The transition from engineer to an IT professional

First and foremost, I'm glad to be back blogging despite being busy as a family man and also transitioning myself into a full fledged information technologist soon. 

The personal transition from an engineer to information technologist basically was a smooth one since most of my mathematics subjects where basically the same with the only difference is Discrete Mathematics.

My foundation as an engineer center around the use of applied mathematics (meaning math was used for purpose of solving real world problems like in physics or in.. engineering). In information technology, the foundation is mostly focused on programming and some electronics which I can say is closely related. The math is mostly focused on logical analysis.

Despite the difference, I felt that I was having some review of the mathematics that I have learn through the years which is refreshing. 

Back from a Long Haitus

It's been a while since I posted an updated on this blog. I can blame this on how hectic my work is. Being an SEO specialist is so demanding at times, I'm burned out when I arrive home. Good thing for vacation leaves.

While I am in my blog hiatus, I have been immersing myself on listening to several podcast show. Entertainment podcast like Good Times With Mo: The Podcast, That Show,  and a podcast about IT outsourcers called The Call Center Show. Aside from these entertainment podcast, I am also into sports talk shows mostly form 101 ESPN. Show like The Kevin Wheeler Show, The Turn and my personal favorite, The Fast Lane. Aside from these show from the St. Louis areas, Football related podcast like The Ross Tucker Football podcast, RamsAddiction Podcast and ESPN Football Today podcast.

Aside from listening to these podcast show, I'll have been blogging on my Rams football blog called GridIron Rams.

Time to Reflect

It's been a while since I posted an update on my personal blog and good thing it's Holy Week which gave me some time to ponder and do some spiritual reflections. Clearing my mind from burdens of work and other things. 

We all need the time for some spiritual reflection as this is the day that the Lord Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself for our sins. 

May everyone has a safe Holy Week.

Traditional Art Not Yet Dead

Digital Art has been the "in" thing nowadays since the dawning of the iPads and the full implementation of the internet. Most people will use computers to express their creative arts and traditional arts are practically "dead". Well I beg to differ since not all arts can be adapted in the digital world and also there's always a sense of "creative high" when you do your creations on paper or canvass or whatever traditional medium. 

This I realize when I enrolled my daughter last summer in Arts and Crafts class and boy I was impressed how my daughter can create great paintings and drawings. The teacher told me that she has some creative potential and she suggested that she can enhance more creative skills if we do some more creative designs at home. Upon hearing that I immediately search affordable art supplies online since I want the best tools for my daughter's creative growth

Summer is almost Done

It's been a while since a posted an update on this personal blog of mine because of several factors. One of those is my new blogging project entitled Fictional Books blog which is a fantasy / science fiction book review site as well for digital reading tips. I usually post my review after reading an e-book or listening to an audiobook. 

Aside from my e-book reading and reviewing, I have been busy helping my daughter with Arts and Crafts summer class. I am proud to say that she has the creative skills for a four-year old even her teacher was impressed.

 

"Experience Life Now" - a Davao in a Minute Video

Our company joined the "Davao In A Minute" video entry entitled "Experience Life Now" and we would like to share the link to the video.  To all my avid readers please do LIKE the video

Changes

It been a very long time since a posted an updated here because a lot has change since the second half of the year. I have moved on from the company that I have worked for over 4 years into a new "family" and although on this new "family" I am in, there are some of my old friends from the old company that are also working in this new "family" of mine. Although my work here is basically not the same as my last work, I still do teaching on weekends since teaching Web Designing and SEO is now part of my professional endeavors. 

Although changes are cumbersome yet these will benefit me in the long run as my life has became routinary and boring and change is very much a welcome event.  

Teaching the foundation of the internet: HTML and CSS

For over five years, the internet has become a part of our daily lives technology moves in to the world of the information technology. With businesses going to the internet to market their products or to render service online, more and more people are more likely to learn the very foundation of the Internet Web pages which the languages called HTML and CSS.  

For the past several years, I had been teaching these very foundations to new applicants of my previous employer and now as a part of a more open teaching environment as part of one of the best graphic design studios here in Davao City. HTML and CSS is no longer exclusive to those who are into computer science or Information Technologies (IT) people, it is for everyone WHO wants to learn about the said technology.

Happy Halloween to Everyone

It's another year of celebrating the Halloween festivities as people where their most ghoulish and scariest costumes and/or makeup just to keep up with the festivities. Halloween is the preceeded with All Saint's Day on the the very first day of November to pay tribute to our dearly departed love ones. As always I visited my grandparent's grave to pay tribute and will visit them again to commemorate my grandfather's death anniversary on November 3. 

My Daughter First Birthday Celebration at School

Last Thursday, My daughter turn 4 and it was decided to celebrate her birthday at school together with a McDonald's kiddie party with her nursery classmates. The kids had fun as we had some parlor games and some prizes to the delight of the kids.

Aside from games and prizes, the her classmates also did a special dance number as a tribute to her birthday.

New blogging project: Fictional Books blog

I admit that I have been neglecting my blogging since I got busy at work but recently I got some free time and has revisited one of my old passion which was reading some fictional books. The first book I read was "City of Glass" the first of three of the book series entitled "Mortal Instruments" by renowned author Cassandra Clare. The story of the book series revolves around the supernatural (demons, werewolves, vampires and the Nephilims aka half human-half angels).  

With the renewed passion of reading fictional books (technically I am reading these books in e-book formats using my portable devices for convenience). I decided to create a blog called Fictional Books Blog to which I will blogging my opinions and reviews about each books that I read. I already posted my first book review about City of Bones. Aside from the Mortal Instrument Series, I already have lineup the books that I will be reading soon, which includes Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games Series and George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series and other great titles. 

My daughter is in school now

It's the month of June and as it's the start of the new school year but for my daughter, it's her very first time to be in school and as a parent I was excited that she was also excited to be in school. As usual we had some first time jitters and some "separation anxiety" which is normal for every parent.

As my daughter entered the classroom, she was a bit anxious but later she mingled with the other kids which was a relief. I didn't stay for long as I it was my time to go to work. Later my wife told me later at night that my daughter had a great time as she was very participative. My wife took some pictures and some videos to which made my day. I just wanna say that I am a very proud parent to my daughter. 

Let the Summer Begin in April

Now April is here and as of this writing the "April Fools Day" has also passed a was fortunate not to receive some pranks but the real essence of the Month of April is the Summer "vibe". Since school year mostly ended around the 3rd week of March, most of these students has now passed the college test and enter the REAL world (which is evident of the increase workload of our HR officer and my workload as a training and development officer). For some of you might wonder, where am I last March? To tell you honestly I've been busy doing weekend workshops to some of our existing agents as a part of our skills enhancement and retention program (which most company do to stay competitive) and even though it's April, daily work will still continue (except on the third week which is Holy Week and we expecting a much lesser workload by that time).

Work aside, I have updating my social media presence via Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and my latest craze GetGlue and Instagram since these services can now be enjoyed on a portable capacity via my smartphone, and other gadgets. Blogging took some neglect on my part but I always remind myself to write a blog post when I have the ample time and inspiration to write. As of this writing I have made some updates on some of my blogs and I would like to list the latest posts:

• Relic Hunting (Simply Entertainment Blog)
• Emily Prentiss does a "Horatio Caine" (Crime Scene TV)
• Anthrax and Death Angel to perform on Pulp Summer Slam 11: Resurrection (Rock Music Buzz)
• St. Louis Rams Mockdraft:  (Grid Iron Rams -  American Football)
• 10 Great Ways to Make Money via Podcasting (Money and SEO)
• Canon T3i Review (iCNSQ Tech blog)
• 10 Usability Principles to Guide you through your Web Design Maze (Cnsqonline Blog)

That would be list for now but there will be more updates to come.

Listening to Podcast has become a hobby

Listening to podcasts has been my latest hobby as listening to conversations are now more entertaining than listening to some songs from my playlist (although I still listen to some songs on occasion).

By definition: A podcast (or non-streamed webcast) is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication. The word usurped webcast in common vernacular, the word podcast is made famous from iPod due to rising popularity and the innovation of web feeds but it can be also played on some other portable media devices as long as the format is supported.

In other words it's basically a non-streaming "radio show" which is good because you can listen to the shows anytime you want at your own convenience.

Most of the time I have been listening to a couple of shows which are: Appslappy, a weekly podcast dedicated to users of the Apple App Store; Filmsack a weekly podcast on which the hosts ( four of them actually) picks a movie and the host will give their best (or worst) criticism about the selected movie; and of course Good Times with MO which is hosted by DJ Mo Twister of Magic89.9 and my latest is the SEO 101 Podcast which is a podcast about Search Engine Optimization as explained by the experts. I recently wrote a blog post about SEO 101 on my Money and SEO blog elaborating the advantage of listening to the show for SEO enthusiasts.

Araw ng Davao is fast approaching

I will suspend my 3-part Iloilo trip story for short  blog post about the incoming summer festivities to which it will be hi-lighted by the Araw ng Davao celebration on the 16th of March. Unfortunately for me this comes on a Wednesday which is still a work day for me (which I was hoping to do my very first Araw ng Davao shoot, unless our office declares a non-working holiday too). This will also be the time of the year that a lot of schools will be ending the school year which mean a lot of college graduates will be entering their professional lives soon. 

Sunday Afternoon Blog: The Caffe Firenzo Damosa

Sunday afternoon blogging on a relaxing place is always a good treat. This week, we tried having some relaxing time at Caffe Firenzo at Damosa IT Park. As what I have mentioned on my blog post, the place was much better than their Quirino branch because of obviously good parking space and the spacious area of the place itself.

My wife also had fun with her Instagram as we took some pictures of the place and of the food so that we could share it for every to know the place.

Back at Bigby's for Sunday Afternoon Blog

Bigby's Cafe at Jacinto Extesion is now my second hangout place on where I can do my blogging/social media stuff because of the delicious foods they serve specially the "Buenos Nacho".  I always order this sumptuous snack whenever I go at Bigby's and pair it with bottomless Ice Tea to offset the spiciness of the food.

Since it's this is my first Sunday Afternoon Blog for 2011, I made sure that I am on very convenient place to write my blog post as well as gather some more materials for upcoming updates.

New Design for My Random Thoughts

I have been contemplating on changing my blog design for quite sometime and for now I decided to do so. And since it a New Year so I decided change the design and get myself a free blogger template for my blog since I don't have the time yet to do a custom design yet but I will do some tweaks here and there. I chose the theme called UrbanArtist because of the preferred dark design with a minimalist style of structure.

Happy New Year

My very first blog post for the Year 2011 which is also called the Year of the Rabbit according to the Chinese calendar. Well for me, 2011 is another beginning of a chapter in the book called "life". We continue to move on with our lives. As usual we learn from bad things we do and continue or to improve the good things we do.

Happy New Year to everyone!

2010 Year-End Rambling

The year 2010 has been up and down year as a blogger for me as I got more focused on updating my Twitter and other things that can be done on my iDevice. But nonetheless I still manage to write a blog when I get some free time (and an urge/inspiration to write a blog) either through the said iDevice or on my laptop (which ever I am comfortable).

Focusing on work has paid dividends as I get a very good rating on performance evaluation from the top admins even though this will also take some of my time off blogging. Since I can only use my laptop during the break time at work. I decided to write the drafts of my blogs on my notes application of my application to which I will post during the break or before I get home.

As of late, I am also fond of listening to podcasts more than my musical playlists. I regularly download episodes of podcast shows like Filmsack and Appslappy as they give reviews to old movies and iDevice applications respectively. I am also excited that DJ Mo Twister will be back on the podcast scene probably to do a more improve "Good times with Mo" podcast which I would hope will include his co-host on the Good Times morning show.

Aside from work, parenting, blogging, social networking and games, I might give reading a try again and I will try to reconnect myself with the Dragonlance books (to which I finished reading the Chronicles and the Legends series and will proceed on with the next series of the chronogical timeline after which will read the prelude series ). I will also probably do some reading on the Shadowrun series as well as classic Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Watching TV series will also continues on to next year since most of my favorite TV shows are still showing new episodes (to which I will updating my Crime scene TV series blog).

That will be it for now. Up next will be my first blog post for the New Year.