Daily Happy Thoughts

According to Richard Fletcher, the Deputy City Editor of Telegraph.co.uk,

The 3.5in floppy disk, once an icon of the computer age, is to be cleared from the shelves of PC World as demand for disks plummets.

Fletcher’s article PC World announces the end of the floppy disk was published online last 30 Jan 2007.

I cannot remember the last time I used a 3-in floppy disk (a.k.a. diskette). In like manner, I have not seen desktop computers and laptops with built-in floppy disk drives these days except for the CPUs at the Social Security System (SSS), the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), and United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) offices. I would have to assume that these offices specifically ordered them from suppliers with such specs because their respective offices require their clients to submit data saved in these diskettes. What happened to the portable, stable thumb drives that replaced these floppy disks? Aptly, these offices should update their computerized system to be compatible with a USB device before the supply of floppy disks ran out in the market.

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In my 3 decades of enjoying God’s gift of life, I have had the pleasure to rub elbows with persons whose experience, hobby, or work has shaped my attitude, careers and positive outlook on life. I would  also like to acknowledge the fact that I would not be able to make the decisions I have made and will still make had I not received the teachings lovingly and painstakingly instilled to me by my DadMa in the course of living their lives as an example and the words shared to us during happy conversations over meals or hurtful admonitions when we’ve done something wrong. In my young mind in the past years, those seemingly unimportant teachings before are now the most treasured as how valued certified diamonds are to women.

In my humble opinion, parents prepare us to face the real world but it is our decisions that make us the person we are now. Hence, make the right decisions because when we do, we make God, our parents, and ourselves proud. So for a more meaningful life, seek God, live each day trying the best we could to be pleasing in God’s eyes, learn from failures, and find others with similar values.

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For Christmas, Borski and I got ourselves techie gifts since our Sony Ericsson P910i units are already close to being extinct. But mind you, those units have served us pretty well since we got them in 2005 i think. It is a reliable unit, and quite durable. My only problem with it is that we can’t get a spare battery and my battery has been dying out on me rather fast these days, which is only acceptable considering the long and fruitful service life that it has provided us.

Now, on with my rant for this morning. As I said, we got ourselves two Blackberry Storm 2 units last Christmas. I could honestly say that I did lack in doing background checks on the performance of the unit, or a more thorough review, as I may have missed out problems regarding the unit until I just recently I have experienced the problem firsthand, only to find out that there were a lot of complaints already on the web. I do remember googling for “Blackberry Storm 2 problems” but somehow didn’t find enough convincing results to deter me from purchasing them. I guess I was too excited and impulsive for my own good.

One thing I don’t like about the unit is that, unlike Nokia and other more common brands, to access the net on the unit, you would have to enroll in the Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) to be able to do that, which you would need to pay on top of your regular mobile phone plan, whereas if it were, say a Nokia E72 phone, I would just be able to browse the net while just consuming my mobile plan consumable amount. Had I known that were the case, I wouldn’t have been so optimistic. Once again, it was a case of leaping before you looked. LoL. I guess I am learning from the school of hard knocks.

Another thing that has been eating up at me at the moment is the problem on dropped calls. When I went home for the Christmas holidays, I started experiencing dropped calls at the 20-30 second time duration of a call, which is so annoying to say the least!!! And as I googled the keywords “Blackberry Storm 2″ + “call failed”, guess what I found…there were already a lot of complaints on this issue, even from people locked up to a particular mobile carrier.

For now, I am at a loss as to how to solve this problem. I should just have gotten an Iphone instead. Grrrrr

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As some of you may have noticed, we haven’t been quite active on our blog as of late. Blame it on our Facebook addiction. LoL. Anyway, a lot of things have been going on these past few months, including our most recent Manila getaway with Ace and Lyn. I do hope I can get to post some of our pics from that (if I haven’t already forgotten how to post pics on here..haha).

Arriving in Dumaguete via a Cebu Pacific flight earlier today, Borski and I were pleasantly surprised that Dumaguete (well technically, the airport is in Sibulan town) now has a baggage carousel in its arrival area. Yey! At least it won’t anymore be that barriotic. Lolz.

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Write it in your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

The instruction above is for me (and yours, too, if you want). I actually saved this one-liner in my drafts last year yet, no succeeding sentences right after that. I have not had the time to tinker around dailyhappythoughts’ dashboard since November 29, 2008 until yesterday morning, right after I watched Obama’s inaugural speech in CNN. The first two weeks of this year felt like it is already the last two weeks of every quarter in a year.  This is not unlike any last two weeks of every quarter in terms of reports generation. The similarity ends there though, at least for the tasks that need to be done . Understandable.  The level of responsibility and degree of complexity in decision making, analysis of data, and status updating of the actions items to mention a few are much more than the quarter-end experience — simply because this is for all the four quarters combined a.k.a “entire year”. Hence, my little “me” time started tonight with watching Tayong Dalawa (uhuh! you read that right. I watch TV soap operas but is an avid fan only during the introduction phase, with the exception of Pangako sa yo), then eating guava, and finally writing this.

Now that the vibrancy of my 13-day vacation is starting to stagger away from me, I’ve decided to fortify the implementation of that which is written above in italics. I’ve learned early in life that it is a jungle out there. “Dress appropriately” as what one of Velvet TV shows’ teaser say. I would say I’d like to dress myself with positive attitude and habits. I will dress myself with all the positive talk that will produce the most productive of good for me. More often that not, people will always strip you of what is good. What’s more surprising is that they are sometimes the person(s) close to you or the ones you least expect it to be. Hence, the need to regularly deposit to our happy memories bank account, just like our savings account, so that when tough times arrive, there’s always some  happy memories to pluck from the back of our minds, look back and color our stormy day. Most importantly, the good thing of living in this world is the presence of our Almighty Father and the comfort of knowing that He has already planned what’s in store for us. So there’s nothing more to do but move one step at a time forward.

What better way to start the year right than writing in our hearts that every day is the best day of the year. Oh! And keep your fork! 

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This afternoon, Lalab, my sister-in-law, and I went to one of Dumaguete City’s local stores to buy a plate rack.  Ian and I need one for the dinnerware set we chose for our daily use. The other set is piled up together with the other gifts in room 2 (our designated storage room for the gifts) pending arrangement until we will be able to buy a cabinet.

We were able to find a light green-colored plastic plate rack with transparent cover. This plate rack considerably saves space and has a decorative effect at the same time (an unexpected plus! Yey!). This “find” is the root cause of all the cleaning that occurred tonight. Have you ever experienced the urge of cleaning the spot first where you’re going to place your new toy before actually placing it there?  Well, that’s exactly what I always do when I buy something new for use so that scrubbing the tiles at the top of the kitchen sink was performed first, followed by the washing and drying of the plates and other utensils, then the arranging of all the utensils in the plate rack, which eventually ended up to a neat and clean kitchen. Whew!

I think this is one of the tasks of what they called “nesting” or is it? It could be that my OC personality just went overdrive after seeing the house in disarray.  ;o)

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Last Saturday, at around 4 o’clock in the afternoon, I found myself seated at the lobby of the Sulo Hotel in Quezon City waiting for my mom to come out from her seminar in the 2nd floor.

As I sat there, I couldn’t help but wonder what it was I was doing during that same day exactly one year ago.

Ahh..and then I remembered. I was on duty at the control room of our geothermal facility in Northern Negros. There I was together with my supervisor, as we both sat on our high-back chairs, as laid back as laid back gets, exchanging funny stories and talking on just about anything and everything under the sun.

I just couldn’t help but shake my head thinking how I found myself so far away from home, and was much more amazed even, on how I was able to find my way to the seminar venue of my mom with just the aid of text message instructions on how to commute from our “guest house” from a friend of mine from Manila. What’s more, I was suffering from a bad case of LBM…hehehe..which i suspect came from the 2 pcs of toron that I gobbled the day before.

Actually, it took a lot of prodding and convincing from my mom to get me to meet her at the hotel that time as I was insisting that I didn’t want to leave our guest house, lest I tempt fate and find myself sweating profusely and desperately controlling nature’s course..hahaha.

As I sat there, I made a mental note to myself to blog about these thoughts..hence this entry.

And then a thought then occurred to me……

Where would I probably be this day next year? Ever given that a thought?

One thing’s for certain though, tomorrow, I’m gonna be leaving on the first flight to Dumaguete. I have my ticket in my hand. Wahooo!

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Have a break!

My brain is just about drained right now. Hehe. Now I know how Borski feels on a typical work day. For the past week, I have been wrestling with budget files for next year’s operations. I haven’t blogged for quite a while so I guess in a way I am hoping this would be an avenue for stress relief for me. What with my Excel worksheet taking all of my analytical skills just to balance the entries. LOL.

On a positive note though, our meal expenses are reimbursed during our stay here so I’m getting used to take out food without worrying about the budget. Hehe. I’d never thought these TV ads that display the order hotlines would come in handy. These past days, especially with the bad weather, we have been consistently ordering out food. The other night was Pizza Hut menu, and last night we had a KFC menu. Imagine us waiting for the TV to flash us the ads because we didn’t know the hotline numbers, while the rain was pounding nonstop outside. LOL.

Thank God for takeout food!

For everyone else out there, have a KitKat.

As I was writing this, I was planning on uploading a KitKat pic..anyway, some error message cropped up whenever I tried doing this. So I gave up on trying to post a pic. Anyway, I hope this issue gets resolved soon. I already asked Tomtack’s help regarding this matter.

To Rhys/Tat: Pasensya na sa very few updates on here. Medyo busy lang gyud. Salamat kaayo for always dropping by. Hope that all is fine there sa inyo. Naa nay Made in Australia bai? hehehe.

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