MMMiii!

Mama came to my room last night complaining about Papa because she couldn’t use the computer that they bought with her Bingo winnings. So I told her that we could have the macbook repaired. It’s going to cost about $100 probably, but it beats buying a new laptop.

Coincidentally, Yu told me to buy a Lenovo because it’s nice. But I don’t really have any intentions of buying a new laptop. I have a netbook and a really nice desktop PC, although the netbook is with my brother at the moment. And the main reason? I don’t have that kind of money to spend splurging on laptops even if I wanted one.

Well… if ever that I did have that money, I think I’d want a Sony VAIO because it’s really pretty and chic. Or even just the Sony VAIO P. That one’s really nice.

Enough daydreaming. Time go to back to cleaning. ~_~

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*singing Hikki’s Travelling song*

The wheels are turning! Yu’s set to arrive on March 24 and we’re going to Hong Kong mid-April. Thinking of all the travelling I’m planning, I wonder if I should at least get some life insurance or something. I think for flights there’s instant travel insurance (I’ll have to double-check)…

What are the current local life insurance rates anyway? Has anyone got an idea? Not that I’m going to get one right away. I’ll check with my bank too. I think they had this thing about having life insurance if you have a certain kind of bank account.

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I talked about the possibility of me having hormonal imbalance a couple of days ago and that I need to see a sonologist. Well, I’m thinking of going before my health benefit provided by the company expires on the 28th. I found a female sonologist’s schedule in a clinic I can go to… but I really don’t want to go. I mean, I’m not excited about it. Of course, one would probably say, “who gets excited with visits to doctors?” So I won’t be all that weird. But really… argh…

If ever I’d buy my own health insurance, or get Blue Advantage or something, I’ll make sure to use it at least once a month. It’s really funny that I’m wanting to use it because it will end on the 28th. Oh well.

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I’m already counting the days before the 28th of February. I’ll need to clean up. Major cleaning. As in serious cleaning. I’ll have to throw out some of the stuff I’ve got back from high school and college (yes, I’m still keeping some a lot of stuff).

I don’t even know where to start. Someone told me before to divide my room in parts and then clean up part by part. That’s easy to do, but I’ll probably (like I usually do) clean one part and dump it to another part, and then so on.

I’m imagining this would take at least a week.

And there’s one thing (among other things) that I’ve really been wanting to have in my room. I want a rug. Even a href=”http://www.rugshowplace.com”>discount rugs would be fine. It doesn’t have to be fancy, because most likely Taba’s hair will be all over it. But yeah, I really want to have a rug.

I’ll have to replace my curtains. They’ve been there for over a year. I’ll also be doing repairs in my room here and there.

Hopefully, I diligently do all these. I know it’s still about 3 weeks but I figure I should start considering my mind about this major clean up.

23 Days to go…

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I had planned to quit my job. I’ve said or hinted on it probably more than a dozen times on this blog. I’ve said it to more than a dozen people about these plans. I just wasn’t writing that letter and handing it over to my boss because… I don’t know. I just felt like it was such a hard thing to do. When I finally got the courage to do that, I felt that I had finally jumped over a big hurdle on my way to Freedom. I thought that was the only hurdle. I thought that was the hardest thing regarding this decision.

I was wrong.

Ever since I formally submitted it, the people who thought I was joking is now saying that they’re gonna miss me. Other team leaders are asking me why, and to ‘fess up with my real reason for resigning. My former boss treated me to my favorite hand-pulled noodles and said that since he fed me, he’s going to tear up my resignation letter.

I formally submitted my resignation letter on the 2nd of February, but my team leader asked if I was willing to leave earlier, on the 28th, 4 days before the end of the 30-day notice. I agreed. Doesn’t sound something like they’re willing to let me go? Willing to let me go early, for that matter. And now people are stopping me left and right

They’re trying to stop me but they’re not giving me a good reason to stay. Usually companies who don’t want their employee to leave would at least offer something, right? A payraise, or improvement of processes, a promotion… nothing. Nothing at all. Not that I’m wanting anything. Not that if they throw something at me, I’d just take it. But nothing at all. It’s so sad.

Anyway, one thing that I’m worried about leaving is my gym membership. I’m thinking of asking one of the TLs I gymmed with if she could kind of like have me as her friend so I can continue my gym at least for another 3 months. How I wish I could just have my own workout equipment here at home. I want a treadmill, even the cheapest one that could come with a nordictrack promotion code would do fine. But I guess I’ll have to settle with walking from one place to another now.

Ah… well, I’ll be updating if I get anymore problems about leaving. Today while I was at the gym, my current TL told me that my former TL tore up my resignation letter. I told her I never agreed to any retraction. *sigh* Let’s see how it goes. I really hope she was just joking.

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I’ve mentioned over and over again about my plans of getting some rest. Like a month or two of rest. And then I’ll get another job. Is it wrong of me too much to be confident that I’ll be able to get a job when I decide that I want to work again?

My friend in Michigan told me that the unemployment rate there is double digit (more than 10%). He’s been unemployed for some years now. I looked it up again recently and I read that it had gone down, however it was also mentioned that a big chunk of that is because a lot of people have moved to another state. A Boston job search would definitely be different from a Detroit job search or a Los Angeles job search.

I sometimes feel guilty that I have a job because some people don’t. I sometimes feel guilty knowing that I’ll be able to get a job in the field I prefer pretty easily. I might not be able to start soon on where I want to work, but I know I’ll be able to get it.

I’ve also loaned out a lot of money to people and with this pending plan to stop working for a couple of weeks, I’ll need to gather all my resources so that I won’t be too much of a freeloader at home. I also need spending money.

Aargh.. need to be more aggressive in collection -_-;

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Not here in the Philippines. But in other places. I hear my friends online talk about how cold it is where they are. One of them said they don’t even get snow, only ice. It’s funny that here I am snuggling in my warm blanket because my air conditioner keeps my room cold that I need a blanket. But I can’t stand it if it’s hot in my room. I’m even tempted to look for heated blankets. I just don’t know where to find them here.

Maybe Baguio? Taba keeps me warm when I’m about to sleep. He’s furry and smelly though, not that I mind. Lately he’s been staying with me until I fall asleep too. He’s not beside me anymore when I wake up though. Sometimes he’s at my feet or under the bed.

I’ve lowered the thermostat to 6 now. It’s 1-9, 9 the coldest. If I put it on 5, it gets … not cold enough.

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I was chatting with my friend from Japan and she mentioned that she found one of the guys working at the convenience store near her place really cute. She said she wanted to try looking him in the eye but she really couldn’t. Then she mentioned about Valentine’s Day approaching. In Japan, Valentine’s Day is mainly big on girls giving chocolates to guys. I suggested giving that guy some chocolate. She’s worried that he’ll see her eye wrinkles and get scared. *lol*

Maybe I should have just sent her wrinkle-removers. I sent her earrings and she just received them yesterday.

Same as what I have. I bought 2 sets. She just received them yesterday. Hopefully she could find a chance to wear it. I’ll be really happy if one day I watch a video of her somewhere and see her wearing the earrings I sent.

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I’m a little worried about today. Today is the Corregidor trip. I received a confirmation email and they said I just needed to print that out. Thank God I’ve got a printer now. That would’ve been a problem. I also received an email asking for the names of the members of my party or their manifesto purposes. I think it’s like if the ship sinks and we drown, they’ll know who were on the ship. I replied through email and I never got a receipt confirmation for that. I called 2 days ago and the girl said she’ll take care of it. I still didn’t get a confirmation after that. I’ll go to war with them if this becomes a problem.

Another thing I’m worried about is my headache. I’ve had this headache since yesterday at work and I’ve already gone home and slept and woken up but I still have my headache. I feel like I need some energizing. I was looking around if there were safe energizer supplements and guess what I found? There’s this supplement called Stimerex ES that gives an energy boost AND burns fat. I don’t know how they intend to make it work since I couldn’t bother reading everything since it’s almost 5am and I should get going soon instead of blogging, but I think that is an awesome thing that I should check out.

Anyways, my friend said it’s a ferry, not a ship.

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While I was thinking of what to write here, I kept saying to myself, “I have no motivation. I have no motivation.” I kept uttering it to myself, as if saying a mantra. Not that it would do me any good, but I just somehow ended up saying it over and over again. I couldn’t think of anything–a topic, a gimmick–anything at all.

Until it clicked in. I could just write about how I have no motivation at all. I don’t want to go to work anymore. I don’t want to blog anymore. I don’t want to think about things anymore. I want some things. I want money, I want to meet with my friend, I want to share my thoughts and ideas to the world… but for what purpose?

Someone tried to be philosophical with me and told me that it’s the journey, not the destination, that matters. But the end justifies the means.

…

I guess.

I know I just posted my New Year’s “Resolutions” but I feel that it’s such a great big effort. Like for getting thin, I still keep on looking at reviews to find out what are the best weight loss pills because I have to admit that I’m still being lazy with going to the gym. I know I have to think that I paid a lot for the monthly membership for the gym, but I don’t really have the time. Or rather, I’m not willing to lose 3 hours of sleep to go to work. I get really cranky when I lack sleep and being in the Escalations team, it’s not a good idea to be cranky.

Anyways, the Corregidor trip is tomorrow. I’m excited! I’ve never been on a boat. Or a ship. Whatever the best term is…

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