The Philippines was hit again by a storm. This time it hit Metro Manila during the wee hours of the morning. I woke up at around 2:30AM this morning because of the sound of the tree branches that keeps on slamming on the neighbour’s roof. I couldn’t sleep since then as I was terrified because of the strong winds. I opened the TV and tried to find out how strong this typhoon was. Minutes later the TV went off, brownout! So I then tried to go back to sleep but still can’t sleep well. When 4:30AM came our aunt who was sleeping downstairs called me up and told me to move my car because she feels its not safe since my car was below our avocado tree. Some branches were already falling to the ground. So I went down and saw the damage so far… The wind was really strong. I finally was able to doze off minutes after I went back to my room, but woke up by 6AM. » Continue reading “Typhoon Santi”

Last Friday, my site was down. I found out about it as I tried to access my site the “Error establishing database connection” error showed up instead of my customized theme. My mood all throughout the day was sad because I wasn’t able to do a backup of my site (database, themes, plugins, posts & pages) I thought I’d be able to do a backup via MySQL but when I was at the MySQL control panel, I find out that the database is gone So I had nothing else left to do, I felt much more sad because of it. I didn’t know how I’d be able to get a hold of my database any more. Blog entries since August 2008 is gone forever.

Saturday came and I received a plurk message from my host. She told me that my site was back up, so I hurriedly searched for WordPress plugins that would help me back up my site. I found two plugins, downloaded and installed them and soon enough I have a backup of my site. Yay! Just in case my host decides to switch hosts then at least I don’t have to start from scratch in building my site.

In case you’re wondering, the plugins I installed are the following:

• Backup Content As Txt
• WordPress Backup (by BTE)

Note to self: Always do back ups. As much as possible do back ups weekly.

Two Saturdays ago my boyfriend was interviewed for a project of his friend’s friend. Since it was a Saturday, which is our day together I tagged along in meeting his friend and his friend’s friend I was with them during the interview and one of the questions was “What advice could you give to the graduating students?”

If I was asked my advice would be: “Experience is the best teacher.” I know it doesn’t sound like an advice but with my situation right now this is what/how I relate best with. It may sound so cliché, but I do believe that experience is the best teacher. Every time we wake up to a new morning also comes new experiences. And each experience(s) will make us a better person. We might not realize it but our everyday experiences made us to who we are and where we are right now. We’re growing up into the kind of person we want to be because of our everyday experiences.

Each experience(s), whether good or bad teaches us a lot of things. We learn from our bad experiences or past mistakes. Trials make us stronger, tougher and wiser. We realize that the easiest solutions may not always be the best. And this helps us to grow and if we are faced with another trial we would know how to handle them already. If we do the same mistakes again, then it just shows that we have not learned from those mistakes.

A person can know a lot of things, be obsessed in getting high grades, be a perfectionist but can’t pass the lessons in life or be a fool when it comes to dealing with his/her life. Life is not perfect; life is not about getting high grades. The best lessons are those not found in textbooks.

I followed her advice and switched to Ubuntu. I’ve had the CD for awhile now, but I was afraid to make the switch. I still have a lot of things to learn with this new OS. Being a newbie I accidentally deleted one panel/taskbar and panicked when I couldn’t see my running applications. Haha! Turns out I need to add the “Windows List” to my taskbar. That’s all fixed now

I need to read more information about Ubuntu. I’ll start by reading her blogs about Ubuntu I hope this is a start of a good relationship with this OS.

Too bad though I wasn’t able to do a backup of my Firefox bookmarks Oh well. It’s gone now, nothing I can do.

Thank God for the Internet, you can now research almost about anything in an instant. That is what I did when I received a text message from someone I didn’t know. This person is asking for my help to come here in Manila because apparently she/he has a job offer in San Miguel. I didn’t reply to him/her because I’m sure she/he won’t stop texting back and pleading for help. I knew right away that it was a scam. So I typed marie 21yo bacolod on Google’s search bar and found a lot of forums/blog posts about this text scam.

I’d like to share his/her text message:

Pued po b akong humingi ng 2long sa inyo? I’m marie, 21yo freshgrad po from Bacolod City. Ggawin ko po ang lahat ng kpalit na gusto nio, ma2lungan nyo lng po akong mkpunta sa mynila. My job hiring na po kc sna ako jan sa san mig-ortigas, syang po kc kung madissolve lng… im willing to take the risks ng kpalit na hhngin nio. Un nlng tlga pgasa ko na mkluwas kgd pra mhbol deadline ko po… my pic & supporting docs po ako sa http://www.mariebacolod.tk
-marie (+639276135127)

I visited her/his site and saw the “diploma” she/he posted. She/He graduated cum laude from University of St. La Salle. Wow! I don’t think a cum laude will be this desperate? Another thing, the blog/forum posts I found dated back to last year but this person who texted me today is still 21 years old and a fresh grad! *LOL*

How can people do things like this? Why don’t they do something useful from their time and not trying to scam other people. Why don’t she/he just look for an actual job instead of using her/his time in scamming others? I just hope no one falls for these kind of scams anymore, like what they always say “Walang manloloko kung walang magpapaloko.”