In the past, you've had to contact me to set your own custom domain. This is no longer the case - I've added a new page in the control panel (Settings > Set Custom Domain) which lets you set your own domain name. I've updated the documentation page with instructions on how to set-up your Tabulas to use a domain name.
Posted by tabulas at 10:35 PM in General News | 1 comments
recently had my hair upgraded.
ang mahal ah.
in a way nagsisi
ako kasi dami nagsabi
i can do it and have the same result but for minimal price.
oh well too late for that..
yung buhok ko may mahabang bangs dati
at since nagpastraight ako..
kinda natatakpan niya ang mga mata ko
as per guidelines..
(yes may guidelines pong binibigay ang going straight)
bawal i-clip or iheadband ang hair
bawal ilagay sa likod ng ears.
kaya ginupitan ko sarili ko ng bangs.
matagal ko din namn pinangarap magmala-super model look ang hair ko
(for me super models have super straight hair with bangs)
dati lagi akong binabara ng mga parlorista
pag sinabi ko puwede pong may bangs tulad nun
sabay turo kay tyra banks
sasabihin nila
"pang straight hair lang po siya"
puwes ngayon..puwede na!
kaso nung makita ko sarili ko sa salamin.
naalala ko yung buhok ko nung grade 5 pako.
parang ganun. ang weird.
parang bumalik ako sa kabataan.
sabi nga ng kapatid ko parang grade 5 lang.
at least i dont look like im 27 yrs old.
Posted by supervane at 02:21 PM | 12 comments
Ok kids, here's a little headsup for everyone. I work Retail. It is probably my number one calling in life. I'm good at it. It makes me happy over all. I enjoy my work and i don't have to take it home with me at the end of the day. So.
To All You Dear Consumers;
The "holiday season" is upon us once again. As a retail associate, I understand that - for most of us here in the western hemisphere - and many who are elsewhere - this is prime shopping time. It's time for us to all go out and start buying things to give to family, friends, and people we hardly know because a few thousand years ago, a baby was born and we like to think about it sometimes. (Not to closely, understand, because the religious undertones could upset our consumer-based ideas of the holiday, but you know...)
Now, take a moment to stop and think about the last time you went into a store, be it clothing, grocery, or entertainment (electronic, games, toys, etc) based. Were the shelves neat? Could you find what you were looking for? Was there someone available to help you find that special something?
Now think about how you behaved while you were there. Did you leave the things that you touched where you found them or did you just casually drop them wherever was convenient for you? Did you brush off the associate who tried to help you because you knew what you were there for, and you didn't want to bother being polite to a complete stranger? Did you thank your checkout clerk when they rang you out? Did you organize your coupons and discounts, reading all the fine print so that when you did get to your turn at the checkout you knew exactly what discounts you had and were all set to go? Were you polite to the other shoppers? Did you push them out of your way because you finally found that "special something" and they were between you and it?
I do not mean to offend, and certainly hope that none of the more unpleasent scenarios there are true. However, working in multipule retail establishments, I've seen several of them happen on more than one occasion. So i know there are people out there who behave this way.
What i feel i must stress is this: If you cannot find something, if you feel you are being ignored by an associate, if you feel that the store is messy, PLEASE do not blame the associate. If the store is messy, it is because someone has just come through and messed it up and the associates have not yet had a chance to clean up after them. If it looks like the associate is ignoring you, it is much more likely the the associate is trying to clean up the trashed mess the last person left, and not intetionally slighting you. If you ask politely for some help, they will most likely be delighted to stop cleaning like an under-paid maid and walk all over the store with you looking for your "special something".
And just because you cannot combine coupons does not give you the right to throw a hissy fit. If you read your coupons when you recieve them, you will know what you can and cannot use on them. Every coupon I've ever rung through as a cashier has been carefully detailed on the back exactly what it is applicable to, and what is excluded. Do not wait in line for 20 minutes, get to the register, and then get mad at the cashier because you couldn't be bothered to actually read your coupon. It is not our fault. We will do our best to help you, but we are not your mothers or your maids. When we have to stay an hour or two hours after our store closes to clean up after you because you just dropped stuff where you were standing instead of walking the three feet to put it back on the shelf where you got it, when we have five customers in a row try to use the same coupon on the same gift set, even tho they can all see that we won't let the customer ahead of them use that coupon on that gift set, when we try our best to be helpful, energetic and supportive and are told repeatedly throughout the day that our store is horrible and that the customer can't find anything and that we were useless and didn't help at all... Believe me it does not inspire us to continue in this line of work.
Also, even tho you may have the weekend off, remember someone else does not. For many of us who work in retail, our weekends are more often monday's and tuesday's because those are the days when people do not stampede into our store, throw merchandise around and yell at us. Those are the days when we can come into work, straighten a few crooked items, and work on making sure our store is pretty.
Please remember your retail associates as you shop this holiday season. We do our best for you, and we appreciate the kindness of a "thank you" as you leave our store. Thank you for stopping and shopping with us, wherever we may be.
Posted by MND169 at 05:37 AM | 2 comments
Well, I usually use my tabby for a variety of things. Sometimes, I bitch. Other times, I narrate, explain, philosophize, opine or just generally shoot the breeze. This post will be several of these things all at once.
Just had a meeting with my advisor, my apparent ethical writing sample might be too way of base. Some serious work on revising is in order and I'd only have a month to make the substantive changes to meet application deadlines. Rewriting my proposal for ethics based PhDs may be too far fetched to do at this point. I may just have to make applications to programs where I excel rather than areas of equal interest. The moral philosopher in me is frustrated while the Continental philosopher rejoices at the constraint imposed by life and by my own agency.
I produced my ethics writing sample in August where I graduated, wrote two seminar papers, taught a full-load, marked a full-load and prepared a Masters defense. It was a shitty month. I'll never "do that again."
This term, I am an External Teaching Assistant, and I have 81 students. By Friday of next week, I will have all these undergrad rugrats turn in 5 page papers. Grading a 5 page paper takes about a half-hour (usually). I will have 2 weeks to do that.
Also, I work part-time at Starbucks.
Ashley is doing good. She's surviving Starbucks and we have recently been very, very, very attracted to Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Keep your fingers crossed on that one.
That's about it. Oh yeah, we got an awesomely moderate liberal President handed a country in ruin while Republicans deny large systemic responsibly for the state of things. Here's two views on Obama's Presidency that are not so friendly to the idea of Obama. Butler is a renowned gender theorist, and Critchley is a professor whose work in Continental philosophy I very much respect. By and large, our prospects for a somewhat lefter President are diminishing as his more "centrist" motives are being realized.
Judith Butler
Posted by LordMystick at 10:23 PM | Add a Comment
I'm very happy after knowing that I got accepted on my VIP (Volunteer Internship Program)
application with Information Systems Software Quality Assurance Team. Actually, I can't put
into words how much happiness I felt inside. I feel like bursting into tears i guess or laughter
maybe.. whatever.. basta, all I know is that I'm excited with this..
I've had my interview last November 4, Tuesday, 5pm. I actually went home from shift, 8am
and went back on the said call time, 5pm. I actually would like to request the call time to be
earlier than said. But, it occurs to me that, it's just fine since PeopleSupport is just a ride
from home. And also, I don't want to have a premadonna impression from them. So, I look
for the interviewer. I'm pretty nervous but I didn't let that feeling affect my
stand. Mark was pretty cool during the interview. I wasn't intimidated by him. He was like my
previous boss when he interviewed me. We're conversing like were friends or something. I
like this type of interview. The goal is more of objective not subjective. I find it mature type
of interview.
During the interview:
Interviewer: <looking at my VIP application form and scanning my CV> Upon reading your VIP
application form, It seems that you would not fit the position. Reading through your expectations,
like telephony, networking, it seems that you are more interested in that field. Having it read,
would you still be pursuing your VIP application with us?
Me: So, you mean to say, IT department is not open for VIP applicants? May I know the
nature of your department?
Interviewer: Yes. IT department is not open for VIP as of the moment. Our department is IS
Software Quality Assurance under IS RND Team. We deal with testing Softwares, its
functionality and the likes.
Me: Do you require any experience with programming languages? Because I don't have
any programming knowledge.
Interviewer: Not necessarily. You mean, you don't have any basic knowledge about C, C++
and the likes?
Me: No. Only html. I self studied.
Interviewer: Well, that's fine. At least you have the logic because that matters.
Me: <laughs>
Interviewer: So, would you still be pursuing your VIP application with us?
Me: Yes.
Interviewer: Why?
Me: Because I wanna learn.
Interviewer: That's an impressive answer.
Me: <smiles>
Interviewer: So, tell me more about the nature of your job with Emerson. Don't you know
that Emerson is a big company and they actually bought Sykes now. And I'm telling
you, you are an ECE board passer right? so If you actually applied there, and you
are an Engineer, your salary is way too high compare to your salary here. <smile>. Well,
I'm not telling you to apply there but I'm just giving you the options you have outside
PS. <smiles> Plus, you will not take calls but basically you're considered as an Engineer.
Me: <smiles> Yes. I'm aware of that. My previous company is formerly known as Astec Power
Inc., and recently Emerson completely bought the company and change its name to Emerson
Network Power.
Interviewer: Can you tell me the nature of your work with Emerson?
Me: Well, I'm a Quality Initiatives Cadet Engineer. I belong to the Quality Initiatives group
that handle projects for company's improvement. The group has so many projects, and it so
happened that I was given the opportunity to handle one of its project, Auto - PFMEA (Process
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) Software. I'm not the developer of the software. I just coordinate
the project within Cavite and China sites. We have a programmer. I dealt with Managers and Engineers.
Interviewer:So, why did you leave your previous job. It seems like you have very nice
experience there. You're like a Project Manager right? Why are you here?
Me: I knew you gonna ask me that question. <laughs> I knew it. Yes, my previous
company gave me very good experience. But, to be honest, I want to look for opportunities
in Manila. Coz, my work is provincial based so, the salary is way to low compared to what is
being offered here in Manila.
Interviewer: Yeah, practically speaking.
Me: Yeah. <smiles>
Interviewer: So, this is how I interview. Relax. It's suppose to be my boss interviewing
you guys but I said, let me handle it coz i don't want the applicants to be
intimidated by our boss that's why I conducted all the interview here in our team.
Me: <laughs> Yeah. Pretty cool huh.
Interviewer: So, tell me anything you want. Anything under the sun.
Me: <laughs> What do you want to know? I don't know what to say.
Interviewer: Hmm.. I need to ask you something.
Me: <laughs> Come on, ask me anything.. Come on..
Interviewer: How will you test for example the functionality of Google Web site?
I think for a few seconds, then I answered,
Me: Do i know that Google is a search engine site initially when it was first laid to me?
Interviewer: Yes.
Me: Hmm.. First off, I would think of a credible Web site which has meta tags and
keywords already submitted to the search engine sites. Then, I would test Google by
typing in one of the keywords, if the site is searchable, that means Google functions
properly.
Interviewer: Good. But, what else do you need to check on?
Me: Hmm.. I need to click on the searched site and make sure it's pulling up?
Interviewer: ok. But, there's one thing you also need to check on. You also need to check on
the alternative path. Meaning, you also need to check the error mode.
Me: I see. Interesting.
Interviewer: So, I'm pretty impressed with your interest to learn. To be honest, we have 5 aspiring
applicants and that includes you. However, as much as I want to accept all of you guys, but
we only need two. So, goodluck and I hope you'll be accepted.
Me: No problem. Thank you.
So, there goes the interview.. that's how I remembered it all.. hehehehe..
It's nice to know that our company has this kind of program, VIP thingy, which would
serve as a window for greener pastures if you are looking for a career other than being
a call center agent. I'm more than eager to take this opportunity. I felt like it would be
my stepping stone to achieve my goals. Finally.
I won't have any additional pay for taking this internship. It's not what I'm after for.
Really. I'm more than interested in the knowledge and the skills that I will be gaining
during the internship period. Of course, I would stay in office more than I usually do.
Say, two hours more. It could be before my shift or after my shift. It depends on the
schedule they will be providing. I'll have my orientation on November 12. I'm really excited.
I thank God for answering my prayers. Thanks.
Posted by qtanne at 09:36 PM | 15 comments
