between the plane and boat fares is no longer that substantial, what with the current trend of airlines that are offering a lot of flight deals nowadays.

If the games push through, Borski and I will be in Davao around the 2nd week of June. I have already spoken with her, and she is ecstatic at the prospect of that getaway. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

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Good thing Arlene gave me this! I will now be guided on the four (4) topmost items for me to accomplish.

1. Hear the 5:30 PM Wednesday mass.

2. Get my washed clothes from the clothes washer.

3. Pay my apartment rental on 07 May 2008.

4. Eat the apple I bought and get my daily dose of antioxidants before it rots.

Now I want Sandy, Andrew, Abie, Caroline and Chesca to also complete their To Do list for their own items to be done tomorrow or for the entire week. Thank you!

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