After a really good weekend spent, now I'm back to business, although work is a little bit light these past two days. We only had few discussions in class and the rest were just knowledge check activities. We had games earlier too (product-related, of course) and it's safe to say, which means I'm bragging a little, that we buried our opponents alive, TWICE! We were the underdog at first but we still won in the end. And for me, that is the sweetest kind of victory.
After work, I was supposed to go with my friends and eat out somewhere but they changed their mind the last minute and so I ended up getting a take-out dinner which I ate at home. Speaking of dinner, I haven't been practising good eating habits the past few days so I decided to revert back to the usual eating pattern that's considered healthy. From now on, I'll try to eat breakfast everyday and cut down carbs from my diet (one rice per day only). I'm not too sure how long I could go on with this but it's worth a try.
In a few days, we'll be taking calls again so I'm just relishing the light workload for the moment. Let's just hope I do good on the floor to prevent any forms of discouragement and negative vibes. Crossing fingers x
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Day 53 & 54: Weekend at home
I'm now back to the real world! Although my week was ordinarily spent, it always becomes extraordinary when I'm with my favorite people.
I just arrived here in Cebu earlier this morning and still, it wad so hard to snap out of rest day mood. From the airport, I went home to deposit my things and then went straight to the office. I was technically 2 hours late from work which my trainor displayed annoyance by not responding to my morning greeting. I just bribed him with a pastel delicacy I brought from CDO afterward which he and my teammates enjoyed a lot.
After work, I had to take care of some bills for my mom and I had to wait for almost two hours for their customer service to cater me. Thank God an elderly woman gave me a much better priority number so I gave mine to someone else in return. It never hurts to pay it forward as they say. After endless waiting, I was able to settle the bill and then went home to retire. Since my roommate was still not home, I ordered pizza and gobbled it all on my own for dinner. So much for stupid diet!
Also, I would like to apologize for skipping a post yesterday. I was so tired and I had to sleep early because of my early flight in the morning as well. Actually I got a boat ticket for last night's 7pm trip however I decided not to avail of it since I needed more time with my family. I just spent Sunday with my sister going to the grocery and stopping by a jewelry maker who was referred by a family friend since my sister needed a replacement for her lost wedding ring. I think I'm gonna go to her too once I decide to alter the ring my mom gave me.
Aside from that, we also visited my sister's house since I haven't been there before. The house is just perfect for families who are just starting out. I was able to sneak a peek of their model house as well and I was really impressed with the interior design to the point that I wanted to buy a house for my own. I've been looking for houses online that would be able to cater to my budget and taste. I know it sounds ridiculous but I really want to buy a house for my own. Why are houses so darn expensive?!
I just arrived here in Cebu earlier this morning and still, it wad so hard to snap out of rest day mood. From the airport, I went home to deposit my things and then went straight to the office. I was technically 2 hours late from work which my trainor displayed annoyance by not responding to my morning greeting. I just bribed him with a pastel delicacy I brought from CDO afterward which he and my teammates enjoyed a lot.
After work, I had to take care of some bills for my mom and I had to wait for almost two hours for their customer service to cater me. Thank God an elderly woman gave me a much better priority number so I gave mine to someone else in return. It never hurts to pay it forward as they say. After endless waiting, I was able to settle the bill and then went home to retire. Since my roommate was still not home, I ordered pizza and gobbled it all on my own for dinner. So much for stupid diet!
Also, I would like to apologize for skipping a post yesterday. I was so tired and I had to sleep early because of my early flight in the morning as well. Actually I got a boat ticket for last night's 7pm trip however I decided not to avail of it since I needed more time with my family. I just spent Sunday with my sister going to the grocery and stopping by a jewelry maker who was referred by a family friend since my sister needed a replacement for her lost wedding ring. I think I'm gonna go to her too once I decide to alter the ring my mom gave me.
Aside from that, we also visited my sister's house since I haven't been there before. The house is just perfect for families who are just starting out. I was able to sneak a peek of their model house as well and I was really impressed with the interior design to the point that I wanted to buy a house for my own. I've been looking for houses online that would be able to cater to my budget and taste. I know it sounds ridiculous but I really want to buy a house for my own. Why are houses so darn expensive?!
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Day 52: My Superhero
“But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.” -Mitch Albom
This post will be dedicated to my mom who's celebrating her birthday today. To the strongest and most hardworking person I have ever known that even today, was still the very first person who got out of bed to go to work. It's always business as usual for her and it's sad how most of the time, she's never able to take care of herself in lieu of taking care of us. To the person who sacrificed a lot just for her kids to experience a good life even if it meant staying awake until the wee hours of the morning. And to the one person I owe the stories of my life to.
I'm not the best daughter there is, to that I admit. I've probably done a lot of things to my parents that I will never be proud of. But my mom has always been fair and forgiving to me. She never made me feel that my mistakes made me less of a person and that I should always learn to forgive myself first. Even if I'm away most of the time, I can never imagine a life without my mom. She's always been my superhero.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Day 51: Overwhelming is an understement
Blogging to you straight from CDO! Woot! I just arrived earlier this afternoon and I never get tired of saying this: It's good to be back! Although only for a few days but still, nothing beats home.
Going back earlier today when I was still in Cebu, I attended my training for the first half where we took calls for the third time. It was supposed to be my partner's turn in the morning and I was scheduled in the afternoon but I begged him for me to take calls first. In the end, we both took calls at the same time. I could say that it was definitely not my best performance because I was too excited for my trip home that I never really took some of the calls seriously. My mind was too preoccupied and it was running a mile a minute I don't even know where to start.
After taking calls, I asked permission from my trainor that I will miss half of the day because of my flight. Fortunately, he said yes (but even if he said no, nothing can stop me from going home. haha). I was out by 11am and my flight wasn't until 1:30pm so I still had spare time. I went home to get the printer I bought for my sister. I had to wait for my roommate to bring the printer over and she arrived an hour after and my golly was the printer huge! And not to mention, super heavy!
I hailed a cab to take me to the airport and when I got there, I asked if I could just hand-carry the printer but the lady at the check-in counter told me I can't so I will have to check it in. Now here's the fun part: I didn't have the sufficient amount of money to pay for checking it in. It was already an hour before my flight and they were having the last call for checking in of baggages. I immediately called my sister to have money deposited on my ATM so that I could just withdrew it.
Thirty minutes before my scheduled flight, my sister called and told me the money was there already. I had to go back out and withdrew the money but when I came back in, they already closed the check-in for baggages, I almost wanted to cry and I seriously considered leaving the printer behind. I asked the security if I could just leave it at the airport and I'll just have my roommate fetch it but then she directed me back to my airline. 15 minutes until the plane leaves when I went to a crew from my airline and asked if I could just leave the printer to them and then she said she could still have it checked in. God knows how many thank you's I could have uttered when I heard that. I immediately paid for it and got me and my printer checked in just in the nick of time!
I was literally breathing heavily until I reached my designated seat at the plane. I swear to God I've never felt such adrenaline in my whole life. An hour later, I was already waiting to fetch my printer at the check-out area of Lumbia Airport in CDO. My sister picked me up and bought me lunch to relieve my stress. Aaand, my sister has a new car already! Double woot!
When I arrived, my favorite nephew was already waiting outside for me. God, I missed him! He's one of the reasons why I'm always excited whenever I come home. He was so astonished looking at me and his mom trying to color our hair earlier tonight. Yes, my sister bought a hair color solution at Etude House and we decided to try it out. Mine's not that evident yet but since my sister already has color in hers, it was so much more evident on her. I'm thinking of cutting my hair too but I'm not too sure what look would work for me. I need to do some research first.
P.S. I'm sorry this is too long. It was just a very overwhelming day for me. And tomorrow is Mom's birthday! I'm too excited!
Going back earlier today when I was still in Cebu, I attended my training for the first half where we took calls for the third time. It was supposed to be my partner's turn in the morning and I was scheduled in the afternoon but I begged him for me to take calls first. In the end, we both took calls at the same time. I could say that it was definitely not my best performance because I was too excited for my trip home that I never really took some of the calls seriously. My mind was too preoccupied and it was running a mile a minute I don't even know where to start.
After taking calls, I asked permission from my trainor that I will miss half of the day because of my flight. Fortunately, he said yes (but even if he said no, nothing can stop me from going home. haha). I was out by 11am and my flight wasn't until 1:30pm so I still had spare time. I went home to get the printer I bought for my sister. I had to wait for my roommate to bring the printer over and she arrived an hour after and my golly was the printer huge! And not to mention, super heavy!
I hailed a cab to take me to the airport and when I got there, I asked if I could just hand-carry the printer but the lady at the check-in counter told me I can't so I will have to check it in. Now here's the fun part: I didn't have the sufficient amount of money to pay for checking it in. It was already an hour before my flight and they were having the last call for checking in of baggages. I immediately called my sister to have money deposited on my ATM so that I could just withdrew it.
Thirty minutes before my scheduled flight, my sister called and told me the money was there already. I had to go back out and withdrew the money but when I came back in, they already closed the check-in for baggages, I almost wanted to cry and I seriously considered leaving the printer behind. I asked the security if I could just leave it at the airport and I'll just have my roommate fetch it but then she directed me back to my airline. 15 minutes until the plane leaves when I went to a crew from my airline and asked if I could just leave the printer to them and then she said she could still have it checked in. God knows how many thank you's I could have uttered when I heard that. I immediately paid for it and got me and my printer checked in just in the nick of time!
I was literally breathing heavily until I reached my designated seat at the plane. I swear to God I've never felt such adrenaline in my whole life. An hour later, I was already waiting to fetch my printer at the check-out area of Lumbia Airport in CDO. My sister picked me up and bought me lunch to relieve my stress. Aaand, my sister has a new car already! Double woot!
When I arrived, my favorite nephew was already waiting outside for me. God, I missed him! He's one of the reasons why I'm always excited whenever I come home. He was so astonished looking at me and his mom trying to color our hair earlier tonight. Yes, my sister bought a hair color solution at Etude House and we decided to try it out. Mine's not that evident yet but since my sister already has color in hers, it was so much more evident on her. I'm thinking of cutting my hair too but I'm not too sure what look would work for me. I need to do some research first.
P.S. I'm sorry this is too long. It was just a very overwhelming day for me. And tomorrow is Mom's birthday! I'm too excited!
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Day 50: Are you competitive?
There are two things I learned today that I'd like to share with you. One, I'm weirdly competitive. Two, some people talk about abortion like it's as normal as taking a shower. These things have been consciously on my subconscious but I never really gave a thought about it. And since nothing spectacular really happened today, let me babble about the two things that I learned.
I never really saw, let alone labeled myself as competitive before. True, I never wanted to fail at what I do but everyone does, right? Also, way back in college, I always compared my test results with my friends and smiling victoriously in my head when I get the highest score. But all my friends are doing it as well so it was never a big deal. In my workplace before, I would always be too hard on myself whenever I don't meet the standards and that's just because I hate failing as much as I hate being a failure.
Today, I finally realized my boss was right, I am downright competitive. While we were doing an activity earlier at work, I was palpitating and sweating unconsciously while I tried to finish the activity on a limited time. I loved the thrill of knowing that I can be good at what I do and that I can be the best amongst my peers. People would tell me that I take things seriously and now I understand why. I know somwtimes it's not a good thing but I also know that I can use this to my advantage, don't you think so?
Also, earlier today, a friend was browsing through Facebook while I watched along. And then someone messaged her worried because she didn't have her period yet. The first thing that came to my mind was that she might be pregnant, until my friend told me that she got her baby aborted just a month ago and she haven't had her period yet since then. And the reason for the abortion was the fear of being terminated from work. I mean, how lame is that reason? So, she'd rather kill her own child than risk losing her job? I know I don't have the right to judge but still, what she did not justify the means at all.
So anyway, that's about enough ranting. I'm going to sleep in a while so I'll write to you straight from CDO tomorrow then! Woot!
I never really saw, let alone labeled myself as competitive before. True, I never wanted to fail at what I do but everyone does, right? Also, way back in college, I always compared my test results with my friends and smiling victoriously in my head when I get the highest score. But all my friends are doing it as well so it was never a big deal. In my workplace before, I would always be too hard on myself whenever I don't meet the standards and that's just because I hate failing as much as I hate being a failure.
Today, I finally realized my boss was right, I am downright competitive. While we were doing an activity earlier at work, I was palpitating and sweating unconsciously while I tried to finish the activity on a limited time. I loved the thrill of knowing that I can be good at what I do and that I can be the best amongst my peers. People would tell me that I take things seriously and now I understand why. I know somwtimes it's not a good thing but I also know that I can use this to my advantage, don't you think so?
Also, earlier today, a friend was browsing through Facebook while I watched along. And then someone messaged her worried because she didn't have her period yet. The first thing that came to my mind was that she might be pregnant, until my friend told me that she got her baby aborted just a month ago and she haven't had her period yet since then. And the reason for the abortion was the fear of being terminated from work. I mean, how lame is that reason? So, she'd rather kill her own child than risk losing her job? I know I don't have the right to judge but still, what she did not justify the means at all.
So anyway, that's about enough ranting. I'm going to sleep in a while so I'll write to you straight from CDO tomorrow then! Woot!
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Day 48 and 49: Some days
One particular thing that happened today that really got into my nerves is the insensitivity of some people. At work, since I'm still a newbie, we are not allowed to go on duties during holidays so we have to make up for it on a Saturday. May 1 is considered a holiday here in the Philippines so we were given the option to choose between two Saturdays (April 27 and May 4) for the make up class. Since I had to go home by the 27th and some other people also had prior commitments due to short notice, we wanted to have the class on the 4th. However, some inconsiderate people were forcing others to go for the 27th just because they want to without having any valid reason at all. And to think, they were the ones I considered really close with ever since the start of training.
In the end, our trainor decided to have a class on the said holiday with a permission from his boss. I was relieved but still I got pissed with what happened. So anyway, I finally got my ticket printed and I'm all set for Friday. I'll be bringing home a printer I bought for my sister. Although I'm a little bit short for my expenses, my friends have been kind enough to help out.
Yesterday I wasn't able to post anything because I came home late and I got too tired. After the class ended, my friends called me since they were in the area. I met up with them and one even volunteered to treat us pizza. Another friend also dropped by so it was like a mini reunion. It's always a good time when I spend it with my favorite people even if they're also the reason why my diet got ruined and I wasn't able to go jogging. Ah, the things you do for your friends!
Earlier that morning though, we had our second embedding and I was supposed to go first while my partner will listen and help me out. But, my partner was such an arse that he wanted to take calls too, leaving me all by myself. But I was not mad at him, I know that somehow I'll be on my own when taking calls, I just got so scared. But fortunately, it all turned out well and I could say it was better than my first embedding. I even got to meet a cute guy who was assigned to help us out. Okay fine, I have a tiny teeny crush on him. Let's hope he's still single. teehee :)
Monday, April 22, 2013
Day 47: Change in routine
I can't believe my two days off is already over! Ugh, Monday. I seriously wish there was a day between Sunday and Monday. That would be epic awesome, don't you think?
So anyway, work was the same for me today, although time was a bit in a hurry. It was slightly draining and of course, almost everyone were still on RD mode. There were a lot of discussions that it was hard to find a place in our brains to fit all the information given. The only good thing was the free food I took advantage of today. Our trainor gave us food during our first break and also one of my friends brought food for everybody as a celebration for her passing the teacher's board examination, which was what we ate on lunch. Thank God for generous people!
After work, I immediately went home because I was not in the mood to go with my friends. A couple of hours later, my roommate arrived and I suddenly had the urge to go jogging. She was surprised with my suggestion but still agreed. Well technically, we only walked. But hey, it's a good start right? I mean we gotta start small first. And it's a change from my usual routine of laziness so it's a good change. After walking, we had dinner and went home.
We'll be taking calls again tomorrow for billing which I'm not really confident about. I'm still gonna be with my partner but since he was the one who went first last time, I had to be the first one tomorrow. I'm a little scared and worried but my excitement is winning over. I'm going home on Friday for my mom's birthday and I can't wait to see my family! And also, I'm more excited for my trip to Hongkong on July. I know it's still months away but whatever, I'm still excited anyway.
So anyway, work was the same for me today, although time was a bit in a hurry. It was slightly draining and of course, almost everyone were still on RD mode. There were a lot of discussions that it was hard to find a place in our brains to fit all the information given. The only good thing was the free food I took advantage of today. Our trainor gave us food during our first break and also one of my friends brought food for everybody as a celebration for her passing the teacher's board examination, which was what we ate on lunch. Thank God for generous people!
After work, I immediately went home because I was not in the mood to go with my friends. A couple of hours later, my roommate arrived and I suddenly had the urge to go jogging. She was surprised with my suggestion but still agreed. Well technically, we only walked. But hey, it's a good start right? I mean we gotta start small first. And it's a change from my usual routine of laziness so it's a good change. After walking, we had dinner and went home.
We'll be taking calls again tomorrow for billing which I'm not really confident about. I'm still gonna be with my partner but since he was the one who went first last time, I had to be the first one tomorrow. I'm a little scared and worried but my excitement is winning over. I'm going home on Friday for my mom's birthday and I can't wait to see my family! And also, I'm more excited for my trip to Hongkong on July. I know it's still months away but whatever, I'm still excited anyway.
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