New Blogs
Below may be of interest to you.
- On Personal Branding– What Constitute Your Brand
- On Create Wealth– Find What You Love.. Stay Foolish– Steve Jobs
- On BoardRoom Discussions– Republic Act 9165
- On JESUS Freak– Blueprint for Success
- On Customers Are Never Right– To Burger King– Customer Service Is Courtesy
- On LCM– Does Age Matter In (Boy-Girl) Relationship?
Blog Hack and A Wedding
Finally, this blog is up and kicking again after 2 or 3 days in hiatus. This site was hacked and malicious scripts were injected to it’s root folders resulting to missing php’s. Thanks to Jez for his assistance.
As you probably noticed, Sonnie’s Porch was in semi-hibernate mode for about 2 weeks, providing only short updates and picture sharing. Blame it to budget preparation and business planning, blogging & work, at times, don’t blend well. I hope with the long Christmas vacation, I’ll be providing regular updates with value adding content that everyone expected.
Let me start by blogging about the wedding of a person dear to us. As I shared in my Plurk page, the wedding made me teary eyed for 2 reasons:
- I remembered my own wedding and the vow I made to my wife 16 years ago- As I see Bryan, the groom, wept as they exchange vow’s, I remembered myself weeping as I see my bride walk the aisles 16 years ago.
- Likewise, the bride, Dess, is dearly loved by wifey and myself.
You can view the pics and the rest of the entries @ Sonnie’s Porch
Faced Off With A Demon
Though I believe on demon possession, whenever I hear stories of one, I dismiss it as hearsay arguing that perhaps the person concern may only have mental disturbance.
Until I faced off with one.
Get Hired Not Fired… For Blogging
Blogging is neutral, we can make it work for us or against us. Blogging is your brand, your online presence and reputation.
Those who are fired, if my memory serves me correct, is because they either blogged about company experience and/or disclosing non disclosable information, or habitual wasting of company time and resources by blogging, plurking, youtubing, friendstering, multiplying, facebooking etc. while on duty.
However, we can blog about things that somehow answer the questions of would be employers.
You may read the rest of the entry straight from a blogger who became an Asst. Vice President courtesy of his blog.
Easter
If you are wondering where the Easter bunny and Easter eggs came from, well it is a symbol representing the gods of the spring and fertility passed on from generations to generations.
According to holidays.net,  the name Easter is thought to come from the Scandinavian “Ostra” and the Teutonic “Ostern” or “Eastre,” both goddesses of mythology signifying spring and fertility. Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in colored easter eggs painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring.
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The Call For GMA To Resign, Democratic?
Do we have a maturing democracy or another mob rule in the making?
Please check details at Democracy, DemoCrazy or Mob Rule?
Valentines and Marriages
Today is valentines, friends are asking where we intend to have a romantic dinner, I said it’ll be in a room surrounded by mirrors 
Boy, it will be expensive to go for a date today (and a little bit korni too).
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PayPal’s Direct Deposit To Philippine Banks- My Experience
After 5 days, the money is not yet reflected on my account.
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Poor Synergy = Poor Customer Service
After experiencing broken promises and sloppy customer service in different occassions, disecting the cause of a poor service or unmet customer expectations can be value adding. Allow me to share briefly some of my experiences:
- I subscribed to a telecom company who offered a wireless phone and internet connection but I ended up frustrated since it can’t be relied upon. Drop calls are normal occurence as well as intermittent or no internet connection at all.
- I also subscribed to another telecom with their “quick install” gimmick. Indeed, the unit was installed the same day. We were promised activation in 3 days, because of the long holiday break. But it took them 10 days to activate the DSL and phone unit.
- Poor service in banks are also common,
- I was inconvenienced for 2 days, unable to to withdraw money from my account. As consequence of bank mergers, the accounts has to be converted and transactions suspended for 2 days. We were not informed, though, ahead of time.
- In a different bank, I applied for a cyber account so I can receive payments via paypal. I was made to understand that I will be notified when my card is ready for pick-up. 2 weeks after, had I not called their customer hotline, I would not know that I need to call the branch to check if the product is ready for pick up.
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