I have been listening to this Korean song that I got from my brother since February 2010 but I didn’t have the slightest idea about who sung it and its title.  I know it sounds lame but I did try to look for it on the web but since it’s in Korean, I was not able to find it.  Now, you all know that Super Junior came to Manila last week and it was only last April 4, when I was watching ASAP that I found out that they were the one’s who sung the song and more importantly, I now know the title of the song. 

And so like anything that I am curious about, I went out to the web and to look for articles that I can read about them when I stumbled upon a site that has the biography of the members of Super Junior.  Well, this is very common but what wasn’t was the line that the owner placed there.  Whoever owns the site said that he/she doesn’t care if he/she will get credit to the work that was done (thus, I am not putting the name of the site) or not but he/she is not permitting anyone to copy or get the information that he/she has on that site.  I was like, why then are you putting it online?  I guess this person does not realize that if you place it on the web, there is a possibility that people will copy them.  Not that I am not against it, but one shouldn’t stress oneself because of it.  Because the concept on the web is like the lives of the celebrities.  Once you are a celebrity, your life becomes public property. See, no matter how they try to keep things to themselves, people will always want to know and tell people about it.  It is not ethical, but this is the reality.  On the web, if we put it there, even our thoughts becomes public property.  People will read through it, comment on it and sometimes, take it as their own.  Not ethical but this is the reality.

Anyway, going back to the mysterious song that I have listened to for 2 months without knowing the title and who sang it, here’s a video of It’s You.  Again, I don’t understand or speak the Korean Language so don’t ask me what it means.  But you can definitely tell me what it is about.  My hunch is, this song is about love (it must be, otherwise, it wouldn’t be such a hit), a heart break perhaps?

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.

It was over a month since I sat infront of my laptop and went online.  And I realized I have missed doing a lot of things.  Well, who would want to sit in front of a computer when you already spent 12 hours of your day in front of a PC?  So when I get home, all I could do is sleep.  On weekends, I would rather go out of the house and spend sometime in the mall or go have dinner somewhere with some friends so that I could forget about work for a few hours. Have you ever had a time when you go to sleep all you could think about is work and when you wake up, the first thing that comes to mind is work?  Well, it’s been like that for sometime now that I would rather go out and spend my time away from my pc. 

But then, I realized, blogging is something that I could never do without.  And video streaming is a favorite pastime that I just couldn’t live without.  And so, here I am again.  In front of my computer, writing my thoughts down.  And honestly, I never felt this kind of calm feeling for a while now.

I went out with Weng last Saturday.  We had lunch at Sbarro.  She had baked zitti, a big serving of raspberry iced tea and a plate of fruit salad.  I had a slice of Grandma Sbarro pizza, which despite of the absence of meat, tasted really good.  Why shouldn’t be, when it had 2 of my favorite ingredients, cheese and tomatoes.  Hehehe…  But lunch was just secondary, the real reason why we met up was she wanted to give me some dried herbs that was sent to her by a friend.  Now, I have 3 additional ingredients in my pantry.  Hehehe… Thanks Weng!

Wow, that’s the longest so far. A lot of things are happening at work recently that all I do when I get home is SLEEP.  I would really feel drained each working day that I feel like I am half asleep on my way home.  Imagine, I even left my ATM card in the ATM machine 2 weeks ago!  This is my 4th transition wave so I shouldn’t be this drained and I shouldn’t be in this kind of stress. Well, yeah, I have some people on enhancement under me, but I just don’t know how that can be so different. They all have the same targets. Well, yeah the needs are different but if you come to think of it, all subordinates will have different needs, regardless if they are in transition or enhancement. Hmmm, I think what’s really stressing me out is, when you’re handling these kind of teams is you will not see the results right away. There might be some progression but since it’s not that significant the result is not noticeable. Now, that’s bad news for me for I am a person who always wants to see results. Well, yes, I am a very impatient person. My friends for the longest time knows this. I don’t like to wait for anyone. If you will be late, you will have to tell me so that I would know when to expect you or else, my mood will be at its worst. And so, not seeing results makes me worry so much that it drains all the energy out of me that by the end of the day, I can’t think of anything else but sleep.

But this situation is the reason why I am holding on.  Yes I am tired and I really miss going to sleep at night but I just can’t let this one go.   I guess, I want to see, how I can overcome this challenge and see if I can really pull this off.

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!!!

We have seen almost everything in the movies. Vampires, witches, gigolos and the list goes on. But I haven’t seen any movie on online casino. Is there any? I wonder how would the story go? In Ocean Eleven, George Clooney, Brad Pitt and the rest of the company robbed casinos in Las Vegas, so how would you rob an online gambling facility? I mean it’s not like there is a vault for the money that the operator would get for online casino gambling, right? Hmmm… Well, they can make something like the Hackers which starred Angelina Jolie where an employee from an oil company was stealing money from the said company which Angelina and the rest of the gang discovered when Joey Pardella which was played by Jesse Bradford, the novice of the group hacked into the company server and dowloaded a part of a garbage file. That part of the garbage file turned out to be a file that steals money from the company through salami slicing. Accoring to Wikipedia, salami slicing is a fraudulent practice of stealing money repeatedly in extremely small quantities, usually by taking advantage of rounding to the nearest cent (or other monetary unit) in financial transactions. It would be done by always rounding down, and putting the fractions of a cent into another account. The idea is to make the change small enough that any single transaction will go undetected. Hmmm, this might be a good idea for a movie, but this could be a drag right? I mean we’ve seen it in Hackers and I don’t think movie makes would buy the idea. Like, each company has their own security systems. Even the oil company in the movie has an IT group who even detected that someone hacked into the system and downloaed a file from the garbage bin. Imagine, it’s like the company hired security men to guard the trash of the company. So you could just imagine what kind of security measure these online casinos have. They can even detect if your card is fraudulent or not. So movie makers would definitely say no. Well, yeah, you can make anything possible in the movies, but making a movie like the Hackers again is definitely a movie that I wouldn’t want to see. If they want to make a movie on online casinos then it would definitely something different from the concept that I have. Hahaha, it would definitely be a bore.