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"Someday we'll know, why I wasn't meant for you." ~New Radicals
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With work, like love, we may come across a "falling out" of sorts. Sometimes, they say, there isn't any point of staying in hopes that things will get better. When you brave the odds, you get a taste of an unbranded flavor of independence. There's liberation, detachment, the usual grieving process down the line and then there's "opportunities" -- it's either you seek them -- or you create one yourself.
Written by anaheim at 01:19 PM. Filed under Relationships, Work, Music, Photos, Art.
tagalog? feel ko lang.
yung pinakamahal naming cliente. ang bait bait. nung minsan, nasa office sya. may dalang cookies from subway. lunch nya yata. tapos bigla nag-ikot ikot sa mga desks. nang-alok kung gusto namin. ako nga unang inalok. nagulat ako. eh gusto ko yung cookies ng subway kaya kumuha ako. sabay thank you madami!
nung isang araw, may tumawag na cliente. syempre customer support ang sumagot. sabay tinawag ako. gusto daw magpaturo ng cliente gumamit ng photoshop. edi kinausap ko. ang hirap maging support. minsan rebelde ang cliente. step by step na nga di pa sumusunod.
involved pala ako sa project na strictly confidential. obviously bawal magkwento. first time 'to sa career ko na 'to. hehe...
meron ako kilala, pinagpeperahan ang twitter at facebook. ang gagawin lang eh isa-sign up ka nila sa facebook, sila maguupload ng pictures, mag-a-add ng friends, etc. yung normal lang naman. la naman special. meron pa nga ino-offer na training kung pano gamitin. bakit ganun? feeling ko mali ito! ang mahal pa ng fee ha! mga $800+.. WTH!
bakasyon pala boss ko simula bukas. kala ko naman 2 weeks. yun pala 1 day lang. ngek. kainis.
Written by _Tralala at 03:57 PM.
after months of barely having meetings, i got a meeting today and 2 scheduled tomorrow! it feels kinda weird... there was a point where i pretty much had meetings every week. sometimes 3 in ONE day. i hated it but somehow got used to it as well. this afternoon when i had my first meeting in a long time, kinda felt nervous.. haha..
Written by _Tralala at 08:34 PM.
took me 3hrs to get this bar right!
it's not really supposed to be complex but i dunno... i really had trouble with this one.. lol..
Written by _Tralala at 06:18 PM.
I just booked another flight five minutes ago. And, guess what, its for February! That's more than six months away. I'm starting to feel that this is suddenly turning into an addiction - looking for good places to visit, finding the cheapest possible flights and minimizing the number of leaves as much as possible.
And in all honesty, I'm getting better at it. (Practice makes perfect!) I've found trips to places a couple of time zones away for under 60 SGD. That's two time zones away for just ~1800 pesos! Round trip, all in. Can you believe it? It's even cheaper than a regular flight to Manila, or even to KL!
There's just so much of my time spent looking at budget airline websites, waiting for unbelievable offers and figuring out if there are folks interested in joining the trip. Oh well, Travelling sooo gives me the high! Can you believe that i've been to five new countries in the past three months!? And I only had to take one day of leave for all of these trips! It takes talent and skilled coordination to make things like that happen. And of course, kailangan din ng funds, pero oh well, work hard, travel harder!! 
And my travelling schedule is finally nailed down for the next six months (a few weeks back, I was so frustrated because my calendar was sooo wide open) -but now, I've been able to arrange everything and I'm finally expanding my trips to Greater China! Oh yes, manginig na ang mga Intsik for my visits! haha
And oh, I'm working on the latest Wanderlust entry. I know, its almost a month late now, but anyway, i'm targetting mid this week. haha Patience is a virtue!
{ music } Destiny's Child - Say My Name
{ mood } on a high!
Written by aldrich at 11:32 PM. Filed under Life as I Know It.
Wednesday was work as usual. Meetings and all that. But towards the end of the day, I was grabbing a Subway Meal for dinner and then I suddenly realized that there was this sharp pain in the left side of my mouth - quite like the same way you'd feel when your wisdom teeth started to appear. I guess it came from this wider-than-normal yawn that I had before going for dinner. But then, I just brushed it aside. And then, the pain progressed, and in just a matter of minutes, I couldn't chew anymore! It was painful as hell, but I told myseld that it would probably subside after I take painkillers. After all, Ibuprofen Paracetamol has never failed me before.
I walked back to the office, and then my jaw suddenly "popped." I thanked God for what I thought was the end of the problem. But, boy was I wrong. It was only the start. It just kept on painfully popping the whole night - all the way until the morning. I searched the internet and the first search result for "lock-jaw" was tetanus. But then the article said that if it was indeed tetanus, then I would be in so much pain that I wouldn't be able to read that article anyway. So the next best thing was that it was TMJ (temporo-madibular joint) problems - which they advised for me to put a hot compress on it for the inflammation to subside.
The next day, I took the morning off to go see the doctor - and she said that my jaws were inflammed. Supposedly, this was common and that it would take a couple of the days for the inflammation to subside. And until then, I should stick to a liquid diet - soups, fruit juices and soft bread at the most. My initial reaction was - "are you kidding me!?" But then the pain was so unbearable. haha And this would do wonders for my plans for weight loss anyway. And so, I had Cedele soup for lunch and distracted myself from the pain by focusing on the work that I had to do.
Anyway, I told Oana about this through messenger - since she was working from home that day. And we had tennis plans that night - but in now way am I letting that go - the pain was just in my mouth, not the whole body so I could still play. Anyway, I walked over to her Condo right after work. And She cooked Romanian chicken soup for me. It tasted really yummy - sour quite like our own sinigang, but definitely something i've never tried before. She also gave me some homemade alcohol she brought back from her recent trip to Romania - which was really strong, and she claimed that it would really help. It was like 60-70% alcohol, definitely strong, parang paint thinner. haha! Anyway, I felt really nice after the mea. God, I'm really thankful for friends like Oana. It's just that without my actual family here, it seems that great friends really are excellent surrogates.
Anyway, I'm feeling loads better today. It still pops once in a while - but the bulk of the inflammation has subsided now. *sigh* Thank god for modern medicine and the comfort that great friends give us while the medicine is doing its magic.
{ music } Taylor Swift - Love Story
{ mood } weak, but getting stronger.
Written by aldrich at 05:04 PM. Filed under Life as I Know It.
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I've put my dreams in a safety box
So that no one could take them away from me
So that one day when I am wiser and more able
I'd make them come true.
I've put my dreams somewhere I could follow
So I won't lose touch
Somewhere that has "you and me and them" inside the bubble
Somewhere not too close for comfort, yet never too far.
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In my effort to keep the disk storage spick and span, what I had was unintened re-opening of nostalgic drawers. There's that poem (or something like it) that I never had the chance to conclude. Maybe it was meant to be that short. Just saving it here in my virtual litter box where everything is a jumble of crap, truths and everything with "me" in it . Hehe.
Written by anaheim at 02:26 PM. Filed under Poems.
I'm currently doing some spring cleaning in my hard drive when I found a short, scatterbrained, unedited and unabashed note I saved on a notepad in reference to the tweet above dated May 1st of this year. Here it goes:
"I haven't really snapped out of shock upon meeting the former Ambassador-cum-DFA Mindanao Asst. Sec. I thought, wow, an ambassador wants to have a word with me so this is really something. It was just so embarrassing that I have to rush in his office in my muddy flats and basic pedals. When I reached his desk, I thought, so this is how a diplomat works -- a thick pile of newspapers in his right, the business section (probably the one he is currently reading) half opened in front of him, two mobile phones, two land line phones, a thick, hardbound merriam-webster dictionary beside the stack of broadsheets, an orange highlighter, a cup of coffee and a glass of water half full (or half empty, depends on how you look at it). And there's his secretary, too, whom I think is the sweetest creature EVAR!
He was by the phone when I came in. If you'd close your eyes, you'd think he is an American speaking his native tongue but that's just the way he sounded -- articulate and fluent. Much to my dismay, when he pried me with questions, my mind almost went blank and I sounded like some trying hard fella reciting a killer tongue twister.
I thought I'd have to go through a lot of bureaucratic pain, something that you experience when you avail of government services, but he did not make me wait. I was thinking, he must be some Atlas, bringing the world upon his shoulders in his own ways. I take it that his duties and responsibilities are no walk in the park. I now understand why he looked so intimidating -- at first. In an imperfect world, where there are no less than imperfect people, I'm glad I held back my judgment. He proved the stigma wrong. "
Written by anaheim at 01:48 PM. Filed under People.
