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Willy Is Back From UAE

My cousin Willy is back from United Arab Emirates. I'm scheduled to meet him, Michelle and Jon for lunch today. I'm excited! Even if it will mean I'll not have enough sleep today. :)

Willy worked for 2 years at the Arab country. He's on vacation for a month and he's going back to our Province maybe tomorrow or later today. I'm glad I'd be able to see my dear cousin before he leaves again.

This is going to be a great get-together with them! I hope I won't forget to bring my handy-dandy digital camera so I can take pictures of us at lunch!

Oh, and by the way, to those who celebrates V-day, I hope you will all have fun as well! :)

Health Plan For My Mom After 65

I made my Mom my dependent on our health insurance at work. She made use of the health card whenever she gets confined in a hospital. I like it because it's always a great help whenever my Mom gets sick. The problem is, it's coverage is only for parents who are 65 years old and below. My mother is turning 65 next month. She won't be covered with the health plan anymore next year. I'm a bit worried about that.

I've been browsing the internet for a reliable health insurance company and found out about East Coast Health Insurance. They are the most trusted health insurance online which guarantees affordable plans and believes that insurance is a right, not a privilege. I like that! They got a toll free number: 888-803-5917 where you can get affordable health insurance quotes and answer all your questions about the health insurance you chose.

With every life threatening ailment or illnesses that goes with old age, I hope I can find that health insurance plan which will also cater people more than 65 years of age. In that way, I won't have financial problems if ever my Mom gets sick even if she's beyond 65 years old.

Original CD Collector WannaBe

When I was young, I thought about collecting original CDs of songs from my favorite artists. As I grew up, technology has definitely evolved. Now you can download your favorite songs online for free. It's nice but it's way better if you get the original ones instead. Not only will you be able to help the artists who worked very hard for the albums and songs and spent a lot of money in doing replications of their albums like how Disc2day.com cd duplication does. It must have been a disappointmet to them how some of their fans turn into pirating the songs they worked so hard for.

I am still up to collecting original albums but that will take a while, I guess. My salary is not yet enough for that kind of luxury. Maybe I can do that in the future. :)

The Watch Will Have To Wait

I'm sick again. This time, I got swollen tonsils, cough and on/off fever. I hate going to the doctor because it will mean I will have to spend money for the medications. But I don't have a choice. :( I was planning to buy a good watch like that of citizen watch. I will have to postpone that. Tonsillitis can be deadly if it's not cured right away.

I have a friend who died recently because of tonsillitis. He's only 23 years old, an only child in his family. He self-medicated for 2 weeks and did not care to check with his doctor. It was too late for the doctors to save him when he was brought to the hospital. There were already complications on his internal organs. He died after few hours. I remember the last time I hang out with him was during my cousin Michelle's wedding. He was fun guy. Too bad he died at a very young age.

That is the reason why I'm pretty cautious about this ailment. Whenever I feel that my tonsils are swollen, I always check with my doctor to get proper medication which I will have to do after today's shift at work. The watch will have to wait. :)

A Pretentious Samaritan

I had strange experiences this week. An experience that made me and my colleagues realize that we should not easily trust people even if they look normal. :D

I used to work with this woman. At first, I thought she's a good friend. But then, as time passed by, I realized she's not worth keeping as a "real friend". I discovered some strange attitude of hers. She would pretend that she's a good friend to help out especially in times of need. But then, she will eventually take something from you in return of her good deeds. She's the type of person you don't want to meet in the first place.

She's a big-fat liar. She lied about being robbed before Christmas Eve and then asked our manager for an Emergency loan. Since those kind of loans are only approved if it's a family emergency, she was right away denied of the loan. It only gets approved if someone in the family got hospitalized or if there's death in the family. Well, guess what? After a day or two, she sent a message to our manager saying that her son is in ICU and they needed blood donors. Without hesitation, our manager sent an email blast in the office and asked for anyone who could donate blood and extend help financially as well. An envelope was passed around in the office for us to put in some money for that woman's son. Most of us were already suspicious about what was going on. We did our own investigation and called the hospital where she said her son was confined. Nobody by her son's name was admitted in the ICU, the wards and even in the Emergency Room. When somebody was ready to donate blood the next day, she said her son has already recovered and that they were already sent home. Strange, isn't it?

Later, people at the office were talking about her already. We found out that she owe some of my office-mates big sum of money and that it looked like she was not planning to pay them. She kept making excuses to not report to work and that there's always a tragedy in her household.

The most weird thing she did was to go to the office on Tuesday night this week, pretended to be somebody else and asked for me at the reception. She used a different name. When I went down to see who was asking for me, the lady at the reception area said she already left. One of our colleagues saw her downstairs coming out of the building that same night. That's why we knew it was her who was asking for me at the reception. I wonder what she wanted with me.

I reported the incident to her manager. We have to be cautious of her this time. We don't know what she's capable of. She doesn't have access to the office anymore. I just hope she won't be bothering anyone of us in the office. Whenever I'm done with my shift at work, I make sure I got someone with me to accompany me on my way to the train station. Just to be safe. :D

I still kept wondering what this woman is up to. I just hope and pray she won't bother me anymore. Besides, I can't think of anything wrong that I did towards her while she was still working at the office. I was even nice to her.

Oh well, sometimes it's really hard to tell real Samaritans from the disguised ones. We just have to be careful with some people we don't really know. Don't believe in everything they say or show because those things could just be figments of their imagination. They will just try and earn your trust and eventually make your life miserable.

No Replacement For Stolen Laptop Yet... :(

I still haven't bought a replacement of my stolen laptop yet. My money is not enough to buy for one of those laptops notebooks yet. I doubt that I can purchase a new one this year. I got a lot of other plans to spend my money.

But I'm actually thinking about buying a new laptop this year. It's so hard now owning one while maintaining blogs. Lainy actually asked me to handle several of her blogs because she needed to take a break. I gladly accepted it because it means I'll be able to earn some money out of those blogs of hers in addition to my 2 blogs.

Since I still don't have my own computer, I'm glad my boyfriend's sister allow me to use her laptop especially during the weekends. Using her laptop also means that I have to stay at their place until I'm done updating the blogs. I have more time to spend with Kido and his family. I love it! :)

I still hope to buy my own laptop in the near future.

Joey And Her Talents

One of my colleagues is very talented when it comes to writing songs and novels. She’s a voracious reader that’s why she’s got a creative mind. She sometimes makes me hear some songs that she’d written and they really are good songs. I’ve been telling her to put it in a demo and submit it to somebody who produces albums for singers here in the Philippines. The thing is, she don’t know anyone from the music industry. So I’m one of those in the office who’s fortunate to get to hear her lovely compositions. I haven't read the articles she wrote yet but I've been encouraging her to blog so that I'll have the chance to read what she has to say. It's her only chance to get her stories published publicly, anyway.

She also makes personalized bracelets which she offers as gifts to her friends. I have been asking her to make one for me but she said she didn’t have the time nowadays. I hope she’d be able to make one for me on my birthday or else I will have to ask her to shop online for bracelets! LOL! What a threat!

Her name is Joey. She’s funny yet moody sometimes but I like her. Her talents (writing and creating bracelets) are one of those that I so wanted to acquire for myself. I wish I’m a good writer as well and that I can learn to create lovely bracelets too. It’s going to take some time to be able to learn all that.

For now, I’ll wait for my birthday to come and get a free bracelet by Joey! I will really appreciate it! :D

No More Ordinary Bus Ride!

You always never know what to expect in your day to day life. No matter how you hoped for a good day, there will sometimes be unwanted and unexpected circumstances that may happen.

I was on my way to work on a bus last night. I always prefer riding on an ordinary yet fast and life-threatening bus which isn’t air conditioned (and basically all its windows are open that if you left home with wet hair, you’ll get a free blow dryer! LOL!). The only advantage that I actually get from this kind of bus is that I don’t get late for work. So there I was, sitting just in front of the bus’ doorway when I saw 2 kids along the streets of EDSA Guadalupe about to throw mud that they placed in a small plastic bag and it went straight to the doorway of the bus where I was aboard. Damn those kids! Although I wasn't the unfortunate one who caught all the mud, it was just crazy to think that I’d be reporting to work looking so disgusting. Where were the parents of those kids by the way? Sigh! I can just imagine how they’re gonna be when they grow up. Poor kids!

Lesson learned from last night’s experience? Well, I think I need to refrain from riding on ordinary bus from now on. I will have to leave home earlier than the usual whether I like it or not. Or better yet hop on a train at the MRT station :D

Be safe everyone!

Suffered From Allergic Conjunctivitis

I once again suffered from allergic conjunctivitis last week. I went to work last Wednesday but was sent home because the nurse thought I had sore eyes. Also to avoid spreading the contagious ailment at work. I must have eaten something that I'm not supposed to eat. I went directly to Makati Medical Center's Emergency Room so I can get treatment for my itching eyes. I really looked aweful that night because the nurses looked very worried when I came in. My eyes were already sore and they both were bulging. I just couldn't help myself from scratching, that's why I can hardly open my eyes when I got to the hospital. I was given eye drops and was sent home right away.

I stayed at home the next couple of days. When my eyes were back to normal, I went to see an opthalmologist for a check up. I was told that I actually didn't suffer from sore eyes. That it was allergic conjunctivitis. I was told to set an appointment with an allergicologist to get proper treatment. I will have to do that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Ah! Procrastination, again. :D There's just a lot of things to accomplish today that's why I can't do it today.

Anyway, I'm supposed to be home an hour ago but I had to finish some pending work. Some technicians who have normal working hours are now doing their job checking some computers. They may be wondering why I'm still at the office. This isn't just an it company anyway so I think I'm still allowed to stay here for 30 more minutes. I'm waiting for the malls to open because I have to buy something that I just can't tell you guys yet! LOL! I'm actually excited.

I hope it's not too hot outside the office so I can go home not getting anxious of the weather.

I guess that's it for now. I hope we'll all have a great Tuesday! :D

Go For Extra Hours At Work!

I went to work 2 hours early today. I was requested to come in early because most of my team mates went to a town hall meeting and I have to cover for them. I wasn’t alone though. It was alright with me because it’s an addition to my pay. I won’t bother selling lots of industrial bearings and other industrial parts that we offer as long as I get the pay that I deserve. :) And just like what I kept on saying on this blog about the job that I do, it really isn’t so stressful. So it’s alright to put in extra hours at work.

I forgot to tell you all, one of the good things that happened to me before the year 2012 started was when I became a regular employee here at Emerson! I was so happy to get good feedback from my supervisor. It motivated me to work harder and do better with my scorecard.

I really like it here. I don’t have plans of moving out of this company yet. I think I’m staying here for a while. :)

A Better Me On 2012

It may seem that I ended my year broken hearted because of my previous post but don’t worry guys, I’m fine and feeling much better. Kido and I agreed to stay as friends and enjoy our company with each other until he figures out what he really wanted. Like I said in the previous post, he needed time to grow up. I just don’t think I can wait long enough. I got to be honest, I’m still hoping but I know myself better. I’ll just wait until I get tired which I know will not take much longer.

Anyway, I want to start a happy post this year. Let me tell you that I had fun spending time with Kido’s family on New Year’s Eve. I know it's funny. Yeah, I was there! :D I love his family. And I feel very much part of it already. Kido and I still looked like we’re a couple. His family didn’t have any idea that we’re not together anymore. I don’t know how they will feel if they’d know about what happened between us. I’ll leave it all to Kido. It wasn’t I who broke it off anyway.

Although I’m hoping that we’re going to be together again, I also have my own plans in case it will not happen anymore. I can make a new beginning – a much stronger me. I won’t look for somebody new after Kido. I’ll give myself another chance to enjoy being single again and make future plans without someone else. I’m used to this anyway. I’ve been independent for years. So I know that I’ll survive this heartbreak. :)

This year, I’m hoping to be happier. Even if I have to live alone again. I hope there will be better opportunities for me. I’ll focus on my career and my Church obligations and just enjoy life. I might go home to the province twice this year. I miss my family.

This year should be a new beginning for me. It's gonna be a better me on 2012! To find someone to love? I think I better wait until I’m ready.

Happy New Year guys!

Torn Into Pieces... Again! :(

I’m so torn into pieces once again.

It’s funny because no matter how many times I go through break-ups, the feeling is just the same: numbness, disbelief. Yeah, my world felt like it fell apart again when he finally said it’s over between us.

He has the same reason with my ex-boyfriends. The "It’s not you, it’s me" – line. The old-overused line. I think he’s right though. I’ve been a good girlfriend. He said he just can’t give me the love that I deserve. Sigh. I wanted to believe that the night he ended our relationship was just a bad dream. When I woke up the next day, I realized the break up was real.

Everything just happened so fast. I didn’t want us to end just yet. I told him that but he already made up his mind. Maybe it really was for the better. It’s just hard for me to accept it. There’s just so much love that I am willing to give to him. I guess he doesn’t need it. He’s got his family. He’s already full of love. Maybe that’s why he doesn’t need mine.

I still feel like crying whenever I think about him. I’m even drowning myself in misery by staying in my room, with the lights off and just think about him for hours until I get tired of crying. I know I shouldn’t be doing that. I think it’s my way of moving on? :D Weird, isn’t it? Because when I’m done crying, I know I’m strong enough again to face the world. I’ll be strong enough to face him again. I hope.

Go For Career Advancement!

I just fill out a personal assessment form here at work few minutes ago. I felt exhausted when I was done with it. Of course, it's like filling up a resume that I still have to sell myself to my bosses. That I did a great job while I was in my probational period. Hopefully it will help me become a regular employee.

I remember just last week, there was a cascaded email to everybody about a higher job position. I wasn't interested right away because I'm not yet qualified. I wonder if the workload is like Case Management Manager Jobs which gives the lucky one higher salary. How would I know when I've already deleted the email when I got it. I didn't even care to read the attachment.

If ever I'll stay longer here at Emerson, I might try my luck on higher positions that's going to be offered to us. Who knows I'll get lucky enough and get the career advancement that I so want to achieve!

Well, it's a long way ahead though. I can wait and do my best at my present job!

Pushing Friends Away? :(

I’ve been a pain in the a$$ to my friend, Irene, these past couple of days. Something just pissed me off on Monday afternoon which is not about her but it was because of somebody else or maybe it was just me and my wrong assumptions. I was really hot-headed that day that when something went not according to how I wanted things to happen, I ended up crying in my room and did not attend to the activity that Irene and I were supposed to take care of. I left it all to her which I feel guilty about when I came to my senses yesterday.

This is what happens when I worry too much. My Mom was sick on Monday. My brother brought her to the hospital so she can take a rest because she doesn’t give herself time to rest when she’s at home. At the same time, I worry about being broke during holiday season and I feel bad about not being able to see my folks on New Year’s Eve.

I’m such a mellow-dramatic fool. I just hope that Irene won’t get mad at me for what happened. I keep pushing people away when in fact these friends of mine are like family to me now. I don’t know what’s going to happen but I hope they’d still forgive me for acting strange and stubborn lately. I have disappointed her and some of our friends. I hope I can still make it up to them.

Weekend Grace! :D

A bag full of goodies, a bar of chocolate, a ball of ham and a 200-peso worth of Starbucks gift certs! What a great way to end my week! Thanks Emerson, for the gracious give-aways!

Now, how am I going to carry all of these back home? LOL!

Happy Weekend everyone!

Gaining Weight And Not Liking It

Gosh! I am really gaining weight and I don’t like it! Sigh! If I can just stay slim without having to do exercises and eat without hesitation. Life would just be too easy that way, wouldn’t it? LOL!

I ate a lot of food on my shift last night. I bought a rice-in-a-box meal to fill my hunger before the start of my shift last night. Later did I know that my bosses ordered a boxed meal from Shakey’s and also prepared Starbucks coffee for each one of us. I already ate some of the food in the box and still thinking if I will have to eat the remaining pizza and spaghetti or give it away. What a dilemma! :D

I still have a lot of things to accomplish today. I hope I could still get enough sleep when I get home.

One more day and it’s weekend again! It’s amazing how time flies by. I hope we will have a great Friday and a fun weekend!

Take care ya’ll! :D

Where To Spend My New Year's Eve?

Holidays are coming but I still don’t know how I’m going to spend it. I won’t be home for Christmas or New Year ’s Eve because I don’t have enough money to spend for my plane ride home. It would be very expensive especially this time of the year.

I miss my folks back in the province though. This is not the first time that I won’t be spending the upcoming holidays with them but I really feel that it’s important to be with the family during this season. Sigh.

I miss hearing my Mom’s voice even if it’s irritating sometimes. I miss my favorite sweet Aunts - Tita Rose and Tita Almeda and my cousins. I miss hearing them laugh and chat loudly with each other even if it gets annoying sometimes. LOL! I miss my brothers whom I sneak off and puff cigars with without letting our Mom know and talk about our lives for a little while. Ah! Even if we don’t stand each other most of the time, family is still family, you know.

I know I’m getting mellow-dramatic again. I just haven’t seen them for a while now. How I wish I’m a rich girl who can afford to go home anytime I want.

Anyway, my boyfriend already invited me to spend the New Year’s Eve with his family. I’m thinking twice about going though. I’m friends with his family and I’m okay with them, I guess. Just thinking about it makes me feel anxious already because it’s going to be my first time to spend the New Year’s Eve with a boyfriend and his family.

Nah! I am yet to make up my mind. :)

The Hair That Looked The Same To Him

I spent more than 4 hours in a salon yesterday to have my hair done. I was with my friend, Irene. I just realize Irene and I do a lot of things together in the past few months. We get along pretty well and sort of become like sisters. :D Irene is a really good friend. And she’s really fun to be with that’s why I opt to spend a lot of time with her. Our friendship actually began when we got acquainted at Church. It was when I asked her to help me out on some Church duties. And then we clicked! Well, I’ll make a separate post about our friendship sometime soon.

Back to having my hair-done. I am really not patient in salons. Good thing I was with Irene. We didn’t get bored while waiting for hours to get our hair Rebonded. Like the usual, we had a lot to talk about to kill the time. Too bad I didn’t bring my digital camera with me and we also didn’t think about taking before-and-after pictures of ourselves anyway.

I still have long hair. I thought about having it styled but the stylist who handled my hair convinced me to retain my long straight hair. As for me, as long as it doesn’t look dry and damaged anymore, I’m okay with it.
Just like I thought, my unsupportive- child-boyfriend didn’t realize I had my hair done when he saw me last night. When he knew about, he said it looked all the same to him. Or maybe he’s just not that appreciative. I’ll forgive him still. :D

When I got in the office, my colleagues didn’t notice my newly-Rebonded hair, either. Maybe my boyfriend is right. My hair, because of the length, just looked the same as before. I’ll better think of a nice style on my next visit to the salon 2 or 3 months from now.

Meanwhile, I’ll enjoy my crowning glory, my long straight hair! :D

U-Save For A Convenient Travel

Vacation plus travel to a beautiful place with family or friends is indeed a great plan for the upcoming holiday season. It’s a nice treat for everyone before the year 2011 ends.

If you plan to spend the trip with your family, it needs to be well thought about, especially if you have never been in that place that you want to spend your relaxing vacation at. It’s better to learn about the place first while planning to enjoy a hassle-free vacay.

There are now different ways to do your research about a particular place that you want to go for a vacation. It’s either you talk to friends who’d been there and ask for good tips from them. Or better yet, do the research yourself via the internet. Not only should you check out the best tourist spots, you should also consider checking out how you and your family or friends could go around the city, hassle-free. Commuting may be a nice venue for adventure but you will be wasting a lot of time trying to locate destinations. It would be best to rent a car to save you and your family more time to go around the city. Not only it is convenient, it’s also safe and economical.

Usave.com offers this kind of discount car rental and their service is available in many locations worldwide. They have been in the car rental business for years now and they offer variety of insurance package upon reservation online. They will provide the car rental that will suite your travel needs. Be it an airport car rental, a van or a mini-van that will accommodate you and your family or friends during your stay in the city. U-Save definitely will meet all your car rental needs at a discounted rate. It is an easy way for convenient travel, isn’t it?

Swollen Eyes Again!

My eyes got swollen again this weekend. This happened twice already and I still haven't had it checked by a doctor. I could be allergic to something I guess. And I think I have to set an appointment to a doctor soon because it's getting alarming already. The eyes weren't painful but I had headaches while my eyes were swelling and my back really hurt. I was just home most of my weekend and had enough sleep. I wasn't able to do some Church obligations during the weekend because of my eyes.

I didn't tell my Mom about my eye problem because I don't want her to worry. I think she still didn't know about my stolen laptop. I hope she won't have to learn about that.

I think stress is the reason behind my swelling eyes. I don't want to get too exhausted anymore and stress myself out or else I'll look like I had a boxing fight with Manny Pacquiao again. LOL! I'll lay low this time and give myself time to sit back and relax a little bit.

Gadgets And French

I remember watching a funny advertisement about a guy who's trying to impress the girl he's dating. He made the girl think that he knows how to speak French when what he does all the while is get some of the words translated into French from the internet using his I-phone. The girl was overwhelmed that they can talk comfortably in French so she went on talking in French and the guy only replied "oui" which is pronounced as "wee" with an anxious face. LOL!

What I'd like to say right now is that I wish I have lots of de l'argent (money) so I can buy a new téléphone portable (celphone) or ordinateur portable (portable computer or laptop) or a Caméscopes numériques (digital video camera). LOL! I'm playing around with french! Seriously, I wish I have enough money to buy one of these gadgets. I guess I will have to wait until next year! :)

Thank You, Thanksgiving Day! :)

One more shift to go and I'm going to have the longest weekend for this year! :) It's going to be Thanksgiving Day in the United States tomorrow and, thankfully, we at Emerson are also going to get our holiday off until Friday of this week! Although I wouldn't be going anywhere anyway, I'm just glad to be able to stay at home for 4 days straight, spend more time at Church and maybe spend some special time with my special someone! Isn't that great? LOL! And of course, get enough sleep and take advantage of the Thanksgiving holiday!

How I wish I have enough money whenever this kind of vacation come my way though. Maybe travel to a place where I can relax and have fun with friends or go home to the province and spend time with my family. All of a sudden I miss them. Sigh. I haven't told my Mom I won't be home for the holidays yet.

Anyway, I better be ready for this kind of vacation next year. I'll make sure to make my holidays memorable next time! :) For now, I'm still thankful for Thanksgiving Day!

Rainy Tuesday Morning

I got no umbrella for a rainy morning! :( How will I be able to get home without getting soaked in the rain this time? I'm still at the office right now and I heard some colleagues say that the rain is pouring hard outside right now. I thought the weather is just gonna be fine today so I didn't care to bring my handy-dandy umbrella last night. And all I want to do right now after my shift is to get home as soon as possible and hit the sack. I'm too sleepy to even care to check the weather outside the glass window.

Let's all hope I won't get sick if I decide to walk or run in the rain later on. Or else I'd be seeing the company nurse again who always wear comfortable scrubs like that of Marcus nursing scrubs, and ask for some medicines from her. I'm one of those sickly employees who often visit the nurse station lately so she kind of recognizes me already and doesn't fail to say, "It's you again!" whenever I come in to get some meds.

Well, I guess this is what I get for being stubborn and lazy about carrying my umbrella. I hope the rain will just stop and let me get home safely and, well, not soaking wet.

A Bully Boyfriend

My childish boyfriend kept bullying me lately. I'm gaining weight, alright! And his bullying doesn't help at all. I haven't gone to the gym for months now and I don't know when I'll find the time and enthusiasm to workout. Sometimes I worry about not being able to wear my dresses in the near future. I hope I'd be able to handle my diet and discipline myself from eating voraciously. I really don't want to be fat. I'd better look around and check out the best weight loss pills so I won't go back to how fat I used to be. I don't want to entertain that thought at all.

My friend, Marmi is also watching her diet. Since she stays with me at my boarding house, I better warn her about cooking delicious food so we won't get tempted on eating too much. I also hope my boyfriend will stop bullying me so I won't get too conscious about my weight.