Coffee Addict

It has been days since I last tasted coffee. I don't care if it's just instant coffee. Coffee is part of me now. It runs through my system.

Prayer for Someone with Cancer

This prayer is for Judy. Fighting cancer is hard, and now that it has reached to I would say worse, I would like to extend my warmest gratitude of bringing up a son like Jerry. It would have been great to meet you but in time we will meet and through your son I would have known you personally.

Dear Father,

Thank you for the life that was given to us. A chance to see the wonderful planet that you have created just for us humans. We would have not lived a life so great but sometimes fate can be ironic. What can happen to us can be tragic or a simple knock out. You made it all happened Lord, God. With your mighty hands you shaped what's ahead of us and still you gave us that power to decide whether to do it right or wrong. There is no good and bad with you Lord, so even if we commit mistakes you are still there loving us. During these times that we going to lose another love one, we humbly ask and pray that to those who are left behind on this earth will find solace and peace with the rest of the family. We may be able to accept the truth that cancer can hit anyone of us. We may be able to do remember others whom we have neglected and who is currently suffering from cancer too. Our stories can inspire others but we do not intend on teaching them how to reflect, be it your way Oh God. This will surely be a wakening that irregardless of life's hardships and difficulties we will all come back to You and that day is when we die. You take care of our Judy, she means a lot to us. To Jerry and Steve, whom Judy has been a mother, may they be able to move on and live the lives that they should be living with love and fear to you God. To the grandson and granddaughters of Judy, may they be able to look life ahead of them as complex and that it needs them to decide whether to go this way or that way. For me, Oh God, that I may be able to give strength to these people. Be able to be strong, patient and understanding. We lift unto you Lord, our Judy. Let it be your will be done.

Amen.

Before I end this post, let us reflect that even though we are still alive and lucky that we are still here on earth, we shouldn't slip in our minds that there are others who are suffering from certain illness and it loses their hope for survival. Some has been bitter, been so mad, and here we are busy with the daily routine in our lives forgetting that we owe this life to someone. The life that gave us earth and each one of us were given special task to do.

Hello Friendster People

Welcome to my very own blog. You will get to read stuff from my life, my marketing life, what's in my thoughts, road trips and food trips, and a lot of more of insights and views. Find time to read the old posts as well, and leave a shout at the shout box at the right corner. Leave a comments too if you find it interesting or we have the same views.

Have a nice day people. Until the next post.

Always
Hunee

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Lo dubito

Ci sono periodi in mezzo delle difficoltà e dei dubbi se siete di destra o errati, là qualcosa accadono che marche voi felici. Uno cosa che sta importunandolo è che se sono di destra o errato levarsi in piedi a che cosa penso è giusto contrario a che cosa altri pensano quale sono sono così errato. A volte credo nelle accuse che sia torto in modo da lo ha importunato perché potrebbe andare indietro me ed interesserà che cosa giornalmente gradisco il mio lavoro. Alla conclusione di pensare giornaliere, sembra a sia è l'altro senso intorno. Ho ottenuto che cosa sto aspettando e quella persona che lo contraddice perde qualcosa. Era giusto un evento ordinario o è questo un prova che sono di destra? È duro essere umano. Devo passare e sto camminando lentamente ancora pensando a questo proposito ma sono benissimo come ero prima.

For Those Who Read My Blog

I started blogging since May this year, and I like doing it. Whether it'll cause me trouble or not, I say what I want to say only because I don't like other means to say it. This blog is all about what I feel and my reactions to things said and done to me or not to me or to those that is seen by the naked eye.

As I've checked my Google Analytics, I was surprised that other people from different places in this world checked out my blog. Some put their comments while others just read them through. I know from the very start that soon this will happen but I didn't expect that it'll happen sooner. I also know that if this is read by just anyone then I should be careful with what I write, exactly what I did from the very start. If you ever notice that some write ups are all about me being so mad about something or someone. Do take note that I did not write their names on to protect those people whether they are close to me or not. There are a lot of people who does not like the way I do blogging. Someone told me yesterday that if they get affected only because they knew I was pertaining to them or I was too obvious I was writing about them. Which is right, and the person who told me that is none other than a pastor at a church.

Some people make reactions in the way they want it to be known to the other like say it out without considering there might be other reasons. While there are others who would rather say it in another way.

For those who read my blog:

From the Philippines
(Quezon, Parañaque, Cebu, Davao)
Maraming Salamat Po!

From the United States
(Fresno, Pleasanton, La Jolla, Irvine, Salt Lake City, Orlando, Miami, Hilliard, Richardson, Shreveport, Edmonds, Alexandria and Southfield)
Thanks a lot!

From the United Kingdom
(London, New Castle Upon Tyne)
Thank you so much!

From Germany
(Berlin and Nuremberg)
Danke soviel Völker!

From Belgium
(Brussels)
Danke soviel Völker!
Merci tellement !

From New Zealand
(North Shore)
Thank you!

From Italy
Grazie così tanto!

From Mexico
(Villahermosa)
¡Gracias!

From Switzerland
(Zurich)
Danke die Schweiz!
Grazie la Svizzera!
Merci la Suisse !

From Pakistan
Thank you so much!

From Belarus
(Minsk)
Thanks!

From Senegal
(Dakar)
Thanks!

From Canada
(London)
Thank you so much!

From France
(Paris)
Merci tellement !

From Ireland
Thanks!


Thanks a lot to those who left a comment. Comments do help me improve my blog. Hope to see your names sooner people.

Sonntag Traurigkeit

它應該是一放鬆的天但它結果是一哀傷一個。首先, 他們全都恨我。其次, 他們聽起來如他們永遠將恨我。

我不意味接觸他們的自我但是我看的方式是他們得到了創傷與什麼我寫。我寫了結束損害他們的一些詞因為它是他們和首先, 我從未寫了他們的名字對此。他們受傷。我受傷當我寫了它擊倒但我必須讓它繼續和行動。

我並且認為他們要我說抱歉。我抱歉。它會是足夠嗎? 我認為不如此, 我將說抱歉因為我傷害了他們。它不是我的意圖傷害他們所以我沒有寫他們的名字對此。我會想要讓它在我外面因此我寫它擊倒。居於誰也許讀它從未會知道誰他們是因為我沒有說名字根本。

我仍然知道I 聲音如我想要證明某事, 並且我。我想要證明對他們, 這是我。我會關心如果某事發生在他們並且我知道他們做太但我的呼喊是我會希望您照料我既使它太一點。我想要睡覺。您會關心嗎? 請?

Détestez-moi... m'aiment

Détestez-moi parce que je ne suis pas vos commandes. N'importe ce que vous suffirez et ce que vous me direz toujours me doivent suivre mes instincts sur prendre la décision sur qui à ce qui à dire au sujet de quelque chose ou de quelqu'un parce que ce seul est moi et moi.

Aimez-moi parce que vous pouvez obtenir quelque chose de moi ou parce que vous juste m'aimez pour moi suis ce qui suis j'et vous aimez que parce que je fais un stand à ce que je dis et .

See, I can write in some other language. I love reading this book.

Justice? Just this? or Just Tiis?

Said and done. No matter how hard you wanna bring it back, it'll never come back.

Justice for me is when someone commits mistakes and everyone agreed to punish him in prison. Justice is rightfulness or lawfulness, as of a claim or title. When someone disagree then he shall be condemned. When someone does not conform to what is righteous to someone it brings bad meaning to someone so they impose such justice.

Just This is something that you know can be considered but then again it is unlawful and not right to the eyes of someone else. You would want to react but you couldn't because it's Just This.

Just Tiis is something that comes along with Just This. You don't want to make comment nor make accusations when you know you have your own point and views and you just decide not to share it.

This morning, on my way to work, one school girl seated next to me made a sound using the coin tap on the steel bar which is normally done by anyone else. The girl was quite scared to say, "Tabi lang po." The jeepney driver was angry because he did not hear it all. I made a comment on she's just a little girl leave it alone. There everyone looked at me. I said, "So? Do you want to your kids to be told like that?" Then they said, "She was tapping the steel bar about 5 minutes ago, it was your radio that causes you not hear the tap."

Indeed, it was justice for my part. As for the little girl, only because she was just little, she would think it is Just This, when you are still small and elders think they are elders and they know better Just This and Just Tiis is the only thing to do.

Everyone is not the same, everyone is not born to be identical to each other nor a prototype of another. We have our own righteous ways, and conformities that will not be just to another. There is no such thing as we should do this and that because it is set by the society we live in. Neither it is the way things should be. Move on, adapt and live along. If you get hurt tell them the way you want it to be if they don't like so be it, you don't live to please them.

Transformers

I haven't made anything for the movie "Transformers" yet. I've totally forgot to do one article for the movie.

I've watched the movie along with Kuya Dax and Dr. Janet Pacifico. Dr. Janet would say, "If it's not a good movie then you have to pay me back." When we got inside the cinema, you would see a lot of Davaoeños are watching this sci-fi movie. I love it when they were cartoons, I love them more now that they are real. Specially now that they made a real size of a transformer. Wow!!!

I wanna clap my hands while I was watching it, and I wanna shout when I was watching it. All others who are in the movie house are clapping and cheering every time the Autobots kick **s.

It was on good sci-fi movie. Good job Micheal Bay.

For Someone Out There

I am going to republish this blog and make it not too obvious as for the request of the person whom this blog is address to.

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water, at the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house." The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?" "That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."

My point here is that, in each one of us there is imperfection. No matter how hard we try to make things better. In my case, I am too frank and most of the times I say it bluntly without knowing that I've hurt the ones near me and they will all presume I am so bad. Honestly, I stand to what I say and because I am that kind of person, others would appreciate my big mouth only because it has opened a big door of what is reality all about.

My Teddy would always tell me I am bad in a way for others but I am actually telling them to grow up. It would be easier to hear it from someone you know that from someone whom you don't know and you've heard them talking about you.

I'm sharing you this because I thought you might want to share it to some people you know as well. My real mother would always tell me, "Everyone is beautiful in some other ways and when collected together, it is the thing that makes the world round." I call this "Hey! Don't look at me. Look at yourself."

Happy Birthday Mom

November 1, 1998, the day my mom died. It has been 9 years and I still don't understand why she died.

Mom left for Taiwan, leaving her 4 kids behind. I am the eldest of the family, so I was the only one who was confused on why she has to leave. Dad worked in a big company, we were all in private schools so I thought we were alright. I miss childhood, it was when Mom was more caring and you can see her all day in the house. It was a happy family back then, but I guess my parents fight because everything are changing. I think they do fight, I seldom see them fight but I'm sure they have that little fights that I don't know.

Why does she has to leave then? At my young age, I began to think that Dad is not earning that much to support all 4, 3 in a private schools and 1 who is still 3 years old.

When I was in high school, waking up in the morning, getting ready for school and you can see your mom making breakfast for all of you making sure all we need are there. By the time we are about to leave the house for school, Mom won't be there to make sure I took the school bus. I understand that Mom has a little store to attend to and if she won't be there early then she will lose some.

High school graduation, again my Mom was not there to see me receive that rolled paper when I get in front and shake hands with someone. It was not unusual to me, maybe because at that time I was really not that dependent to my parents. I understand them and besides I'm the eldest so I have to adjust and understand.

Here comes college, and Mom wants Ateneo de Davao University. I got in, she's happy that made me happy as well. Dad is a typical father who works for the family, doesn't like to talk about something. In short, my family is an average family whose parents wants the best for their kids.

Mom decided to leave for Taiwan and work as a domestic helper (DH). I was a little shocked with the news especially when I heard that DH sometimes suffer in the hands of their employer. I began to feel anger and asking why but I know I got to control myself or else I would hurt Mom's feelings. She left, February 3, 1998, I just knew she was leaving when the Supperferry was far from where it was docked. I won't be able to see Mom on the 18th birthday.

Even if Mom was just new to Taiwan and she's earning not that much to support herself and her needs from the coldness of Taiwan, she sends me money to spend my 18th birthday. Another important day in my life that my mother missed.

School year 1998, was the year when our youngest will go to school. She's happy and does not know anything of what I call family problem. I don't know anything of parenting. My brother continues on to do what he loves to do. My sister continues on to experience what is like to have a crush. My youngest sister now explores the world outside the gated house. I began to face problems that I never encountered before.

October 23, 1998, mom called. She told us she was sick and were sorry she was not able to call months before. Few days after, rather, the first day of November 1998, she died. It was 12nn here and Dad didn't know yet the news of what happened to Mom.

I missed her. I never really did anything nor both of us have done something like a mother-daughter thing. She was always busy. I am busy tying to see the world in front of me. I don't regret anything at all, it brings another purpose in me. Whatever happened to me after Mom died, it had made me stronger.

In my case, I have to lose my Mom in order for me to be strong. I am positive now that whatever comes out of my sisters and brothers that's because I was stronger and I made it through all the hardships with them as my inspiration. I am a better person now. I say I am, I don't know what others can say about me.

A Person of Influence

One of the greatest things about becoming a person of influence is that you actually get to see the lives of others change before your eyes. What is greater is that the person whom you influence becomes an influencer to another person or persons.

Here's what I got from reading a book:

• modeling integrity with everyone you come into contact with
• nurturing the people in your life to make them feel valued
• showing faith in others so that they believe in themselves
• listening to them so that you can build your relationship with them
• understanding them so that you can help them achieve their dreams
• enlarging them in order to increase their potential
• navigating them through life's difficulties until they can do it themselves
• connecting with them so that you can move them to a higher level
• empowering them to become the person they were created to be
• reproducing other leaders so that your influence continues to grow through others

To influence others does not mean that you have to be in the highest position in your company to touch others lives. It does not mean that you need more money to influence others.

The idea of influencing others happens everyday in our lives. When we get to sell something to someone we influence that person to buy the product we are selling. A simple talk might turn to be a new insight to another thus creating an impact to that person. It can change her life or ruin her life as well.

Start to be a positive influencer today.

What I've learned from blogging

I'm gonna answer straight to the point here. What I have learned from blogging is that I can get views of other people when it comes to marketing, thoughts or about life, loving and all other stuff. Most of the time what we've learned from our parents or in school will never be felt unless you are in a situation most likely similar to what our parents and teachers told us.

Another blog that I like and I know I will like this blog because it has a very catchy title. "How to Change the World" by Guy Kawasaki. Read his blog and you'll say I'm right.

Early Morning Routine

I woke up a little late from my usual time. Reason for that is because I have goosebumps in my head. I was in bed early but there are some people living in the house and they were excited to make baked macaroni what can I do they are happy doing it.

I didn't eat breakfast but I had coffee in the office. Smell of the coffee makes me hungry for more of it. Bitter coffee and you put some creamer to it. A little sugar and pour some hot water. When you start stirring it the smell of that blended coffee, creamer and sugar would come out. The least you can say is ummmmm..... Smells like yummy.

You would slowly sip it because you know it's hot. I don't know exactly how to describe the taste but it is really good. They say coffee is good but I say coffee in the morning is great.

My coffee today is not as black as the coffee should be. In the capital times, we call it, Instant Coffee. Oh well, I don't have that black coffee now but I still got a cup of coffee.

What are you waiting for, got get one cup of coffee for yourself.

Teddy Bear

I never thought that I would fall for a Teddy Bear. We don't have bears in the Philippines. But we do have stuffed teddy bears. What I'm talking about is that my real teddy bear is a human. I haven't seen him yet but I know for sure I love that man. I'm not talking about my knight or some kinda fairy tales and happy ever after stuff. He's just my teddy.

I never ever get to trust someone before. This time, I trusted him a lot. It seems like I'm connected to him even if he lives a thousand miles away from me. He's just near me. Every time I feel that there's something that had happened, I don't show it often but there is really something happened to him. I would know if he's sick or not. I would know if he's sad or not. I would know if he's happy or not.

Call it insanity. Call it boring. Call it stupidity in some degree. I call it happiness and lovin'.

Trust me, whatever burden there is on your shoulders, you never thought you've done and passed it all.

You Could Not Please Everyone

(Bato bato sa langit ang tamaan huwag magalit!)

It was a great day when suddenly I've heard a comment regarding a working girl. The comment that I've heard was that there were some old things and they assumed it was the property of the girl. I knew that girl because we talked often. She's single, supporting her family, paying the bills, and she's earning just enough. I know she can buy some new things for her but if only the person who commented such things would have to consider that there might be something else and she might have wrongly assumed such accusations. I asked the girl, "Hey! How are you?", she said, "I'm not feeling good". I asked again, "Why? Is it something about yesterday?", she said, "Yeah. It's not mine. It was my sister's things. I didn't know she left it there and I..." I interrupted her by saying, "You don't have to explain. I already know even without you telling me."

There are times when you are not doing anything and you know it concerns you, people would make a comment. We all know everyone has limitations. She strives to do what is best for her family than for herself. Even if it's hers or not, we don't have the right to say rude words to her. She's human like us. She's working 12 hours just to have enough income for herself and for her family.

I know that shelter, food and clothing are the priority but if in her case, she has shelter, she has a little clothing and she has to work on 6 times a week to buy food. For me, I'd rather go to buying my food as priority amongst the three than the clothing. If I don't eat I won't be able to do my work.

You can never please everyone nor you can't serve two masters at the same time. It'll be more about what you can do and say to that person so that she or he can be inspired to dream more and be able to achieve what she deserves to achieve.

Say it nice and simple. It doesn't mean that if you were able to do more and buy more than that person even if you don't have that much of money like her doesn't give you the right to just say it bluntly. Be human, act human.

What is Blogging?

That's a nice question. It would really bring out the brain out of me. I don't really know the answer.

Honestly, my purpose why I blog is that I can shout out what's on my mind. Blogging is like writing down my diary. Before, I love pieces of papers and then I would write down my thoughts on that paper. Sooner, I've realized I got so many notes on the wall and up to the ceiling for my crazy habit. I also love writing my friends too but I don't get to mail it to them. At my desk, in the office, I have a lot of post it on my table, on my LCD monitor and everywhere else.

One day, one person introduced me to blogging. I said, "When did this come out?" "Am I really that homo sapient that I don't know that there came blogging?"

Literally, I was a little shocked but I got to keep poise and pretend I know something. Really, I DON'T KNOW A THING! Here I am, love to do a blog. Most of the time, when I don't have anything else to do, I do blogging.

For me, the answer to that question is that blogging is a habit. It is a habit on writing down a shout out wherein other people would read and know what's on your mind even if they don't know you personally. Blogging is a part of someone's life, wherein letting out of what's on that person's mind is some vitamin to others who get attracted to it or addicted to it. It is a life to others whose love of flowers, of cars, of landscapes, or of anything that is dear to them like family, friends, lovers. It is actually anything you want to share or anything you want others to know. That's blogging. It's not a fad for me maybe for others.

I hope you would start your blog soon. You can link your blog with mine.

Secrets on Moving On: Lesson 3

People Think Failure is Avoidable

Everybody fails and commit mistakes. It's part of being human.

Rules of Being Human:

1. You will learn lessons.
2. There are no mistakes - only lessons
3. The lesson is repeated until it is learned
4. If you don't learn the easy lesson, they get harder.
5. You'll know you've learned a lesson when you've noticed you've changed your actions to such situation

People Think Failure is our Enemy

People try to avoid it but it'll never go away. It's not a plague or something. Funny thing is that, there should be adversity in order to create success. If you analyze that, failure is like a vitamin which is good.

When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel. - Eloise Ristad

People Think Failure is Final or it's Permanent

Making mistakes doesn't mean that it will put mark on you. No matter how dramatically turned out to be a huge mistakes there will always be a room for success.

Look at Coca-Cola. Before, they've tried to run out the classic Coca-Cola for something they thought as better, the New Coke. But it was a huge mistake, with that mistake it cost the company about $100 million. People hated the New Coke. The strategy that they've thought will help them increase again the sales after its rival, Pepsi, has taken the lead in the beverage industry. So what's a company got to do? They've brought back the Classic Coca-Cola. Ultimately it made them stronger. The whole action, or mistake, ended up positively.

We get paid to produce results. We don't get paid to be right.

- Roberto Goizueta, CEO Coca-Cola Company

Every person's life is filled with mistakes and negative experiences. Take note of this:

Errors become mistakes
when we perceive them and respond to them incorrectly

Mistakes become failures
when we continually respond to them incorrectly

For those who fail forward are able to see errors and negative experiences as a regular part of our lives, learn from them and then they've moved on. They persevere and persistent on what they do in order to achieve their purpose in life.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them

- Washington Irving

Reality is that in everyone has a dream and the realization of that dream lead through the land of failure and it stood firmly between every human and that goal to achieve the dream. The process is never easy. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success.

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

- Thomas Edison

The Impossible Question

Whenever I attend a leadership seminar and this speaker would ask the listeners: "If the possibility of failure were erased, what would your attempt to achieve?"


To me, that was an intriguing question. At that time it prompted me to look ahead to life's possibilities. I can do this and that if there would be no failure at all. I can be a CEO in less than a month. Wow! That would be great. But then one day I realized that it was really a bad question. Why? It is a bad question because it takes me to thinking the wrong track. I would think that there is no such thing as failure. I believe, with what I've been through, there is no achievement when there is no failure. Life would suck big time.


The question should be: If your perception of and response to failure were changed, what would you attempt to achieve?


I don't deny that in anyone's life there is always that obstacles that hinders us to get to something. Whatever they are, it doesn't matter. What does matter is that your life can change if you're willing to look at failure differently. You have the potential to overcome any problems, mistakes, or misfortunes. All you hat to do is learn to fail and embrace failure. You got to learn to fail forward.

Secrets to Moving On: Lesson 2

Motto: I would rather try nothing great and succeed than try something great and risk failure

Don’t-Dare-Try-It-People

1. They RESIST opportunities
2. They RATIONALIZE their responsibilities
3. They REHEARSE impossibilities
4. They RAIN on enthusiasm
5. They REVIEW their inadequacies
6. They RECOIL at the failure of others
7. They REJECT the personal cost involved
8. They REPLACE goals with pleasure
9. They REJOICE that they have not failed
10. They REST before they finish
11. They RESIST leadership
12. They REMAIN unchanged
13. They REPLAY the problems
14. They RETHINK their commitment
15. They RESERVE their decisions

Motto: I would rather try something great and fail than try nothing great and succeed.

Don’t-Dare-Miss-It-People

1. They FIND opportunities.
2. They FINISH their responsibilities
3. They FEED on impossibilities
4. They FAN the flame of enthusiasm
5. They FACE their inadequacies
6. They FIGURE out why others failed
7. They FINANCE the cost into their lifestyle
8. They FIND pleasure in the goal
9. They FEAR futility, not failure
10. They FINISH before they rest
11. They FOLLOW leaders
12. They FORCE change
13. They FISH for solutions
14. They FULFILL their commitments
15. They FINALIZE their decision

Which one are you?

Secrets to Moving On: Chapter 1

What's the main difference between people who achieve and people who are just average?

What makes achievers excel on things? Why do some people seems to get things their way and others tried hard and still does not make it? It is so amazing that despite all the difficulties and hardships in life they still land on the top 5. They were able to find ways to achieve their goals. They were able to graduate from another course while raising two kids. Isn't it great? Isn't it the reason also why we do things daily? We do this and that because we wanted to achieve something?


Certainly, all people think of themselves as above average. Achievers leave "average" behind them- so far that they couldn't notice anymore.


What could be the reasons why they are achieving so much? Is it because of family background, of wealth, of opportunity, of high morals in life, or they are lucky and that they never experience hardships in life?


None of these things are the factors of why they are called "Achievers".


The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond failure.

- Kyle Rote Jr.

Spro

I can't believe he really meant what he said. Now he has his own coffee shop. Spro Coffee Shop...wow....nice name. I like the red color Dr. Jim. I've learned to blog from this guy. He talks anything that was on his mind. He talks like a encyclopedia, and knows everything like wikipedia. I like his tag line, Brain on Ink, that's why his blog is BOINK! He's smart, and most of the times you'll never know if he's serious or not.

My God! Nice color.

Visit them at Gen. Luna St. or visit Dr. Jim at MTC Academy.

REPOST from my other blog

As a child, Honey Baula, wanted to be a doctor. At 18 and in her pre-medicine year, everything went from bright to bleak in just one stroke. She lost her sight.

For more than 10 years she stayed at home and lived an uncomplicated life, putting dreams of a career at the back of his head. Forgetting everything she ever think of. But things changed, and now she is looking forward to being in the medical field that she so desired, as a medical transcriptionist.

In September 2006, a newspaper report on computer training for visually impaired persons in Davao City caught the attention of her mother. She submitted herself for an assessment for the computer training. She even explained that when she was in the bus, she can feel freedom.

She heard on T.V. of a medical transcriptionist who is blind since birth and was able to work like a normal MT. One day, while walking inside Gaisano Mall of Davao, Flong (Honey's sighted guide) MTC Academy who participated on a Jobs Fair. Ever since, Honey was in and out of MTC Academy inquiring about recent updates and if she can be enrolled.

Finally, February 5, 2007, she was an official student of MTC Academy. Everything and everyone was inspired with Honey's determination and persistence.

Honey gave series of talks to media, group of teachers who are involved in guiding multiple handicapped students from different schools.

Here's what Honey Baula can say:




(from left to right: Mom Estrella, Honey Baula, Wit Holganza, Blogie Robillo)

A CHANCE TO BELONG

We may not make the right choices, but fate can sometimes be ironic

I once lived in a world full of sunshine where colors were a sight to behold. I took it all for granted; I never basked in the glory of wonders that surrounded me. When I was still young, I had high hopes and life was still worth living. Trials come and go, and when it came into my life, my bright future dimmed, the brightness that showered upon my world turned into complete darkness. I felt alone, helpless, and vulnerable. I was afraid, confused, and depressed. Worry, doubt, fear and despair – all these things were on my shoulders and turned my spirit to dust. Then, like a virus, all that I felt turned into anger, anger that was eating me up inside. But we all have choices to make; sometimes trivial, or choices that can turn our life around, be it for better or worse. Even as the anger kept growing, I chose to make my life better. I could have stayed home, be alone, and be dependent on my parents for all my needs, or I can simply go out and see the world at my perspective.

I may have lost one thing, but I gained many. I made more friends than before, I learned how to play the keyboard, and was once the church organist at our local congregation. I also learned how to play the guitar. I learned how to bake cakes and pastries and was able to make a small business out of it. I fought against darkness, darkness ruled over me for a time, but it’s not going to get me the second time around. But no matter how I tried to gain back the world, something is lacking. How many like me are still out there, what are they doing right now, are they enjoying the same opportunities I’m having right now, do they also want to make something out of their lives, are they making the same choices as I am, to just sit around and wait for the world to end or go out and seize the day. (SPED to RBI to MTC)

At first, it was all of personal reason and interest, but as time passes by, a vision began to mold, a vision to reach out for the others like me and be men for others, a vision to be of service to the visually impaired. Today, I have found a niche in the society, a chance to belong in the society, in the community. I may be visually impaired but I am normal. I am human. I am a person.There are lepers. There are differently disabled persons. There are mentally challenged people. But they are all human. We are blind, but we are also human. We are persons of feelings and emotions. We feel pain, anger, and we get hurt too. We are people, and we also belong in the society, but we doubt if society embraces our presence. We may not be able to see or hear it, but we can feel the cold stares of strangers. In the world of technology and advances in other fields of endeavor, discrimination is very much felt. We do not want that. You do not want that either. But nobody is taking actions. We only act when it happens to us, to our love ones, to those near us. Why don’t we all act now. Let’s act now.

By placing Special Education program in your school, you are not only educating the visually impaired, but you are also embracing them as one of us. Through this valuable program, you are breaking the chains of discrimination that unconsciously ails our society. You are giving each and everyone a chance to belong, a chance to let them do the things they couldn’t do before, a chance to meet challenges by themselves, and the greatest chance to live life to the fullest. You are also giving them a chance to say “I did this, I did that, and I did this all by myself”. Thanks to the loving support of my family and the Special Education program (SPED), I was able to meet all these opportunities. Because of this program, they turn my disability into an ability. The success of this program will not and cannot be measured by its monetary value and cost, but by how many visually impaired friends and persons we have embraced in our family and in our society. You are giving them a chance to live life as they want it, a chance to coexist in the society, and a chance to love and to be loved. Give them this chance. Abled or differently abled, I know that there is in every persons’ heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement of stars and star-like things, the challenges of events, the childlike appetite for what is next, and the joy of the game of living.

I want to give a big shout out, with much love and respect to RBI, MTC Academy.

This is the kind of life God wants me to have. This is what he wants me to be, and this is where he wants me to be. And I thank him for that. We are all as young as our faith, as old as our doubt. As young as our self-confidence, as old as our fear. As young as our hope, and as old as our despair. As I continue to move forward, and as you start your journey by giving the visually impaired a chance to belong, let us all walk with God by faith and not by sight.

Again, I am Honey Baula, with pride and without shame, I can tell everybody that I am visually impaired. We could make it, if we try.

Hope in Darkness

Dear Readers,

Good day!

I'm Hunee Royo, employed and doing the position as a Marketing Assistant of MTC Academy Davao. From the start I know I can do my job, and I thought it will be easy. I've strive as much as I could to turn enrollment numbers up but it wasn't the way I wanted it to be.

I've met Honey Baula when I was manning our booth at a Job Fair at Gaisano Mall of Davao. Honey Baula is a visually impaired person. She had accident that's why she got blind. At first, I didn't thought she was blind because I was taught blind people could not blink their eyes. She asked me if she can be a medical transcriptionist despite the fact that she's blind. I could not say any comment. I don't want to hurt her feeling so I pretend and say OK.

Months has passed, and Honey continuously visit our office and ask for updates. Sooner she was put into a test if our software will work for her. She would be in the office early and waited for her time to get into the office.

I thought 2007 was an unhappy year because I almost quited on my job and would want to look for another one. A few days after she enrolled.

From day 1, I got no disability, but I keep mumbling about something that I can do, and that I can do that everyday. Here's Honey Baula, she's doing all she can do to live normal.

I'm trying to address the message to all that can see, if Honey was able to see hope in medical transcription why not others. Is it because we need to be blind to be able to realize that we are lucky?

This proves that in medical transcription, the playing field is even.

Nobody said It was Easy

Headaches, nausea, mood flings and a lot more. I hate this astigmatism thing. I don't know what's so good about it but it changes my whole aura to something weird and absolutely not me kinda thing.

I wish I can be better in the few days. I miss blogging already.

Lechon Hamonada

It was a student's birthday last July 1 and she brought food back to Davao from Mati. She was thinking of bringing the whole Lechon but then the skin will not be that crunchy when you have to wait 2 more days before going back to the city. She turned it into Lechon Hamonada.

I wanted to eat an early lunch and maybe buy one cup of rice and pair it with two salted egg. That I pictured to be perfect lunch on a hot Saturday. That was yummy! I have to pass that dream when this student came in with 3 Tupperwares full of some stuff and asking me at my table, "Did everyone eat lunch?". I answered her back, "No mam." "Ok! Great. I have food."

That time on that was the best lunch ever. I know I had some but it was so heavy. Thank God it was for free.

Oh! Gosh. I didn't take pictures. Damn gurl!

Getting Things Done

In any workplace, you would see office workers do multitasking. For someone who is new to this word, multitasking is getting a lot of things done in an office. Let say, I'm actually just a marketing assistant but I can also do some things for the accounting department which is deliver checks to suppliers and stuff. I can also some thing for the IT department, I can lay-out and do design with Corel Draw and Adobe Photoshop. Even if I don't know anything about lay-out and design I might push myself to learn it because I might need it in the future.

With the things that I got in my bag, I can use all these to start with getting things done.

1. Organizer

From the word it self, it'll help you organize things. What's inside it are note pads, address book, daily planner, weekly planner, and a lot more. I can have all the unimportant to my life but important for my work addresses and phone numbers written in the organizer. I can focus on what to do weekly, so that I can plan my daily itinerary.

2. Mobile Phones

This phone has a reminder. If I forget to bring my organizer this thing will do the alarm and tell me if I'm going to meet someone else today.

I've taken the title of my post to David Allen's new book on multitasking.

Here are a couple of steps David Allen pointed out:

Clear the Decks

GOAL: Record all your commitments to free up mental energy and start accomplishing things.

GTD is a totalizing system, so don't expect to just ease yourself in. The first big push is key, and it requires a major, two-day collection process, in which you're supposed to gather up every single thing that requires action on your part: unopened mail, emails, voicemails, countertop clutter, reading materials, scary catch-all cabinets you can barely open. For larger items that don't fit into a desktop inbox-a broken fridge, a leaky faucet-just make an individual note and add it to the pile. Allen suggests that you devote a separate sheet of paper to each idea or project. A discrete, physical object helps make an idea more concrete, and it lets you track each item individually, increasing its chances of getting done.

When all your physical rubble is more or less in one place, it's time for a "mind-sweep": the processing of writing down everything in every aspect of your life that you want to get done-now, next year, or sometime before you die.

The Nitty Gritty

Trigger List

Chapter 5 of Getting Things Done has a helpful trigger list to jog your memory about commitments you've made or want to make. There are more than 200 items on the list. Here are ten of them:

Professional:

• Policies/Procedures
• Commitments/Promises to Others
• Installation of New Systems/Equipment
• Forecasts/Projections
• Training/Seminars

Personal:

• Vacation Plans
• Books/Records/CDs
• Vehicle Repair/Maintenance
• RSVPs
• Civic Issues/Community

Empty Your Inbox

Goal: Break tasks down into actionable steps.

Once you've compiled your inventory of unfinished business, it's time to process each and every item. Don't worry, that doesn't mean you have to resolve every single item. By "process," Allen simply means that you have to determine a "next-action": the very next thing you need to do, either to resolve an issue or at least keep it moving toward completion. Many items you'll only need to file-or throw away.

What does a next-action look like? Say you want to clean out your garage, but you can't because a broken refrigerator is taking up the space you need for reorganizing. Your next-action could be "Call Goodwill to fetch the dead fridge." Got a looming product launch and feel out of the loop? Write down "Go into Outlook and set up a strategic planning session." Need a pencil sharpener? The process might start with "Download document that explains company procurement software."

It's basic stuff, really, but Allen adds some hard-and-fast rules:

• No frontsies. Address things one at a time, beginning with the top item in your pile and working your way down. Don't move on to the next item until you have determined what next-action is required. Some items may require hard thought; take the time to do it now. If you leave it until later, it won't be any easier, and meanwhile, it will continue to occupy valuable mental space.
• Two-minute actions. If a next-action can be completed in less than two minutes, Allen says do it right way, the first time you have the item in front of you. Not only do you get all the rewards of rapid turnaround ("Mail proposal letter" could give you a one-week jump on the competition; "Call FTD" nets a happy spouse), but, Allen argues, you've also freed up your mind for whatever's next.
• Delegate and defer. For any item longer that two minutes, you can either delegate it (shout over your cubicle, shoot an email to your admin), or simply defer it to what Allen calls a "trusted system"-the combination of calendar, file folders, and action-item lists that form the backbone of GTD. To find out what that might look like, keep reading.

DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!

Beware the Junk Drawer

As you gather items into a pile, Allen warns to watch out for the purge-and-organize bug. If you get overly focused on, say, an overstuffed closet, you may not get through the entire collection process, which is vital. What to do? Write "clean out closet" on a piece of paper, put it in your collection pile, and move on.

Feed Your "Trusted System"

Goal: Put your action steps into categories where you can review and complete them easily.

Roll up your sleeves, ladies and gentlemen, because now we're getting to the meat of Allen's program. It's time, in Allen lingo, to "organize"-put all those next-actions into a system that enables you to get them all done.

His idea is that you must go beyond laundry lists of actions. In the short run, such lists quiet nervous minds, but for most, he says, they invariably contain a handful of items that never get crossed off. They may be pleasures that you never get around to-like "take guitar lessons" or "play bridge more"-or little things such as "get pants mended." Often it's the big things-"get new job," "help solve world hunger"-that remain unresolved. Allen says that the answer in each case is to determine your next-action-"ask Tom the name of his tailor," "update resume," "send donation check"-then enter it into your personal-organization system.

Needless to say, Allen has some ideas about how to organize your organizational system. Here are the key concepts:

• Design your own trusted system. Develop the combination of calendar and written action lists that will work best for you. Lists can go into a loose-leaf binder, your Treo, scrap paper, the back of your hand-whatever. Calendars can range from Outlook to a hand-ruled spiral notebook.
• Make contextual lists. Organize actions into separate lists defined by the circumstance required to complete them. For example, you can categorize tasks based on whether you do them on the phone, online, at your office desk, at home, or while running errands in your car. The idea is that you'll move more quickly through a single kind of action than if you keep switching back and forth between mental modes, technologies, and/or physical locations.
• Record projects. Allen defines a "project" as anything that requires more than one step, and he strongly suggests that you keep a separate file for each, whether they be small things like "get new couch" or big things like "department reorganization." He also has very explicit instructions about how to set up a system for those files. He prefers a strict alphabetical filing system (rather than grouping by category), and he distrusts hanging folders.
• Keep a "someday/maybe" list. Record and regularly review projects that you hope to accomplish someday, even if there is no urgency-or time-for them right now. It's fine to leave them right where they are, but creating the list and defining the item as currently undoable, Allen says, frees up mental energy that can be used more productively elsewhere.
• Keep a "waiting for" list. What deliverables are you expecting, whether from your boss, spouse, or direct reports? Allen recommends tracking these in a separate list. Some practitioners further organize their pending file by person and/or organization, so that they can go over everything in a single interaction.

Other Resources

Online Tools

GTD acolytes have designed a host of software tools intended to help you build your trusted system, such as GTDGmail, a Firefox extension for Gmail. Jeff Sandquist's GTD Tools page is a one-stop resource that offers a selection of freeware for various GTD calendar systems, both for Macs and PCs.

Repeat Weekly

GOAL: Set aside time each week to review your action lists, so that no items go uncompleted.

Life is a moving target. New data, new demands, and new opportunities keep showing up. You've just organized all of them, sure, but the system begins to age as soon as you go through a morning's worth of email. Hence, the "weekly review"-the linchpin of GTD and also, by all accounts, the place where adherents are most likely to get sloppy.

Essentially, the weekly review is an abbreviated version of all the preceding steps. You gather all your stray documents, notes to yourself, desktop clutter, and detritus of the week, then submit each item to your "process" and "organize" routine. Once you've done this, Allen includes a checklist of steps, best completed in order:

• Review previous week's calendar for outstanding items.
• Review and update upcoming week's calendar, so you know about time-sensitive items on the horizon.
• Conduct a "mind-sweep," i.e. write down all those ideas kicking around your head, whether or not they're for the upcoming week.
• Review project files one by one and determine next-actions for each.
• Review contextual lists and mark off completed actions.
• Review "waiting for" lists and follow up on over-due items.
• Look at your "someday/maybe" list-any dreams deferred that you now have the bandwidth to handle? Anything that has become time-sensitive or urgent?
• "Be creative and courageous" is Allen's last step, a tickler to think inventively of new possibilities.

Voice of Experience

"I've learned from personal experience that a few hours early Friday afternoon is one of the best times for a weekly review. You can capture any remaining open loops while events are still fresh, make necessary contacts while people are still at work, and then head into the weekend with a clear head, ready to relax and recreate."

- Peter Gallant, President and CEO, Pathogen Detection Systems, Inc.

Get Things Done

GOAL: As small action items move off your lists, contemplate larger projects and life goals.

According to Allen, deciding what to do-be it on a daily, hourly, or even minute-by-minute basis-requires trust in some invisible, whether you want to call it your heart, your spirit, your gut, your intuition, or the seat of your pants. Allen provides distinct models for deciding where to focus your energies as you stare at your calendar and action lists:

• Action in the moment: Consider your context (are you at work, in your car, lying on your couch at home?), time available, energy available, and priorities.
• Daily work: Allen says we engage in three kinds of activities-pre-defined activities (things already in your calendar or on your lists); work as it shows up (phone calls, emails, people turning up at your office door); and defining your work (planning, scheduling, making lists, setting priorities, brainstorming). It's key that none of these overwhelms the other two. The key pitfall is letting seemingly urgent new items distract you from planning, as well as from equally important stuff that is already in your system.
• Reviewing your work: Allen says there are six levels at which you can view your work, ranging from "the runway" (current actions) through "10,000 feet" (long-term projects), right up to "50,000 feet" (life). But rather than telling you to start at the top and cascade your way down (like other personal-management systems), Allen advocates a bottom-up approach. That is, as you take care of urgencies and clear out your mind of clutter and worry, you actually make room for effectively considering higher-level goals.

The Big Idea

Making GTD Work

Allen says you must address all your commitments, personal and professional, for GTD to really work; the smallest cracks in your implementation create larger problems. For example, when a to-do list is not exhaustive, Allen says you lose trust in it, and you're actually less likely to accomplish every item than if the list were complete but much longer. "Ninety-nine percent is a bitch;100 percent is a breeze," says one long-term practitioner who helps implement GTD at his Fortune 500 company.

Declutter My Desk

It's the month of July and I need to put away all the clutter that adds up to my daily worries of whether I might have misplaced my pieces of papers.

Hunee, you got a lot of clutter in your table. When do you plan to clean it up?

Wit

I consider it another love letter. It simply says my boss doesn't want me to have clutter on my desk because it'll affect my work. She doesn't want clutter also because I sit in the reception area wherein this is the table that everyone would see first when they get inside the office.

Decluttering is one way to clean for yourself. It is one way to easily find things whenever you are in a hurry. Declutter every month or at least once a month.

Marketing: Doing SWOT Analysis

SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) is a method of assessing a business, its resources, and its environment. In my case, MARKETING DEPARTMENT. In doing so, it is a good way to better understand a business and its markets, and can also show potential marketing propaganda in the future.
The essence of the SWOT analysis is to discover what you do well; how you could improve; whether you are making the most of the opportunities around you; and whether there are any changes in your market—such as technological developments, mergers of businesses, or unreliability of suppliers—that may require corresponding changes in your business.

FOR A START:
Making it happen

Take time to consider that what you believe are the strengths of your business. These can be seen in terms of your staff, products, customer loyalty, processes, or location. Evaluate what your business does well; it could be your marketing expertise, your environmentally-friendly packaging, or your excellent customer service. It’s important to try to evaluate your strengths in terms of how they compare to those of your competitors.
For example, if you and your competitors provide the same prompt delivery time, then this cannot be listed as a strength. However, if your delivery staff is extremely polite and helpful, and your competitor’s staff has very few customer-friendly attributes, then you should consider listing your delivery staff’s attitude as a strength. It is very important to be totally honest and realistic. Try to include some personal strengths and characteristics of your staff as individuals, and the management team as individuals. Whatever you do, you must be totally honest and realistic: there’s no point creating a useless work of fiction!

Try to take an objective look at every aspect of your business. Ask yourself whether your products and services could be improved. Think about how reliable your customer service is, or whether your supplier always delivers exactly what you want, when you want it. Try to identify any area of expertise that is lacking in the business. as you can then take steps to improve that aspect. For example, you might realize that you need some more sales staff, or financial help and guidance. Don’t forget to think about your business’s location and whether it really does suit your purpose. Is there enough parking, or enough opportunities to attract passing trade? Your main objective during this exercise is to be as honest as you can in listing weaknesses. Don’t just make a list of mistakes that have been made, such as an occasion when a customer was not called back promptly. Try to see the broader picture instead and learn from what happened. It may be that your systems or processes could be improved so that customers are contacted at the right time, so work on boosting your systems and making that change happen rather than looking about for someone to blame. It’s a good idea to get an outside viewpoint on what your weaknesses are as your own perceptions may not always marry up to reality. You may strongly believe that your years of experience in a sector reflect your business’s thorough grounding and knowledge of all of your customers’ needs. Your customers, on the other hand, may perceive this wealth of experience as an old-fashioned approach that shows an unwillingness to change and workwith new ideas. Be prepared to hear things you may not like, but which, ultimately, may be estremely helpful.

The next step is to analyze your opportunities, and this can be tackled in several ways. External opportunities can include the misfortune of competitors who are not performing well, providing you with the opportunity to do better. There may be technological developments that you could benefit from, such as broadband arriving in your area, or a new process enhancing your products. There may be some legislative changes affecting your customers, offering you an opportunity to provide advice, support, or added services. Changes in market trends and consumer buying habits may provide the development of a niche market, of which you could take advantage before your competitors, if you are quick enough to take action.

Another good idea is to consider your weaknesses more carefully, and work out ways of addressing the problems, turning them around in order to create an opportunity. For example, the pressing issue of a supplier who continually lets you down could be turned into an opportunity by sourcing another supplier who is more reliable and who may even offer you a better deal. If a member of staff leaves, you have an opportunity to reevaluate duties more efficiently or to recruit a new member of staff who brings additional experience and skills with them.

Analyzing the threats to your business requires some guesswork, and this is where your analysis can be overly subjective. Some threats are tangible, such as a new competitor moving into your area, but others may be only intuitive guesses that result in nothing. Having said that, it’s much better to be vigilant because if potential threat does become a real one, you’ll be able to react much quicker: you’ll have considered your options already and hopefully also put some contingency planning into place. Think about the worst things that could realistically happen, such as losing your customers to your major competitor, or the development of a new product far superior toyour own. Listing your threats in your SWOT analysis will provide ways for you to plan to deal with the threats, if they ever actually start to affect your business.

After completing your SWOT analysis, it’s vital that you learn from the information you have gathered. You should now plan to build on your strengths, using them to their full potential, and also plan to reduce your weaknesses, either by minimizing the risk they represent, or making changes to overcome them. Now that you understand where your opportunities lie, make the most of them and aim to capitalize on every opportunity in front of you. Try to turn threats into opportunities. Try to be proactive, and put plans into place to counter any threats as they arise. To help you in planning ahead, you could combine some of the areas you have highlighted in the boxes; for example, if you see an external opportunity of a new market growing, you will be able to check whether your internal strengths will be able to make the most of the opportunity. For example, do you have enough trained staff in place, and can your phone system cope with extra customer orders? If you have a weakness that undermines an opportunity, it provides a good insight as to how you might develop your internal strengths and weaknesses to maximize your opportunities and minimize your threats.

The basic SWOT process is to fill in the four boxes, but the real benefit is to take an overview of everything in each box, in relation to all the other boxes. This comparative analysis will then provide an evaluation that links external and internal forces to help your business prosper.

Every week, in marketing, I got to do a SWOT. It is a never ending thing for me since I have to base some decisions of whether or not push through with this or make a new one. At the start, it'll be so much pain but in the end it'll be like the usual routine office work.

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