Wednesday, June 4, 2008





DALMATIAN WANNABE!


I was in my 4th area on my mission in Bacolod when i saw this weird dog. it took me sometime to regain my composure because i couldn't stop laughing. whoever did this was a complete Genius! a simple street dog with a little spritz of paint...voila! you've got yourself your own version of Dalmatian.









if you can't buy one, paint one!

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

I'd like to buy a vowel


it's been a year since i became a medical transcriptionist. 7 hours of listening to the doctors dictate their patient's diagnoses and procedures...you have to be a touch typist to meet the quota. 780 lines and 98% accuracy is not a joke! i salute whoever transcribed benny lava on youtube. lol. transcribing surgical procedures from breast augmentation to esophagogastroduodenoscopy to unwanted pregnancies are really interesting. the doctors from Cedar Sinai Medical Center to Las Vegas Regional Surgery Center are unremarkable. from american doctors to english-speaking hindu doctors and english-speaking japanese doctors..you'll hear the worst. :D and what adds to the awesomeness of this job, DVORAK...dvorak typing. WHAT???

honestly, when i first heard DVORAK, i thought it was the cousin of Molotov cocktail. lol. what the heck was DVORAK??? do i have to eat it with my fingers or drink it with a straw??? when our trainer handed out some papers to us with DVORAK layout on it...it sure looked SO complexed. i thought there must be something wrong with the layout. i had to squint over and over to check if my eyes were playing tricks on me, but they weren't. needless to say we had the paper with the drawing on it memorized. then, the next day came, we had to type using the layout only in our minds. needless to say, everybody was complaining! how in the world we'd be able to type in the computer without cheating??? i was not a QWERTY touch typist...i only used both my index fingers to type let alone screw the letters in the keyboard. the day was almost over and we had to do a typing speed test. we were all dreading it for 3 months of training but yes, i got 5 wpm! not bad knowing that Fernan and Maricris only got 4 wpm!!! ha!

so, i've searched bout DVORAK online. here's to sum up what i've read online:

Dvorak keyboard was designed for the typist, to make typing more efficient, more comfortable, faster.

Qwerty keyboard was designed for the machine, to improve the performance of the machine not the typist.

i'm SO relieved that we don't use typewriters anymore. :)

Sunday, May 25, 2008

first attempt



it's been a while since i signed up in this blog and only now that i had the initiative to write something here. i have heard about this way back since blogging was just starting but did not show any interest. lately, i couldn't even update my friendster, myspace and facebook accounts let alone create and maintain a blog. since i got home from my mission i lost my appetite in too much technologies cuz of the simple life in the mish without the luxury of the hi-tech gadgets and gizmos. there are only 2 people i know who are blogging...my fiance, Andrew and my cousin, Alvin. i became curious bout this when i saw my fiance's account cuz i saw him updated his. my cousin pushed me into blogging. now, i've started writing here...the next step is to find other bloggers to make this thing worth keeping.


ps. here is my pic just in case it's necessary to post any. i'll try to update this again if i remember. wish me luck. ciao! : )


oh psps. i don't need to write my resume here, do i?