Boss is Satisfied

Commercial muna, we already had our year-end performance evaluation and yes, I received a satisfactory rating. My boss told me that I have hmm.. in his words pontential in my presentation skills. Sabi ko, e di magse-sales na lang pala ako haha. Oh well, we've yet to draft our objectives for the year so goodluck ulit sakin :D

Now, eh ano nman kung gnun ang rating ko?! It means more money!! This year kasi nagiba sila ng formula for computation of performance bonus, yey! I'd get 100% instead of the usual 60% of 3 months bonus (gross po ito, wish ko lang nett).

Ok, yung lang hilo ang lola mo sa compute-compute kung san ia-allocate ang incoming moolah :D


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investing on real estate?

I want unlimited web access.. NOW!

dani almost 19d

although this isn't what dani's saying in the photo, it's exactly the same way i wanted to react to our company's web content filtering policy. Not sure if blogger and other blog domain is blocked already. I'm not going to take the risk of them finding out the sites i'm frequenting. magpapalamig muna ko sa office. buti na lang meron na kaming internet sa haus :D still, kainis pa rin. tsk.

tsk.

tsk.


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Cool sexy boots

Money In, Money Out

Ayayay, the money I was expecting to come will be delayed so paktay na naman ang budget. Good news though as my blog got approved by blogitive, yey! :D So far I'm way behind my online tasks (to reach my goal of PR2 for this quarter). I've been busy dreaming of my travel escapades for the year but then hubby and I had a short talk (more like we discussed it in passing hehe) that we should SAVE this year.

Work aspect is not looking so bright as our companies are planning to physically relocate this year. If his company decided to relocate him in Alabang then all is well. However if they prefer to move in Libis area, tsk..tsk.. As for me, I feel as if I'm hanging on a balance scale. Though I do not love my work, I can live with it given my boss and my F@Ws pero naman super isolated yung area namin if ever.

Sportsfest 2007

Next Friday, our company will be holding a Sportfest for regular and contractual employees. It was originally schedule on a Saturday but since October 12 was declared holiday, fearing that previously signed up participants might change their mind in preparation for the long weekend, we rescheduled. It’s not like we’ll be having something like aPenn State football, just the usual sports like basketball, volleyball and badminton. As for non-sporty employees, we have fun games in stored for them. Also, they could always participate in the cheering competition. I’m so looking forward to this event.

By the way, since I was on vacation last week, I haven't really been contributing much to this said company activity. However, I did get to design the teasers and as always, try to encourage my dept to show up and just put more log to keep the fire (excitement) going.

My Desktop at Work

Ok here is my very boring desktop at work. Not much personalization i can do here since we have to abide by company's standards. anyways, i have a 1152x864 screen resolution which most of my officemates find too small. as you can see I try to minimize my desktop icons and shortcuts coz i read somewhere that it eats away some precious memory from my unit. mostly i have notepad files containing stuffs i copy and paste from the net or local mail or sql scripts. filenames are quite descriptive so one can easily guess the contents (go figure blah, crap and dump.txt hehe)

Note: Start Copy Here!My Desktop Free View Instruction:
A. Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun.
You can do a screen capture by:
1. Going to your desktop and pressing the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key).
2. Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and do a Paste (CTRL + V).
3. If you wish, you can "edit" the image, before saving it.
B. Post the picture in your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop just below it if you want. You can explain why you preferred such look or why is it full of icons. Things like that.
C. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktop as well.
D. Add your name to this list of Free Viewers with a link pointing directly to your Desktop Free View post to promote it to succeeding participants.

Lutchi - My Two Cents Worth
Michel - Words From My Heart
Jessel - My Wonderful World
Weng - Readers Haven
Janine - Janine`s Blog
Genny - Wonderful Things In Life
Juliana-My World
Kitts-Marriage?! Think twice.

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will tag others in a while, post ko lang po to ;)

Baby annoucement booboo

As part of the Employee Welfare Committee in our company, I am assigned to send out Baby Annoucements. Every now and then, when employees send us pictures of their new born baby, I basically create an email indicating the fullname, nickname, birthdate and parents of the said baby to everyone.

The thing is my boss' wife recently gave birth and to my excitement I immediately sent out an email of his baby's photo. However, I have one pending baby photo beforehand and noted to send it out next. As expected, the mother of the said baby reacted, cc'd my group, as follows:

Kitts

I wonder when you will ever announce my baby. Actually, I didn't want to but J insisted that I give a photo. So I did but nothing has happened. Anyway, if you don't feel like it, never mind.

Ms. L

Admittedly the photo was sent to me last July 25 but hadn't gotten around to do the layout. Let's just say I wasn't that inspired to do so. I received phone calls asking me if i've read the mail while i am getting irate by the minute. Anyways, I didn't offer her any excuse, whipped and sent the layout in matter of minutes then sent a separate mail deeply apologising for the late announcement. It doesn't end there though, she emailed me the correct spelling of her daughter's mail. You see, I just used whatever info J previously gave to me. Now, I don't really want to clog everybody's mail but for her satisfaction, our chairperson decided that I resend the mail with the correct name.

What a way to start my day.

anyway, here's the simple LO i did for her.



Oftentimes, I get a few praises here and there and that more than makes up for the effort i put on these annoucement alongside my current workload.

Not your ordinary shopping cart

I’ve first encountered shopping carts when we were building the online proposal site of a local insurance company. At the time, handling cookies and session is quite tricky not to mention addressing security concerns using classic asp. Many stressful and sleepless nights has passed and still implementing such reliable and secured service was for naught.

I have read somewhere, why reinvent the wheel when you can buy one and maximize it for your own profit. Of course some may argue that they can reinvent the wheel just for kicks. My take is that for small time entrepreneurs who might want to take their online business a step further then maybe purchasing an online shopping cart, is not such a bad idea. Spending about P8.5K++ on shopping cart software is an investment entrepreneurs should seriously look into. If you do not have the time and ability to create your own shopping cart then it is wiser to buy one than hiring a developer to build one for you.

Nose bleed

mid-year review discussion's done already with my boss whacking his brains on skills we've yet to develop. its a good thing really, kami rin nman makikinabang nun diba. yes, there's a big BUT coming.. ok.. however na lng hehe :D .. However, my mind is no longer sponge-like as when I was as little as Dani.. in other words, mejo hirap na rin ako pumick-up ng bagong technologies. hindi pa nga advance ang skill sa VS.NET 2003 magre-release na naman ng "Orcas" sus. Sakit sa ulo talaga. Plus the issue of MS's money-making scheme on certification tsk..tsk..tsk.. cge na nga, magja-java na lang ako hehe :D marunong naman ako ng C# so baka syntax na lng din ang difference, anjan naman ang www for help in case i get stuck :D

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my previous boss is celebrating his 15th anniversary next friday. umoo nman ako nung tinanong ako if i want to say something to him captured in video para sa ginagawa nilang presentation. wala lang, nakwento ko lang kasi he's not evil naman eh, he's just doing his job at the time na nagkaron kami ng misunderstanding way back :)

007 will soon be gone

yey! it took awhile before i understood what happened last tuesday's sudden meeting. we were talking about my seatmate's turnover schedule. i thought such is required of her for her two weeks vacation come april. i just found out awhile ago that she officially resigned, yey!

one down, one more to go.. but then again, are there really only two? hmm..