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Birthday Greetings

Hello there! I just turned 28. :D

It always feels nice to be greeted dur­ing birth­days. I inten­tion­ally turned off my Face­book birth­day noti­fi­ca­tion, just to see if peo­ple would still remem­ber. Silly me! But of course, with the excep­tion of 3 sig­nif­i­cant ladies. From a sim­ple and casual happy birth­day greet­ing to a num­ber of well-wishes, thank you very much.

But not all peo­ple cel­e­brate their birth­days. I just learned that Wit­nesses often reject birth­days as pagan and will there­fore refuse to par­tic­i­pate in them.

No wor­ries, I’m not here to ques­tion their belief. But I’m here to appre­ci­ate the ges­ture of one Wit­ness friend. Despite her hec­tic sched­ule and my lousy fash­ion sense, she did spend time with me.

I think she’s the rea­son that del­ishu­sizes Toast Box’s Kaya Toast. :)

Posted in daily musings.


Tweet November

I do tweet!
Fol­low me at, twitter.com/zettainino

My Face­book page is bor­ing!
I’m just not the type who posts any­thing sig­nif­i­cant andor insignif­i­cant on The Wall..
But of course, I can change…

I saw The Social Net­work, with my sis­ter on the big screen.
It was a good geeky movie.

I saw Scott Pil­grim vs. The World, alone.. on a 13-inch screen (MBP’s lcd dis­play, that is)
It was a great geeky movie!
Sex Bob-omb! Ramona! Knives! Envy! — are my four favorite proper nouns in the movie..

I also saw Sym­pa­thy for Lady Vengeance, alone on the 13-inch screen of MBP.
It was a good ahh-err movie!

Old­boy still rocks the ahh-err-wow-ohh-woooOOOh! movie cat­e­gory!
It’s just me saying…

My next oh-i-so-wanna-watch-this-movie-i’m gonna-die is My Amne­sia Girl.
Oh! Please let’s watch it together. <3

Show­ing on Novem­ber 24.
Nood na!

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MWC, today at 17.50

MWC as of 13 July 2010

Manila Water Co. EDT as of 13 July 2010

This is awe­some! :D

Manila Water Co. closed at 17.50 today.
RSI shows that it’s over­bought.
So expect, a pull­back very very soon!!

But con­sider this, accord­ing to COL, MWC’s fair mar­ket value is at 22.50.

I’ve got four words for you, Buy high! Sell higher!

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First Day of School

Today is my first day of school. New course. New school.

I woke up ear­lier than usual. 4:45 AM. This is the same time, when I am to pre­pare myself for a 6:45 AM Body­Pump cover class at RSC. A lot of firsts for me today, really. It is my first time to arrive at the office at around 7:30 AM. Early log-in means early log-out. First time to log-out at 4:30 PM. I usu­ally log out at around 6:30 PM.

I also asked per­mis­sion with my man­ager before­hand, that I would be leav­ing the office at an ear­lier time dur­ing Thurs­days and Fri­days. I don’t know if it’s a good thing, that work is not hec­tic nowa­days. Man­ager says it’s all OK. I’ll take it as a good thing anyway.

I arrived at school around 5:40 PM. The assigned room was still empty. I entered the room…

I am learn­ing how to teach.

The course title is Teach­ing of Math­e­mat­ics. Since I really have no for­mal Edu­ca­tion units, some of the ideas dis­cussed were new to me. Ideas like con­struc­tivism, deduc­tive and induc­tive teach­ing, and under­stand­ing by design makes me feel like an alien in the com­pany of pro­fes­sional teachers.

At the start of the class, our pro­fes­sor asked us to answer a form with our per­sonal details and expec­ta­tions for the course. I always answer, not bor­ing, when ask what do I expect of a class.

I can say that I didn’t get bored dur­ing the class. Sleepy? Not even! That’s another first.
I think our pro­fes­sor and my class­mates were all in the groove for a two-hour ses­sion of teach­ing and learning.

P.S. A min­i­mum of eight stu­dents is required for a class not to be dis­solved. We were only five stu­dents dur­ing the class. I really hope the class will still push through.

P.P.S. There’s a clos­ing prayer after the class. I didn’t do the sign of the cross. Does it even matter?

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I quote!

Last month, I attended Citisec­On­line’s Invest­ing in the Stock Mar­ket Today sem­i­nar. For a novice investor like me, I find the sem­i­nar not-so-technical, infor­ma­tive, and inter­est­ing. I also attended the COL Easy Invest­ment Pro­gram Brief­ing two months ago. So I think I now have the basic idea of how the stock mar­ket grooves.

COL, as an online stock bro­ker, offers con­ve­nient access to dif­fer­ent resources to its clients’ trad­ing needs. They even give their rec­om­men­da­tions on what stocks to buy, hold and sell, which I think is really great con­sid­er­ing I don’t want to be both­ered by the Fun­da­men­tal and Tech­ni­cal Analy­sis thing.

Well, I might take that back. I think the FA and TA thing are quite inter­est­ing. Imag­ine, if you’ll just be able to mas­ter these things, be a day-to-day trader, and cre­ate a pro­gram that can alert you to hey-it’s-time-to-buy-this and hey-it’s-time-to-sell-that.

Since, I’m not that geeky yet to study these analy­ses, I chose their Easy Invest­ment Pro­gram.
I define con­ve­nience as min­i­mum risk with high earn­ing poten­tial over time. Haha! How do I con­vert that to a formula?!

With the EIP’s con­ve­nience, an investor will just have to invest a cer­tain amount of money each month to buy stock posi­tions of the top com­pa­nies. Do this for ten to twenty years, faith­fully, and one can retire a multi-millionaire. COL rec­om­mends invest­ing to six solid com­pa­nies, namely:

  • Ayala Land, Inc. — ALI
  • Bank of the Philip­pine Islands — BPI
  • Jol­libee Foods Corp. — JFC
  • Manila Water Co. Inc — MWC
  • SM Prime Hold­ings Inc — SMPH
  • Philip­pine Long Dis­tance Tele­phone Co. — TEL

On the course of the sem­i­nar, dif­fer­ent top­ics were dis­cussed like infla­tion, cost-averaging, buy low, sell high, and the likes. And it all trans­lates to me as money work­ing for me.

Haha! Do I suck at prod­uct endorse­ments?! Yes?!
I’m not a sales per­son. But I’m rich!

Take con­trol of your finances.
A 70:30, money-to-spend to money-to-save ratio of your income can be a good start. Every month, try to live by 70% of your income. My men­tor also sug­gests that the 30% you save, be allo­cated to emer­gency funds, money-to-invest, money-to-pay-debts-in-advance and tithe.

Yay! To all agnos­tics out there, you can just dis­re­gard tithe. :D

PS: Learn more about the Philip­pine Stock Mar­ket, and know how it can work for you.
Visit CitisecOnline.com

PPS: Do You Want to Gain Finan­cial Wealth and Spir­i­tual Abun­dance at the Same Time?
Yes! Of course!

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Holding Hands While Running

Kan­ina sa PBB Dou­ble Up, tinanong ni Jason si Melissa kung gusto ba daw niya ng HHWW?

As for me, it’s been years since I held hands with some­one while walk­ing.
Oh! I would still love to hold hands with some­one while walk­ing, run­ning even.

Just to make it clear, I want that some­one to be a girl.
Peo­ple around me are won­der­ing if I am gay or not. FML.

But I did fin­ish a half-marathon pac­ing a girl friend. We fin­ished at 2:40-ish.
Still, it can’t be con­sid­ered a couple’s PR, because we didn’t actu­ally crossed the fin­ish line at the same time. I guess, I was ahead by a cou­ple of sec­onds. So I guess, that can still be counted as a couple’s PR.

Err, is my term couple’s PR correct?

Come Sun­day, I’ll be run­ning at Con­dura. For the record, it’ll be my 4th full mary. My goal is to fin­ish it in five hours. I think I can do it.

I have read that you’ll be run­ning your first marathon this Sun­day.
Be safe. Run strong.

Any tips?!
Bring Salon­pas. The liq­uid lin­i­ment one. Buy the small one at the Super­mar­ket.
I’ll bring one myself and I will offer it to any run­ner who feels like need­ing it.

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Hello MacBook Pro

Last Sat­ur­day, my gen­er­ous sis­ter bought a Mac­Book Pro.

About Our Mac

About Our Mac

I’ve been a Win­dows user, since I knew when. But I think, it’ll just take a few more weeks for me to be famil­iar with the new oper­at­ing sys­tem. Mac OS is all intu­itive, anyway.

Here are the things, that I have done and dis­cov­ered so far:

Err, the geeky me is still get­ting to know MBP.
I’m think­ing of cre­at­ing pro­grams, pre­sen­ta­tions, Pho­to­shop, and many more.

By the way, we got the best deal at Dig­i­tal Hub.
Yes, free plug­ging is the punch line. :D

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Love Triangle

Buwan na ng mga puso!
Lang­hap ko na ang hal­imuyak ng pag-ibig.

Let’s talk about love, within the con­text of inter­per­sonal rela­tion­ships.
I found this lec­ture on Aca­d­e­mic Earth, which dis­cusses the Tri­an­gu­lar The­ory of Love.

The three com­po­nents are: inti­macy, pas­sion, and com­mit­ment. Dif­fer­ent com­bi­na­tions of the three shows the type of love that may arise on the course of a relationship.

And as I do a quick eval­u­a­tion of some of my girl friends… Nah! erase! erase!

Let’s talk about run­ning.
No road races for me last Jan­u­ary. It seems like, every­body is run­ning. And the reg­is­tra­tion fees are get­ting more expen­sive –desu. I’ll join these road races, anyway.

My sched­uled road races for this month include the Con­dura Run and the Cen­tury Tuna Super­bods Run.

You ask, why do I run?
Because I want to.
And so I can run with you.

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I Had The Feeling!

Alam mo ba yung masarap na feel­ing?!
Edi yung, maka-feeling ka!

I really miss writ­ing here.

8:30 AM
I woke up late for the GMK ses­sions last Sat­ur­day morn­ing. Next week, I’ll just try to make it up with the kids.

1:30 PM — 5 PM
I remem­ber my sen­sei ask­ing yes­ter­day, もうブログをかきますか?
And with an Ele­men­tary 1 reply, I said, いいえ、まだです。きょうのばんブログをかきます。

I’m really hav­ing fun with my Japan­ese classes.
Shame­less plug: Nihongo Cen­ter

I had the 39 peso, cheese­burger + egg + ham + bacon + 12oz. Moun­tain Dew combo as merienda dur­ing the break. Ito yung isa sa mga burger stands sa may kalye mala­pit sa FEU at PSBA.

Sen­sei mis­tak­enly thought of dis­miss­ing us early. But we reminded her, that we still have one full hour left. And so we did some Kanji writing.

Ok, enough of the introduction.

My Urban­ite Run
I had my early din­ner at around 5:30PM. My favorite fast­food combo: crispy chicken fil­let meal + hot fudge + burger mcdo, for only 100 pesos.

I arrived at The Fort around 7:30PM. I thought Fit­ness First will be open until 10PM. Too bad, they’re only up until 8PM on a week-end.

I find the Urban­ite Run sin­glet nice and cool. I will wear it in a Body­Pump class. Maybe in a Cycling class, too.

Shame­less plug #2: Dis­cover Body­Pump.

There were lots of peo­ple.
I see happy people.

The Kenny Roger’s Urban­ite Run is sup­posed to be my kilo­me­ter 275. I wasn’t able to post my sto­ries on the past races which includes the Mizuno Infin­ity Run, PTAA Run, Milo Marathon, and Run for Home.

Oh! Milo Marathon is still the tough­est among the races I joined in.
I sur­vived it too. Thank you very much.

I am look­ing for­ward to next year’s Bataan Death March 102k Ultra­ma­rathon. I think, it will be the toughest.

I was not happy with my run. I felt pain in my legs. I was in the verge of hav­ing cramps too.

But I was happy see­ing lots of peo­ple.
Mostly, happy people.

I even saw the girl who hooked me into run­ning.
She was actu­ally the rea­son why I run.

I run and join road races hop­ing that I’ll be able to run with her.

Maybe, give her a “Be safe” mes­sage as I passed by her.
“Strong fin­ish!” is a good encour­ag­ing phrase too.
Or maybe, talk about any­thing under the sun (the moon and the stars too) as we run.

I did the math, I fin­ished at 1:03 on the 10km dig­i­tal clock.
I drank Pow­er­ade and water too.

I felt like wait­ing at the fin­ish line.
By the law of aver­ages, she should be arriv­ing in 5 min­utes or so.

At around 1:10, I saw her sprint­ing towards the fin­ish line.
I really wanted to call her name (which doesn’t start with a D. Her name doesn’t even have a D in it).

I was able to shout “Go! Go! Go!”

See­ing her just makes the cater­pil­lars in my stom­ach, meta­morph into but­ter­flies. But­ter­flies that pol­li­nate the flow­ers. Yes, just like the flow­ers in heaven.

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Hands On Schools — Galing Mo Kid!

I wanna be a teacher when I grow up!
Even at 25, I still dream of becom­ing a teacher.

Going back mem­ory lane, here’s a snip­pet of how was it like dur­ing my first day with the kids.

Last Sat­ur­day was my sec­ond stint as a men­tor for Hands On Schools’ Gal­ing Mo Kid!

Our sherpa texted me two weeks ago, if I would be inter­ested to be part of GMK’s last mod­ule for this school year.

Yes! I’m inter­ested! Where? When? What should I bring?

Where?
Nueve de Pebrero Ele­men­tary School

When?
For five straight Sat­ur­days. 9am to 11am.

What should I bring?
Just bring your­self. Err, Ok. I just made this last one up.

Oh, yes. This is my way of chang­ing the world, one kid at a time.

So you want to know more about Gal­ing Mo Kid! eh?!

Con­tin­ued…

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