NCR Wage Increase

Finally the wage increase has been approved by our labor department and even though the amount is very minimal it will still help the employees alleviate their financial status especially those receiving minimum pay. Had browsed Dole website and secured a copy of the new wage increase. I’ve submitted to my boss the proposed wage increase rate for employees receiving minimum pay and those with more than minimum basic rate. I’ve prepared a wage distortion table to balance the salaries according to rank and position and just waiting for the approval.

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How's Your Attention Span?

Your Attention Span is Long

You're attention span is amazingly long. You can concentrate well, and your mind doesn't stray easily. Even if you have a mundane task to complete, you can get it done easily. Because you don't get distracted, you accomplish more than most people. Your self discipline is your greatest strength. You can will yourself to do almost anything. All you have to do is put your mind to it.

How's Your Attention Span?

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Sleep Softly

I’ve been having bad sleeping nights lately due to pains in my back. It’s the sensitive part of my body as stress and fatigue makes my back ache. Even when I was single and was assigned in technical-bidding proposal I used to suffer from this pain. I know that these bad sleeping nights will give poor health because as we all know a healthy body can only be maintained with proper diet, exercise and right amount of sleep. That’s why I took some time off my busy schedule to search for good waterbeds which can give a peaceful stress-free sleep to anyone suffering from sleeping disorders. Sleep is very important so we should be aware of any disturbances we may be having in our sleep.

I’ve been hearing plenty of advertisement about beds that can make you sleep peacefully and rest your body from stress, anxiety and worries. There are lots of them in the market and I’ve found one online while I was browsing the net. My Water Shop offers online shopping for all bedding requirements including waterbeds, air beds, waterbed mattresses and waterbed accessories. It makes shopping a nice experience as you can do searching and purchasing your desired quality and stylish products in the comfort of your own home.

They also provide varieties of the most comfortable softside waterbed available in the market. This waterbed will give you the best sleep possible just like the sleep of a contented infant, comfortable and peaceful sleep. The reason behind this is the great features of the softside waterbeds with its dual waveless lumbar matters, solid state heater, high density foam rails and the removable damask pillow top. The waterbed includes free drain and fill kit with conditioner to prevent the growth of odor causing and slime-forming bacteria. This way you can be assured of a clean and fresh waterbed. And because they value their customer they offer a 30-day return/exchange policy if a problem arises after the purchase.

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Boss' Birthday

After the live demo of customized sales force solution all BT&T staff prayed and ate lunched together for our boss’ birthday. It’s Sir Bobby’s 30th birthday but he looks like he’s in his middle twenties only. Some people are like that – they never seem to grow old, some grows old early in life. I must admit that those with chinky eyes look younger than their age just like JennyL.

Of course everybody was there including our dear Sir Bob. As usual we have the company’s all-time favorite Pancit (not me of course coz I’m a pasta lover), liempo and lechon manok from shopwise, double dutch ice cream and drinks. We never had the time to prepare for a fruit salad. Forgive my picture because the celebrant is not there, he's on a phonecall when i took the picture.

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Jazzing Up Some Lights In Your Homes

My engineer brother invited us to the house blessing of one of his projects but before the projected date of the house blessing he told me that the owner want to add some more lights in the house to add warmth and color to the newly constructed two-storey house. He would need a lot of indoor light fixtures to capture the effect his client wants for his new house. It was a sudden decision and my brother is running out of time to canvass and look for quality lights on good deals.

The only suggestion that I did was to go searching for his required lights online. I told him here’s plenty of a store online that can give all he wants to complete his projected design. Of course to add class and luxurious look to the house he would need some chandeliers that would go well with the carpet and indoor paints. I myself look at every chandelier of the house I’m visiting, we have one in the house with 6 lights but now we’re not using it as I find it not complementing with our new modern decorations.

My brother was happy with my suggestion and he proceeded with looking at all the possible indoor light fixtures that he’ll need to accentuate the paintings and artworks on the wall. He wanted to add some life into the house so he choose some wall fixtures to jazz up the simple wall. He added some vanity lighting for the bathroom and under-cabinet lighting for the kitchen. We’ve finished the tasks days ahead of the scheduled occasion and his client was satisfied. I was also happy that there are sites like Shopwiki that offers solutions to our needs for decorating and beautifying our house in the comfort of doing all the searching, choosing and purchasing in the comfort of our homes.

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Customizing BT&T Sales Force

We had a seminar demo on Sales Force with an objective in customizing our company’s Sales and Marketing Department and possibly Technical Department too. We included Ms. Bea based in New York using YM just like video conferencing, it’s really amazing using the latest technology. The agenda for this demo are IP-Convergence profile, Salesforce, Live Demo of SFDC for BT&T and Investment Summary. The account manager of IP Convergence Ms. Lhen first introduced their company and summarized objectives and services. She then included discussing their partners and the companies that they bought.

IP-Convergence provides data center services and customized solutions for companies on their sales force, technical and many other aspects of services. They would have to make a solution for our company’s required services such as complete monitoring of the whole business, standardizing sales methodology/process and gain standardized reports for monitoring of user department/group.

Hope that this will eventually be used in our office to customize our America Calls project.

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Home Furniture

My husband is working in a company that sells appliances and furniture for office and home. And because of that I’m really keen on the quality and price of the brand I like. I would always ask him what’s the best for a certain kind of appliance and if the price is good also. There’s one time when I visited their store and found a very nice and comfortable home furniture that will certainly look good on our living room. I really wanted that furniture so much but I don’t have enough budget. Luckily when my hubby asked for a discount they deducted 5% on it and we scheduled the delivery of that furniture.

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My Dear Friend Jannet

We were strolling along Tiendesitas when I received a text message from my friend Jannet that she will resign from her work. She’s a teacher friend of mine whom I’ve met when Ruth was in the first grade when we were both PTA officers of our children’s school. Since then we became friends and got closer as the years passed by. I may call another wonder woman as she performs various works all at the same time. She’s a full time preparatory school teacher in St. Audry, got lots of tutorials for her free time and part-time customer representative in our company BT&T since March. Last summer she worked for one month in ADB as BT&T’s reliever for switchboard operator on weekdays and CSR on weekends’ night-duty.

I told her to take care of her body and health as she never seems to rest. I’m also a workaholic person but to see a person works in the same way as myself gave me some worries on my heart. I was thinking what if our overworking activities give a toll on our bodies, how can we cope with that. Our family needs us so much that we should really take care of our health, both of us.

I’ve already resigned from this present work of mine but my boss asked me to extend my stay as there’s no one available yet to replace me. Maybe just maybe I’ll be able to leave in a few months. Jannet knowing my resignation has supported me with my decision but I told her that she should think also of giving up some work that she has so she’ll be able to take care of her family and most especially herself. So when I received her text message I was really happy that she finally had the courage to relieve herself of some tasks that she have. No worries for her now.

Here's a picture of us the first year of our friendship together with our other parent friends from left Annie, Anna, Teacher Lisa, Me and Jannet. (taken March 2005)

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Shopping For Your Home

Home is where you rest your body after a day’s work, it is where you start building your own family and build a nice foundation for them. Home is where the heart is as they say and if your heart is in it you must express your heart through it. The things that you put in your house are a reflection of your personality and your taste. To create an ambience that truly describes the family that lives in it you must furnish it with a home and garden furniture, accessories and appliances that suits your style.

And if you want to do it but don’t have the luxury of time there’s a lot of available sites online which will give you ideas on what products to buy. I found online Shopwiki site which offers complete lines of products for your home and garden. No need to waste your time walking endlessly to search, canvass and purchase items for your home as their site caters to online shoppers and offers products from wide variety of stores they seek on the net. Yes you can find your favorite stores through their site. They provide all sites including those who did not advertise with them.

This is really nice especially for busy working moms out there who can’t find the time to explore furniture or appliance store on foot. With this online shopping they can search for their home furnishing, houseware, home maintenance, kitchen, dining, and workshop, home improvement, outdoor and garden to complete their shopping for their homes. It’s easier to look for beautiful oriental rugs to exude a warm look on my living room. This is really a big help as they have all the things you will need for your home and garden.

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Father's Day

Spent the whole day at the church and we've planned to have snack or dinner somewhere in Tiendesitas as they're open until after 9pm. We've rounded the place but after all the food stores and restaurants we've ended up to the kids' favorite Jollibbee lol! My three kids doesn't want to eat those food in SM hypermart catering to different kinds of food, they just want to eat french fries, chicken burgers, spaghetti and chicken so to make the choices simple we just dined in the branch near SM.

We're not really that serious celebrating Father's Day as having a formal dinner or what; just a simple eat-together kind is enough just as long as the whole family is happy. We brought our prayers to God to keep Ed healthy and forever caring. Together with my kids we thanked God that He gave us a father and husband that so loves, understanding and doing his best to keep our family in the bosom of God's love and care. He is not just a good father but also a good minister of God.

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