Diverse interests

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This seems to be a week of discoveries.

My colleague, who runs Pasaway.org and Pinoy Downloads, introduced me to a service that allows me to earn money (in British Pounds) just by using my alloted homepage as my default search engine. Granted, you’ll have to search many many times before you really see money pour in, but you don’t lose anything either. Check it out my homepage or sign up as my friend, here.

I also learned of of Xylia, and met the Sore Thumbs gang at the start of this week.

Through Blog Explosion, I had also browsed through interesting blogs that I’ve bookmarked and will visit again soon.

I also got freaked out and have had lots of laughs this week, courtesy of Peter.

There are new additions to my Digiscrapping Blogroll as I visited designers and admired they work for the first time. Sorry, I can’t link them in this post because I didn’t keep track of the newest links.

But I’ve also realized, through the many new things I found interesting this week, is that I am interested in many things. This is good. But it also has a negative side. I find that my mind is scattered – I have so many concerns throughout the day, so much that I want to spend my time on. I want to read and finish the book I picked up last week. I want to organize my digi stash and make layouts. I want to blog. I want to learn to make WordPress themes from scratch. I want to earn money online.

My baking/truffle-making isn’t even on that list yet. And then there’s still the official work that I have to do.

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Have you seen pictures of the 2008 Beijing Olympics? I didn’t see the Opening Ceremony (I’ll look for reruns during the weekend) but I have been browsing this gallery. I am awed by the colors, the pageantry and the spectacle of it all. I know there is politics associated with China hosting the Olympics this year, but that aside, it would have been something to be a performer in any one of those numbers!

Xylia Tales

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In the other day’s post I mentioned my Web Comics finds. I have finished digging through the archives of Xylia, and will now be eagerly awaiting the updates every week.

The story is interesting, and the art is beautiful.

On a different note… at work today I was thinking about the training post. If the posting was for QC, I’d pounce on it. I know I really want to be facilitator. Oh well.

Training girl

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Today I had been in a training class, and it reminded me again how much I miss that environment. It was a Problem Solving class that I enlisted some of my team for and decided to attend as well. I had fun, and I had insights too. The most important thing is that I believe they picked up something from it.

So that was about half of my day in the office, the rest, well, was just normal like any other day. I signed up for several classes (like six?) this month because, as I told Papi Boden (my boss), I need something to exercise my brain. I guess I’m looking for something to jumpstart the bubbliness in me. I think it will actually work.

On my way out, I saw the posting for internal job openings on the HR board. There’s an opening for a Training Supervisor! Is this what I’m waiting for? The other thing at work that I was kinda counting on did not fall through and I’ve lost interest, in any case. I’ve been thinking, since my boss asked about it last week, what it is that I want next. Do I stay in operations and aim for a Senior TM post? Or do I go back to Training? Talk about timing!

The catch is, the post will be for another site, in another city that’s about an hour or so from here. I’ve never worked or studied that far away from home. It’s going to be a big decision. Of course, I’m not even sure if I’ll get the job but I have to think about these things too before I even submit an application, right?

First there was the ECPAT activity that reminded me of what I used to do (facilitate workshops and trainings) and then there’s this. This really seems to be my calling – to be facilitating learning.

I’ve got lots of time before the deadline (on the 12th). I pray for guidance in making the right decision.

Comic book finds

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Clicking through Project Wonderful ads (I carry those too, please check them out if you’re so inclined) has led me to wonderful discoveries tonight. I am now reading Comics online!

The first one that caught my fancy is Xylia Tales. The graphics are really awesome. I clicked on the Archives link and read from when it all began. I’ve only reached the beginning of Chapter 2, so far. I’ve got plenty of pages more to go.

They also just updated their website (as in just now) and now I see that the author/artist has a second story up. That should be interesting too. Maybe when I have some earnings from my ads I’ll donate to the site, I do want to see more from them!

The second comic I started reading (at the same time, I go back and forth between the two) is Sore Thumbs. While Xylia is high fantasy, Sore Thumbs, for me, is satirical. One has to have an open mind to be able to appreciate it. I’ve gone back to the first issue which dates back to 2004!

Anyway, these artists are awesome and they publish their work on the web for free. Counting on donations and income from ads, I guess. I bet Alfred would be interested in these as well. I can’t wait to tell him.

When I was a little girl, my dad would buy me local comic books when he goes to the market. Both he and my mom really encouraged me to read, and comics was among the varied materials I got. What made it more meaningful for me was how he would tell me stories of him sneaking comics when he was a kid. His father didn’t approve of them and thought they were good for nothing. He would save his school money though, buy comics, and hideout under the house just to read. I felt like I was privileged because I could read them openly. Of course I understood too that maybe not all comics are fit for young minds.

Anyway, I stopped reading local comics a long time ago, except the dailies published in the broadsheets. I’d be delighted to see the comics of old published on the web too – along with the younger artists.

One for the Font Addicts!

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I was bloghopping and freebie hunting and came across this video from Beth Nixon:

I still haven’t found a way to organize the many fonts I’ve amassed. Haven’t even re-installed any of them since my PC was fixed. This video sure reminded me that I needed to work on that too.

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