Miss Wilhelmina

Well, just this afternoon, I finally got to meet the, shall we say, “newbies” of the Cebu Bloggers Society. What I love about this group is that you can’t be too nervous in meeting someone because they look forward to meeting you.

The shoot was set at Fuente Circle between 1:30PM till 3:30PM. The photographer was Vanjhnn, who’s also hosting the upcoming Cebu Bloggers Society’s Christmas Party. Well, being a good kid, he of course was on time along with the newbies. Among the pioneering members of the CBS, I was the first one to be there. I’ve been putting off my appointments with the CBS peeps for quite a while now, and I was missing the meetups, the socialization, the writing and well, pretty much cyberspace.

Anyway, I got to Fuente at around 2PM, with my phone on my ear trying to contact one of the pioneer bloggers. When I was unable to contact the pioneers, I just shifted my sight on Vanjhnn’s tripod and said, “CBS mo?”. In English, “You from CBS?”. They of course smiled and well, that was it. Everybody introduced themselves and I think I’ll have to update this blog post later when I get the pics up from Alex’s site. Alex, by the way, is my new boyfriend. Read the rest of this entry »

That’s what I got at Bo’s Coffee Club yesterday. If you read back on some of my coffee posts, you’d notice I’m pretty much in love with Cafe Mocha. I don’t usually have anything with my Cafe Mocha, but I felt I had to have something with it, so I skimmed the display for a Blueberry Cheesecake, but unfortunately, they didn’t have it on their menu for the day, so I got the Chocolate Sin instead, the laptop in the background by the way is NOT mine, that’s Aldrin’s, my partner in freelance web developing.

I don’t think he’s used to drinking coffee at coffee shops and the only type of coffee that he’s had at one is probably the Cafe Mocha as well. Well, anyway, so what was so special that we were at a coffee shop? Ummm, nothing personal, it was more of a business meeting that I’m afraid I cannot discuss on here.

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Whew, after what seemed about more than a month later, I finally got my Internet connection back! But then again, lost time can never be regained. So what I can do is just start from scratch since where I left off pretty much is nowhere to be found now, and I have no idea on how I can get back up now. Looks like some extra work, but then again, I love to write, and the objective of this blog is not just to make money off of it, but to get something done on it.

Now what? Oh yeah, just last night, the Cebu bloggers and I met up again and we have our official shirts getting printed now. Here are some shots that I got last night. Honestly speaking, I never thought I’d be very lazy to even write this post. It’s been a while and I really don’t like being offline that long. Being offline that long can get you, ummm, not well enough to be a blogger.

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It’s Friday and my Team Lead made sure that the scheduling team gave us the same rest days so that we can have our very first team social day. We basically just went out to have dinner together and of course, it was sponsored by the company that we worked for. There was a budget of course and since it was just the day after pay day, we wanted to spoil ourselves and decided to spend more than the alloted budget. We were just gonna add up to the budget. The team social wasn’t just for fun, it was actually the only time that the entire team could spend together since we have different schedules and then we could also plan out strategies and meet about everything else going on at work. The place that we went to: Casa Verde.

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Mine is Smartbro. Up until like a month or so ago, my Internet has been doing really great. I don’t really need to have super fast Internet, since what I do is check my e-mails, post in forums, chat and well, occassionally watch videos over the Internet.

Oh, and let’s not forget, blog and extend communities.

Well, since I’m out of the lock-in period of the ISP, I wanted to sign up for the other ISPs, since Smartbro isn’t offering anything better than 384kbps. I would’ve gone for the 768kbps plan of PLDT, but I held back because of a lot of PLDT’s subscribers have been complaining about how bad the service is. Just a few days ago, I went to ask about the service in the nearby Internet cafe, and well, the girl sitting behind the desk was super not pleased with the service.

“PLDT? Duha ka semana way Internet! Patay kaayo ang negosyo!” was what she had to say.

In English, “PLDT? Two weeks without Internet! Business is so dead!”

So needless to say, I was pretty :O and her comment of course scared me into not wanting to subscribe to PLDT. Now what about Globelines? I’ve had some techs bothering me into subscribing to Globelines, but from the forum that I’ve been posting and reading in, Globelines has a lot of subscribers in ther from all over Cebu complaining about how bad the service is, that Globelines has been too busy with getting more subscribers, but don’t care about how their current subscribers are thinking about their service.

So, what is your ISP, and how better is it from Smartbro?

Last Sunday, the 10th of August at around 2PM, I got out of the office and got on a jeepney right to about a few blocks away from the Ayala Center. It was time again for another meet up for the Cebu bloggers.

I slowly walked my way to the coffee shop and ordered myself a hot cafe mocha. So yummy, so delish. About ten minutes later, Kevin of http://marroxas2010.blogspot.com/ joined me, and then Winston of http://batangyagit.com/ joined us as well. Xerxes of http://obnoxiousqueer.com/ didn’t  take too long and joined us as well.

Since it’s been a while since I went online, I wasn’t getting too updated with who was coming to the meet up or not, so I was kinda surprised at the new face that came in next. McBilly of http://www.mcbilly.com/ came in to the coffee shop and  shook hands with us. How gentlemanly.

The night before the meet up, I finally acquired my camera, and I took a shot of the early birds: Read the rest of this entry »