Author Archives: Yami

Trinkets

jewel

I was fixing my box of trinkets and saw these bracelet and pair of earrings inside (similar to the photo). These jewels are personalized gift of my friend Lorena several Christmases ago. She is so good at designing her own jewels and even sends them abroad to her sisters. She sells them at reasonable prices. I miss her and her kindness to me and my family. She treats my kids as her own. She and hubby were friends long before I came to know my future husband. She never fails to call me despite her busy schedule as a mom and a student. She just graduated from her second course and hoping to be a registered nurse someday. She always reminds me to include her in my prayers. Even if she don’t request for it, she is in my thoughts and always wish for her all the good things in life. Miss you Lors. 🙂

Nosebleed

I’m having a hard time localizing English technical terms to Tagalog (our popular spoken language in the Philippines). How fast can you translate the phrase, project management software? If you are an IT (information technology) expert, it would be easy for you to localize that phrase otherwise you’ll be staring blankly at the computer monitor like me. lol How about this one? The boot configuration data was corrupt. It isn’t easy right? Imagine me localizing that sentence and at least 30,000 more terms in similar category. I’m beginning to feel dizzy! 🙁

Internet shop

My sister and her ex-boyfriend used to operate an Internet cafe. But they were forced to close down for failure to meet the high cost of operation including the exorbitant rentals. Somehow my sister blamed the lack of trusted people to man the shop when they are not around. The person left to oversee the business during daytime may have been too lax in performing her duty so they failed to meet their target earning. They should have installed wireless security systems at the time the computers where set up. Security cameras will help them monitor dishonest customers and negligent supervisor. My sister has learned her lessons well. She will never venture in the same business in the future.