Well, I haven’t exeprienced it before so here are I am trying to catch up with my writing.  Same way as I try to catch up with my obligations at work.  Sheesh… Am already sleepy and yet I need to write another article.  To my fellow bloggers who kept on visiting my since last week, I really apologize for not visiting you back.  I was just so busy these days.  Promise, I will try to do better next month!  Take care!

Cerebral palsy is one of the most common brain disorder that I know of. Like most people, I have little understand of what cerebral palsy is. Reading about it, I guess that accounts to a lot of possible causes and different manifestations that one with little medical background like me could understand what it truly is and how it developed. Some people say it’s hereditary but according to some studies it’s not. Some say that it could be a result of medical malpractice for what the experts are saying that most people who has cerebral palsy is due to the death in very early pregnancy of an identical twin.* And some of the babies that develop CP during pregnancy are born prematurely and so some of their organs are not fully developed.* If some cases of cerebral palsy are truly the product of medical malpractice then parents of kids with cerebral palsy and they think that it is so, then I guess, these parents should consider talking to cerebral palsy lawyers for they are experts when it comes to the laws that protects the right of this patients and they also have resources that could truly identify if it was a natural occurrence or if it was caused by incompetence.

*Resource from www.wikipedia.org

I have been thinking about a lot of things lately and I have realized, I have been letting a lot of people down recently including myself.  I have realized that:

1. I don’t believe in myself that I can become the person that I want to be.  Which is a major down fall according to John Maxwell for the success and failure of oneself begins on how one sees himself/herself.

2. That I have been thinking highly of myself that I don’t see the flaws that I have.  I always say to myself that they just envy me for what I have. This actually hinders my development.

3. I set a very high expectations for myself that when things doesn’t go as planned, my world go crashing down.

4. That I have been lazy and just riding the waves that I fail to meet my deadlines.  Which can also be a cause to the failure of the team that I am handling.

5.  That I have been taking my job for granted that I fail to meet the epxectations of my boss.

6.  That I have spent more than what I am earning. 

7.  That at times, I can be so tackless that I say things (although they’re true) that hurt the feelings of other people. 

These are just a few of the things that came to my attention.  Things that I needed to resolve as soon as possible so as it will not do more damage to my being.

Sometimes, we really can’t avoid having debts.  I have heard a lot of people having a lot of debts and are unable to pay them.  But I think everybody who borrows money have the intention of paying them it’s just that at times, the financial situation of a person can get so bad that they miss out on their due dates.  I have experienced it as well so I can understand how these people feel.  Like duh, even big companies have debts and there are times that they too have difficulties paying them.  But I guess the difference between a big company and an oridnary individual is a big company can afford to hire financial experts who can give them advises on how to work on their debt.  Like how helpful will a debt consolidation be to the company.  Which debt companies offer the best deals when it comes to interest and policies that will help the company become debt free.  So what is debt consolidation?  It is actually a loan that you make to payoff many others.  Most of the time, poeple who would go for this kind of loan look for companies which offers a lower interest rate.  Like let us say you have to payoff a credit card, which can have a high interest rate if you don’t pay it off, you can opt to go to a lending company like a bank to get this kind of loan.  However, most of consolidating companies will ask for a collateral so one has to be very careful when getting loans like these for if you’re not tendencies are you will end up losing whatever collateral you gave to the bank.  So, always ask for opinion and carefully weigh each option to avoid ending up in more debts instead of paying them off.

Is A resto that my brother and I wanted to go to for a while now.  For no matter how I deny it, I do love pasta.  So we tried their sphagetti with meatballs and their salami pizza which didn’t impress me that much.  The pizza was kinda ordinary.  The crust was ordinary, it’s consistentcy was not like the crust of PIzza Hut or Shakey’s and the top crust was separated by air holes from the base ( guess the baker did not pierce it with a fork before baking it) the toppings are like the toppings that you can find in ordinary places, in short it was like Yummy’s pizza nothing too special.  The difference though was the cheese and the sauce which kinda tasted like straight from the can (meaning, it tasted as though there were no other ingredients added to it when they prepared it).  The meatballs on the other hand was tough and dry which gives an impression that it was a day old but the sphagetti as a whole was good.  I like the sauce for it is different but I would suggest they tamper with it a bit and not to depend on the sauce that they purchased off the shelf.  It kinda reminded me of one of the episodes in Restaurant Make Over in the Asian Food Channel where one of the restaurants that they did a make over had their sphagetti and pizza suace straight from the bottle.  They just re-heated it and then put it on top of the sphagetti, added some cheese and meatballs and whala!  Their sphagetti and meat balls!  But I guess I was just expecting too much for when I read their menu, it talked about herbs and I was not able to sense them when I tried the dish.  Anyhow, if I’ll rate what we had I’d probably rate it as a 5 out of 10 mainly because of the strawberry shake with a bit of chocolate was good (two of my favorite things together, what more can I ask for) and of the price that was cheaper comparing it to other establishments but still expensive if you will consider the taste of the food and the friendly service that we experienced.

I remember that tagline from an advert of Coke.  Yup, Christmas is fast approaching and I know a lot of people are thinking about what to get for who ever.  Personally, getting a gift for that one special person is kinda hard especially when you know that that person has almost everything and could afford almost everything.  And what makes it worse is finding the right gift for the right occasion, right?  And so when I was bloghopping and run into an article about gift baskets written by one of my fellow blogger it dawned on me that giving out a basket of goodies is indeed a great idea.  Because everybody loves food!  All you have to know is what that person loves to eat, buy them and put them together in a basket and viola!  And food is so versatile so you can give it out no matter what the occasion is.  Just make sure though that whatever you put in the basket does not spoil right away so that the person who receives it can enjoy it whenever he or she decides to eat it.

October 27th, the day I finally came to world and started to explore it’s beauty.  And since it was me birthday, my team and I went to Jollibee to have a team breakfast.  We had cheeseburger and some fries and they gave me two kinds of cakes.  One was a cherry flavored cake (and I thought that it was a strawberry flavore cake) and the other is a chocolate cake (the cherry flavored cake is a was because I ate it yesterday and it was delicious hehehe).  Then I went home, fell asleep until 12 noon for Weng woke me up asking if we will push through with the plan to eat out for lunch.  And so I called up Kriste told him to meet us at Ayala (since he promised to treat us for his birthday a couple of days ago), texted Aisah then I prepared to go to church then went to Ayala to meet up with them.  After the late lunch, I met up with my brother and we went to Sphagetti factory (which I will write about in my upcoming articles) before he went to work.  After that, I went home and slept.  Another year passed and got another one to work on to make it wortwhile.

I guess no matter how other people would say about how impractical it is to buy a house of your own, I will still prefer having one of my own.  However, for the “financially challenged” people (as what my friend Penni would put it) like me it will be very difficult to get one for buying a real estate property can be very expensive nowadays especially if you want to buy one in big cities like Cebu.  Good thing though, that there are a lot of banks and government agencies who offer mortgage loans to those individuals who dream of having a house of their own.  But it can be a bit difficult to get mortgage loans especially if you do not have a property to put as a collateral for the loan and if your income does not reach their requirements.  And it will even be a lot harder if you have a bad credit line which can be the same if you will seek refinance with bad credit history to refinance your mortgage loan.  But do not despair though for there are companies out there who offers bad credit mortgage refinance services to help out those people who are worth another try.  Although, personally, I would prefer that one should have a spotless credit record so that it will be a lot easier for you when you apply for any loans in the future.

I presented my report yesterday during our skip level and boy, it was not an easy one I tell you.  It was so hard for me in fact that I ended up with tears in my eyes.  Not that my performance was bad or my managers were mean but it was the feeling of being overwhelmed with the experience and the realization how inexperienced I am when it comes to these things.  And what made it worst was when I go teary eyed it would lead to crying.  After my presentation I really wanted to go to the washroom and compose myself but I was not able to hold it back long enough to even go beyond my seat.  The tears just went falling down my face  and I sat down on my chair I started crying with everyone in the room.  It was a bit embarrassing but it was a relieving experience for I was able to put the feelings out in the open.  And I felt a lot better for  everyone was really going around and tried to make me feel better even my boss.  I never wanted it to happen but I guess with all the things that completely came to light I so overwhelmed with it.  It didn’t really go the way I wanted it to be even if I was all green with my team’s metrics but I came to realize a lot of things.  That there’s nothing wrong in reaching out to your peers and ask for their help.  That yes, it’s good to be able to do things on your own (like I have always done) but it will be a lot better to be able to work with other people.  And the first step to do so was to let go of whatever reservations I have with the people around me.  What happened yesterday was humilitating for me but you know, now that I come to think of it, made me more mature and changed the way I look at my job and the people that I work with.  It made me more mature and more confident that I will be able to do my job better moving forward.