i came across this very helpful site, Create Stunning CSS Backgrounds with Images, from squidoo. it even has codes on it. too bad, i've had on & off fever for the last 2 days so i couldnt stay up too long to play around & experiment with it. no worries, this is not the dreaded "sakit sa baboy" flu, just bad dehydration. thanks to locille for tipping me off a good health advise.

visit drRichard's site, learn more about CSS editing and play around on your own website. enjoy!

This is what I've achieved so far. I still need to identify and put in a lot of things, but I’ll get there.

I'm experimenting on my site's CSS arrangement, so what you see may not be the final lay-out yet. i'm also gathering photosources for backdrops & headers, from all possible sources, even from my contacts, leaving a message all the time. i hope you wouldn't mind.  this oone's borrowed from themegirl using skyline as the base. check her site for other themes that you might find interesting

2:00 PM

Guess what's keeping me awake till now, a new addiction to RPG, I’m switching from playing yoville, pet society, sorority life and fashion wars. All Facebook games. I haven't played much with the latter, it has lost its charm already and I’m sure with sorority life, it'll be the same. The really fun games I’m hooked on are the first two mentioned: YoVille & Pet Society. It’s not as amazing or exciting really but its good enough that I sit on hours on my desk toying with it. Now I wish my internet connections fast.

Watching movies online also took much of my time lately and I realized that this has to stop. First thing, I should be reviewing for my exams this September but here I am, clicking the mouse endlessly to aim a beach ball at my pet while I wait for the other window to finish buffering the video I’m waiting to see. Now this, as I see it, is gonna be a budding addiction.

There’s also something that I have been checking, you might wanna give your insights on it. I’m looking for a nice blog site, perfect for, of course, blogging. i mean multiply is good but on my opinion, the setting is not perfect for posting write-ups, most especially if your contacts are more on the business side. This makes you the odd one out. I got one on BlogSpot, which no one visits since it's pretty much for myself, so i like it that way. I’m interested in wordpress though and has been checking it out for days but I’d also want to check out more and hopefully get me signed up by the end of the week.

Someone’s chatting me up on yoville, let me switch again to that screen, play for a few mins and then catch some zzzs. a girl still has to work and earn the real cash though, for now I’m a enjoy this addiction.

The latest D. Brown book turned movie, Angels & Demons, was more than i thought it'll be. I watched it yesterday and ran every scene & sequence i can remember from the book. Of course not all nitty gritty details were shown on the movie but this wide screen version exceeded my expectations. Maybe my expectations wasn't all high standards as i'm basing it all from how they made the previous film adaptation of Brown's book but it was pretty much close on how i visualized the scenes from the book to be. There were a lot of the details that was missing on the movie, like the Illuminati diamond, brand of all the four elements in an ambigram design, maybe production had a hard time making one thus using crossed keys instead. There was also the scene on how the carmelengo died. I love that scene from the book, i visualized it to be public and dramatic, it wasn't so in the movie. I understand the time constraint on a movie, so we could all cut some slack on how Langdon switched from one clue to another very quickly so he could go to the next altar and stop the murder. The entire book was pretty much well represented on it's film adaptation, at least the major parts of the book wasn't spoiled on the movie. I'd give it a 4/5.

The Illuminati Diamond - one of the five iron brands, the rest are the four elements in ambigram.

It is always recommended that before watching a film adaptation of a book, read the book first. This one's a visual treat, any book-lover would enjoy the images weaved in mind by the book. I wouldn't be surprised if, while reading the it, you'll check on google every now and then to know all about the Illuminati, the different chapels of Rome, even all about the antimatter. I'll review the book, its been a good 2 years or so from the time i've read it. If you already have, don't wait long to go to your nearest movie house and check the movie yourself and enjoy being a part of a good conspiracy, even if it's fiction.

Let me know your reviews.

     Too girly? I know, not that close to what people perceive of me, but that's fine. I'm a girl and I'm entitled to make my taste of things inclined that way. As a whole, the change on my site really doesn't make me gag in all it's pinkness or light-colored or however it is best described. This stores the light side of me, as what the color represents, that part of me that is freely shared to the world with no inhibitions or regrets or all else in between. I also need the color change so I'd be attracted to visit my "light site" and get things working for me there. A little push to get the wheels rolling. Change is good and I’ll start it here and maybe work on my hair next... ☺

- The meaning and essence of this song is very dramatic, it makes you want to think of what you should do about what you feel towards someone, a very powerful song, check the lyrics

I know, you think I’d be talking about the Global Economic Crisis. Nope, not really but it’ll slide to that. Well to think about it, it’s actually one reason why I’m a little apprehensive about something that was introduced to me lately. It’s a possibility of earning extra income but taking into consideration the financial state of everyone, this thing might be something I might have to think over & over.

I’m not good at selling, or maybe I didn’t really put much effort to it. My last selling attempt only lasted roughly three months and that’s just over the phone?! Eventually I became more of a liability than an asset so they had to take me off the sales program, which was a blessing. I never gave another attempt to selling anything, oh except for the Sky Adventure tickets that I’m helping a friend sell. This was not really selling since my number is posted all over our company’s board and all they have to do is email or text me if they’re interested. No sweat, no campaigning, no nothing. It’s pretty awkward attempting on a business, I doubt it if people would like to let go of their hard earned money. Tough on both sides, the businessman/woman trying their best on earning more, the consumer holding on to what they have to avoid loss.

Recently I got introduced to real estate or brokerage, honestly I don’t know how to call it or what’s the right name for it. I know its selling condo units. Its good business, it rakes in money, the question is, and can I pull it off? Will anyone want to buy? If I do go for this will luck be on my side? It’s pretty tough for everyone lately. I don’t think anyone would be readily investing on things but what I like to think are the free seminars that I get, learning twist & turns of real estate. I might be able to use this in the future? This recession thing is not forever anyway. It might be a tough start but I’ve always been ready for anything new.

I’ve branded myself as not into selling but then what did I know about selling. I haven’t really put my hands on it; maybe this would be a good opportunity? The truth? I’m shit scared, apprehensive, and doubtful. But things can be learned, anyways what’s there to lose?

To you all, wish me luck… J

     It’s really upsetting how you deal with things. If you didn’t need me might as well say it. I think that’s pretty easy. But all this mind games? I got needs and you got needs but one thing that I could take is for you to say that hey girl sorry but you’re out of the list. That’s much better than feeling your crap. Honestly I don’t know how this system works, true it’s your world and you reign sovereign to it and I shouldn’t have entered. Which was my fault, I really should have not allowed myself to be part of this. I should have said no in the first place, but I was hopeful, naïve but hopeful and I’m upset.  Maybe it’s my fault because I couldn’t take a hint. Yes, maybe it really is. I always believe that anything and everything that happens to you is a result of your decision. In the first place I decided. But I just hope you end it. Or maybe you don’t need to, I could take a hint and I really feel that it’s over. So sad, I’ll just have to find other means and ways then.

 Thank you.

As most of you have noticed, GMA has another new telenovela. Sad to say, it’s another Dingdong- Marian set-up, Dingdong Dantes is fine, great actor, a true onscreen gentleman and I wont deny that amazing physique. Marian Rivera on the other hand is…, she’s…, never mind. For those who know me and have conversed with me about this topic, you know what I mean.

Anyways to GMAs new project… sad, so sad. Tsk tsk tsk…

- i would like to post this article from Philippine Daily Inquirer. We all have read lots of articles with common misnomers about the call center industry, it's people and it's lifestyle but i have never read any correct or appropriate response from anybody from the inside til now. No one could describe the right sentiment everyone holds in this industry the way this article expresses it, here goes:

Youngblood
‘Kolgirl’

By Pa me la
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:13:00 01/08/2009

Filed Under: business process outsourcing (BPO), Human Interest, Employ me nt

If you are familiar with the terms “QA,” “Queuing,” “EOP,” “ACW,” “AHT,” “avail,” then you are one of us, the thousands of “kolboys” and “kolgirls” in the Philippines.

We belong to the sleep-deprived, nicotine-inhaling, cab-riding new breed of Filipino youth. We infuse our anemic, caffeinated veins with ferrous sulfate every day so that we won’t be “NCNS” (no call, no show) for our next shift. “Ginagawa naming araw ang gabi.” [We make the night our day.]

Glamorous? Well, if your idea of glamour is staggering down Ortigas Avenue wearing Paris Hilton shades at 8 in the morning, looking dog-tired while everybody else looks fresh and new, then we are the kings and queens of glamour.

Bohemian? Ha ha! We follow a very rigid schedule. We cannot go on extended breaks. We cannot hang up on cursing customers. We cannot refuse to take calls. And we have to ask for permission to answer nature’s call. We are like prisoners in our stations for eight whole hours. Ours is a Spartan life.

I cannot help but be catty and melodramatic about it. We say, “Good morning” when we all know that everybody but us (at least in this part of the Pacific) is in his deepest sleep. We say (with an audible smile), “I’d be glad to assist you,” never mind if we had to leave a feverish son under the care of his “yaya” [nanny].

We can afford to miss family occasions and national holidays because we know we will be well compensated. Every birthday of a family member that we miss means we have P700 more to pay the bills, rent and tuition. The added pay for every national holiday that we worked helps pay our taxes. Yes, my friends, we are paying for the street lights along the avenues and highways that we must brave every night.

Contented cats we are not. “Laway lang ang puhunan” [Saliva is our only capital], we some people say, but we are in one of the most stressful and draining jobs you can find. And like the rest of the working class, we are overworked and underpaid.

We are forced to defend big banks, superstores, telecoms or any account we are handling. Just like any member of the proletariat, we are alienated from the giants that we work for. We apologize for things that we do not have anything to do with. We fix problems we did not create. We are the cheap, apologetic and docile answering machines at the other end of the line, the receiving end of the frustrations and ire of customers who feel shortchanged.

Apolitical? I have to disagree. We are tax-paying citizens like most working Filipinos. Yes, most of us get the latest news from Inquirer libre (while riding the Metro Rail Transit on our way to work), but we are also appalled by the P500,000 “cash gift” congress me n got to kill the Arroyo impeachment complaint last year. We are also furious with this government for spending half of the national budget on debt servicing so that it can borrow some more. And we are enraged that some people cheated their way to high offices.

We may speak in English for more than half of our waking hours, but it doesn’t make us less Filipinos. We share the sentiments and burdens of every landless far me r, every laid-off factory worker, every out-of-school youth, every hungry Filipino mouth. We find time to mourn slain activists, priests, journalists and innocent civilians. Most importantly, we share the aspirations of the Filipino people to build a just society where we can say, “I’d be glad to assist you,” and actually mean it.

Pa me la, 28, is a single mother who works as a call center agent, a job that pays her enough to splurge on mango shakes, banana cues, rambutan fruits and Marlboro reds. She has a generous health card that takes care of her brain scans, EEG and MRI, paid for by her call center company, which she thinks is the source of her migraine and headaches.

when things change and they don't go your way do you walk through it or aroubd it? there are a lot of things to consider when you talk about changes, so many risks, so many uncertainties. i for one gets scared of what may or may not come. we can't see the future

i've been considering certain changes in my life, for one i'm  not getting any younger and i should start wising up. Of course the fun would still be there but it should be more responsible and thought of this time. There would be a lot that i'll miss but as a good friend told me, sacrificing now would reap greater rewards later.

I think i have played around for quite some time now, but i must admit i've learned and earned a lot too. success comes with mistakes, it's inevitable but i've learned & recognized these mistakes and would make sure to avoid them in the future. As of now, i'm seriously considering a change in my future, leaning towards a more realistic & solid path, not only for me but also for my family.

Sigh.... I know there are a lot going through my mind right now, no wondering the blog. But as things have come clearer to me and as each day passes, i might as well consider what i want to see in me 5 yours from now and that is me being in a more stable environment & in one i'm very comfortable of.

If you see me now, you'd probably have a laugh. Oh well, what better way to waste time than go online and check who also took (or wasted) their time to check on you. So far no updates except for a few business related stuff. Turns out, there's nothing exciting.

Actually I’m stuck at the cafe since my friends who were suppose to meet me were too fickle-minded to actually decide on what to do on which time. I so can hear the tiny voice in my head saying "jen, i told you so." yeah, i told me so. What could be exciting? If only I have too much cash to spend on, i could have gotten me a new pair of CMG wedges since they were on sale and the beauty of it is, I just discovered that CMG has my size (good heavens!). Still it was perfect timing since i can introduce myself to the new material for my article. I'm being introduced to yoga, not by friends who've tried it, but due to articles i write about it. (Oh shoot! they'll find out i'm not doing yoga). Well i might probably enroll in a class but i prioritize in getting me a laptop or desktop so i can write more about stuff and not get stuck in a cafe just to research.

Hayyy... it's pretty long time already and they haven't texted. I'm so damn sure that the time they say they'll leave would be in actual an hour after that. I'll go over at Ryan’s and see how his place is, maybe take a power nap or something.

Friends, my apologies for a worthless entry. Nothings running in my mind right now, just that fact that I’m hungry and frustrated. As like everyone I needed outlet too.

C'est la vie!

Ciao!