Erik, my program is working now thanks to that master one from Andy. however, Andy's shows the data to be sent in a forever loop (while(1)). I if change the program by taking it (write instruction out of this loop) and execute only once, shouldn't I still see the data (one once) in the scope? I don't unles is in this loop.

Here is what I mean
here is Andy's

while(1)
  {
    spi_write(0x0A);
  }
/*****************************************/
//here is what is want to do: This should be ok
:
:
spi_write(0x0A); // should see it on scope once right?
while(1)
  {
  PCON |= 0x00;  
  }