Turning 5 And Valentine's Day

Well, this Feb 10th Imma and I turned 5... We're glad we're still together and glad that we're facing life's challenges together! Went out for dinner!

Feb 14th was Valentine's day! It was our first Valentine's day together and well, first time for her to actually celebrate a Valentine's day! Because Imma and I practically spend everyday together, going out was really not that big a deal... So what would make this Valentine's day different from any other day? Well, we decided to write letters to each other. No cards, nothing, just letters to express how we feel and any other thing we want to do... So we went for dinner and afterwards read the letters to one another. It was an interesting experience... I suggest you do it too! 

A Gift For You

Hello all,

I know, I know, Christmas has come and gone... but the youtube uploader's been giving me problems... i just managed to upload this now.... so I do hope you like it! Still learning!

Job Interview

Imma asked me to help her as she was trying to apply for a job. Now, as you all know, the nature of work I'm doing, never required me to have an interview. So I had to apply for a job in order to get the experience that would help Imma too... 

On the 2nd of Feb, I sent my applications to the Managing Director of Every Thing Dar... Check out (www.everythingdar.com). They had announced a job on their website, for and Assistant Webmaster, to do some stuff for everythingdar.com. The Managing Director, being highly impressed with my cover letter, emailed me the same day inviting me for an interview... The deadline for application was on the 4th of Feb, and I was shortlisted before the deadline :)... Gotta say, I'm proud!

So, upon further communication with The MD, the interview was scheduled for Wednesday, 9th of Feb! Do I plan to take the job? It all depends on the terms of course... I got a feeling it's not gonna be the kind of job that will require me to sit in the office for the entire day... Giving me time to go ahead with BIDC!

Hope it goes well :)

What I do... For A Living!

I'm sure, some of you have been wondering what I do! I've told few of you what I'm actually doing, infact, even some of my friends don't actually know if I work, or even if yes, where I work! Perhaps there were so many things that made me not to speak.

First, when I reached home from India, my mum was sick! She needed my company, so I couldn't really get a permanent job at that moment. So at my uncle's invitation, I started going to his company (Business Information Development Center (BIDC)) whenever I could afford the time. I slowly did the work and got used to it, but sometimes I wanted to work from home, so I did! So I soon entered into my uncle's payroll! 

Well, whatever I did, I must've impressed my uncle so much, because he offered me to become a partner together with him. So for quite sometime, that's what I've been doing. In the company my title is the Development Manager. In short we provide a wide range of IT services. We design websites, POS software, we teach etc. Our Website is still under construction, and will give you the address once it's done! 

What I like with my current job, is that I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. It offers me a lot of freedom. Getting any other job will probably mean losing my freedom. 

So the reasons I didn't say this:

• Never thought it was a longterm thing
• Most people would criticize the fact that I'm working with my uncle, because he's family.
• Maybe the scale of the company, small that is, made me wonder, how would I look working in the company
• Maybe some people never took it seriously!
• Maybe I didn't take it seriously!

So why am I writing this now?

Well, as time goes on, I realize just how much potential this company has! Apart from that, it's also giving me the required experience to take up any IT job that I want later.

My family's been extremely supportive too... They let us do all of their IT jobs... Websites, stuff like that... visit, www.flyingchefstz.com, www.bahari.org (to be revamped soon). My grandpa keeps giving me books from his extremely huge library... From "Become an MBA in 10 days" (It's a big book)... to "How to become a super sales man". My aunt gave me a tip, that "word of mouth" is probably the best marketing strategy. Something I've come to prove by myself... 

I basically come from a family of Entrepreneurs... Some have been employed at some point, and decided to do something of their own, but some, just started of like that and they're all doing well... That should serve as enough inspiration right? :) ;)

Well, that's what I do! I'll keep you posted!

A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed - Introducing Peter

Have you ever had those moments, where you're extremely troubled and you feel lost? If you're a growing adult, or even a grown person, you most probably have! There are many ways of dealing with this, some people pray, some people think so hard until they come up with some solution, some just continue worrying... etc! I, have a slightly different approach! I like to talk, I like to emote and open up to someone! 

I had initially felt this was probably due my 'grown up baby' behaviour, but I soon came to realize, it actually made a lot of sense! For someone like me, who has a lot of friends older than him/her, there's a probable chance that those friends have, at one time or another, gone through the same or similar situation... And have drawn from it experiences that I could benefit for if I choose to talk to them!

Today, I was troubled! Actually I've been troubled for a while! (Details of what was troubling me, shall remain un-mentioned) I had sent my friend, Peter a text just expressing my situation. He took the trouble to find me and talk to me! You know what the funny thing is, as I was struggling to find the words to explain to Peter what I was going through, I realized just how much extra-worried I was! I was simply overdoing it! Suddenly, the weight of the world I thought I was carrying was greatly reduced! Talking to Peter even made it more clear that I was just going through a normal phase of a young growing adult! It made me feel good and ready to tackle life once again. Thanks Peter!

Knowing Peter

from Right (seated) Peter, Terence

p.s. for the record, I wasn't wearing a red pant, it was part of the costume I was wearing! 

Now, Peter and I know each other from very long! I do not remember the exact year that we began to work together for the youth in my parish! But I do remember that we were both driven by a great to change and make things better! In fact, it is what brought us together! When we decided to take charge of our youth's Zone (A zone consists youths from 4 small christian communities that are nearby), we found that we both had the same ideas and desires to lead youth to Christ! We've never looked back and we've been good friends ever since (Even our Mothers share the same name, Lilian). 

Peter and I are almost alike in character. We share the same ideas, similar likings, similar attitude, we even almost like the same kind of girls! And a girl who likes Peter, would most always also like Me and Vice Versa!  Hehehehe! Ok, ok, he's more handsome than me, so he's got more girls around him!

What I like about Peter, is that despite our age difference (Which is obviously not apparent in that photo above), he still treats me with respect, listens to me, my advice! I do likewise, I try to do likewise!

But perhaps, I couldn't put it better myself than Imma did, she said, "Peter loves you a lot, he cares for you, he's a good friend". Which leaves me wondering if Peter's girlfriend would say the same about me... Hope to be a better friend!

Here's to Peter!