Month: October 2008

WAH Moments: Flexible time

Work at Home

One of the things I was lucky enough to get when I was still a corporate rat was a flexible time schedule. I am a night person. I function well at night. I can think straight when dusk sets in. So I always made it a point to ask for a flexible time schedule from my bosses. And I was lucky enough to get it.

Typical Filipino office time starts at 8 or 8:30 in the morning and it normally ends at 5pm onwards, depending on the 8 hours required by most companies. Since I live in Quezon City and traffic in the morning is horrible, I need to allot at least 2 hours travel time going to Makati City. If you take the MRT, you can slash 30 minutes from the travel time. Now if I want to come in on time by say 8am, I need to be able to get out of the house by 6am. Since I am a wash-and-wear type of person, I just need an hour tops to prepare for work. With that time frame, I need to wake up around 5am. Now that I cannot do.

That is the reason I ask for a flexible time schedule. I could wake up around 8am, be ready before 9am and be in the around 10am since it’s past the rush hour. I stay until 8 or 9 in the evening and go home past the rush hour.

Now that I work at home, of course, rush hour is something I am not worried about anymore. I work in a flexible time schedule that I really love. I know the best time of the day that I am productive. I know when I am least effective in coming up with ideas.

And the best thing about working at home?


I need not keep looking at the clock to check if it’s time for me to go home already. I’m always home! 😀

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Where do our taxes go anyway???

Community issues

There is a reason why so many Filipinos, and that includes me, hate paying taxes… we see no benefits from it!

In the news a few minutes ago, a man got hit by a speeding Honda Civic. He was hit hard in the head and needed to be rushed to the hospital right away. Do you know that a couple of hospitals in Parañaque have no ambulance? Grabe talaga! Where can you find hospitals without an ambulance on standby? If it weren’t for the news crew of ABS-CBN, I doubt if help will be given to that hit and run victim. When finally an ambulance arrived, it has no medical crew in it! Thank goodness some well meaning barangay officials helped.

Upon arriving at the hospital, the victim was made to wait once more because the doctors were hesitant in admitting him. My guess would be because of financial concerns. Could the victim pay them? But because there’s the news crew of ABS-CBN, the hospital was forced to admit the victim.

Take a moment and imagine yourself in the victim’s shoes. You are paying taxes to this godforsaken government and you couldn’t even be given first aid???

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Get the money back

Blogging in general

I was really wrong in buying the laptop instead of buying a desktop right away. A desktop is intended for prolonged use and that is what I really need. Thank goodness I earned more than enough last month so I have some money to spare that I used to purchase this desktop.

Now, all I have to worry about is how I can get back the money I spent for the desktop. Here’s to more opps! :)

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Technorati Authority

Blogging in general

My Technorati Authority took a nosedive!!! From 400-something, it’s now down to 258. Now I am thinking of how I can make it go up again. I guess the incoming links are now 6 months old. I have to do something to make this go up again because I know a couple of advertisers who look at this number.

I was once told by a Technorati support that the viral tagging is something that they will work on to stop in the future. I was emailed about it, especially the most recent one I joined. Even the new blog I have is tagged “for review” because of that viral linking post.

Oh well…

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Lesson learned: Update your anti-virus program!

Blogging in general

Today is a very disappointing day for me. I lost all 3GB of my files! It’s not much but it contains all my photos, blog files, drafts I have yet to publish, wordpress themes I’ve used and chosen for future use, notes, and so much more. I lost the heart of my blogging life. All because I don’t update my anti-virus program. I turned off updates and have forgotten thrice now to buy a new AV. My cousin had to do a full reformat of David, my laptop :(

It hurts to know that I can never recover those files anymore. Thank goodness I don’t delete all email attachments. At least I could find some there. But the important ones are forever lost to me…

So lesson learned for today? Update your anti-virus program! Scan your computer daily. Beware of what you download on the net.

I hope you don’t have to learn it the hard way like me.

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Entrecard woes

Blogging in general

I bet a lot of you EC droppers out there are having the same problems like me. Entrecard loading is horrible for the past few days now! It’s taking me forever to load a site. Accessing the inbox is out of the question. It takes forever to load a site. I checked on both Chrome and Firefox. The same horrible loading.

I was wondering what Entrecard is doing with this problem. I mean, I can understand the server load and all. But what’s their proposed solution to this? And what’s the fixation on monetizing blogs this time?

Entrecard has given this blog tremendous traffic. And for that I will always be thankful, especially with the Alexa rank boost.

But in times like this, it makes you think about driving traffic to this blog the hard way again.

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WAH Moments: Eating out with the boss

Work at Home

One of the advantages of working at home is that you need not worry about spending so much money on a single meal. Like what I did before when I was still working for a big call center company here in the country.

Every lunch time, my ex-boss, let’s call her Bratty, would ask the whole finance team to eat lunch with her. That was good considering some bosses ignores their staff outside the office, whereas Bratty wanted to spend lunch time with us. The problem was, she always picked the expensive restaurants. Where a single meal costs almost 500pesos (roughly $11). If you are someone like me who is a breadwinner, shelling out that much money daily is a big chunk out of the paycheck. 500 pesos in 5 days is 2,500 pesos (roughly $55) already. In just 1 week! Multiply that by 4 weeks and just imagine the number of grocery items you could buy from that amount already.

I could say no to the invitation and eat somewhere cheaper. But then, she’d make you feel like you were not part of the team. As second in rank to her, that’s a big blow. Being in her good side was my number one priority back then. I had no choice but to endure her constant bullying.

Now, thanks to freelance work, I no longer worry about spending that much in a day. Eating at home is undoubtedly cheaper than eating out. Plus, I get to eat more at a lesser price… One of the perks of working at home :)

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Changing themes again?

Blogging in general

Those who know me from way back I started with Akoni, knew my penchant for frequently changing themes. Whenever something happens, blog got slapped for instance), I have this overwhelming need to change something in my blog. Don’t ask me why. It’s just one of my quirks. It is the same way with my offline life. When I feel helpless about something, even little things like missing a tv show, I channel my frustration in my blogs. Maganda na rin di ba kaysa kung saan ko pa ma-channel frustrations ko hehe

Or you know, maybe it’s just my fickle mind! I easily lose interest in the same colors. I think I don’t like the orange in this blog anymore. I feel more like Christmas colors. Hmm…

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