Up for a Long Holiday!

Yiiiippppeeeee! Another long holiday for government employees and private workers as well.  Hiya! Everybody is filling a long exodus to the province whence to visit or pay tribute to their beloved love ones who either left them with sweet memories or unbearable sadness.

My family plans to visit Matthew (my deceased son) at Malabon City cemetery where his tomb is located.  After that, Betty and Joaqs are joining the costume party at SM San Lazaro wherein they lost last year.  Now, their dress theme for the party is much appropriate.  I feel this heebie-jeebie feelings while my kids are competing because I don't want them to lose.  But I know they will learn from their failures.  Hopefully they will get a prize this year.

I'm glad that office work is over this week and the pressures suddenly stopped.  I am looking forward to a very relaxing weekend.

Betty Got a Prize at Drawing Contest

Whew, I just heard that my beautiful daughter Betty got a prize during a contest at Robinsons Galleria sponsored by Colgate Philippines.  Though it was a minor one I am so proud of what she achieved.  Betty congratulations!

Winning a Difficult Game

I just had a sweet victory against my chess team mate at the Department of  Education.  He gave me a tough game but I won the tough game.  My total score now is 7.5 out of 8 games.

Terrific Individual Score

DepEd sponsored a chess team tournament for its employees for the months of September to November, 2010.  I joined the event of course with my colleagues at IMCS, Sir Eric and Dante.  I scored 6.5 out of 7 points to top the individual score midway the tournament.  However, my team mates were ambushed by our opponents.

We placed 4th at the meantime though I am expecting a better score next time.  See you guys on October 26, 2010.  

New Computer

After attending a 4-day workshop at RELC-NCR Marikina, I went back to the office to bring all the materials and documents used.  It's good that Nelson and JQ were there to assist me and Sir Eric.  I was amazed to see on the top of my table several boxes which I learned to be computer paraphernalias.  I felt so happy!  I immediately collapsed all the boxes and abrupty installed the computer.  Yeheey!!! It has a Windows 7 OS, an LCD monitor, an optical mouse and a top-of-the-line (TOTL) speaker.  I didn't check the capabilities yet but I assumed it to be fast and beneficial.  Thank you DepEd for giving me this equipment. 

Well, for your information guys, it will be my first time to use government equipment since the computer (laptop) I have been using for the last five years in the office was a personal one which I bought during my brief stint at Okinawa, Japan.

Oh I am so excited and I can't hide it.

Whatta Weekend

Spent the week with lots of expenses.  Started it with payment of credit card bills, then an unexpected expenses on water motor repair, followed by few more disbursements.  At the end of the day, I was left with only chips.

Hopefully, the coming weeks will be better, financially.