Team Building Day 1

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May 8, 2010 - Team Building day, each of us was really excited for the beach. I already told you that instead of going to Bantayan, we changed it to Alcoy, Cebu.


At exactly six in the morning, everyone was already out of the office, there were assigned committees and each had corresponding responsibilities with the said event. We were 14 as a team but there were outsiders who came, so we were all in all 23. We had agreed to meet at the South Bus Terminal at 9:30 in the morning. James and I were the first to come at the terminal, followed by Loreto and Reggy who brought the big box which contained our drinks. And the others also arrived a couple of minutes then. Unfortunately, we were not able to percieve the weight of the people who were also going home in the province, knowing Election day is on monday. Well, anyway, we were able to ride on the Ceres Bus at 11:00 in the morning, imagine that? We were at the bus terminal for three hours waiting for an available bus. It was not the only frustrating thing that happened, when we went out of the terminal, the bus routed to their garage to get more fuel and it took almost 30 minutes for us to get out of the place. 


We were able to arrive first at the Tingko Resort at 2:00 in the afternoon. The resort was kinda not that beautiful and the facilities were not so appealing. The beach had a lot of dead seaweeds in the shore, I don't know why they didn't clean that out. Well, in fairness, there were a couple of people there ahead of us. We looked for some other resorts in the neighborhood since all of us did not like that resort. So we moved to El Paradiso, a walking distance from the Tinko resort and we ate our lunch there.


Just to give you a bit of the place, there was a pool which was not that big, we were not amazed with it actually. There was a bar in there, we bought some ice where costs Php 2 each. The place was a wifi hotspot but you need to purchase Php 50 worth of stuffs before you can have the password,err. There were many cottages at the place, more of those are residential cottages, there were also foreighners at the place. We hit the beach that time, there were still dead sea weeds floating there but we just ignored it. Until we felt our body itching. Wooah! James had really many red spots in his body so we decided to just play volleyball. That was the part where in we were enjoying the time. From four players, it went to six and then to eight, we were all laughing and shouting for the game. We ended it when we felt like taking a swim again, the boys went to the deeper part where there was a floating thing there and they were like diving and such. Then we went to the pool and good thing, it was a bit hot it took the itchyness in our bodies away. We quite enjoyed it and also, Leslie brought here camera with her which can take pictures under water. Here are some of our pictures taken:





We had a very yummy dinner, we had shrimps, squid, lechon kawali and grilled fish. That was a tasty dinner really. Thanks to the cook committee. Then most of us went to sleep then, including me. As you can see, I wrote this in the morning of May 9. I will be updating you tomorrow then for the other activities and other more photos.


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Team Building location changed: Alcoy Everyone?

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Three days before the team building, the location was changed due to some safety problems. Instead of spending it in Bantayan Island, ( :'-( huhu Bantayan ohh bantayan!) we decided to spend it in Alcoy, Cebu. The problem with Bantayan is there are rumors that the place is not safe since election is coming up and the NPAs are active right now, they said the place has been listed as a danger zone in times of election. Well, we will not be risking ourselves of course just because the place is nice.


Anyways, moving forward, we still don't know the final resort where we will be spending the two days and one night event. We were thinking in Bodos Bamboo Bar, where there are pools also aside from the beach. Here are pictures of the place:

              


Here are there rooms: 

  

I heard the room rates were low, that's quite nice. And before I forget, the place is a wifi hotspot! I will be bringing with me my laptop so I can update you guys!

You can try and check this: 
>> http://www.bbb-alcoy.com/

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Iron Man 2 and the sleepy head?

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Got two free tickets from my company as a reward for job well done and was reserved for the awaiting movie of the month which is Iron man 2. Was quiet excited to see this movie, first plan was to watch it on friday, the actual screening day, unfortunately, I had duty that night so we cancelled it and dated on saturday. On Saturday, we thought the Ayala cinemas will be overcrowded because it is saturday and people loves to go around on that day. So we cancelled it again and then Sunday came, were very lazy to get up so just decided to have it on monday then. Mostly of my friends were able to watch it already. Facebook status were already about Tony Stark and the other ironed man,haha. But on Monday, news came in that the Yellow team has an upcoming free concert called Rock the Vote at Fuente Osmeña. We then have agreed to watch that free concert since there are numbers of filipino bands who will be playing, including Parokya ni Edgar, Kamekazi, Christian Bautista and alot more. But we ended up staying at home, we were not able to watch the show. Then on Tuesday, my boyfriend had a scheduled interview with this company named IRL Solutions. Not knowing, the boss was actually a foreigner. I am not sure if he is Italian or Mexican, he is just short and he is nice. My boyfriend said they get a long "daw". Well, moving on, after the interview, we decided to go to Ayala and watch the movie since it is one ride away from our spot.
We went straight to the Cinemas and get our tickets, we paid additional Php 20.00 per ticket since our selected seats were those at the upper deck which costs Php 160.00. We also bought two regular apple and mango Thristy drinks and a Php 75.00 worth popcorn. We entered Cinema 2 at 3:30 pm. The movie started I guess around 3:45pm. I was just entertained with Tony Stark who was hilarious. I was not able to view the thriller of this movie actually so I did not expect that Scarlett Johanson was part of the story already. I would always see her sexy, anyways, the story was US Government wants Tony to surrender his Iron Man suit to them, Tony himself would not allow that of course. Government's reason is because it is a weapon for destruction and that it might be harmful to the community, this was also seconded by Hammer, his competitor who had joined forces with Ivan, a Russian physicist who hate Iron Man because he thinks the idea was stolen from his father by Iron man's dad.
The story went through and when the fight scene came in, my sleepy head also started to show out. I don't know why, eventhough the sounds of the fight was very noisy I was still able to sleep so soundly. It seemed like a lullaby to my ears. Well, good thing I did not sleep the whole time, I was still able to get back to the movie, I caught the next scene where Tony, his friend and Ivan were already fighting, I was not sure here...why Tony's friend, the military one was able to wear the suit. I could also remember he was not the original man from the first movie.
Well, we went home at 6:00pm so it was actually a two and a half movie. I still slept in the jeepney going home, thanks to James for the shoulder! Mwaah! 

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EON Cyber Account, why not?

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After I have read a thread about Paypal account limitation, I am now making up my mind to open up my own saving account through Union Bank. UB has this kind of account called EON  Cyber Account which is Union Bank's web-based deposit account. This will allows users to do all banking transactions in a click of a mouse. 
"A paperless bank account it is."
I have an experience with Banco de Oro wherein my boyfriend opened up an account which he can use for his Paypal transactions as well. He was able to get his card for a week, but it cost him Php 2500 to open up his account, which was slightly a pain in the pocket. And when he linked his account to Paypal, the teller at the branch seemed to not know what he was asking. Since that was my boyfriend's first time to get those kinds of statements, it took us a couple of minutes to finally get the statements of accounts, the sad thing was Paypal's code was not there on the statement. There were no descriptions on the statement that the the lady had given. What we did was we tried to compare our statements and found out that there was really a transaction made with Paypal, so he went back and spent hours to get that statement with descriptions. At last, he was able to get the code after arguing with the same lady. Wew!
Going back to the EON Cyber Account, what I mostly liked about this is that there is no minimum balance to maintain with this kind of account. Yes! As zero. The other features that this gives are:
  • It is the fastest, the most convenient way to a bank, this means, there are no more passbooks or checkbooks, no transaction slips, you can do the banking transactions, anytime, anywhere. Basically, it is an easy access.
  • It can also transfer funds from EON account to another UnionBank account or any other bank account in the Philippines. All you need to do is to specify the Bank, the account holder's name and the account number and you're all set!
  • With it, you can also pay bills on line, enter billing details with corresponding reference number and the amount to be paid and you will receive a confirmation number as a receipt for the payment made.
  • You can also make balance inquiries as easy as A-B-C.
One more good thing about this account is that it can be linked with your Paypal accounts. This kind of account has been the most used accounts by the Paypal users as per my research. 
I will be opening up an account soon as I will have a spare time. I will update you guys with my experience, check out my blog updates then.  

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Limited Paypal Account?

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I am recently having problems with paypal. I could not withdraw money from it and it is because Paypal says my account is limited. They need me to send out billing statements which I am afraid I can't give because I am only renting here and my billing address for Smartbro has not yet been changed. Now, I am searching for other people's experiences, I have read soo many negative things about paypal. I am afraid my money will be stucked with paypal now. I could never imagine that.


This is the exact message I get when I signed in with my account:


Your account access has been limited for the following reason(s):
Our system requires further account verification.


(Your case ID for this reason is PP-000-946-880-189.)


The things I can only do for this type of account are:


- receive payments
- place logos into your auction listings or on your website
- update your account information


Only! Those are the only things that I can do with my account as of this time, I can't send or withdraw money. I can't even delete the cards associated with my account. 


Reading back with paypal's requirements in order to resolved the limitations, I need to confirm my credit card and submit proof of address. And to confirm my address, I need to send them a copy of a bill that shows my name and address. Helpful documents include a utility bill, a cell phone bill, an insurance bill, or a tuition bill. As of this time, the only bill that I can secure is my smartbro billing statement, however, I recently moved to another location and my billing address has not been changed yet. So what should I do?


Dead air - I could not think of anyway to get rid of this limitation. I tried clicking on the resolve button for the limitation appeal, I have found out that there are actually two other alternative ways to provide info. They are to confirm my bank account and to confirm location. And to get the first alternative option done, I must reenter another bank account which I guess I can't do anymore. When I selected the other alternative option which is to confirm location, they would prompt me with a system unavailable error and I need to try again. I can't anymore count how many times I have appealed to try again but I am still getting that same error message. So I will just quit and try tomorrow.


I am so frustrated now that I think am gonna burst, I need the money in few weeks time. If ever you have experienced the same situation, I would greatly appreciate it if you would spend time and leave a comment here and help me with this problem. Thanks in advance! 

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29 Chinese Children Killed

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Was shocked with the news on yahoo about the man who stabbed 29 children at a kindergarten in China. The crime took place in Taixing, China and the suspect was an ex-salesman in a local insurance company named Xu Yuyuan, 47 year old who was fired in 2001 and is still unemployed today. He was concieved to have some kind of mental illness and was sought to be copying this kind of act with existing cases before.
Witnesses say the suspect was stopped by a delivery man through a fire extinguisher. Later part of the news would state that China's cases of mental health disorders are increasing and too bad there were no professional help to those eventhough their country is a prosperous one. 
This kind of crime was not new actually to them, there were already cases before with same nature. I don't know what are the reasons of this cruel killings to poor little children who are surely innocents but whatever the reason might be, surely it is not valid and unacceptable.
May the children's souls rest in peace and hopefully they will be given justice. The suspect must be given the corresponding sanction to what he has done. China must give attention to this kind of case and do the right move to stop this.
Other Resources:
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100430/ap_on_re_as/as_china_students_attacked

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