The printed invitations are not yet out but it’s been announced that this year’s Company Dinner and Dance theme is “Shanghai Night”! I am actually not looking forward to the food (not surprisingly and still Chinese dishes) anymore because you can find it in every corner of Singapore. I just love the thought of dressing up, wearing makeup, and being not “the normal me”. I don’t like to openly admit it, but I have always wanted to wear a cheongsam, a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for women. I find the ancient costumes more interesting but it is definitely hard to find one here. Chun Li of the Street Fighter definitely looks sexy and cool but I just can’t make myself wear a dress with a slit like that! I’ll just wear my hair like hers if I can find it here.

Before I finished my degree, I never expected that I would be working in software development. I thought that I would end up working for a company designing digital circuits, though I admit I had a hard time making it through all my electronics and electrical engineering subjects. A big surprise came when I was accepted as a trainee by a (mostly) printer company. So I spent my first job being acquainted with printers, point-of-sales printers mostly. It was such a challenging and wonderful year for me. I loved working for that company, not to mention it was my first time to travel outside Philippines!

Being given that opportunity helped me a lot in deciding what I wanted to do. I learned a lot and I would definitely hold that experience dear in my heart. So, when I came across tm-t88iv in the internet, it brought back fond memories.  Above all, I am always thankful to God for that.

The other day, we received an email regarding this year’s dinner and dance. The venue has already been decided, at the newly-opened Resorts World Sentosa! Which specific hotel it is, I still don’t know. But the company’s annual big event will be in May and I’m already this excited. I was lucky last year because I joined the company on the first day of April, and the confirmation of attendance was due mid-April. It was held in Hilton Singapore Hotel.

Some people my not like attending such events. Well, I honestly don’t too, but it’s one of the rare chances for me to get and dine in a five-star hotel. I’m still a female (up to know, I still can’t say I’m a woman) and I like to doll up sometimes! The problem is, I’ve put on more than six pounds since moving here in Singapore. I don’t want to wear a dress with some distracting, unwanted bulges. A friend has already resorted to diet pills with ephedra but I still want to lose weight the natural way. Three months with at least six pounds to lose. Wish me luck!

I’m finally back from the Philippines. I arrived last night after 2 hours land trip, almost 2 hours flight from Cagayan de Oro to Manila, and the flight to Singapore. Yet, I had to go to immediately go to work. Going to work after a long trip is not a problem for me, but upset stomach and abdominal pains are.

Every time I travel, I suffer these discomforts for one to two days. A serious case of “kabag”? *_*
Gotta go back to sleep and take in the relaxing smell of the Efficascent oil while already terribly missing my daughter.

But I really had fun mainly because this time, Shaynna and I had great time together.  Here’s a peek of my wonderful New Year’s eve at home, with my daughter Shaynna and my niece, Kiera:

For years, I’ve been considering of getting a degree in Business Management or even more particularly, Business-Information Technology Management. In the present company, and I think for all IT companies, the only two options presented before us are: to become a techie expert or go into the management side. I have no plans of digging more into the techie stuff for another 20 years. So, I need to have some sort of qualification on the management side.

But due to financial constraint, it is very hard to keep the ball rolling. Also, I doubt if I could spare more time for travel from workplace to school. The best option for me is to enroll my self in an online university. Most online universites I came across have limited information on the programmes they offer, save for one: Western Governors University.

I’ve browsed their website and all the things that I need to know are in there! And yes, the offer the degrees that I mentioned above. They even offer financial aid! Pretty cool, huh? Before, I was not really sure if getting an online degree is really good or not. But their “Online University Learning Myths” article cleared things up for me. Another surprising thing, WGU even offers an online nursing degree!

Well, I will not mention here how long I have been in the software development industry. Let us just say, I have had my share of being involved in various custom software development. Because it has the word custom in it does not mean that the process will not take every step of software development cycle. In fact, it custom software development has more interesting steps along the way. One of them, is meeting with the client. When I became a part of it almost 4 years ago, I was just like a spectator. Of course I was allowed to participate in the conversation but I did not have enough guts to speak English. Sooner or later, there is a chance of me being involved in another one of those meetings with clients. I hope this time, I would have enough courage to speak my mind.

Warning: If you are eating, then please stop reading this article.

If you don’t intend to bring your “leftover” in the toilet bowl home,
then please FLUSH it away”.   This is just one of the reminders posted at the door of the company’s toilet. But I think they should plaster it all over the place! I have seen such “leftovers” and this kind of sight always blow my good mood away. I always make it a point to do #2 before I take a bath in the morning. But there are times when they just don’t come out. If that’s the case, I am left with no choice but do it in the middle of my working hours when the time comes. No matter how many times I push the flush button, I always make sure that I don’t leave something behind. Even if nobody knows what I did in there, I would still feel very embarrassed if I leave even the tiniest speck of a mess. But why can’t just everyone think about the others? So sorry for the strong emotion that I display here. It is just that I always witness this kind of toilet irresponsibility at least three times a day!On the other hand, I really miss the electronic bidet toilet seat, especially the flushing sound. I got so used to it that I am now embarrassed to let the others hear me peeing. OK, enough of this vulgar post. I’m sorry.