Private Notes

Maricar Reyes: controversial yet silently strong.

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:06:00 +0000

Maricar Reyes: controversial yet silently strong amidst the exploding Maricar-Hayden sex video scandal that looms in the internet and pirated dvd's in the black market. Maricar-Hayden sex video that comes in part 1-3 was feasted by many frailed viewers in the internet, dvd and cellphone uploads. This made Maricar Reyes controversial and popular, but what remained stunning and a question mark to all was her being silent from the limelight of controversy. She cannot be reached or to be exact can be heard from neither any comments nor a word for that matter. She was rumored that she went to the U.S and gone hiding.

Lat Sunday, the Philippine archipelago was surprised by her appearance in ASAP. She was ramping with all might and heads up during the show. Maricar Reyes stood strong and rising with bravery against the weight of judgement of slanderous tongues and fleshy minds. Maricar Reyes indemnified herself thru her being silent amidst the dark cloud of the malicious controversy. Her silence earned her the respect of women who shared the same fate that she experienced. Maricar Reyes doesn’t owe the people with anything. Its’ the people who maliciously uploaded, reproduced and sell dvd copies of the scandal robbed her human dignity. Maricar Reyes exemplified and is an epitome of nurturing strength in spirit in times of adversity.

Lyoto Machida: The UltimateChampion

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:55:00 +0000

Lyoto Machida was proclaimed as the new light heavyweight champion of UFC 98. He beat the defending champion Rashad Evans who was also a reknowned counter and knock out puncher. But during that fateful event, Lyoto "The Dragon" Machida overpowered Evans with his elusive and unorthodox fighting style. He knocked down evans on the second round with a powerful left straight to the cheek bone. Making him as one of the best pound for pound puncher in the world. "The Dragon" was also caught emotional at the end of the fight, he exhorted that if one has a dream, one must achieve it and must believe that he can do it. Machida has fought many popular UFC Champs like Tito Ortiz,Rich Franklin, B.J. Penn, Rameau Thierry, Soukodjou, Stephan Bonnar, Thiago Siva, and Sam Hogar.
Lyoto Carvalho Machida was born on May 30, 1978 in Salvador, Brazil. His father is a japanese-brazilian Shotokan Karate Master Yoshizo Machida, He has three brothers who were into karate also and he has a 10 month old son at Belem, Brazil. Lyoto also trained for Muay Thai, wrestling and brazilian jiu jitsu.

Taking care of jeans

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:36:00 +0000

Preventing a new jeans to fade its color is best done by soaking it in a solution of cold salt-water (two tbsp. per gallon of water) before washing them.
Turning the pants inside out-reduces the wear from friction caused by washing. Do this before laundering.
Washed faded jeans with a pair of new jeans that have never been laundered. The dye and sizing of the new pair of jeans will add color to the old ones.
When its rainy season. Jeans will usually have muddy knees and bottoms. Rinse them under the faucet and let them soaked overnight in a basin of water with1/4 cup ammonia and 1/4 cup detergent. Wash them as usual.

Customer Service

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:28:00 +0000

What is customer service? Well, let me share with you my experience in a cooperative office that would somehow tell us what good customer service really is.
Yesterday, my mom authorized me to withdraw on her behalf since she is sick and currently staying in a hotel to recover from her treatment. I brought with me my driver’s license and withdrawal slip signed by her, but I didn’t have her passbook because she couldn’t remember where she placed it. When I got there, I approached one of the personnel for me to know how to go about it. She just instructed me to pay for a passbook replacement. But when I spoke to the teller, she hesitated to transact the said withdrawal because of the misplaced passbook, despite of my proposal that I will pay for a replacement. So I tried to push my luck, went home, attempted to look for such passbook. Fortunately, I was able to retrieve an old one.

I hurried back to the cooperative office to make the withdrawal, and handed the teller all the requirements properly. She sarcastically told me that how come I have the passbook with me, while trying to finish processing the transaction. After doing so, she dropped off my I.D. on the counter in an impolite manner. I felt mistreated as a customer that’s why I told her that she must be professional enough in dealing with her clients and that she should observe proper customer service. Instead of being apologetic, she rudely answered back and some things that a customer service personnel shouldn’t say.

We are greatly aware that in business, anybody can be a potential customer. That’s why it is but important that we treat our customers the best way we can and provide them the best service. As they say, customer service is the life-blood of any business, because it’s either you gain or you lose your clients. It’s about bringing customers in and bringing customers back. I believe that we must be helpful and polite enough in dealing with them, and that we should learn to be good listeners. Most importantly, we have to deal with complaints, receive comments from our customers, and address their concerns in a win-win situation.

7 Reasons not to mess with children..

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:40:00 +0000

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.

The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.

The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.

The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah".

The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?"

The little girl replied, "Then you ask him".

A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work.

As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.

The girl replied, "I'm drawing God."

The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like."

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute."

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.

After explaining the commandment to "honor" thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?"

Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, "Thou shall not kill."

One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.

She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?"

Her mother replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white."

The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, "Momma, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?"

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.

"Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.'

A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the teacher, she's dead."

A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, "Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face."

"Yes," the class said.

"Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn't run into my feet?"

A little fellow shouted,

"Cause your feet ain't empty."

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:

"Take only ONE . God is watching."

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.

A child had written a note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples."

It doesn't matter how many people you send this to, just remember if it made you laugh, your friends will laugh too. I got this from my e-mail and it made me laughed and de-stress from work.

Do you know that

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:27:00 +0000

Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the english language. The singular female reference was the word "neo" which also was the plural of all genders. The word "she" appeared only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form. It was probably derived from the Old English feminine "seo," the Viking word for feminine reference.

News

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:10:00 +0000

The word "news" did not come about because it was the plural of "new." It came from the first letters of the words North, East, West, and South. This was because information was being gathered from different directions.

A story

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:47:00 +0000

I ran into a piece of note today in our team station. It contained a love story that captured everybody's attention. Then, a colleague of ours had me read the story aloud. The story was entitled "LOVE, ME." Perhaps I could also share this story to those who might have a chance to read this.

"LOVE, ME"

I read a note my grandma wrote. Back in 1923. Grandpa kept it in his coat and he showed it once to me. He said "Boy, you might not understand, but a long, long time ago Grandma's daddy didn't like me none, but I loved your grandma.So, we had this crazy plan to meet and run away together. Get married in the first town we came to and live forever. But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet, instead, I found this letter, and this is what it said ."

"If you get there before I do, don't give up on me, I'll meet you when my chores are through. But I don't know how long I'll be, but I'm not gonna let you down darling, wait and see and between now and then, till I see you again I'll be loving you."

Love,

I read those words just hours before my grandma passed away. In the doorway of the church, where me and grandpa stopped to pray. I know I'd never seen him cry with all my 15 years. But as he said these words to her, his eyes filled up with tears.

"If you get there before I do, don't give up on me. I'll meet you when my chores are through.I don't know how long I'll be. But I'm not gonna let you down darling, wait and see, and between now and then. Till I see you again. I'll be loving you."

Love,

Did you know. . .

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:47:00 +0000

Small letters are sometimes called "lower case" and large letters "upper case." This is because, in the old days of printing, before computers, the metal blocks for setting type were kept in two different boxes or "cases" - small letters in the bottom or lower case, large letters in the top or upper case.

The Rules for being Human

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:16:00 +0000

1. You will receive a body.
You may appreciate it or hate it. You may want Dra. Vicky Belo or Dr. Calayan to make a major overhaul on it. But one thing for sure, it will be your body for your entire lifetime.
2.You will learn lessons.
The university of life is a vast area of oppurtunities where one can learn relevant lessons that is essential to one's growth. They are sometimes bitter and hard lessons.
3.There are no mistakes,only lessons.
There are no right or wrong choices. There is only a consequence of the choices we made.
4.A lesson is repeated until learned.
Have you heard the song " Di na natuto?" It holds true to everyone who commit the same mistake again and again.
5.Learning lessons does not end.
Always remember. "Rolling stone gathers no moss." Learning does not end with age
6."There" is no better than"here."
You may try to elaborate this on your own. Hehehe
7.Others are merely mirrors of you.
Sometimes, the things that we hate on other people, are the same things that we hate in ourselves.
8.What you make of your life is up to you.
It is we who set the course of our sail. God is the wind that redirects our journey.
9. Your answers lie inside you.
Everything we need for us to be successfull is already inside us. Let's listen and look inside ourselves. We are the greatest masterpiece of our creator.
10. You will forget all this.

source from:Chicken soup of the soul
Cherie Carter-Scott
Note: elaborations are mine

Uniqueness

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:30:00 +0000

A famous biologist, who had unsuccesfully tried to teach a monkey to play ball, decided as a last resort to leave the little animal alone in a room with a bat and a ball. He close the door, waited a moment, and then, very quietly, stooped and peered through a keyhole. He found himself staring into an intent brown eye. The monkey was no less curious than he.

Moral lesson:
We must not enforce our will on other people. Man is created with distinct abilities and endowed with the gift of awareness. Being unique makes individuals differ in views, aspirations, response to a certain situation and methodology of solving problems. Like for the instance in a relationship, many falls into the pitfall of having their partner changed into their own liking. Enforcing change to somebody that is unique and inherent to that person constitutes coercion.

Uniqueness in ourselves is inherent and with divine providence. It is not to be change by anybody.

Never Quit

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:03:00 +0000

There are countless times that I quit on something. Quitting sometimes is a panic button that we deliberately push in times of desperate situation. But there's a distinguish person in the American history who never quit throughout his lifetime. His name is Abraham Lincoln. And I look up to his example of persistence and his will not to quit. Born into poverty, Lincoln was faced with defeat throughout his life. He failed in business venture and suffered a nervous breakdown. He lost eight elections but he never quit and eventually became one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States of America.
Persistence is a virtue that we can develop in the midst of our adversity. If tempted to quit on anything, here are some of the list of Lincoln's road to success. While experiencing adversity, yet he never quit.

1816: His family was forced out of their home.

He had to work to support them.

1818: His mother died.

1831: Failed in business

1832: He ran for state legislature and he lost.

1834: Ran for state legislature again and this time he won.

1835: Was engaged to be married, sweetheart died and his heart was broken.

1836: Had a total nervous breakdown and was in bed for six months.

1838: Sought to become speaker of the state legislature but defeated.

1843: Ran for congress and lost

1846:Ran for congress again and this time he won.

1848: Ran for re-election to congress and lost.

1854: Ran for senate of the United States and lost.

1858: Ran for U.S. Senate again and he lost.

1860: Elected president of the United States.

source from chicken soup of the soul

If thinkinfg of quitting? Looked into the life of Abraham Lincoln and learn to persist and persevere in any endeavor.

Political Correctness

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:22:00 +0000

Words are indeed powerful. It can be uttered in a manner that conveys rudeness, an act of verbal abuse, and taunting an offensive language against a culture, gender, race, lifestyle and ideology. The birth of politically correct (or PC) terminology in the late 1970s was used to promote the practice of speech that that is not disparaging or disadvantageous.

PC words were coined to foster increasing tolerance for the diversity of culture, political sensitivity (race, gender, ideology). However, some PC words are made to poke fun or to best describe a persona in a gentle manner. Like for example. ” He is short”. Instead of short, it is more politically correct to say “He is vertically challenged”.

The following are examples of politically correct words/terms.

Instead of ---------------------Politically correct

Bald----------------------comb free
Bisexual------------------sexually non-preferential
Black---------------------of African descent (or African-American)
Blind----------------------optically darker, photonically non-receptive
Broken home--------------dysfunctional family
Bum-----------------------homeless person,displaced homeowner
Convict--------------------socially separated
Deaf-----------------------visually oriented
Drug addict----------------chemically challenged
Fireman-------------------firefighter
Handicapped---------------physically challenged, dfferently abled
Housewife------------------domestic engineer
Insane people---------------selectively perceptive,mental explorers
Midget,dwarf---------------little people,vertically challenged
Fat person------------------horizontally challenged

Coincidence

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:54:00 +0000

A few months ago, my mother was advised by her physician to have her thyroid gland removed. My girlfriend’s mom, on the other hand, was also scheduled for skin grafting of her right leg wound due to cellulitis. But both of them seemed to be very busy that they always have their operations postponed. Finally, the week came that my mom had her operation scheduled in a nearby hospital. And it was also the same week and the same hospital that my girlfriend’s mom was confined for her supposed operation. Her mom was admitted Monday night, in a semi-private room, first bed. Unfortunately, after going through some tests for almost two days, she was advised by her doctor that the equipment needed for skin grafting was not available in that hospital. By Wednesday after lunch, she was discharged. On the same day, late Wednesday afternoon, my mom was confined in the same hospital for her scheduled operation. To my surprise, she was assigned in the same semi-private room, and the same bed! The food that was served to her for dinner was e ven named still to my girlfriend’s mom. It was a really funny incident, a big coincidence. I would say that it was one of the things that I consider a very inspiring circumstance in our relationship.

All in a day's work

noreply@blogger.com (Gio) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:57:00 +0000

I've spent my day pondering what blog title I should have for blogger. A lightbulb flashed on my slow processing brain due to lack of sleep, secondary to callcenter graveyard shifts for almost two months now. I finally came up with Private Notes as my blog title. My next activity would be to customize my template, but I have to do that on my next day off sked because customization and configuring a header eats a lot of time. For now, I'm thankful that I finally launched my other blog here in blogger.