How do you manage stress? Are you even aware that you are stressed out?
Few years back, I was a stressful person and I always look stressed out like the world has put all its burden in me. I would cry at night because I couldn't understand anymore the things around me. It was perhaps because I had so many questions in mind that I would like to get answered. Not necessarily by me, by any body else as well.
As years went by, I saw friends and people who were so relax as if they have no worries at all. Absolutely, they were worried, too, of many things just as I am. What differs them from me is our ways of perceiving life. Indeed, I realized a lot out of my own reflections. So, I changed.
I convinced myself that I am what I see, what I feel, what I think, what I speak, and what I act. I shifted paradigm and controlled my head to think only of good and better things. There maybe naughty events and aweful situations, I convinced myself to profit from all these things and find the better side of events and live happily. It's so funny that I even practiced some facial expressions and moods and made them my habits. Oftentimes, I was tempted to think absurdly, deeply, madly, but then, I moved fast to remind myself to switch off and think beautifully well; although there had been several circumstances that I couldn't really fake my mood that I cried and looked really mad.
Through it all, I realized that stress is a state of the mind. It moves voluntarily and therefore, is controllable. Hence, in order to manage stress, I must be aware of it and of the moment when i'm gearing to it. Statement to live by: I must never be enslaved by STRESS.
I used to think that not one online is safe and secured because of hackers who know the tricks and intricacies of information technology. I didn't know just how they would do it, although I was so sure that IT connoisseurs could access some parts of other computers' systems and attack them like theft, gangsters, and brutes. Not until I came to know EC-Council, I didn't realize that there is such a thing as Ethical Hacking". Ethical Hacking is changing or manipulating information righteously. This includes being conscious and sensitive to RIGHT from WRONG and GOOD from EVIL while ensuring information security from unauthorized access, modification, disclosure, manipulation, disruptions, destructions, intrusions, and the like. This means hacking for the purpose of securing CONFIDENTIALITY, INTEGRITY, and AVAILABILITY of information.
EC-Council offers live, online, and instructor-led trainings/courses on categories such as Security Fundamentals, Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing, Computer Forensics, Disaster Recovery, and Secure Programming. Enrolling, taking classes, and graduating from these courses will make one BECOME ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:Certified Ethical Hacker(C/EH)
Certified Security Analyst (E/CSA)
Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT)
Certified Disaster Recovery Professional (E/DRP)
Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator (C/HFI)
Certified Secure Programmer (E/CSP)
Network Security Administrator (E/NSA)
These are the highest paying jobs or positions in the field of IT. Companies invest on these individuals or Security Professionals to manage and mitigate the risks of getting into the convenient e-commerce, electronic convergence, and the worldwide web. With IT Security Professionals or Ethical Hackers, company information are assured of utmost confidentiality, integrity, security and protection because these people are so much exposed to hacking tools, technologies, methodologies, and its outcome; to various designs, softwares, programs, and infrastructures, including their development and/or life cycles.
Hence, get protected and secured through EC-Council products or enrol yourself and your staff and be a Certified Ethical Hacker.
I am so excited now. This afternoon I met my second degree cousin who works in the city government of Gingoog, Misamis Oriental. After a month of working for Project ELCEMM here, our ways finally met and fortunately, she is a nature lover like me. In fact, she has gone much farther than I had. The best thing she does that really interests me is her being a scuba diving teacher. woohh!! yeah! Of course, hindi ko na pinalampas ang opportunity, I grabbed it immediately by asking how may I avail of it and how much. She replied by saying depende sa heart (depends on how I feel). She told me that she has awesome and interesting photographs at her home. Interesting!!! She said she has four set of diving gears as well. What surprised and excited me a lot was when she said she will teach me for free! woohh yeah!! YES FOR FREE!!! FOR FREE!
I am too excited now that I cant wait to set some schedules with her and purchase my own set of gears after some few lessons from our meetings. I am excited to see photographs of myself around fishes, corals, and other aquatic lives. I asked her if she has seen a sting ray, she had! wooww!! Which means that I will have my own score with them in the near future as well, and might even see manta rays, underwater forests, and even flowers. Isn't it exciting right?
te, as we call her, came from a family of generous hearts. One activity I know of that they often do as a family is gift giving. Take note, they don't just do this during Christmas time. They give gifts whenever they are convicted to do so. In fact, when their place was hit by this year's great flood, where their stuffs just went to nowhere, they were still giving out gifts 
to their neighbors who were not so affected by the calamity. Amazing! By doing so, God has blessed them more and more. It was raining a little bit harder 7 hours ago, so I had the privilege to drive my bosses to their home locations. At first it was Kuya Joseph Labrador, the Project's Field Coordinator, who thought of taking a hitch by my brother's multicab (which I drive), but then he invited our Japanese boss, Mr. USUI Shunji, and Ms. Catherine Fonollera, the PPDO Consultant. I nearly said "NO" because I know I would be tensed driving with them in the car, however, saying so would be the most inappropriate of all responses and I think that would be too rude of me considering that it was raining, as I said, a little bit harder. Of course, I took the courage of driving for them and the privilege to bring them in their current addresses.
After having sent all of them, I felt glad with the opportunity and so happy with it. It was my first time to drive with a foreigner, a Japanese boss beside me, and 2 Filipino bosses at the back. I didn't quite understand the feeling while maneuvering the steering wheel, stepping on the pads, and changing gears. I don't even know why, yet, one thing for sure, I fixed my head on the road. hahahahah..
It's a rare opportunity and I don't even know when will it ever happen again. hehehe
This morning, as a team, we visited our Local Government Unit (LGU) counterparts in Gingoog City to discuss some significant schedules and initiatives to be considered for the Project on Enhancement of Local Governance and Community Empowerment in Microwatersheds in Misamis Oriental (Project ELCEMM). After the meeting, we wanted to print some documents and suddenly one of the counterparts complained about Windows Vista. While he was substantiating his problem, I realized that his problem is not really with this Operating System but the Office installed in it.
Desktop computers, which were provided by JICA (the project funder) to the counterparts are absolutely one of the latests and, expectedly, they are installed with the Microsoft Office 2007. Unfortunately, this office version is new to them that they got almost totally disoriented with the applications, specifically with Microsoft Word. Well, it wasn't my first time to hear this comment, but then I guess, they're simply not ready to it or perhaps not too well with the 2003 Office to get to the 2007 Office.
To address this common concern, Project ELCEMM is in the process of developing a training design, which aims to develop computer operation skills among project counterparts in LGUs.
While searching online, I happened to read an article entitled Getting to Know Microsoft Office 2007. This article is such a great help to me, who might be facilitating the incoming training, and to everyone else who are not quite acquainted yet with the latest Microsoft Office. Personally, this article has given me a better idea on how to explain the new applications in the simplest way. In this article, items are well explained, organized, and itemized. Instructions are very reader-friendly and can easily be followed. Examples and instructions are very specific, which I guess are comprehensible to the oldies and the newbies. Salient items include:
Take note that these features are common to Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. In other words, mastering these 11 features promote one as well to a higher level of acquaintance or orientation to these frequently used Office 2007 applications.
Aren't you familiar yet with the latest Office? Better follow this site's instruction. Absolutely, you will agree with me that the Microsoft Office 2007 is far better and more user friendly than the previous ones.
Looks primitive, but, that's reality. Although rice cookers and pressure cookers are quite widespread in the Philippines, still there are so much who depend on this huge kettle especially during fiestas, community meetings among other big events in barrios and still in most barangays.
Despite the laborious process of cooking in this stuff, still many would resort to it because it saves electricity or kerosene gas. A lot! One just have to have 3 big stones to form a tripod for the kettle to stand on, some wood as fuel, and then a lighter to initiate the fire and start cooking. That's too simple; but then if one doesn't know the composition of "fire", he will unfortunately be blowing and blowing all over again to keep the fire on.
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