In Demand

Got a call today from a software company. Last week, I got phoned-in three times by head hunters asking me how long have I been writing for our company. These agents were specially interested with how long have I been using the Adobe FrameWork documentation software. Each conversation felt like I am undergoing employment screening as they lay down more than five questions that I was sometimes unprepared to answer.

Receiving these calls made me realize how in demand a Technical Writer is in the industry. These representatives never failed to ask how much is it I am getting paid by my current company. I sometimes hesitate to share those kinds of information, but a colleague said she thinks it's alright to reply to these inquiries. This way, I can have an idea how it was with other company when it comes to compensating their employees. One of the agent inquirer even offered to give me three times of what I am making right now. But of course I was not swayed by these offers as I am happy and content with where I am right now.

Up Dharma Down at Capones Tonight

Another gig I will miss this month. Writing a review about the latest in barcode scanner is taking an ample amount of time for me to get my work done. I requested to a feedback to the first one I submitted to get on to the second one. But nadah; been waiting for it for the last 24 hours and its starting to get a bit frustrating.

Anyways, I still am undecided, but I really want to go to Capones for Up Dharma Down’s gig tonight. It’s not until 10pm so I still have mere four hours to decide.

How about you? Where are you headed this humid Saturday night?

Glee On Tour

So I thought Ryan Seacrest will announce a probable stint of the cast of Glee in American Idol. But I was dead wrong ( and I hope my insurance quote won't share the same fate). The announcement was about the whole cast bringing Glee's music on the road!

Just Jared posted on their blog that the cast of Glee will be having a 4-City concert tour starting May! The tour will start in Phoenix, Arizona on 18 May and will end in New York 29 May. Here’s the rest of the tour dates:

May 18 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
May 20 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre
May 21 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre
May 25 Chicago, IL Rosemont Theatre
May 26 Chicago, IL Rosemont Theatre
May 28 New York City, NY Radio City Music Hall
May 29 New York City, NY Radio City Music Hall
 

I bet the Gleeks will have the best summer. I hope Glee visit other countries too and put Philippines on the list of their stops.

It’s only more than a month away before Glee comes back with a fresh episode on April 18.

I. CANNOT. WAIT.

Miranda

Isn’t she so pretty?

Saw this photo at JustJared. I was taking a break on my research about slimquick extreme and decided to check out the entertainment blog. Of all the supermodels, Miranda Kerr is my most favorite. I love her boho-chic style. She always go out without that much make up on so you can really tell she is the prettiest among the bunch. She’s Australian and most Pinoys thought that she’s part Filipina because of her morena features. But she said that she is not.

Early Summer

Judging from the unbearable heat for the past three weeks, summer is undeniably here. Most of the people are calling it El Niño because of its massive effect with the country’s agriculture industry. My body is starting to act up with the weather too. These colon cleansing products will definitely be a huge help for me since I've been having stomach problems because of the change in the weather. Putting these negative effects aside, summer is still my favorite season of the year. One of my most memorable was a trip to Anawangin last 2008 with friends.

I hope we could go back and camp out again this year.

Fifteen Again

Been crackin’ myself with my research on the best muscle building supplement for the past hour. It's been picking up well and might be able to start with the write-up by the end of the week. The client wanted me to write a thousand words and summarize all the research work I have been sending them via e-mail. Thought of giving myself a break and start watching the Season 01 episodes of Dawson’s Creek. I started downloading them last weekend. I remember watching the show when I was in high school. I was 15 when the show premiered in Studio 23. It airs Mondays at 8pm that time. Yes it was a school night, but for the first time, my mother allowed me to stay up until 9pm and watch the show unsupervised.

Better get a cup of Milo and go over the couch and stop typing. :D

Wrap Up

It’s 11:28 in the evening. My eyes are failing me. This cannot be. An energy auditor is waiting for me on the other line for the deal we've been negotiating with the bosses. Good thing, I'm still on the verge of wanting everything to work out. The proposal’s out, the initial meeting was done earlier today, and everything is all there. All we need are three signatures and all will be in place…  

Silid Shirt

I WANT ONE!

I found this shirt from Carlos' Facebook page this morning. The band is selling it for Php250 each. That's way cheaper than the best acne pill around, hehe. Anyways, I haven’t been to an Up Dharma Down gig for a month now. But I am still getting my daily dose of Dharma by updating the Tumblr site I created and moderate for the band. I am looking forward to seeing the guys on Friday at their 6UG gig.

Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

So my mom recommended that I see this movie. She and my dad chose this movie for their pre-Valentine date. Actually, dad asked me that morning what are the movies in the cinemas. I mentioned Percy and said Pierce Brosnan was on the film. My mom asked me to call her that afternoon while she and dad was at the mall. I was in the middle of researching about lipozene when I got the text message. I called her immediately and then she updated me about her check-up and then raved about the film. I only had the chance to see the film’s trailer when I went to see Sherlock Holmes and was really impressed. I hope I’d have time to watch the film this weekend.

Crab Mentality

Pausing for a while. This motorcycle accident lawyer assignment can wait. I needed to write something that has been bugging me for the past couple of weeks -- the crab mentality going around at Facebook.

They think they're all smart and know a lot about politics, when all they do is to put another candidate down. It's not enough for them to just support a candidate. They needed to bash other candidates too just to make the candidates they support look good.

Myriad Pro And Other Fonts

I decided to take home a piece of work. Our Technical Administrator was kind enough to allow me to have access to to our company's server while here at home. Been trying to customize the company's Development Blog the whole week. I am noob to all these SharePoint Designer hullabaloos. I am in the middle of working on the blog and learning how to design it using SharePoint Designer. The whole process is like figuring out how to put up a fitness equipment without any reference manuals. It's all trial and error for me. That plus creating the related graphics for the blog’s page design. I am currently downloading Myriad Pro font set and will be looking for other fonts. Then after installing those is the only time I could really work on the graphics completely. I just found out that the Myriad Pro fonts are the ones used my Mac. Kewl.

Hiatus Is Almost Over

 

Got this really adorable picture of Dianna Agron and Cory Monteith from LJ. As most of you who’ve been reading this blog, and my other blogs for that matter, may have known that I am a huge huge huge Gleek. The first time I saw the preview of Glee earlier last year, I kept myself updated and made sure that I have access to the show’s latest episodes and what’s going on with the cast. I follow a few of them on Twitter, and I must say, based on their almost-daily tweets, that some of them live a very interesting normal life.

Watching the show is not really a testosterone booster (not that I needed any of that since I am a girl), but it's unique and definitely put a smile on my face every time I watch it.

Decode

The whole weeks has been about decoding. There may be a better term for it, but I'd like to label my simmering good relationship with SharePoint Designer as such. I was tasked to dress-up our company's development blog (nothing like the http://www.wholesaleinsurance.net website)to make it more interesting to write thoughts to. The principal authors would be all of our program developers. It's kinda like their online newsletter where they can post project updates and accomplishments.

Done with the blog's background, sidebar and main content area. All I needed to figure out is how to put the header, a ton of graphics and how can I make everything work in sync.

Yay me.

Sweet Tooth

Been craving for something sweet all day. I needed something to pump me up and get going while researching on life insurance rate statistics for a client. I've had four slices, yes FOUR, of the chocolate cake Mom brought from Red Ribbon. I've hand cinnamon roll for breakfast, and would really really want to have cheesecake right now. Blueberry cheesecake and a tall glass of mint mocha or coffee. Wah.

The Park Knight

I was doing my usual Tumblr dashboard browsing while pitching some ideas on what to write about acne scar cream in an e-mail I am writing for a client when I came across this picture:

So adorable! ♥ This is one of Digg's KickAss Kid Of The Day, and someone made a very interesting comment about it. A perfect caption, I must say:

…he’s the hero that the Playground deserves, but not the one it needs right now…and so we won’t play with him…because he can take it…because he’s not a hero…he’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector…a Park Knight…

No Businesswoman

I can never be a business plan writer. The twists and turns of entrepreneurship is really not my thing. Four years of being a Technical Writer, believe it or not, has been one tough ride for a simple contributor like me. Strict topics, tones and formats are a bit hard to be accustomed with, especially if one is used to interject some of her opinions when she writes.

Monday Squeeze

Mondays; either you love being in it or you cannot wait to get out and say tomorrow is another day. This week for me was a bit of challenge. My boss asked me to conceptualize a design for an internal blog that we will soon be developing. Decided to set aside my research on slimquick for a while and concentrate on the office task at hand. My team mates pitched in some suggestions as to how they want the blog to be like. We’ve had several meeting before about it and agreed that we would like it to have a notebook/scratchpad kind of theme. The peg will be the Engineering Notebook our program developers used when brainstorming.

I have until Wednesday morning to prepare two mock-up designs and a general outline of the would-be contents of the blog. I’ll be presenting the designs I came up with to the team come Wednesday afternoon.

Wish me luck.

Missing Glee

Yes, I actually miss watching new episodes of Glee. I have all thirteen episodes on my hard drive and had a marathon last Christmas eve. The show had been gone too long that I might watch the episodes again. I looked for screencaps of some of the episodes and found one from one of my favorites:

This is from the Hairography episode, performing a mash-up of Beyonce’s Crazy In Love and the title track from Hair, The Musical. Judging from the amount of hair the Gleeks in this photo has, I don't think they'll be needing a hair loss treatment anytime soon. You can click here to learn more about hair loss.  This was also the episode where Jenna Ushkowitz’s character, Tina, had her first solo.

Meetup Reminder

Today was fun. Started it with a lot of laughs and would definitely end it with a smile because of the great response I got for the Tumblr Meetup I organized. It'll be tomorrow, BTW. The invite was addressed to the followers of the Tumblelog (that's what they call blogs in Tumblr) I created and I'm currently moderating for Up Dharma Down. I created a poster and posted it earlier...

Do drop by if you have time. I'd be handling free pins on the meetup. Wrapping up the luggage sets research and then I am outta here...

Subtle Joint Pains

Lots of hours using the mouse and typing has had me developed some kind of subtle pain with my joints. Friends say the irritating pain must be the cause of cold weather. Having joint pains is not easy when you have to use your hands and arms all the time. According to some research, these kinds of pain maybe hereditary or caused by wrong diet. That would be hereditary on my part because my grandparents on both sides suffered from rheumatism and arthritis growing up.

Why so early? I am barely 30. 0_o