When I heard about someone being attacked in Facebook about a mean comment that she posted on a particular group, I tried not to get myself involved with it and didn’t even attempted to log in to myFacebook account. One, it’s just a waste of time and second, I don’t really know the person. But one thing is for sure. Any networking account can easily be hacked, and whatever you tell about a person, slander is slander and yes, it’s more of a sin than what they believed that she personally posted there.

I went to read more about this issue through google and found that, despite her pleas, of her statement, some people are still stubborn in claiming that “they knew it was her” how can such power can a man posses to know what happened at a place where he’s not present? Boggle my mind. What I read was enough for me to say that this is all a B.S. I mean, she already given her say, people was telling her to come out in the open and when she did, they threw more stones at her, can’t you just admit that you also made a mistake of getting into the boat not knowing where it’s headed and enough already?

I’m a Computer teacher and I know for a fact that it is very easy to hack a Friendster account and this means that it is fairly easy to hack a Facebook account too. With all the advance technology we have, why can’t it be impossible? I also read someone claiming that he’s a web expert, why then didn’t this person knew that it could have happened to this poor lady?

As a customer service, we also encountered identity thefts, more often done by those who are closest to the person they are stealing from. Someone who knows the computer that you can count on your fingers how many strangers you can hack, and it’s easier to do it with someone you know. You have access of course.

This is my hacked Friendster account, and this is what envy can do. I’m not a rich person, not even super duper beautiful, but someone who just doesn’t have anything else to do with his life has hacked my Friendster account, and yes I know the person too.

It’s funny that this hacking happened year 2004, I have brought this up to the Friendster management, but I can still find me in there, the reason why I have a screenshot.  Basically, the person who hacked me is close to me and because of envy and jealousy, this person nursed a very big grudge against me to the point of bad mouthing me to the rest of our friends and churchmates and when this person couldn’t find anything more to do, hacking my friendster and sending mean messages to the rest of my networks this creature did.

I am not being holier than thou.

and  this is my say,

Think before you speak. Not just because someone you know posted a message that’s inflammatory about someone, is reliable and you should bite it right away. I know a lot of us would say, but he/she’s my friend and I know him/her - it doesn’t matter, slander is slander and a gossip is a gossip. You have to gauge if the intent is to provoke human emotion to gain sympahty. It also helps if you know if this person is directly affected and it’s being unhealthy, but if its just as trivial as this Facebook incident, I think you should channel your energy on a more meaningful work than get in with the gossip and slander craze.

The bible is clear on this:
Proverbs 15:4 says
“a wholesome tongue is a
tree of life, but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit”.
Proverbs 21:23 says
“whoso keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles”.

 And the most frightening of it all is:

“But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the Day of Judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned,” (Matt. 12:36).

 

I was also guilty and a victim of character assassination and it’s never a good place to be in, there’s so much shame and hurt, because an obscure description of you is being exposed in more ways than one.  And more often, those people who doesn’t even know you and doesn’t even have the slightest understanding of what happened behind it are the ones who have the gall to attack you.

Let’s learn our lessons from this situation. A lot of people have died in the storm and whatever that has been said, is so irrelevant to what really happened in the flood. If I personally heard that from this lady coming from her mouth to me, I wouldn’t even care less because I’m busy swimming for my life in the flood. That’s what those flood victims are doing even right that moment these people are attacking this lady, that’s what we should care about. I was also there, one of the person we helped is an old lady with crutches, she doesn’t have a left leg.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry – James 1:19

I barely posted this, my intenet is getting lazy. Probably because of the storm. ^^

As I’ve experienced Sunday morning, it really helps to have yourself prepared of the natural calamities, such as a flash flood and storm, ahead of time. The Philippines is surrounded by waters, and not only once do we experience hurricane storms and floodings.

Here’s a bit of my tip to get yourself or your household prepared for this kind of calamity, and avoid unnecessary danger.

This may all seem tideous, but it’s good to have them at the first day of the rainy season/months.

1. Always store canned food. Mind the expiration dates though, it may sound tideous, but it pays to have stacked food. In case your place gets flooded, like mine, you can’t go out, you need food. If you’re stacking canned or preserved food, always mark the carton or your calendar when you bought these items.

2. Always have an extra water container with clean drinkable water. Put a mark when it was stacked so you would know if it already aged. Sometimes water can get stale too, if you would notice, they also have that particular old water smell.

3. Keep a portable small radio so you can get updates on tropical storm watch. If you need to be rescued or if you need to stay put. Extra batteries too.

4. Have at least 3 handy flash lights with you, and extra batteries. I recommend flash lights over candles, most of the time more calamity befall a household with neglect regarding burning candles.

This is my Faraday flashlight, I bought 3 of this, each for one at St. Francis Square for PHP50.00/ea. I don’t have to buy batteries for this baby because I just need to ”squeeze the trigger”, a wheel inside it turns and it stores up energy in its magnet – well, that’s what I understand it does, but anywho.

I recommend that you change for a Faraday Flashlight, because it will be much cheaper for you and long lasting use. No this is not a paid advertisement. ^^

5. Prepare an emergency kit in tight or reliable storage containers that you can just easily pick up when you need to go to a safer place.
1. For your cash.
2. First aid kit.
3. Fever and Cough Medicines
4. Important documents.
5. Toiletries

6. Keep a separate bag for extra clothing when you need to leave to a safer place.

7. keep an extra umbrella, rain coat and blanket to protect and warm the children from the cold if you have kids.

8. Give your small children a simple orientation on how to avoid viruses from dirty waters just incase you have to cut through the storm or if your place gets submerged into the waters.

When I got home, I was relieved that despite our place just next to the Pasig river that overflowed, my children were dry and safe. We didn’t have to worry about the power interruptions because we have lights, and most of all food to give us energy, just in case. But nothing bad happened and I’m thankful and praise God for protecting us despite the dire situation.

Sept. 26,2009 11:00AM

Mandaluyong people have their own way of amusing themselves, despite the flood that happened today, I was out doing my groceries (Why not?). We didn’t expect the rains to turn heavy. Apparently, PAGASA weather forecast (Pagasa is hope in other translation, and the irony!) only got to know about the storm the night prior to this day.  So, at 11AM, my son and I we’re stranded at PureGold, Kalentong, then we hired a pedicab for PHP100 (The guy said it’s flood, so he had to charge us more than he should be earning on a regular day), then I waited until 3PM to let the flood subside at Kalentong Wet Market, then hired an improvised floater for PHP50.00, paid the kid who brought my stuff with me PHP100, then rented a tryc for  PHP100.00, then I dragged and floated to the nearest Minute Burger (now I’m hungerness), then paid another PHP150 for a tryc, then another improvised floater for PHP250.00.

You can view some photos here. (I tried to tell him that I’m crediting him here, but there was no link for comments.)

The highlight of the day! At around 11AM, we all got stranded at the Kalentong wet market, at first the flood rushing from Market Place was just ankle high, I sent my son ahead for my daughter. We waited for jeepney to come, but the other streets have already flooded, so we had to wait, but then it rained more and hard. By 2PM, the flood was waisthigh, so you can imagine the excitement of the kids and the bystanders, the  current from Market Place down to Gabby’s have been awful by this time. They made an improvised kayak with a surfboard, surfed a bit, then played water volleyball, then some had their improvised floaters too, the only thing missing is a banana boat! Everyone was happy. We made fun of the sweethearts walking past us, calling them Kate and Leonardo (Titanic). We made fun of the passing gays, screaming while walking past us. There were missy’s that went past us, we tried to warn them, but they didn’t listen and we laughed at them when the flood tried to sweep them away. We had fun with the kids splashing around with the garbage and some other dead stuff floating around. We talked about the movie “Perfect Storm” and I learned that nobody survived, and at times we wondered, will the City Mayor send us help? It dawned on us that nothing’s coming for help because we spoke to a Baranggay Tanod, and he said that they are helpless themselves, so we talked about who in their right mind would write a script where nobody survived, even Clooney in this movie. Was it Clooney who starred there? I didn’t know. I know it may sound mean, but it’s really not because everybody was going insane with all the water rising. We had to amuse ourselves. We also had a panic buying of candles and matches, but mostly candles. We we’re hungry, tired and wet!

By this time, we decided to go ahead and float to the nearest high land, and decided to make our own decisions and the rest is another extra expenses as stated above.

When I got home, the place is all flooded but my children are safe and dry. The trip home was really a drag, as in literally, I had two plastic canisters for my groceries.

Sometimes I don’t know if I would find it funny about people and friends comments when they see me. For example, a baby of mine from the former call center saw me and said “Oh my God, mommyyyyyy!!! You look so thin, why are you so thin?!” and I find myself defensive and said “No, I’m not!” my weight is not wasting away, I’m not losing body weight, it’s not!! (>_< ) (T.T)

The reason is very simple, I just need to loosen up a bit because being problematic is making me look sickly. But being a single parent is something that I’m not used to, believe me when I say I do!(¬_¬). As frightening as it sounds like, I do have a brain too! And my brain works 24/7 “where to get money?” “how to get money?” “what writing job is open for hiring?” But of course, I still have my teaching job.

Everything else is alright. My son is in high school, my daughter is doing great in school, and we’re still alive. It’s just that we don’t have anything extra to burn.

Another thought. I’m wondering what the heck is with Smartbroadband?! I’ve been having frequent internet performance problems the past three months!

I took a slow internet test via http://speedtest.net/ and this is what I’ve found..[click on the image to enlarge].

Having the fullest confidence and conviction of being a former technical support, I then performed troubleshooting to resolve my slow internet speed, however (x_x;) it didn’t have an effect!! (T^T)

So, first, I checked my proxies and used the following below.

proxy.smartbro.net port 8080
proxy.smartwifi.com.ph:8080
proxy.meridian.ph:8080

Powercycled the pc. Checked if there’s a difference.

Awts! (¬_¬) it didn’t work, nevertheless, I still have other ways.

run cmd = ip config /release/renew!

Awts, again! (¬_¬) it still didn’t work.

I called Technical Support. (ò_ó) Busy line!!!

After an hour:

I called Technical Support. (ò_ó) Busy line!!!

After another hour:

I called Technical Support. (ò_ó) Busy line!!!

Then night time came:

II called Technical Support. (ò_ó) Busy line!!!

So now, all my ID’s are organized and my Smartbroadband bill, and next month, off I go with Suncellular Broadband.

Plus, I was informed by Ems that my Smartbro IP is blocked by the server. HUWAAAHH! What a sad lyf!! (T^T)

If it were not for my friend, I wouldn’t be able to post this entry because I’m blocked from my own blog!! (T^T)

Hi, despite the lemons that I’ve been getting due to the ISP/IP problems I’m trying to deal with the past couple of days, God has never failed to put a smile on my face. I just received this blog’s first award from Jenny of The Way I Used to Be. Thank you very much!

Blog Awards is a fun way of connecting with other bloggers and building friendships/community.

Here’s the rules: before you put the link above, you must remove the participant number 1 from the list. So that all participants up 1 level. Who was number 2 become number 1, number 3 was 2, and so on. Then insert your own links at the bottom (number 10).

1. Imenoreh
2. Juragan Jengkol Menuntut Balas
3. Cilpilicious
4. Enno
5. boodee
6. Woel
7. Lyla
8. Mr. D
9. Jenny
10. Riza

I’m sharing this blog award to the following lovely people:
1. Dhadha
2. Liza
3. Anna
4. Thea
5. Sarwen
6. Chel
7. Mommy Maricel
8. Call Center Girl
9. Josie

Ciao!