DD Copyworks on a Saturday

As it's Saturday once again...I'll tell you where you would find me and my dear hubby. Here:

....dakilang tagapagbantay at tagapag-time in and time out ng mga addict DOTA, Gunbound, O2jam, Pangya, Counterstrike, Rose Online, Flyff, PristonTale, Freestyle, GTA, Ragnarok players at iba pa. Ganundin ang mga adik-adik sa Friendster at Youtube. At siyempre yung mga ibang kapitbahay dito sa Frisco na nagchecheck ng emails at mga chat adik sa Yahoo Messenger.

It's Saturday and it's DD Copyworks day!

It has already been about three years since my mom-in-law put up this business initially set-up as a copy and printing center in Don Antonio Heights, Quezon City. Some of the services included photocopying, risographing, blueprinting and other printing services. One year after, they moved out to a much accessible and more spacious office in Hillcrest Condominium along E. Rodriguez. The new office has 2 floors, the first floor of which was meant for the copying and printing services while the second floor was left bare and empty. This prompted Paul to set-up a computer rental shop to maximize the space grabbing the opportunity that there are few schools near the place with a Chinese school just fronting the place. The shop started with 8 PC's then 2 units were added later. Sales from both printing and computer services were doing good but not enough to keep up with the increasing costs of the business. (What do we expect from our ailing economy?)

A year and a half later, we decided to transfer the shop here at home in Frisco. Just last April, our garage was renovated, transferred the equipments so here we are...testing the ropes of holding a business at home. Fortunately, the pros seem to outweigh the cons and we just wish that sales performance do better here.

One, there are only few computer shops within the vicinity and the target market is pretty favorable as there are lots of into-online-games kids and youngsters here.

Two, costs are definitely minimized. No need to allot for rent and transportation expenses. Basically, monthly electricity and labor costs are the only expenses to worry about.
Three, business hours are extended. When Paul gets home from work, we replace my mom-in-law and kuya rhomy in manning the shop until 11 pm.

As this is a family business, we do have our schedule in manning the shop and Saturday is our shift to do so. So here I am and as I'm blogging now, I can't seem to organize my thoughts and contain my words kasi ang ingay dito!!!! Boys shouting as their Rakion characters try to outpower their enemies, tambays cheering and awed by an O2jam addict expertly banging on the keyboard keys, kids getting excited as they hit their Pangya golf balls, shrieking teammates as they coach one another and direct where should their characters go in the DOTA map...and us shouting as we time out users from whom we usually get "extend pa po ng 30 mins ate/kuya" replies. Relaxing, actually, but there are other things as much as I can try to avoid... the side services especially photocopying..hihi! Well, sloth aside, nag-iingat lang naman po of the harmful radiation effects. I'm trying to conceive po eh..kaya ayan I'm leaving those tasks to them while here I am timing out users, blogging and feasting on this:

Yes..it's Saturday and it's a tukneneng kwek-kwek day for me! hehe! Yum yum!
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At dahil sa Blog Jargon 101 post ni Jigs where my name was special mentioned (salamat bloggigolo Jigs), the blogwhore in me influenced my hubby to start a blog for DD Copyworks. It's on its "construction" page pa lang kaya not that complete pa. View it here.

By the way, it's Saturday din and today's the last day of voting for the Filipino Blog of the Week. So there..cast your last votes for me. This week may be my last time on the poll as I've been on the spotlight for two weeks in a row. So what are you waiting for? Submit your maipaul votes here and hopefully tomorrow, I get to display a new badge here. Thanks so much for those who've been voting for me...grabe! Love ko kayong lahat hehe!