Finally, after many years of the Institute of Integrated Electrical Enginers – Central Region Chapter, Saudi Arabia (IIEE-CRCSA) existence, the chapter was awarded as the 2010 Most Outstanding Foreign Chaper by the IIEE Board of Directors in Manila. The award was announced to the current Chapter President, Engr. Vic Imperial who had spearheaded this project with the help of the ever supportive Board of Directors and officers of the chapter.

The chapter’s current VP for Technical Affairs, Engr. Rolando Nicolas cited, “special mention to those members and non-members who attended and participated in all technical seminars, trainings/workshops, convention and other activities for year 2010. And without the general membership, this award will not be made possible. Thank you for your cooperation and full support to the Chapter. Congratulations to all of us because we deserve it.” 

Similar congratulations and greetings were received also from other members and friends, and likewise special messages from former chapter presidents who once aimed for this recognition during their terms.

Kudus to all IIEE-CRCSA members and officers, Mabuhay!

I had my regular monthly check-up with my Cardiologist the other day. My visit was intended only to get my regular monthly maintenance medicine for my high blood pressure. Based on my latest laboratory tests, it showed that my cholesterol level was low, uric acid value was low, blood sugar was perfect and my triglyceride level was a little bit high. But what my Cardiologist concerns much was his monitoring of my weight loss. For the past five or six months, my weight was fairly in between 96 and 97 kilograms. My desired weight according to my height and age should at least be  80 kilograms.  Wow 80 Kgs!

Previously my Cardiologist challenged me to meet the desired weight and try to reduce at least a kilogram per month, which means 2.2 pounds per month. This did not materialized earlier because my supposed to be walking exercise using our thread mill at home was seldom done.

From watching the Biggest Loser show on TV, I have known that to loss a pound, we need to burn at least 2,400 calories. This means that by my walking exercise on the thread mill for 30 minutes that burns about 200 calories, I need to spend 12 days to loss a pound. So, if I have to exercise daily for 30 minutes, about a kilo weight loss in a month is very much possible based on my mathematical computation.

Yesterday I have received an email coming from a brother from a far place in the kingdom. In his mail he is asking for a favor for me and my wife to visit them again at their place and conduct a marriage enrichment retreat for their members. This is part of formation program for couple members of the community to strengthen their married and family life, which forms the foundation for their life together as married couples, and to foster a better understanding of God’s plan for marriage and family life, and to get the couple-participants to commit themselves to living out God’s plan.

We have been to that place before on a mission and it was a wonderful experience meeting other members of the community and serving them thru giving of formation program talks and learning on how they spend their community activities and sharing with them their way of life.

Again we were being requested to make a visit again; since we had promised them that we will be back and I know that this is God’s calling for us to go on mission again.

It’s been a while that I was not able to visit and upadte this site and I have noticed some changes to it wherein my header was lost and some previous features were not found. I guess when I have initiated updates, these features were lost or might be combined to other features. So I need to check and carefully review what had happened. Or maybe I need to frequently visit and update my blog so I’ll be aware of such changes. If not, I might totally forget what I had previously done and added.

Now that I’m back to blogging again, surely I’ll be more aware of changes and updates to come.

Recently my wife had created her first ever blog site and she had started writing various topics on any subject that comes to her mind. Her  blog site contains topics about daily life, encounters with friends, travels and at times wherein she’s out of topic, then about me was her favorite subject.

Now she has accomplished the required number of write-ups to qualify her site for advertisers to mention and talk about their website products and services. This in return makes her, the blogger receive payment per task/blog entry, for writing and mentioning in her website.

I guess I’ll try to revive my website and try to compose some articles so I could join her in her latest blogging career and earn something out of blogging. To other bloggers out there, please count me in!

Share ko lang po ang ilang karanasan ng mga kapwa nating OFWs sa pag-process ng kanilang OECs sa mismong tanggapan ng POEA sa EDSA corner Ortigas, Mandaluyong City.

Kapag araw ng Lunes at Martes ay madaming mga kapwa nating OFW ang nag-proprocess ng kanilang mga OECs. Karamihan ay mga galling karatig probinsya. Sa dami ng nag-proprocess isang option ang mag-process sa tinatawag nilang POEA Balik-Manggagawa OEC Delivery ng Pilipinas Teleserv, Inc. Syempre nga naman di ka na pipila ng matagal at di ka na maghintay pa na matapos ang processing dahil idedeliver mismo ang tapos ng OEC mo sa inyong mga sarili tahanan. Malaking ginhawa di ba?

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It’s been a long time that I was not able to update this blog site and since my wife Beng has started her own blog (visit her blog at http://loveordained.net) I guess that it’s time for me to bring back my blog back to life. I just need to find time for me to compose some write-ups and post them while I am login to Facebook meeting new friends and reading various posts and comments. Likewise, I might consider my sister-in-law, Jenny’s suggestion that I have to rejuvenate my blog to earn some few bucks posting links from various advertisers. I think that would be okay and make sense. So here I am back again and see you more on my next posts. Bye for now!

I was not able to update this site for a long time and I hope to find a time to make updates and revise some contents, add more topics and filter posting of comments.

Another sandstorm again hit Riyadh and this time it is more terrible than the previous one. The skyline of Riyadh City at 12 noon today was blazing orange and almost zero visibility. I had taken picture of the same spot I had before and you could see the difference.

Riyadh City now was covered with severe dust, literraly blowing dust everywhere, which created zero visibility. It started early this morning and till now at noon time still the smell of dust is everywhere and we tend to wear dust masks even inside our offices. Weather is now changing, winter has gone and expect summer to be at the corner fast approaching.