1:27 AM, November 12, 2008.  I will be going back to work in 20 hours.  Sometimes I feel excited going back to work at times, I don’t feel like woking.  Hay…  As of the moment, I don’t want to go to work.  Sheesh… But a girl has to do what a girl has to do!  And besides, if I don’t go tonight, my work will pile up, if it does, the more that I will feel not going to work anymore… Whoahhh….

I was out with a couple of friends last month when a colleague said that I am the new terror on the floor.  I kinda laughed at what he said and took it as a joke.  But after giving it some thought, I ended up asking myself, is that how my agents see me?  The thought of being the “terror” on the floor would be pleasing for some and honestly, I did find it pleasing for a moment.  Which made me feel uncomfortable for I believe that people who will find such thought are power hungry people.  People who likes to impose their position on other people.  I felt uncomfortable with the thought of me liking the idea for this that there is a possibility that I am a power hungry person.  I do not want people to fear me.  All I wanted was respect the same way as I respect other people’s individuality.  But I guess I am not sending the right message across.  An agent once told me that I am like the incarnation of her home room advisor is one of those testimonies.  So how can I make things better?  How will I let them know that what I wanted is their respect, loyalty and trust not fear?

Oh how I love it when it rains!  That is if I’m at home though.  The cool weather, the sound of the rain drops falling on the roof and stillness of the streets on a rainy day just makes me lounge around and relax.  I get to read a lot, watch movies a lot and sleep for hours.  The bad side of it though is it makes me eat a lot too.  hahaha…  When we were kids, we used to play in the rain but the best rainy day experience that I ever had is having to eat with my parents and my siblings and share a big bowl of Lucky Me Beef Noodles.  When I was growing up, I used to ask myself why do we sometimes have to make do with 2 packs of noodles when there are 6 of us.  But as I grew up, I understood why it is so.  My parents were trying to make ends meet.  And so when I got older, it didn’t bother me no more.  And for every meal that was shared there were laughter and memories built that we took with us no matter where we go.

I watched this movie a few minutes ago and I wasn’t really expecting much from the it for so far  most sequels these days come up as a disappointment.  But when I saw this movie, wow, it was far from that.  It was as good as the first one.  And it did make the characters see what they already have and learn to appreciate them.  I guess that’s what made this movie a great movie.  Everybody can truly relate to it.  You know at times we are so driven to achieve things that we at times lose sight of the things that really matters.  We get so busy with out lives that sometimes we fail to see that we are starting to drift away from the people who cares about us and the people that we truly care about.  It’s just ashame that at times, we don’t notice it until it was too late.  See we maybe or we have a Tibby, a Lena, a Bridget or a Carmen in our lives and like them we just tend to not listen to one another sometimes.

One thing that I really don’t like is waking up because of somebody was screaming, shouting or nagging another person. Like this woman next door who reminds me of our neighbor back when I was a kid who nags her children off their beds. Like my GOD, can’t she just tell her kids to wake up?! Imagine, how the kid felt? I myself felt so abused just listening to her curse early in the morning and I was not the one whom she was talking to. I know life isn’t easy especially if you’re a mom but hey, a little consideration to your kids and to your neighbors duh?! And when will people learn that nagging, shouting and cursing doesn’t really help. You don’t want me to tell you why. Really…

Living a frugal life means avoiding any luxuries in life.  One of which is avoid riding a taxi or cab going to work.  This means I will have to leave my house an hour before my shift so that I won’t be late even if I am just 15 minutes away from work.  Why?  Because I will have to wait for a jeepney that will pass by my work place.  Easy?  Of course not!  For aside from dealing with occassional perverts and people who seem to avoid taking a bath and enjoy letting people smell their smelly bodies, I will have to make out the signs for the route of the jeepneys.  And with a 100/125 error in refraction, it is not an easy task.  So I was really excited when Zenni Optical was on Fox news! Imagine a Zenni Optical $8 Rx eyeglasses…  8 freaking dollars will really fit into my budget!   I could probably even afford the incredible stylish new frames from Zenni which you will see on their site because their eyeglasses are so cheap!  So why was I excited, it’s because they now ship eyeglasses from the US however, I will have to be careful if I place an order so that I will get the right pair for myself.

I was supposed to spend some time with some folks from work tonight.  We were supposed to go out and spend time together in a different environment and have fun.  Unfortunately, I fell asleep and woke up at 1AM.  They called me up at 8 PM and I missed it.  Sheesh! this is one of the great opportunities to know them better and yet, I missed it.  Too bad!

October 15 is the birthday of my brother and what a day indeed. We went out to eat lunch at the Manila foodshoppe in Cebu. We had the sweet and sour pork, satimi and shaghai rice. I suggested that we have lunch there instead for a lot of people said that the food is good. However, I was not really happy about their Satimi. The noodles leaves a certain aroma and it was kinda bland. The sweet andsour pork as kinda okay and the shanghai rice was okay too but the used new cooked rice so it was kinda wet. I was impressed by their green mango shake though. It was one of the best I had so far. After eating, my bro and I was about to go home when a shirt on the display window caught out attention. So off we went on our hour shopping spree.

Then later in the afternoon, I went to meet Wena in Ayala for she wanted to meet the tech there for some issues with the OS and she wants it reformatted. Unfortunately, we were not able to see him for we were in a hurry to meet some of our friends from work at Starbucks so that we can go out for dinner. They said Nikko came home from Japan and wants to go out for dinner. I didn’t recognize him at first for he lost a lot of weight. He said that it was because of the extra hours that he put into his job. He said that he is taking the advantage of working there so that he can save money for his future. When everybody arrived we went to The Walk and ate at Joe’s Grill. I ordered the grilled bangus with red egg and I was kinda disappointed with it for the egg was too salty. When it touches your tongue, the salt kinda stings your tongue. I believe the saltiness of that thing if you will take it everyday may destroy your taste bud. Whoah… It seems I have been having some really bad decisions don’t ya think? After dinner, we went back to Starbucks, where we and Weng stayed from 9PM to 2 AM. I had a venti of their green tea frap which so far was the best choice I made today. I got home at around 2:30 AM but didn’t go to sleep yet. I spent an hour hopping around the web and wrote this article.

It’s 4:14 now and since my tasks for the day is done, it is now time for me to get some goodnight sleep. Ta-ta!

(written October 16th 2008)

hmmm… Let’s see…

We’ve just ended the month of September, meaning our stats for September is officially closed. And unfortunately, my team was not able to meet the CSat target for the month. Hay, I guess the blanket and the Stanley Vacuum bottle was the surprise that my stars have in store for me this month . New survey for the month of October came in and it’s a bottom box (what a great way to start the fiscal month). I received my pay but it was a thousand pesos short (which made my financial situation even worse), I don’t know why. I still need to verify it with our HR. I went to see a dentist who asked me to pay him 800 pesos to clean my teeth since it will not be covered by my insurance (like hell it’s not). Had an argument with a peer over an agent (sheesh, as if the tension isn’t enough to strengthen the walls between us). I was not able to do much the past two days in the office (great just great!). And because of my CSat results am getting a new task (like my load isn’t enough yet. Not that am complaining though, I guess it’s time that I do something about it). I did not get any tasks for this week (hay…). And to top it all, I have a huge pimple near my left eye brow. I have never had a pimple as huge as this one and it was really uncomfortable. Imagine, I think I can see it myself even if am not in front of the mirror. And as if that was not bad enough, some of my peers were teasing me about it and I felt like everyone was staring at it while I was talking to them. Sheesh! What a way to start the month and end the first week of October. Good thing I have something to look forward to at the end of the month.