Marvin’s Place

I already consulted 4 doctors. One of them checked me thrice. I took cough medicine with low dose antibiotics. Nothing happened. Then I took a high dose antibiotics. Still nothing happened. I am still coughing. I already made 5 absences (3 last week) so I could have a rest. But still I am coughing.  I already had 2 chest x ray but all is clear. I am irritated. I work in a contact center and my work is affected (I talk the whole shift). My family is also affected.

Please pray for my health. I am really having a hard time with this cough.  It’s been 5 weeks now.

At last, after three agonizing days of troubleshooting, calling and talking to customer service of my ISP,  at last, I am on line.

As it turnd out, the canopy that was first installed for my wireless internet was defective. But the person that installed it said that the problem was with the substation. I called in five times before I got an assurance that someone will come to my place to fix it. It was after I show irritation for the type of service that I have.

Then, the tech came at 6pm (Manila Time) and I would be going to work at 7:30. Thankfully, they were able to fix it within an hour. I wasn’t able to benchmark the connection coz I have to go to work. But based on my initial test (using speedtest.net  my download speed is 288kbps and upload is 168 kbps. My ISP says they have 384kbps for my service (it’s not broadband, but it’s the best that i can get).

I think it’s okay. But I’ll be testing the connection on following days so i could know if it’s consistent.

At least now, I am on-line….

Yeah, it’s weekend… at last. After a whole weeks work, it’s time to take a rest.

Ironically, my rest is - go to inquire regarding  internet service, go to the mall to buy gifts and stuff for the coming Christmas, finish the installation of our home PC, go to Church, and have a lot of time with my family. It’s a hectic weekend, but it’s enjoying for me.

Does everyone has the same weekends as mine?

God bless… happy weekend

Yesterday, while on the bus going home from work, appeared a commercial on the TV (there’s a TV on the bus I was in). It was a Christmas message from the local TV station. At the start, I was touched by how the story goes, but at the end, I had a big question…..

This is how the story goes …. (more…)

I’ve been playing the guitar since 1999. It started out as curiosity and then after a few months, I was involved in the music ministry of my former church. Actually, I started playing bass guitar. but when our guitarist left the church, I took over and played the guitar.

I am a music lover, that’s  why I play guitar. But there are hindrances in my guitar studies. First, I can’t sing. I’m a bad singer. Second, and the biggest hindrance, I didn’t give time to study guitar.

After 8 years of playing the guitar, the only scale that I know is Major and Minor Pentatonic scale. I listen to guitar instrumentals. I try to study, but my patience is short. I want it instant. I don’t want to study. I bought some materials for guitar, and downloaded some resources, but I don’t read it. I have time, but I didn’t used that time in studying guitar.

Now, I am experiencing the negative effects of not studying guitar properly. So, I really need to do the things I should have done long ago, study guitar properly.

Yes, I had bought a new hard drive. A 160GB Hitachi IDE drive (why IDE, I am using an old AMD Duron computer).

Bought it last Saturday. I did the setup last Sunday. I am still not finish installing programs but at least, the computer is “working” now. All I need now is an internet connection.

Got to get back to work….