Radius

I never had this experience of living life in a community, not that our community is a perfect place to do this but this is the first time i had work, school (daughter's) home in one baranggay.  In primary school thru high school, it was 2 municipalities and maybe 15 baranggays apart living in philam talon 2, las pinas and studying in la huerta paranaque.  Later in college was worst living in las pinas and studying in espana, manila... During the time of flyover constructions that made my commute a good 2 hours (or more more)  1 way.  Office for a while was also las pinas-makati, mandaluyong-qc, qc-makati and i had some moments of home office that was actually more travelling than staying at home.  Today i have my office so near that the gps circle would touch the tip of the office door when i am at home in my bedroom.  About 150 steps away just because the entrace of the compound is than farther my house that the actual office is.

My daughters school,  initially was a bit further (1000 +- steps)  but we transfered her to somewhere about 200 steps away from home too. 

And oh i soo love the feeling i get when i see fb posts of friends ranting about being stuck in traffic.  Schadenfreude. Give me some slack i had my share of  some stuck-in-traffic dues. 

I recommend this, btw,  because it releases a person from the stress of travel,  and don't you underestimate the ruin it brings in the natural wear and tear of your body and mind.

I am a veteran of several slex sleep and wake up and you are still there overnight marathons, a veteran of thigh high waters where your balloon skirt will look like a lotus leaf while wading the waters... Uggghhh.    i had a moment when i was pregnant that the taxi would not proceed to home and leave me to the nearest dry area because there were water buildup and there's nothing anybody can do.   Imagine?  Now wipe you smile.  Schadenfreude. 

Today i am on standby because we are doing a surprise party operation for a colleague,  i want to be there but i have to bring my daughter to VAcation Bible School and my husband has a meeting to discuss work shifts so i am tagged in 2 venues.  I am done with bring J to school and the colleague is not yet in the office so i am here at home having the breakfast that i missed preparing for J. 

weekends are supposed to be restdays right?

Violator :  I love my life,  this is just me ranting.

For the rest of the universe,  weekend is rest.  For momwantopreneur like me,  it is a blob of time where you have to mix family and projects together because it is the only time you can.   

check out this weekend list :

laundry sort and defrost (this is not considered since its just pushing buttons and waiting.  Laundry btw, is c/o hubby)

refresh aquarium water

prepare for weekend day trip (which includes preparing my daughter’s stuff and all)

Day trip (malling as usual) merienda cena

grocery

clean A/C filters

finalize C*** contest entry backlog (check hdd for “past works”)

draft S**** contest entry and C*** contest entry requirements (personal deadline on the 28th sent via LBC)

Prepare proposals for A/P meeting (Biblio)

     - ppt update add spark!

     - rework budgets

     - letters

meet with B*** for art project (funding BSB)

Setup cables to connect tablet to screen

Prepare for Church

Church - day trip sunday brunch - arcades

laundry fold

refresh offline playlist in J’s tab, J’s phone 

prepare personal playlists and offline study references

Thank God for the likes of Spotify and YouTube that I do not need to refresh as often for music but still would need to do it for offline moments when we go out.  Again for the screen time debate,  I employ the help of technology for my sanity but would try to program the things she watches,  I prefer this than watching from cable because I can develop age and skill appropriate videos/ instructionals. 

Spark mail >> habol missed requirement/ request

J curriculum for the week

watch 1 movie for blog

Prepare for tomorrow’s ballet 

Prepare office backlog (this should be done at 12:01am Monday)

I usually do not want to work on weekends,  plus would not do a sunday work for money activity (sorry harsh description,)  house work ok.  i often try honor that commitment,  but the weekend saturday work-for-your-own-company load is becoming to be more frequent than i wish.  I am just glad i do not have work on saturdays and i can do the tasks close to my family or along with family life.  

and on a monday,  is the only time i will sort out the receipts,  the loose change that is all over my bag,  take out the ketchup and barbecue sauce packets from my personal bag (that i now mix use as J’s diaper bag because i mess up with forgetting my wallet, gadgets, house keys and other stuff i want to use out of home if i change bags so all my weekend life in a bag i remove on mondays.  Likewise reminds me i had a good and fun weekend with family.  

Coworking@CoLab

Everytime I had a meeting back in the early 2000.  People always ask me where my office is,  I always tell them in jest that we have 256 branches nationwide.  It was a home-office setup for me for almost 3 years for ASUS Ph.  I being the sole local representative would have my official address in one of our showrooms but process meetups in coffeeshops near my home.  That was telecommuting in the era of the early millennium.  Yesterday,  i was invited to a gathering of like minds who want to change the world one idea at a time.   The Spark Project, a Philippine focused crowdfunding platform had its meeting in Co.Lab, a coworking space near the CBD Ortigas.  (3 Brixton St. Kapitolyo, Pasig -- paces after ACE Water Spa)  It was such a solution I needed then,  solutions for comfortable workspaces especially for me who wants to move and walk around while thinking (this is a new discovery about myself while doing my Jawbone steps moments.)  for fast wi-fi (well internet then since most laptops i lug around needed RJ 11 connections) conducive to work environments.   

Co.Lab gave us seating options in their communal area depending on your preference.  Bar stool, executive, or comfortable sofa.  Their tables are the conference room versions where you can easily plug in for juice without the need to bend or crawl.  The walls are glass surfaces encouraging you to write your venns and project your gantts.  They also have meeting cub holes for the intimate type of meetings.  

Free coffee.

Coworking spaces,  a concept for the work telecommuters, freelancers and “manylancers”, where golden handshakes  are sealed.  

I want to go back to this lifestyle,  i am too tied up on my desk. Unshackle me.

Special thanks to the Spark Project for introducing me to this find.  

  

Entering contests

What’s with contests that require major efforts to enter the competition?  How can a dreamer like me who do not have posse working for them,  like everyone just needs a researcher,  grant writer, logo and layout design maker,  video producers on their beck and call because these contest just would ask for a whole universe of things.

Like i am just a mom who even if I have friends and network that could help me with your requirement kits I can’t meet.  I have a day job and a “take-care-of-daughter” shift so can’t a "describe your idea” thing be enough?

You tell me to USE MY IMAGINATION.  Why can’t you use yours?

Ok, I am done with my rant back to section 57.. using alibata,  explain the process on how you will gain your market computed in the exponent of pi…nyeeh.

Deadlines, deadlines.

It feels like high school again.  Deadlines and assignment left and right.

At one point the adrenaline gets me going.  Personal deadlines along with office and passion project deadlines.   Who signed me up for this? 

My old screenwriting groupie encouraged me to try to send something to one of the yearly festivals.   I initially was not into doing anything creative as my work and my current passion projects are mostly strategic,  creativity just by means of interface, visuals and titles.  I thought i would not have the energy to muster a hundred pages of script for a full length.  Remembering some pre-worked ideas set aside to good timing and inspiration,  i got my something and processed an update and finally had an entry.  I even added a weekly serial entry that was initially an app project of mine and now became a tv concept.  Call that multi platform.  Call that convergence.

To my dismay,  the deadline was a pussyfoot,  it said initially April 30 with a balikbayan load full of requirements and then at the last minute it moved the deadline to June.  I can boldly rant about it in behalf of the people who beat deadline.  Nice.

Then last i found a deadline for proposals that my web app project fits deadline May 15,  but i got hooked by the idea that they will feedback on the 17th.  How about that?  It is a crowdfunding platform and this is my first for this platform and just the second funding proposal for this project (missed the cut the first time :().  I scrambled to put up the needed information to build my entry.  I still have a hard time in developing these kinds of proposals, a newbie of 1 online miss, 1 face to face greenlight that fell flat during negotiations.. Huh..Long story..). that is why i still haven't found my funding match.

Another cinema festival deadline is coming i will unabashedly resubmit my full length concept.  This is better than my works lying around my hard disks without an eyeball with anyone but me.  That is so wrong about me.  I write but I don't share,  not that I am sure that what I write is worth anybody's while but I think this is my resolve.  So now i go ahead at least for this season,  I will submit stuff from the baul.  

At the same day of this deadline,  will be a deadline set by festival number 1 for me to complete more, more, more requirements to my balikdbayan box of an entry.  Like what?  That ream thick of an entry still had lacking items!!!

Universe hear me roar. 

Update : May 17,  i just got a mail that my proposal for the web app is ok to proceed to phase 2.   Just need to meet with them on Wednesday and submit a bunch of stuff for May 22. 

baby curriculum

 baby seems to be stuck watching television. scared about possibilities of milestone lateness i tried to make a hopefully balanced schedule for my baby during this month 8 to 12.

i feel guilty that i could not keep my eye on the daily life of my baby, mommy has to be at the office most of her awake time.

I feel guilt being aware of what is happening yet, i can't do anything about it.  My co-parent help is addicted to telenovelas and anything on the tube.  I have to maintain contentment and allow one of her vices to keep her happy, and keep her services.  I just have to believe that the happiness that surround my child is worth a lot more than irritated and shoved in mentoring from an unsatisfied guardian.

I could only suggest and guide her how i want her to rear my child when I am away.  My heart aches, but i see my baby happy,  i'll just have to do the tutorials doubletime on weekends.

Unmitten

My baby just grows oh so fast. Today we are getting rid of her mittens, she has outgrown scratching her face. Plus we realize that BBB is developing her feet and toes farther ahead than her clasped all day hands and fingers. She's had limited discoveries about holding, grasping and just plain feeling because her hand is all-gloved up. She does that with her feet -- curling her toes around our fingers everytime we touch her. I once teased baby that her foot is her hand, and her mittens her shoes.

So good bye mittens.

BBB learns so fast. This weekend she is starting on "open-close."