After 5 yrs of dating rhoy and almost 4 years of being married with him, i would have never imagined myself being on a date with someone else. I always see myself doing things and having fun with him, go out on a dinner, watch a movie, or just plain breeze walking. However, things changed, after 2 years six months and 16 days i never expected to be on a date with a younger male. Last night April 16, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. I found myself in a movie house sitting beside with a different person, i was not unfaithful to my dearest husband but things changed. There i realize i no longer commit to one person but to two. However, the level of love are both strong and yet different. As i carefully reached the popcorn close to him a blaze of joy came to me and amazed on how i could fall in-love and enjoy the moment with a whole different person aside from my husband. As the “Coke” commercial in the movie house started, the person beside me loudly spoke and said “Daddy’s juice!” then i came to my senses that the person i carried in my womb for nine whole months is now sitting beside me in a movie house. Tears of joy dropped to my eyes as i watch him innocently indulged with his Popcorn, fries and juice and said “tehn you Mamie!” :)! and that other person is our son, Gabby! “I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful, 100-percent!” “After all… a person is a person no matter how small they are” famous line from Dr. Seuss “Horton’s hears Who” , Gabby’s first Movie House trip! Treasure every minute of your time with your child! It’s worth it! Blessings to all!

Just got a Blackberry today from work. Normally, people will be happy if they got something from work especially free mobile, internet, sms and email. Not this time for me. I still think that getting a Blackberry is the worst thing that could ever happen to a SysAdmin. Why? Well, you are always connected to work. That’s why! Oh well, what can I do? Not much for now but to put it into good use. That, I did. In fact, I wrote this blog from my “Blue Blackberry”!

After saying goodbye to Napster & Kazaa, I pretty much figured that I would have to start buying CDs again. Here comes iTunes …

Although the concept of buying an mp3 from the internet’s been out for a while, it did not really caught up until the recent emergence of Apple’s iTunes services. To be honest, I was a little skeptical when it comes to buying stuffs online. Not to say that I have not bought anything online, I have. It’s just that I work on the IT business & I know how IT people work …

Last night was a different story for me. I purchased, for the very first time, an entire Jeremy Camp’s Restored album from iTunes. Wow! It was fast and easy. The only complaint I have is that I still have to give my credit card eventhough I opted to use a $20 iTunes Card that I bought from Bestbuy. The download was very fast. 12 songs only took less than 5 minutes to download. I also loved the “Burn” button on the iTunes interface. Bought the mp3s, clicked burn, and there it was, my own copy of the album! And I did all this from one application … bravo to iTunes.

But the real selling point for me is this. I went up to R.G. Mitchell the other day to look for CDs. I saw the same CD which is currently on sale for $16.99 + 15% tax. Not a bad deal for an album that has 12 songs and all of them are well worth the money. Well, I bought the entire album for $11.88 incl. tax. Now that’s what I call a good deal!

Anyhow, I still have $8.12 left in my card. Not sure how far it will get me … I’m sure not long!

It was a week of studying for me, and I thank God it’s over.

Monday-Wednesday - SUN LDAP Maintenance & Operations course.
Thursday - Studied for Brocade Certified Professional Exam.
Friday - Took the BCFP examination.

Although I did learn a lot of things from all those times studying, it was very tiring & emotionally draining. Add that to the fact that I have to drive through Hiway 401 in the middle of the rush hour both morning & afternoon for 3 days. In the end, I was rewarded with a new understanding of LDAP & dare I say, a certification. Wooh-hoo, I’m finally a certified professional.

For the first time in my professional carreer, I went against my belief. Believing (and still somewhat does) that “certification” is just a piece of paper. And has become over rated, thanks to all the MCSE. I took the cert exam, and I passed it. I am ashamed to admit to myself, I could have been wrong all this time. Having a certification is not all that bad. Being certified on something that you actually do, that is big. It is like telling your boss, I told you I deserve a raise. I’m serious, I really need a raise. A hefty one, if I may add.

After all that, I needed some R&R. And that’s what I did. Me & my wife stayed for 2 days in 1000 Islands, Gananoque, Ontario and I will be writting about it on my next post.

That’s it for me, waiting for this week to start anew …

Wowowieee! I just wrote my own templates …

for Gallery, which you can download here.
and also,
for Wordpress, which you can download here.

It’s a bit more challenging to play with Gallery as supposed to Wordpress, which is a breeze to customize. It is also much easier to integrate Wordpress into an existin site.

Anyways, that is just me.

If you want to know more about what I did, send me a quick email at blogger@odnalor.org

Have fun with your own … I sure did!