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Sorry if I wasnt able to post for the past couple of days, been busy with some stuff. When everything's all ironed out, I'll post it here. =)

I've been messing around with my old emails then I found this

Surviving the call center

“O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down.” — William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Henry IV, Part 2 (1600) act 3, sc.1

By Dr. Jose Pujalte Jr.

DO you work in a call center? This is for you.

First, the good news. You’ve probably been hired not just for your faux North American accent, facility of speech or patience. More than those qualities, you’re working there because you’re young and physically resilient.

Second, the bad news. If you’ve been getting graveyard shifts for the longest time and if you haven’t called in sick, you will. The body can take only so much abuse. And you’re no Superman (or Wonder Woman) who can’t be bothered with the common cold, a sore throat or even the flu. In fact, if you are getting these often enough and you see everyone around you with the same sickness, you might even think it’s normal. It’s not.

Now one of the main causes of chronic sickness is deranged sleep. This means several things: You may be suffering from lack of sleep, interrupted sleep, delayed sleep, inability to sleep, and restless sleep. The immune system of the body takes a hit in sleep disorders. With impaired body defenses, getting sick is just a matter of time.

Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder. The body has an "internal clock" that regulates a 24-hour cycle of biological processes – from changes in body temperature, to the release of hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, to digestion, to growth and healing of tissues and organs. "Circadian" is from the Latin "around the day," and disrupting the circadian rhythm leads to a malfunction of the internal body clock. This means, among other things, messing with the normal pattern of wanting to sleep when it is already dark.

Results of Less Sleep. According to the US National Sleep Foundation, adults need about 7 to 9 hours of sleep every day. But for sleep to be restorative, it must also follow the internal body clock that signals sleeping at night and being awake in the daytime. This is one reason that some call center workers who are up all night still have difficulty sleeping in the day. Now the sleep-deprived think and move more slowly, have problems remembering things, make more mistakes in doing chores, and are prone to irritability, anxiety, impatience, and depression. Call center workers on night shift suffer stomach problems like indigestion and heartburn, menstrual irregularities, colds, flu, and weight gain compared to day workers. In the long term, it is more likely for shift workers to get heart disease and hypertension.

Safety for the Sleep-Deprived. Drowsiness in the daytime (after the night shift) is common. This will certainly have an impact on activities that require alertness. In going home, it’s better not to drive. Instead, take public transportation or join a carpool. But if you must drive, drive defensively. If you are too fatigued, and if the call center has sleeping quarters, take a nap before going home.

How to Sleep Better. At home, make sleep a priority. Many adjustments can be done around the fact of night shift work. For example, make the bedroom as dark as possible to simulate night time. Minimize noise by asking house mates to turn down TV and radio volume. It helps to take a warm bath and lowering room temperature. To hasten sleep, do not make the brain work by solving crossword puzzles, reading a spy novel, or answering e-mail. For some, blocking out sensory stimulation means using earplugs and wearing an eye mask or shade. It makes sense to avoid caffeine, cola drinks, and other stimulants. Alcohol disturbs the sleeping cycle and you may wake up more tired than rested. A light snack before sleep helps in relaxation, too. Finally, exercise near bedtime will raise the body temperature and delay rest even more.

Chronic sleep loss or sleep disruption will make you age faster than you can say "dried prune." Even if you are young, take steps to protect your health before the body breaks down. Don’t ignore deepening fatigue – yawning, frequent blinking because of dry eyes or red eyes, slower movement, daytime drowsiness– all signs of a perilous "low batt" life.

Don’t be a casualty of global interaction.

Dr. Pujalte is an orthopedic surgeon. E-mail at jsp@pldtdsl.net

Something to ponder...

Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?
-Edgar Allen Poe

Bumming while working...

Current Mood: Happy

Today, medyo masaya kasi meron ako unexpected visitor sa office, si jen haha!! SIL sya ngaun pero pumunta ng shaw para, guess what, mag work… amph!!

Masaya ako kse nagpakain sya ng mallows tsaka popcorn wahahaha.. Salamat sa pagvisit ^_^

Another thing, naglaro kami DOTA ng mga ka team mates ko (Team ruwi). 2 games kami, 4 vs 3 ung laban haha. Sarap maglaro. TL namin lakas magtrashtalk haha!! Sana maulit uli un hehehe, Im gonna need more practice.

Happy din pala ako kase tapos na midterms ni onpu (and she got excellent scores on all of those test). Congratulations baby ko~!! Your one step closer in reaching your dreams and I’m so very proud of you. Keep up the good work. /kis :D

P.S.

Kaso walang paper cups sa pantry, di ako makapagkape waaaah!!!

Coming soon:

Sooner or later, I’m gonna post some pictures that my good friend took (para dagdag publicity na din). I swear, he is really good.. pero I gotta get permission from him before I post some of his photographs here. =)

Dota 6.48b

Dota 6.48b Released

Haven’t tried this version yet but I’ll try it later when I get home. (Puck got pwned!!)

Changes in this version:

* Fixed a bug when reloading saved game with Leshrac or Storm

* Fixed a big but rare MAC only (PPC not Intel) bug relating to Abaddon

* Lowered Puck's Intelligence gain per level 

* Increased cool down on Waning Rift

* Slightly reduced Shapeshift's cool down

* Increased Reverse Polarity cool down from 120/100/80 to 120/110/100 seconds 

* Increased Enigma's base armor

* Rebalanced Chronosphere

* Fixed various Silence durations on non-hero units

* Fixed converted ghouls' capacity to attack trees

* Slightly lowered Puck's movement speed 

* Fixed a rare fatal issue with Aphotic Shield that could happen in -sh or with converted units

* Increased Yurnero's base armor

* Fixed a typo in Sanity's Eclipse tooltip

* Increased Rooftrellen's Agility per level

* Changed terrain command to be a host entered game mode (-ts/-terrainsnow). Please advertise this when you are hosting a game, not everyone likes a different terrain. 

* Increased Tidehunter's movement speed

* Restored the old duration based Shallow Grave

* Fixed fogged units not getting stunned from Dream Coil

* Fixed game mode parser to not error "invalid game mode" when a non-gamemode option is entered before the game mode itself (like -weather snow before -ap for example) 

* Fixed Dragon Knight's revive name

* Fixed Soul Assumption visual effect

* Increased Lycanthropy Wolves' base armor

* Fixed a recent bug with Multicast Bloodlust

* Fixed various other minor typos

* Fixed damage type on Double Edge to deal magic damage instead of pure damage to yourself 

* Added some better feedback text to -swap

* Slightly lowered Bristleback's base armor 

Bad week starts…

Current mood: Upset and not in the mood

Monday: Labor day sa U.S. so wala mashado calls na pumapasok, ok tong araw na to, Petiks!!

Tuesday: nagbalikan na sila lahat sa trabaho, sobrang dami ng tumawag kahapon, walang pahinga!! Nakakapagod tapos konti pa benta.. hayyy…

Wednesday: Late ako nagising kasi di tumunog ung alarm ko, nagmamadali ako pumasok, stuck sa traffic sa my baclaran (kasi simbang baclaran pala) so, sumakay ako ng bus, eh stooopid conductor, sabi eh dadaan daw sila ng Shaw blvd. eh di naman pala /pif… so here I am, nag taxi (Thank God, di ako late) pero musta naman, Php150 nagastos ko papunta pa lang dito, so mamaya di na lang ako maglalunch para makatipid… tapos dito naman sa work, ang dami ko na agad tawag, wala naman akong mabenta.. haaay

I can’t wait to see how this week will end… *sigh*

Edited: Well, it wasn't really that bad... My sale today totals for $1200.. it wasn't that bad after all.

Whatta day...

Dear Blog,

I’m sorry I won’t be able to update you today. There’s an influx of calls coming in and I don’t have that much of a luxury to write about something. I’ll do my best to post something later.

Fritz

Words to live by...

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

Oprah Winfrey
TV host and producer, publisher, philanthropist

Nice quote diba? =)

The Road Not Taken

Monday shift at work, and I have nothing to do because it’s Labor Day in the U.S. so, I kind of advertised for some people to give me some topics that I can write about. Here’s one.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- Thanks to Ana for bringing up such a wonderful piece of art

I’ve first read this poem when I was still in college, in one of my English subjects. I didn’t know where I saved a copy of the reaction paper I made for this poem. But nonetheless, this was one of the most inspiring poems that I’ve read so far. Now, unto the poem itself.

The poem talks about a journey. It could be a journey towards a goal, a journey through life or a journey towards something of importance. As I read the poem, it comes to a point wherein along the way, in order to reach a certain goal, you find yourself stuck along a forked road. This is Robert’s way of symbolizing choices that you will need to make in order to achieve that goal. In the next line, Robert made several descriptions about that particular “path” that we can take. One path, wherein he said had “Better claim” could be a path which is easier, the other path could mean that it’s harder.

Nonetheless, what Robert wants to point out here is the importance of independence and personal freedom. That we should live every decision that we make in life. The poem points out that when we make these decisions, there will be no turning back.

Frost never said in this poem that the less traveled road is the most correct way but what he’s after is a traveler’s thoughts about the decisions that he made during the journey and the way that traveler ponders if that decision was correct.

I hope you had fun reading the poem as much as I did. =)

About the author...

Since this is like the first time that I’ve taken blogging seriously, I would like some of my readers to know something about myself.

Name: Fritz Gerald Dalida

Address: Somewhere in Las Pinas

Course and School: BS Biology @ DLSU-M

Hobbies: Likes to play basketball, PC games, read books and magazines, watching movies.

Occupation: Currently working now at eTelecare Global Solutions, Inc.

If you wanna fire me some questions, drop by nyo lang sa comments window hehehe.. I’ll answer it as fast and accurate as I can. =)

Lost memories...

I have stopped playing online games for the past 3 months now. I stopped because of much more important things like work, my girlfriend, my family and real life friends.

One of the most unforgettable experience I had with my online gaming career (asides from ~sHiELa1~ of course lol) was taking part on events like RPC 2004-2006, multiple EBs with Leng and her Ninja guild, fighting along side Cross guild, and meeting lots of people, di ko na kayo iisa isahin, sa sobrang dami nyo eh baka abutin ng gazillion pages tong blog post na to hehehe.

Miss you all guys! Hope Makita ko kayo this coming RPC. =)

This is dedicated to all my friends. Love you all.. =) /kis

(This video was shown as the grand prize winner movie last RPC 2006)

(Source: YouTube)

Response to Noontime show scandal

Good day everyone, This’ll be my first ever blog post. So ya’ll can expect a lot more blog post from me. I’ll keep you updated with all the topics that I'm interested in and events that happened to my life and maybe along the way, we’ll learn a lesson or two. So please, come with me in this journey.

Now first up…

Wowowiee Vs Eat Bulaga

1^st up, I’m pretty amused with the drama that these two celebrities (Willie and Joey) had produced.

Don’t mistake me guys, I’m not the type of person who watches noontime shows on a daily basis (mostly I’m asleep at that hour or I’m busy playing online games), you’ll most likely find me in my bed watching Discovery Channel during that time because that slot coincides with mythbusters, which I find very interesting.

Now, unto the issue…

(Source: YouTube)

In this video, it shows that Willie mistakenly pulled out “0” in the box that he said contained the 2 million jackpot, later on he pulled out “2” from the same box.

Here’s Willie’s Statement…

(Source: YouTube)

(Source: YouTube)

Here’s Joey’s reply…

(Source: YouTube)

In this video, Joey attacks a “celebrity” (Its obvious who he is pertaining to). Nuff said.

My Opinion to this issue:

The first time that I watched Willie’s mistake in pulling out the slide, to be honest, it made my eyebrows twitch. But I finished the video first then also watched Joey’s reply.

Lemme comment first on Joey regarding this issue.

Ever since I was a kid, Eat Bulaga was still on Ch 2. I remember watching the tandem of Tito, Vic and Joey as stars of this long running variety show. I did watch Eat Bulaga when I was still a kid, but when the time that they transferred to GMA 7 to give way to APO hiking society show, I’ve lost track of what happened to the show. The only news I hear from them is from my mother who comments on how Joey’s side remarks always pertains to shows that compete with his show on that timeslot ie. APO, MTB, Wowowee.

As I watched Joey’s reply, I, somewhat became a little bit irritated on the way he continuously repeat details like “napanood ko to sa internet, sa dyaryo, sa radio, sa komentarista”, “ayon sa video sa youtube”, “ayon sa mga napakikinggan nyo sa internet”. Gawd, everybody knows what happened already. You don’t have to tell the story again (I’ve watched Willie’s video and your reply, and some details that Joey told his audience are crap). By continuously repeating details, he is successful in blurring some of the details of what truly happened, he is successful in adding insult to the injury of Willie and his staff, and lastly, he makes himself look good with all this comments that he made about the show and the host (which up until now, he doesn’t have the balls to name).

“Ang bata pag nadapa, tinatanong natin kung bakit”. Really now? If you really cared about the kid, you’ll pick him right up and brush the dirt of his pants. Imagine you’re a parent then your child fell to the ground, are you gonna just stare at your kid, and then ask him why he fell down? Or are you gonna pick him up, treat his injuries then move on? If I were your kid, I’d complain why I had you as a father. A father who only cared about himself, his ratings and not his family (showbiz and the artist).

“Explain before you complain”. Well, the explanation to what happened there was pretty logical (I’ll come to this later) if you’re the type of person who doesn’t think bad of other people. Especially coming from Joey who spent like 12 years of his life in noontime show processes.

Now unto what I thought REALLY HAPPENED to the show…

First, let us put ourselves in the shoes of the manager of the show, the props people, and the management.

The Wilyonaryo show consist of 12 boxes, 4 of which contains the prizes (2 million, 1 million, 500K, House and lot) technically giving the contestant 1 out of 3 chances to get a prize (33.33% of winning). If you are the staff or props person of the show, you would be thinking everyday on which colored boxes you would put the prizes right? And also you would be thinking of the most economical of doing it instead of having to repaint the boxes everyday with the number “2”, right?

The most efficient way of dealing with a contest like this is, make 12 boxes with different colors, then make 12 slides containing “0”, then make 4 slides marking the possible prizes. The benefit of this? You only have 4 slides to shuffle, you’ll just place the prize slide over the existing “0” slide. Its fast, it’s efficient and its economical. I think what happened to that event was Willie just made a mistake on pulling out that slide.

Of course a lot of you will say that I’m biased blah blah all that crap. To tell you, I’m not. I won’t reap any benefits writing this. If there will be any benefit that I’m gonna get in writing this, I want that benefit to be that all my readers opened up their minds by getting all the details first on an issue then producing constructive and intelligent comments and taking necessary actions so that bad things won’t happen again.

My bottom line to this issue is this. As far as I know, there are only two noontime shows who gets majority of the viewers during that time slot. Couldn’t you just share those viewers? Why do you keep on dragging each other down? You think you’ll gain respect doing that? You think you’ll up your ratings, yourself and your dignity by mutilating your opponents? Well, think again.