In our recently concluded Christmas party, our group won in the Christmas party presentation. It’s a musical with a twist. We received a cash prize and we used it for lunch today instead. We ordered two family size pizzas from Pizza hut. And since one of our officemates have a Palm Card, we have two extra family size pizzas. The remaining money was used to buy two half gallons (Very Rocky Road and Double Dutch) of Selecta Ice Cream and some utensils that we weren’t able to use. Haha! Up to this very hour, I am still full. The Corporate Sales Team even offered me to grab some pizza just this afternoon but I have to decline since I was so full already.

Victory is yummy but it may cause you stomach pains. Hehe!

Some eBay tripper slash loser has been selling two items. The first item is an empty toilet paper roll. The item is located beside a toilet bowl. The item description are as follows:

ANOTHER EMPTY ROLL OF TOILET PAPER.

SEE PHOTO FOR EXACT DETAILS & DESCRIPTION.

PAPER HOLDER NOT INCLUDED.

WINNING BIDDER MUST CONTACT ME WITHIN 12 HOURS TO ARRANGE THE DETAILS OF THE EXCHANGE.

THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE FORM OF PAYMENT WILL BE:

** AUTHENTIC, BRAND NEW,

** CRISPY & SEQUENTIAL

** 100-PESO “ARROVO” BILLS.

THANK YOU & HAPPY BIDDING! c”, )

And his second item is a cat-like creature from the island of Borneo. Also, he demands that only 100-peso Arrovo bills must be the denomination for payment. And who would pay using a soon-to-be Collector’s item? No one would do that of course.

I saw this weird item for bidding at eBay Philippines. Maybe the guy who’s selling it does not know that GMail invites are not scarce unlike before when I first got my GMail invite from Blogger. And also, there is such a thing as FreeGMailInvites.Com. And even without an invite, you could create a Google Account which gives you access to all Google Services. In addition, maybe he’s just too selfish to share. You’ve been a bad boy this year and Santa won’t deliver you a present. Too bad. Tsk tsk!

I already got my first batch of presents for this year. Aside from the Vivitar tripod that I got from Dad and some clothes from my Mom, I got one from my sister which is a black body bag that I can use for office. I also got an Orange and Lemons Strike Whilst The Iron is Hot album. It’s the repacked version and it contains an AVCD with music videos and audio tracks. Then, I got a cute and cuddly stuffed toy and a totally cool framed artwork where the glass is painted and an aluminum foil was used to make the painting stand out. I also got a small notebook in which I can use it as a journal or for writing random thoughts whenever I’m away from the computer. Then, I got some biscuits from M&S. I haven’t opened it yet since I left it in the office so that I could eat it for breakfast while having coffee. Thanks to all of you! I really appreciate it! =)

When we were still in grade school and high school, we were asked to come up with a presentation or two for our Christmas party. In college, Christmas parties of organizations are the ones who usually prepare presentations. Now, company Christmas parties mandate Christmas presentations.

First, never ever forget to dance the Pinoy Big Brother theme (Pinoy Ako) Christmas remix version. All Christmas parties should have that kind of presentation. It’s already mandatory. (more…)

As I was preparing my slides for tomorrow’s class for the Autodesk Inventor Customized training, I’ve had some problems logging in to the Vault. Everytime I logged in, a dialog box appears saying that the active project is not a vault project. But it is a vault project. Then, I learned from one of the former AE’s in our office that the project file has an XML data. Thus, I tried opening it in Notepad and tweaked it manually after referring to the XML data of the other project files. Still, there was no effect. The problem persisted. However, this morning, I was able to solve the problem.

Solution
Content Center Files folder should be within the same level of hierarchy as that of the Workspace folder (e.g. C:\Vault\Content Center Files, C:\Vault\Workspace). I can’t remember anything like that mentioned in the PDF file that I was reading previously. This should already get me to the habit of managing my Inventor data with Vault.

I just filed a 3-day leave from work. And that is due for the 27th of December up to the 29th. It’s a good thing that I do not have any pending work to accomplish. One of those days will be spent at the World Pyro Olympics and I’d really want to go there and watch the awesome fireworks and take some photos. This time, I’ll be bringing my tripod with me but I will still experiment with the Big-Bang-Theory-like shots in which the quick release plate will come handy. I’m hoping to go there with my Taft-based squad buddies since we haven’t seen for the longest time. Maybe, before going there, we could drop by first at Starbucks Blue Wave since we haven’t seen Shey for quite some time.

This is nothing to do with my forthcoming plans of going to the World Pyro Olympics. It has been a while since I saw my friend Connie. The last time I saw her was a year ago. I bumped into her at Coffee Bean at Greenbelt and she’s a barista there. I guess it was her first day since she was being oriented as I have observed just recently. Still, I cannot believe that one of my drinking buddies way back in college was going to be surrounded with lots of coffee instead of beer. I could still vividly recall how she could manage to drink and still go to class. Haha! Of course I do not drink during break time. It’s against my principles.

My officemate had a bunch of weird ideas for our Christmas party. I’ll just translate in English. Hehe!

“Why don’t we come as a ball?” (and there she goes jumping like a bouncing ball)

“How about an ice cream?” (Does the melting action)

“Or Spongebob? Thus, if you’ll be seeing me tomorrow with my face still bleeding because of the punctures on it then I’ll be Spongebob on Friday”

After going out from the elevator, she immediately said,

“I could just be an elevator on friday” (does the up and down action)

I almost rolled on the floor laughing. Hehehe!

Finally, she said she will be Eden of Ang Panday. She was saying “I’ll just wear a red lipstick”

Then I asked her, “Huh? Just a red lipstick?” And so, I was joking and took it literally even if I know that the red lipstick goes with the clothes. Hehehe! Well, that’s how the mind of engineers work. Hehe!