Finally… A decision!

I’ve made my choice. I’m staying with my current project and put my plans for handling training sessions on-hold. In as much as I wanted to lay low on development work for a short while, my interest with my group’s next project got the better of me.

I’ll be handling a new team, taking over a colleague who resigned after working for 6 years in the company. I hope I can match the way he handles them, as I could see that the team was efficient when he was at the helm.

Quite a different challenge as compared to previous tasks. Not much development, but more of supervisory ones.

V3i Shots

See what a camera phone can do with a little help from a photo editing software? I hope a lot of people would appreciate these:

Full-sized photos (1280×960 pixels) are posted in my Gallery.

Latest book acquisition

While looking for a novel to read for the Holy Week break, I chanced upon a book that is currently on sale in National Bookstore.

I’ve been looking for a book that would share a lot of insight into digital photography. Never have I thought that I’d stumble upon one that fits exactly what I need. This book, Sharing Digital Photos: The Future of Memories is now priced at Php169.00 in National Bookstore.

Reading the first few pages caught my attention: the author appears to be caught by the digital camera craze after his wife gave birth to her daughter. How coincidental can things be! I got interested with photography when I bought my very first camera, but never was I into it as much as when my wife gave birth to my son — which even resulted to buying a digital camera.

I guess I’d be very much preoccupied reading and experimenting with photos and photo editing tools for the rest of the week.

To know more about the book, visit www.futureofmemories.com 

To Train Or Not To Train

It’s been a few days already and I haven’t decided (with finality) yet on whether I’d take on my Manager’s offer to be in-charge of training new employees on software development.

I’ve been viewing it as some kind of ’sabbatical leave’, not getting involved with a project for some time and giving my mind a respite from the pressures of everyday projects which I have been doing for close to 9 years already.

Yet I’m quite fearful that when I’ve been a trainor for a few months, I’d be left out when a new project I’m interested with comes along. I think this is the one thing that keeps me from making that jump to being a trainor.

I still have until Friday to decide, I think. I hope I’ll be making the right decision.

A Lesson in Stupidity

I washed the feeding bottles of my son after having lunch. It was voluntary, really, as my wife is not quite ‘in the mood’ today. Afterwards I placd the bottles in a steamer to make sure that everything’s clean, and then went upstairs to tinker with my PC.

I had spent quite a long time in our room when I remembered that I’m supposed to attend to something downstairs. When I opened the door of our room a burning smell came from outside, which prompted me to run downstairs. All of what I’m thinking were true.

The water in the steamer ran out, and the burning smell came from inside the steamer. When I opened it, all the bottles, seven of them were burned — no, melted to the point that everything isn’t shaped like it used to. Worse, some of the plastic stuck inside the steamer.

Needless to say, my wife was upset with what happened. I had to shell out Php1,500 from our monthly budget to buy a new set of one steamer and six feeding bottles — luckily the mall is just a jeepney ride away from where we are.

Until now I feel stupid for my negligence. I can’t do anything else about it, so I’d just have to live with it, move on — and take a really, really hard lesson.

Minor Design Changes

I changed a few fonts and some background images.

Nothing special, I just wanted the blog to look a bit different. Looks a bit full of blue in it, no? It just happens to be my favorite color.

It’s up to you to find out the meaning of my title, and why I changed it from my nickname to something quite strange.