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I am not a big fan of creating documentations, especially from scratch. But my company is fairly new and has been expanding like crazy. Unfortunately, the expansion does not include formalization of job descriptions and a clear line on who’s really in charge of what. This has been causing problems and confusion for some time now but since those are readily resolved, no one has taken the initiative to point this out.

Then I experienced a task delegation confusion that almost made me lose my composure and made me realize how very crucial an SOP is to any type of organization. We should have had that in the first place anyway. I mean, what if the manager went out of town, had some travel emergency and could not attend to an urgent task at hand? Whom should the rest coordinate with?

At my friend Mark’s suggestion, I’m now drafting my department’s SOP in client handling for our General Manager’s approval to avoid incidents like what happened this week (which by the way was a clear example of lack of proper procedure in an organization). I am sacrificing my precious weekend and sleep to draft the SOP, but then again, with this initiative, I am hoping the rest of the managers will follow suit and create their own SOPs to professionalize our company. Ganbarimasu!

My sister Anne has a huge stock of clothes which she rarely uses. It’s taking too much space in our house (her cabinet’s overflowing with clothes, literally) that we convinced her to put those rarely used clothes on a pre-loved sale in one of the stores near our area. She finally said yes today.

Rummaging through her drawers and cabinets, the owner of the store will definitely need to spend a lot of time entering data in her inventory software to accommodate Anne’s clothes. I must admit that some of her rarely-used apparel are a rare find and stylish. Then again, what’s the use of owning something nice if you won’t be able to use it? At least by selling her clothes, she gets extra money (which she needs at the moment) and the buyers will definitely be ecstatic to get those at a bargain.

Since I dented my newly refurbished car last week, my sisters always make fun of me. Yeah well, I can not blame them for that. I couldn’t blame the gate I crashed into either. This is why I already enrolled in a driving school yesterday.

Anyhow, I also feel bad about it because I got the car repainted a week before that incident. To add to that, I already spent most of my extra savings for the paint job. So now I’m checking out an auto insurance quote sent to me by my insurance company. I think accidents like these are partly covered by the package so I won’t have to worry much about the expenses. Unfortunately, car repairs take at least two weeks to finish so that means I’ll be riding with my sister to work for the next two weeks.

Last time I blogged about giving our pets supplements for weight loss. You may already have thought that the idea was ridiculous, well wait to you hear about COSMETIC SURGERY ON PETS!

You may have heard of these: Tail Docking, Ear Cropping, Debarking, Declawing. These are just some examples of the usual cosmetic procedures done especially on dogs and cats. I’ll give a brief explanation on each.

Tail docking – crimping of tail short or removal of the whole tail. Almost always done with no anesthesia. Breeders explain that they need to cut the dog’s tail short so that it won’t be injured in hunting (as if they use them in hunting).
Ear cropping – cutting of the part of the ear that is usually floppy in order for the ears to stand up. Why? I have no idea why one would like their Boston Terriers look like bugs bunny.
Debarking – removal of vocal cord tissues to mute the dog’s loud barks. Done by people who love having pet dogs but hate barking (What the??).
Declawing – removal of the tip portion of each finger so that claws wont be able to grow. Why? to protect their waterbeds from cat’s claws I guess.

Animal rights groups protest these procedures and consider them as cruelty to animals. They explain that God made these creatures perfect as they are and altering them in any way is against the animal’s rights (not that they could say anything about it). We humans may love cosmetic surgery but that doesn’t mean our pets feel the same way.

I was quite rattled last Thursday, after my friend and I got in trouble with the military guards for having a very late picnic in the park, that I didn’t notice the wired gate of the camp until it was too late… Yep, I dented a door and scratched the side mirror of our just-recently-refurbished Mitsubishi Lancer.

Anyhow, my friend consoled me and reminded me to be thankful for two things – I didn’t run over a living thing or an expensive car AND it’s easy to replace Mitsubishi parts (imagine finding Ferrari parts!). He also advised me to enroll in a driving school to avoid stuff like those. As my mom put it awhile ago sighing, “Yes, she is very careful in driving and following instructions and road signs. Unfortunately, gates, posts and other non living things usually do not have signs.”

Tee hee… I assured my mom and my friend that I’ll enroll myself in a formal driving school as my birthday gift to myself this October. They were quite relieved. 0;)

Did you know that Ephedrine, a widely used weight loss ingredient, has been used for treating hypotension? ephedrine not only has appetite-suppressing effects but also has stimulating effect on the nervous system. It’s like caffeine, only much more effective in stimulating.

People with hypotension (commonly low blood pressure) are treated with ephedrine to regulate their BP. I had a friend once who collapsed when we were hanging out in a park. We were just sitting down and having a mini pick nick. When we stood up, he fell to the ground. A few seconds later, he regained his consciousness and acted like nothing happened. When he had a checkup in the hospital, the doctor said he had orthostatic hypotension. This is not a disease but a mere delay on the reaction of the nervous system to distribute more blood on the brain upon a change in position, in our case from sitting to standing up. He was given a pill with ephedrine. He was fortunate that he fell on soft ground.