My "Ipad" - Lovin' it!

After the March released of Apple iPad, I've been wanting to have one but, instead of reserving a unit and buy, I just wrote it down on my wish list. While enjoying all my iphone apps, little did I know what I will be getting my iPad sooner than I thought.

And, finally after almost 4 months from it's released I already had one....My latest Apple gadget has arrive..My iPad.. My iPad...I am sooo, sooo happy and excited...wahaha!!!

With an 1/2 inch thick, weighs 1.5 pounds and a 9.7-inch touch screen I can say that it is really a good deal especially to those computer addicts like me.

It's a lot bigger version of my iphone but smaller version of laptop, the good things is it's a touch screen, longer battery life of 10 hours or more, even though it's just 16 gb still, I really love it. Now, I can be busier than ever playing my old time favorite games plus a lot more of new release apple apps, and one of the best is playing farmville on iPad, whewww!

No more dull moments for me for the meantime. Now, with my iPad on hand I can check Facebook, Twitter, emails, play games, read books, browse the internet even when lying in bed till I fall asleep and without any hassle of plugging in, opening and shutting down computer.

The best thing with this gadget I can use it anytime, anywhere.

"FACEBOOK" connects

With all the different kinds of social networking in this busy world wide world we don't have any reason not to connect and find all the people you hardly meet and see.

All the while, I thought I'm updated with my friends, acquaintance, not so friends and relatives on Friendster, happy saying hi's and hello's and seeing their pics for a while, but with the fast phase evolution of hi technology that keeps on discovering and creating effecient social networking life Facebook, Twitter and many more.

And now, I love using Facebook than Friendster aside from all my friends are using Facebook I got addicted in playing their games life Farmville, Cafe World and more...plus the fact that I found my good old marian classmates after 20 years...hehehe!!!!

Kambal sa Tawa with Vice Ganda and Ogie Diaz

For the 1st time in the entertainment history of Saipan, Digital Motion brought us one a kind live stand-up comedy by Vice Ganda and Ogie Diaz that truely entertained all the Filipino people here.

A lot of Filipinos gathered and took time out last saturday night to watch "Kambal sa Tawa" featuring comedians Vice Ganda and Ogie Diaz, they really gave us total fun and entertainment and make us forget our problems for a while.

I can see the excitement in the faces of people habang nakapila kami outside ng Royal Taga Hall ng World Resort and nong finally nakapasok na kami inside, nakakatuwang makita na puno yung venue ng people from all ages.

Nag front act si Hapi with group of young dancers and followed by Ogie Diaz na nagpacontest pa ng spell the word using their butt and nagpacontest din sya ng mala singing bee and in fairness magagaling yong 4 contestants.haha!!!

And finally right after nagpatawa ni Ogie Diaz sumunod agad si Vice Ganda. Sa simula pa lang eh super enjoy na talaga sya sa pang ookray and the highlight is when Brad (american guy) went up in the stage at nakisakay naman talaga sya sa mga biro at pang ookray ni Vice.

My 1st Google Adsense

Yippeee!!!!Yahooo!!!!Yeheyyyy!!!!Hephep- Horray!!!!

Oh my gosh!!!!! I'm soooo happy...Finally, the beautiful thing that happened for my 1st day of work...I got my Google Adsense income....Yehheyyyyyy....sobrang kakatuwa talaga..I was expecting it by mid September but it comes earlier than I expected, and a good welcome surprise di ba.

Sobrang Thank You talaga kay God, Bro thank you so much, sa Google Adsense at pinatunayan nila na totoo pala lahat ng ito at me proof na ko ngaun sa mga friends ko dito on what I got on blogging. It may took me a while bago ko mareached tong $104.17 but still, it's an extra income.

I also wanna thank Jerson for all the help and pointers that he shared with me. To Faye, for the undying support, to Jehzlau for adding me sa list ng friends nya, a big help really..and sa lahat ng mga ka-bloggers ko na di ko na maisa-isa pang i-mention dito, maraming salamat sa inyo, pati na rin sa matyatyaga kong readers.

From now on, mas lalo ko pagsisikapan magpost everyday at magresearch ng quality post para sakin at sa aking mga readers...So, help me God to make it possible.

But for now, enjoy ko munang titigan tong check ko bago ko i-deposit sa bank.hehehehe!!!!

Hard to say "Goodbye" for now

Saying Goodbye is never an easy thing..

My three weeks vacation was over and parting time is the hardest thing to do. It's not easy for me to packed my things again knowing that I'll be leaving the next day, that I will miss my family again, that I will not be able to join them during breakfast, lunch and dinner. And we will not be together for another 3 or 5 long years.

I will surely miss the laughters and cries of my niece and nephews. I will miss those times of playing with them, tickling and cuddling them while their lola keeps complaining on cleaning all their mess..haha!!!

I will definitely miss those moments with my nanay and tatay who also took a break for a while from their busy work just to be with me and spent every minute with me for us to be together even if we just stayed home or go on malling or any kind of simple bonding.

I will treasure those time that I'm stucked in traffic and always need to fall in line in paying to the SM cashiers, in the bank, in SM Foreign Exchange and long time in grocery. And the big thing..I surrendered in walking and shopping at the Mall of Asia and Greenbelt.whewwww!!!!so tiring...mind and money blowing also.

And I really enjoyed eating Odd Balls Squid Balls and Kikiam and Tender Juicy Hotdogs...sarap!!!

But all good things never last, after packing my things I slept at 1 o'clock in the morning and woke up like 3:45am to get dress and leave home before 4:30 am for my 8am flight. My nanay also woke up to prepare breakfast but I don't want to eat heavy. It's not really a good idea for me that my nanay and my tatay to go with me in the airport so I insisted that my only brother will go with me not them coz I will surely cry as I bid farewell to them. But can't prevent to cry either when they say goodbye and take care and hugged me so tight so I rushed to the car to keep myself for being emotional and cry.

But still, I can't help and prevent my tears na kusang tumutulo mula sa akin mga mata habang nasa car at tinatahak ang daan patungong airport. Pano pa kaya kung talagang ihatid nila ako hanggang sa airport. Huhu!!!cguro super drama ang scene ng lola nyo.hahaha!!!!

For a while nakalimutan ko munang malungkot dahil sa haba ng pila to get my boarding pass from Northwest Airlines pero nong sakay na ko ng plane I started to emote again and thingking na back ko normal na naman ang buhay ko na puro work and miles away from my family.

Anyways, I arrived in Narita Airport Terminal 1 in Japan around 1:05 pm but the thing is I need to wait there til 7:55pm for my connecting flight going to Saipan, kaya walang magawa ang lola mo kundi magwindow shopping ng paulit-ulit sa mga shops sa Narita Airport and mga 2 hours before my flight eh tsaka lang ako nagdecide bumili ng T-shirts and Rice Crackers..imagine un lang 3 items eh umabot na ng $50..huhuhu!!!!expensive talaga..

And for my final journey, I was on board on NW100 by 8:05pm and arrived in Saipan at 1:20am wednesday, buti na lang at very comfortable ang seating arrangement ko and I was able to sleep dahil sa sobrang pagod..

Wednesday morning at 8am back to work, kaya no time to emote pero after work yon ang nakaka emote kasi wala ng kapamilya to prepare food for me and lonely na kasi tahimik na sa bahay, wala ng makukulit na batang, nangungulit, papasaway at pakalat-kalat sa bahay at walang lola at lolo na saway ng saway...wahahahha...

hay life.....

Philippine Vacation Experience

After almost 5 long years I finally able to take a brake and unwind in my own country the "Philippines". I'm feeling nervous coz I'll be travelling alone but I'm also excited knowing that few hours from now I will see my family back home.

Now that I'm here in the Philippines, there's really a big, big difference from where I came from. The 1st big thing is TIME... in Saipan time is not killing me..I can drive 5 mins from my house to work..no traffic, no hazzles. And only here in the Philippines that you need to leave your house as early as possible, I need to have at least 1 to 2 hours travelling/traffic allowance before your appointment coz if not I'll defenitely be late..

And having Philippines as my vacation destination I should be ready with my budget. There's no such thing as FREE here, we need to pay in the parking, in the public rest room..huhuhu!!!! And if I wanna enjoy my vacation with my family it will cost thousands and thousands of pesos..but really worth the expenses especially with my makukulit na pamangkins. Seeing them excited and enjoying makes me happier.

I really love mall hopping before when I'm still in the Philippines and I thought after missing all those newly built malls in town I will be so excited and will have a grant time visiting each mall but opppsssssss I'm wrong coz when we went to SM Fairview to find good restaurant for my first dinner with my family, I'm really shocked with the crowds..there all over the places, from boutiques to restaurants to grocery and only then that I realized I'm no longer a City Girl. I'm no longer used on seeing a lot of people it makes me crazy and dizzy...wahahha!!! feeling naging PROMDI ba.

There's this one weekday na I decided to meet the wife of my co-worker. I told her sa Trinoma ko na lang sya i-meet para makita ko yong place and baka di masyadong maraming tao.. But to my surprised eh mas super pala ang dami ng tao don as in mas marami pa sa SM at ang akala kong madali kong mame-meet yong wife ng friend ko eh mas nahirapan pa ko kasi malaki yong place at madami ikot-ikot and gustuhin ko man magshopping eh di ko rin magawa sa dami ng tao, kaya right after kong maibigay yon padala sa kameeting ko eh umalis na rin ako agad.

During my first week of vacation in Manila parang sobra akong nanibago sa traffic, sa crowd, especially sa mga sasakyan sa kalsada, nakakanerbyos kahit pasahero lang ako, siguro talagang nakakapanibago lang pati pollution kaya nagkasakit din ako..huhuhu!!! And sino naman ang makakapagsabi na me crises ang pilipinas sa dami ng new businesses, malls at magagandang condo at subdivision na natatayo eh I can say that Philippines is growing and improving.

I'm sure from time to time I'll be posting more of my adventure here in metro manila and other places and by that time siguro naka adjust na rin ako at more familiar sa lahat ng lugar.

Death of Former President "Cory Aquino"

I was really saddened and devastated when I got the news that Former President Corazon "Cory" Aquino passed away last saturday Aug 1, 2009 at about 3:18 am. We all prayed for her wellness and I'm sure it's God's will that she has joined her husband and our Creator.

We all know that Cory Aquino gave all the Filipino people the courage, hope and most importantly play a big role in restoring back our democracy and freedom by leading the EDSA People Power I.

I was in my grade school when that People Power happened. As a kid I'm not that knowledgeable about what is happening in the country but I can feel the tension, the fear and worries of my parents especially that exact date is the departure of my father going to Palau or Guam. But when we are going home in Manila coming from (MIA) Manila International Airport, when we are nearing our place not so far from Malacanang Palace, I can see a lot of armies, navy, police patrols, tankers and tora-tora flying around, barricades on the streets, right that very moment I told my mother.."Is there a WAR"??? And that's the time I begun to be curious and concern on what is going on...get to know who is "Cory Aquino" and finally found myself attending prayer rallies and being nationalistic. Up to now I can still recall all that "Magkaisa" song, "Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo", "Ang Bayan Ko" and more.

After all the tensions and People Power ousted the Marcoses, it's really a sweet and fulfilling victory for all the Filipino people.
The very first time that I personally saw "Tita Cory" face to face and the rest of Aquino clan when we attended the Thanksgiving Rally in Luneta and more other prayer rallies after that.

Former President "Cory Aquino" is such a very compassionate woman inside and out, so dedicated to her responsibility as a president, she made every Filipino free, united and proud anywhere she goes. Before she's known as a loving, kind and patient wife of Ninoy and a loving mom, friend and a shoulder to cry on for her children, same thing that she showed to the entire Filipino people.

Eventhough she has to battle with her cancer she never fails to worry more on her children, grandchildren and her fellow filipinos and her country. She really has a strong believed in God and prayer power.

Up to her death she brought the Filipino people united once again, the same way that the Filipino people showed their love and respect to the late Former President. The whole country mourned when she passed away but we saw the support of all the people lining up to bid their last farewell to our beloved Tita Cory and joining hand in hand to brought her at Manila Memorial last wednesday. No rain or other obstacle can prevent the outpouring support and love of all the Filipinos just to show how thankful are we for all the things and sacrifices she done for our country.

Now as she joined her husband Ninoy and our Creator in Heaven, we will surely missed her but rest assured that we will have a new guardian angel to guide us and lead us to a bright future.

You have lived your life fully. You have a great sense of pride in accomplishing your task and purpose here on earth and the only thing we can give you is to Thank You...Thank You "Tita Cory" for sharing with us your life, unconditional love, courage, dedication, humility, patience, understanding, integrity and great trust in God. May we continue to apply all the things that you've showed and taught us, that truly "Filipinos are worth fighting for" and most importantly give everything up to the Lord.

We will have a different bunch of President in the near future but we will only have ONE and ONLY simple, kind, meaningful and stain free of corruption and anomalies like you...President "Corazon C. Aquino"

Love Watching the Sunset

Love watching the sunset yesterday...

God created everything beautifully and perfectly..it's really lovely watching the sunset as it's slowly going down and see the reflection of it's sun rays on the clear blue waters of the ocean.

This kind of scenery is really breath-taking and refreshing, while watching the sun set, the falling of bloody red flowers from flame trees, inhaling the sweet smell and unpolluted fresh sea breeze, listening to the rhyme of chirping birds. It's nature's way of simply giving one's person a mind relaxing therapy after a hard day's work.

An amazing sunset watch is not just for a romantic moments and simple get-away from our busy life but it also means another day has passed and a new day is waiting again...for new hopes, new adventure, new challenges so it's better to live one day at a time and treasure every that have passed.

"Friends for Life"

I have a very few friends who are so dear and close to my heart. And these few includes my childhood and long time friends faye and lyn. Faye's name is the same with one of the actress in manila and lyn looks like carmina villaroel especially in the old movie "hindi kita malilimutan" because of the distinctive red nose..hahaha!!!!joke!!... but I remember, when we were still in high school, this young, petite and creative girl wrote a simple letter in a sheet of bounty tissue just because our high school life was about to end and another journey was yet to unfold going on college... what really touches my heart is the line that goes "If growing up means tearing us all apart...I don't want to grow up... just to make the friendship last. hayyyy...so touching..

All the while, we thought that after high school we're all going on separate ways...but opppssss!!!! no, no, no, we were able to enroll in the same school, the same course and same section but faye enrolled earlier so she's one section ahead, nothings change coz she's just next door away, rest is history...

Circumstances and fate leads the way to our own destiny, after graduation Lyn was able to get visa and follow her mom in the states, Faye got married and also lived in the states. Before, Faye and I left the philippines we used to go out, eat and window shopping in all the malls, chat all the time and thats up to now ha.

Lyn got busy with her life and career, we thought that she totally forgotten her friends...but after 10 long years she's back and she's the same old chic, jolly person we've known. She took time out from her busy sked to explore and visit seattle and have a grand time with her friend, but the sad thing is I was not there to savour and reminisce the moment with my two good old friends, well, I'm still very happy for them, I may not be physically present but in my heart & mind I felt the joy, thrill and excitement of their bonding moments, they updated me from time to time, share some of their happy moments in the pics. For sure one day is not enough for sharing all those happy and sad experiences that happened in our lives. Hmmmm..... we'll never know the next time I post for this blog I will be able to join them.

Very happy for you guys!!!!

" Friends really never say goodbye, they just say see you later...."

Needing Part Time Job and Extra Income???

I really thought it was my lucky day yesterday because I got a notice from one of my colleague that they will be needing my help again in the restaurant, and that means....I have my part time job again...yahooo!!!! I don't know for how long, what I'm sure of is it's an extra income for me...hehe!!!

Kind'a need extra effort for me to work 8 to 5 pm five days a week and run to my next job which start 6 to 10pm weekdays and 10am to 2pm weekends..whhheeehhhh!! but what's really heart warming to know is the warmth welcome from my old buddies...hay!!! touching..good to see my old friends there and a quick chit-chat.

We're not that busy that evening, not so much customer feels dining out maybe, so we thought we will be going home earlier but there's this russian family coming in for late dinner and unfortunately late call from guess who???our super regular guest and my boss...huhu!!!he's going to eat dinner and ordered in advance. We're all in a hurry to prepare his food and table,coz he'll be coming in any moment. But that moment took us more than hour waiting for him... hu!hu!hu! soo sad, the should be early time out for me became an hour extension on regular schedule.

Isn't it a "lucky day" for me????

Blogging around

hay!!! been busy lately..I have a lot of things in mind to post pero pag start na ko magpost with my spare time I don't know how and where to start...and lately my adsense is way to low..kaya feeling disappointed rin and not so inspired. But when I was able to check my friends blog nakakatuwa sobrang updated talaga sya sa pagpo-post ha, he even made a post about his grandma...his cousins and everything and anything under the sun he really composes a very nice post. And that's the reason why I realize that if I really have something in mind try to write it down right away so as not to forget, kasi the more na naiipon all the ideas in my mind mas lalong nami-mix up, mas lalong mahirap mag blog or mag post. Kaya from now on I'll try to make it a point na pag may biglang akong naisip na idea diretso agad sa create new post wala ng mamaya habit..hehe!! for sure di masasayang yong mga ideas na bigla lang pumapasok sa isip ko out of nowhere...haha!!!!

Anyways, so happy na rin and thankful because this day I made $2.35, sana everyday ganito para lalo ako mainspire at syempre dagdag income na rin di ba??? kaya post ng post..blog ng blog...

Administrative Professional Day

April 22 is Administrative Professional Day. Kind'a made up holiday and not a well celebrated holiday, but at least were being appreciated and recognized.

I didn't notice this kind of day for the past 4 years until this day when my Lady Boss treat me and the other staff of her husband for lunch at Revolving Restaurant 360. We really had a good chit-chat over lunch.

I know that we really need to get our jobs done with or without rewards and appreciation but we're just fortunate that we have a boss that's nice and appreciative to her staff.

How to transfer video from JVC GR-D77OU to my Laptop

Got the chance to use my JVC Digital Video Camera model GR-D77OU which I won grand prize in our last year's Christmas Party raffle. I really enjoy capturing every moment with the cool, clear and nice features of JVC digital video camera. It's so easy to use and I can also watch the video on my tv, transfer pictures from my SD card to my computer but.... I encounter one problem how can i transfer the video to my laptop????it says in the manual that I need to use DV cable connector. Why is it not included in the box???? Do anybody know any means of transferring video to my laptop aside from buying that DV cable that costs $29.95?????

Wave Jungle - World Resort

Fun, fun under the sun.....we enjoy our weekends under the sun..we enjoy the cool water and fun adventure of World Resort. All we have to do is wear our best swim/wet suit and sunblock and all is ready to go and enjoy the day. Wave Jungle at World Resort is one of the best water parks in Saipan.

Me and my friends love the amazing rides including the Wave Coaster, Black Hole, The Wave Pool, Body Slide, Tube Slide and we even spent sometime in the kiddie pool..haha!!!

And when feeling tired and hungry World Resort has a lot of things to offer to feed our hungry stomach. They have the Buffet World serving International cuisine, The Myeong-Ga which serves korean ribs, noodles and kimchi, and of course we can enjoy our beers and cocktail drinks at their Red Box Sport Bar, and a lot, lot more.

This is a great getaway that is too good to be true! If I can only bring my whole family here especially my niece and nephews for a fun filled summer.

How to have money

Who said money is not the important thing in man's life????

Whether we like it or not we need to face the fact that money is the basic essential needs in man's life. Almost half of our lives evolves with one mission in life..to be rich or just simply say to earn money.

As far as I can remember when still in grade school, our parents, teachers always reminds us to study hard, so if we graduate we can find jobs with good paying salary. While in high school and college they want us to choose good courses like accounting, nursing, law, engineering, etc..etc for us to get good or higher position in the society and eventually earn big bucks of money....after earning experiences we still keep on aiming for more and dream of running our own business to earn more money and become succesful in the end.

There's no such thing as FREE in life. In anything that we do money is involved, we need buy food, clothes, we need have money to buy those, need shelter, we need money for rent, need health care we need money, need to study we need money for tuition. In this crazy world money talks, money changes everything..and sometimes became roots of all evil.

And the only thing that I know best to do now is work..work harder, save, be patient, have faith in God, be resourceful, don't lose hope and hold on to our ultimate dream..

I am Bored

Whoaaaa!!!!! I'm bored.....I want something new...

Life's always been the same for the past four years...wake up in the morning, take a bath, choose what to wear and drive 15 minutes going to work, grab a cup of coffee and sandwich while opening my computer and check what's on top of my tray...open the website for the local news and ready to start my job..

I will spend another 8 hours sitting and doing all the accounting works for yesterday's transactions and do errands if needed. But, I'm so thankful coz I'm still working, I have job and still earning something every pay period despite of all the stressful news of thousands of people losing jobs, company closing etc...etc...
I'm not tired nor complaining...I'm just soooo bored...

8 hours have passed and it's time to go home, drive another 15mins to reach the house, take a walk sometimes if my body wants to..but mostly some near groceries or fancy restaurant but since it's time of crises, just go home directly....huhu!!!! so sad that we don't have mall of asia or trinoma here unlike in the philippines.hu!hu!hu! sooo sad..and that's adds to my boredom.

Hmmmmppp!!!! anyways, all I know is I want something new, something exciting, something fun, I want adventure, I want freedom, I want money..more money, I want to be happy, I want to be of big help to others, I want to be part of somebody's life and make them happy. I want to enjoy life and live to the fullest...but how???????

You Changed My Life - Movie

Once again Star cinema and Viva Films is bringing us another remarkable and super kakilig movie "You Changed My Life" starring no less than Sarah Geronimo and John Lyod Cruz.

After A Very Special Love box office hit last year, here comes a post valentine presentation from the direction of Cathy Garcia Molina, "You Changed My Life" that will surely surpass or equal the success of the first one.

The sequel will hit the big screen on Feb.25, 2009 and their premier night on Feb.24 at SM Megal Mall Cinema 9 & 10.

So watch out and savour the kilig moment of John Loyd and Sarah.

Positive Thinking

I've read a book entitled THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING by Norman Vincent Peale. It's so informative and mind refreshing if analyze deeply and put into action. In this post i've picked some of key and major article that we may apply to our daily lives.

The first part is about Believe in Yourself.

1st Chapter - Believe in yourself!Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be succesful or happy. And believe that you can do all things through Christ which strengthen us. The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for profound self-doubt is to fill our mind with faith. Develop tremendous faith in God that will give you a realistic faith in ourselves.

2nd Chapter - A peaceful mind generates power. A primary method of gaining a mind full of peace is to practice emptying your mind. At least twice a day, empty our mind of fears, hates, insecurities, regrets and guilt feelings. And to prevent unhappy thoughts from sneaking again, immediately fill your minds with creative and healthy thoughts.

That's it for the first 2 parts of reading and understanding THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING by Norman Peale. I'll keep you posted for the next succeding chapters.

God's Greatest Gift

Becoming a mother is one of nature’s best gift to a woman. While enjoying it and very proud of having it inside your womb for nine months, the most important thing is ensuring that you have a healthy little angel inside of you. Amazing!!!

Yesterday, one of our friends gave birth to a very healthy and beautiful baby girl. No matter how exhausting the past nine months of her pregnancy, every bit of the pain seems worth it when she heard the cute baby cries and finally hold the little angel in her arms for the first time! WOW that is a special feeling, a moment never to be forgotten!

No words can ever explain the joy and love that binds them from the very first day that she conceived til the day that she were able to touch, kiss, hug, hold and watch her cute little angel while she sleeps, smile and cry. What a wonderful feeling...so undescribeable......aaaahhhh how i wish to feel the same way too...hehehe!!!!

And that's God's Greatest Gift......

Lao Lao Golf Resort

What a day off spending it in one of the largest and best golf course in Saipan. I'm not a golfer but for a change me and my friends decided to spend and drive all the way to Lao Lao and breathe some fresh air, check the place and practice golf..only at the golf range...hehe!!!

They have the East Course and the West Course to enjoy golf.

East Course is spread out over the extraordinary cliff line bordering of LauLau Bay. There are dramatic views and picturesque sceneries for nature lovers. The course offers a variety of challenges to the golfer; among the highlights are the breathtaking four consecutive cliff line holes on front 9 in which each possessing its own character and acquiring a unique approach.

While the West Course has the majestic view of Mount Tapochao as its background. Its serenity creates a great composure to players. The expansive fairways of the course provide a yielding layout and an invitation to a relaxing round of golf.

They also have other facilities like restaurant, golf shop, snack bar and golf range.