ah.. the time has come.. to move.. again.. 🙂 you may now find me at http://aimeegurl.com

will this be the last move? probably not. but hopefully, not for a long time. 🙂 I will probably still post here once in a while for the heck of it.

the saturated mind is useless.

Pretty cool update from Live Spaces with virtual earth! It gives you a way to visualize where people are updating their blogs from. //i’m posting this on my spaces just to see if i see myself too..

Live Spaces Vision – Updates in near real-time – MSN on Windows Live

You go home for a weekend to attend a wedding and pack as many gadget items as the items in your make-up kit:

(Channel 9 guy is a stand in for my camera which I had to use to take this picture)

whereever you are eloisa d. I miss you..

I envy people who are growing at a rapid pace…

I haven’t been able to tell them lately, but just so the whole world knows, i love my dad, my mom, my grandma, my grandpa, my sister and my brother and of course my everyone in my exended family, my aunts, uncles and cousins. I love my barkada as well, the three girls and the four guys with theur significant others.

I think of all of them every now and then, hoping they are safe. Sometimes ~ get sad because every moment i am away, i miss a moment in their lives. I want them to know, even though i am far away, they will always be part of mine.

for some reason, I was feeling a bit off today. Yesterday I was a bit sick. That was since the other day actually. Sometime around the afternoon, I was starting to feel a bit woozy. I was waiting for a meeting to start but no one came on time and i fell asleep.. on the floor. I have the tendency to settle on the floor sometimes. It just feels more comfortable for me 🙂 Anyway, I just shut my eyes for a moment because I was starting to feel nauseated. Before I knew it, I fell asleep.

Today I was a bit down. I don’t know, for some reason I couldn’t get myself to cheer up. Thanks to my friend who tried though, he was able to successfully pull a laugh out of me for a few minutes. I guess it is normal. I’m usually a happy person so I guess there should be some moments that are meant to balance it out. I decided to distract myself with work, and i guess you can say it was quite successful. I learned a lot during the exercise.

*sigh* i’m just not in the mood right now. I would be normally up to talk about anything under the sun. maybe today is just not my day.

Today, I went from Zero– to 100+

My comfort food… Yum…

day 4 is coming up. I can’t believe I’ve been working here for a year already. It’s been a great learning experience, I have to say.  One regret I have is I didn’t make the most of it at the onset.

Do I love my job, you might wonder?

There are good times and there are bad times, as with everything. There are times when I’m extremely happy, as my bosses would put it, I get that kick out of what I’m doing. There are shitty days too, when I feel like I just want to give up, crawl into a grave, and let the world swallow me whole. Having friends to root you on and help you see a different light to things definitely helps, but still, it’s just painful sometimes. But I guess I wouldn’t trade it for anything else right now. Not say ever, just not right now.

So yeah, I guess you can say I love my job.

In another part of aimee’s mind…

let me try that whole blogging with my eyes closed thing again…

waterfall engraves the words that seem to ddance outside the wonderful sunshine that is coming through a window with the zune playing music blasting out my alarm clock stepping up in the streets is impossible to do with a girl with long braided hair in a virtual world playing music cars in a moonwalk and jotting down with a pen and paper in a notebook that cannot be found what i was looking for and seeing the change ina  more gradual sense of the beat is terribly painful when you know that it’s never going t obe there alone in the dark with nothing with a camera. night vision. seeing in the dark, taking yourself for granted because i know it really doesn’t matter to you. I want a projector here online with seventy million things that can possibly happen. I think that world is going t obe different. If only things were different. I think the light will eventually shine on the guitar that’s playing in the other side of the world at 3 hours the opposite of the pain that’s sticking inside of a post it note. dance.pop! glide.

Nothing but my phone, my zune and my cheese prata.. Let me see if mobile blogging with pictures work..

This is the first time i rode a cab and actually got to use the heater. It’s been friggin’ cold the past few days and today more especially. I feel i’m falling sick. Been a bit stress full the past few days.

+points to this cab, the driver even offered candy! Best cab experience in my life.

Btw, to my friends who have been calling and sms-ing, and IM-ing, really sorry if i seem like such a b**ch by not replying. Thanks for still remembering me, i’m beginning to forget myself! But rest assured, i’m okay. Things are just a bit hectic!

//Blogging on my Windows Mobile!

When you’re putting your phone against your ear while waiting for your phone to react to the keys you just pressed, and you realize you weren’t making a call, but signing in to with Live Messenger.. *sigh*

//Blogging through Live Hotmail on my Windows Mobile device

It says hello universe! Check out the a demo of the WorldWide Telescope at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/224 and http://wwtelescope.com/ 

 

I really can’t wait till we can check this out for ourselves, then I could take a closer look at Orion. ^_^

//by the way, the worldwide telescope was built in C# ^_____^

and i am just drained… *sigh*

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Today at Mobile World Congress 2008, Microsoft Corp. announced that it is releasing a new version of its Windows Live Mobile Developer Program, enabling developers to create mobile versions of its popular Windows Live services that can be built for virtually any mobile phone independent of phone operating system. Microsoft also announced Windows Live @mobile, a new program that allows operators to adopt and deploy Windows Live services. These two initiatives will enable Microsoft’s developer community to deliver compelling Windows Live services and provide flexibility to access the Windows Live platform to innovate on top of those services. In addition, mobile operators can connect their customers to Windows Live, one of the largest communications and sharing networks in the world, create additional revenue opportunities and enhance the customer experience.

Microsoft Releases New Version of Its Windows Live Mobile Developer Program: PRNewswire Business News – MSN Money "

AND MY DESK TOO!!!

I hope this isn’t short lived.

For those of you who miss Pandora, here’s a new "internet jukebox" my colleague introduced to me.

 

Songza – The music search engine & internet jukebox. Listen. Now.

It is a behavior that we all, at some point or another, indulge in. Maybe in reality, there is nothing that we can do about it. But common sense will always try to tell you otherwise.

More and more people are believing less and less in intellectual property. Most people nowadays will not find anything wrong in copying music or video files from their friends, or sharing it over the net, burning to DVDs etc. The same goes for software.

Had an amusing incident today wherein someone called me because he had a question about something related to Microsoft, he knew I worked for Microsoft which is why he thought of asking me.

So the situation was that he’d recently bought a laptop that came bundled with Vista. He wanted to know whether he could downgrade to XP. I told him, sure. If he had an XP installer, he should be able to format his drive and do a fresh install of XP, or do anything he wanted with the machine.

Then he went on to explain that Vista was preventing him from installing pirated software. I felt like I got kicked in the balls (yes it even felt like I had grown some THEN got kicked). He was telling me about how he was installing yahoo games and that the crack didn’t seem to work in Vista. I had a terrible feeling at the pit of my stomach.  Was I being provoked? Tested? I have to say, I am guilty of the sin of omission. I had simply answered the question he was asking. I had wanted to start a long conversation on the value of IP but I thought against it.I quickly remembered that I was back in my home country, where piracy is when your DVD skips during playback but if everything works fine, then all is well, and if your favorite DVD shop gets raided, we’ll just have to come back tomorrow.

The music, video and software industries are the ones mainly hit by piracy. And it’s harder to control or spot compared with lets say, bootleg Pradas, LVs, etc. Hmm, actually, it’s starting to become the same. I guess the difference is, with designer items, there is a way for the public to know that you’re wearing authentic or bootleg ones. With software, music, or videos which you use in your personal space (where no one can know but you)l, unless you’re running an Internet Cafe, or music/video rental shop or something, it’s not as easy for other people to call you out if you’re not using legit copies.

I guess part of me is blaming all this on this whole freeware concept. I feel it’s been hyped up too much that for the layman, who now has this idea that everything in his computer should be free, is now finding ways and means to get everything for free, or at least for the cost of the media through which it was delivered (dvd, cd, internet connection, etc).

Two of my main interests are software development and music. Sure, I’d like to say that I’d want to make software or music for the love of it. But if it’s going to be something that won’t put food on the table for me, then as with all software makers, musicians and artists, it’s not going to be something I will devote my full time on to make quality material. I’d eventually switch to other things, other things that will pay the bills. The time will come when creative minds will just be pent up in menial retarded jobs.

Well, maybe not that drastic a change. They might probably find an alternative way to monetize Intellectual Property. Ad funding? For software, sure. That could probably work, there could probably be creative ways to do that. With music? Hmmm.. Subliminal messaging maybe? >=) Yes, I can see it now. Everything will just become a <your ad here> slot. Well, news, ads and user generated content. Hmm maybe the world will not be so bad.

what do you think?

Maybe I’m not a good citizen which is why an hour through this whole process, I still don’t know why I will be walking out of this place with two thousand two hundred pesos less.

I’ve been working outside the country for eleven months and up until now I have not returned home. (yes i have been illegal since) So I was told that in order to be allowed to leave the country without being questioned why i don’t have a return ticket, i had to register with this POEA and OWWA which also apparently comes with this PhilHealth thing. I just paid 900 bucks for PhilHealth not knowing whatit is for. Health benefits I assume, but my mom had asked earlier whether I could use this abroad, apparently not. She was told it was for my dependents. What dependents? I forgot what the trait is caled but its about complying with things just to get it over with. That I have.

Now I just paid 1050.00 pesos (supposedly PhP 1275.00 but since the dollar has been coming down, it has gone cheaper) for OWWA registration (Overseas Workers Welfare Administration).

I believe i have one more payment to make, I’m just waiting my turn right now. I’m looking around this office for any information regarding this process I am going through but I can’t seem to find any.

All I see is the vision:
The POEA is a globally-sensitive and customer-driven organization and an advocate of excellence in corporate governance.

And the Mission:
The POEA facilitates the generation and preservation of decent and quality overseas employment for Filipinos in partnership with all stakeholders.

POEA stands for Philippine Overseas Employment Administration by the way.

I should find out more about what this is about, maybe i should look online later.

Okay, last stop done 100 bucks less.

It’s been almost 7 years since my grandfather passed away. He was the first and still the only family i grew up with that has moved on. I remember it was tough, especially on my grandmother.

I miss my granddad. I still remember during his last days, he gave me the advice that has brought me where I am right now. I didn’t used to be one to go after the improbable. He told me I’d never find out unless I tried. It was accidental profound advice too. During that time period, I’d been missing out on a few good opportunities because I thought I couldn’t possibly be good enough. Then as I was watching over him one afternoon, he was telling me to call over my aunts and uncles who were supposedly at the door. I knew he was in a state of delirium so I didn’t bother. A few minutes later, he asked me whether I had called them over. I said, "uhh… I don’t think they’ll be able to hear me daddylo..". Then he starts telling me I’ll never find out what I can do unless I try. That definitely hit me right there. Since then, with every big decision on action I had to make, i think about what my granddad told me and I’d realize there is nothing to lose when you try.

The next year, I moved out of my home town for college in Manila. 5 years after, I moved out of the country to work in Singapore. I owe a lot of my guts to my grandfather.

I miss my granddad..

Although I don’t really have a reason to yet. But this holiday season has made me think a lot about the family, from interactions with my friends who have already started one, to those just about to start one, to my own family, to my friends’ families.

I know it doesn’t really start and end anywhere because whatever i learn from the above will be what i will be bringing into my own family: whatever i see is good and whatever i see that works. No family is perfect but it doesn’t hurt to strive for it, as long as you always bear in mind that things can and most probably will go wrong, accept it when it does and not get frustrated.

I’m scared because I know these things are easier said than done. And i’m sure a lot of people have already had the same idea as me, to learn from other people’s mistakes but still we see a lot of quirks in the families. I’m sure there are other factors to consider. Oh well, i guess it’s about expecting the worst but having faith that you get through it together.

//blogging from my mobile phone