Mr. Jomar Hilario

Guess what, I was not able to see Mr. Frank Hilario in person but I was able to meet his son Jomar in CDO VA seminar last January 14, 2012. I was blessed enough and spend for myself just to get into Jomar's outside Metro Manila seminar. Its been almost three months but I couldn't focus on his assignments. I have tried making it several times, doing some research but I am still focus on my day job as a full time employee of a national micro finance company. Obviously I still enjoy my  job going around my area and sometimes there are no mobile phone signals and internet connections in some pension houses, but honestly I also want to learn the world of the internet. I am starting to grasp and do some research whenever I have internet access. 

Mr. Frank Hilario

I almost attended Mr. Frank Hilario's writers' work shop in Manila last June 2011 but due to some reasons I was prevented. I am sure one day I will meet him. Mr. Hilario is one of the finest writers in this planet. Honestly I came across his name because the event was promoted by his son Jomar. I enrolled in Jomar's OMC last year and his mails keep pouring in my inbox. I have always wanted to be a writer and I always want to learn more things to hone this skill. I searched the name of Mr. Frank Hilario, and lo and behold! A multi awarded writer no less. And to my surprise I became a subject of one of his blogs. I has very honored.

This is not the last workshop

Finally I have decided not to attend Mr. Frank Hilario's workshop for blogger:
http://creattitudes.blogspot.com/2011/06/creattitudes-advice-101-attend-creative.html#comment-form

Only last night that I was convinced that this event is not for me at least for the moment. For some valid reasons; as I tried to swipe for plane ticket bookings the internet was not very cooperative: it says always "server not found" and to think I made it a point to book online when hours were no longer busy like 3:20AM and late last night at 10:44PM. Although plane tickets have gone higher than the normal figures which appeared in the web.  I kept browsing what airport is the cheapest (because I live in Surigao and by June 17 I would be in Butuan but these two are very expensive and only Cagayan de Oro city has the cheapest so far.) And aside from that I was thinking to volunteer on the said event as Jomar was looking for some volunteers and I could have the registration fee for free. But as I was trying to swipe again and again still the reply is "server not found".  Then I said to myself: "Ok this is not for me at least for now. Anyway this is just the first workshop and it's not the last either."


The other reason is that when I update my spread sheet of expenses as today is pay day, I laugh at myself because I would be broke before the next pay day or the next cash advance (for official travel). (Send money home for Mama, Insurance and textbooks for a niece and some other expenses personal and official.).  


So, okay, I would miss the workshop this weekend but I am pretty sure that it's not the last!

Creative Writing for Blogger's Workshop

There will be a blogger's workshop to be held in Taguig City, Philippines on June 18, 2011.

http://creattitudes.blogspot.com/2011/06/creattitudes-advice-101-attend-creative.html#comment-form

It would be the first workshoop so far. And here I am dying to attend this workshop. I am just wondering what is instored for me with this path I am threading. As I am sitting here in this hotel lobby I am still not booking online for the said event nor booking for my plane tickets. For the past days even over the weekend I was thinking of it.  Whether to attend or not.  Because I am really thinking of the budget. If I swipe for the registration and my plane tickets to attend this event my credit card billing statement would reach a hundred thousand Philippine peso, combining two  HSBC credit cards actually.  I am considering the amount because I can only pay a little above minimum at this time. As to why I reached this credit card bill is another story. I am praying hard if going to this event is for me. I know deep in my heart that I can learn many things from this workshop.

HP Touchpad

I'm in the office busy correcting my piece for tonight's presentation in a power point.  And in between these times I am glancing at HP Touchpad featured in Wikipedia. So cool. Right now I am using a Lenovo notebook with Mickey Mouse design which my office provided. Still cool.  But I could not help peeping at this HP Touchpad. This thing will be available in the US market this coming June 2011, that's next month! Somebody, please give me one! 16GB or 32GB. 
                                                           

Downloading and waiting

This might be one of the slower times, I mean the internet. I am downloading some documents but it's been 20 minutes but I have to wait.  I still have plenty of docs and reports to download but I am doing it one at a time or else I could not have one.  And while waiting for the download docs I have to maximize my time by doing my blogs.  My boss may kill me now. Doing unofficial in the internet or facing facebook is illegal for us during office hours but sometimes we discuss our office concerns among office mates on facebook beyond office hours. Ok my boss won't kill me now. Just kidding. My third boss but the best so far. I have two past jobs. The first one was a lady boss and the second one was a Japanese.  Both were good. And those times with them we didn't have  internet, not much cellphones at that time. Now we have this internet connections, most employees have more than one mobile phones.  We simply live in this DOT COM era. We have to embrace it.

Connected but no access

My laptop says that I am connected but when I tried Mozilla Fox I just couldn't access to the WiFi facility of Lolita's Loft. I said to myself "oh, I must be somewhere lost around the corner." But good thing our IT was not sleeping yet, we have to befriend with the front desk clerk so he can do something for us, not just me so we can access to the internet. At first we thought it must have been the service provider but later when our IT started his hands on the server and on the router and on the ports we were relieved.