Friday, January 31, 2003
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Friday Five!
1. As a child, who was your favorite superhero/heroine? Why? I don't think I had one. I wasn't into the super hero stuff. 2. What was one thing you always wanted as a child but never got? Hehe, a trip to Disneyland. Didn't every kid want to go there? 3. What's the furthest from home you've been? Furthest from home? Probably when we went to Davao when we were kids? My geography is so bad. 4. What's one thing you've always wanted to learn but haven't yet? How to bake and cook! I am the most un-domestic person I know! I am a THE (Technology and Home Economics) reject. I so hated that subject (well, not as much as I hated Math--except for Statistics--and Science, but ugh, I didn't like THE all that much). It was not fun at all. 5. What are your plans for the weekend? Argh, I'll be working tomorrow. So, no relaxing much this weekend.
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Sunday, January 26, 2003
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I could get used to working on Sundays. It's not so bad, but... well, it's warm in the office (no aircon! And the electric fans are so freaking ancient, they're so not effective) and it can get kind of lonely at times. But other than that, it was relaxed--too relaxed, in fact. No wonder not very many people like working on Sundays because it's such a lousy, lazy day.
I got to chat up Marl after a long time--and I picked up a lot of stuff from her about what's going on (let's say I'm not very social). Now I am so freaked out and paranoid. Time to think up of a Plan B (and C, D and E) about what my next step in life should be.
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Friday, January 24, 2003
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So much for Andy's epic match in the Australian Open. He lost in the semis *sad*, plus he has an injured wrist.
Then I checked my messages. Tessa sent me this quote from Blanche Roddick, Andy's mum: "I'll never forget two years ago when he told everybody that one day he would date Mandy Moore and we all laughed at him. But everything he said he would do, he did because of his self confidence; it's been the whole key to his life." Well. So much for the Mandy issue. *sigh*
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Thursday, January 23, 2003
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Yesterday night, I just caught the last ten or so minutes of Andy Roddick's epic match at the Australian Open against Younes El Aynaoui (thanks to Tessa, who called to remind me to catch even just a bit of it). All we can say is, that kid (we always refer to Andy as a kid--aside from the fact that he's 20, the way he looks and acts is so... childlike. You know, exuberant, excited, happy) has got heart! He had the patience and will to endure a four hour, 59 minute match (per news report). Hope he makes it to the finals!
 I don't think I could've endured watching the whole match, but from what I gather, it was a most humbling one for the two players. Aww.
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Sunday, January 19, 2003
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 I miss watching this kid play. The last time I saw him was at the US Open. Got to watch a match of his at the Aus Open yesterday. Aww. Cutie. I am so not a tennis person, but Andy is fun to watch. Tessa, I hope he's not balding!
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Friday, January 17, 2003
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I missed blogging! I missed Internet! I couldn't believe the week, well, flew by. Not really. It went by faster than I thought. Just when I was despairing over Monday last Sunday... well, I'm back to despairing over next Monday this weekend. I'm just amazed at how, in the office, the clock is ticking ever so slowly and then all of a sudden, it's Friday already.
Sad news this week. One teammate, one batchmate and one other person will be resigning or have already resigned! Sobrang sad! Tee is leaving--no matter how we try to convince her. My batch is slowly peeling away. We haven't even had our batch dinner yet (unfortunately, our side lost, so we have to make libre, but that's okay). I'm going to miss Tee with all her hirits and bloopers. Tine and I were talking with our supervisor about all the resignations from our batch/teammates. It's not naman horrible in our place of work: the people are generally nice and helpful, we have decision making power, our work can be considered extremely sensitive, thus you can feel the importance of the job, training is good, etc. But it's the "job fit". I think you have to be a certain kind of person to be able to survive. You have to be particularly strong, decisive and firm. Me pa naman, I'm not like that. So I'm learning and trying my best. There are times that I really want to leave (especially on horrible days when people are extremely pushy and selfish or when I am terrorized by a thought of not processing something in the middle of the night, like Tine and Ma-an), but... we'll see na lang. For now, it's just really a sad thought so many of my friends are leaving already.
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Sunday, January 12, 2003
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 Today, I finally got to go to the Kate Spade store in Greenbelt 3. I actually went in more out of curiousity than actual shopping, as I know their prices are way, waaaay out of my price range. As in. But I actually like their stuff and Jack and Kate themselves. I read about them before in Vanity Fair and they sounded down to earth and "normal", even with such a successful enterprise.
Anyway, going into the Kate Spade shop felt like going to a museum: people were going in and out, glancing at the bags, shoes, wallets, organizers and stationery on display, but not buying anything (the museum atmosphere was also reinforced as the store was designed in such a spartan manner that made the merchandise stand out). I guess when you see prices like that, you just tend to look, sigh and go away. There was a classic black bucket (is that what the style is called? I'm not that well-versed in fashionista terms) bag which was nice, but was (if I remember right) 10k+. Okaaaay. The other fuzzy bag that I looked at was 9K+. Hay. Very, very expensive, very out of my league (if I worked forever, I still don't think I can bring myself to shell out that much money for a bag). That's what I did: look, sigh and go away. I consoled myself by heading to Carbon and T Studio--and then next week, Ishq or Inc.!
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Saturday, January 11, 2003
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I am so, so envious of the batch lower than mine in my school! One of my officemates is in that batch and before going to the office, he popped over school to get his yearbook. Though the yearbook wasn't really sobrang whoa, at least it came out. Unlike with my batch. We only got a yearbook for our course when I was a senior.
So the whole day, we were just poring over the yearbooks (even some of our supers stopped by to have a look. Even SC came over to our station to look). Interesting yearbook. They even had prophecies per person! We were laughing over my officemate's prediction, because it was just *so* bogus (he would invent a certain flavor of siopao). That batch was so organized about their yearbook! They had the same studio, policies and I guess everyone complied with requests for pictures and long write ups. I really feel bad about my batch's. There was (is) a lot of blaming for the delay or whatever. Can you imagine that? I wonder if they would ever come out with one. It's been so long din. I wonder tuloy. Tee and I were texting each other today regarding SC and this girl who has really weird hair (like, what's their status?). I thought I was the only one who noticed Weird Hair, but Tee texted me about being annoyed at SC and Weird Hair. But I think I spoke to Weird Hair today over the phone to ask her something and she was super nice about it. At least, I think it was Weird Hair because of the name. She's nice, I guess. I always see her on the phone, chatting with someone. Wonder what's with her and SC? Can't seem to define it.
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Thursday, January 09, 2003
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It's Friday na pala tomorrow. The week literally crawled by.
Word for the week among my office mates: "resign" Sentence(s) of the week: "Resign na ako sa 20" or "Resign na talaga ako" or "Balak mo na ba talaga mag-resign?"... as long as it contains the word "resign". Bad signs.
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Wednesday, January 08, 2003
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I must be PMS-ing. I hardly make dabog, but as early as 9:39 am, I was already tossing my stuff all over my station, stamping my feet in annoyance and being a total bitch. Tine peered over nga and said, "Ikaw ba yan?!" I don't think anyone has ever seen me this pikon. I just didn't feel patient at all today.
Kaya now, I am trying to be calm, cool and collected for tomorrow. But my bro was telling me about his experience today (the privacy of blogs, etc.) and that set me off being annoyed at that person he was referring to. Sheesh.
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Happy because I checked my grade for last December and I'm sooo relieved my grades are good. Well, I'm still below (by four points) the standard, but my score is relatively good. I feel better about myself (for a while, anyway).
Sad and worried because I misplaced my folder and notebook that contained all my papers and pending files! Grr! It's bad because it contains somewhat confidential stuff and I think I lost it when I went out last Friday night. Yikes. I'm still anxiously waiting for a deluge of complaints with those accounts... Annoyed with a particularly pushy client, goading me to admit it was our fault, making me look bad to a super, blah blah blah. Evil person. Frustrated with the company because they have no idea how hard they're making the lives of the frontliners. It can get so miserable--that is, as long as you don't let it get to you (but you know, I do feel bad also for the company and their reputation). I swear, no coordination with all the other departments. We're the ones absorbing the anger of clients. It's been a terribly long day.
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Saturday, January 04, 2003
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Old Friends
Everything But the Girl Not for the first time I look back on all those years Not for the last time names will ring in my ear When there was just a gang of us Storming the town by train and bus A moment of thought this heart sends to old friends Not for the first time I look back on my first love Unable to speak or think or move hand in glove But what of it now and where is he He who once meant so much to me Because we are not, I can't pretend now, old friends I was told love should hold old friends I was told love should hold old friends But when you leave you will close the door behind you Don't we always And time won't make amends to old friends Standing here with my arm around you life's moved on And all its borderlines are being redrawn The winter has come the roads are white Everyone's home late tonight May we stay or will it depend as old friends In the end still old friends
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Thursday, January 02, 2003
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I'm so sad!
Two of my friends are resigning from our department. Lisa Chands will be gone effective Monday, while the other one might be at the same time as well. LC is my commuting-to-Cubao buddy, former high school mate (although she's one batch lower, we definitely can relate) and one of my first friends at work. Our batch has been trying to convince her to stay until March, but her mind is really made up already. I guess she was really unhappy with our job. Anyway, I do hope we would all keep in touch. This is so sentimental.
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Wednesday, January 01, 2003
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My goals for the year:
1. Take care of myself more this year. This means I should try to drink more water, lose flab and try to get a waist, cut down on sweets (I hope! This will be very hard for a chocoholic like me) and try to eat, especially if I'm rushing or "saving" money. 2. Save save save, try to budget, but also allot a budget for spoiling myself so I won't feel I lost out on what I worked for. 3. Try not to stress myself out unnecessarily. Realize that there are situations that I cannot control and I have done the best that I could do. 4. Be more open minded and patient. 5. Stop mooning over Jerk. This means erasing his messages from my phone (it's about 30% of all the messages stored in my Inbox). I am almost successful in this aspect but... 6. Clean out my room. Hah! Long overdue goal. 7. Strengthen my faith even more. Actually, I sort of strayed from resolution number five. Why? Because Jerk texted me last night, that's why! No, really. I was so overwhelmed. I mean, he remembered me last night. I was touched, but at the same time, puzzled why all of a sudden. I really have to stop. It's true, though, I was quite successful in getting over Jerk (much to my amazement). Hmm. Of course, a text message (a sweet but generic one) is nothing special, right? Finally got to blog! I wanted to blog before the yearend (like last night), unfortunately it was brownout! As in. We spent New Year's Eve in darkness. Bummer. It was fun din naman--everyone was in the street because there really was nothing to do inside the house. No countdowns to listen to, no pc to blog on... Can't believe the long weekend is almost over! It went by so fast. Went out with friends last Monday night and it was sooo nice just to hang out and bond with them. Even if we were in Eastwood, it wasn't toxic for me at all. Maybe because different company, time and venue--which is great. Oh, and we saw Piolo Pascual. He is so good-looking. *sigh* I miss my friends already. But I am grateful we make it a point to see each other at least once a month. Well. My year was okay and ended even better. Looking forward to 2003 and what it has in store for all of us!
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