Let’s Drink To That

Yay! It seems i just get the chance to post once every month. LOL. I am currently staying at the housing complex of our Leyte office, which is a 30-minute trip from Ormoc City.

Just a while ago, the Smartbro connection here at the housing unit where we stay at has just been repaired. It was damaged during typhoon Frank and it took them this long to restore the connection. Anyway, what’s important is we already have a connection here. Hopefully I can also find time to post because nowadays, I just cant find time to do the juggling.

I’ll be staying here for the duration of our 1 month training here in Leyte so hopefully I’ll be back in Dumaguete by the last week of August.

Anyway, I do hope to be able to post more in the next few days..

Weeew! I know, i know. I haven’t been online much the past month. Blame it on the busy-ness (kuno lol), and the fact that I have recently been living high up there in the mountains. I am now in Dumaguete, and I haven’t been home for quite a while. My folks are in the US now and they won’t be home until the 17th so we are pretty much left to fend for ourselves right now. hehe..

Regarding my hiatus, I have recently transferred to another department in the company where I work for, and right now, I am undergoing training as a drilling engineer, and this will be going on for the next 7 or so months. While on training and while on the job, I will be staying on the staff house, which is on site, and there is no internet connection there.

But hey, looking on the bright side, I am enjoying free board and lodging, and not to mention that when I will be done with my training, I will have more opportunities to work outside the country for $$$..lol. As of now, I still have to make sacrifices which will hopefully pay off in the near future. Talk about long term planning.

This big new world that has unraveled in front of me has been quite challenging, and has me learning from the school of hard knocks..and many times have I literally knocked myself on the head for acting stupid. But hey, I am learning, albeit the hard way. But I am learning, and that is what matters, right?

So right now, I am learning to be a “jack of all trades” hehehe. Hopefully, I will be able to master even just one. LOL :-p

I was quite…well..what would be the best term to describe it..ummm..astounded(?) when after dinner today, an officemate of mine told me, “In 20 years time, mark my words, Andrew will be the richest among your brood..”

He was referring to my brother Andrew whom he got to meet during the course of the summer wherein they spent the most part of their summer vacation here in Bacolod. True, he said that Andrew lacks the maturity and behaves quite like a child most of the times (an example of which is that he could easily be bribed by the promise of food..lol), but that officemate of mine saw in Andrew a trait which he saw in my father. From his words, he told me that he had just gotten to know us for a short time, but he saw in Andrew a trait which only he possessed, which he got from our dad. He told me, only Andrew got up early in the morning to get busy with whatever things needed to be done. Meaning, that he was industrious, which unlike us, would be content on spending the time on bed early in the morning, especially if there weren’t any things that immediately needed attending to.

As I pondered on this thought, I smiled. Perhaps, this was the Johari window at work. I have never quite thought of it that way, but knowing how perceptive that particular officemate of mine was, I guess he did have a reason to be able to come up with that inference.

I hope he is right though. All in all, I am hoping that all of us siblings would be successful in whatever endeavor we choose to undertake.

That is the beauty of being in a family. I love my family. And I wouldn’t trade it for anything else in the world.

Just came from the airport this afternoon after picking up the parents from their flight from Manila. They just came from the US embassy for their appearance for their visa application. Thank God that they were granted a visa for their trip come June 21. Actually, as soon as they got word on the status of their application, they immediately sent a text message yesterday so I knew of the news fast.

They will be heading there for an international convention of their church outreach group for married couples, the Worldwide Marriage Encounter, i dunno if you heard of that group.

They have been quite active in that apostolate of theirs. Come to think of it, their involvement in that group had quite an impact on our family life.

Let me just explain how. You see, before their involvement on that organization, there used to be 4 of us, composed of 3 boys, and then the only girl. For a while there, they decided that it would be a period for them as 4 children would be enough. The gaps in years of the 4 children was 2 years for the first 3 children, and then 3 years for the only girl. After their involvement (our sister was already 5 years old by then), we had brother number five, and just 11 months after that, we had our bunso (our youngest). LoL. I often hear them jokingly say that the last 2 were the result of overflowing love.

Anyway, we have had quite a journey with our family.

If you ask me, I would always tell you, “The more the merrier.”

And oh, regarding that US trip, I’ll be eagerly awaiting the pasalubong.

Yet again, I changed the theme once more. Hehe.

I remember growing up, whenever someone keeps changing his mind, he is likened to a girl, perhaps attributing that unique trait of always changing his mind to that of a female. Well, I don’t know if there is any  truth to that. Anyway, it is quite nice to break the monotone every once in a while don’t you think?

This theme is called Silver Sleek, another theme I downloaded off of the Wordpress collection of free themes.

Guess what else is new?

Ummm..you might’ve noticed that the blogroll widget on the 2nd sidebar already has a scrollbar..that’s all thanks to Roselle for putting up with my bugging her to teach me how she did it on her page. Haha! Actually, I wasn’t able to do it like the way she described it in the post because when I followed the instructions to the detail, it still didn’t give the results that were shown like that in here site. So I did some experimenting with the theme editor (the sidebar.php) and viola! haha..in Visayan, the term would be “chamba”.

Toink!

This pic was forwarded by a friend. Found it so amusing since I studied elementary in an institution run by nuns. Hope you find the humor in this all.

Cheers!

This is my first entry for WW, so allow me to to be not so wordless. LOL.

I have just finished tinkering with the sidebars. Actually, I was tinkering with it yesterday, with disastrous results because when I finished with my experimentation, eureka! The sidebars were no longer to be seen..toink..so I had to re upload the theme through CuteFtp to reset it to its original state.

Now the question. Why was I tinkering with it? Simple. I wanted to either (1) add a scrollbar to the blogroll, (2) auto link the blogroll to appear and automatically update in another page, or (3) add a drop down list for the blogroll, all with the ultimate goal of saving some space and avoiding the clutter to the page brought about by having a loooong blogroll list such as the one on DHT. You see, I have been manually writing the blogroll page which is quite tedious and time consuming. So much for working smart.

Regarding item (1), I haven’t found any plugin that addresses this concern, although I have found one site (Reflexes) running on Wordpress that had a scrollbar on the blogroll. On item (2), I found the plugin and installed and activated it, but didn’t get the desired results, meaning, it didn’t show in the other page that I created. I already queried the author regarding its status on Wordpress 2.5.1, thinking this may be the only reason why it didn’t work as I followed their instructions to the dot. On item (3), I found a plugin for it and I was quite successful with making it appear in the sidebar, but encountered the minor problem on the alignment as it spills out of the sidebar (see for yourself LOL). Anyway, I am thinking that perhaps that particular plugin must have been designed for a single sidebar theme (just a hunch), but I have already asked the plugin creator to take a look at it and help me address the problem. It is actually a very cool plugin because it shows your links grouped into whatever categories you have grouped them in. I am just waiting on his reply and I do hope he can help me on this one.

*Fingers crossed*

Just about finished installing all the plugins here, as well as the cbox..and yeah! got 2 links in the blogroll page already. hehe. I hope to be able to see the list grow in the next couple of days so I guess there is much work to be done, and more importantly, many people and sites to visit.

Anyway, didn’t feel at all sleepy up until about now (4:28 a.m.) since I slept through most of the hours in the day earlier, coming from night shift work so I guess you could say that my body clock is messed up at the moment. But still, I think it is still ok since I won’t be working until around 2pm later today.

While doing the usual online stuff, I was also watching “Meet Joe Black” on HBO, so you could say that I was taking it easy. Add to that, we were on a conference with Kerslyn and Borski on YM. Talk about multitasking. LOL. Anyway, still, we couldn’t be on a voice conference as I don’t think that that is still possible with the Windows Vista OS. Which gives me an idea to try and look up this particular problem and search for possible writeups regarding this one. You never know, maybe there are already available updates for YM to enable voice conferencing on a Windows Vista OS.

Also, tried signing up for UnionBank’s EON cyber account but it seems that their registration page is down at the moment, so I think I’ll try that again tomorrow.

I guess that’ll be all the cyberwork for now, and I will have to continue with the crusade tomorrow.