MMMiii!

2008 was a good year. Although every year has a lot of good memories, the memories associated to that year will always be different.

January
- I started taking calls.
- I started lending bigger amounts.
- I played a prank on an online content thief.
- miii.net’s second birthday.
- My desktop went into Coma

February
- I started becoming more confident.
- I experienced a very irate caller and I cried.
- miii.net started being on the verge of running out of bandwidth every end of the month.
- I was going on 2-4 hours of unpaid “overtime.”
- UP’s 100th year.

March
- BokBok bit Mama because she was saving Taba’s life (P35000++)
- Started being busy with Baka-Wolf.
- Bought a new refrigerator.

April
- I graduated from University (FINALLY!)
- I got a new old phone - N80
- I applied for a paid vacation leave for the first time.
- I made a bad investment (Air Cooler).

May
- I turned 24.
- I discovered the joy and convenience of online streaming.
- I got a real verified PayPal account.
- I got my TIN Card.
- I got a Visa Debit Card.
- I went to a Spa for the first time.
- I had a full body massage.
- I bathed naked with other people.
- I attended my first team building.
- I stayed up for 50 hours and worked for two shifts.
- I started hating Globe Telecom.
- it’s hide’s 10th year death anniversary.
- I had Temaki for the first time.
- I rediscovered Taba’s love for cables.
- I passed my score card for the first time.
- I met the AHT target for the first time.

June
- I got a DSAT for the first time.
- I started Plurking.
- I had flamers on my website.
- I got regularized (and had 25% salary increase)
- I bought an office swivel chair.
- Taba chewed on $120 earphones.

July
- I bought a new bed (FINALLY!)
- I upgraded the MacBook’s ram to 2gb
- I opened a new bank account

August
- I applied for the digitized SSS ID (and I haven’t received it until now)
- Taba got sick and I spent a lot.

September
- I got promoted to the next level of Tier 1 (and got a 5% salary increase)
- We said goodbye to our old account and hello to the new one. (Training again)
- I finally moved on.

October
- I started hating my job.
- Chow Chow pups Isabella and Betty were born.
- I waged war with Globe, and got credits.
- I failed my scorecard for the first time after regularization, and had a score of less than 1.0

November
- I willingly let myself be dragged to the hospital.
- I had my shortest haircut in 15 years.
- I declared my desktop dead.
- I got new puppies, Daniella and Marchella, unknown mix of breeds.
- We got a non-white dog for the first time (Poknat and BokBok are technically Iks and Eelai’s dogs)
- I started lending money to Orc and Papa with interest.

December
- The sky smiled.
- I discovered the fun in clothes shopping and properly looking for clothes on sale
- Someone I’ve only known for about a year gave me a Christmas gift.

Other notable things:
- The dollar became so high and the transportation fare increased a lot.
- I never became completely broke anymore.
- I’ll be buying the most expensive gift I’ve ever bought for someone (I haven’t bought it yet, but I will, this Sunday).
- I don’t go on IRC everyday anymore.

Hmm… might edit this list later lolz.

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For some people, Christmas is the special time you spend with family, or a time to catch up with old friends through Christmas parties. For the others, it’s the time to play Hide-and-Seek with godchildren and relatives, or a time when you would be touring the city, going from house to house to collect from your godparents (who will probably be hiding from you).

Christmas is a time for children to be banging on gates and doors, singing (or shouting) out-of-tune Christmas carols or insults (when you ignore them, or if you don’t give enough). For some others, it’s the time they suddenly know how to read, write and speak in English, since some of the envelopes they pass around to ask for money is in English.

For the religious, it’s the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ. For the generous, it’s the time for giving. For the entrepreneurs, it’s the time to earn a lot of money. For the call center agents and employees, it’s the time of double-pay, and even better if you’re on graveyard shift.

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Every once in a while, you would experience a bad day, days, or even weeks. Sometimes, no matter how much you love life, there’s always a time when you’ll think how sh!tty life can be. “Sh!t happens,” you might say.

these past two weeks have been nice for me. We were on petiks mode (being unproductive while being paid) and i discovered the joys of clothes shopping.

the downside of clothes shopping is my feet hurt for days even after shopping, since i was never able to get a good rest afterwards and then went out again. I felt good, but my body ached. Even the nights were torture. I’m thinking that maybe I have Plantar Fasciitis.

transition came after training. The first day was still on petiks mode but we started taking calls on the second day. Some people, no matter how well they did during training, will always be jittery once they’re doing the real thing, like me. My calls have been okay so far but i can’t be as confident as i’m supposed to be yet. And it just had to happen that my first call during transition had to be monitored by a communications coach. I actually got a high score–94.44–pretty high. But this coach kept on noting that i wasn’t confident or i ran out of words to say often. Even after i told him that it was my first ever call after days of petiks. He said that it was alright then kept bringing it up. It wasn’t really a big deal but it totally annoyed me and ruined my disposition.

When i got home, i didn’t open my macbook immediately. I ate first and played with my dog. When i got to my bed and opened macbook, it would open alright. But the pointer wouldn’t move. This happens sometimes, that it would freeze up. So i just pressed and held the power button until it died. Restarted it. Still won’t move. I restarted it a couple of times. I thought, the power button works and it still loads fast, about 10 seconds or less, but mouse won’t move. Tried plugging in a usb mouse. And it worked. I’m able to click on my user name. But i still couldn’t type. So i couldn’t log in. So i couldn’t use it. I’m thinking it’s just the board keyboard and track pad that’s not working. I have no idea how much to get a mac repaired or if they will repair macs that are out of warranty in the power mac store. Yu googled some mac service centers but i haven’t called them up. I’m going to buy a usb keyboard first and see if i’ll be able to fix it with that.

for now, i’ve been using my cellphone, Nokia N80, to check my email, chat, play mobwars… But my phone has been having an existing problem for months now. It sometimes whites out. The screen blanks out and i couldn’t do anything except try sliding it up and down until i see the screen. Sometimes i just give up and leave it be, thinking it’ll come back later. When it’s working, i can only do so much with it. Sometimes the program i’m running crashes, which is why this is the 3rd time i’m composing this blog post already. My thumbs are starting to hurt too.

And then yesterday, when i got home, my dog was acting weird. He was sitting at attention, like what he does whenever he did something wrong and he knows it. I climbed on my bed to use my macbook, realized that it wasn’t working, tried fiddling with it, but it really wasn’t working. Then Taba, my dog, jumped beside me and started rubbing his head body on me, like what he does when he wants a scratch. I scratched his neck where there was some matting, and he flinched and jumped away. After a couple of seconds, he jumped back to the bed and asked for a scratch again. I scratched the other side and he liked that. After a while, he just snuggled beside me while I used my phone… until I couldn’t stand it anymore. He was so stinky, so I pushed him off the bed and he jumped back. And I pushed him again and he jumped back. We played this game for a few minutes until he got tired. I went to the bathroom to dip the heater in the water.

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I’ve mentioned that I’ve been buying stuff. My mother’s getting annoyed because I just dump them on my discount furniture office swivel chair (she calls it my expensive towel hanger) or on my top bunk. So while I keep buying stuff, they’re all just piling up and sometimes I forget that I even bought it.

Well, that’s what is called retail therapy! It did improve my mood… but it also messes up my room more and more each time I go on my retail therapy moods. oh well… I’ll clean up … soon…

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I’ve been shopping for clothes lately, and I get so exhausted at the end of the day that I just want to rest. I’ve also been looking at toys and some jewelry. I’ve bought some toys, but I’m refraining from buying jewelry coz that’s already beyond my budget. Yu will kill me though because he told me that I do buy little things that are within my budget, but I buy a LOT of little things that when you add them all up, it’s like I bought a big thing.

My schedule changed at work again, 8pm to 5am, so rest assured, malls won’t be open when I get home from work, so I won’t be malling a lot any time soon. That will probably make me spend less.

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It was Pacquiao’s match today and he won. I was shopping at SM Marikina and it was announced in the mall that he won. I was like … “What? Why the heck does it need to be announced in the mall? What’s so special?”

I guess I really need to check on the news more. Or be more aware of current events. Personally, I don’t like Pacquiao and I had wanted him to lose. Whenever his name is mentioned, I think of a balloon on a stick. Of course, I could be wrong, but his image in my mind got completely ruined ever since he tried running for office, or was it when he tried acting?

So apparently, he’s the new Muhammad Ali of the Philippines. My parents would tell me about how the whole country would stop because Muhammad Ali has a fight. It was like an unspoken holiday and some offices would go on halfday just for this match. Ali Mall, one of the malls I frequent the most, was named after him.

Would there be a Pacquiao Day? Pacquiao Mall? There was already a movie, I think. And with local jokes, Erap jokes are out. Pacquiao jokes are in. I wonder how they will call it? If there was Eraption, there would be … Pacquing Jokes? Wat Da Pacq?

If his head isn’t bloated yet like I imagine, I sincerely hope it doesn’t. I wonder what he’s doing with his money, aside from donating it and giving it to his family? Getting a franchise for a small business for extra income?

I want to win the lotto…

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I can’t remember if I put up a Christmas wishlist last year, but after seeing Sarah’s wishlist, I figured I’ll write my own too. (Gaya gaya kasi ako. I’m a loser, ya ya.) So I’ll also kind of copy her “template”

Music

• I want a grand piano, or the not so grand would be fine. But this would be totally pointless since I can’t read notes.
• I also want a violin, but … same reasoning with the piano.
• Complete (and Original, not pirated) discography of X-Japan, Yiruma, EVERY LITTLE THING, Mr.Children, DO AS INFINITY, and many many moar! But seriously, except for X-Japan, soft copies would be great.
• Acoustic Steel Guitar
• Electric Guitar

Techie

• External Hard Drive
• Awesome Desktop
• New Cellphone
• Digital Camera
• Creative Zen X-Fi 32 Gb.
• The new MacBook (Pro)
• A new layout for miii.net (Migasm is getting old)
• GrabUp Pro
• Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)
• faster DSL… 3mbps? Whatever’s the fastest from my ISP.
• Ultra nice speakers

Books Reads

• A subscription for YUMMY! magazine, including back-issues.

Movies/Videos

• Hayao Miyazaki box set or ALL movies.
• X-Japan concerts/DVDs

Otaku

• Nodame Cantabile anime, manga, drama, and soundtracks
• Nodame Bag in S2 (the white one with the G-Clef)

Others

• Credit Card application to be approved.
• An Oven
• A house and lot
• a new dog
• Japanese Tourist Visa
• Passport
• a Samsonite luggage for my Japan trip next year.
• Lots of money

Aahh… I’m so materialistic. And I like gadgets. *shrugs*

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We’re back in training so I have a lot of time in my hands. PLUS I’m free during the daytime when malls and shops are open. But I’m not in the mood for that -_-;

So the moment came when I couldn’t take it any longer, I was suddenly in the mood for ice cream. So I went to 7-11. But the ice cream I wanted to eat wasn’t there. I passed by an animal feeds shop so I bought 2kg of puppy food for Marchela and Daniela.

Then I passed by Mercury Drug to get some of the pain relievers that were prescribed to me, but stupid me, I forgot the prescription. So I checked out their ice cream corner. I bought the yogurt ice cream thing.

I looked up at the sky and guess what I see?

I only have a crappy cellphone camera so that’s the best that I can do.

I tried to zoom it on my computer…

But this is really the best that I can do. No matter what, I wanted to capture that moment, that image that made me smile.

And according to Sarah, one of the stars is Venus and another said the other one is Jupiter.

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Mama has started calling me Bumbay. Because I tortured my brother to pay me back on the appointed day (Nov 28) with the agreed-upon 10%. I told him that if he pays past midnight (Nov 29) it will be 20% instead of 10%.

I’ve been lending money. With my brother Orc, there’s interest. With Papa, depends on how long he’ll pay back. With friends, no interest. It’s not that I want to make money by lending. Mama said that I’m selling my soul to the devil by asking for interest. But I told her that I don’t really want to loan Orc money and the interest was supposed to turn him off but he was probably desperate enough for money to agree paying back with interest. Same with Papa.

Right now, I’m not really earning extra. The money in the bank doesn’t really earn that big of an interest. I’m thinking of doing an electronic load business, if not for making money, but for the discounted price.

Eelai went to this small business convention and there were some that interested her like putting up a waffle stand or something. The coffee franchisesare too expensive, like Starbucks, etc, but that would probably earn a lot of money if placed in the correct place. Nonetheless, I do not have enough money to invest in that. So that load business is the cheapest with the investment of P300.

Bleh. My mind is fuzzy. My stomach is cramping.

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I woke up around 10pm last night and my lower right side was hurting. It was like cramps but instead of the come and go feeling, it was a steady pain. I was thinking that maybe it was just menstrual cramps because it was my first day yesterday.

Two hours later, I remembered that I’ve never had menstrual cramps in my life and I realized that I can’t bear the pain anymore. I was writhing, squirming, and crying in pain. I could barely walk or even crawl, or even open my eyes.

Nov 25
00:00
I managed to go to my parents room and I told my mother that I was in pain. She said it might be just menstrual cramps (dysmenorrhea) and told me to take a mefenamic acid tablet.

00:30
I really couldn’t stand it anymore. Mama said she’s afraid it could be appendicitis. Told me to wake up Pop and said it’s just dysmenorrhea.

01:00 or so.
We arrived at the nearest hospital, about 2 minutes by cab, but felt like an hour. The meter only reached P35.00 (flagdown rate is P30.00) plus the required P10.00. They told me they would need a urine sample first and blood test. I hate needles with a vengeance but I didn’t feel it at all because of the pain I was feeling. I was still in horrendous pain. They poked me around trying to find out where it hurts, and they told me it will take about an hour to get the results from the blood and urine samples.

around 01:30
I managed to give them some urine and I was still rolling around in pain. I shifted positions and I still couldn’t bear the pain.

around 01:50
They woke me up. I guess I fell asleep. Amazingly, the pain wasn’t that much anymore. It was still there, but I can manage already. They had the results were out and there was nothing really wrong with me. They said it WAS really probably just cramps, and they’re going to get an ob-gyne to check me as well. She did some more stuff to me and told me that I need to come back to have ultrasound and so on. I’m supposed to go back on Thursday but I had work so I told them that I’ll go on Monday instead.

02:10
I was walking out the hospital door and feeling stupid but happy as well that I didn’t get anything serious. I was hating them while I was in pain, admittedly, because they weren’t doing anything to ease the pain. But I was happy to be alive and all that cheesy stuff.

02:15
Mama and I saw a hair salon that was open 24 hours. We walked in and had our hair done XD. I had my hair cut really short!

03:30
Walking to where we can ride a jeep, Mama saw a bakery and wanted bread. I told her that I wanted bread from another bakery. So we walked there and bought bread. And then we walked home. LOLz.

04:30
Papa and I were on our way to DFA to apply for my passport. We arrived there an hour later.

09:30
Finished applying for passport! We ate at Greenwich (which was very disappointing) and then we took the MRT from Taft to Trinoma. But we kept getting lost, so we just went to SM North.

12:30
Went to CyberZone first to gather PC Packages and x-in-1printer brochures and fliers. Bought some groceries. After that, I lost Pop and had to look for him. Wore myself out.

15:30
Finally going home. Chit-chatted a bit with Eelai. Put away my groceries.

17:05
This was the time of the last message I entered. After that I guess I fell asleep.

00:45 of today
Here I am, recalling the events of yesterday and feeling a pain again on the lower right side. But not as bad as yesterday so I can still live.

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