CISCO Flip Mino HD Video - now taken off from my wish list! :)

CISCO Flip Mino HD!!!

Working with CISCO Systems for almost 5 years now has always been a privilege, much more of the need of having a job.  Aside from being in the best company and having the best clients, we’re getting a heads up as to what products are up for the consumers or what premium device is due for released.  So, when the Flip Video was made public almost 2 years ago, I told myself that I should be getting one.  In fact, it is written in my “worldly things” wish list.  Being an employee entitles us of a 30% discount in all CISCO’s products.  And so, I made a computation.  Flip Mino HD Video is available for $139.99 and that would mean a $42 discount. That would be just $97.99 plus $8.57 tax; total is $106.56 (around 4500 pesos).  Wow, that’s great savings!  But, I took it as just a dream since I know shipping charges from Irvine might worth more bucks than the Flip Mino HD Video itself.  However, I’m a DREAMER and I can hold on for my all of my dreams as long as I’m alive.  My faith in God is infinite!    

And God has again showed how faith and prayers can move mountains.  We were told that our “nicest” client will be going here in Manila for a fun-work visit.  So, few days before his departure from California, I told him if he can purchase one Flip Mino HD Video for me and I’ll just pay him when he arrives here.  As kind as he was, he nodded.  Yey!  So, I checked the prices at SM Megamall and Mino’s is almost at 7000 pesos (around $167).  Great buy then, yey again! :)

And that day finally came, afternoon of June 30, Larry (our client) handed me the Flip Mino HD Video.  I told him how he wants to be paid, in dollar or peso bills.  And with the sweetest smile (as he is so accustomed to), he told me not to bother with paying anymore- that I take it as a gift.  And that’s really YEY! :)  And oh, Larry is one of the few persons I know who is so generous in giving a tight hug.  You can just feel his sincerity.  We so love him! :)

Back with my Mino HD, see a snap of it below.  Though I saw one online with a Keroppi design, I so love this black Flip Mino HD Video!!!

included in the package :)

I will be posting some videos taken from my Flip soon! :)

Specs are:

8GB | 2 hr
720p HD | 60 fps

Image Stabilization
Dimensions: 3.94" x 1.97" x 0.63" 3.94" x 1.97" x 0.63"

Lens: Digital Zoom

Battery Type: Internal Lithium-ion Rechargeable

I missed Bora!

For the second time, I missed the chance of going to Boracay.  First one was in 2009, when I booked a flight for me and Mike.  It was meant to be a surprise so I did not tell him of the details.  I was planning then to kidnap him (and thought it would be fun!).  But I was left in awe when he told me that he needs to go out of town (on the same date of our flight) because of work.  That’s when I spilled the Bora details and expectedly, I was reproached.  I could have told him the details earlier, he said.  Coz you know, solely he’s the only EE Project coordinator being trusted by their company and he can’t let pass being on the project’s site (trying to console myself with this thinking though!).  Oh, the rest is just history.

My second time could have been last June 25; our CISCO team is off to Bora for a “4 days fun vacay with Larry”.  Just one day prior to our trip, I caught a very high fever.  I was at work (can’t be home because it’s raining so hard!) then and was really shivering.  Both of my knees are aching and my cough just sounded so bad!  Without a doubt, I told myself- “I will miss Bora again”.  And these thought happened, I was admitted to the hospital in the afternoon of June 24.  With a fever of 39.5 degrees and despite of two IV’s with paracetamol injected at intervals of 4 hours, it hasn’t gone down.  (See the story: Myfirst time in 28 years!)  And, yes, I missed our flight at 8:55 AM via PAL and once more- I MISSED BORA! Big Time!!!     :( :( :(

Ehe :)  Boracay will not leave.  I will still be able to visit it someday and relish God’s wondrous work on nature! :)

My first time in 28 years!

 

Previously, when all my peers have already caught cough and colds, I would be the last person standing.  Yes, you can take it literally.  That’s when I thought my immune system works for me so well not until last June 24.  I was confined at the hospital- for the first time!  And the reason?  High fever, cough and knee(s) pain.  I’m a person who can just bear anything but not on that day.  Pain is no longer tolerable.  It felt, as if anytime I would be leaving my physical body.  So, can you just imagine how it hurts?

I went to San Isidro Hospital (SIH) at around 3 PM and since their ONLY resident doctor was assisting a caesarian operation, I stayed only at the Nurses station.  My knees were aching (so bad!) and I was so pale and after many instances of them insisting that I lay on the ER bed, I agreed.  Finally, at around 4:30 PM, the first IV was injected.  It did nothing, same degree of fever, similar unbearable knee pain!  That’s when the doctor said that they need to monitor my condition; 39.5 degrees of fever for 2 days isn’t fine.  Though, it’s not the hospital where I would want to be confined, it’s the only one near our place in which our HMO card is accepted.  I was on sick leave and I need a medical certificate from an accredited hospital to present upon my return at work.  While in their hospital bed (I was in at 7:30 PM), I was given 2 dextrose, few paracetamol, and some capsules (which I forgot the name) and NO DOCTOR!  At 8AM, my family decided to transfer me to a relative’s hospital.  It’s now okay for me not to use my HMO card because it’s already my rest days.  And up to that moment I left the hospital, I did not see even the shadow of the assigned “DOCTOR”.  It was ridiculous, absurd and incongruous!  You’re paying them and yet you’re not getting the service you deserve.  The pain is excruciating and yet, the nurses could just say that they can’t give any more medicines because the DOCTOR had not advised yet.  How will they get advice or recommendations if in the first place, they do not have doctors!?  Oh, those nurses, they appear before you and get your vital signs and temperature only after every 4 hours! (deep sigh)  And you would not believe it; my almost 12 hours stay in that hospital was charged more than 13000 pesos!!! Grrr! 

At Angono Medics Hospital (AMH), in no 30 minutes I was already in their hospital bed.  Nurses visit you frequently.  You are given medicines because the doctor said so.  Yes, they got doctors around!  Even their Medical Director will do her rounds and will go to your room too.  She will assess how you’re feeling and your whole situation.  I was confined until June 27, 8:30 PM, so that’s more than 2 days and my bill?  It’s only 14000 pesos!  You might say, it’s maybe because the Medical Director was a relative of ours but I would proudly utter, it’s NOT!  It’s just that, they know so well how to take care of their patients!

To SIH: Hey, wake up! >-<                      

N.B.  Philhealth shared with my bills and now, I wait for my insurance’s hospital income benefit.  That would be 5000 pesos per day.  I just hope they would process it immediately and precisely, if not, I’ll blog (BLAG!) them also!!! :)