weekend in retrospect

gelo and i saw wanted saturday. mama angie is hot but, the movie failed to sizzle or spark. i honestly thought i could understand movies better if they came with subtitles. :)
then we slept the whole evening and decided against going out.
we skipped church sunday, altho it would've been a good idea if we went to church. i did the usual weekend home cleaning- i feel like i am meant for housekeeping and being a wife, but, i don't see myself being a mom at this point, i am happy to be an aunt, but, i couldn't imagine myself trying to keep my job to feed a child. can NOT.


in the afternoon i had to go with him and cheer for his "team" at basketball, czar was there, so it was better, we spent the rainy afternoon exchanging gossips, then dropped by SM after the game as the guys went boozing at manokan country and we got ourselves a jar of deep conditioners, then we were off for videoke at bilco til midnight, am happy with how things went during that night, a couple of my friends made up and decided to be friends, there was soooo much booze, my tummy is hurting but, i managed to have fun cuz they were all having soooo much fun. and all of us were drunk and belting out good rock star numbers. :) and joma was even there!

i wept when they greeted us happy anniversary. gelo hugged me and whispered, it's been a year loving you..(haha, giyofaks na ako uyab:)

czar, markIT, nazel, and sly crashed at our apartment. czar and i made canton/corned beef/lechon paksiw(debetaw puro canned and instant:)//

at times it can be true, real friends are those who are with you during your happy times. cuz they celebrate when you celebrate. sad times, well, honestly, you don't need to be bothered or bother people about your miserable existence. so you won't need friends. haha. :)
today, we celebrated our anniversary with baby back ribs and corn muffins at bob's la salle. :) i am cheap. so i am easily made happy. :)
i asked him about his school, he said it was a fun uni. i think it is too..
happy anniversary langga! i love you cuz even if there are countless times that you made me cry, you always managed to make me smile.. :)

God is great. He'll work on me and gelo itoy next week. :)

♥

hold on to that very moment when someone cups your chin.

break.

I live my life in growing orbits
which move out over the things of the world.
Perhaps I can never achieve the last
but that will be my attempt.
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,
and I have been circling for a thousand years,
and still I don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm
or a great song.

-Ranier Maria Rilke
i hate the rain during workdays.
i love rilke though.

it has been raining almost every night now, but, not like the rain last week. i told gelo as we walked to work sharing an umbrella that got broken once we got into the stricker that it's romantic when we go to work nightly. he said he agreed and everything seems to be about me when it's raining. haha. :)
salamat weekend na tomorrow.

guys from inkjet would call one of the big fishes as william hung. they're mean pero i see a resemblance. and i loathe the guy cuz he is sugo-ero and mata pobre. and has never resolved pay issues of the account i used to work for..
so it's just fair that he be called hung.
ayyy nako i read somewhere blogging about your work gripes will get you fired.
gihuwat nako ang day. :)
this way i could tell him before i set off my foot from the building that he looks like some guy from american idol seasons ago. :)

okay, moving on to a whole lot better things about our generation, i recently knew someone who told me he'd let a driver borrow his raincoat cuz the poor guy takes him to work even when it's raining. he said, it's an extra raincoat so he'd leave it with him muna.
just when everyone thinks our generation is a rotten lot, it's not quite really. :)

i told gelo that if ever am moving into a new company next year (or sooner) am gonna be officemates with dichee again. told him we'd have different last names and am keeping mine.. then i realized that i'm gonna be mrs. michael ong at the beginning of the year, he acted like he'd fall into a coma. haha. gago.

since last week, i've been working with the nesting waves. this week is more stressful cuz gelo starts work at 8p, and i've to go with him to work, 2 hours earlier than my scheduled shift, when i go home, i'd have difficulty sleeping. buti nalang today, i got an 8 hour shut-eye. :)

dich mentioned last wednesday that shobe got regularized after a month at work and she's preggers pa ha! tas, she will be promoted as comm coach to be sent to davao supposedly cuz her center is opening a new site in our city.
but, she's buntit. so she declined. grabeh. my sisters are rocking. :)
happy weekend!! God Bless.

blades of grass
dewdrops
rainbows
shooting stars
where you are from, i don't know.
but you're there..

gbye multiply na. :)

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everything to lose

~♥~♥~♥~
"Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me."
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
i'm soooo stressed that i think my headiness and being nauseated last night is because of work and not wanting to be working for a banana republicy place anymore.
called in sick. ohGod.ihatebeinghere.
dichee's phone call was the longest phone call i've had in months. i did not know how much i am missing cuz am not with them. but, it'll be just half a year of waiting, and then dich and i might try our entrepreneurial chakras :)..
i've a bad tummy today. i think i over ate. i had soooo much rice and chicken and then gelo and i dated again today, and had lunch at yellow cab and i placed that chili oil aplenty and now i've to go to the loo 1 million times.
..
oh, we saw kung fu panda. :) i'm glad gelo liked it.
when we were walking to work under a shared tiny tiny umbrella, he said, "mas grabeh pa ang ulan tong gatraining kami kung fu.." i'd reply with: "nge hambal mo sa siberia ka before gaswimming" he'd put in: "amo gani ga kung fu ko sa siberia.."

and it was nonstop talk about cougars, puma, jaguars, cheetah, and leopard. :)
today i want: scented candles, tons of them cuz we are running out
sharp kitchen knives
small ceramic mortar and pestle
a couch
:)
i've been thinking, if i lost this job anytime this year, i would prolly not have shopping money, but, i wouldn't have to deal with OA and exag peoplets.
rot.
debetaw. :)
:)

girls night out

some months ago.

doomed lurve

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable

- CS Lewis


Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am."

- The Hours, Michael Cunningham




gelo is soooo psyched to be spending sunday afternoon playing basketball with the boys from his account. he says they're all thrilled to play cuz they-almost all of em do not know how to play ball. :) he can be sooo cute at times.




my opinions on this blog may change and at this point i might just stop blogging about work, because work has no value to me now. the whole stay in TP is beginning to be recondite & wearisome..

the only consuelo de bobo is the fact that they still haven't provided foams to nesting agents- slap on their paOA faces that they cannot even do their jobs well that's why they're all blaming training department for agents who cannot do well on CSAT.



zero shut-eye today tahday.
God Bless. ♥

gals next cube

photos by annie/ last april 08 :)

catch 22, again

The sad thing about life is that dreams are usually so cookie-cutter perfect, that people just settle for the closest things to them. They don't believe in the existence and sheer possibilities of their own desires.
Trina Dela Rama, Runaway

it poured last weekend. we spent our saturday night at home as opposed to how we intended to spend it because of the storm. the rain still scares me, but, not as much now that i have a roommate. :)
woke up very early sunday morning, phoned a cab to drive us to mcdonald's lacson, amidst the downpour, we had to get out of the house because we had no electricity and cannot cook food.
our steps were oddly directed to church. grace invited us to attend either the 10am or 4am service of victory, at first, we were both hesitant, but, strangely the Spirit worked Himself thru the both of us who were absent from church for almost a year now..
the message last Sunday revolved around winning souls. that as a Christian, God can fullfil your agenda if you served His agenda first. That He'd promise you that You can command Him to do things for you, if you did what He is asking first. I'm confident to say that I know that if i were to die tonight, I know where I am going, and I am not scared, however that part of my faith convicts me of one thing- being complacent. I feel as though there's no need for me to do anything else cuz i could always use 1 John 1:9 as God's promise to keep forgiving me each time I say I'm sorry. Yet, the pastor pointed out, that in any case, we should always try to win someone for Him.
i'm blabbing. i'm just happy to share worship time with Gelo. i hope we keep it this way til we are married.
i hope that one day, if i continue training, out of the 4 weeks that i have with the trainees, i'd give an hour for Him as well- this way they would know, prior to taking on a job that requires them to be up all night, they'd know someone is also praying for them that they continue doing their jobs in good health.
sunday still: we had lunch at shakey's and saw this german-filipino, specifically ilonggo speaking family, they've 3 kids, and has a set of twins. the eldest hannah, told me, her sister and brother are named louise and lucas.
hayers. kids are love.
then gelo and i saw made of honor.
two hour long.
okay movie. :)
today we dated again :)
and we both completed our errands and even bought two more laundry basins and clothes clips.

i have so much concerns about work. some things make me soooo angry, i wanna walk away from this company.
i know i can walk away when i have the answers and i have lawyers to talk to.
at times, rich people think they can easily manipulate people working for them. but, then the heavens have good ways of making them pay back.
am praying for answers.
am not praying for other people to tell me that i am not doing well because CSAT says so.
they're all full of crap. and are sooo good at blaming others. they're not even half as good as i am cuz i know that when i'm doing my job i have my heart into it. i prayed for it. but, it's makayofax with the dramas. i'm surrounded with people who had soooo much bull.
i hope they be happy when i finally step away from them. teleperformance needed to know how to value people. they should learn how to deal with people's tenureship. and not have faggotry in motion daily telling us to speak english in our own country when they do not pay agent's salary on time.
and cannot make a decent and consistent contract.

4 years ago i wanted a 25k pay per month, my own apartment, now that i have these, i didn't know it SUCKS.

cookie cutter

"People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well--it's easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don't think you're going to have a life like that, and I think you'll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must let them defeat you. You must seem them as a gift--a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless."

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron

today's payday. gelo gave me some shopping money so i got me a shirt and a white cigarette jeans from guess(both on sale:)// in return i gave him some for his red pair of puma as well. :)
nakakahappy pag payday. :) cakes at calea tasted better pa gyud. :)

i don't think anything can sink my spirits now masking may minor irritation and "praningated" thingies inside my systems.

i already know wut i wanted. and i know how to get there. as of today. :)

shobe's due on the 19th of September. the baby's gender is not known yet.

God works beautifully gyud. masking ulan and baha pa tonight.

i'm soooo sleepy and full. i went out to dinner at kjb- butterfly's birthday treat, it turned out. it caused a whole lot of trouble after though but, who cares..

happy weekend.
edits: got me lottery tickets. gelo told me God knows who needed money more than us, told him, God knows we are deserving. haha.

tax relief. fyi.

okay babies and mass commuters and huge rice consuming public. hear ye, hear ye. gloria arroyo for one time just made the right decision that would possibly impact most of the filipino manggagawa and guys and gals who are living from paycheck to paycheck.

Republic Act No. 9504 exempts minimum wage earners in the private sector and their counterparts in the public sector (casual employees) from paying income tax.

but, wait there's more..


The law increased the amount of personal exemption from P25,000 to P50,000 for all taxpayers regardless of status (single, married or head of the family), and the additional deduction for qualified dependents from P8,000 to P25,000.

Other benefits – holiday, overtime, night shift differential and hazard pay – are exempted from income tax when the law takes effect 15 days after its publication.

that means, if our tax exemption got higher and our OTs and Night Differentials were also tax-exempt- dut means, higher take home pay for us!

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pricked.

The sky was strangely spacious and the summer clouds immaculately white.
The Temple of Dawn - Mishima Yukio





















i said i wanna be zeroed in on responsibilities, so they gave me 4 hours to take calls. it's weird how i thought that they may be picking on me- they being those people who have a huge cut of this company's profit and point fingers at worker ants like moi. but, really, if they were paying me to take calls with a sup's salary, i am all for it.

kaso lang, i think everyone here is beginning to fear that they're gonna lose their jobs one way or the other. in any case, there's cebu and there's teletech-gamay sweldo and cvg- back to agent(good in so many ways) or singapoorrrrrrrrrr- if my passport isn't expired.

at this point, it's soooo kyepoi to speculate about the company. but, it sends one message to most of us working for it and who needs paydays. it has this odd banana republic bureaucracy, after 12 years of being in the industry, it's still as katag as being ran by varied coloured monk-eys.
sorry.

oh yeah, sue me. giyofaks najud ko.

on the brighter side of things, happy, shiny people, tomorrow is payday friday. :)
i still want a million pesoses.

trabaho.net

"Hope clouds observation."


Dune



giyofax nako sige chikka about work. yofax ning companyaha. mga expats na angatch ang gapadagan ani. spell barang keeu.


i've to take calls this week. 2 hours. kaso gubaon sad ang tools, preho sa mga taw na gadato diri. mga oploks. so i've to wait til tomorrow.
i wish i had winning lottery tickets so i can get me tickets to tour pinas then buy me tons of vanilla cigar and russian vodka.
booh!


God is still in the details. He works.

gelo is family. someone asked me yesterday about family, i said he is my only family now or here.

truelala eklavoo.

happy work week!


been assisting nesting agents and doing uptraining. feeling busy but, really, i wish i don't get my own class til next next next month. haha.

am tired of responsibility/accountability. am too young for all of these.. Lowl.


edits::
bwahaha. be careful wut you wish for, cuz you might just get it.
taking calls 4 hours a day til they feel like am okay. pagkawala jud klaro ang management aning companyaha. soooo bakya.com.

happiness, a journey

"For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, times still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey, not a destination."


~ Souza


truelala,what are the things that can make you happy? mine are:

teas made out of berries and learning that some teas are made out of flower. (ie hibisicus-spell check)

my training class and those people who tell you they appreciate you for making things clearer for them

my sisters and my nephew

angelo

paydays- bwaha

mi chicas and joes

gratitude- cuz a grateful heart is a happy heart.



hopefully i could get back to the printer queue in no time. sana. crossing my fingers. i don't care if i'd wind up taking calls again. :) am psyched to be taking 2 hour calls a month for my current account. it reads c-h-a-l-l-e-n-g-e.


gelo and i might be in iloilo. tentative plans. but, iloilo is gonna be good for us for a weekend..

training at 3 or 4am today. yofax but doing okay.
God's still great.
i know dut.