Online Masteral Degree.

One of my long term goals and aspirations is to earn a post-graduate degree preferably in line with Business Administration to augment the Bachelor’s Degree I earned from UST. Although, we also have universities in the city offering good quality of higher education, I am aspiring to acquire a post graduate from a US university. Actually, I need not go to US to fulfill this since there are accredited online universities that I can enroll with.

One of my options is the Capella University which is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (CA). Its headquarters is located in Minneapolis, MN. Capella University has been offering uncompromising quality education for years through its bachelor’s, masteral and doctoral degree programs. With their advanced and cutting-edge higher education online, they are providing even more unique opportunities and high caliber academic excellence to aspiring students worldwide. The online university currently serves more than 17,900 students across US and 56 other countries.

I further browsed their site and my attention was caught with a book that was co-authored by one of the faculty member of Capella University, Sara Orem, PhD. The book is entitled Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process For Change. This book is ideal for individual coaches of managers and executives who influences and create change in their organizations. This book uses guide questions and tools to acknowledge the strengths and of every individual that consequently effect and cause change.

Right now, I’m still saving up for this higher education aspirations of mine. I know in the future and somehow, this will be realized.

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Bye-bye Desktop.

The desktop at home (Makati) has been conking for months already. Paul has exhausted all means testing what could’ve the culprit been for its frenziedly auto-shut downs while in the midst of surfing or gaming. We even bought a new power supply and a brand new memory but to no avail, the problem was not resolved. Since Paul has 10 PC’s in the shop, he also even tried mixing-and-matching the parts like memories and video cards. He also tried and made use of the Windows Service Packs to repair and reformatted for several times but perhaps, the PC is “terminally-ill” and wishing to retire soon. After all, we’ve been using this for years already and I recall that my Feasibility (thesis) is still stored here so that makes it running for more than four years already!

So that’s it, we don’t have an option but replace it with a new set. We need to have this up soon since my stepmom will also be coming home next weekend from Saudi and being the chat addict that she is, I’m sure she’ll be frantic if we won’t be able to resolve this. Besides, my little bro has been nagging that this have to must be repaired/replaced for him to play and satisfy his obsession with DOTA.

At one point, this makes me feel blessed since I have this notebook to fulfill my blogging and digiscrapping pursuits. Hehe! But at any rate, for them to stop irking, we’ll be buying a complete set from Rsun on Tuesday. We figured buying this set (excluding monitor) will be cheaper than having the parts bought individually.

On Break-ups.

One of my best buds just recently split-up with her boyfriend. At one point, I felt relieved that she finally had the courage to dump him. Let’s just say he doesn’t deserve the love and attention that my friend has given him. But then, in as much as I’m appeased with my friend’s realization, I know she was deeply hurt to come up with that decision.

Surviving a breakup is never an easy ordeal. Although, I have had a couple in the past prior meeting the man of my dreams, the impact was not that hard and difficult for me; probably because those two relationships were short-lived and therefore, not much love and dedication were invested yet. Nevertheless, breaking up is still a struggle. It takes time to heal wounds and thousand folds of support from families and friends is necessary for the healing process to begin and eventually, move on. But before anything else, help must come from the brokenhearted person himself/herself. I don’t want to sound like Dr. Love here so might as well head on to this romance website where I found helpful steps in overcoming and outlasting painful break-ups.

For my dearest friend, Cathy, I just hope she can hang on and remember that she will always be loved by many and that there are greater blessings that she should be thankful for. It’s not the end of the world and I’m sure she’ll meet the right guy in God's perfect time who will truly love her.

ABC Tagged!

I've got tagged by Caryl and here's my take:

A - Available/single or taken: Married for 1 yr and 4 months
B - Best friend: my husband, my 2 sisters and my colleague, Joy.
C - Cake or pie: hmmm…both!
D - Drink of choice: Just water and cranberry juice. I’m not allowed to drink softdrinks, iced tea, coffee, milk, chocolate, acidic fruit juices – hmm see I’ve got no choice.
E - Essential item you use everyday: my laptop, cellphone
F - Favorite color: purple, blue and yellow
G - Gummy bears or worms: gummy bears
H - Hometown: I was born in San Mateo, Isabela but grew up in Makati City
I – Indulgence: on foods: ice cream, pastas, street foods (hehe) other: digiscrapping
J - January or February: January (it’s the start of the year!)
K - Kids & names: none yet..we’re still trying. :)
L - Life is incomplete without? God, Paul, family, friends
M - Marriage date: December 17, 2005
N - Number of siblings: 3 (2 sisters and 1 bro)
O - Oranges or apples: apples
P - Phobias or fears: ghosts and rats
Q - Fave quote: “Carpe Diem”
R - Reason to smile: a blessed and happy life with loving husband, family and friends
S - Season: summer
T - Tag 5 people: Andrea, Bebe, Yen, Tin, Cherry Rose
U - Unknown fact about me: I’m a sleepyhead
V- Vegetable you don’t like: labanos and ampalaya
W - Worst habit: I sometimes sleep for about 12 hours long
X - Xrays you've had: I think twice for pre-employment med examinations and once when I had an IVP (to check presence of kidney stones)
Y - Your fave foods: KFC chicken, California maki, Chef D’ Angelo Sampler 1, Aveneto’s Oil and Garlic Pasta Special, ice cream, squid balls, tukneneng and kwek-kwek, footlong sandwich and Dunkin Donuts’ Boston Cream
Z - Zodiac sign: Pisces

Phone For Less.

I have a US-based friend who was raving lately about her so-called VOIP phone serviced by Vonage. Curious of what it is like and what difference it has with that of a regular phone line, I searched the web and found this: Vonage VOIP Forum site where informative and helpful news, reviews and discussions about Vonage VOIP phone service are elaborated and talked about.

For the benefit of those who are clueless about VOIP phones, it is simply defined as a means or tool for making telephone calls over the internet. But as Vonage tags it, it’s a “better way to phone for less”.

Through the forum, I’ve learned the following advantages of Vonage VOIP phone service:
1. cheaper rates compared to land line service providers especially for long distance calls (For as low as 1 cent per minute for international calls and even unlimited long distance calls to anywhere in US, Canada and some part of Europe)
2. area code selection and call forwarding/transfer– example: you can have your Toronto VOIP local number routed to your Vancouver local number.
3. added features at no extra cost such as voicemail, 3-way calling, call waiting, call forwarding, 911 dialing, caller id, etc.

No wonder my friend went gaga over this thing. Should you need more information, go ahead and scour the various site sections of Vonage VOIP Forum for FAQs, Reviews, News, Press Releases, Sign Up Info and many more. All you need to know is in there. If you have questions and would like to post on the forum, you will need to take a minute and register. Further, you might want also to take advantage of Vonage’s Sign Up Promotion where a FREE month of service and a free adapter await you.