Yey! finally i’m in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA!!! Will coninue this post as i still need to get over my jetlag and settle down…..
This is it. Today i received my e-ticket. My flight is scheduled on the 25th of October. I’ll be going to Salt Lake City, Utah for an onshore work assignment for a few months. Well, i’m sad coz i’m surely gonna miss my loved ones. Its gonna be the first time also that i won’t be spending Christmas and New Year with my family. I’m gonna miss the cookings of my Lolo and Lola. Darn… i’m gonna miss a lot of things here. Good thing i’ll be away only for a few months. Some nice things to look forward to and be excited about is my dream come true – White Christmas! yeah, ever since i was a kid i always wanted to experience snow and not its finally gonna happen. hehe. I’ll also be dropping by Tacoma to visit my aunt and my two cousins. Shopping and lotsa chocolates excited me too. hehehe. oh well… only a few days left and for the first i’m step out of the Philippines and i’m gonna be on an airplane…. 
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Last Oct 14, i had my interview schedule at the US embassy for my L1 visa. Its my first time to go there and though i’m pretty sure i’ll get approved, i still felt really nervous especially when i was in the waiting room listening to how others get interviewed, approved and denied whilei was waiting for my turn. Mine was okay though the consul who interviewed me looked serious and grumpy but i could say he is good looking, hehehe. I was asked around 5 question i think and the one i won’t ever forget was the first question he asked me – “how old are you?” while giving me that serious look. My other officemates who were interviewed wasn’t asked that question so they were teasing me perhaps i looked young. haha. I’d just take that as a compliment then.
I arrived at 7am at the embassy and left there around 11am i think. It was raining and even with my umbrella, i got wet somehow before i was able to take an fx to Lawton where i’msupposed to take another fx to Las Piñas. I was not feeling really well that time so i decided to drop by SM Manila for a while to have lunch, rest a little, and make a call at the payphones there since i didn’thave my cellphones with me as it was restricted at the embassy. So there a big problem came up. My file case which has all my documents and receipts got lost. Well, its not necessarily lost. I guess due to me not feeling well and add up my sore feet and hungry tummy, i forgot that i placed my file case and shoes on top of the phonebooth. I only remembered it after i rested and had my lunch which is like over an hour after i made those calls. I was really worried especially when ideas that someone could have taken it thinking there was money inside it etc. The documents inside are really important to me and losing it is like throwing away my life.. (well that was what i felt that moment…lol). When i got back to the phonebooth, my file case was nowhere to be found and i really panicked especially after asking the guards in the entrance if they saw it or if someone surrendered it to them or what and they sadly said none. And this this one guard told me to try my luck at the security office where lost and found items are stored so i went to the security office as fast as i could. on my way, i tried calling up my sister at home to ask if somebody called up to say they found my file case and thank goodness she said a guy called up and left me a message to pickup my filecase at the SM security office which is where exactly im going to. So i walked faster, i ran actually, and when i got there i was greeted by 5 security guards and there i found my file case. I actually cried upon seeing it, guess those were tears of joy. I was really relieved to have found it, that a good soul has been honest enough to surrender it to the security office. I’d like to thank the lady guard Ms. Calicdan, she is actually the one who saw my file case and surrendered it to the office. I know she’s just doing her job but still i do thank her a lot. She saved me from super duper big problems that could have resulted from losing my file case.
So that’s a big lessons learned to me, no matter how bad i feel, never ever lose track of the things i have….
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They say, Its Microsoft’s ad againsts the Mac ad. Honestly, I prefer PCs or lets say Windows than Macs. I guess i grew up with it and i’ve got used to it already. But i’ve seen and tried Macs and i think they’re cute but i guess they’re just not for me. lol. So, with that, i’m proud to say, I’m a PC
I recently got a ASUS X80NE Notebook from a fellow TPC member. I’m not sure if the price is right but compared to others i’ve searched for i think its okay and cheaper. I got it for around 26.5k and it comes with a free laptop bag and optical mouse. Good enough for a simple laptop. Anyway, after i picked it up from their shop in Makati, it was pre-installed with XP already and a few drivers. I was given a copy of the other drivers needed but when i found out the the audio is not working and there are still yellow items in the Device Manager, i decided to browse around and download updated drivers from the ASUS website. I got most from the X80N folder and some like the UAA and PCMCIA from A8N (which is almost the same model as the X80N). After installing the drivers and some softwares, i finally have it working fine
This is the order in which you should install drivers for ASUS notebooks:
1. Chipset driver
2. ATKACPI driver (you may install all 5 atk drivers in the atk folder)
3. VGA driver
4. UAA driver (under the a8n audio driver folder)
5. Audio driver
6. Modem driver
7. LAN driver
8. Card Reader driver (under pcmcia folder)
9. Wireless Console utility (in Utilities folder)
10. Bluetooth driver (optional – if you don’t have BT just skip it)
11. Wireless driver (if you dont want to use the windows wireless connection manager)
12. Other drivers (kb_filter, touchpad drivers, tpm drivers if you need them)
13. Utilities (optional, if you don’t like Asus apps just skip it)
Suggested asus utilities you might want to install:
- splendid (for the splendid utility to work)
- instant fun
- lifeframe
- power 4 gear (for the power4 gear to work)
- asus dsm (a software that cna encrypt/hide files and folder)
Download drivers here. Just type the laptop model on the upper right corner search field and hit “search info” then choose the os model you need on the pop-up menu.
My comment after a few weeks of using it:
- laptop speaker is okay, initially sound is not that good but after playing around with the equalizer it sounded better already when playing music.
- display is beautiful and graphics look nice. the splendid technology software that comes with it added to its beauty.
- the builtin webcam is good enough even if its just a vga camera.
- like most notebooks, it easily gets hot so its better to get a laptop cooler
- weight is tolerable at around 2kg+ with the battery
- its very fast and easy to use. i feel like im still working on my desktop pc except that it got smaller.
- got no problems so far…