Stranded.. Food Trip.. Etc..

Yesterday my daughter and I were stranded in Jolibee due to a heavy downpour. We had the usual chat over some fries and sundae. And because were were getting bored, we took pictures even when we were inside the restroom. LOL.

Yup! That's us inside the restroom!!

More pictures below:

more pictures in her favorite place.. not not the restroom... the fast food!

HOW HEATHER CELEBRATED HER DADA'S BIRTHDAY

SKYPE!!! Why oh Why?

I used to have minimal, tolerable, technical problems using Skype. But lately, Skype has crashed twice. I wasn't affected when it crashed last month. Thank God for the old 3.8 version, I was online the whole time while most of my co-teachers had to cancel classes and re-schedule so many classes for a make-up class. And just tonight another Skype technical failure occurred. Weird how I went on having a 35-minute voice class while I was actually offline and my status icon was connecting. I was not able to send any messages that time, but classes went on. Then I went offline totally for half an hour. It was disturbing how I went in and out of Skype for an hour! However, after an hour, everything went okay with my own account. But I couldn't see my co-teachers online. They too went in and out of Skype from time to time. The bummest part was when you have come to class very prepared and not a single student showed up online, all because of Skype technical problems, AGAIN!!!

I noticed that since Microsoft acquired Skype last month, the technical problems became worse. There were countless dropped calls even when your internet speed was very good. You are shown offline when you didn't reset your status to turn automatically idle or offline for a period of time. While call is already in progress, you can still hear the other line ringing while the person on the other line is already talking. Or when you try to call you actually think the other party is not taking your call because it just keeps ringing but to your horror, it was not even ringing on the other end and sometimes you even appear offline!! Sooooo many technical problems in Skype drive me insane these days!

And because online teaching is my bread & butter, I got totally disappointed with how things are going on now. I hope these problems are resolved in the soonest possible time. Otherwise, there'd be more and more people going crazy over Skype.

Or is this a sign that we should switch to Google Talk instead?

...was busy.. still is busy..

Wow! I can't believe I have actually rested myself from blogging for A MONTH!!! How I miss my page! A lot has changed since I had to tend to my online store. @_@ I just got too busy with online classes, online selling and of course "facebooking" LOL. I have soooo much to write yet soooo little time.

What has bugged me lately? Watch out for my next blog. ;-)