leaving my vacation spirit and other oddities
March 23, 2007back again! arrived here in baguio last tuesday night. grabe ang haggard. its been 3 days but i still feel so exhausted. and the crazy climate we have right now's not helping (super lamig in the morning, super init during lunchtime, windy in the afternoon and back to super lamig all night long) along with the feeling of laziness hovering over me like a cloud (ive been on vacation for 5 days, you don't expect anybody who's been on total bliss for 5 days to easily be on work mode again just like that)…so yeah, im just ranting.
so what happened in manila? nothing much. dint even shop that much (or make that dint shop at all). the heat was too much for me on the first day that i just slept through it all morning. my Be had to drag me out of bed by lunchtime. supposed to play airsoft somewhere but i was feeling nauseous from the trip and not really in the mood to do anything. and the thought of donning a complete battle gear and run around under scorching heat dint sound appealing at all, so i had to pass. but there's one thing i could not NOT do while in manila, and that is to eat at Ma Mon Luk. yeah im a sucker for authentic chinese food (not the chowking-type-assuming-chinese-food) and Ma Mon Luk have the best mami and siopao (well for me, it is). so since we're headed to divisoria anyway to look for airsoft stuff, we went to the Ma Mon Luk located at Ongpin (it was a good thing i read about it changing its name to Ma Ku Si…thanks snglguy!) and had a feast! i was so full, it was almost 2pm and the warm weather made me so drowsy i could sleep then and there. but my Be's not through with me. we went to Carriedo where we found more stalls selling airsoft guns and stuff. so there. believe it or not, the shopper in me died that day. when i got back here in baguio, i was suprised myself when i realized that i only bought 3 items on my stay in manila. ready? 1. olive drab canvass belt (for my Flight Suit BDU) 2. a DVD (The Sentinel) 3. a looonggg loofah. pathetic.
that was my first day. on the second day was my Be's brother's wedding. it was a simple civil ceremony it was over by lunchtime. so we ate somewhere (forgot the exact place but i think the resto's name was Silver Spoon or something like that). it was a very intimate affair, family and close friends only. no crying and ring bearers chasing flower girls. no bridesmaids fighting over the bouquet. no groomsmen punching each other for the garter. i was in fact wearing jeans and a girly top, that's all. after eating, we drove straight home cuz the groom will be having party for his officemates and their other friends at home. while everyone was busy preparing for the party, me and my Be slept all through out the afternoon. yeah you heard it right. we slept for atleast 5 hours. i was playing CountrStrike while visitors poured in (i was Miss Anti-Social that day…must be the heat). we mingled at the party for an hour or so and then i played World of WarCraft until my Be announced that we're going out. we met up with Stephen and Ahmad at Stephen's house at West Av (an airsofter friend) and we talked airsoft, food and more airsoft until everybody realized we were at it for almost 6 hours already so its time for us to go home. slept more. woke up at 9AM. supposed to go home to baguio at 12NN but moved it to 2PM. had 2 penoys, 1 cheeseburger and lots of sleep on the way home. a cold blast welcomed us back at 8PM. i was asleep by 10.
and that ladies and gentlemen, is the most booooring vacation ive ever had.
gawd, il make bawi to myself next month on my birthday. will go to la union and bask on sea, sand and sun. yes, that's definitely a vacation i could look forward to.
things i realized i missed when i went to manila:
1. Krispy Kreme
2. DEC's shrimp and fish dumplings.
3. DVD shopping galore at Quiapo.
4. goin to Mall of Asia to skate.
5. watch a movie at IMAX.
Pffftt. next time, il make sure i don't forget to bring with me my vacation spirit. next time.
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it was my off yesterday. me and my Be's off. we were both on house arrest. we feigned stomachache and turned off our cellphones because we couldn't bring ourselves to get out of the house to play airsoft. we got up around 9AM and feasted on leftovers for breakfast (leftovers = pasta drenched with slightly stewed tomatoes and basil + tuna). watched DVD. had lunch (lunch = fried rice + porkchops). watched more DVD. went back to bed at 2PM. woke up around quarter to 6PM. watched a little bit of TV. had our leftover lunch for dinner. watch more DVD and TV. i went to sleep around 11Pm while my Be followed around 12:30. now how's that for a blissful day off…
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FLASH REPORTS!
Flash Report # 1
we're on a diet. we meaning me and my Be. low carb. we decided that low carb diet is the best option cuz we could still indulge ourselves with meat (basta lean meat!) and not feel guilty after. downside? no rice. no pasta. no bread. no potatoes = no french fries!!! and don't ask why we're on a diet. its complicated. (although we gave in yesterday and had pasta friday night basta vegetarian naman! and had fried rice on saturday.) gah, this low carb diet thingy has finally sunk on me. you won't believe the smile on my face when my Be happily feasted on our thursday night dinner which is composed of red lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and carrots all thrown together and dressed with a little bit of basil vinaigrette. yeah, salad for dinner. my Be eating green salad for dinner. kill me if we don't lose some weight in 2-3 months.
Flash Report #2
im smoking again. started last friday. bout 2-3 cigs a day. after being clean for more than a year. blame it on the diet. hunger weakens my diet. smoking weakens my hunger. thus, when i smoke i don't get hungry. and besides, i was able to strike a deal with my Be. we promised each other we'd quit once we've attained our desired weight. good deal. quitting's never a problem with me. can't wait.
Flash Report #3
i just found out this morning that my immediate supervisor (or team leader or coach as we like to call them) was forced to resign. why? because of some issues on his monits (monitorings with his agents) and other paperwork related stuff. we think its unfair. those are just numbers and stats and graphs. those are not agents excelling or agents hitting a high Rep SAT every end of the month. those are not agents who enjoy coming to work because their team leader motivates them in ways no other team leaders can or have. its just unfair. makes me wanna resign again. Pffftttt.
Flash Report # 4
the guys finally uploaded some of our pics from our airsofter friend's wedding and other game pix, so delayed as it is, here they are anyway:
here's a group pic after the game. im the one smiling goofily in the middle.
here's me and my Be. Clyde at the back and mam tina on the left. as you can see, this is supposed to be a solo picture of me and my Be.
gah, you can't have a decent solo pix when you're with a bunch of camwhores…lolz
im not on this pic, neither my Be but i liked the way that all the guys are wearing one of our official BDU's (US Acupat) and they're all smiles!
here's the only decent picture we have as a group on Karl's wedding.
pahabol post: i have a new office crushie! *kilig kilig kilig* basta, i heart him. i heart him more than my previous office crushie that lasted only for 3 days. so since he just said hello 2 mins ago, im doing cartwheels on my head and decided to compare my old office crushie to this new office crushie.
comparison 1:
old crushie is suplado while new crushie is super friendly he might hug me if i ask him to (haha! as if.)
comparison 2:
im as tall as old crushie while new crushie is a tad taller than me (yeah, height matters)
comparison 3:
i can't remember seeing old crushie smile, at all. new crushie smiles all the time. when i talk to him, he smiles…when he talks to me, he smiles…when we see each other at the office, he smiles...*sigh*
comparison 4 :
old crushie never talks to me unless talked to. new crushie comes by our bay and says hello atleast 5 times a day. *double sigh*
comparison 5:
ive never eaten/smoked with old crushie. i had lunch once with new crushie and asked if id like to smoke after (thank gawd i was smoking again when he asked me!) *triple sigh*
so as you can see, im all giddy over my new found crushie. just giddy, of course im still getting married to my Be on January, silly.
teehee!
random post
March 17, 2007im at an internet shop here at the Victory Bus Terminal in Baguio. will catch the 12 midnight bus bound for Cubao for my Be's brother's wedding. i know i said before how i hate blogging at internet shops, or staying at internet shops at all especially if im seated beside crazzeee gamers who uses up enough bandwidth to slow down other internet user's PC…so yeah, unless im not at the office or home and im in dire need to check my emails, i never dare go inside internet shops. well tonight is an exception. the meeting with our Airsoft team was finished early so we had atleast 2 hours to kill. so its either we hang out at Star Mart w/c is right across the terminal and bore ourselves to death or…take the plunge and do surf the net instead. the moment i opened up mozilla (weeee i love this browser), i was taken aback by how quick the homepage opened up. i tried to open and login to my blog and voila, i was able to get in with no hang ups…pretty coooolll…so here i am, blogging.
well nothing much, i just though that since im paying Php25.hour then i should go ahead and do what i usually do on the internet…well…what else but blog, read other people's blog and leave messages on other people's blogsites…lolz
anyway, i was able to cross out everything i on my list the other day. great, really. because me and my Be were able to join kuya noel and ate tina on friday night for their wedding anniversary where they decided to spend having dinner and movies after. so it was like a double date, w/c we all enjoyed immensely. kuya noel and ate tina are amazing people. had dinner, played at quantum (yeah im a sucker for shooting games, must be that airsoft addiction…hehe) and then proceeded for the last full show. watched 300 and all i could say is that ive never watched so much violence and lust and hatred portrayed as gracefully as another movie of the same genre.
well…im multi tasking like crazy again. blogging, chatting, checking out blogs, watching videos at youtube and more surfing all at the same time…will blog again bout my manila trip maybe on monday if im lucky. and oh, im so effing excited because a manila airsoft team just confirmed that we could join a game tomorrow and its okay that we don't have our guns and gears with us since they'll take care of it…woooohoooo!!!! it'll definitely be my only consolation for the "heat wave" waiting for me in manila…hehe..
laters!
why going on Break 4 minutes early is important
March 15, 2007im soooo pissed off right now. im just amazed with how strong my willpower is to prevent myself from acting and sounding really bitchy at this customer im currently speaking with. argh. asshole.
yeah i act really hateful sometimes (but im a really friendly and happy person, honest!) but i dunno…right now im just really pissed off…
4 minutes before i log my phone to Break mode, a call came in, how lucky is that? *bitch, bitch, bitch* the guy is so effing stupid i had to repeat his login name and password a kadillion times before he gets authenticated on the network. right now, we're going from safemode to normal mode and back again because stupid Internet Explorer won't let the customer open a webpage. so we just uinstalled IE 7.0 and reverted back to IE 6.0. crazy computer still won't let us open up a page. *at this point im honestly ready to cry from frustration* take note: im writing this post on Real Time, meaning im currently trying to fix this sucker's life, oh correction, im currently troubleshooting with the customer. so right now, im just not in the mood to unleash the geek goddess in me so im skipping some steps and went straight to doing system restore on his PC so i can rant, ooopsss…blog, i mean. he's claiming he was able to go online the day before so why not travel through time and revert the PC when it didn't act like a moron?! so we're waiting…it takes the PC a million years to reboot. what frustrates me really is that i can clearly see the customer is already online! *yup we have a thingmajig software that allows us to see that* so im just banging my head (not literally) because i so wanna play more orisinal games before i go home! gaahhh…system restore dint work. that's like, the final draw for me cuz we are advised not to help further than system restore (because we are DSL tech support so we can't care enough if our customers' PC's are fucked up). but moronic cust decided to do a spyware scan (without my permission!) which usually takes about 10 mins to 100 hours depending on how ancient your computer is! we don't need to do a freakin' spyware scan! aaaargghhhh!!!!!! i was sooo fed up i told him quite frankly that we're just wasting precious time on the phone trying to make sense out of his life, erm…trying to figure out what's wrong with his PC.he gives up and i tell him to go to hell…as if…well yeah i told him to get a computer expert try to figure out what what's wrong with his PC since i don't give a damn because i can see him online on our network so its not a problem from our end. ha! finally logged out after almost 2 hours of craziness. *loud sigh of relief*
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on a lighter note, today is my last punch! tomorrow and the day after that (friday and saturday) are my day offs then im on vacation leave from sunday to tuesday! *insert humongous smile here*
will try to blog then…gawd im so excited bout goin down manila because i might get a chance to play with airsofter from manila! *after all the internal groaning due that pesky call, the idea of not seeing my office PC for 5 days just can't erase the smile i have plastered on my face*
*giddy*
drama queen makes a list and gives out the date
March 12, 2007things im planning to achieve by friday this week:
1. have my hair fixed (note to self: never ever self-decapitate one's hair eveerrr.)
2. buy gift for my Be's brother's wedding before we go down to manila this saturday.
3. buy something to wear for the wedding (panic shopping part 2)!
4. clean-up the whole apartment and do every bit of laundry lying around on friday.
5. bake something (i just wanna take out the urge to bake something out of my system)!
well its not the end of the world naman sa friday but we're goin down manila na kasi on saturday afternoon for my Be's brother's wedding and i don't wanna leave the apartment all messed up cuz sobrang hassle yun when we get back all tired tapos the place would look like nobody lived on it for 50 years (yeah exag lang).
besides that, saturday morning pa lang haggard na cuz im sure may listahan na ng stuff na kelangan bilhin for the folks at manila….magmumukha nanaman akong turista (aaarrgghhhh) but what can we do? once in a while na lang kami umuwi ni Be sa kanila so ayun na nga…haaayyyy kilo kilong strawberries and lettuces at iba pang ka-gulayan im sure…but anyway like i said, minsan minsan lang naman so pagbigyan na.
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may dramang nangyari the other night sa bahay. i won't dwell on the specifics kasi sobrang babaw ng reason. anyway, me and my Be were on our way home from the hospital cuz one of our airsoft friends was hospitalized the day before. we had an argument on the way home wherein nag walk-out ako diretso sa bahay. sya naman nagliwaliw muna for an hour or something like that then umuwi rin sya sa bahay. that night was the first, after almost 3 years of living together, that we slept on separate rooms. as in mala-The Break-Up ang drama. we've had arguments before pero usually one of us ang hindi makatiis so we always end up tabi pa ring matulog. i don't know what happened that night but i woke up the next day alone in our bed tapos sya tulog na tulog pa rin sa spare room namin, in short natiis namin ang isa't isa the whole night. anyway long story short, after that incident it suddenly makes getting up from bed and untangling ourselves from each other all the more difficult for both of us every morning when we wake up. yung one night na yun na hindi kami tabi matulog did something…parang wake up call that if we keep on arguing about petty things, it will just mount up until such time na mapagod na kami na kahit gaano namin kamahal ang isa't isa, there will come a time that we'd rather quit trying to make the relationship work than die trying. but then, the weird thing is that we both felt like we just overcame a major hurdle in our relationship. parang we unconsciously tested each other. honestly, we've both been feeling like the relationship is in a rut for the past few months and sometimes conversations about breaking up keep resurfacing tuwing may maliliit kaming arguments. but anyway, i now know that we're waaaayyyy past that stage of our relationship and as a result, we came out stronger than ever…
and to add icing on the cake, we've finally settled on a definite date.
~ 6 January 2008~
finally…
rant galore
March 8, 2007yeah so i said on my last post that id elaborate my crazy week last week which is really not that crazy but its still crazy enough if you're as boring as a blackboard. okay whatever. im just blabbing here.
but anyway, i don't have the pix yet (help kuya noel upload them naahh pls, now na ah…*wink) and since im such a tease, i won't elaborate yet because id rather make kwento with pictures to go with it.
gah. i sound like a pathetic, konyo-speaking colegiala (no offense to all konyo-speaking colegialas out there) but im just writing (or typing) out of spontaneity here which is the after effect of being overworked but underpaid. but that's not the topic.
thing is, the days that followed after posting my teaser (daw) is that a couple occurrences happened that took me on a roller coaster ride of emotions.
i was angry like a raging bull. then the next day, i was so happy i could dance around in a pink tutu to the tune of The Nutcracker (well not literally)!
incident 1: well on my last post i noted that i was able to put together a baby thesis in 3 days. that was my sis' paper and i helped her finish it 100% of the way. she's graduating from high school this month. i offered to help her with the paper and that it would be my graduation gift to her (o di ba tipid?). i was so effing proud of myself when we finished it. and guess what happened after she passed it to her teacher? Copy Paste daw yung putanginang thesis? what the fuck?! i was hysterical! what are footnotes for? and bibiliography? and all those fancy stuff you include on your research paper to ensure that it is accurately referenced? i don't wanna sound so yabang but my college thesis was 300 pages thick excluding the index and stuff. finished it myself. and a freakin' copy of it is now sitting comfortably at the Unpublished Section of the Saint Louis University Library! tapos sasabihin nya Copy Paste lang daw yang lecheng baby thesis na yan?! she can kiss my ass! so what did i do? medyo ni-revise ko sya and threatened to go straight to the Principal because (1) she has no right to say that the paper was a Copy Pasted because it was perfectly referenced aka. footnoted, (2) what now? she's accusing us of Plagiarism? where's her fuckin' evidence?, (3) to tell that a student's superb paperwork is just a Copy Paste is as good as saying that the student is not good enough to produce such paperwork. ano sya? insecure lang sya noh!!! arrggghhh!!!
incident 2: so there's a new policy here in the office na dapat 2 weeks in advance ang filing ng vacation leaves because they'll have to determine if there'll be available slots (as if naman 1 person goin on a 3-day leave would make a difference on our Service Level!). eh sa i always forget about filing my supposed to be 3-day leave 2 weeks in advance cuz i have a life noh, i don't loiter around the office before and after shift like some people i know…harhar. nway, so my Be asked me bout 3 days ago kung okay na my vacation leave para wala na hassle, and that's when i realized that my leave forms' been gathering dust at the bottom of my desk for almost 2 weeks already. lagot na. first day of my attempt to file it was on the 7th (and the date for the leave would be from march 18-20). my Coach tried to file it with MOD (Manager on Duty) cuz they would view (daw, as if naman talaga) if there'll be available slots for me. guess what? wala na daw dun sa date na gusto ko, meron na lang is from the 22nd onwards. are you fuckin kidding me?! ano ka? nananadya?! shet talaga. so bad trip ako the whole day, i was so pissed i was literally hissing at all my customers even those who are trying hard to make rapport with me. at the end of the day, i was able to catch up with a former batch mate who is also a MOD and she informed me that if i could get an SOM (Senior Operations Manager) to sign my leave form then it'll be okay with MOD na. *insert loud sigh of relief here* the next day, i jetted towards a good (as in veeerrryyyy good) friend of mine who happens to have been promoted to SOM a few months ago and voila, MOD suddenly REALIZED that there are still available slots on the dates i requested for. yeah right. so who says sa gobyerno lang may RED TAPE???!!! but whatever, my leave's been approved! yiheeee!
pakshet ang crazy talaga minsan ng buhay. yeah anyway il go na at baka kung ano pa masabi ko ulit dito.
ps. the above post was a rant of happysarah's crazy/angry alter ego. yun lang.
pps (pahabol na ps). il update again in a few days kapag na -upload na yung pix from my crazy weekend.
saved from boredom death
March 4, 2007i had a crazy week.
japanese sweet corn & beef shawarma addiction. putting together a baby thesis in 3 days. dealing with unacommodating people. no tv time for a week. hectic Panagbenga-induced traffic. panic shopping. war with myBe over a pink, ruffled top. weddings. getting drunk on a work night. my first cig after 2 years. taking out join-a-beer-drinking-contest in my things-to-do-before-getting-hitched. a suprise gift. kilig for whatever reason.
if that's not reason enough for you to call it a crazy week, then i don't kow what does. maybe shagging an unknown guy/girl at a dark, back alley somewhere…or…rolling down Session Road wasted to death….or…kissing a random guy/girl…
but im not that crazy, cuz im lame like that.
but taking into consideration that ive had a kill-me-now-im-bored-to-death month, last week was crazy enough.
let me elaborate later, with pictures to boot.
c'ya!
