no, i wasn’t busy or anything. i was just too lazy to blog.

so many things have happened but i can’t seem to put myself to blog about them, so let me try now..

after songkran allan and i had to literally drag ourselves out of bed. it was such a crappy feeling but we had to. and isn’t that such a terrible feeling? doing something out of obligation? so it’s been 5 days since we started working again and slowly, things are going back to normal.

i know it doesn’t sound nice of me to be saying how much i hate work. i know there are so many people who have families to feed but haven’t got jobs. i don’t want to sound such an ingrate.

i do love my job, or at least some parts of it. i am a teacher. i love being a teacher. i love spending time with the kids, laughing and playing with them. it’s the admin job i hate. i have to supervise teachers, hire teachers, keep tab of their lesson plans and objectives, check everything in the english department, and what have you. if it were only teaching, there would be no complaints from me, pramis.

anyhoo, allan and i watched…. prepare your eyes…. bituing walang ningning and bukas luluhod ang mga tala sa youtube. grabe, aliw. then we watched ang cute ng ina mo. while these are really entertaining, they are also time consuming. so we’ve stopped for now.

i might be up for a minor [please let it be minor] surgery tomorrow. so please pray for me. my thresh hold for pain is very, very low. this is really bothering me but i have to go through it.

i need all the prayers i can get.

salamat po!

moving on

we are heading to bangkok tomorrow. we need to go to the book fair. i’m not really excited because we are only traveling by car. that’s 7 hours of tush-torture. he he.

allan and i went to the new house at around 9pm. things are looking better.

the bedding and comforters had been put on the bed, the living room now looks like a living room, the kitchen is halfway finished, the guest room just needs a few finishing touches. the back breaking work is in the 3rd room which also doubles as allan’s music room. he’s been storing all the knick knacks there that we will let the housekeeper handle. it would have been much convenient if we did not have to go to bangkok, then we can use that time to haul some more things from the old crib to the new one. monday is our target date and we will be hiring a pick-up truck to move the bigger things like the fridge, washing machine, and tables.

allan and i can’t wait to move in. the house is really puurrty and cozy.

okay, so the pic under is how the living room looked like when we went to put a few things last monday

this one is what it looks like just a few hours ago

here’s the bedroom before [extra pa si allan]

and here’s the bedroom after [di pa matching ang pillow cases kase gamit pa namin yung pillows sa house]

i so love the kitchen. unfortunately, i forgot to take a photo kanina so i only have the before.

oh, i just remembered. we have not told our friends that we are moving out in a few days. allan and i plan to surprise them when we hold a party next week. naturally, our house [the one we are still staying at] is a mess what with the moving and packing. last night, our friends conveniently decided to drop by without even calling. que horror! he he. allan had to make up a lame excuse that our maid did not show up, hence the mess.

songkran is only a few weeks away! that’s four days of not going to work.

hoorah!

“Tomorrow’s Jobs Cannot Be Done with Yesterday’s Skills”

The world is forever moving forward and things change and develop by the second. In order for us to catch on to the future, we must equip ourselves with skills that will match advanced technology in the years to come. What must we do to keep up with the times?

What jobs await for us in the future? It is a given that more people and more industries will rely heavily on computers, from employee identification, data processing, filing encoding and all that people used to do in the workplace. We can also expect things to be done in lesser time and in a quicker manner as people always seem to be in a hurry. There will also be an increase in the number of people operating on machines rather than hiring multiple people to do a certain job.

These future jobs can be a threat to manpower if we lack the proper skills and trainings to compete in an advanced setting. Improvement is the key word.

Continuous learning in your chosen field is always a good start. Not because you have landed on a secure post now means your stability is defined in the future. Remember that the only thing permanent in this life is change. Books, researches, case studies and information from the Internet are ways to help people who do not have the time to go to school or to enroll in special courses. These are effective and economical ways of learning.

Choosing a company that promotes continuous learning by sending its employees to seminars, trainings, social gatherings, and other educational functions is important in keeping you future goals intact. Being in a workplace that does not give chances for its people to grow and learn more is a waste of time.

In the end, it all goes down to you. How much are you willing to invest when it comes to securing your future? Are you content with being at the same desk doing the same things day after day or do you think and act knowing that the world is changing everyday and that new discoveries and new technology are just around the corner?

It lies in you, in what you can do and what you believe you can do to help and cope with the advent of technology.

news

People get their news through newspapers, radio, television and the Internet. The news is more available than it has even been before. News editors are the people who are responsible for what kind of news arrive to us each day. There are many factors that influence the news that reach us daily, though it seems that more bad news are presented to us everyday.

There are various reasons why a piece of news is decided to land on television, radio, newspaper and the Internet. News editors consider interesting stories, financial value and return and their own personal culture or background are only a few of these factors.

Remember that news has to sell. With less interesting news, people are less likely to buy. When it comes to printed news, headlines that show negative issues always sell more. In my opinion, people read about the bad stuff in order to avoid problems that may come their way. Knowing a problem causes one to think of a solution or ways of prevention.

People are less excited nowadays and it takes more to shock us. This may be one of the reasons for the bad news that has been filling our media. It is not called news for nothing, news has to be refreshing, something that we have not heard or seen before. In this age and time, it seems that we have seen it all and this is a problem for news editors. With this problem in mind, they are constantly asking themselves: “What’s new?” and “What’s something that they have not heard before?”

Relativity factor is also important. The news has to strike a relationship with the reader. The world is experiencing poverty, corruption and hunger among other problems. People experience this on a daily basis and this makes it easier for people to relate to the bad news.

Personal choice and cultural background also affect in the news editors’ decision makings, though most of the time this has to be set aside. Each one of us has personal interests that affect our work, are tasted in books and taste in music.

It does seem that more bad news appear everyday and some people may say that being this real is the best way to go. Others might argue and say that  putting more effort into bringing more good news to people is better and is more helpful. Yes, we have all become used to the bad that is happening everywhere but that does not mean we enjoy receiving bad news. Most people take this as a warning, a head’s up of what’s to come and even a way to avoid more problems in the future.

Of course, we all want good news and positive things but the point here is that we have to be realistic. Only spreading the good might be misleading. This may also cause people to be lax in actions and in judgments.

The news is important to us because it connects us to the rest of the world and to reality. News editors have been trained to know and decide on what kind of news should be given us each day whether they be good or bad.