I went to Metro today. Bought some chicken thighs, bitter melon and some other stuff. I sauteed the bitter melon and had the chicken fried.

Thinking of saving some flour, I decided to remove most of the marinade. The chicken browned nicely over low heat but alas, when I ate the chicken, it turned out it was cooked rare. Now I am wondering if it has something to do with the oil that I used or was it because I removed most of the marinade? Could it be that with lesser liquid, the floor cooked faster that it should be? Hmmm… But the chicken meat wasn’t dry, it was rather juicy in fact. I cooked it the same way I cooked my chicken. The only thing that I did was remove most of the marinade. So I guess it was that. But then you can cook fried chicken with dry rub right? Hmmm…

Hay, I am so glad that I was able to do coaching today.  It was a bit long but I think we have reached some sort of resolution.  I just hope that it will result to better CSat survey for if it doesn’t then it’s one fruitless effort once more.  Like, what’s the use of coaching if it doesn’t help improve how the agent performs right?  Anyhow, I am hoping for the best.  These people may be moved to another team next month.  So I really hope that I was able to help them and prepare them for whatever challenges that they meet in the future.

I had my Annual Physical Exam last Monday and I have spent an Hour and 30 minutes to finish everything. Wow! It was fast! It could have been faster if I didn’t wait for the doctors who conducted the physical exams. But at least now, all I have to worry about are my deliverables.
Well, it’s just like any other APEs but not like the previous year, this year’s APE included dental checkup. And I was so relieved when the dentist said that I only have a tooth to extract, which is like the tooth that caused me a lot of pain when I was in grade school, other than that, everything is just fine.

As a health insurance benefit of the company, we don’t just get APEs, we also get to enroll our family members as dependents which means that we no longer need to personally get a family health insurance for our loved ones.  If you watch the news, especially in the States, health insurance is very crucial to get the proper health care that you need especially when someone gets ill.    I know, everyone would agree that Health Insurance Plans doesn’t come cheap.   Which is why, I don’t really mind paying part of my health plan or if my plan is a part of a group health insurance plan, for I do get to save a lot compared to getting an individual health insurance plan for my dependents.  Like, what’s the use of getting another plan when my dependents and I are enjoying almost the same benefits.  Sad thing though not all companies in the Philippines can afford giving out Health insurance benefits to it’s employees.  However, people from companies like these need not to worry for pre-need companies do provide different health insurance qoutes for individuals with different needs.  I understand that affordable health insurance are pretty hard to come by these days, but one just have to keep in mind that having a health insurance is equivalent to getting some peace of mind.  This is the reason why when someone would ask me for an advice if they should go work for another company, I always tell my colleagues to check out the benefits of that other company and try to compare it with the benefits from our company.  For other companies may give good compensation but have benefits that truly sucks.

I just hope he'll get one of these Tonneau Covers so that his bedliner will be dry and clean whenever his team needs a ride. hehehehe...

Have you had a RealTruck review recently?  Everytime my friend who owns a pickup truck invites me or (when I invite myself) to take a ride on his truck, I always do a realtruck review.  So far, I have seen a truck bedliner, vent visors for all the four windows of his truck, a running board, nerf bars, seat covers (sometimes), an almost busted tail light (because he had bump his truck a couple of times in different ways) and a side mirror that fell off one time when he was going out of their garage.  Oh, and not to mention a bumper with scratches here and there.  Poor truck eh?  Anyway, the good news is, he had sent the car for repairs but it has been several weeks and the car is still in the autoshop.  Hehehe, I guess it was worse than it looked.

To change people’s lives by providing the best nutrition and weight management products in the world and the best business opportunity in direct selling.  That’s the mission of Herbalife that it’s people and founder has set out to do. The company was founded by Mark Hughes in 1980 in the United States and started to sell their products internationally in as early as 1980.  The products of Herbalife are geared towards good nutrition, weight loss management and personal care products for your hair and skin.

I guess what makes this company a success was the combination of good products and marketing strategy.  Imagine, a company that started out with the founder having to sell the original programs out of the trunk of his car ended up rewriting the network marketing history.  Through the company’s marketing strategy, it was able to reach customers from different countries including the Philippines.  This is great news for people who are struggling to loss weight for they can now have access to products like the Formula 1 Healthy Meal which supports weight loss.

A friend and I were had one of those elevator talks last week after we had lunch.  He said that “Earth has survived without any intervention from any man, so man is not powerful enough to destroy it. ” What he meant was, Earth has become as it is or should I say as it was, beautiful and perfect to live in without any help from man, man can never destroy it.   We are not powerful enough to do that.  Well, I guess, at some point this is true.  Because if we did destroy it, it will never be totally destroyed, for looking at what happened in the past, it feels like Mother Eart has a way to reboot itself and fix what it feels like it needs fixing.  But, the bad thing though is, there is no assurance if Man can survive the process.  So I guess this is what scares us.  It’s not really that Mother Earth will be destroyed, it is the survival of mankind that scares all of us.  This is just a thought though, I don’t have any scientific proof to prove this point and so does my friend.

This is probably the most stressful month that I ever had both at work and at home. This is why I am so glad that one of my friends invited me to go to Alegria, Cebu and even more happy that I went there despite of the fact that I was having second thoughts of going there. I will be posting some pictures if I have time anytime soon.

Nowadays, I think one of the most lucrative industry to be involved with is the pre-need industry.  With the things going on right now, one has to find ways to secure ones future.  Although we can’t really tell what the future holds, it wouldn’t hurt to get an insurance policy to secure the future of our loved ones right? I think a lot of people feels the same way so insurance agents wouldn’t have as much difficulties as their predecessors had in convincing people to get a policy.  The difference of now and the one before though, is the competition.  The competition in the insurace industry is as tough as the competition in any industry.  But unlike their predecessors, insurance agents now has tools that they can use to find new insurance leads.  Aside from the tools that insurance companies give to their agents, there are companies now that were established to provide services to insurance agents.  Services like, identifying pre-qualified leads, where the basic information of an insurance lead is collected by the company which means that these are the people who are truly interested in getting a policy, providng search engine marketing, where the highly trained staff of the said company will do the search for the insurance agents to locate online insurance shoppers and bring them to an informative consumer-oriented insurance website, and most importantly, they can give a steady stream of insurance leads.  I’d say getting a steady steam of insurance leads is the most important service to an insurance agent for, correct me if I’m wrong, insurance agents earn through commission.  And the commission would normally be on the closure of a deal with a propect client.

I went out last night with a couple of friends and ended up watching the rehearsals for a fashion show later.   I don’t know what happened but we got stuck watching it.  Well, it was kinda worth the time for I got to see a lot of cute guys in one location.  Hahaha, I am referring to the male Bench models who will be joining the show later.  I also heard that those who will join the fashion show gets to keep the ward robe that they will wear later.  Damn, if that is true then I should have at least went to the audition.  Not that I am into Bench clothes but you know, it’s just like someone paid you to go walk in a mall.  You get what I mean?  It’s not like you got something free, but it’s like the easiest job that I got if I got in right?  hehehe… Funny, now that I come to think of it, I am not extraordinary after all.  Hahaha, just like everyone else, I’d model clothes even if all I get is clothes.  And I am into cute guys just like any other girl.  But I am relieved though, for if I still like cute guys then that means I am a girl.  Hahaha!!!