text advisory

To all forwarders of text messages there especially nasty messages beware of the people you’re sending with or you’ll be cursed forever.

Smart subscribers are receiving free double SMS everytime we load e-load, so P30 worth of e-load comes with 30 free SMS.

Since I can only use this free text messages for text messages sent for smart then I forwarded some naughty messages to my friends in my smart contact group. Unluckily, one of the numbers there belongs to my friend’s mom so this is what I get…

        1st text: I don’t like you as my daughter’s friend !

        2nd text: And stop using my fone !

So the next time you send an SMS be extremely careful or you’ll be like me. Aiyt?

on bells, rings, flowers and I DOs

It’s been a year and a half since I got acquainted with Sherle. I have been her romantic tale gone awry listener of her ex-bf and she’s a lawfully wedded wife to a guy whom she once answered i love you more than a year ago.

I almost late for the pictorial and absolutely late for the ceremony. I brought Cathy to keep me company. The ceremony was held in Guadalupe Church and the reception is just within the vicinity of the church compound.

What feeling could there be being married?

happy anniverstruggle

A Special Toast For Our First Anniverstruggle !
……………….
I guess that’s the best greetings I can give to my batch out of an entire 365 days here in Western WATS.  

Struggling to wake up as early as 1:00 am, struggling to open friendster daily, struggling not to dial, struggling to get a day-off, struggling for a half-day option, struggling to be absent, struggling for a break, and a whole lot of struggle. Can you imagine how much struggle we intrepidly face and invest in this job??

Seriously now, we started 25 in numbers at the beginning of the game and now we’re 17 survivors left for the 1 million dollars. Anton, my carpool, is now practicing his profession as an engineer in Mactan Airport, Jade has left for Dubai? (I think) with her fiance, Mylene has found another job she’s happier, daddy Orland is now in Manila, Ross is in FairChild also practicing her profession as an engineer, Mona is now training to become a pilot, and the mightiest of them all is my partner in crime Joje now currently nursing rude, mean and a few nice whites and blacks in Chicago, Illinois, beat that!!
Now, we people left are dissipated to different departments. Seven are still in wire b2c, but two of them are NOP b2c trainees, six of us are already NOP b2c 

and that counts me in, and four are in b2b.

Several significant, unexpected as well as unlikely occurences and wondrous things took event. We have there the second babies of Maan and Mich who just by the way gave to a healthy baby boy, the carpool ado’s, mommy Rose becoming a supervisor, JC finding romance inside our workplace, Jenny finding romance with Dolly’s nephew and her mirthless miscarriage, and the feuds amongst us especially Joje and Jane’s swimmingly they came to terms with it before Joje left for Chicago. 
Of all the things that transpired I especially cherish those days when we go gimmicking in The Village, dining in AA’s BBQ, taking the half-day options and either going to a beach or nibling in Jollibee, 

our mallings and most of all the friendship formed that which made our batch extra-amazing.

It has really been a year, Gosh!!!

internet afficionado

It’s amazing how innovative technologies these days speed up the pace of all our to-do lists daily. That’s cliche!!! But I don’t care…..that’s how I see it!

How in the hell did I get addicted to online surfing?? Oh, I’m asking myself, ain’t I? Damn it…it’s frenzy! I don’t even know how. All I know is that I was reading a 2004 special issue of Starstudio Magazine featuring Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay…(oh, I know what you’re gonna thinkav but please save that first so you can finish popping your eye on this post…I’m actually not interested of your opinion anyway…okay?? good!) In that magazine there’s a section which showed some thread posts from a certain online forum with a web address praning.com.  Since I’m a Bea-John Lloyd bug(I know what you’re thinkin again,but…well, laugh out loud and tease me…I don’t care!!!) I went into that forum. And then everything on being a web junkie fell into place.

Oooh, that’s not even historically true ‘coz I can remember that I was addicted to MIRC chatting for two weeks back in senior high then. Oh, not only that, at one point in time in college I kept an entire three to five hours of scouring and printing music lyrics daily. So I really don’t know!

Now why the hell am I talking to you?! Bloody hell!!

So where am I? Oooh, here we go. Hello, my name is Jason Blu from NOP World. May I please speak with…..may I please, whaaat???! What the?! I can’t concentrate on writing…darn! This post is insane…so am I !!! I’d better terminate this. Catch you later!

long overdue incentive

After several months of whining our concern is finally heard. You see, we’re working for NOP US-B2C, we’re using a totally different software and dialing extremely long research projects compared to WIRE: yet, we’re receiving the same pay.

We may act and talk diabolically a gazillion regarding our concerns with NOP projects and supes; nevertheless, we make sure that we deliver them an accurate and quality outputs. And yes, sometimes we do a lot of breaks in between surveys(not for me though since I hate seeing a lot of breaks in my time card. Call me a struggler… I don’t care) but what can you expect, we’re only humans and placing our butts in the chair for eons as well as talking incessantly is intemperancely irksome, ain’t it?

If not only for the height of absences among NOP US agents this bonus won’t be given to us. Thanks for being thoughtful Chris!!! But like any other case there’s always a bargain. Now that we’re receiving a bonus we shouldn’t have any absences or tardiness ‘coz we may forfeit it. And the worst part is browsing and playing online games are put to halt, and that’s the bargain.

Although we hate the idea of no browsing and playing policy we have to deal with it. After all it’s better than not receiving a 1000 bucks incentive every payday, ain’t it? Anyway, what can we do, we’re just "AGENTS"!!

bloody hell!!!

Whoever among you here have generously donated your blood for whatever hellav a reason that stupidly came in your dumb mind? What we’re you monstrously feeling before or when your unmercifully about to be sucked off your precious bodily yet sticky grose crimson red liquid by that draculous vein sucking needle? Were you ever numb, petrified or pathetically what? How was it while the witchery ceremony was ritualized? Did it hurt like somebody breaking your fragile heart and did it make the world go round and round and perish??

Today I had the opportunity to donate my blood as part of the requirement of my tita’s caesarian package deal. When she asked me about it I initially kept mum. I didn’t give an answer ‘coz I wanna think about it first. Lucky her I was affirmative.

My mom, tita and I went together to Chong Hua Hospital for the blood extraction. What was supposed to be a serious appointment ended up as a comedy. Just when we stepped inside the bloodbank and told the medical staff that I will be donating blood they chortled when they saw my unisilver earrings embellished with a bold brilliant-like stones and said I can’t simply because I have ear pierces. Gosh!!! We came there for nothing. After that denial juncture we stepped off the room and stayed at the waiting area joking and chuckling on what just happened . At the same time, my tita is calling some of her friends and asking them who might be another likely victim.

And so the blood donation ended up to food trippin and maternity dress scouring in Manalili, Magallanes and Borromeo streets.

We never really know what’s in store for us in the future, right? (he he he……. :-0 ) Bloody hell!!!

showing some care to my hair

I just got may paycheck, plus I’m on a day-off so I guess I can give myself a little pampering. I had my hair straightened more than two weeks ago and boy it was really straight(at least for the first two days)!

Since I got my hair straightened I’m supposed to give it a hot oil weekly. But because I don’t have moolah more than a week ago I have to pass first. Now, I’m having my hair hot oiled at freshaire, my mom says it’s good for the hair to take away tangles and split-ends.

Sometimes it’s really worthwhile to do some self-pampering even if it costs us pretty expensive. Anyway I have the filthy lucre so why be inhibited?!

Loving your body enough makes you fabulous and never narcissistic.

rare berk bonding

As I’ve promised, I gave my barkada a treat september. From the original seven supermodels… uhmm!!… i mean… members of our berkada, only four of us were there Felynda, Grace, Melfred and I. Sheryl and Siukim didn’t reply to my text invitation while Gianina woke up late(as always..never fails!) and Liz is in manila. I haven’t gave them a treat for almost a year so I succumb to their request… it feels great anyway to give them a treat.

This kind of bonding session happens rarely so it really overwhelms me to meet them and have some wildly funny confabulations and interviews on each other’s update on the latest gossips and ados of their lives.

We ate our dinner at Dessert Factory in Ayala.  It’s my second time to eat there, first was with my mom and my younger sisters last Mother’s Day.  It was also a treat for my mom since it’s her day.

If you like to nibble on delectable pastries then maybe you can as well try there. Also, they have a variety of palatable meal choices. I personally like seafood etouffe since I’m a seafood buff.

It’s not really the best time we ever had -especially that we’re not complete. However, it was just a wonderful thing to have been together for more than an hour. It was a very rare occasion that each of us enjoy and cherish. It’s berkada spirit. Ciao!

totally oblivious

Shoemart Cebu had a mall wide sale last september 2nd, 3rd and 4th. God! When Cathy and I went there friday the 2nd, boy! if you were there?! it’s like a saturday or sunday! Sunday was the most jampacked since it’s the last day of sale. Imagine a brimful wet market that’s how jammed SM was.

I planned to buy VCDs in Video City because it’s worth only 50 bucks each but I changed plan because their VCDs are used and they look ugly, eeeww!! I might get a defective one, heck no!!!
Anyway, these are the items I purchased that last day sale: an unbranded transparent pair of sunglasses with a little shade of brown without a frame and a silky black bag with white strap and edges from Human.  I didn’t mind the crowd though -totally oblivious. I was enjoying my luxury shopping.

celluphile braggart

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ike any other person, mostly from 35 years old and under, I can’t live without my mobile phone(oh, just ignore those pips who are wherewhital deprived to have one!). Ever since I started burning my own keypad I feel a little hard to cope up with my daily to-do lists, appointments and whereabouts if my celphone is out of my hand at any given time.

For the first 3 months ’twas just like a luxury but after that it became a requisite(at least for my family). I was in senior high when I got hold of my own phone; abd since I’m still very much dependent with my mom, she makes sure that I never run out of load so I can just press the necessary buttons and that fantastic device tell her my needs and emergency something… or whatever…

But a serious entry is not my intention here n-I’m here to "brag"!!! But before I do the honor… I’d like to give you a glimpse of the evolution of my mobile phone units.

My worked in Alcatel Service Center during 2000-2001 so my very first unit was an Alcatel. Here are the phones I’ve used:

Left to right:  OT Easy, OT View, OT300, Nokia 8250 & a Nokia 3310

This is my phone prior to my latest one, but I still have it right now -I bring it along with me in case my new phone runs out of battery.

Now, I finally got an amazingly sybaristic high-end celphone -a Nokia 6260- I’m loving it!

 

 

stratospheric sloth attack

God I hate myself!

Don’t you hate yourself when you have set your mind on doing something yet get slothful when you’re about to do it? Darn, it’s stupidly hecky!

First on the roster is the wake up call. Gosh…!!! Who couldn’t relate with me on this issue. Almost everybody seems to elide the crowing clock and then burst into tempestuous jiffy behindhand because unpunctuality f***ed us up. Don’t you ever fuss on me on this ‘coz it’s not just perennial but it’s as whimsical as bathing for most of us.

Second is the laundry. I never seem to empty my laundry basket no matter how much I try washin all of ‘em. Damn! If only I can hire a laundress to take care of my laundries but I don’t entrust my apparels to anybody ‘coz they might get dilapidated. I don’t wanna go to laundry shops as well ‘coz they don’t get totally cleaned and worst sometimes our items are lost.

Next, my pen works. I’m supposed to write a film review of Dead Poets’ Society  yet till now I’m still at the second paragraph (it’s been on standby for two weeks now). Then there’s my grammar notebook; I’m trying to come up with a complete guide to basic and advance english grammar however laziness is killing me from finishing it (it’s been on standby also for six months now and it’s only 3% done -oh heck no!)

Lastly, on reading habit. Man!! I’ve bought the book The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren last january but I’ve perused only the first three chapters and the rest…..is mystery!! Plus the book of Paolo Coelho entitled The Valkyries  is eating dust in my locker… or better yet I’ll say that the dust is eating it instead.

Oh, good Lord! How can I ever brawl slothfulness?

paycheck horror

Last friday, on my way home, my wampum left is only 42 bucks and after that I’d be digging holes in my pocket. Cathy, my officemate, and I concurred to drop by SM after work… then comes the horror. Now here’s the catch, we actually went there to check our paycheck in the ATM. Usually, it gets in 2:30 in the midday so we have to wait since it’s still 1 o’clock.

First, we went eye shopping , checking on some mobile phones shops, camera stores and apparel boutiques. After strolling for about half an hour we went on surfing the net to kill time since our legs are burnt out of trekking.

More than an hour of net-surfing sufficed our wait so we’re set to check our stipend. Alas! Transaction denied???!!! First, uh… maybe Unionbank is offline so let’s go check on the other ATM. Alas! Transaction denied still!!! Our paycheck hasn’t been loaded yet probably so let’s try again later at 3:30.

Now this is so funny. I only had two pesos left after net-surfing and cath had fourteen. Ha ha ha… And we’re so hungry so Cath told me that we should’ve bought our money with food instead of internet… now we’re real starving… calling the aid of United Nation!!

Luckily, there’s an ethnik bar in the foodcourt which sells cheap native snacks so we were able to buy two turon na saging worth five pesos each. Thank God famine , at least, cutback a bit.

At 3:35 we went on checking again… but alas!… again… yes again… transaction denied! Eli, the IT director, was on the queue so we asked him if the paycheck has been loaded, he said yes and that it has been loaded since 10 in the morning. Now there’s really something wrong with Unionbank. The guard told us that eon payroll system is down, it’ll be back transacting tomorrow.

Now the real horror comes in. Cath only had four pesos left and I had two. We can’t eat, we can’t go home… what are we gonna do?! Thank God I saw Chona, also my officemate, and I was able to borrow money just so we can go home. Thank God it’s friday… but maybe I can as well say ohmigod it’s friday, can’t I?

I swear I will never leave home without excess cash again ever. And I will never leave my wallet blank even if I’m expecting a pay-out ‘coz we never know the consequences. Now this is a moral lesson, isn’ it?

music lifestyle… then and now

Today, at exactly 1:31 between noon and evening as I size up the music video of Nina in MTV , I recall as a 10 year old boy I keep a tab on MTV, which used to be aired at studio 23 until it was replaced by MYX, whenever I’m off-school. To me it’s a cup of tea, nothing can ever make my day but watching MTV.

I can as well remember how crazily funny I was in taking down all the albums I wanted to have. It’s grotesquely funny ‘coz I think there are more than a hundred albums I have in my list grouped in seven- I’ll buy all seven together. The absurd part is none, not even a single copy, were ever purchased ‘coz I never had ample cash to buy even any one of ‘em. Ridiculous, isn’t it?

Now my frustrated addiction on buying albums have perished. Moreover, all those albums I planned to buy are either sold-out or hard to find. In addition, cassette is out, CD is in. And the inauspicious thing is they’re uneconomical (at least to me) even if my stipend can manage. As a result, I opt to buying OPM albums instead since they’re way much cheaper plus they’re quite great songs.

Nowadays, MTV is much less of an importance and their programming has evolved from all music to partly a reality-tv which I like less. Hence, a lot of foreign hits are genuinely foreign to my eardrums (you know what I mean, don’t you?). Radio is quite invisible in our house so can’t really track on the latest hits these days. But I do know some though.

Anyhow, nothing has changed much on my love for music. I still sing a lot and listen when I do have the time. However, when before I use to say music is my life… well, that I think changed ‘coz I believe it’s more apropos to say music will always be a part of my life.

left in nothingville

Wake up at 3 a.m. I didn’t go to work, had a stomach upset. Decided to watch DVDs. Finished watching around 8:38 a.m. Tried going back to sleep but I can’t. The weather is hot it’s making me sweat. So I got up and mixed some fiber drink.

As I’m preparing my breakfast …lonely thoughts are flashing on my head. I can’t think clearly. I can’t organize my thoughts. I don’t know what’s right to write. I’m writing my journal by the way.

I’m starting to feel solitude and boredom in my job. My batch is jumbled. Some are on the B2B shift. Some and I are in NOP B2C. Some are on WIRE. Some of my close friends in NOP are in UK shift.

Joje is leaving for Chicago on the 12th. Lots of veteran agents I know of have gone. Some are planning to leave. Some others are preparing for Dubai job interview which includes me. But I’m still thinking twice on leaving. It’s gonna be tough. I love Philippines, I love Cebu! ‘There’s no place like home’ is a cliche I know but it’s an honest one.

My ship of friendship is unloading each of my chums them heading to a life and career destined for them. And I’m about to be left in nothingville.

I’ve been through a lot of emotional strugggle especially of parting ways. But I got to overcome all the negative psyches and began embarking to a new pilgrim. I just wish I could have this fast forward coz it’s amazingly driving me crazy!

much ado about nothing

Such a relaxing day!

I’m not dialing since the start of the shift and it’s now 4am, 2 and a half hours to go before we end the shift.

I have written 2 testimonials for two of my friends and I might add another one after this blog.

I’ll be having 3 additonal friends coz I invited them.

Everybody are sleeping here except for a few ones.

end of fuss… heller!!!

It rained a little hard btw this evening, was wet when I got in the office.

Like it this way… hope it will stay as it is until the shift ends.

It’s so cold here in Maine.

Don’t like the food served in the cafeteria for breakfast, the filling of the meatroll is not good and the macaroni sauce taste just as bad as a tummy ache, cheese made it taste better though.

I’ve searched all the lyrics I’m looking for and I’ve saved them in my multiply account. As well as one of the poems I kept.

It’s kinda sad coz I was moved from Kansas to Maine because people are dialing omnitel here. Cathy and I are away again with each other, happens a lot of times.

for a day…

For a day I’m glad that we are not dialing for so long. I think we only dialed for less than an hour. We’ve been dialing a lot since the past days that it gave me sore at one point. Well, thank you Lord for a day of rest at work.

Since we’ve been doing nothing today, I was able to give out testimonials here in friendster to some of my friends, I hope they’ll make one for me too as soon as possible. I was as well able to look for some of the lyrics I’m looking for and have it copied in my multiply account. And, I was able to start making a soft copy of the inspirational stories and materials that I have collected and to which I’ve been dying to create into a book since 2003.

My brain has been very lazy since I started working here in Western WATS so I think now is the right time to make my brain get into working and learning again new insights and additional knowledge so when I go back to school I’m more than prepared with a reserved power.

For a day I’m glad I did something!