Thursday, November 30, 2006

last day of november

its the last day of november and the super typhoon reming is approaching the philippine area of responsibility. according to the news, the bicol region is under storm signal number 4 already and metro manila and the other provinces in southern tagalog are under signal number 2. i just hope that this will not bring the same destruction as the typhoon milenyo did. i pray that everyone will be safe and no casualties will be left after this ravaging storm has passed. i know its far fetched but im still hoping for the best. may God be with us all.

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im currently looking for pics that i will be putting here on dec 6... hopefully... just wait and see what are those... hehehe...

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finally, yoshie's blogging... hehehe... im happy for you, dude... welcome to the club... palakpakan!!!... hahaha... :)

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abba promised me that she's going to give me one painting... then, we are going to sell it... the proceeds will go to the funds that im saving up for my canon 400d... hehehe... thanks abba! :)

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pasensya na wala akong matinong maisulat... hehehe... :)


Tuesday, November 28, 2006

brain fry

yesterday we were asked to answer open ended questions and expound on them in not less than 100 words. the following are the questions:

1. if a genie popped out of a bottle and promised to grant you just one wish, what would you wish for except for extra wishes? why?

2. if you can be anyone you wanted to be today, who would you be and what would you do? explain.

3. if your house were on fire, what (not who) would you initially grab on the way out? explain why.

4. if you had to choose, would you give up your sight or our hearing? why?

5. if you were given a choice between great wisdom and great wealth, which would you choose? explain why.

6. what do you see as the value of belonging to a professional organization?

7. considering your working career, discuss the most stressful event you ever faced and how you managed it.

8. how does the position you currently have fit into the career path you have set for yourself?

9. what do you see as being your most significant accomplishment?

10. in your opinion, what is the best way to lead and motivate subordinates?

pretty tough huh?!... honestly, i had a hard time writing something for this. my brain isn't just working properly yesterday. it really smells like burnt brain yesterday on the floor while we were working on it. i just dont have much of a choice i had to finish it yesterday because its my off today... geez... i had a splitting headache because of this... mahirap talagang mag-isip lalo na pag wala kang maisip... hehehe...

Sunday, November 26, 2006

long day

i woke up at 8am today to accompany my mom going to antipolo church. i was so sleepy that i slept on the jeepney on our way going to tikling. well, i got home last night at 12am... so there... traffic was so horrible so we got late on the mass. my mom and i ate out. we didn't have time to go out yesterday that's why we did it today. i almost got late going to work. thank God i'm not. :)

my officemate lent me his book about photography. its photo idea index by jim krause. its interesting... i hope i can get a copy of it soon... which gives me an idea... i'll include this on my wishlist for my birthday... well... just something to remind me of the things i have to buy for myself... though, i know i'll end up buying all those things in my wishlist... hehehe...

i had fun today talking with abba, yoshie and hazim. nagconfy kme sa aim... hehehe... wala lang ang kukulit lang namin... sana matuloy ung cook out na plan ni abba... im looking forward to it... sarap kse magluto ni abba e... hehehe...

Saturday, November 25, 2006

happy birthday mom! :)

its my mom's birthday today. too bad i can't buy anything for her today kse sarado na ang mga bakeshop pag-uwi ko... i can't buy her a cake tuloy... oh well... tomorrow na lang... i'm sure, we are going to eat out after going to mass... :) happy birthday nay! :)

busy day for me... we had a lot of calls today... unusual... ganun talaga sa shift namin... pag saturday maraming calls... weird noh?!... and usually calls come in when you're about to log out... hahaha... parusa... :) but still i love my shift... mid shift pa rin ako forever... hehehe...

i was about to write something else but i think i had to reserve it for the coming days... its too early to post it here... i'll just wait til the end of december... hehehe...

Friday, November 24, 2006

babble... :)

i have a slight headache today. hangover yata ng pagod ko the past five days... i had to wake up early in the morning to go to the grocery to buy some ingredients para sa lulutuin naming konting handa sa fiesta... i did buy the meat and chicken din sa palengke... yesterday, i had to wake up really really early kse di ka rin naman makakatulog dahil sa ingay ng mga banda ng musiko at mga batang excited sa pagdaan ng parada... haaayyy... i was able to sleep for more than 8 hours yata but still im not feeling well... but i still went to work kse wala na ako suswelduhin pag umabsent pa ako... haayyy... ang hirap talagang maging mahirap... (quotable quote namin ni abba... hehehe...)

abba's going to deliver her paintings today sa tagaytay... gusto ko sana sumama but i can't... too bad... i have work today... sayang...

last night abba and i were texting. i was asking her how can i get extra income so i can save up and buy my dream canon 400d. she told me to do portraits which seems to be a nice idea... sana nga lang maraming magpagawa sa akin... :) she told me she'll help... thanks dude... :)

before i went to sleep kagabi, i listed a few things that i want to accomplish til the next year... im pretty much determined to do it... good luck na lang sa akin... hehehe...

Thursday, November 23, 2006

viva san clemente

one thing i've always loved about my hometown is its rich culture and tradition. no doubt about it because these culture and traditions made our hometown an artists town. indeed we are the art capital of the philippines.

today is the feast day of our patron saint, pope clement I. every year, this is my most awaited event in my home town. well... i guess everybody in our town does... since i was little girl, i anticipate the feast day itself... aside from the food that will be served, i look forward to the "pagoda" itself... "pagoda" is an annual fluvial procession... dinadala ng mga deboto ang mga imahen ng santo papunta sa dagat (laguna de bay) para i-prusisyon... isinasakay sila kasama ng mga deboto sa apat na malalaking bangka na pinagdugtung-dugtong para makagawa ng isang malaking pagoda... although, i never had the chance to ride and join that boat because i dont know how to swim... i've always enjoyed how the town's people celebrate the occasion... and this is so evident on the annual parade...

makikita mo na sobrang saya ng mga tao... sagana ang tubig... they don't care if they are going to pay more this month for their water bills... basta kailangan makapambasa sila... hehehe... the men dress up like women... they even had their dress tailor made just for the occasion... pinaghahandaan talaga... you will get surprised on how creative people can get... makikita mo na lang na merong mga taong putik... someone who just came home from a halloween party... kanina nga merong naka-tuxedo... james bond daw... hehehe... we also have parehadoras... they are little girls dressed up in a really colorful attire... they march throughout the town with their miniature sagwans (boat paddle) and their bakyas (wooden slippers)... they were marching in a certain beat and they should be all in unison... annually, the organizers come up with a unique design... which makes you look forward to it every year... of course the giant paper maches that we call higantes were always present... every year we get to have a new one and over time the traditional higantes have already evolved to something far from the old higantes that we had... but of course the old concept is still there... i really can't blame the creativity of those people who have always been involved in this festival... its just so inspiring... :)

when i was really young, i remember there were few artistas who visit our town just to witness this event... though, our town has always been known for our higantes festival, now, we are included in the wow philippines destinations... in the past years too, we have been visited by a lot of media during this time of the year... they usually cover the entire festivity on this date of the month... pero ang suki talaga ng angono ay ang gma7... we were in unang hirit this morning... drew arellano and regine tolentino was outside our church covering the event... i think they never failed to come here to cover the event... a few years back... kara david was here... today, sandra aguinaldo was here who is a proud native of angono too... di rin sya nakaligtas sa mga nambubuhos ng tubig... hehehe... ganon talaga dito pag piyesta... pag tuyo ka, ikaw ang babasain... hehehe... kaya ingat sa mga cellphone at mga cameras... hehehe... di pa yan... papahiran ka pa ng putik... hehehe... a lot of tourists enjoy the festival too... so yearly, you'll find foreigners during the parade... kakaiba kse e... sabi nga wala sa states nyan... hehehe...

i almost forgot, i find this funny... the gays in our town imitated the 26k of deal or no deal... they were all dressed in minis... of course together with their brief cases... they even have a gay dressed up like the banker... and this really fat gay was dressed up in an orange gown who i think is portraying kris aquino... too bad my camera's battery died down... i wasn't able to take their picture... sayang...
its been a tiring day kse maaga pa lang nag-umpisa na ung prusisyon... yet, i had fun with what i witnessed today... hopefully, next year i'll have my canon 400d na... just in time for this event... wish harder russ!(again)... hahaha...

all pictures are personally taken by the author.

Monday, November 20, 2006

frustration

im a little frustrated today... in what?!!... in life itself... i know this is not me... im not the type of person who whines... i take every problem in life as a challenge and not a blunder... i still manage to see the positive side of life after all those bad things that had happened... since the day my dad left us... i never felt any hatred... i never blamed anyone not even God... nor it changed my positive outlook in life... that's how grounded i am... but what frustrates me is the fact that no matter how hard i try... no matter what i do... i can't give my mom the life she always deserves... haayyy... but still... nothing can stop me from striving hard to fulfill this dream... i hope that one day i'll be able to give her a convenient life... i know i can... sana lang malapit na yun...

Saturday, November 18, 2006

art in the park @ velasquez park


good thing i read abba's blog yesterday. because of that, i knew that the art fair she's participating is just a 5 minute walk from our office. thanks to the interactive maps available on the internet, i was able to see abba, yoshie and ali. :)

i've heard about the saturday market in makati for months already. i've seen it
on TV but i was wondering where exactly it was... now i know...

by the way, the museum foundation of the philippines organized this event and as what i have read on the internet, this is the 2nd time they have held this kind of event in the velasquez park.

the truth is i don't have any plans of going there but when i found out that its just near our office, might as well go there para moral support kay abba... tsaka para makita ko rin sina abba at yoshie. grabeh... 6:30am pa lang nandun na sila... ang aga sobra... hehehe... i was suppose to be there at 12:30 but for some weird reason sobrang traffic... hmp... 30 mins lang yata ako nakapagstay dun... then i had to go back to our office because my shift will start at 2 pm... but its ok... at least, i saw them... :)

i wasn't able to cover the entire park because of lack of time but the place where they put up the tents for the paintings is the part of the park facing leviste street. the tents on the other side are for those entrepreneurs who sell their stuff, mostly food both raw and cooked.

abba and her artist friends have one booth showcasing their paintings. abba introduced me to jez and noel... teka, tama ba ung names nila???... i'm really bad with names... sorry... ung dalawang artist friend nya... apat sila dun pero ung isang artist nila nasa work daw... she was blaming me for not painting kse if i do sana daw kasama ako dun... hahaha... sorry, but i really can't manage... hirap kse talaga pag ikaw lang inaasahan sa bahay na kumita ng pera e... you tend to sacrifice what you love doing for the sake of earning more... hehehe... :) pero promise... i'll try to paint again... hehehe...

its a nice event sayang nga lang i had to leave soon... sana next time kasali na ko... tsaka sana matuloy na ung two man show namin ni abba... hehehe... wish harder russ!... hahaha...

Thursday, November 16, 2006

town fiesta and some other thoughts

since the start of the novena for our patron saint, st. clement, last nov. 14, its just surprising that people in our town started to act weird... parang aligaga silang lahat... di mapakali... the streets started to get busy... the usual streets without people walking are filled with all kinds of people from all walks of life... weird, huh?!... oh well... this just says something... malapit na ang fiesta sa amin... and everyone's so excited about it.

i've noticed that the annual events during this time of the month in our town have already begun. these includes exhibits from different artist groups from our town.

when i went out this morning to pay some utility bills, i noticed that the 3rd neo-angono public art festival has already begun. it grabbed my attention because of their theme and the way they presented their works. their venue is not the traditional venue you can think of. its just on our town river. though our town river is not really a good sight to see, they still chose to hold their exhibit there. i guess that is the reason they refer to this festival as a public art festival because its literally on the streets. i took some pictures of the said exhibit using my point and shoot camera. the weather is a bit gloomy today so i'm not sure if i got a good shot of the event. my camera is showing the pics okay but i'm not just sure if it will show the same thing on the computer. i posted them here.

i'll be posting the other events that i'll be able to capture using my point and shoot camera in the coming days... by the way, all these events will culminate on the feast day itself.

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my college friend, love and i met yesterday. we finally got the chance to squeeze in this date to our busy call center scheds... hehehe... i got the chance to see her again after three long years... that is if i'm not mistaken... oh well... i lost count already... but it doesn't matter... what's important is i got to see her and that she's doing fine after all these years... :)

we got to chat more... well... nothing beats personal communication rather than just texting... i must admit i missed her a lot... i may not know all the things that had happened to her but i know she is a strong person and i hope she knows that i'm always here for her... though not physically... and she knows i can always make my way to be there for her...

we got to do the things that we usually do during our college days... eat and watch a movie... mababaw lang naman kme e... un lang ok na... all we want is to spend time with each other...

it was nice to recall those things that we know about each other. nakakatuwa lang pag naiisip ko na after all these years i still know those facts about her. :) at heto pa... between the two of us, i'm still the same person who never argues... :) ako pa rin ung mahilig mang-asar at mangulit... at syempre madaldal pa rin kmeng dalawa... hehehe... it really doesn't seem that we haven't seen each other for a long time... she is still the same person i'd like to spend an afternoon doing nothing but feeling like its the best conversation i've ever had... funny, huh?!... :)

i know something happened between her and her boyfriend. i can feel that they broke up already... i can read through her... she never told me any story... i never asked... the same old me who never breaks into something that others do not want to be explored... i know in time she'll break her silence... when she is ready... or maybe she does not want to talk about other things that might spoil our day... oh well... whatever her reasons, i respect that... :)

alam ko maraming nagbago sa amin and our families... we have matured... we aged of course... :) she already has three pamangkins while i have one niece... all her siblings were already married... but those did not change the fact that we are... and we will remain friends as long as we live... though space and distance separate us. :)

i love you friend... i always do... alam mo un... :)

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i've got my maxicare card today. yipee!!!!!!! makakapagpa-check-up na ako sa surgeon ko... hehehe... :)

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

back pay... finally...

i went to teletech today to claim my last pay. finally, i got it... it felt like ages before i finally got hold of it. to put it bluntly... it took them three months to process it... haaayyy... ang tagal...

i saw my batchmate and team mate in teletech and we exchange stories on how life went after i left teletech... he told me that i have an incentive for our pay 4 performance when i was still there. he even told me to look for it in my back pay... unfortunately, its not there... i wonder how can i claim it... hmm... i think i have to text him and ask for his help... sayang din un ha?! sabi nya libo din daw un... hahaha...

im just glad that i got my last pay today... mababayaran na namin ung lupa... hehehe...

by the way, today is the start of the novena for our patron saint, st. clement. i just remembered it. unfortunately, di na ako aabot... di bale... nine days naman un so i still have eight days left. :)

Monday, November 13, 2006

me and my tummy

its been three days since i had my LBM. just when i thought that i'm already well, i started to go to the bathroom more than i usually do again today... oh well... i think i have to take more medicines for diarrhea... hehehe...

i had to cancel a meeting with a friend tomorrow... kse nga sira pa rin ang tyan ko... we're planning to watch a movie and eat... syempre if we are going to eat dapat nasa kundisyon yung tiyan ko noh??!!! hehehe... so we had to move it to wednesday instead... good thing she agreed... :)

i got my company ID today... after three months, i finally got it... hehehe... i'm not quite sure if this will still be of use in the coming days... let's just see where fate will take me... :)


Sunday, November 12, 2006

LSS???...

i've been having an LSS of this song for days already... or i think weeks... i know that you cant consider it an LSS anymore if its been days or weeks but... again... its weird that i cant shake the tune off my head since the last time i heard it sang by a PDA scholar... ang weirdo ko talaga... hehehe...

How can I make it through the day
Without you
You have been so much a part of me
(and if you'll go)
I'll never know what to do

How can I carry on my way

The memories
When all that is left is the pain of our history
Why should I live my life today

I cannot live out on my own
And just forget the love you've always shown
And accept the fate of my condition
Please don't ever go
For I cannot live my life alone

CHORUS:
Say you'll never go
Say you'll never go out my way
Say you'll never go
For we can still go on
And make it through
Just say you'll never go
Say you'll never go away

How can I make my dreams come true
Without you
You were the one who gave love to me
(And don't you know)
You are my fantasy

How can I carry on my way

The memories
When all that is left is the pain of our history
Why should I live my life today

I cannot live out on my own
(I can't do anything at all)
And just forget the love you've always shown
And accept the fate of my condition
Please don't ever go
For I cannot live my life alone

CHORUS:
Say you'll never go
Say you'll never go out my way
Say you'll never go
For we can still go on
And make it through
Just say you'll never go
Say you'll never go away

(Instrumental)

CHORUS:
Say you'll never go
Say you'll never go out my way
Say you'll never go
For we can still go on
And make it through
Just say you'll never go
Say you'll never go away


- Say You'll Never Go
by Neocolours

absent

i wasnt able to go to work yesterday because i had LBM with severe stomach ache. weird because i was on my way to work when i felt that my tummy is aching... that was after i went to the comfort room. i even dressed up and prepared my things for work and drank all the medicines that will ease the pain im feeling... unfortunately, they dont have much of use coz i ended up staying at home. its just weird coz i dont remember eating anything that may cause that diarrhea... hmmm.... all i ate the past days was the maja that my mom and i cooked and the spaghetti i cooked the other day... its just weird... di naman sensitive ang tyan ko sa mga food... unless sira na talaga ung food... ewan ang weird lang talaga... or it might be a sign that im getting older and my immune system is not as good as it was before... oh well...


Thursday, November 09, 2006

whiney me??? abba oh?!! :)

day off... i should be feeling great today because i don't have work for 2 days and i'll get to rest but i feel otherwise... siguro dahil badtrip pa rin ako... first, because i have to blog again in my favorite internet cafe because of the incompetent service of our phone company... geez... it's been a week... and there are more reasons to be pissed...

last november 7, marked my third month in my company. when i signed my contract, they told me that i have to wait for three months before i can claim my healthcard. and so i did... on that very day, i checked on its status. all they told me was its still being processed. great!!!... i won't be asking for it if i don't need it. i need to go to my quarterly check up with my surgeon in medical city which is already long overdue. on the otherhand, they should have processed it from the first day i sat foot in that company. geez... inefficient people... here's more...

before i was transfered to inbound and while on training, i was so hopeful that i can finally get one weekend day off... hopefully, its a sunday because i haven't been able to do sunday service for quite sometime. during our transition, i talked to one of our sups asking if it is possible for me to have a sunday-monday off and she told me its possible. so i'm so confident that i would. so here comes our sched for this week and next week. guess what?!!! i didn't get the day off i requested because someone else was favored over me. great, isn't it?!!!... pag minamalas ka nga naman... tsk...tsk...tsk... pasalamat sila at di ako reklamador tulad nung iba... simple lang ung request ko di pa napagbigyan... haay... ang buhay nga naman... parang life... mahirap rin talaga pag masyado kang level-headed... you get taken for granted... haayy...

i just don't get it. since there are a lot of agents manning each shift, why don't they give two or three people the same offs??!! like two agents will be on their restdays on friday-saturday while three will be off on sunday monday... i don't want to curse people... pero aaminin ko... badtrip talaga ako...

don't get me wrong, i'm thankful that i got my requested shift sched. thanks to a colleague who gave way. i owe you one, dude. all of these would be a lot easier to accept kung walang pinaboran... kaso meron e... i'm starting to doubt some people on their intentions... i just don't know where this will lead me...

pasensya na if i'm whining. i just want to get this out and as always my venue is writing. i just want everyone to know na tao rin ako... i get angry... i get pissed... i snap at annoying people... di sa lahat ng oras mabait ako... magaling makisama... at lagi kang iintindihin... i had to write all of these so i'll get over this... so that the next time i bump to those people concerned i can still manage to respect and be casual to them... and eventually forget about it... alam ko mababaw lahat ng sinulat ko ngayon... well... katulad ng sinabi ko kanina... tao rin ako... at may kababawan at times...


Wednesday, November 08, 2006

haayyy...

i'm really having a hard time blogging this past few days. our landline phone is still busted. it's been six days. i'm wondering when will they fix it... too bad... i just hope it will be fixed the as soon as possible. oh well... it seems like i will be blogging again in an internet cafe tomorrow... hmp...


Saturday, November 04, 2006

i'm back

its been days since the last day i blogged. i was supposed to blog the other night. unfortunately, our not so reliable phone company failed us again. oh well... we dont have any dialtone so i cant connect to the internet. so here i am... writing my blog in my favorite internet cafe...

it was a long week for me. i'm transitioning from a text tv moderator to an inbound agent post. i'm still learning the products and services that our company offers. the manuals are just not enough. good thing, we have good mentors who are inbound cs agents, too. thanks to them we are getting the hang of doing inbound cs. though, this is not new to me anymore. pinapabayaan na nila ako mag-isa... while they assist my co-trainees. they told me to just catch their attention if i have a question... hahaha... they trust me a lot... they were saying na mas magaling pa ako sa kanila which is not true. among the five of us... ako lang nakalogin for 8 hours while the others take their turns. i think this is a good training ground for me so i'll get the hang of it. i haven't been taking calls for three months already so medyo naninibago pa rin ako. honestly, the account is a lot easier than the previous ones i have handled. wala sa kalingkingan... our shift lead was teasing me that i'll be permanent in this post come next week... well... from day one of this training i already know that i'll be staying in this post for good. i just hope the increase they promised will materialize the soonest possible time or i might consider moving somewhere else.

yesterday, abba, blythe, yoshie and i met up at the gateway mall. finally, we had the chance to meet up... the four of us without anyone missing. this was really rare. our scheds dont usually meet and if they do, one or two of us don't have money to spend so we end up cancelling it. oh well... im just thankful that we did finally see each other... especially blythe... i havent seen her since the day i resigned from convergys. even when she gave birth to tamtam. it was a fun afternoon. we did what we enjoy doing the most... eat... hahaha... syempre di mawawala ang kwentuhan... grabeh... tawanan kme ng tawanan... especially when we were taking our pictures... di kse kme magkasya sa screen ng phone ni blythe... hehehe... we had coffee din sa starbucks before we went home... pero syempre i didn't get coffee... as much as possible i don't drink coffee... so i ordered choco cream frap as i always do... it was a happy afternoon... i really had fun... :) i posted some of our pictures here. sorry abba, i had to post it. :)

blythe showed us some of her daughter's pics. i even asked for some of tamtam's pics. she is so cute. nakakatuwa... that's her sleeping soundly. i'll post her other pics here once i get them. :)

abba's inviting us over next friday to her place in antipolo. mag-vi-videoke daw kme... hehehe... so we asked her to cook... she cooks good... sarap talaga... hehehe... hopefully, i'll get the same day off next week and i'm planning to request for a permanent off during fridays and saturdays. i hope my request will be granted. :)

i might not be able to blog for quite a while. mdalas kse pag-uwi ko antok na ako... mahirap talaga pag tumatanda ka na... hehehe... i just hope i can manage to blog whenever i feel the urge to write. :)