Freedom Blogger hehe..

Congratulations to all 12 of us who passed the fast and furious 8 weeks class! Even though class is over, I will still be on campus to print out visa papers that I have been filing, job applications, and requirements for Residency. I still have to apply for Residency coz' I got charged non-residency fee last time. I don't know why they are so strict with the requirements now. Hopefully I can get this fixed so I can enroll in Fall and my VA benefits to be worth it. Also my transcripts which was sent from my school to CSN, but they returned it to me opened! They said it was suppose to be evaluated by a Credential Agency, they should've not opened it if they knew it was from the Philippines. Now I have a grad issue on my record, I also got a charged a fee for enrolling into another summer class and they said I would automatically be withdrawn if I don't pay by the deadline, instead I got charged penalty and I had to withdraw myself. Why oh why?! Even though summer class is over, I still can't take a break, but now I have to cook more often for my brothers since I couldn't pay rent this month, I just actually cooked "Chicken Adobo" a flipino dish you guys should try it hehe.. Now me worrying about paying my next car bill, I have been trying to claim Unemployment for the past weeks, but I was disqualified for some reason and now I have to appeal.

On the other hand, I got a mail from United Blood Services and they're in the process of reviewing potential candidates, I will find out next week if I qualify. Thank you Mr. Wu for informing me of this job posting. I won't expect, but its worth a try :) Congrats again to all who passed and to the top-notchers in class, you guys deserve it! I wish I had focused on my final quiz since it was the final determiner, but still trying to fix my homepage links and doing A3 pushed me reviewing right before class. Now I learned to be more time disciplined, but I am happy to still achieve an A- even with all the forks in the road and more to come :o Thank you again Mr. Wu for all the extra time you spent helping us individually, you truely inspired us just like the teacher in "Freedom Writers" and that's because you love teaching :)

Last Day of IS101

This is the last day of our class. IS101 has been one of my greatest challenge! We really had to put alot of time and effort into this class. I didn't expect we were going to do so much work, because I thought everything would be done in class but we actually had to do work at home too. Most of the time staying up late trying to catch up with assignments. When I took a hybrid class in history, we had to do so much and make sure you submit before deadlines, it was overwhelming. I told myself I won't take an online class again, but when I took IS101 it was kinda like the same hehe.. But you know, I don't regret it coz I know its all going to be worth it in the end. Mr. Wu you really challenged us, but I gained so much knowledge and skills with computers. I'm happy to have a slideshow and homepage of my own, and a professional resume to help me get my medical job. Thank you for everything, and to my fellow classmates as well. Hope to still see you guys around campus!

Long day Long class

Long day! Can't wait to sleep. I feel my eyes are soo tired. I only got 4 hours of sleep and I often get dry eye syndrome since I had Lasik surgery before. This morning I had to help my brother to his appointment on base. While I was waiting I was thinking if I did join the Airforce and especially when Corey did his presentation on his time abroad. Maybe I'll join even just the 4 year contract if I don't get my civilian job as a MT. Oh I also saw Red Cross and I'm going to volunteer soon to help out on the Carpenter 1 Fire, not only will I serve others but I can get my foot in the door. Anyways, we had our Quiz 5 today and its exactly what we learned from our textbook and SAM I just wished I did the BA8 Workbook Analysis to get the bonus questions.  Mr. Wu gave an idea of what the outcome of our grades would be so I hope I do good on Quiz 6 to get the grade I want. I will definitely do the BA9 Mail Merge Query Options. One more class to go! I'm pretty sure we're gonna stay late again at 10 pm or so.. Alright till last class, back to baking potatoes and chicken.

Baby Sitting

Yesterday my brother threw a house party. Of course before any visitors came, I cleaned up the house, sweeped, mopped, cleaned the kitchen and bathroom. Then my brother's friend dropped off his 1 year old baby boy for me to baby sit. I enjoy baby sitting him coz he's soo cute! He's half filipino and black so his hair is all silky and curly hehe.. Every time I leave him a little bit he cries so while doing my A7 Mail Merge, I'm watching and waiting for him to sleep. His father said he would pick him up at 8 pm after the pictorial for their wedding, but they weren't able to pick him up until 1:30 am when the party was over. Everybody went to ETA Lounge after while I was still doing my assignment. It took me forever to do coz of all the distractions. Hopefully I can focus on the last week of class especially there's bonus assignments. Btw I also applied to the Phlebotomy opening at United Blood Services which Mr. Wu printed out. It doesn't require to submit a resume, but an application. I actually donated blood here before and inquired, good thing now they have an opening.

Assessment Test

I learned so much in IS101. I took an assessment test at AppleOne and the skills that I learned in class really helped! I took the following:

Microsoft Excel 2007
Microsoft Word 2007
Microsoft Windows XP
Data Entry 10 Key
Data Entry Alpha Numeric
Typing - General [3 Minutes]

Because I'm taking IS101, I scored good on the tests all above the global average and got 100% keystroke and field accuracy. My account executive was impressed, however when they tried calling me this morning my phone was dead. I had 3 voicemails from 3 different managers and emails too saying they're trying to get a hold of me, but when I called back it was already lunch time. They said its too late they already got someone else for the Customer Service Representative position and said they'll just let me know when something else comes up. Oh well! I don't like answering calls all day anways, just like my previous job at MGM. Speaking, I was getting other calls today, such as Lighthouse Recruiting hiring Medical Technologists who are willing to relocate in Texas, but I don't know how I'm going to start living there. Hmm.. I think I just wanna stay here in Vegas! hehe..

Career Options

I have been trying to find a BIOL 189 class, a pre-requisite for Nursing, now that its posted all the lecture classes are full. Trying to get into the Nursing program is taking forever. I already took Anatomy & Physiology (BIOL 223), but I have to retake it coz its been 8 years. I have been stressing a little lately, because my parents are expecting from me. They have always made decisions for me like to pursue Medical Technology, but its so competitive. Now I have to make decisions and these are my options:

1. Pursue Nursing and forget about Medical Technology. I always wanted to take Nursing, but I feel all my MT accomplishments would be a waste such as my AMT certificate & NV State License.

2. Take Phlebotomy at Northwest Career College only 14 weeks to get my foot in the door quick. CSN's Phlebotomy program not until Spring. I inquired for Fall before, they said it was full and then I checked again now I missed the deadline.

3. Join the U.S. Air Force and become officer which is my AF brother's and parents' suggestion.

4. Take American Society of Clinical Pathology(ASCP) a State License as a Medical Technology in California. A better opportunity to work in California.

5. Pursue Medical Laboratory Assistant, but then its only offered once a year. I realized I won't be able to get all my pre-requisites done before deadline for Spring since not all classes are offered.

Any suggestions, recommendations or advice?

Even though I have a lot of options, I still won't give up on my job hunt for MT. I actually printed out my resume that Mr. Wu edited and going to fax it to Southern Hills, my friend referred me but I don't see the job posted on their website so I guess they're hiring only referrals. Although strong Blood Bank experience preferred, but who knows!

2nd Batch of Presentations

I enjoyed everybody's presentations in class today. They all did great! I felt like I was in my Public Speaking (COM101) class giving out an Informative Speech. I learned alot!

Like in Scuba diving, oxygen tank can last you a long time (Amber diving 1 hour 50 mins.) but I think that would be really tiring. I've always wanted to go Scuba diving. I've been to so many beaches in the Philippines and gone snorkling deep to see the the colorful fishes and picking out hard corals, but I don't think I would be able to dive with the sharks like Amber? hehe.. I'd rather swim with the dolphins at the Mirage dolphin habitat lol..

I also learned about relationships by Laura, the different perspectives of relationships with one's self, with God, husband and wife, and our peers. I like how she made us reflect by giving us a thought to ponder on, by rating from 1 to 10 with each perspective.

Rainbows by Gwynn, when I was little I always wondered why we could never reach the end of the rainbow which I always wanted to do hehe.. Now I know, you can only see it a from a certain arc or angle, but I hope to see a triple rainbow/anomolous bow someday!

Deaf Heroes by Laura, I learned the "I Love You" sign language and language which is 2 thumbs up! I learned the Alphabet sign language before, its a pretty fun thing to do. I was amazed by the deaf lifeguard
Leroy Colombo who saved 900 lives and is on Gennuiss World Records.

Flowers by Qutina, I loved all the beautiful flowers she chose for her presentation especially the Lilium, the images really made her slideshow stand out. I didn't know that some flowers such as the Lilium require refrigeration just to survive. I also loved the Love and Peace flower aka "Rosa balpeace", very beautiful it looked like it had a glowing effect.

Los Angeles by Qiyan, I learned that the Stars at the Hollywood Walk of Fame were made of Brass and that tickets to Disneyland are now expensive, because when Thai worked there like 5 years ago tickets were only half the price they are now.

After the presentations, I got really hungry! haha.. I forgot that I didn't eat, because I was so focused on following up my resumes on the new jobs and trying to enroll in Phlebotomy, but I missed the deadline to apply for the program in Fall. Grrr! Now I have to wait til next semester.

Not eating, I felt I was fasting for Ramadan like Saleh which is the First Day, but then I couldn't help drink alota water! He is doing alota sacrifice alright! Good thing there are exceptions to those who have conditions.

After Sunset, I ate my airhead that was in my bag for almost a month! haha.. Then picked up some super delicious Pho that a relative got from California. I posted a short blog right before midnight 11:59 lol and decided to update it whenever I really feel like blogging and here it is! =)

4th of July

On the 4th of July, we went to an awesome block party & watched $500 worth of fireworks. Also went to Eclipse, which was the first beach night club I ever went to. It was fun, we had our own cabana. This weekend I worked on my Access B & C, it was pretty easy even though I just mostly observed the training, but I was having trouble with D. I know I followed the instructions, but its still showing I had mistakes. As well as for Capstone A, the only error is resizing the column width which I did. Is there another way I'm suppose to do this besides right clicking the column and changing the field width? Hmm.. If I don't finish this by midnight oh well, at least I tried and learned some things in Access..

Nervous on Presentation

I did my presentation today and I was really nervous. The last time I gave a presentation was in Public Speaking class 6 years ago, I took it over the summer in 4 weeks here at CSN and that was really challenging... giving 4 kinds of speeches such as a Demo, Informative, Persuasive, and Argumentative Speech.  I really rehearsed for my speeches in this class so I was confident and we had total control over our presentation using a remote to click, but today in IS101 I was so focused on the slideshow, waiting for the right bullet or picture to pop up. Sad, I wasn't able to engage with audience.  I'm glad we are given another chance to present an improved slideshow presentation. This time I will practice, practice, practice.. Even though this is not a Speech class, but now I know next time I will use what I learned in class and in public speaking to keep eye contact with the audience which most of my classmates did very well on. Just like what Mr. Wu said, audience engagement is important. After the presentations, we got our result on quiz 4 and I got a perfect score. Yey finally! Hehe.. Anyways, today before class we watched The Heat at Cannery, its a really funny movie so go see it! Its half off on Tuesdays! =)

Brother's Birthday

It was my Brother's Birthday yesterday, just went to eat out at Famous Dave's but then he had to go to the hospital for sleep study. So tonight we'll be celebrating his Birthday at his friend's new club that just opened, its called Republic located on Spring Mountain so if you guys wanna check out a new club this is the place! hehe.. I was going to cook pansit and make Sushi for him today, but instead I went to school to finish my Power Point and do Access since I can always cook for him tomorrow. Well, I got my Power Point done, I guess... Mr. Wu wanted us to turn it in today so that's what I'll be doing after this. I tried putting only up to 6 slides, but it went up to 7 because of all the pictures lol. I'll just wait for what Mr. Wu has to say, I made the slide show using my own chow chow pictures except one on the Title slide. Anyways, I saw a few of our classmates at school doing their work too. Thanks to Lorrie for helping me out on a part of Access. She also gave me a printout copy of Capstones A & B. Thanks and God Bless you.. and everyone else... have a wonderful night guys!

Getting ahead

Got outa school a little late today trying to get ahead in class, finally! Hehe.. I actually went to school yesterday to catch up with SAM D and move onto Power Point. I was behind coz I was busy preparing for my pre-employment assessment test which I had to review a 113 page study guide. I already took the test worth 100 items and I am now in the next step of the hiring process, which is the phone screening interview and I'm really nervous about it! But anyways, I'm glad I caught up with class. I finished SAM Power Point C. Thai needed some help with Power Point and it was kinda funny coz I had no trouble doing SAM A & B myself, it was really quick & easy! But for some reason we had trouble helping him with the SmartArt style layout group, I opened my textbook to that topic, but I didn't feel like reading it lol. After a while, we finally figured out converting it to SmartArt with the help of Mr. Wu. and he taught me the difference between using ctrl & shift in Power Point. I learned alot, also from Corey who was very helpful, he taught me the chart elements in the Current Selection group. Without their help, I wouldn't have gotten a 100%. Anyways, got hungry after class so I ate at Carl's Junior. Only thing I ate today was pork, green beans & garlic fried rice, which I cooked. That's all!

Movie Day

Almost the end of the day & I feel so tired. Just cleaned, did some laundry, then went to Gold's Gym. Haven't worked out in a while so I stayed at the gym for like 3 hours lol did Zumba, then elliptical bike in the theater watching i Robot, I stayed long coz I wanted to finish the movie. Though an old movie, but I never seen it before. Imagine if we had world of robots as public servants? but it was scary when all of a sudden the robots were programmed to violate the laws and harm human beings. Now this makes me think our advance technology is good enough lol. I also watched another movie today World War Z. Imagine again a world of zombies? hehe.. weird I've been watching these kind of movies! awesome movie though, it was a thriller! Anyways going to edit my resume a bit now, Mr. Wu gave really good feedback and advice on our resume and it helped alot! Also providing us copies of our majors/degree sheets that we might plan on taking. Its always nice to keep our options open :)

Life of Opportunities

I'm finally getting all these opportunities! First thing in the morning I got a call from my account executive at Apple One, she suggested 2 positions Customer Service Rep or Data Entry Clerk, but I also got an email from a Recruiting Manager of MSI Incorporated giving me an opportunity for a Plasma Center Technician.  Then my former classmate said they had a Medical Technologist opening at Quest Diagnostics and she said she's going to refer me. Wow I've been praying and hoping I get my Medical job for so long after working at the MGM call center for over a year, hopefully I get it. I thank God for giving me these opportunities and I find Mr. Wu's class very helpful, because we're required to do a resume & cover letter for a job which I've been working on.. Anyways, going to study in a little bit for our 3rd Quiz. Later, I will continue my Word 2010 C, I find it challenging but I'm glad with my first attempt on Word 2010 challenge B I got a 100%.  Good thing Mr. Wu taught us how to use the Auto correct and extended the deadline.

Happy Father's Day!

Today I grilled Tilapia & greeted my Dad Happy Father's Day since its now Father's Day in the Philippines. I thanked him for all the support, advice & discipline he taught us, being strict with time & overly protective. I remember he'd often pick me up & drop me off school until I graduated College. And here I am back to school again, but now old enough to take care of myself. I can say I am very proud of my Dad, because he is a retired U.S. Navy and a Veteran.  Not only was he a good man who served the country, but one of the best Dads in the World! Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there :))

Quiz today.. weew!

Today we had a quiz & I don't know if I did well or not coz of last minute studying. I had to catch up with creating a blog last night, then prepare for an interview at Apple One which I just had today.  I'm really excited for the new position, but I can't expect.  I want to start a new career, because I don't enjoy my job at MGM anymore, answering calls all day it really drains me out.  Anyways its getting late, already did the textbook Word 2010. Now off to working on Word 2010 Independent Challenge A!

Catching up!

On the second day of class, I realized there's alot of things I never encountered in Microsoft Word. To come to think of it, you would expect you know it all since this is a program we often used. And there's actually more to Word that I didn't know even just the basics. I learned about the Show/Hide Button and how to create a document using Oriel fax template. We did alot on our second day and thats's still not including my SAM 2010 packet. It was really nice of Mr. Albert Wu to offer his packet so we wouldn't have to buy one, but for some reason it wasn't working when he tried reactivating it. I guess all students now are required to get new ones, so we end up buying our own and I'm glad I did. It is only $75 and I know it's gonna be worth keeping for future use.

1st day of class!

I can't believe summer class has already started.  Only got two weeks off school after Spring semester.  Time is flying by so fast! Speaking of fast, I know Summer is going to be fast paced!  I remember my first time going to school at CSN back in 2007, I took four classes during the Summer and gee was I struggling! Luckily, I passed all classes despite the sacrifices. Last Spring was pretty tough too taking two classes while working full time, I had no time for myself especially on my days off.  I definitely don't want to do that again.  I'm glad I took IS101, because Mr. Albert Wu doesn't make us do work at home since its mostly hands on, that's if we finish our tasks in class.  We just have to stay a little late to finish up textbook and assignments.  I think most of my classmates are smart and very well prepared, I felt a little behind because I wasn't able to get a IS101 Bundle with SAM 2010 and almost everyone in class had one.  Also posting this blog which I was a little late on.  It gave me some time to figure out since this is my first time blogging ever! And I find it actually fun! :)