a few months back

half a year ago. snow. photos from jay.

rustic tacoma

rustic kay gikalawang nani mga pics sa ako phone.

photos from jan 6-7, 2008

06-01-08 tacoma

first night in washington

tacoma

archaic photos

byers tacoma

downtown on feb 9 2008//

downtown tacoma

last day sa estets

at last will leave on a jet plane

today we saw the real downtown tacoma, we had free parking at the work place then walked towards union station, saw the washington museum of history, union station, bagel girls, feasted on the city around me, the tacoma port, the colorful, awe-inspiring blown glasses of the glass museum, some locals even offered to take our photos, we saw washington university, walked to the museum of arts, to rainier pacific, stopped by starbucks to get latte, got me the heart tumbler, yey! and then took the link.

we went to ross. i hated it cuz they've new purses in stock, i even had to convince jay to get me the nine west love necklace and earrings and i'll pay him back in pesoses cuz am uber broke. shucks.

then we went to check a few more places near the dollar tree which i wish we had gone to earlier cuz i could've gotten more baby stuff there, then to tacoma mall.

we had dinner at famous dave's with the dawanna, arabella, and sam. they served the best rib tips in the world. and they've like 5 kinds of sauce to go with it, and i loved the drunken apples- apples with applesauce and cinnamon, famous fries, and their sweet corn which tasted like celery. okay, food is weird that way.

it was awesome today.

i am left inspired, happy, giddy, homesick, sad, filled with wonder of how the Creator can make our world sooooooo diversed and interesting.

i have been holding off crying. i hate gbyes. they stink. i am sure all of us will miss the friends we made here. i had to say gbye to bruce at safeway before we went home, i know he did not recognize me anymore but i told him i will miss the place. terence said gbye too. it's sad. and of course it's sad saying gbye to the gals after dinner. but, at least hug exchanges were short, that made it easier.

i am grateful i got here. this far and have to go farther when i go back home because there are soooo many things to relearn and learn about my new job.

God is truly amazing. and one day He'll take me back here. this i am certain. ;p

 

 

another suitcase in another hall

...That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts - and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else. Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the "ideal moment." Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person -nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need. This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important. Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

-Paolo Coelho

 

this is how i wanted to feel now. blergh. my luggage is a mess. i will die after i am buried with the luggages.

cutters point

last break. nangape ang mga bungga.
2/8/2008

last night's post

February 7, 2008

this girl is staying.

"Sometimes I think: I am older than this tree, older than this bench, older than the rain. And yet. I'm not older than the rain. It's been falling for years and after I go it will keep on falling."

The History of Love, Nicole Krauss

i cannot pass up not writing about love when it's almost valentine's and i am in a lovely city and a beautiful country with incredible people.

i wish i'd learn to love with this emphasis on patience and acceptance..
i wish i'd learn to love without ever asking why.
i wish i'd learn to love without ever expecting to be loved back.
and maybe that would make me be better at it.

--
tonight romina showed us downtown tacoma, old neighborhoods with victorian houses, then had dinner at the rams, then we drove to her house to get her son ollie, we saw 27 dresses in lakewood city..
and we took pictures before we headed home.

in this trip i saw about 4 cities. i am left happy. there are something in each city that leaves me fulfilled each time i set foot on their soil. puyallap/seattle/lakewood/tacoma.. you don't feel like you are home but, you showed me loveliness and beauty materialized.

this brings me to again say how wonderful the Maker's hands are.

 

*multiply's on maintenance last night and today would be like our last 2 hours of taking call. haaaaaaappy joy joy!

lakewood city and downtown tacoma

old neighborhoods, downtown tacoma, university of puget sound, the waterfront, ram brewery - all from yesterday.

feelingera.com.ph

tahday.

taqueria el antojo

last night ;p

la mexicana!

i am pmsing big time. it's been ongoing, i'm about to go to a looney bin..

just got home from dinner at taqueria el antojo, a mexican fast food. i dressed kinda fancy cuz i thought we might do a fancy resto however, it was a good thing that shana, the network manager of the account thought of fastfood. i am happy with fast food. ;p

met her family. she told me to order shrimp tostada, shrimp with tomato sauce base served on a fried tortilla shell with avocado. i loved it, however, there's something in the ingredients that seemed to poke my nose.

but, it was fun sharing food. and there's nachos bar with all kinds of salsa and pickled radish/ carrots/ all sorts of sauce with onions and coleslaws and jalapeno. and they've the oddest juices. i thunk i got wut they called jamaica and horchata and all these were refillable..

;p

today i learned dut even if you are carrying a tommy hilfiger handbag or a ralph lauren, coach would still get the oooooooooooooooooohs and the ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhs here.

or eddie bauer will also get the wows too.

hehehehehe. just sharing.

;p

i realised that i missed my sisters more now. and that we'll never get to live or share a pad just the 3 of us. i miss the days when we thrived on homecooked pasta or leftover pizza or food that's on the fridge. i miss cebu days when we only had each other in that city.

grabeh. how the years go by. incredulous. and somehow bittersweet.

sighs.

inaway ko tier 2 ng account tahday. serves him right. he is such a jerk. if he comes down to PI, tangina nya. makikilaw talaga sha cuz i remembered his name and i thunk i saw him already. as in, sarap sabihan, you don't have to be a jerk if you cannot help me.

okies. muahers.

tacoma stills

feb 6
harrassed sa calls.

tacoma et wendy's febrero

sa contact center

ganahan ko sa ako gisuot masking wala'y utaw, so nagpapicture for gluck. magtatawag ng swerte para sa calls. hehehe.
mamimiss ko magscarfvaluuu.
pics from wendy's tacoma last night.

flight times and luggages

it's kinda sad to learn that after four weeks of knowing at least 15 people in class, it will dwindle to just 10 something then if we all leave the rest of the class would be just 6ish. not that it mattered much, but, i think it's sad. if we take it to the local contact centers and you start class with that many people and then you'll be working with just a very few of them in a really tough account, one would really need friends.

i take wut i said back some weeks ago, that the u.s. contact center seemed to be homey. no, it actually feels dreary, outside the building, the streets, and even inside the building itself is dreary. and the only ppl who make noises whilst on calls would be us. specifically me cuz am totally in a shagit/possessed agent mode each time am on a difficult call..

it's just different being here. but, i am grateful for the experience. this is like a whole stretch to my patience and to my point of view about their culture.

(i mean, if i were to compare it, at times, altho there's not much difference with us and them but, at times i feel like i came from a totally different era and them are from another age and i was just thrown out here.)

anyway, dumugo pa din nose ko kakaenglish and literally because of the weather. and the calls are nonstop.

from hotel room upgrades and downgrades, from vacations, flight time changes, even to the quantity of luggage- hello can you tell me if i can go ahead and check in my suit bag? am like "a pardon me wut sir?"

gawd. i wish our agents would do better than wut am doing now. cuz this is a tough job and one has to have the patience and the "stored fare" wits to go thru each day in this account.

anyway, i got a you are the sweetest person chuva from a caller and a why are you charging me that amount and i was blabbering about accounting, wala sha mabalik na pantapat he said go ahead and charge it. hahaha. ang insik pa gugulangin ng russo. pildi ang russo.

at last nakapag fast food kami today. i kinda miss our fast food mode. we had dinner at wendy's.

i have a huge bag of laundry to do. and we've a dinner tomorrow and movie on thursday. am not totally sure if am up to it cuz am superrrrrrrrrrrr tired. i no longer want to do anything but magmukmuk sa hotel and count the days.

ang america okay lang for like 2 weeks i guess. cuz if you're staying here for a month, you'll be crying your eyes out.

haha. my opinion.

oh well, am pmsing big time too. one moment am elated the next thing i know is that i am spiteful of everyone and everything. but, it's not right to like take on the role of a supervisor/team leader when you know that you have the same work title dibah. some people just have it in their head. so dapat talaga, matuto lang makisama ang ibang tao cuz i am trying my tush off to stay calm and nice and chummy chummy. and it's haaaaaaaaard.

at bweset, bago na daw airport when i get back home. bweset. dut means that per travel we'd pay at least p200 for terminal fee. magugulang talaga tong airlines. faetch.

tired/tired/tired

raenyberry

gelo, akon valentine's gift daw may naisip nko pangayuon ko. hehe. pero if wala pekpek shorts lang tong guess cuz mahalia ang guess diri. hehe.

feb 5

naa ko caller sulti na am the sweetest person he spoke with from the account. bleh. ang galing galing ng bulaklak. nosebleed et al ititch. 3 more days pa. sighs.
i don't want another night in manila. don't like. ahate.

anyway i had two shagit calls. hahaha.
i miss the agents' scene but, am never goin' back. nakakahaggard.

tah day

last week nalang namo. i feel fullfilled, spell check and happy. i know i DID learn a whole lotta things when i got here. about people/ emotions that transcend languages such as rudeness and sarcasm and negativity/ and i learned that flips can get by anywhere.

--

i cannot stand negative people and i cannot stand me being too negative too. and yeah, i realised that i should not be irked when ppl are too gaya gaya cuz that means i am a positive influence when i see myself in others.

and hopefully, sana every flip out there who are cold and miserable here would move back to the country when it's all better.

--

i still can't help it, this country is beautiful. but, pinas is comfortability to the real sense of the word.

--

i love you angelo. be my valentine. ;p

i love you shobe.

and kenji.

--

took calls today. God is an amazing God for making me the booking upgrade queue. God made our brains like a seasponge. mine might not be as absorbent, but, am happy that it can absorb SOME things. haha.

He is awesome today, even if i am dead tired and beaten up, i am left happy.

indochine

feb 1, 2008 grad day lunch at a fancy smchancy resto. i did not know how to turn the flash at first. hehe.