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I have a friend at work. She lived in the UK for about 5 years and just came back a little over half a year ago and she’s really funny sometimes.

A couple of weeks ago, she was arguing with another workmate and their topic of argument? Shower.

Here in the Philippines, a Shower doesn’t necessarily mean, in Jesma’s words “You know, like rain?” More often, it would mean a half-bath. Usually, it’s skipping the shampooing part.

And then a bath doesn’t mean a soak in a tub. It means soaping and shampooing–That’s Philippine English for you!

Anyway, I have another friend, Yu, who used to correct me all the time whenever I said shower because our bathroom didn’t have a working shower. Or so I thought. I just was scared to try because I had visions of it spewing rust all over my face. Since in the Philippines, baths are mainly done by using a dipper (Tabo) and a big pail (balde), he tells me that I shouldn’t use the term “shower” instead use pail-and-dipper… or something like that.

Anyway, I found out that the shower doesn’t spew rust, although it spews water EVERYWHERE. It needs to be replaced. I’m planning to buy a showerhead so I can really use the shower properly. I’m not sure how much that will cost as well.

The bathroom is also small and will need some decent bathroom lighting, however it’s a really small bathroom and a round fluorescent light should be good enough, I think. Our bathroom isn’t really glamorous. In fact, the sink has a leak so we don’t use the sink at all. XD

Anyways… I’ll check out showerheads once I get my computer out from it’s coma.

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I was talking with my Team Leader (TL) a couple of days ago about my career path. The site near UP is almost finished but my company will start operations there next year. And he’s strongly urging me to transfer there once we get our office there. Of course, the account there wouldn’t be the same one as what I am on now.

I told my TL … “I will transfer there by next year and it won’t be as an agent. Definitely not as a mere agent.”

I sometimes wonder where I would be now if I decided to be a teacher. Is that even worth asking? If I did, I would just be starting now. I will be regularized at the end of the week at my current job with a lot of career advances available soon.

Anna told me once that she wanted to go to California, and become a doctor there. If she stayed here, she’d be earning the same as teacher’s wages (read: a very small amount for a professional). She said she’d take me with her if I wanted. I’m not really taking that seriously, but there’s always that “What If?” that goes in my mind.

If I did go with her, I wonder what jobs in San Francisco or Los Angeles or one of the bigger cities in California would I be able to get since I can’t freeload off her forever.

I asked Yu the same question.

I could be a Tagalog teacher. A waitress. A pizza delivery girl. An illegal maid.

A DOG WALKER! A babysitter?

Meh… I don’t think I will ever be a professional. But at least with my current job, if I work really hard, there’s only one way but up.

p(>_<)q ?????

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Summer’s actually been long over. It’s been raining a lot sometime early May so it kind of ended early. Although it’s still very hot sometimes.

I bought a 6-pack of dehumidifiers at the start of April from Japan Home (Everything P88!) and I had all 6 strategically placed inside my room. They’re almost all filled with water now. But it was still constantly humid. This summer was so very hot and humid that I even tried having the air-con repaired. I even wasted money on this air cooler that’s really a piece of junk instead of an ingenious innovation. In the end, I still felt sticky upon waking up that I would need to shower before and after sleeping… as if I do that. Since I’m too lazy to do that, I just shower when I wake up. A little uncomfortable until I fall asleep though.

Maybe I should’ve got high-powered basement dehumidifiers… because my room was like a freaking sauna room last April mostly because of the humidity.

However, Summer of 2008 wasn’t all that bad.

I graduated from University.

I got my last Sign-In bonus from work.

I had my birthday.

My team won in the Fierce Fashion Show at work.

I spent a lot.

I baked and baked (too much, there’s still brownies and cake at Iks’ place).

I went to a spa and had a full body massage.

The spa I went to had a hot bath/jacuzzi where you had to be naked.

hmm… what else. I don’t know anymore.

That’s all for now.

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Nope, not me. But my 40+ year old aunt. She’s getting married this September and I can’t believe how impractical she is in some ways. She lives in Australia now with her husband-to-be and she wants to get married here in the Philippines. She constantly asks Iks and Eelai to run the errands for her like processing papers and stuff. She’s paying them for gas and other expenses but still, I kind of find this a little too impractical.

But I’m kind of excite for her as well. She’s probably longed for this day forever and finally it will be her big day. Ever since she moved to Australia I know she hasn’t really pampered herself much so I guess she would really want to be a bit extravagant on this wedding of hers.

One thing I like about events like these is the invitations. I saw this site for Quinceanera invitations with the theme of girl to woman, basically the girl’s debut. Not exactly nuptial invitations but I guess she’s always been considered the baby of the family and it’s now her time to be a lady.

A~ah. Cheers to her.

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That’s the byline of catch phrase of this car insurance billboard that I see every time I go home. I guess, knowing myself, I’d really need one. I might be crashing into walls every so often, or I might get into accidents.

But I don’t have a car. I can’t even drive. *sigh*

I was looking at an application form for a BPI Credit Card, and I could get Travel Insurance and Life Insurance as well. I think that would be really nice. However, I don’t really travel and I’m not really into dangerous adventures. Although of course, usually insurances are for accidents and you can never really expect accidents. Maybe I’ll take it for the life insurance.

~__~ Just that there’s so many requirements to get a credit card, it’s so lazifying. -_-;

By the way, I was checking out credit cards because my desktop broke and I don’t have enough moolahz to buy up new parts for it. I’m basically going to get a new CPU–tower, board, and all that. I’ll only be keeping my monitor, keyboard and mouse, and my hard drives. I’m going to have my video card checked by my boss to see if I can still use that one.

So…

I’ll make a comparison chart of BPI credit card and BDO credit card and ask Lori which one would be best, although I can almost hear her advising against it. XD

and in the mean time…

Anyone out there willing to donate? XD

Just click

button at the right.

The one above works as well.

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I graduated yesterday, actually. In UP Diliman (I’m not sure with other campuses. I’m ignorant, sorry), we graduate twice. The college graduation where we actually go up the stage and get our certificates (not the diploma) and shake hands with the Dean, and the university graduation where we watch only the students with the highest grades or awards go up the stage and get their awards. That’s probably the biggest difference. Both events have speakers, speeches and awarding of the best in the batch, swearing/pledging and so on.

The College of Education graduating batch of 2008 is a special batch. We’re graduating on the 100th year of the university and the 90th year of the college.

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I was reading blog posts from Google Reader when I came across Dawud’s latest post “Are Your Readers Morons?” and I remembered what happened at work. Although it was first about how your blog readers could be morons, it’s pretty open to every kind of relationship, be it your clients, readers, customers, or what not. And like he said, “it all begins with building relationships.”

We had a discussion at work today last night. One of my teammates was asked why he was on a call for over an hour. He replied that his customer was stupid and couldn’t follow his instructions. My team leader kind of lectured him and told him to put himself in the customers shoes. Is he properly guiding the customer? If the customer is hard of following, shouldn’t he do something about it? And these “stupid” customers call because they don’t know, that’s why they need help. And these people are the reason why we tech support people exist. It’s because of these “stupid” people why we’re here and we have this job, and we’re earning from these people’s “stupidity.”

Now, we shouldn’t really call them stupid.

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Two new characters in my daily Tech Support life. And I’m on time this time. I actually almost forgot. This is the problem when you’re on night shift. You leave the house at night and come back the next day. Sometimes you forget what day it is. You practically have to live in someone else’s timezone.

It’s not yet Monday in EST, but it’s Monday in PHT. Sooo… yeh.

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Ms Divorcee

Customer calls in. Tells you the story of her life. She has two kids, and she’s getting a divorce next week. She doesn’t want soon-to-be ex-husband to have access to her e-mails, to her internet accounts. She wants to delete the future ex’s email account as well.

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