Out of the Box and Into the Jungle Once More

November is almost over and soon it will be December. January will then be marching by as fireworks will conclude 2012 and grace the December night skies. 

January would be an exciting year for everyone. The promise of a new year will bring about hope for those with strong countenance, and fear and discouragement for those with weak spirit.

January will then be a dream come true for the dreamers. It would be a time of exciting explorations for the adventurers. It would bring forth good fortunes to some, and bad karma to others. 

Whatever January brings, I am sure it would be good tidings for me. I am confident that I would be able to go outside of the box and explore the vast jungle (the world of work) once more  as I am going to embark on a new adventure. I am now ready to face and defeat new challenges in my soon-to-be new career.

Since I am still inside my box now (my very own box of an office) I still couldn't see the entire jungle ... I could only glimpse a promising sunshine. It's scary when I think about it, but the thought excites me as well. Staying in my box next year will only mean facing the same people, dancing the same music and feeling the same stress everyday. It would be so boring then. I couldn't see myself going through the same experience everyday until 60. Doing it for more than four years now without any hope of growth is already an exemplary act on my part. 

You see, I am about to embark to a new jungle to find a new job, a career and a new challenge. I am still unsure where, but I already got an idea how to get there. I have even taken my first steps. I know, it would just be somewhere near. It would surely be somewhere special... a jungle where I could once again excel and grow and enjoy. A place where people truly appreciates efforts and support everyone's endeavors.

Come to think of it ....  What do I need to prepare myself for another jungle hunt? 

Below are 10 tips based from forbes.com:

1. Reach out to companies you admire.
• Amanda, an admissions officer and teacher in New York City, wrote a letter to a school where she wanted to work. She included her resume and described how much she valued the school and its programs. She got an offer three weeks later.
2. Focus on quality not quantity.
• Recent college grad Kym Lino got no responses to her mass e-mail blast until she focused on a specific job she found on Craigslist and submitted exactly what the employer requested: a cover letter, resume and three writing samples. Within three weeks she landed an offer.
3. Use blog to show off your expertise.
• Lino also got an offer from a PR agency after she told them about her three blogs.
4. Tap online job sites.
• Paul Gilmore used TweetmyJobs to land a recruiter position at the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., branch of Synerfac Technical Staffing. Look beyond the usual mega-sites like Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com.
5. Use your network to make you look good.
• After submitting her resume, Amanda gave her future employer two references. The employer didn't call either of them and instead asked a mutual friend about Amanda. The lesson: Have your network do your personal PR. If a friend knows the person who's in charge of hiring you, ask him or her to reach out to the hiring manager and preemptively sing your praises.
6. Cleanup your online profile.
• Self-Googling is a smart way to determine whether your online personality jives with how you want the world to view you. Once Amanda submitted her resume, she searched her name to make sure that she had a clean online profile.
7. Use a headhunter.
• After Stephanie Cranford lost her job at a health care manufacturing company, she spent a few weeks searching job boards and tapping her network. Then she sought professional help. She submitted her resume to Ajilon Professional Staffing and landed a job offer two weeks later.
8. Pound the pavement.
• After the recession weakened the South Florida economy, Paul Gilmore lost his job as a technical recruiter. He printed out a stack of resumes and drove around depositing them at offices. "When you walk in the door you can assess the company," says Gilmore. "If they didn't have a receptionist, it's a clear sign that they didn't have enough money."
9. Be persistent.
• Stephanie Cranford says that she called or e-mailed prospective employers at least twice a week. "I tried to do it on Tuesdays and Thursdays," she says. "Mondays are often crazy and on Friday people are starting to gear up for the weekend."
10. Stay organized.
• "Keep track of everyone you talk to," says Gilmore. "Create a tickler file to remind you to follow up with people."

Beating the Blues with My Shih Tzu

Four months ago today, after a thorough consideration, I decided to own a mixed-bred shih tzu pup. I named him Tomiko which is a Japanese term for "good fortune". 

Owning a shih tzu  is not that easy. I have had two mixed breed dogs before, Oliver and Domino. They were Aspin breeds and so they do not need a lot of attention as shih tzus do.

Taking care of Tomiko means waking up every day earlier than I was used to. Spending at least 30 minutes to groom his hair and play ball for a while before feeding him. What's funny is that, I tend to spend more time grooming his hair than I do mine.

Now, he is four times bigger and heavier than he was four months ago. And he was more demanding too. A spoiled brat of a dog LOL. He is now my alarm clock, barking his heart out to wake me up at 6:30. He does naughty things to catch my attention whenever he wanted to play or wanted to be groomed and cuddled. 

Truly, taking care of shih tzus is a responsibility more difficult than owning a pond of gold fishes. It would mean spending a portion of your budget for their shots and vitamins and other veterinary fees, cleaning after their mess, taking time to play with them, teaching them a trick or two, and spending time for their grooming. But it's worth all the efforts.

My Tomiko is now five months old today. With his playful energy and cuddly features, he sure knows how to beat my blues away.

I couldn't wait 'til he's older and his coat longer and I could put ribbons in his fur. I know he would somewhat hate it, but what can he do? LOL

First ever photo ... taken during his first day as my pup

One week after the first day

Playing Dress Up ... and he doesn't like it :P

At play time ... he knows how to play ball.

After taking a splurge at Blue Waters

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Writing a Résumé is No Joke

One of my former trainee requested for a free computer access because she wanted to design her résumé, and would want to print it. Wanting to help in one way or another, I volunteered to edit. But to my dismay, the editing turned out to be a total overhaul and I needed to really sit down to fix the mess. Good thing I had some time to spare.  

While explaining the changes I made with her résumé, I adjusted the indention, spacing, and even the placements of the data to make the result impressive. Prior to her encoding, I provided her with a template and an example to guide her, but the output is still a mess that I wasn't impressed at all. How much more if I am a potential employer? With her information scattered and incomplete, you would think of an open-ended second rate movie produced by an unknown film maker. 

Even though I do not have a background in HR, but common sense tells me what an impressive résumé entails. 

How many of our job-seekers do not know how to make an impressive résumé? "How To's" should have been taught in secondary schools, I think so. But sad to say, no subject ever prepared us with stuffs like this. I could not even remember it being taught in my high school and college years. My knowledge was just based on my patient research prior to my first job search. I used to read a huge Reader's Digest book "Write Better, Speak Better" because the internet in my little corner of the world during that time was still a dream.

Designing a résumé is no joke. It's not just filling up a bio-data. It's an art, a science and a glimpse of who you are, what you got and what you can do. It cannot just be designed without focusing on details. 

So, what do we need to include and exclude in a résumé? Based on my own experience and research, below are some hints.

What to include ....

• Contact Details. This includes your complete address and contact numbers. If you can't stay in the same place always, don't forget your mobile number. An email address is also needed if you're already a tech-savvy. Your contact details are really important so that the interviewer will be able to contact you for an interview.
• Competencies/Skills. This should include your abilities related to the job you're applying. Skills that can help promote efficiency and effectiveness on performing the job (e.g. language skills, and/or computer skills, etc) should also be emphasized.
• Employment Background. This should include all your employment history. List the companies you worked for, your job descriptions and dates of employment. For comprehensive result, you may include a detailed description of your responsibilities. If available, do not forget to highlight your commendable achievements and remarkable contributions to the company. Make sure to arrange them from latest to earliest. If you're a fresh graduate, your on-the-job training and part-time jobs will help.
• Educational Attainment. This should include the schools you attended, the courses/degrees you attained, merits and/or awards received. Arrange your data in chronological order (latest first).
• Accreditation and Awards. This includes any certificates of competencies and authority that will help boost your credibility. Recognition and awards, if any, will also help lift you up.
• Job Objective. May be included if you have a specific job in mind that the company offers. Just make sure to tailor-fit your résumé. Use the same keywords that appear in the job description so that you will have a better chance of an interview.
• Career Summary. This section is an optional customized section of a  résumé. It lists down key achievements, skills and experiences relevant to the position for which you are applying.

How these sections should be arranged depends on what qualification you want to emphasize. It also depends on the availability of data and the scarcity of it. For example, if you're a fresh graduate and you do not have an impressive job background, you're competencies and educational background should come first.  If the want ad requires an applicant to have years of work experience, then your employment history should be highlighted. If you're not sure what job fits your qualification, and you do not know the particular job vacancy, your competencies and skills should be emphasized.

Thus, a résumé.for one company should not be copied for another. You need to re-organize it first ... redesign if necessary ...  to ensure that it can impress even the most stressed and bored HR.

Just always bear in mind, a résumé can make or break your chance of landing a better job and a brighter future.

What's Ideal is Not Real

What makes work worth doing? A great chance for improvement? Higher pay with lots of benefits? A just and fair promotion requirements? A nice workplace with hi-tech tools? A good boss? Colleagues with the spirit of team work? A good camaraderie? A good cause? A meaningful impact?

All of those! But the fact is, we can't have them all. No workplace is ever ideal ....no career is ever perfect ...  no work is ever easy. That's my theory, so far.

Let us check some insights to clarify things.

Based on the research conducted by Harvard Business Review, people's everyday work lives are greatly enriched when they make progress at work that they find meaningful. 

I agree 100%. Being an IT Trainer, helping learners to prepare for their future makes everyday, doing  even the most mundane things, worth my while.  Watching my trainees march during graduation is one such great accomplishment. Knowing that they got nice careers after they graduated makes all the difference in the world.

This means that the satisfaction of helping, contributing, experiencing, discovering and understanding the job's worth and our worth ... its overall impact ... is very essential.

But it should not end there. The satisfaction of doing something for others should also be paired with the satisfaction of having done something for ourselves. 

Based on my experience, observation and perception, the following are things that are essential ingredients to help make our work worth doing:

• Purpose. A good cause is always needed. We need to know why we need to do what we do so that we can do it the right way at the right place and time, and with the right people. As Rick Warren in his book, The Purpose Driven Life, said, "God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do."
• Interest. We need to enjoy what we do. As Maxim Gorky once said, "When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is duty, life is slavery."
• Salary & Benefits. Simple basic pay for a start with a promise of huge returns in the long run still matters. Our life won't be greatly enriched when our financial progress is hindered by low pay, no benefits and zero promotion despite exemplary performance. Would we be able to say we're happy and contented when we can't afford even the simple joy of owning even the cheapest house, the comfort of driving our own car, and the pleasure of taking a vacation once in a while?
• Trust. The trust of your peers and your boss can help us propel our way to success. Close supervision is only for dummies. For as long as the job is well defined and delegated; performance criteria and deadlines properly set, we sure don't need our boss or our peers to constantly check our work like a shadow where every move they make will surely take our breath away.
• Teamwork. Goodwill and lighthearted rapport between and among peers can make any workload lighter. Working as a team always makes a lot of difference. Working with snakes in the corporate ladder is another story.
• Environment. Nice and safe working environment is always heaven. Who would want to work everyday at a tupsy-turvy and dirty office with outdated tools? Not me!
• Acknowledgment. Even a simple pat in the back whenever we did something commendable will do. It doesn't take a genius to acknowledge and commend a performing worker. There are many ways to acknowledge good performance, from a sincere (and I mean sincere) "Thank You" or "Congratulations"   for a specific job well done to granting the highest level, agency-specific honors and establishing formal cash incentive and recognition award programs. It just need a performance-oriented and selfless (not self-centered) boss to make it happen.
• Motivation. We all need to be motivated. Who doesn't? Kill  this motivation and we won't go much further. The only question is ... who will motivate us when everyone else needs to be motivated? 
• Outcome. The end result of our labor matters so much. Output which can only mean meaningless numbers without meaningful results is not good. Our work should have some remarkable impact in the lives of others, as well as our own. But then, there's no amount of knowing the impact we caused on others' lives not unless we do extensive research asking for their precious testimonies. As Jay Asher said, “No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.” 
• Opportunity. The opportunity to be in the right place and at the right time is always needed. And luck really has a lot to do with it. I agree with Bill Gates when he said , "I was in the right place, at the right time, and luck had a lot to do with it".   Based on my own experience, we can never grow much further when we're misplaced, displaced or out-of-place. That's what we call a pure streak of bad luck LOL.

Getting all these ingredients will surely ensure a great serving of heaven at work. The question is, where in the world can we ever find them all bundled up together? In which heaven's one-stop-shop will we ever find them?

Perhaps, in every aspect of life, be it in love or at work, what's ideal is not really real!

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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
-- Theodore Roosevelt, September 7, 1903

16 Years and Counting

There are days, such days like today, when I couldn't help but ask myself  "Am I at the right place and time? Or am I not?"

Looking back, I've been jumping from one career to another. Counting off, I was able to work for both private and government sectors, with a total of seven jobs and six different employers to be exact. I've met several people, hundreds of them, all with different personalities, interests and attitudes. I've been through different experiences, both enjoyable and not so enjoyable. Most of all, I've been in the workforce, trying to have a career, for more than sixteen years now.

16 years ... that long ... yet I still couldn't appreciate the fruits of my labors. I do not consider myself as a failure as I also got my shares of triumphs. But I am still "just" an ordinary employee, with no permanent job, no house of my own, no car, and still striving to pay the monthly amortization of a 300 sq.m lot.

Despite the extra miles I extended to make my job commendable, and the awards I received from a global foundation, the praise of satisfied clients, and a masters degree, I still didn't have a chance for an advancement. Is it because of the system? Or is it because of me?

My dilemna is alarming.  Two years from now and I'll be 40. I think I need to re-trace my steps and re-evaluate.

I know I am not alone in this career mishap. Steps on how to be successful wouldn't be posted on the net had there be no demand searches for such. Experts, successful men and women shared their secrets freely, be it on personal websites, on blog or on social networking sites. Tips are countless. But will it work? Maybe. 

Let us see. 

According to Bill Gates during his interview with Larry King there are only three vital steps to success. First, one should be in the right place and time.

"I was in the right place, at the right time, and luck had a lot to do with it. However, there were many others in the same place as I was when computers  began to gain popularity."

Second, one should have a long-term vision.

"I had a long-term vision of how the personal computer would revolutionize every facit of life. Once again, there were many others with the same vision I had."

Third,  one should take massive, immediate action.

"I took massive, immediate action. This is where the rubber meets the road. If you're in the right place at the right time and have a vision to see where a new technology is going but don't take action ... you'll never be successful...

Without all three components in place, you're doomed." - Bill Gates

Of all the three steps, the first one made me dumbfounded. Maybe I am NOT in the right place at the right time. I guess so. Some people seemed to be climbing up the corporate ladder fast without any effort at all. They are not that qualified, not that talented, not that intelligent ... but how come? Well? Remembering what Marlon Brandon once said, "Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent", I understand and I will ask no more.

My next steps? First, re-evaluate my vision and if possible, enhance it and make it ambitious enough but achievable and realistic. Second, find the right place at the right time ... if not, change my current place and time the right one LOL. Third, decide fast, lay down all alternatives to make all these possible, and take the first steps, promptu!

It doesn't takes a genius to be successful after all. With God's blessings, anything can happen when we make it happen.

I still have 22 years before retirement anyway. But could I wait 'til I'm 60 to be able to say I am truly successful?  Come to think of it ...

I think, I also need to really learn my lessons quickly LOL.

Being Late is Bad Enough

Do you agree that being late, and I mean "always late", in any event is bad enough? I would always think of you as disrespectful if you kept me waiting for more than 5 minutes. It would always be a waste of my precious time waiting for you to show up. I don't care if you're a VIP, you just got to be on time. 

We don't need tips to avoid tardiness as everyone knows how to be on time. If we just will to be on time, we will really find ways not to be late. There are not enough reasons to absolve us from being late. Being late is late. That's it! Tardiness is one damn bad attitude that is not worth catching.

Time flies so swiftly. Before you knew it, it's already September. The next time you wake up, it would be 2013. Every ticking of the clock as the seconds went by means a lot to me. Keeping me waiting, wondering what happened to you while you're "on your way" is already a waste of my brain power. Letting those precious time pass by when I could have done something better is a pity. If you can't come or you will be late, then say so. And please say it before the event ... don't be "late" in sending your advisory. That's what we call "respect". 

If you don't know what respect is all about, then I don't know you, and I don't want to waste my time for you.

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If patience is not a virtue, I don't know what is ...

When the Blue Moon Cried and Shivered

"Once in a Blue Moon" is not just a phrase that I used to hear every time a rare event occurs. Tonight it became a reality. The full moon occurred for the second time this month ... but it seemed that she was so blue that tears fell from the sky and caused the earth to tremble as she shivered with grief.

 

8:47pm, Friday, August 31, 2012 ... blue moon ... magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits Mindanao and Samar.

 

The US Geological Survey (USGS) gave the temblor a preliminary magnitude reading of 7.9. It centered at 146 km (91 miles) E (96°) from Guiuan, Samar, Philippines, the USGS said.

  

The quake, which was 33 km deep, hit the area at around 8:47 p.m. It was felt in many parts of the country including Samar, Cagayan de Oro, Pagadian, Iligan, Dipolog, Ozamis, Cebu, Bukidnon, Davao, Quezon City, Surigao, Butuan, Leyte and Bohol.

 

The quake was truly unexpected.  I was playing with Tomiko, my shih tzu pup, when the house begun trembling ... slowly at first, and then the fearsome shaking begun. Darkness soon engulfed the brightness as the power went off. With the awful sounds of swaying cabinets, clicking glass and window blinds, paired with the call for God's intervention everywhere, I hastily went downstairs. With Tomiko in my arms, I fumbled for the match and the candle, and hastily turned off the power switches and the refrigerator. My father's rocking chair rocked vigorously while the water in my two aquariums spilled out because of the quake and the fishes swimming in panic.  It just seemed to be the predicted end of days. It was frightening and real that anybody would realize what truly is worthwhile in life.

 

Thank God the quake did not last long, but it seemed endless.  With the presence of the heavy rains, I can't help but ask, "Is the moon so blue that she can't help but cry and shiver?"

 

Perhaps. But why?

 

With her earth-trembling tears, today's blue moon is a rare phenomenon indeed!

 

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Some facts about the Blue Moon:

 

The reason why we call it a 'blue moon' is lost to history, although the Farmers' Almanac would always note an occurrence during the 18th century.

  

With a full moon occurring once every 29 days, and a month topping out with a maximum of 31 days, the combination is a rare one - occurring around once every two-and-a-half years.

  

Sadly, we cannot expect the moon to take on a different hue. Barring volcanic eruption, it will remain as white as ever, unless clouds obscure the view.

 

Over the next 20 years there will be about 15 blue moons, with an almost equal number of both types of blue moons occurring. No blue moon of any kind will occur in the years 2011, 2014, and 2017.

  

The more recent phenomenon, where the blue moon is considered to be the second full moon in a calendar month, last occurred on December 31, 2009. Two full moons in one month may occur in any month out of the year except for February, which is shorter than the lunar cycle.

  

The other, older blue moon event, which happens when there are four full moons in a season, last occurred in May 2008 and will again on Nov. 21, 2010. Since this type of blue moon is reckoned according to the seasons, it can only occur in February, May, August, or November, about a month before the equinox or the solstice.
 

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From Elvis to Ella Fitzgerald, one of the classic popular songs for love-lorn people is 'Blue Moon'.

The 1934 song relates the tale of a man who finally found the love of his life - something that was so unexpected for him that it must have happened under a blue moon...

 
 

"BLUE MOON"

Blue Moon

You saw me standing alone

Without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own

Blue Moon

You know just what I was there for

You heard me saying a prayer for

Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me

The only one my arms will hold

I heard somebody whisper please adore me

And when I looked to the Moon it turned to gold Blue Moon

Now I'm no longer alone

Without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own

 

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Note:

11:15pm - The blue moon stopped crying. Did it mean that her grief ended and her problem solved?
 
5:00am, September 1 - I was able to see a glimpse of the shy blue moon hiding behind the clouds, too shy to come out. Was the blue moon hiding from something?

 
Well? 

 

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References:

 

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk
• http://noypistuff.blogspot.com
• http://www.infoplease.com  

 

27 Sites to See Before We Die

I was browsing through the August 16-22, 2012 issue of The Foreign Post when I came across its travel section with the "Best Places to See and Explore" article. The article awakened the gypsy spirit in me. Nature trips would always be my cup of tea had I've been born with silver platters so to speak. 

Well, being penniless is no longer a hindrance these days that technology is at its height. What's the purpose of the Internet if it won't bring us to those places even virtually?

Ever-born a wanderer with the unfathomable wander lust, the tiger can't help but start the site-seeing spree.

You guessed right. I was able to explore these places with just the click of a button and a 1 Mbps Internet connection. Not bad huh. 

Posted in The Foreign Post, below are the amazing places that CNN identified so far. Photos shown are sourced out from the various websites while I was having my grand virtual tour.

(1)

  Borobudur at Sunrise
Java (Indonesia)

(2)

Starling Murmuration
Brighton Pier (England)

(3)  

Northern Lights
Scandinavia

(4)

The Great Migration
East Africa

(5)  

Star-filled Sky
Mackenzie Basin (New Zealand) 

(6)  

Torres del Paine
Chile

(7)

Djmaa el Fna
Marrakech (Morocco)

  (8)

Yosemite Peaks
California (United States)

(9)

  Santa Maria Salute
Venice (Italy)

(10)

Jungle Pyramids
Palenque (Mexico)

(11) 

Electrical Storm
Tornado Alley (United States) 

(12)

Sydney Harbour
Australia

(13) 

Inside the Thrihnukagigur Volcano
(Iceland)

(14) 

Monument Valley
United States

(15) 

Taj Mahal
India

 (16) 

Kasanka Bat Migration
Zambia

(17) 

Carlsbad Cavern
New Mexico (United States)

(18) 

Lunar Rainbow 

Victoria Falls (Zambia)

(19)

 Shubenaca Die Tidal Bore
Canada

(20)

Cape Tribulation
Australia

(21)

 Rock Face City of Petra
Jordan

(22) 

Enrosadira
Dolomites (Italy)

(23)

 Fairy Chimneys
Cappadocia (Turkey)

(24)

 Lake District Lakes
England

(25)

 Sardine Run

South Africa

(26)

 Pristine Beaches of Islas Cies
Spain

(27)

 Cornwall's Ruined Mines
England

Of all the places, I really love the Scandinavian Northern Lights. It made me feel like everyday is Christmas. 'Would love to visit it for real someday... and then I would be ready to die LOL.

 

All About Moms

The following are answers given by elementary school age children to the following questions:

Why did God make mothers?

1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?

1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?

1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use string. I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?

1. We're related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your mom?

1. My mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?

1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook?

Does he get drunk on beer? Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores. Why did your mom marry your dad?

1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my mom eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that mom didn't have her thinking cap on.

Who's the boss at your house?

1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goofball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between moms and dads?

1. Moms work at work and work at home, and dads just got to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller and stronger, but moms have all the real power 'cause that's who you gotta ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.

What does your mom do in her spare time?

1. Mothers don't do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mom perfect?

1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I'd diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?

1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.
2. I'd make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.

LOL :P Whatever kids!

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To my loving Mom ... to all wonderful moms out there ... and to the world's no. 1 Mom ....

HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY!!!