BPI Family Gives me a Headache
One of my banks is BPI Family Bank. Generally, the service is good but it recently gave me a headache. The branch where I opened my account informed me that they will be closing and that my account has to be transferred to another branch. At first I thought it would just be a matter of signing some form and they do the rest. However, I was wrong. Here’s what they asked me to do:
- They asked me to surrender my old ATM card.
- Then, I filled up some forms which are exactly the same as the new accounts forms
- Then, I was asked to submit 2 ID pictures, proof of billing, and 2 valid IDs
- I signed up another form authorizing BPI Family Bank to transfer the balance from my old account to the new account.
- I was asked to wait for one week so I can get my new ATM card. During this waiting period, I couldn’t withdraw any amount since my old ATM card was already surrendered to them. So I had to withdraw a large sum first before I actually surrender the old card.
Looks cool? I don’t think so. The waiting period is annoying. I could have done this instead.
- Go to a different BPI Family Bank branch and open a new account there. If I do this, I would be able to get my ATM card on the same day and make full transactions with the new account immediately.
- Withdraw all the funds from my old account and deposit them myself to the new account. This will also effectively close the old account.
See my point? I should have been told to do the latter instead but I wasn’t given any option. After all, I thought the transfer would be painless but well, I was wrong.
Skull Flattening in Babies
I am expecting a new baby this coming December and because of that, me and my wife are again checking the internet for information - new and old - regarding child care. One thing that concerns most parents is the problem of sleep related skull flattening in babies. I have a cousin who had this problem. His father also had the same problem and they both grew up with a certain portion of their skulls quite flat. I also have a friend who has the same problem. These people are already adults and the problem can no longer be resolved. In fact, the only way to solve sleep related skull flattening is by preventing it from happening. One way to prevent is to keep repositioning the baby at regular intervals. But that’s too much for some parents especially if the parents are tired from work and needs a good sleep.
That’s where NightForm comes in. I’ve found this pretty cool product in the internet and it looks promising. It does the regular repositioning all by itself making sure that your baby won’t suffer from sleep related skull flattening. It gives parents the assurance that little baby will be alright even if mommy and daddy have to sleep tight.
I’ll call it a day
Ok, I can honestly say that I’ve accomplished lots of things today. I earned at least $63 today and I think that’s enough to get me and my family through until tomorrow. I have one more thing to do… Go and visit Vicki and ask her to pay me the balance of what she owes me. Hehehe. If she pays then good, if not then there’s tomorrow.
I will then take a nice cold bath, watch TV, maybe play a game or two, and relax. Oh yes!
After all the day’s turmoil, life still is beautiful! See ya tomorrow!
I’ll call it a day
Ok, I can honestly say that I’ve accomplished lots of things today. I earned at least $63 today and I think that’s enough to get me and my family through until tomorrow. I have one more thing to do… Go and visit Vicki and ask her to pay me the balance of what she owes me. Hehehe. If she pays then good, if not then there’s tomorrow.
I will then take a nice cold bath, watch TV, maybe play a game or two, and relax. Oh yes!
After all the day’s turmoil, life still is beautiful! See ya tomorrow!
Getting rid of those Telemarketers
I market my products and I honestly would go through lots of things just to market my products. But as a human being, I don’t want those telemarketers who harvest phone numbers from classified ads calling me everyday pitching some new sales offer that they call is ‘the best.’ I need a solution and I think I just found one!
It’s called MyAdBox. It is a state of the art product that assigns a disposable tollfree number and anonymous email address. So instead of posting my real phone number and email address on my next classified ad, I would be posting their MyAdBox counterparts. No more telemarketers. No more wasted time poring through junk mail. No more wasted time on useless incoming calls.
Close your eyes, relax, take a deep breath…
What exactly is it that I want to do? I want to relax. I want to take a break off this very hectic world that we live in. This world that we call Information technology. Everything is fast, everything is tiring. Information travels from one point of the globe to another in a matter of seconds. Billions of dollars are transacted every day and everybody wants to take a share of this very large pie called ‘money’ and yet, all I want is to relax. Hahaha. Yes, I want money too, but for now, relaxing is better…
Close your eyes, relax, take a deep breath…
What exactly is it that I want to do? I want to relax. I want to take a break off this very hectic world that we live in. This world that we call Information technology. Everything is fast, everything is tiring. Information travels from one point of the globe to another in a matter of seconds. Billions of dollars are transacted every day and everybody wants to take a share of this very large pie called ‘money’ and yet, all I want is to relax. Hahaha. Yes, I want money too, but for now, relaxing is better…
Glass and Beauty
I used to work at a fashion jewelry factory owned by an Australian. I was amazed at what kind of beautiful fashion jewelry can come up from broken glass. It was just pretty. Another thing that you can do with glass is to create mosaic tiles out of them.
One website that stands as a good example for mosaic tiles artistry is www.mosaictilearts.com. Their website is simple but their works are great. Tiles don’t have to be boring. In fact, they can be as lively as a rainbow! Check them out.
Bill Gates in Heaven
Bill Gates died and, much to everyone’s surprise, went to Heaven. When he got there, he had to wait in the reception area. Heaven’s reception area was the size of Massachusetts. There were literally millions of people milling about, living in tents with nothing to do all day. Food and water were being distributed from the backs of trucks, while staffers with clipboards slowly worked their way through the crowd. Booze and drugs were being passed around. Fights were commonplace. Sanitation conditions were appalling. All in all, the scene looked like Woodstock gone metastatic.
Bill lived in a tent for three weeks until, finally, one of the staffers approached him. The staffer was a young man in his late teens, face scarred with acne. He was wearing a blue T-shirt with the words TEAM PETER emblazoned on it in large yellow lettering. “Hello,” said the staffer in a bored voice that could have been the voice of any clerk in any overgrown bureaucracy. “My name is Gabriel and I’ll be your induction coordinator.” Bill started to ask a question, but Gabriel interrupted him. “No, I’m not the Archangel Gabriel. I’m just a guy from Philadelphia named Gabriel who died in a car wreck at the age of 17. Now give me your name, last name first, unless you were Chinese in which case it’s first name first.”
“Gates, Bill.” Gabriel started searching though the sheaf of papers on his clipboard, looking for Bill’s Record of Earthly Works. “What’s going on here?” asked Bill. “Why are all these people here? Where’s Saint Peter? Where are the Pearly Gates?” Gabriel ignored the questions until he located Bill’s records. Then Gabriel looked up in surprise. “It says here that you were the president of a large software company. Is that right?”
“Yes.”
“Well then, do the math chip-head! When this Saint Peter business started, it was an easy gig. Only a hundred or so people died every day, and Peter could handle it all by himself, no problem. But now there are over five billion people on earth. Come on, when God said to ‘go forth and multiply,’ he didn’t say ‘like rabbits!’ With that large a population, ten thousand people die every hour. Over a quarter-million people a day. Do you think Peter can meet them all personally?”
“I guess not.”
“You guess right. So Peter had to franchise the operation. Now, Peter is the CEO of Team Peter Enterprises, Inc. He just sits in the corporate headquarters and sets policy. Franchisees like me handle the actual inductions.” Gabriel looked though his paperwork some more, and then continued. “Your paperwork seems to be in order. And with a background like yours, you’ll be getting a plum job assignment.”
“Job assignment?”
“Of course. Did you expect to spend the rest of eternity sitting on your ass and drinking ambrosia? Heaven is a big operation. You have to pull your weight around here!” Gabriel took out a triplicate form, had Bill sign at the bottom, and then tore out the middle copy and handed it to Bill. “Take this down to induction center #23 and meet up with your occupational orientator. His name is Abraham.” Bill started to ask a question, but Gabriel interrupted him. “No, he’s not *that* Abraham.”
Bill walked down a muddy trail for ten miles until he came to induction center #23. He met with Abraham after a mere six-hour wait. “Heaven is centuries behind in building its data processing infrastructure,” explained Abraham. “As you’ve seen, we’re still doing everything on paper. It takes us a week just to process new entries.” “I had to wait *three* weeks?” said Bill. Abraham stared at Bill angrily, and Bill realized that he’d made a mistake. Even in Heaven, it’s best not to contradict a bureaucrat. “Well,” Bill offered, “maybe that Bosnia thing has you guys backed up.” Abraham’s look of anger faded to mere annoyance. “Your job will be to supervise Heaven’s new data processing center. We’re building the largest computing facility in creation. Half a million computers connected by a multi-segment fiber optic network, all running into a back-end server network with a thousand CPUs on a gigabit channel. Fully fault tolerant. Fully distributed processing. The works.”
Bill could barely contain his excitement. “Wow! What a great job! This is really Heaven!”
“We’re just finishing construction, and we’ll be starting operations soon. Would you like to go see the center now?”
“You bet!”
Abraham and Bill caught the shuttle bus and went to Heaven’s new data processing center. It was a truly huge facility, a hundred times bigger than the Astrodome. Workmen were crawling all over the place, getting the miles of fiber optic cables properly installed. But the center was dominated by the computers. Half a million computers, arranged neatly row- by-row, half a million ….
…. Power PC’s ….
…. all running Mac/OS! Not a Intel PC in sight! Not a single byte of Microsoft code!
The thought of spending the rest of eternity using products that he had spent his whole life working to destroy was too much for Bill. “What about PCs???” he exclaimed. “What about Windows??? What about Excel??? What about Word???”
“You’re forgetting something,” said Abraham.
“What’s that?” asked Bill plaintively.
“This is Heaven,” explained Abraham. “We need a operating system that’s heavenly to use. If you want to build a data processing center based on PCs running Windows, then ….
…. GO TO HELL!”
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