Friday, February 29, 2008
uh yeah destination singapura
kaso lang, some people should really give me a break. i might not know wut am doing but, they should know when they're stepping on my foot. i know how to share. i'm the eldest and it's easy for me to yield. pero if show ko na gheng, dili dapat mu-apil makidawg show cuz that's not how things work. divah, there's always a time for stars to shine? and it's at night, so karung gabi-iha, dili unta ko surang surangon.
hala, i am tempted to try working in singapore. unta noh, madayun ta girlfriend na dyosa.
gelo and i fight a whole lot, but, maybe tonight, this whole thingamajig dut we had would have a better effect on each of us as individuals.
it's the weekend! yey!
plak. wapak.
ug dhay, di ka gwapa. desperada ka for your age..
i am not sorry cuz i do not honestly like you.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
thursday, almost there.
i know i like the challenge of work cuz i am never bored with it however what i dislike is the fact that my lunches and breaks are very limited in a sense that i go back running to class
and that i have to always always study and should always be aware of what's hapnin to the account
i am beat.. but, i love class today even if i know i did not make any sense in class and some people from work are not my favorite people to work with but, God has been good. 10 more months to go for this account.. haha.. ;0
and diw God, it's a happy 8th month to moi and gelomigelo! ü
maaaaaaaaaaaaa, it's been a whilst. ♥
work hard for the money
like the house that we're renting is oa ka expensive.. they were suggesting we find some place..
and this afternoon actually, my boy and i ended up checking other apartments..it was fun to see how other ppl lived..
life's kewl.. class is a challenge..
x0x0
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
ala oi
bwahahahaha, karun pako kibaw ai..
i know suya sha cuz pirmi sha kadugong na nindut ko mananina, bleh and even if i blew the first day off,i got constructive feedback and that included sentences that started with "i love.."
and other than that, i only have to be concerned of my trainees' feedback which i know right now would not be too good..
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaayers.. insecure.com.. at dahel jan may picture tong blog! ü
knicker, knacker
and we are not getting the dog for some reason unknown to poor expecting or is it expectant supposed new parents like us
and it's day 3. i hope it gets better from here.. but some things are weird and off tangent talaga..
am just tired, two fingers can knock me down..
eto pa, last night's class, my internet cable got disconnected, am like uh oh, ano toh, but, at least panic did not get the better part of moi. i learned something from sykes' isp account i guess.. haha..
i hate the fact that i cannot see shobe's belly grow just like how i saw dichee's.. i miss my sisters sorely..
i want a new pair of shoe
i want work trousers
a new pretty dress for work
i want to do something nice over the weekend with gelo
and yeah, my new lipcolour is pink fairy hahaha, so akow!
God had been really good, and He knows all things beneficial for me. today's affirmation.
muah!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
among the many things in life
2nd day teaching.. am i cut out for this? and my diction sucks and my grammar is off tangent at times. maaaaaaaaaaan.
i hate travel as much as i hate terminals..
looking forward to the weekend with my guy.. dami sha temper tantrum fits becuz of his sore throat..
Monday, February 25, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
wist list part 1
-- thursday night i caught influenza and informed everyone i'll be sick on my friday shift, which is altogether good for me cuz i cannot be ill this monday cuz i am teaching the wave 2 class. i hopefully cross my heart and fingers hope that they get something good from me. cuz i just saw the training schedule and i kinda have 2 classes for the rest of the summer. it sucks. but, i am happy. it's work. gotta love work. -- it's been raining. it's all dreary and gloomy whole weekend. -- did not do anything special friday cuz i wuz ill. saturday, we did an amazing race bacolod for the apartment. we were almost heat stroked and i had fever and we were just walking all over the city to find us a new place. i love my boy's patience, he always brings out the best kinda patience in situations where i am most impatient and idiotic.
God had been good, He knows how i have been living in a box since i moved out of home some 4 years ago. but, our contract has not been drafted yet. soooo nothing's final. but, at least we got a place to start. we saw jumper. ;p sunday, we were at gelo's place.
it's still fastfood spree whole weekend well, since i got here. it's pathetic. so maybe when i will have a grandmother and a mother, our diets will be better. ;p happy work week all!!!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Abercrombie & Fitch
i sooooooooo totally miss this store.
masking mahal, it's love.
hehehe, i have this pair. ;p
wist list
to get me and gelo a new apartment
to see my nephew and the new baby dotdot
to have cake with my younger sisters
to quit having these baby envy thingies that i have every soooo often
to not be a scattered brain on monday
to be this loving/understanding/nice gal the whole time thru
to be able to train my class effectively and speak audibley
to get new hardbound books
to keep my daily itineraries organized in an agenda- cuz i have one now.. haha..
and one thing i successfully thought i just quit--> clothes shopping. i've had enough last month.. clap clap.. ü
to be the best daughter when i will have a mother again.. hehe..
to file a vacation leave this summer or on the third quarter of the year and go to hong kong or thailand ;p
and to be not as lazy and not as poor as last year. haha.
to learn how to drive
and amongst the material things in life..
i want a truck
i want a real kitchen
i want a huge washing machine
i want a hot/cold shower and a tub
i want a walk in closet or a huuuuuuuuge closet with shoe trees
i want a new purse and a new wallet and a pair of pekpek shorts
i want a kenneth cole watch
i want a real dinner date with gelo
i want to have space for yoga
i want to own a pup- or get that labrador for gelo
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaay nakow!
of having too much coffee
who spoke this earth so glad and big
even a thing all small and sad
man,may his mighty briefness dig
for love beginning means return
seas who could sing so deep and strong
one queerying wave will whitely yearn
from each last shore and home come young
so truly perfectly the skies
by merciful love whispered were,
completes it brightness with your eyes
any illimitable star- cummings
--
i don't know how i will go about the pile of workload i have for next week. i wish i weren't born as lazy, this way i'd be happy when am at work. bow. oh we have bob's coffee at work now. fyi, bob's is like a classy coffee shop that sells affordable coffee locally. ;p
i miss tacoma, gamay lang. hehe.
life at home and after work: gelo and his old team mates went out, they had unlimited booze. ahgawd, i wonder why guys loved beer when there's really nothing to it.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
haty birthday to me!
and my birthday's about half a month from now. supah ka early iya gift. but, i reaaaaaaaally wanted a wallet and a denim pekpek shorts.. i've been harrassed lately. i will forever hate workbooks. shopping is not fun when i've to think about getting a new place for me and the boyfriend.
we needed an apartment. help.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
some people are stupid
it's kewl
Monday, February 18, 2008
THE WEEK DUT WUZ, A PHOTO BLOG
Sunday, February 17, 2008
the week that was
i've been oblivious of the things that has been hapnin around me the past few days/ the past week.. uno, i've been busy doing nothing and waiting for further instructions from the maaaaaaany bosses at work. *smirks*
and yeah, maybe one person should know and get this. power corrupts people. and i feel like he is corrupted and i wish he'd realize that before the good God makes him lame.
--
gelo and i had lunch at bigby's on valentine's day
the 14th,we had tests for the account's operations and tools.
the 15th, gelo and i looked for a gift for ninya's wedding, we got her a book ;p home decorating.. then i got me my pink seersucker dress from plains and prints.. we stayed the whole afternoon at bob's robi cuz it was raining and we had nothing to do at home.. at work, it was semi-chaotic.. am harrassed and stressed, we had the launch. and i floorwalked for the first time in my holy callcenter life. ;p i had to shake the nerves off// johnny got promoted to accm.. eyelovsit..
16th, ninya's wedding/ i sooooooo envy the whole thang. her brown and pink motif, spellcheck is love. yeah, love is an amazing thing. reception's at sugarland hotel. food is great.
went out with gelo and his friends.
17th, slept whole day/ i hate our place. we needed to look for a new apartment.
tah-day, spending the whole day with his mom. am glad she liked my presents.
i miss my sisters. God is always great. even if things are uncertain and i hate some ppl at work. He'll do something about it, i am sure.
Friday, February 15, 2008
love alone
No one would love me if they knew all the things I hide My words fall to the floor As tears drip through the telephone line // And the hands I’ve seen raised to the sky Not waving but drowning all this time I'll try to build an ark that they need To float to you upon the crystal sea //
Give me your hand to hold 'Cause I can't stand to love alone And love alone is not enough to hold us up We've got to touch your robe So swing your robe down low Swing your robe down low // The prince of despair's been beaten But the loser still fights Death's on a long leash Stealing my friends to the night //
And everyone cries for the innocent You say to love the guilty too And I'm surrounded by suffering and sickness So I'm working tearing back the roof // And the pain of the world is a burden And it's my cross to bear And I stumble under all the weight I know you're Simon standing there And I know you're standing there //
♥ happy love day
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Seoul, South Korea
iheart tacoma
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
ah wells.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
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
Friday, February 8, 2008
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.
woosah. carry on.
well since it's chinese new years. i refuse to speak badly of other people in my blog and try not to until i cannot.
pms sucks and you wind up not liking people. but, maybe i don't necessarily dislike some people, it's just that today is not the best day to be chummy chummy with everyone around, except that we had to say gbye to those who helped us out here in tacoma and showed us how we will go about building our own army back home.
6 weeks. wow. that's a long time to be away.
today, we had our real train the trainers for like 4 hours. those 4 hours were the most helpful to do our jobs specifically as trainers. but, the next few months til maybe summer we will still be observed and analyzed and coached.. so yeah, everyday is a learning opportunity..
tomorrow would be our last night in tacoma. we'll have dinner with the class we were in. kinda sad but, i am grateful and happy to meet all of them people.
my luggages. laundry. xoxo.
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
Thursday, February 7, 2008
happy insik new years!!
shobe it's your new years...
muah!
i've no shiomai/tikoy wutsoever.. i'll ask them to do chinese food after the movies tahnight.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
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.
kafaetch.....
akoa caller kay di pasakyun sa eflen kay naa snowstorm or storm chuva sa chicago, wala gitagaan bago na flight, if mejo bright ni ang amo system, sayun ra ibalik ang kwarta sa taw or pangitaan pa agi namaka fly fly the butterfly sha next week. kahold sha for abt 1 hour na, ako fod nakahold cuz gahuwat ko sa ako helpdesk like forever. kahilakon nako chinsansoo cuz sakit na kaau ako bladder. faeta aning kinabuhia. bow.
tas ganiha naa mahadera na caller. tanang requests in the world ba naman ipasend sa hotel. magdala nalang sha ng bahay niya or zoo if gusto nya naa ia animels and microwave sa hotel. harhar.
undangan. sayang ako gipagwapa tahday.
tacoma et wendy's febrero
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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
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.
Monday, February 4, 2008
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.