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Stolen From Home

Melo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:10:05 +0000

Yesterday, my eldest son’s cellphone was stolen from our own home. Who took it? It could be anyone who comes in and out of our home everyday. The cellphone is not really that expensive. In fact, it’s actually very cheap but still I paid good money to buy that for my son. What worst? It got stolen right from inside our home.

I was sleeping when the cellphone disappeared but, according to my wife and son, the cellphone was just on the television cabinet when it suddenly disappeared. They noticed the disappearance when my wife’s eldest sister asked if she can use the cellphone to send someone a text message. Unfortunately, the cellphone was no longer there.

Also, when I woke up late that night, I noticed that the my digital camera’s leather cover was also missing. My guess is, whoever took the cellphone also took the leather cover to hide it which just convinced me even more that the thief is someone we know. It could even be one of my wife’s relatives because no one else comes in and out of our home except them but unfortunately that is something that is hard to prove since no one saw anything.

This morning, before he went to school, I told my son not to worry anymore about the cellphone. I know he feels responsible for losing it that’s why I told him not to worry about it. It wasn’t his fault it got stolen. Although, I won’t be able to buy him a replacement now because of our current financial situation but I told him that once our financial status gets better I’ll buy him a replacement.

As for who took it, I guess there’s really nothing we can do anymore. We have our suspect but without solid evidence that he took it then all we have is suspicion.

My Wife Said NO!

Melo — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:11:02 +0000

Recently, I finished a few design projects for a client. 2 static websites, an ebay template and an ebook cover. I decided to bill the client for it because we really needed the money but, unfortunately, my client said I still need to finish the rest before getting paid. I asked how many more and he sent a list of work to do which, including the first 4, totals 13 jobs. The jobs include designing and creating websites, brochures and graphics designs. He priced all 13 jobs at $250 and if you divide that to 13 will give you less than $20 per job. On that list, I can understand that 1 or 2 or even 3 are worth $20 but the rest like designing new websites and creating brochures are worth more than $20.

I told my wife about it and after a long discussion (and being scolded for accepting work cheap) she said NO! That I should just demand payment for the work done, which I did, and just forget about it. I also asked other people’s opinion about it and they agreed that, even with my shortcomings, $20 for a website is too freaking low. Well, I do agree with them, $20 is only 800 pesos, with today’s exchange rate, and that is not cheap, that is inhuman. I asked because I wanted to know their opinion about it.

My wife said NO and she is right. It’s not worth it.

Did you vote?

Melo — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:53:20 +0000

I stopped what I was doing last night at around 3 (a.m.) in the morning so that I could take a few hours to sleep and be ready to vote the same day. Dang left early to fulfill her duty as a poll watcher for incumbent mayor Vicente Amante while I spent the rest of the morning doing my daily work and play rituals.

I went to the polls after lunch and just like previous elections, campaign materials like sample ballots are scattered everywhere. If you’ll look at them closely at their scattered state it’s like looking at hundreds of peso bills lying waste on the earth as trash. Why not? It’s very likely that government money was spent on printing those. Nah, I don’t think I want to go into discussing the filth that is Philippine politics.

I met my wife at the precinct where we were assigned. Being that it was already after lunch, there weren’t that many people around the polling places or precincts anymore. I also saw the number of people that have already voted and if you compared it to the long list of registered voters posted outside the precinct then you’ll know that not many came out to vote, at least for that particular precinct.

It didn’t take us long to cast our votes because we (my wife and I) already know who to vote for. I think, the time I took walking from our house to the precinct and back was longer. After exercising our right to vote, I went home and left Dang to continue with her obligation.

Back at home, we had a brief discussion about what we did today.

How about you? Did you vote? If not then why? I may not like politics and I generally feel that our country isn’t progressing as fast as we want to but not voting is almost like having no hope for the future. It’s like you already gave up even before the fight starts.

Voting is something I’ve never missed since the day I first registered and will never miss until I die because it takes only 1 vote to make a difference.