MemOries wOrth tO kEeP

....Dec.14, '06 my first day of duty with the BOTW team as web editor, and was surprised 'coz my first category that time was Top: Regional: United_States: Texas: Cities: Denton: of all the places in the US it's coincidence that I'll be editing sites where my bf working :) Iwas so inspired working with it ofcourse hehe.. it's like I'm visiting the places in the US too. Anyhow, two days after was our office blessing and company's Christmas Party!

Here's March, our company's 1st Anniversary everybody was so excited for the beach party! We're having games the whole day and Hawaiian costume at night, it was really fun and cool..

my team "y klaro" =)


go! Ferdie!


go! Wendell go!

say cheeze!!!!!!!

"so happy together"

April, the time I've transferred to another department in Marketing with Chelo, Rain and Tin. Then we, with the admin, organized our 1st big event Mindanao IT QUIZ Tournament with Oro Chamber of Commerce and STI College..

By September, our team went to Ozamiz for business with pleasure trip =) ("that's the good thing there, we're able to go places outside CDO and of course bring sales in :) ")

Mindanao ICT Congress in Davao City last October, its an exhibit attended by different companies SMEs and Multinational. We represented our company there and met a lot of big time people in the industry. And we're very glad to meet Sec. Ray Anthony Roxas Chua III.

In November we've meet the IT Pros from Manila, the PHIWUG, with Maria Green of Microsoft Asia in GEARUP: Cagayan de Oro whew! it's really a great opportunities for us learning IT stuff with them and at the same time having fun. To all who've participated the event, I know you've learned a lot as we do =).

December 5, 2007... last day of work, I feel sad and happy.. "sad" 'coz I'm gonna miss my friends I've worked with for how many months of stay in the company, you'll always be part of me whereever I am... "happy" for the given opportunities to work with young and talented professionals. Now, I'm looking forward to new challenges in life.

Making Long Distance Relationships Work

According to Joe Tracy, publisher of Online Dating Magazine that being in a long distance relationship isn't easy. It requires very strong trust, commitment, guidelines, and communication. Studies show that a majority of people involved in long distance relationships eventually break up. That's why you see so many "experts" proclaiming that long distance relationships are a bad idea and don't work. Yet if you learn to master communication and set the parameters of your relationship, it can work. It's an uphill battle, but it
is possible, and many people do eventually become happily married as a result of being in a long distance relationship.

5 Tips to a long distance relationship and will help you achieve a lasting love.

1) Establish the relationship rules and parameters
In a study of long distance relationships, Dr. Greg Guldner found that 70% of couples in a long distance relationship who did NOT set rules, or deal with changes, ended up breaking up within six months. This means that it is vital that you and your partner set rules and parameters to guide your long distance relationship. This includes an agreement that you will not date others and that you will communicate daily.

2) Communicate Every Single Day
Part of a successful long distance relationship is being able to emulate patterns found in regular relationships. One of these patterns is daily communication. The evolution of the Internet is godsend for people who are in long distance relationships. Not only can you communicate via email and instant messaging for free, but you can also send text messages through your mobile phones.

3) Express Your Feelings
Learning to express your feelings to your long distance partner in email, IM, and on the phone is important for the growth and stability of your relationship. One of the ways it increases your relationship stability is by providing "reassurance" to the other person about your commitment to him/her. When you express your feelings, you are letting your partner know that you are committed to making the relationship work.

4) Never Make Assumptions
Always be clear about your relationship with each other. Don't assume that your long-distance partner knows your feelings - share them. Good or bad, be clear about how you feel about the relationship. Assumptions kill many relationships, while clear communication helps relationships succeed. Perhaps Henry Winkler put it best when he said, "assumptions are the termites of relationships." Let your partner clearly know your ambitions, fears, feelings, and desires. This will allow him/her to share something deeper with you as you both work together towards mastering your communication abilities.

5) Trust One Another
Low self-esteem and a lack of trust can ruin wonderful relationships.

Your long distance relationship can work if you put the time and effort into making it work. As Dr. Phil says, "If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon..."

WATCH OUT!! PIC-A-BAG

The CDOKAY-RACINI Bags Photo Contest..

....Walk around, capture a city scene -- of people, events and places that convey a feeling, tell a story, or simply fascinate. Submit those photos to us and win trendy Racini bags.

Here's how to join:

Each person is allowed one entry only. Each entry is required ten (10) photos, two (2) each from these subjects:

The River
Night Café
Cogon market scene or Food
Day Scene (such as parks, countryside, busy street)
‘Kagay-anon(s) doing the thumbs-up’

Let’s be clear about ‘original and unpublished’. Photos previously entered in other contests, or published in similar or other media are not eligible.

Judging and Prizes
All photos entered will be evaluated by a panel of judges from StickyMedia Solutions, Inc. Each judge will select the photos that strike him/her most for the simple reason of being “very interesting”, “attention-grabbing.”

The top 5 entries with most number of winning photos will each win a cool RACINI bag and the esteem of being recognized in CDOKAY.

At the contest's conclusion, winning pictures will appear in the CDOKAY Index Page ‘watermarked’ with the title of the photo, a brief caption and the name of the photographer.

...check www.cdokay.com for more infos

Ozamiz Trip..

..September 4-5, 2007 Business with pleasure hehe

..After all the tiring days of work

While waiting for the boat goin' to Dolphin Island..















..with tin

..with rain

asan c weng and bong? behind the camera?

Goin' to Dolphin Island galore..

Here's the tuna.. ay dolphins pla hehe..

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Installing Love

Tech Support: Yes, . how can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install Love. Can you guide me through the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running ?

Customer: Let's see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ?

Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, "Error - Program not run on external components." What should I do?

Tech Support: Don't worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running. One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.

Customer: Thank you, God.

God/Tech Support: Youre Welcome, Anytime.

* forwarded email from my someone special.. you know who you are :)

Long Distance Relationship

Trust is a major necessity if you wish to have your relationship from a distance. Without trust and honesty, the relationship is in for danger and unsuccessfulness, just as it would be any other relationship. By accepting the challenge of a long distance relationship, you also accepted the fact that you will have to have the trust and faith that your partner will not be seeing anyone else as promised. Being paranoid and accusing will only grow doubts, insecurity and tension between you and none of those three will help the relationship survive successfully.

Keeping each other informed of the friendships you have with other people and the events that take place in your personal life is a great way to keep your relationship alive and healthy; and continues to make your partner a part of your life. It is essential that you receive the same information from your partner as well, so you both feel the same security and satisfaction that you both crave.

With the right amount of effort and interest on both parts, a long distance relationship can survive the obstacles it will frequently be challenged with. As long as you both refresh your memories of why you chose to do this in the first place, trust each other, inform one another of your personal lives, keep in touch, and visit, your relationship can turn out to be one of the most successful and happy relationships that ever existed. You both will be secure, happy and satisfied until the day comes when you will re-unite for good and build your wonderful future together.

Some says " It doesn't work" and some says " It will work"

Challenging and difficult, though they may not be what we wanna hear, are the words that best describe long distance relationships. Keep in mind however, that the words challenging and difficult are not impossible.

Well, this is my story and I don't know how it happened but I do believe in destiny, serendipity and stuff like that. Lemme call him "Prince", we started out communicating through text when I was in Cebu last September of 2006. Everything has been so complicated that time which I never expected to fall inlove with him. I don't know Prince that much but I have this feeling that he's a nice guy. And I know for the fact that he'll be leaving out of the country soon. It's quite a strange feeling but I really felt so sad, and I don't want him to leave. But I don't have the right to, and it's his big dream. I'm happy for him, though, I will surely missed him.

I was very glad as I received his first message using roaming number, It was a mixed emotions that I can't understand. We started again keeping in touch with each other. November 28 of 2006, he opens up his feelings for me and I'm not stupid to deny that I feel the same way too.

Here comes our Long Distance Relationship, which we both working it out. Believing each other that we can make it and helping one another in good times and in bad times.

Distance cannot, and will not hurt a bond between two people that is based on mutual respect, trust, commitment, and LOVE.

I, like you, truly believe that love & relationships are what makes life special, and that ones built on love & understanding are always worth preserving, regardless of the miles that may separate two people.

I LOVE YOU Baby... you know who you are.. mmmwaaaahhh!!!!

How Birthdays Came About

Thousands of years ago birthdays were considered a time when the bad spirits as opposed to the good spirits were able to harm you as this day changed a person's life. It was believed that the only way to keep the bad spirits at bay was to have your friends and family around you so that their good wishes and present giving would keep them at bay.

Also noisemakers are thought to be used at parties as a way of scaring away the evil spirits.

The custom of lighting candles originated with people believing that the gods lived in the sky and by lighting candles and torches they were sending a signal or prayer to the gods so they they could be answered. When you blow out the candles and make a wish this is another way of sending a signal and a message.

This is how the way we celebrate our birthday came about. But different cultures celebrate in different ways.

The birthday Bible story that we know best is about the birth of the Christ in Bethlehem. For nearly 2,000 years since that day, the Christian world has honored this birth. The day we all celebrate, is of course, Christmas.

There are other biblical references to birthday party's. King Pharaoh celebrated his birthday by making a feast for his court followers. That was over 4,000 years ago. The story of King Herod tells that on his birthday he made a supper for his lords, high captains and other special friends in Galilee.

That's what I found out at BirthdayCelebration.net

Have fun and give thanks each year of your life, as I do. Enjoy reading guys, catch you up next time have to go church to give thanks to our Almighty Father for giving me another year to embrace lifes' adventures mwaaahhh!!!

Loves yah all!!

Sticky People Rocks!

"People never know how special someone is until they leave, but maybe sometimes its important to leave, so they are given that chance to see how special that someone really is!" - Sent by Ali Nitka

I miss you guys!mwah!

Love Fate Destiny

Let's talk about LOVE, what's in you that makes people crazy? It's really a great feeling of being inlove but you should take risk of being hurt too. I found this website interesting http://www.lovefatedestiny.com/ see guys what you can learn and share to your loved ones.


Enjoy reading! Stay inlove as I am =)

COWON A2 Portable Video Player

Have you ever dream of having something to keep for the wonderful memories shared with your loved ones? Video Camera is the best solution!

I've come up the idea to search in the internet on what's cool and latest innovation in this digital world. whew! Finally I found a video recorder which exactly what I'm looking for, the Cowon A2 portable video player. It's very compact and equipped with an excellent FM radio with great recording quality.

I guess this would be a great help to you guys out there who loves to capture the moment then watch it over and over again. I personally love this as I check out the specifications which I believe will catch your attention too. It has also a voice recorder and photo viewer with zoom. Amazingly it can view photos or text while listening to great music simultaneously. This is excellent to use in a family gathering, parties and any occasions especially when we are traveling. Why not treat your self for something worth keeping for... =)

I was there!!

check out http://www.cdokay.com/cdo.ph/divisoria.html

‘The Lettermen’ experience: Traipsing on the oldies’ memory lane
By Kat Sanchez and Jhellai Sevilla, contributing writers

When we saw “The Lettermen” posters plastered all over the city, we did not pay attention to it. But we cannot help it. The concert had its bounty share of airtime over at our favorite FM station, Sandy 101. (This station makes nice, classy ads).

And then people were buzzing about it. Never mind if they pronounced them “The Letterman”“The Litterman”. or

Living in a concert-starved city can be terrible, and it can get perplexing if you are clueless about “What Lettermen?…What’s with the name?…Where in the world does this groupie originated?”

Too old for us, we guess, and so dismissing any thought of watching a trio show.

January 16, “The Lettermen” did arrive in Cagayan de Oro City and performed at the Atrium, Limketkai Mall. Fifty-nine minutes – okay, that soon! -- before the start of the show, our colleague in CDOKAY came up with a snappy invite. The shock on our faces is but logical, but sensing that this is going to be our first time to watch a concert featuring foreign artists, we were just as snappy in grabbing the opportunity.

And so we learned that The Lettermen first appeared in February 1958 on the marquee of the Desert Inn Hotel Resort, Las Vegas. The group churned out memorable ditties in the 1960’s and eventually established a legendary musical career.

The “oldies” must be filling the venue to the rafters – or so we thought! Surprisingly, we were not the only twentysomethings among the excited spectators. In fact, there were faces that you might slam into in a rock concert. More than many from what we have expected. ‘Out of place’ we were? Not really.

The high-ceilinged Atrium provided good ventilation, but there was a breath of fresh air that is hard to ignore. The Lettermen crooned “The Way You Look Tonight”, and “When I Fall in Love”, -- soft, melodic and romantic ballads. We were sighing -- no wonder the trio was hailed as one of the most romantic singing groups of their time.

And they proved to be formidable romantics when they wowed the audience with their versions of Tagalog classics “Hindi Kita Malilimutan” and “Dahil Sa’Yo”, which to our ‘younger’ ears actually sounded pretty nice – the twangs included.

We have been used to seeing Caucasians roaming around the city (that’s another story worth telling -- or so), but to actually hear three of them named Tony, Mark and Donnaven, obviously possessing suave voices and singing beautiful melodies, is worth the ‘Ketkai trip. Not our usual mall visit, we should say.

Rather naively, it was fun hearing them ecstatic about Filipinos, especially that concerns “laing” dish or “lying” according to Mark, “San Miguel Beer” for Donnaven and hear this…”balot” for Tony. We have to believe them. After all it’s their 7th time to visit our country.

If the older set in the audience had a great time, count us “oldies” by heart. Though their music does really aged like forever but it was unexpectedly beautiful. Theirs are love songs in the truest sense, those that touches the heart. If you were there, we’re sure you’ll be feeling the same way, too.

“Love songs never get out of style”. And we definitely agree. The music of The Lettermen is, in their own way ‘classical’, transcending all generations, cultures and trends.

On that one fine night, we did traipse the oldies’ memory lane. And how we loved the experience. It was not about “old” music really but the overwhelming melody, lyrics and notes approving our joys, filling our longings.

Frankly, we did enjoy the experience. Not bad for the ‘first timers’ in us.

What’s next CDOKAY? We heard you’re sending invitations again.

iAudio 6

Amazing Alternative for Costly Gadget

Having hard time looking for a gift or something you want for yourself? I've been to that stage dude, it's nice to know that there are audio gears that won't cost you that much but you're still in fashion.

Check out this awesome iAudio 6 mp3 player which you can store a thousand songs out of your 4 gigabytes memory.

It has also a drive for larger headphones and capable on producing appreciable volume level which often the problem of other smaller flash based players.

You will be surprise to see it in person as it is much smaller than it appears in picture and extremely nice, small and useful media player. You can bring this along as you go on a road trip or business trip so you'll never hear the same song twice for the entire trip which is really great and has many more features.

The player has also software applications which will allow you to synch files, add effects and make playlists.

I received an mp4 as a Christmas gift from someone special and it has only 1 gigabyte though it can store a lot of my favorite songs but the memory of this iAudio 6 caught my attention which has 4 gigabytes, it is really excellent for an audio player. I wanna try this one how it works having all the songs I love to listen to.

If you like something small, easy to use and can live with 4 gigabytes memory, then this is the better choice you can have! I find it really cute and cool little music player.