Precious Moments

Click link for the video:  Xoom dot com, I love???? it!

 For those of us who are here in the USA and who watched The Filipino Channel (TFC), we are so familiar with the line “Xoom.com, I love it! Don’t wait in line, do it online”.

For the past years, I have been using the usual bank to bank money transfer from here to the Philippines. That means: 

1. Getting in my car to go to my US bank to withdraw cash. I must do it between 9am to 6pm on weekdays and 9am to 3pm on Saturdays
2. Then I have to drive some miles to go to a Philippine bank branch or US counterpart.
3. I have to wait in line for my turn
4. Have to pay $7.00 flat rate for remittance below $3,000.00.
5. Drive back home and text or call family in Cebu that the money is on its way
6. Then they get it a few hours later.

A few months back, due to constant TFC viewing, and with its promise that “your loved ones will get their money in hours, not days”, I tried xoom.com. That means:

1. In the middle of watching Kambal sa Uma around 8:00pm, I can log in to xoom.com
2. I fill out some ID questions
3. Key in information of the remittance
4. Pay $3.99 (Fees vary depending on remittance amount)
5. Click Authorize

XOOM!!! It’s done.

Plus

    * I get email confirmation of the transaction
    * I get email confirmation when the transaction is completed - meaning, if the money has been picked up.
NICE……

Two days ago, I sent two remittances for two different beneficiaries who needed it right away. I was confident they’ll get it ASAP.

Guess what?

Today, Saturday; I learned from an email from one of the beneficiaries that there’s a 4-day holding before they can release the money.

Huh?

Calling customer service does not help at all. How can they continue to advertise “ready to pick up in hours, even minutes” when they hold the fund for four days??? Even as I am writing this blog, I still can view this xoom.com commercial promising “ready in hours” not days as I watch TFC programs.

Way klaro!!!

(ten times thumb’s down)

Siguro after this, I guess I have to go back to my old fashioned bank to bank remittance. mag sight-seeing na lang ko along the way, bisan wala gud kaayo sights besides sidewalk.

Please check out this site. 

This is my alternate site I’ll be using for my business activities.

I have been shopping online, from dvds, photo prints, address labels to medical supplies to shoes.  So when I was introduced to this opportunity, I didn’t hesitate.  It’s easy, I will just have to shop online more and visit the stores less.  Of course, there are some things that only a stroll in the shopping mall can cure, but besides that, I’m willing to shift my shopping habits for the hope of creating a business for my own.

Please visit the site:  http://jaffintl.multiply.com/

Calling USC-GHS Batch 1990… 

I posted a blog in my other site and nobody seemed to remember what the other song was? Does anyone remember?

Please click on the link 1990; Cebu City Philippines

DINOSAURS

Dinosaurs are funny,

And they act like a bunny

Dinosaurs ate cats

And lots of bats

Dinosaurs have big thumbs

It looks like my drums.

The dinosaurs are in a hurry

Some of them are in a flurry

Some dinosaurs bang on the wall

While they play ball

Some dinosaurs are cool

But others act a fool

The dinosaurs went to their mom

To ask if they are tall

But when they got there

There was nothing at all

Some dinosaurs died

When they were bit in the side

Dinosaurs wear pants

And inside are a lot of ants

Some dinosaurs are mean

But others are green

They play hide-and-seek

And the next day they were weak

Now all dinosaurs are extinct

And it happened in a blink

Written by: Frances

Published by: Pine Tree Poetry

Pictures of one Saturday’s gallivanting in Redondo Beach, CA

44 questions and 44 answers.  I found this 44 Q & A in some friends’ entries and thought it would be fun if I do it too.  It’s kinda like "tagging myself". :-) 

1. Were you named after anyone?  ——– No!

2. Do you wish on stars? ——- No!

3. When was the last time you cried? —— Today

4. Do you like your handwriting?  —— Yes

5. What is your most embarrassing moment? —— I don’t remember (selective memory?)

6. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you? —— Yes

7. Do you have a journal? —— kind of….

8. Do you use sarcasm a lot?—— Sometimes lang

9. What are your nicknames? —— Inday, Jaze, Jazz, Jazey,  Jazzy girl

10. Would you bungee jump? —— Maybe!

11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? —— If there are shoelaces, yes I do untie them

12. Do you think that you are strong? —– No. 

13. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? —— coffee / mocha flavor 

14. What is your least favorite thing about yourself? —— I’m iyakin Huhuhu and I’m super duper beautiful BWAHAHAHAHA

15. Who do you miss most? ——  mga Bisdak relatives sa Cebu

16. What color pants and shoes are you wearing? Right now? —— Orange jammies & green slippers

17. What are you listening to right now? —— dialogue from Disney channel shows

18. Last thing you ate? —— lugaw

19. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be? —— yellow

20. What is the weather like right now? —— cool

21. Last person you talked to on the phone?  —— I don’t remember.  It’s been a while since I talk on the phone.  Cge lang ko text.

22. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex? —— their face!, if na bay bungot or  bangas :->      

23. Favorite Drink? —— coffee

24. Favorite Sport? —— I used to love to watch basketball (PBA). But since my idols have grown “old”, aw mature diay, like me, WALA NA

25. Hair Colour? ——  black

26. Eye Colour? ——  brown

27. Do you wear contacts? —— No

28. Favorite Food? —— Filipino foods

29. Last Movie You Watched? —— Ratatouille

30. Favorite Day Of The Year? —— My birthday 

31. Scary Movies Or Happy Endings? —— Happy endings

32. Summer Or Winter? —— summer ta to nya init man kayo uy, winter na lang

33. Hugs OR Kisses? —— both

34. What Is Your Favorite Dessert? —— kahit ano, basta sweet…

35. Living Arrangements? —— With family

36. What Books Are You Reading? —— User’s Guide  for Peachtree Accounting

37. What’s On Your Mouse Pad? —— the word DELL and support.dell.com

38. What did you Watch Last night on TV? —— Bandila

39. What are your favorite Smells? —— citrus scent, Miracle

40. Rolling Stones or Beatles? —— Beatles

41. What’s the furthest you’ve been from home? —— 7,000 plus miles away 

42. Do you have a special talent? —— I sleep a lot.  (talent ni???)

43. What is your ring tone? —— Don’t know, it just says Melody09.mid in my Samsung SGH-T809

44. Least favorite sound? —— nails scratched on blackboards/walls/metals

When you’re far and away, you kinda miss this.  Hehehe.

Months back, I’ve read a friend’s intro to one of her photo albums in Multiply that Yahoo photos is closing down.  I didn’t give it much thought assuming her info  might be one of those chain emails claiming this and that are closing down. 

Huhuhu.  I should have checked it as soon as I could.

Today, I thought of browsing through past pictures which I have saved in my Yahoo Photos accounts.   I have been saving pictures in my account since 2005. 

• I put them there so as to save disk space.
• I saved them there cause they remain private until I decide to share them to  some chosen few
• I safekept all of them, even those not good enough ones to merit printing, just for the sake of saving them.

I lost my breath for a second as I read the warning when I tried to log in to my account.  And I was literally breathing hard when I could not get to my photos for quite some time.

Good thing I stuck with browsing and just answered some survey and then my photos appeared.  Whew!!!  I was relieved.  For a while I thought I’ve lost them forever - years of precious moments captured in pixels.

I now have some new storage media with me.  I’m sure this photo transferring thing is going to be keeping me busy for some time.

Uhm, at least your first name

I just sent one of my friends my birthdate , which incidentally was yesterday-May31, for her Birthday Alarm Calendar.  On the page was a tiny box tempting me to fill up my name by asking a very curious cat like me a not-so-tempting question, "How popular are you?".  With a lot of curiosity and a bit of self-love (bit daw oh?), I typed my name and here’s the result.

Jasmine - Means: A Flower in the Olive Family Decade Popularity Rank 1900’s >1000 1910’s >1000 1920’s >1000 1930’s >1000 1940’s >1000 1950’s >1000 1960’s >1000 1970’s 481 1980’s 87 1990’s 25

What do you know?  I’m in the top 100! :-)  I actually have a very modern name even after 34 years! (ouch!)

For those who remembered and greeted me THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! :-)  mmmmwah!

For those who didn’t…… MGA TIGUWANG MONG DAGKU!  Limut mo greet ako birthday gahapon! Huhuhu