Last Day at Work

they surprised me!

Moments like these always feel weird and sad........

Weird because you're leaving something you've come to know so well to venture off into somehow unknown future, sad becasue you're leaving a lot of memories and will be missing the people you actually spent most of your day with for almost 2 years. I guess, its the relationship you build with them, the good times and even the not so good ones and how they touch your life.

when I entered the lunch room, I was surprised to find this fruit pizza, they said they made it because I love fruits, oh, made my heart melts. During lunchtime they always see me eating a lots of fruits, and it's my main course of meal, lol.

they asked me to wear this corsage through the entire day, oh, my I feel uncomfortable but the students said it was lovely.

I was surprised to find this hanging on the wall when I entered the gym, staffs and students signed and wished me goodbye. That's so touching. All the while I thought, it's just another ordinary day that will pass by and a simple goodbye on my last day. There were some who wrote in Tagalog words. I taught some students tagalog words like salamat and walang anuman.


My fellow staff Heather and me posing with some of the students.

My fellow staff Natalie and me posing again for another souvenir.

These nice people above were my closest, I was seated on Betty's lap, she's a mother, a friend, a companion rolled into one. The smiling guy is Rick, the most approachable person I've ever met, very helpful guy. Julie and Sheila were than a co-workers to me, they treated me as sister, my personal advisers, I learned a lot from them. And how can I forget my grandma Marie, the woman who always wears a red vest everyday, she's a great person, and understands me always.

This beautiful plant with white flowers, gifts, cards, flowers, were some of the remembrance I received from them. I appreciate the efforst of some of the students who made goodbye cards for me, it was really touching.

I'd like to thank all the guys at work for the great ride. It was great getting to know you all, it was fun working with you.

Tag: 20 Questions

I am tagged by Shiela and i wanna say thank you to her for this. Here it is...Here are the rules:Remove one (1) question from below and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag eight (8) people in your list.List them out at the end of this post.

1. At what age did you marry? I married when i was 26 years old.

2. What color do you like most? I love teal, brown, and royal blue.

3. Have you ever shoplifted? Nope.

4. Where is the place that you want to go the most? Philippines

5. Which part of you that you hate the most? I am impatient and if my expectations will not be met, i can't hold my dissapointments!

6. Ever been in a physical fight? Hahahaha, yes, with my sister next to me when we were kids.

7. If you win 1 Million$ what would you do? I will help my poor siblings, travel the world, give some to the needy one's and save some on the bank as time deposits. I'll just gonna go relaxing...

8. What are you afraid to lose the most? My family and my loved ones.

9. What you loved the most last year (2007). I delivered a baby.

10. How do you cope up with boredom? Blogging, shopping and eating.

11. Till now, what is the moment you regret the most? By not being very protective with my sister and now she got pregnant !

12. Which type of person do you hate the most? Great Pretenders.

13. What is your ambition? Have a home in Canada.

14. If you had one wish, what would you wish for? I wish to just be healthy all the time.

15. It is already 2008, do you have a new year's resolution? To manage anger very well.

16. How did you celebrate New Year? I celebrate it with friends and relatives at home.

17. What do you look forward in 2008? Spend the summer in Canada with my relatives.

18. If your life is a song, what title would best fit in? uhmmm, am still thinking if there is?

19. What "special power" would you like to have? A power to just be young forever.hehehehe!20. My question: What's your most important asset? My smiles.

Now, i wanna pass this tag to Prily, Lynn, Nita, Nova,Veniz, Virgie, Jana and Jona
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Dropdown Menu

I noticed lately that my Blogroll is getting longer and longer causing the sidebar looks crowded, there were some blogs that uses dropdown menu for their long list, and I spend time to figure out how to do the same using Blogger Beta. I tried to look at my page elements and it's all the same, no dropdown menu, except the Archive list that has selections. Finally, I came accross this site called Technical Bliss that offers tutorial for a novice like me and not familiar with Html/Javasript. His style were so simple and easy to understand. Now, I can use dropdown menu for my blogroll, I can add as many links as I can. Kudos to Arpit!

PDA

It's not about Parental Drug Association, it's about our Personal Digital Assistant or PDA in the workplace. PDA is a small electronic device which can include some of the functionality of a computer, a cellphone, a music player, and a camera, it's also known as palm top computer. We use PDA in checking attendance of the students at Y(YMCA) in the before and after school age program. We usually leave it at the Y room at the end of each meeting, then use it again in the afternoon. I'm in the afternoon shift, because I have a morning job at the school. Usually I take rest at the Yroom after my work to wait for my shift, anyway it's just 30 minutes waiting, that's perfect for my newspaper reading while taking a break.

This afternoon something weird happened......our PDA was missing. My co-worker, and me were nervously looking for it everywhere in the room, but we had no luck. I was more nervous, all the circumstantial evidence were pointing on me, I am the first one in the room, reading newspaper, taking a rest. Then, it will be my last day of work tomorrow, I already resigned from my job because we will be moving to Wisconsin next week. Or I'm just being paranoid.

Here in this school, no one will get your things even you leave it somewhere, cellphones, cameras, valuable things, it's everywhere, unattended but no one dare to get or attempted to steal those. That's why I can't believe that our PDA was missing. Did I mention we don't have Security Guard in this school? Security Guard is not a popular job here. In fact, all the establishments here in Dubuque has no security guard. So, its' just somewhere, we went to the school office, we inquired who was the last person who went there in the room. They called the 3 person who were the last used the room, and presto one of them got it. I will not reveal his identity here but it serves as a lesson that it's not safe to leave valuable things everywhere.

The importance of Oral Hygiene

Having a great smile and good teeth are so important. Sales people, executive, professionals, performers, students and just about anyone from looking good and feeling better about themselves. I confessed that I was raised without a dental professional checked my teeth. Having a dentist is the last thing in our list, food first. If our tooth aches, we will just do self-treatment like herbal medicines, garlic and pain medicines. We don't care about abscess and gum swelling. As long as our stomach is full and meet our basic necessities.

When I had my first dental check up here in the States, I was so nervous, I knew there will be a lot of work they will do on my teeth. First, they did a lot of x-rays, bite wings x-ray, upper and lower. Then the dental hygienist cleaned my teeth. They knew right away based on the x-ray that I have a dead tooth, and there"s no other choice but to pull it, which I refused because I did not feel anything on that dead tooth, not painful, its normal looking, how come it was dead? The dentist made a simple test just to show me it was really dead, he put an electric stick on one of my "healthy tooth" and I felt a tingling sensation, its painful. Then he tried it on my "dead tooth" and I feel none, no tingling sensation, nothing, no feeling. It means, it's dead. And there's a link on that, it's not that simple that I have just a "dead tooth" They said I will need a biopsy to check if its cancerous. Of course, I felt scared. NO idea that a simple tooth will make a difference. Just found out that there"s a lot of related diseases link to our teeth. So we better not take for granted oral hygiene.

After that, I got numerous dental visits, my biopsy was negative. But since hubby got retired, our dental insurance was stop. And I still have more appointments left. It's embarrassing but I have 2 cavities for treatment. We have to pay for 100% for this, we have no choice, I really need this treatment to save my teeth. I need a smile.

I want to thank Dr. Lattner and his staff for a job well done on my teeth.

Photo of the Year

Holding the sun

Edge of the Hurricane

Fire-Starter

Amazing Cloud Formation

You Light Up my World

Not a Good Day For Surfing

and here ' s the Best!

AND THINK YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY AT WORK!!

Although this looks like a picture taken from a Hollywood movie, it is in fact a real photo,
taken near the South African Coast during a Military exercise by the British Navy.
It has been nominated by the National Geographic as "The Photo of the Year".

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