Joys in Life

I love beaded jewelries yet I am not that free to wear them everyday — for religious practices.  Yet I fancy them and have a few of them.  When am at home and just lazing time, I do wear some of them just to have a feel of being fashionista.  Because I like to wear them, I wish to learn how to make them.

One time, my daughter was given a set of mini-beads and stuff and we formed them into bracelets and angklets.  I love the result.  I wish that one day I could enroll in a crash course for making beaded jewelries using miyuki beads. Miyuki beads is considered a “world standard” for their high quality, brilliance, and uniform shape. They are highly sought after by fashion designers, beadwork artists and crafters. I wanna learn some craft and I know one day I am going to buy assorted beads for such purposes.

They’re cute.  I love the golden ones and the silver ones.

It is surprising how much space papers can take up in an office. Filing cabinets, folders, boxes—get enough paperwork together, and you could be surrounded by a mountain of storage devices. Keeping your fax messages organized is a whole lot easier if you keep them all on your computer and not on hard copies.

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Online Faxing

If you have an email address, you have access to online faxing services. Free email is available through many different websites on the Internet, and it takes only moments to sign up for the service.

Many professionals use email regularly, and some companies even give out email accounts to all of their employees. Simply use your email address to sign up for online faxing services, and you can get practically unlimited fax storage that doesn’t take up any space in your office.

Online Fax Messages

Some websites that offer online fax services for documents actually store a copy of the pages you send. You won’t have to keep the hard copy of the fax, because a digital copy will be stored in the site’s own databank. If you want to keep your fax messages organized and stored online, look for a website that provides these storage options.

Storage Options

Use the Internet to gain access to the best email faxing with Metrofax. You get fax capability and an online Dashboard that provides easy storage options. If you can access a Web browser, you can get to your MetroFax dashboard and start managing and organizing all your faxes. The dashboard is customizable, so you may create your own folder names and start keeping your fax messages organized however you like. You will even be able to view faxes you have already sent.

Benefits of Online Fax Services

Online fax services will send you a test fax so you can be sure it’s working, provide you with previews so you can check faxes before they go out, and give you storage options so you may choose different file formats.

Some online fax services are even available across multiple platforms. MetroFax, for example, may also be accessed via smartphone. Even when you are on the go, you may send and receive faxes that have been converted into files that may be viewed online.

The modern world is all about speed and efficiency, and nothing is slower or more cumbersome than paper. Saving a bunch of papers takes up a lot of space and makes organization difficult.

Everything’s online these days, even faxes. It’s faster. It’s easier. And it’s a great way to keep your fax messages organized. When your paperwork is digital, you can access it anytime, anywhere—no digging through filing cabinets required.

I have met a total of three Helens in my whole three years in China. The three are significant because they became very close friends. So if I am going to include the other helens there there could be at least 15 because in almost all sections, there is a student named Helen as their English name.

I know it is already the middle of the week, quite late for the Memory Lane meme, but I would like to catch up for the reason that it is Chinese New Year celebration week and beginning this time, it is Spring Festival break in China. Because of this, I felt a strong “miss you” feelings for my two friend – Helen & Henry.

Helen & Henry at the Botanical Park
Spring time  2003

They are sweethearts since college days. Me & my companions met them in our school as they became one of our students.  But these two and a few more really made effort to constantly connect with me, Liza, and Nap even after their term and that is how our friendship developed.

Liz, Nap, and I arrived in China in June 2002 and we met them just before winter came.  When Nap went home to the PHilippines ahead of us, that left me and Liza sad.  In fact, very sad.  I cried almost everyday for crazy reasons. lol!  I was depressed because I felt we were stuck in a school where we don’t like to belong.  We feel we were cheated.  But then, I had more responsibilities, same with Liza, so the thought of also going home was far from our mind.   To lessen my depression and sadness, these guys and another friend, brought me to the Shijiazhuang’s Botanical Park.

They were so happy of what they did because they saw me smile…

and they heard me laugh…

There is more to tell about this day and my friends but I don’t like to make this post too long so I will just add one more significant act these friends did for me and my co-teachers.

During SARS outbreak in mainland China in 2003 — they were our life support.  Our employers wanted to let go of us because all schools were closed, but Liza and me decided to stay plus the these two – Helen and Henry, tried to research for us on what to do and where to go.  Indeed they went with us to the Police Bureau to inquire on how to extend our working visas and related stuff.    Neighboring was not allowed that time, so these two will just wait for us outside our compound and we would go somewhere where we can still bond.

With their effort, Liza and I were suppose to be hired by the #1 Shijiazhuang Hospital and we will be housed in a very beautiful apartment.  I declined because the contract is only 6 months and picked the 1 year offer with another private language school.   Liza left me after her contract expired and I was left there for more time.  In my third year, I went to another city to teach, but I still took time to meet out with them every spring time to visit the Pear Farm.

They brought me and Liza to that farm in spring 2003.  Then in spring 2004 I was the only one with them and just before I came home, I traveled to Shijiazhuang to meet another friend and of course them and they treat me to another visit in the Pear farm with their art students.

To all my friends in China, Xin Nian Kuai Le!

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This is one of the new buildings inside Midway White Beach Resort in Initao, Misamis Oriental.  This photo was taken yesterday after the IBS strat plan.  It’s a 3-floor building with different rates. The ground and the top floor can accommodate up to 4 people and the middle one can accommodate up to 8 people.   I really like the new services at the resort and I wanna go back there someday with the family.

I do not have my camera anymore but I don’t like to miss some good objects, so good thing I was reminded to use my cp. My phone is not that “high tech” one but with 3.2 mpeg, the take is not that bad.

Iligan Bloggers Society spent the night at Midway White Beach Resort in Initao, Misamis Oriental for our Strat Plan.  We started a bit late because of my lateness – sorry guys, but yet we were able to laid down concrete plans for the first two quarters for the year.

Just before leaving this morning, Alex and I went a bit around to take photos for blogging purposes.  Since Midway had this new 3 storey bamboo building, I was curious to get to the top, at least the 2nd floor, but going up the stairs, we ended up the third floor.  The room was unoccupied and for sure close, so we went directly to the veranda.  Aside from the beautiful view of the sea below and wide blue skies above it, this bamboo chair caught my attention:

We have bamboo sofa at home but I like this size and style better.  I wish we have a veranda at home, even a small one so that I can place chairs as small as this.  But since I do not have for now let me check out the ph meter available online.  A friend is asking me to scout for it, so before I get carried away daydreaming my dream house and the veranda, I will do the task I promised my friend.

photos by moi using my Nokia C2 phone ^^
I realized it serves the purpse.

I though I would make it to China this year especially that this is a special year for them because it is year of the dragon.  To them, a year of a dragon is a lucky year.  I’ve been wondering why lucky when to me the dragon does not look nice.  But an article made me understand why they revere this powerful creature:

The Dragon personality The Dragon is a creature of myth and legend. A symbol of good fortune and sign of intense power, the Oriental Dragon is regarded as a divine beast – the reverse of the malicious monster that Westerners felt necessary to find and slay. In Eastern philosophy, the Dragon is said to be a deliverer of good fortune and a master of authority. Therefore, those people born in Dragon years are to be honored and respected.

If I have the time I can read as much information on Dragon personality.  But not now.  All I am thinking is that if I was able to make it to China to celebrate the new year with my friends, they I could have ordered Padron cigars as my gift for my men friends. I am sure they gonna love it as they love to smoke – even if I tell them not to smoke in front of so many people. But they love to smoke and love to smoke good quality cigars, then cigar would the a nice thing to give them.