I Passed Ecommerce Analytics Course!

Since my job is into Digital Marketing whenever I had chance at the office or at home I read SEO news and other stuffs related to my work. Good thing I found out about this Google Online Academy which provides short courses that teaches how to use Google Analytics and how to start PPC campaigns. Those two topics are some of the lessons that they tackle there. Oh by the way before I forgot this is a FREE course guys, Isn't it sweet?! Just register and you can access the lesson online.

The recent online course they had which I took is Ecommerce Analytics: From Data to Decisions. Here are the screen shots of the course details:

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My Thoughts on Fifty Shades of Grey Trailer + Amazing Facts!

I was very surprise about the news I heard over the radio while I am riding the bus on my way to the office this morning. The two DJ are talking about the trailer of Fifty Shades of Grey and I was like OMGGG I need to watch it. I admit I am not a fan. I have the copy of it on e-book. I read it for a while and then I stopped. Haha.

The trailer is also popular in my Facebook feeds that morning and some of my friends are raving about it too. Okay, okay calm the nerves down. To be honest I am quite intrigue how the trailer looks like; how it will entice the avid readers of the book and at the same time the movie goers to raid the theaters. LOL. Because I love you guys I also uploaded the video here which I grabbed from YouTube.com for you to watch it.

Facts:

Dakota Johnson will portray as "Anastasia Steele" while Jamie Dorman will portray as "Christian Grey". Beyonce sang her famous “Crazy in Love” here and she kind of revises the tune of it which is very sexy! The film will be release next year February 14, 2015 so mark now your calendar guys!

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Becoming More Responsible

It’s been almost two weeks since my mom and dad went to the province for a month long vacation and left us (I and my two younger siblings) manage our house. Having no parents around for the first three days was freedom but things changed when the typhoon Glenda hit Metro Manila that left us with no electricity for 5 days!

Since my parents are not with us we need to spend wisely the budget for 15 days before our next payroll. The budget came from us (Niña and I) that we earned from our respective work. Oh I forgot to tell you that my dear sister is a programmer while my youngest sister namely Anjanette is a sophomore college student at PUP-Taguig. She's on the job training right now in Makati as of writing. I am such a proud ate that I want to brag it here. Hehe.

Moving on to our topic since I’m the eldest and my work schedule is set from 7:30am to 4:30pm I do the grocery before I went home. It means I need to go to the wet market to buy veggies, pork or chicken to cook for our dinner and for our breakfast too. I’m also in charge of cooking them a meal. I admit I have no skills on cooking but slowly I’m learning on it because I have no choice while my two siblings are force to eat what dish I prepared for them! Haha. We also set a schedule to do our laundry during weekends because that’s the time that we are off from work. Luckily we have a washing machine at home so there’s no need for us to freak out about doing that chore.

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Primitive Life for 5 Days

I mentioned about my previous post about typhoon Glenda and how the strong storm brought howling wind and heavy rain which created tremendous damaged on the capital city of the Philippines. It destroys houses, struck down trees and kills the livelihood of many Filipinos. The power line was also ruined that we experienced having no electricity for 5 days which is a very long day that resemble into a month and even a year of living a primitive life in my case! Do I sound like I exaggerating things?! That's what I felt on that moment. LOL.

Having no electricity I got a chance to reflect things and live a simple life for a while. I busied myself by enjoying the sound of silent and remembering my childhood memories when life is still not dominated with internet and computer games. At home we use candles sticks and lamps to have a light. We also use “pamaypay” or fan that is made with fabric and sticks to cool ourselves during a hot night. When it comes to my mobile phones I charged it in the office. Luckily the electricity resume Monday morning and all things came back to normal again. I feel like the whole world lighted in front of me when I saw the light bulbs on our house turned on when I clicked the power button. Haha. Yeah, I am that crazy!

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After the wrath of typhoon Glenda

July 16 was a terrible day here in Philippines due to typhoon Glenda that hit Metro Manila. The storm signal was raise from signal number 2 to signal number 3 on the evening of July 15. I woke up 2 in the morning because of the noise outside our house created by the strong wind and heavy rain. This is also the time that the power line was shut down in our area in Taguig to prevent further occurrence of accident. We are totally concealed into darkness but we are still fortunate that the storm landed during the day time rather than the night time because it might became worst if the latter happen.

To be honest I got scared about what happened because my mom and dad were not there in our side. They went to the province for a one month vacation. Being the eldest I need to assure the safety of my two younger siblings ages 19 and 17 years old. We were stuck there inside the house and stare from our living room's window scenes such as roof got taken off by a strong wind, branches of trees flying in the mid-air and falling to other houses. The growling noise of the wind is super scary that even my two younger cousins who are also in our house become panicky. We also experienced being fallen down by a large branch of a narra tree at the top of our roof from our nearby neighbor. Luckily it doesn't create a huge damage and doesn't cut our roof.

Here are the pictures that I've taken after the typhoon. If I remember it correctly it was 11 in the morning when a strong wind stopped. We exhale a sign of relief that after all what had happened we are still safe.

Look at that trees and shrubs that has been cut down my strong wind of typhoon Glenda

Clean up time after the storm strong wind subside. It also still drizzling at that moment but it is bearable.

We also experience flood due to the heavy rain and poor drainage system in our area. I hope our local municipality especially the baranggay officials will do something about this problem.

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Nyx Lipstick Review in Bruised Rouge Meurtri

Us girls are independent and experimental that it applies on the way we showcase ourselves through cute dresses, fancy jewelries, shoes and having a wide range collection of make-ups and lippies! Yesterday, one of my office mates and a very close friend of mine-- Lia, lend us her NYX lipstick for us to try it. Of course we are so giddy and very game with the idea! Here are the group picture of us wearing the lipstick:

L-R (Lia, Tin and Me) Random Shots 1: Smiley, the TLC girlsss

 Random Shots 2:  Timid Smile this is the only shot that I really like because I look normal here and errr taller. Okay, I cheat I tiptoed a bit.

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Adwords Fundamental Seminar

Last June 10-11, 2014: I and my search marketing team attended a Google Adwords seminar held at Alphaland Southgate Tower Magallanes. It was a two day event and our speaker was none other than Ms. Marie Lu from WideOut. She's a certified digital marketing manager and has extensive experience on handling Adwords campaign. I also forgot to mention that she's also an Adwords certified too.

As a participants or attendees of the seminar we are oblige to bring our own laptop because we will use it on the 2nd day to take the online exam on Advertising fundamentals from Google Partners. Anyhow, we are very lucky that we only pay 600 pesos per head for the event because our company is one of the Google Partnered companies. We chance to avail the 90% discount from the actual amount of 6,000 pesos.

The search marketing team with our expat web content creator - Kuda!

The pioneer search marketing team or as I call our group - The Survivors!
L-R (Teresa, Maricris, Me, Eduardo)

The event coordinator at WideOut also gave us this hand book that contains screen shots of our lesson.

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New URL Address: Cinscortes.blogspot.com

Opps! Sorry if I changed my blog address from livewiselivefree.blogspot.com into cinscortes.blogspot.com due to work related purposes. I am planning to use it on my visual resume that's why I've decided to rename it.

Anyhow, I am begging you all to please, please do visit my blog! I know that there are many things that I need to improve here in my blog especially on the way I write my entries. I take this as a baby step to hone my skills in blogging or writing! Yayy. So please exert more patience on me.

On the other hand I promise I will do my best to keep my blog more updated with what's happening with my life especially my cyst operation that I had this 1st quarter of 2014. It sounds scary but hey I survived my second under the knife experience so stay tune for that. Over and out.

Happy Kitten. That's my face when I successfully update my blog template and revise my URL address. I can't believe I can still read CSS codes after all this years. Stock knowledge, eh!

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Anthology Shoes

I promise that I will not splurge this month because I am planning to save but oh boy I broke that one again. I went to the Ramp at Glorietta 2 Makati city yesterday just to window shop and I end up buying a new pair of anthology shoes. It was love at first sight when I lay my eyes on them. Look at this wonderful babies:

 I just can't resist the urge to bring home this lovely pair of flat shoes. They are telling me to buy them. Nah, of course this is just my excuse. The Imeldific in me! Haha.

Anthology shoes has this wonderful sole too.

I am really happy with what I've purchased and I can't wait to use it in the office. I've been an Anthology fan since 2013 and I can say that there shoes is super comfortable. It can also endure slippery floor although there is only one down side-- the price! I bought this for an amount of 2,400 pesos. A bit pricey compared to other shoe brands such as Gibi, Rusty Lopez & Boccalo but this flat shoes is a good investment because it can last long. I also have other pair of shoes from this brand and they are still in a good form right now but it really depends upon if you use it everyday or not. Anyhow, at the end of the day I am just a happy gal with a new pair of flat shoes. Lalalala.

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Dim Light

Twisted world apart
Broken dreams that meant to be fix
Promises that are made into ashes
How can I survived with this?

I can't breathe, blurry images is at my sight
How can I go on with this?...
Then silence came-
I can't utter any words to say

Let the riddles be solve
In a way that I cannot fathom
Oh why? why? why?
How can I stop in this mingling world?

If sincerity can be spoken
No one will be hurt
No one will gonna cry
No one will not shed blood

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