Thursday Challenge: Simple (Pleasures)

"SIMPLE"

(Minimalist, Simple Things, Simple Composition, Pure,...)

This week's theme for Thursday Challenge is Simple and I've posted this one as my entry to feature Simple Things and Simple Pleasures in life that makes us happy. Just look at my son Josh while he slides here along with other children, isn't he happy? With this simple slide in Enchanted Kingdom kids were happy enough to spent their time playing here!

Picture taken during their educational tour.

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Choosing the Best Blog Web Host

With the current times that we have now some people can’t keep up with the new trends in technology. It seems that if you don’t continue studying you’ll be left behind. Modern technology demands further education and with little ways of being smart in reading, surfing and researching. You’ll be amazed at how the kids learn easily, you teach them just now and they know it already. It also has some disadvantage as people became lazy in anything that’s manual so if the power was interrupted we feel helpless most of the time as our life revolves in high technology.

I’m a graduate of Computer Engineering several years back and even if I’m in line with the current technology I also have to study further in computer software just to keep with the newest technology or else I’ll be left behind. Anyway being a graduate of such related course made me understand it more clearly and so I was able to use it on my blogging. Blogging has been my outlet for sharing my experiences, inspirational thoughts and my online journal for my kids’ activities. It is where I open my heart and write my thoughts which were unopened in the past. Through this I was able to meet new friends and came to know some really beautiful sites that are good for reading.

If you’re a blogger you tend to improve your blog appearances and writing style so your visitors won’t get bored. You will also seek for a better host other than your usual free hosts to take care of your site. Like me after just more than one year of blogging I’ve already chosen one of the best blog web hosting company to use. I found it through friend’s recommendations and until now I was happy with my web host. It has proven its capabilities to me and I’m glad it doesn’t fail me.

For you out there who are still thinking of getting web host for your blog you can browse through top web hosting company recommended by WebHostingChoice.com which identifies each web host’ features, affordability, uptime, technical support and reliability and you’ll never get wrong.

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The Fireworks Test

My fireworks test say I'm obsessed and I'm quite surprised by the word obsessed then I found out that the meaning of that is different from what I'm thinking. Here's the result and even if it's just an informal personality test it somehow matches the real me :-)

Your Fireworks Say You're Obsessed

You are focused, single minded, and intense.
You don't let others see your intensity often, and when they do, they are quite surprised.

You burn brightly, but you also burn steadily.
You have the endurance to get the one thing you desire most.

The Fireworks Test

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:PH# 183: Anything Goes :-)

This is my entry for this week's Photohunt where anything can be posted, a free week for photo hunters. These are some of my despedida pictures in my former work, I forgot to post these pictures with my officemates and they might need this also (grab these girls) . This was my last day where my boss treated me and all of my officemates in BT&T Telecoms and Design Science, Inc. in a lunch despedida,how sweet! Btw I've been in their companies (been employed in their 2 companies) for 16 years! Grand!

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Getting Through Financial Crisis

What’s the best way to fight financial crisis? Work hard, live simply and don’t buy unnecessary things. I remember what Mom was always saying to us when we were younger that the best solution for a debt-free life is this simple phrase - do not buy what you don’t need and do not need what you can’t buy. Simple but true. We should not need what we can’t afford because if we do that’s the start of our money trouble. If we want to buy the things we want we should strive to earn extra income aside from our regular pay.

Having an HR background from my previous employment gave me an insight of the regular pay most employees were receiving and I know that it’s enough for the basic necessities. Earning extra income could mean part-time jobs, business or some kind of investment. And if we want investment that’s sure to give us profit in the long run we should consider silver and gold coin investing. Monex companies, a well known coin dealer offers silver coin investing and has the best deals on silver coin prices. It has proven its worth in coin industry and provides the first program for financing buying of silver coins. With them you’ll have the best return on your investment.

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He Wants to be a Doctor!

Josh had a fun time with the legal clinic when we had hubby's affidavit of loss for SSS digitized ID notarized. As usual Josh was with me and when he entered the law office he immediately read the name of the law firm and when the two legal partners heard him reading it he asked him to read it for them again.

Josh is a well behaved boy when dealing and talking to people and he read again this time full and clear which the legal attorney followed with many questions about Josh' age, school, honors and etc. Josh answered all of the questions with smile on his face and when he's asked if would like to be an attorney he politely answered that he wants to be a doctor. Why? He told me that he would heal his granny's rheumatism and eyes. My Mom's eyes have been healed by doctor and by God's grace so Josh would only deal with Mom's rheumatism. He loves his Lola very much.

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Vehicle Reimbursement

When I was still working in a telecommunications company I’ve been involved with giving reimbursement expenses to employees especially the managers who were given the benefits of reimbursing money spent on representation expenses. This representation allowances is basically dedicated to expenses incurred on a business meeting or out-of town meals and some other costs incurred through meeting with prospective clients. The monthly expenses vary differently as meetings with clients are not regular and fixed.

With regards to gasoline expenses each manager were given Car Allowance to use on their personal car which is used for their official business trip. It is given in a way of transportation or vehicle reimbursement. Actually it’s not as organized as they don’t have specific rules how much or how far they will reimburse allowances to our managers.

Companies should really consult a finance specialist or companies like Corporate Reimbursement Services, Inc. (CRS) which can help customize reimbursement programs for employees. They based the calculations on the number of actual business miles run, gasoline prices, tax and some other conditions. Since it’s harder for the client to create database for their own companies it’s easier and quick with CRS as with the use of their system companies can save a lot on their costs especially on the cost of purchasing cars for the managers.

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:WW - Bio Research Educational Tour

This is Part 2 of Josh Educational Tour. I'm posting here his tour at BioResearch where there are mini zoo, butterfly farm, honey bee culture and many fishes. I have plenty of shots here as the place is really big and almost have everything. Just don't hope that much on mini zoo as there are only few animals mostly birds only. It's mostly fishes and plants.

I'm sharing some photos of their fishes. More of Bioresearch next week.

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Wordless Wednesday

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Drink Only Safe Water

We’re so glad that everything went back to normal again after two weeks of different problems in power, internet connectivity, some problems in other food supplies and sometimes not so clear water coming from the faucet. These problems were all due to the storm that hit the country. Suddenly people are aware of having emergency lights, extra batteries for flashlight, some food stored for the rainy days and water filters to assure them that they drink clean waters. As for us we only order purified drinking water to our trusted source because it’s cheaper than maintaining our own and our source has one of the best water filters in town.

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:PH# 182: Sports (Race Driving)

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This is the Junior Kart-Trak sports located in Enchanted Kingdom. I had the chance to take a shot while there's a couple who was currently taking the drive. The girl was screaming at the spped they're having. Now we didn't ride as Josh is still very young for that. We just watched as teenagers enjoyed the ride in race driving. It looked fun and thrilling to me. I would have loved riding it if hubby is with me. But for sure I'll scream lol!

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PhotoHunt

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