A long weekend trip with friends...

Due to thanks giving holiday in US, we ended up having no work since Thursday. My account with the company am working with follows US holidays unless there's a lot of stuff to work on with.

My friends and I planned on going to Enchanted Kingdom during this holiday for a month and recently we planned of going straight to Tagaytay since one of our workmate suggested that we can stay to their house in Laguna and since Tagaytay is just 25 mins away from their place, he also suggested that we can go their if we want.

Our initial plan was to commute, ride a bus and find an apartelle or hotel to stay overnight then go back to Manila for Divisoria. Then due to suggestions, we rented a van w/o driver so that we can go wherever we wish to go. However, two days before the big day, our friends grand father died so we need to make a new plan and work it out. Pushed through with renting a van and then going to Tagaytay until lunch time and then to Enchanted Kingdom afterwards.

We left around five thirty in the morning from Dau bus terminal. Traveled pass through NLEX then to Sta. Mesa to SLEX going to Tagaytay. We reached Peoples Park around 9am, we bought some stuff for our friends and for ourselves, shirts, key chains and etc. Had our lunch at the Picnic Grove over looking the beautiful scenery of Taal lake. After having our lunch, we went down to the city looking for ATM booths, and one of the biggest challenge that we faced during this trip, we still don't have our salary and it's been 12 noon.

Still not losing hope, we went down to Laguna and look for a mall to spend our time while waiting for our salary. It's pass 2pm when we reached Walter mall so we checked our cards if we already have our money. Sad, but still there's none, so we thought of just roaming around and find a place to stay until 3pm since we still had no place to stay and that's the 2nd challenge that we need to solve.

Can't find the place the stay coz they can only provide two person per room accommodation and it's way too expensive so we keep on looking for a place to stay until one of our friends sister texted us and informed us that our pay has been out, so we went to SM Sta. Rosa which is the nearest mall from where we are at that time, amazing race indeed since we are all excited, we ran through the mall looking for an ATM booth. Three of us had trouble with their card number so they weren't able to withdraw money, we lend them money in order for us to push through with Enchanted Kingdom.

Quarter to 4pm when we reached Enchanted Kingdom, and the bad news that came to us. They are only open until 7pm and we only had 4 hours left to enjoy and have fun. Still excited and hyper as always, we went on and paid our tickets. There's a lot of people inside and all the rides has long lines with it, but that didn't stop us from enjoying ourselves from riding all the rides that we can ride on to. We enjoyed the rest of the evening seeing the view from the top while riding the Ferris Wheel.

We went on with our trip looking for the best "Buko Pie" shops for our family and friends. Then went back to Manila for a place to stay which took us a long time to find one and we ended up having an 8hrs stay at one motel in Sta. Mesa after roaming around Metro Manila for almost 4hrs.

The next day we went to Greenhills for our shopping spree, should've been to Divisoria but since it's Saturday, we can't just go there and be traffic by shoppers who's doing their Christmas shopping. Last year I was in US and now, I had the best long weekend ever, no money left, yes, but am so happy coz I've experience this fun with friends. Till next year... :)

Day 1 of Long Weekend from work...

Tonight will be the so called "Thanksgiving Holiday" in US and our account joins the holiday since we follow business days and hours in US. Turkeys will be out for dinner, hoping that we also have it here, family and friends gather together. I'm actually curious when did this holiday has started and why everyone needs to have Turkeys on their table? I'll try to do some research on this one, why not? History is one of my favorite subject when I was still studying.

When the clock strikes 6am means that our shift has ended and everyone is excited for all their plans during our four days vacation from work. Last night, we only have worked few tasked, most of our calls has VM's stating that they will only work half day and our queue has few task after all. We hit NRT for PTC queues several time the whole shift that's why we just chatted regarding our plans for the next three days coz definitely, today will be our rest day and the next days will be busy and fun.

My supervisor actually invited me to come to his house with the guys to have some drink and am not yet sure if I'll come since I still need to prepare for our EK and Tagaytay day tomorrow. I still need to decide on this one.

Today is the best day of my life coz problems has been solved and I only need to follow up my friend's reply on what she still owes me, which is totally "BIG TIME". Haven't heard from her yet for such a long time and I am already frustrated to go to their house and look for her. Anyway, am still happy coz things are getting better for me before the year ends. Still have some more plans to push through so I still need to focus more on saving and be thrifty.

There you go, I still need to rest and sleep even for just a short time, I still have long hours to spend when I wake up. I still need to go to the Gym to work on my abdominal. Ciao for now, I'll be posting my current activities, by Sunday.

What's more important? He says that he loves you but he never shows, or he always shows what he feels but can never say "I love you"...

What's more important? He says that he loves you but he never shows, or he always shows what he feels but can never say "I love you". One of my friends texted me this question this morning and I realized that we're in the same situation of having someone special in our lives and needs a confirmation if we can really be together and if that person really loves us, or it's just the same question Claudine Baretto asked Piolo Pascual in the movie "Milan", "mahal mo ba ako dahil kailangan mo ako, o kailangan mo ako kaya mahal mo ako?".

I am in this situation right now, I have this special friend who can't even give me tha chance of meeting him, he always texts me and answers my calls, and sometime he also calls me specially when I ran out of load and my SUPER150 already expired. He always says he loves me though it's quoted as "I love you bes" which means I love you bestfriend, and being sorry whenever I am making "tampo" cause he did something that I didn't like. He also says that he wants to marry me legally so that he will own me as his, though he still plans to have a wife of his own. Weird isn't, I'm not sure where am at right now in his life.

Saturday, 11/21/09, supposed to be our big day, the time that we will be meeting each other, I over slept and had to wake up past 5pm, in which I informed him earlier that I'll be waking up around 5pm. I checked my cellphone and whoa, text quote says "akala ko excited ka? eh bakit natutulog ka pa? kanina pa ako nagtetext", as they all say, "biruin mo na ang lasing wag lang ang bagong gising", temperature rise above my head and there, I texted him saying some bad things. I still pushed through with the plan of watching the Twilight saga "New Moon", with or without him coz I won't ruin my night just because he can't make it again. "Drawing" as we Filipinos pertain those people who can't keep their promises.

He informed me to stop calling cause he only have 1 bar left, then told me that he'll try to come as before the movie starts. I've waited for messages informing me that he can't make it and we'll just meet somewhere else, but there's none. I tried calling him but his phone is out of reach. I decided that this is really is it, enough of being so stupid that I keep on pushing myself to him. Anyway, he already informed men the other day that he doesn't want any confrontation and questions regarding his daily activities, we are free to do whatever we want to do without hurting each other. So be it, I can easily do that, anyway, once a BITCH always a BITCH. I'm already fed up with heartaches and suffering so it's not a big deal to me anymore. I have to move on with my life, being single is fun, and I still have a lot of dream to face and goal to achieve. Love can always wait, specially if that right person is just there waiting for the right moment.

Going back, I guess I'll better have a person who can't say "i love you" but who's always there always to show how much he care and how he feels. Action speaks louder than words anyway, I know that I am worth taking good care of and I deserve someone who will make me feel special everyday. I know how it feels being on the situation where he can only say "I love you" but you never realize if it's true or not since it's just a word spoken by the mouth which can often lie rather than spill out the truth.

Now, I realized that I had been stupid for one year with a man who keeps on saying he loves me but cannot even show himself to me, so it's a lesson to learn, two months is enough. I'll try my best to change everything tomorrow, whatever happens I had enough of the stupidity.

PHH on it's 2nd Year

Nov. 6, 2009 happens to be the PHH 2nd year Anniversary having Goth as party theme, though Nov. 5 was really the exact date, just so happen that it falls to Thursday and we need to make the party during our last day of the week for us not to be groggy and stressed. Every one participated by simple wearing black outfits and others like me wore costumes just to be in character for the said event, which I love doing so much cause it's a statement for my part.

A year ago, I said that we are fighting for this account, this family, this team and this job. Still the same since we need to prove ourselves worthy to our clients, to our big bosses. But we're all happy to do that cause it's a big thing for us. Still facing lot's of escalations and difficulties, but then again we try to do our best and try to work things out.

The biggest challenge happened just 2 weeks after the event when the big news exploded like a bomb, one of our team has been taken out and every one was being interv

iewed if they can be transferred to our voice team. After a week some undergone COL training but didn't finish it cause they were all requested to go back to production and work on the same process, however with the biggest challenge when it comes to their stats.

As of now now, we're all getting ready for the long weekend vacation since we are following the holidays in US. We still have a lot to face and a lot to prove to our clients, we still need to work on our productive utilization since we're not hitting our metrics for the 3rd quarter. I know that we will be moving forward and we'll stay being together for a longer time. Some of us already left and found bigger opportunity and I'm happy for them cause they are growing. In time it'll be for some of us who are left.

PHH is still the one family, one team and has one goal that we knew since it started 2 years back, and we're keeping it that way. Our goal is to help build American Dreams, we are all in one team and we work as one team though some of us don't work that way, we totally understand why. Of course, we are one big happy family, who always find time for each other, a helping hand and a shoulder to cry.

A PM who loves to give out chocolate incentive though we are hoping and wishing for bigger ones, we thank him. Our supervisors who are truly understanding specially my team's supervisor who is very open and kind hearted. Our QA's who are the biggest critics and most dangerous species on the floor. Our trainer, though she talks a lot, she's still one of the walls that we have in PHH. Shall I mention out SME's? who are kinda bossy at times, who irate us whenever RUSH tasks were being sent coz there's no warning, he'll just sue you about the task being lapse.

To the PHH Team, long live!!! We still have a lot of challenges and difficulties to face. But I know that in our hearts, we are all ready. Always been ready to fight anytime. God Bless us all.

And to my TPV family, hoping that we all stay the same as intact as we are since the first time that we all have been together.

We are ready for more anniversaries to come!!!

2009

40 days before Christmas day and another year will be over in 51 days, 9 hrs and 23 minutes from this time that I am writing this blog.

Year 2009 gave me a lot of difficulties and challenges, I learned how to handle some stuff which I never thought I can. Valuable lessons that I will always carry on to myself every time that I have some decisions to make and instincts to trust before pushing all through out with the plan.

I learned that not all the time you have to be good to other, to a friend especially. Not too give all your trust coz you'll never know what will happen next. I also learned that I can be someone whom I wanted to be without being so bully or boastful with what I have, since I have nothing at all. And most of all I learned to be myself, though I still need to lie with some stuff in order to be in with the society where I'm at right now.

I still have some plans before this year ends, like going to take the TOEFL examination in order to have the opportunity to grab the Fashion Designing scholarship I found online. To start my creativity working in order to finish my portfolio and also to have the dream of having my own portfolio as a model.

In this coming year, I am hoping and keeping the faith that things will all get better for me, I'm not going for the best. That there will be growth on my side and long term plans and goals that I will achieve. Plans of going back to school either here in the Philippines or might be abroad. Pushing with the online job search in order to leave the country to make my life and family's life better.

As for my personal life, I still tend to find that special person who will complete the missing pieces of my life's puzzle. I'm still waiting for that particular person who will accept, love and care for me.

Year 2009, thanks for all the challenges that came my way, it made me stronger and made my 23rd year in this lovely world more meaningful than ever. I will never forget all the lessons that you've thought me. Thank you so much.

As I always believe, "Fata viam Inveniente".