I DID IT AGAIN and other stories

I used to have a habit of having a long nap after school. Now I’m doing it again. I can’t understand why I can wake up after about 3 hours way back in college and I can’t do the same now. I keep on forgetting to remove my contact lenses, but that’s fine if it’s just a nap. One night, I fell asleep about 8pm, woke up in the middle of the night, read a little and slept again without realizing that I had them on. I only realized it in the morning when I opened the empty container of contact lenses. Well, at least nothing happened.


Yesterday is my first day of school… or rather my first day of review classes. It really feels like school. Ma’am Espina is like a scolding mother who keeps on telling us that we’re not supposed to be late for class. Eh, ang dami pa naming late, as in like about 2 to 3 hours late yung iba. It’s fun coz there’s Michelle and Janrey. Kulit pa ni Janrey, di natulog the night before the review coz Hiyas ng Arki the night before and he went out with arki pips. Yung katabi ko feeling ko weird. Mukha naman shang matinong girl, simple and basic in style. Gulat ako pag nagpapatawa si Ma’am Espina, she would react na, “wowowee!”. Eh dib a sobrang hate ko yun… coz yun nalang laging palabas sa tindahan sa labas ng office. Feeling ko ang tino ng itsura nya tapos ang jologs ng expression. Ang sama ko talaga. Lait ulit. Hehe. Pagbigyan nyo na ko… minsan lang to.

After class, I went to my sister’s house. They have a new rabbit! See my pic… According to my sister, she probably adopted a dog, not a rabbit, coz that little creature loves running around the living and dining room chasing and biting people. That cute little thing loves my jeans. Keeps on munching them like carrots.

ROAD TRIP

Here's our first real road trip... to Lian, Batangas.

KAY-SHAW

For the sake of those who haven’t heard of such term, kay-shaw is an Amoy word for introduction. Usually, this connotes to an introduction of a single male to a single female by friends, relatives, friends of friends, friends of relatives, relatives of friends, and whatever possible combination you can come up with. In modern English term, this means setting up.

So today is my 23rd birthday. I didn’t expect that I’ll be having this jologs experience before my 22nd year ends.

I innocently went home as usual on a beautiful Saturday noon. (Noon, since I wasn’t able to wake up early enough.) I was staring attentively at the TV watching Sweet 18 when the phone rang. It was my sister Sally who called me from her office downstairs. She said she want me to get into this kay-shaw thing. I politely refused, though I’m still single. Well, actually, I don’t wanna be bothered with my weekend dvd marathon. We hung up. Then she called again to inform me that her friends and their shoti are on the way. So I unwillingly changed my comfy short shorts to a more decent get up but my top was ok. I turned off the dvd and dragged myself down to the office. After a few minutes, they came, two sisters who are my sister’s business friends and their shoti. The sisters are quite cool and that’s it.

Typical Chinese guy whose skin is whiter than mine,… that I really hate…, who does his dad’s business and looks like someone who has no chance of reaching his own dream, seems like a barkada type of guy, always holding on to his cellphone…, mukhang malambot but not exactly bading, malapad… I can just imagine how he would look like once he’s married,… parang lahat ng ayaw ko sa guy. Although some of my descriptions are actually based on my gut feel of what type of guy he is. Worst of all, doesn’t even talk. If you guys ask me his name, really, I couldn’t even remember. I can only remember the name of his two sisters, Vicky and Wandy. I didn’t mean to be mean, but those are my brutally frank comments.

Aldrich suggested to me that I document all my kay-shaw moments, compile them and compare notes with Charol, who’ll probably experience the same thing, just for the fun of it.

So that’s how I ended up being 22, and I’m not hoping for more to come.

THOUGHTS AND MORE THOUGHTS

Yesterday morning, I found out that the one who should be taking my place has backed out. It was depressing. At that same moment, I was blamed for not e-mailing a document which I thought is not really urgent. And so it was really a bad day. What if I wont be able to leave my job to take the board exams? I know it's not really my responsibility to look for a replacement since I gave my resignation letter on time and agreed to my extension until the end of the month. When I got home, i dozed off to sleep and woke up after 3 hours. I wouldn't be able to do so if my dad didn't call me up. I was just so tired.

So today is another day. I already have 2 potential trainees for interview this coming Thursday. But I don't really have much time to turn things over, which is something that makes me feel really uneasy. I know how it feels to be dumped with projects without proper orientation. It happened to me twice already and I don't want it to happen to someone else, most especially to a fresh grad.

On the other side, since I myself had been looking for a replacement who will be happy enough with the job like me and Patt, I realized how difficult it is to get that someone. This is not like cad work which is mechanical and with lots of available skilled people somewhere out there. This is something that involves a lot of patience, wayfinding and other things that are not to be expected from a first out-of-school job. I realized that I had become so comfortable in dealing with harsh situations that I would sometimes give strategies to some officemates more experienced than me. I had learned how to handle things. One of my bosses even asked me to change my resignation letter to a request for leave. This brings me then to the thought if I should really quit my job.

But future is very uncertain. I'm not sure if I will end up in my dad's office, in some other business or even in China. But most likely, I will not be employed in some other architectural firm.

I really don't know what I want to do and what I'm meant to be. That's what I want to discover soon.

Burger and Fries

I dunno why i'm in love with burger and fries for the past few weeks! :)

Even if Baron already told me about the fries in the movie "super size me"... the fries that does not rot even after a few weeks stored in a jar... i can't help it. McDonald's fries is heaven! And there's new double cheeseburger. gotta try it one of these days.