Micronet International College has successfully held the BERSUNGKAI BERSAMA DI MICRONET & TALENT NITE 2009 last 9 September 2009 (Wednesday) at Micronet’s Function Hall. The functional hall including the lobby is populated with over 80 students. Upon Sungkai (breaking the fast), Sheik Ahmad Naufal Sheik Adnan Bagarib recite the Doa Selamat and there it goes, everyone started to break the fast. The Talent Nite was launched by our two endearing MCs Ms. Karen (MIC Lecturer) and Abdul (IDCS Part time student). The talent show has started to be on heat as Norashyimah the first Micronet Idol in 2007 performed. The crowd went wild as she sang until all the contestants performed. There are even songs that the crowd can’t help but sing with the contestants. Indeed, it was a night to remember, many went home with glamour on their faces. Not to forget the amazing Magic tricks of one of the participants where even until the show was finish, students and even staff are still willing to see some magic tricks. The sequence of talent Nite is as follows: 1st participant: Pg Abd Azim bin Pg Hj Ismail - (Singing) 2nd participant: Dk Hashimatul Rahima Pg Hj Hassan – Matahari (Singing) 3rd participant: Quaverine Fillag Pelingen – (Dancing) 4th participant: Ella Nabila – (Singing) 5th Participant: Coco and Adim – (Singing) 6th participant: Azman Johari - (Singing) 7th participant: Faisal & Firdaus – Situasi (Singing) 10th participant: MPB Mun Paham Bisai (Big & Zack) - Hanya kau yang mampu (Singing) 9th participant: Abd Azim Abd Latif – Magic Tricks Show 10th Participant: Aidee Suherman – (Singing) 11th participant: Hisyan Bin Puasa – (singing) After everyone has performed, Mohammad Alizul Helmi bin Nawang @ Asde performed heartwarming songs while the audience votes and the total score of the contestants is being tallied. After the few minutes wait, finally the result was out and the winner goes to Amazing Big & Zack (Contestant number 8). Big & Zack has captured the audiences’ heart who accumulated 28 votes from the audience and were the judges choice to be the champion. Thus, Big & Zack were declared the winner of Micronet’s Talent Nite 2009.
I felt relieved that one task is down hehe.. I've accomplished it successfully but it's not just ME.. It would be impossible if I didn't get support from my colleagues who did their best as well with the tasks given to them and most of all I salute students who really cooperate especially the contestants. I know some of them are not really used to perform in public although they have the talent as I saw they are nervous but I admire them for the GUTS and support they shared to make the event successful. I love you guys!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND keep on ROCKING...
NEXT TASK? WOOOOHHHH this one is bigger and grander and more blood shedding whew... The 20th Anniversary Gala Night a.k.a GALA NIGHT to be held at the most grandest 6th Star Hotel "The Empire Hotel & Country Club" Men... I hope I will loose weight with this preparation hehehe...
It feels good to know that someone loves your company. Yesterday, my friends and I went off for Sungkai (breaking of fast) at Royal Brunei Catering (RBC) in the Airport. Jane who invited us never thought of a surprise oh yeah of course because it is a surprise right? Hehehe…
By the way, I know you will read this jane so let me tell you the story, when Sahrirah told us that you want to invite us to have sungkai in RBC, at first we were reluctant to come because we were reticent knowing that RBC is a fine dining RESTO and you are bringing us the FOUR rascals (haha peace to the other three) however, when Sahrirah told us that Jane’s birthday is on the next day so we decided to plan for a surprise.
Yesterday at lunch break, we really fast as we didn’t eat lunch but ran into a gift shop to buy present for Jane. While choosing, we always have disagreements as one may like some item while others criticize it. It took us almost 1.5 hours to end up with unanimous decision and finally bought the gift. In the afternoon while we are on the way to RBC, we all act like crazy cow in the car, laughing out loud. There are quiet moments though adjusting to Jane’s company hehehe. What I like about jane is that she is very reserved yet she is one of us. Every time we laugh out loud she always had her share of half laughing and half smiling but I know in that reserved gesture lays a genuine happiness. GREAT FOOD indeed. Grilled Lamb, Beef Steak, Salads, Desserts, and prawn, prawn and prawns are my plate content oh not to forget my newly listed food wish list favorites “ambuyat” and “ROJAK”. Although I can feel the warmth of the lamb meat and cholesterol from prawn accelerating to my head I still don’t care, all I care is that I love each moment.
While having our tea, we hear a loud birthday serenade from afar with group of RBC staff bringing birthday cake with candle. Jane never thought it’s for her as she still have guts to joke “is it for me?” hahaha and we all keep quiet because we know it’s for her and when the singing voices gets louder and louder as they are approaching towards our table, I saw Jane’s blushing cheeks that reflected a mixed feeling of surprised, honoured yet torn out of wariness but has managed it…
We took lots of photos, wacky and sexy, timid look and rogue style too. Indeed it was a happy moment. It’s definitely a fine dining with right company. Even on our way back home, we still wore those genuine smiles and laughter, a good one to remember.
Lesson learned? Absolutely have. With this experience, I learned to be me no matter who I mingled with. In fact, five of us represent different personality, culture and religion but we were able to have harmony and fun. Indeed, a sweet moment worthy of reminiscing. To Romella and Sahrirah sorry for all the bullies, well its part of the fun, just warn us if we may be stepping beyond the borderline. To Jane, I’m amazed to hear your love story great one yeah!! I just wish you more success, good health and happiness… Thanks for being a good friend and a good student. Well, I know you are a good teacher too because you are a great student. Confused? Well, Jane is a teacher at the same time studying at MIC. Loves yah all… ciao…
I haven’t browse around much in this particular website yet but in some pages that I checked, it has good articles and information about the bible and all. I wanted to share this coincident happened to me while I was typing my blog link www.llerox.blogspot.com in facebook status, I made a clerical error and typed www.llerox.blogpsot.com instead and when I saw the website I saw lots of eye opener articles. What a coincidence yeah?
To my students, please ignore this ok.
To my friends, try to have a look with the website informative indeed.
Have a blessed, happy Weekend and Holiday on Monday everyone!!! I love you All... mwahhhhhuggzzzz
Inquirer.net is like my morning sandwiches with a cup of coffee in the office. While sipping my coffee with my left hand, my right hand is clicking on the headlines from the inquirer.net email alert. For these past few weeks, Politics is always the main dish; a billion peso budget for election automation and the Presidential post issues. There is this headline about the heroic decision of Mar Roxas who is suppose to be the standard Presidential candidate for the Liberal Party but gives way to Noynoy Aquino for the presidential post despite the fact that he had spent plenty of penny of the earlier campaigns made. In the press conference, Mar Roxas said that as president of Liberal Party, “It is within my power to preside over a divisive process or to make the party a bridge for the forces of change.” “I choose to lead unity, not divisive”. If his intention is really true then I salute him. He gave up his dream to be a President of the Philippines following the footstep of his father Manuel Roxas just to avoid division because he wants unity. He wants to support Noynoy to be put into place as the next Philippine President. Commendable isn’t it? However, sometimes I feel faked with all the sweet talks of these political icons. Should they serve our country? Or write poetry? What do you think? Hehehe I’m not against Mar Roxas because he’s my uncle “bwahahaha” joke. Generally, most of them should have written poems rather than sweet talking us and ironically killing us softly. You might be smiling while reading, asking yourself is it really me writing? Since when, I got a political inclination? Well, I attended a seminar in Davao with an activist movement against the government. The speakers are really persuasive so I thought of being activist but eventually, I found out that they are not just activists but rebels in Mindanao hahaha… of course I don’t want to be a rebel though… As for political icons, I only have one idol and that is Ramon Magsaysay. I didn’t know him. I just hear stories from my Grandmother (lola) and from my investigation out of curiosity why my lola acclaimed him as the best President in the world. Ramos, Erap and GMA are the players of my time and all of them broke my heart. These three monsters had their shares of corruption scandals whereas Ramon Magsaysay even sold his own house so his wife could get medical treatment and when he died in the Plane Crash, his wife ended up homeless. Philippines is rich with natural resources and talented workforce, nevertheless, our country’s progress is as lame as a tortoise. We have the resources, we have the talents but we scarce with good leaders. I wrote this to express my disappointments as well as to tell the Filipinos to pray for our nation. Many of us don’t want to settle down in our own land as we don’t see beauty and life in there. We feel so hopeless and helpless but if we have chance to fight for our right then we should. We ourselves are the best armor to take back what is supposed to be ours. Therefore, we should utilize our power to seek for peace and progress. In the 2010 election, let’s take part and be vigilant. Let’s seek God’s providence in choosing the right leaders to lead us to live a life we deserve.
I never had interest in Facebook the moment I open an account, there was just a need to utilize the media in order for me to have bonding time with the students as well as to utilize it for academic advertisement for students. In fact, every time I advertise an announcement or perhaps a reminder in FB (Facebook), and at the same time in Micronet info website which I am authoring as well, constantly, FB audience is more that what I get compared to the actual website with domain solely created for student communication purposes. Can you see the difference now? FB or other social networking media such as Friendster, YouTube, Multiply are more powerful. Indeed, many businesses are utilizing these networks for marketing purposes and it is proven efficient and cheap.
My company is paying a domain to reach out students online yet students can be reached thru FB for free. What makes this tool so powerful that users won’t be having a complete day without logging in a day? Well, I can answer it myself. First your friends are there, you can busy body the whereabouts of other people and their lives. Humans were born to be social hence I don’t need to question that.
In FB, I can see introverts’ self revelation; they tell u what’s on their mind, or what they currently feel thru their “STATUS”. Introverts may have limitations with their self revelation while extroverts are at FULL BLAST some are swearing, cursing, smiling (happy), crying (sad), gesture of loneliness, broken hearted and so on. Second, are you bored? Well, hundreds of applications are available in FB, they have games, lifestyle, sports and so on trying to capture which area you might fall on and I got captivated on gaming hehehe. I get addicted, hypnotized and all. The Famous Mafia War, Farm Town, Poker, Pet Society, Restaurant City and the likes. I started playing these APPS early this year (2009) and now its September a quarter to go to the year end and if I’m going to assess myself, I am really less productive this year. I’m less productive with so many aspects. First, with my Job, I used to be commended always for my dedication “I LOVE MY JOB”. However this is not an issue of being appreciated but the quality of my work output. I am really worst this time, I fail to motivate my students, I fail to support them, I fail to let them know that I’m just here willing to offer a helping hand. Second is myself development, I could have learn many things, read more books, write more articles and spend more time with my family. Lastly, I fail God; I spend few hours playing, few hours working at night where my sleeping duration will only be 4 to 5 hours. The next day, then I’ll have back pain, headache, stress, and hypertensive. When is my prayer time? Every Saturday night, I always find myself closing my eyes to sleep at times where others are opening theirs to prepare for Sunday Church services. When it’s my moment to meet my GOD I am not with myself. Oftentimes I am sleepy and tired. Of course I don’t blame FB for this, sometimes playing can help us to release stress and forget our problems but addiction is a different story. According to Bill Gates “ALL THESE TOOLS OF TECH WASTE OUR TIME IF WE’RE NOT CAREFUL” that’s why he dumped FB. Well, I am not Bill Gates and neither a fan though, hence I won’t dump FB but I will dump all APSS I’m using as I chose to be productive. For those who are using Pet Society, Poker, Restaurant City, Farm Town just IM me guys and I will donate all my properties before closing them hehehe… This blog entry is not to tell you to have a SUDDEN BRAKE, rather to remind you to slow down and turn your gear low perhaps 1st gear? Or 2nd Gear? Allow yourself to drive FB moderately rather than FB drives you crazily. In fact, FB is a powerful tool to touch people’s life, to reach out and embrace the lonely. Just drive moderately.
After the long preparation at last it is over... and there I go again sorry for being dead in a while and I'll be dead soon again coz i'll be having my Christmas vacation in the phils..
Well, this post will feature our Gala Dinner 2008. This is indeed a stressful one coz I am the incharge for the dances entertainment part. My students had exerted much effort just to make their performances best and thank God the feedback was good that their performances is better than last year and I'm so proud for that because I am the coreographer hahaha... The few photos above are taken on that night... more to come soon...
I received a text message from my sis in law today saying that they are currently attending the the judging of an awarding of retired Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) to be awarded by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).
Few months ago, my parents were given an award from OWWA as a successful OFW worker from the entire Samal Island and today I'm so happy knowing that my parents were chosen again as the most successful OFW for the entire Mindanao region and they will be the entry from Mindanao for the National awarding. Of course I wish them to be the the winner but if they will not win, for me they are already my champion. I am not what I am now if they didn't sacrifice.
I am also glad that the letter I sent to OWWA were given a chance to be read in the public that caused my mama to shed tears. I know its tears of joy and I'm glad that she's happy knowing that we appreciate them and salute them as our parents. Stated below is the letter for my papa and mama.
Dear Papa and Mama,
Thank you for the sacrifices you have endured in order to race us and provide for us. I never understand the sacrifices you have bartered of working overseas from being there for us during the time we are growing until I experienced it myself.
I thought life here in abroad was easy, that you are having good times while we are growing up without parents. However, from the time I started to work here, I have proven myself wrong and was able to contemplate that I am the one indeed having good times enjoying the benefits of your hard works just to give us brighter future. I started to work here in Brunei and I saw it myself how my Papa endure his job for 18 years. He woke up everyday @ 4:00 am to drive and he is driving until evening. Every time he fetched me from my work place, I can smell his sweat and it crumpled my heart thinking that all these hardships he endured for 18 years because he have dreams for us. I may not witnessed how my Mama endured her job for 18 yrs or so but I knew how difficult life was because working on a foreign land is indeed difficult. Different race, different culture, different language a lot of differences yet they survive and I sure will survive.
To Mama and Papa, I am very proud to have you as my parents! I owe every inch of success I have today because you dreamed for me and for my siblings. I'm proud to say that you fulfilled your dreams because we are not a failure. If you did not sacrifice I will be nobody.
When you argue with someone else you will never cease until you prove yourself right.Why do we quarrel?Indeed we quarrel because we wanted to pursue our conviction that the other person is wrong because we are right.However, the person you are quarreling with is as well thinking the same way as you do. Thus, nobody shall give up and it will never cease nor shall end with good conclusion.
One drawback of a quarrel is that the more you say for reasons of expressing what you feel even if it’s not right but you believe it is right would probably hurt the other party and because the other party was upset and got hurt then he/she would probably hurt you back.
When I taught English for business communication subject, it says that one major disadvantage of oral communication is that it is by far likely produces more mistakes since it is spontaneous.Once you've said it, you can’t take it back.That’s why when you hurt someone verbally, no matter how sorry you are the damage has been done.
But one good benefit of a quarrel is the realization of who really is right.Is it you or the other party?When you are over the anger or have composed yourself back, it’s good to review what have been said by you and the person you are quarreling with.Then, you will find out who is right.Acceptance of your fault and probably the other party’s fault is necessary otherwise, it will take you a lifetime to resolve such issue or you’ll get tired of arguing over and over the same old story.
BUT, acceptance is not easy, as I have mentioned in my past post humans are built up with PRIDE and it’s very difficult to combat with PRIDE because it’s an evil creation.
Did someone told you that he/she loves you but they don't have enough courage to fight for you?
If you are in the situation what would you feel? I know you will ask me if it happened to me, and I'll be honest yes it happened not once not twice and that's why it made me believe that it's part of my destiny to be rejected? huhuhu
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Kinda busy guys sorry if no much update for this month... But I appreciate your visits... I'll try my best to update even short one's.
It is one of the topic of my student's assignment to review and research what are the major criticism of Windows Vista received after its shipment on 30 January 2007 and during the beta releases earlier. I just want to share the insights and findings I have gathered as stated below:
Windows Vista is often referred to as longhorn because of the fact that the development has taken longer time than expected.The development has indeed taken 5 years and that is why many had hoped for the best.
Hardware Requirement is very high
It is quiet daunting to note that Windows Vista’s minimum hardware requirement is very high that older PC bought before 2005 needs to have an upgrade. According to Paul Thurrott, the minimum hardware requirements that can run on Vista OS are as follows”
“- A "modern" Intel, AMD, or VIA Technologies CPU
- 512MB of RAM or more
- A DirectX 9-class 3D graphics card
Such a system will provide what Microsoft calls a "good" experience with Vista, though it might not provide you with the high-end Aero Glass UI. For a better experience, the company recommends a graphics processor that supports the new Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) technology. Such systems will enjoy "enhanced graphics stability, multi-application performance, and monitor hot-plugging" when compared to Windows XP, Microsoft says. For the best experience, Microsoft recommends DirectX 9-class graphics hardware that supports WDDM and Pixel Shader 2.0 technologies, and 64-256MB of dedicated video RAM, depending on screen resolution.”
For Windows XP user upgrade option, Microsoft offers a discount where you just need to pay $99 but for a stand-alone Vista version, user has to fully pay the selling price. The Home, Premium cost is $299 and Windows Vista Ultimate cost is $399 where the Aero UI and Media Center capabilities are included. These features allows user to experience a good multimedia computing but these feature is not available in Home Basic version. Additionally, if you have Xbox gadget, Home Basic can’t connect the peripheral.
Microsoft offers three versions of Vista to home users in the U.S. -- Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate. You can buy any of these in the upgrade version with a discount, or the stand-alone version without the discount.
The cheapest way for current Windows XP users to get a legal copy of Vista is to buy the upgrade version of Home Basic, which is $99. But you don't want the cheapest version.
First, the upgrade version will require you to keep your Windows XP CD for years. You do have a Windows XP CD handy, don't you? Second, Home Basic just won't cut it for most people. It lacks the Aero UI and Media Center capabilities. Plus, you can't connect Xbox peripherals to Home Basic. For many, including yours truly, those are the three best reasons to upgrade to Vista in the first place.
A big discount only can be gained if the buyer will get a new PC because the computer reseller’s acquired huge discounts and it will indeed cost too much to purchase new set of PC especially in business used.
“Installing any new operating system is time-consuming. You have to configure everything, load your data, install your applications and get your peripherals working. Then, in the case of Vista, you have to figure out where Microsoft buried all the options, menus and features and get used to the ubiquitous Search boxes. Anytime you want to do anything in Vista, it seems, the software asks, "Are you sure?" You'll want to figure out how to turn that off and customize Vista to get rid of all its annoying "user-friendly" hand-holding "features."
But buying Vista now, and installing it on old hardware, adds additional, time-consuming tasks -- possibly an additional day or two. Why? Chances are, you'll have to hunt down, install and troubleshoot new drivers for your old peripherals and system components.” (Mike Elgan. 2007)
Windows Easy Transfer where you can easily transfer all installed application from Windows XP to vista is one of the feature of Vista. However, it only works when the user has re-installed all applications because it does not really move the installed applications but merely setup data.
Thus, Windows XP to Vista upgrade is just a big hassle using your old PC and that is why it is not recommended to install Vista on an older PC.
XP SP 3 is proven to be faster than Windows Vista
“New tests have revealed that Windows XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1.”(Suzanne Tindal. 2007)
Researchers from Florida based Software Company Devil Mountain Software proves than the Windows Vista performance was not overwhelming which proves that the Windows XP SP3 predecessor outshines Vista in terms of speed.
“Vista, both with and without SP1, performed notably slower than XP with SP3 in the test, taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to the beta SP3-enhanced XP's 35 seconds.” (Suzanne Tindal. 2007)
The test was tested using a Dell XPS M1710 with a 2GHz Core 2 Dou CPU and 1GB RAM where Microsoft Office 2007 software was used using a simultaneous productivity task that include a compound document and supporting workbooks and presentation materials.The test has resulted with Vista performance increased less than 2% and the XP SP3 performance increased of 10%.
Reports shows that the UAC or User Account Control feature of Windows Vista gives so much frustration to its users as it always prompts user for every application or hardware driver to be installed if the user is not the administrator.This frustrates users because most of the PC users are the administrators itself yet it still prompts for some administrative permission.
