something to say

I had planned writing about something today...i've been here (net cafe sa palengke) for an hour and i can't seem to remember what was so important to blog about that i had to go online today.

What's new? I had a successful trip to GH last sunday and went home with 3 Kurosawa films: idiot, seven samurais and throne of blood, then i found grapes of wrath and to kill a mockingbird. Had no intention of spending that much but i find that my weakness these days are for pirated films =<

i'm going back to buying books and comics sometime but not yet...one vice at a time please

More trouble

I nearly got a reprimand at work today for expressing myself too much (a little violently to be exact) It's almost normal for agents to shout and curse on the floor and bang tables to release tension but i guess i went a little overboard today. For one thing I didn't know there was a coach behind to witness my misconduct. so i other words i got told off...i think i'm going to get hypertension from this job, some days are just so bad that i feel like killing every respondent i talk with. Add to that the fact that i just found out that my pay is so small for this pay period. The problem with getting bonuses regularly is that its always a shock to the system when you find that you suddenly didn't qualify for it. So banging on the poor table i went.

Am really contemplating leaving this company but I don't have any other job prospects as of yet (not to mention the bond tying me to the company til january). I told myself to try hard to make this the first and last call center i will ever work for. Better start goin back to doing the things i set out to do then. Sigh! I hope it rains computers later so i can start. Now na!


guys check out this site...its a sort of online interactive comics. you might need to sign up to see it but its really cute and its also a good example of where online comic are going these days. the site is http://www.neopets.com/ and the page is http://www.neopets.com/medieval/plot_bfm.phtml

Trouble at Work

The downside of working for a foreign company outsourcing in a third world country is that there is a lot of political baggage that come with it. Plus the feeling that we're selling our selves short by providing 'cheap' labor to multinational companies who get exhorbitant profit from 'exploiting' what 3rd world countries have to offer.

My attitude has always been as long as you can use each other then its ok. This coming from someone working for one of those call centers. I'm there because the job is easy and the pay is good. I'm treating it as a sort of day job to enable myself to save money and at the same time make time for my other interests. In 'normal' jobs this is next to impossible since you work long hours (usually six days a week) and the pay is quite dismal. These are the reasons why i'm staying.

But...I don't know how long these could keep me from leaving. I just hope i finish what i've set out to do before that time comes.

This really made my day or evening or whatever.
In addition to talking to cantankerous Americans we get quite a few foreigners who are really challenging to communicate with. Number one on the list are the Chinese. This one was really trying so hard to blow me off and I ended up laughing my ass off when he said quite emphatically "No, no, no! I don't take phone calls over the phone" and proceeded to hang up on me. So... if not on the fone where else does he take his fone calls????!!!

The problem with editing a blog without a computer at home is that progress (if there's any at all) is painstakingly slow. So this here blog template is updated but it doesn't really look much yet. Patience...I seem to be losing much of it these days....It's this job I tell you. It's wearing down my patience.

TWO DAYS OFF AND I HAVE NOTHING TO DO (at least not anything bordering on fun)

The problem with this vacation is that i don't have any place to go. Admittedly, the purpose of this vacation is not to go anywhere but to get a respite from work and do the things that I have been neglecting to do at home. Not, that i'll be accomplishing them this weekend (I realize that now). I have too much backlog on things I want to be done that I'll never make a headway of them.

On top of the list is making the house habitable again, which is crazy since the way my brother and I are going with our "cleaning" my mom will get a heart attack if she sees the current state her house is in.

In conjunction to that I really need to fix my room, I've taken over my parents' room since their departure for the states. All I've been able to do is to move in my bed and some clothes and move around some furn/ture to suit my needs. Otherwise, it's still their room for the most part. Heck, I haven't even cleared enough closet space for myself and I don't have that extensive a wardrobe.

Generally, I've been itching to fix up the house but that means money so...it'll have to wait. The money for the new computer even got "detoured" and was relegated for use in getting the car fixed. Sigh!

One of the major reasons why I got this two-day vacation leave was to get myself started on writing again. All my plans were going well until the said new computer never materialized. So the whatever writing that will be done is going to be manual, i'm tempted to abandon it altogether but I don't want to waste my vacation for nothing. So I will at least make attempts get things done and maybe I'd at least get to finish my old comics attempt....

The other major reason was the death anniversary of my older brother. Since my parents aren't here to make the necessary preparations it's up to me to do them. So had to visit the cemetery yesterday and do some cooking. It is customary to cook the biko-like dish with the hardboiled egg atop plus at least one party dish which in this case was carbonara. I didn't invite anybody to the house though its expected, I really don't like being around people during these occasions. If they remembered then they'd come I don't have to invite people like it was a party.

Oh yeah...i almost forgot!

The MAd Universe is back on the spot.

My japanese name is ?? Nakamura (center of the village) ?? Miharu (beautiful clear sky).
Take your real japanese name generator! today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.

If anyone is interested, i'm gonna be on vacation leave for two days...thursday & friday (that's friday and saturday mornings for normal shift people). I recently realized that taking vacations from my this job is ablsolutely necessary for your sanity's sake. So I thought long and hard to find a legitimate excuse ( legitimate even to myself) to take two days off. So now i'll be happily off from work to the absolute envy of my office mates. I will be texting them regularly this next two days to just to rile them up. I am sooooo....evil! ^___^


What I've been up to this past few days? weeks? months? Nothing much. just work, work work, work. The pay is really ok but i'm finding it hard to save up, the cost of living is really high these days, i'm ready to take to the streets if they hike up the public transport fares again AND the cost of fuel! shit it's going up with no sign of stopping. The only break I get is watching pirated dvds (the purchase of which is eating up most of my salary, i might add) and watching the latest movies with my...brother (ugh!). I don't go to gimmicks much with my officemates since i'm not much of a bar hopper (not unless its the kind we did during on of trish's bdays). So yes, i'm living a quite boring life these days.


Banes of my life...nothing much unless its annoying people around me but my powers of ignoring is excellent these days so I'm not bothered much by these unspeakables. One thing that going to work in a "normal" environment meaning a big office is that how much like highschool it really is. You can't really choose the people that you surround yourself with...I have really scary suspicion, is this what real life really is??? I guess college just ruined me, i got pampered into expecting that it's no trouble finding like-minded people. I'm lucky I found a chosen few with whom i get along splendidly.


I just got to read Apwil's post titled "You see a wile, you thwart, am I right?" I agree with points 1-4 the next two is very specific to her job so i can't relate. These are mostly the reasons why i've resorted to asking the question..."is this the real world???" (with stress in every word). Am i just deluding myself that they are the morons and i'm the sane person? Maybe i'm the moron in thinking the world is actually better than this. Sigh. The only thought that I can leave this job anytime I want is thing that comforts me these days. You don't have to stay anywhere forever...I'm taking that The Sandman quote to heart.

I am forced to resurrect this old blog because the lousy blogstudio just made a mess of my beautiful blog. Am a bit surprised at the new interface of blogger, cool! it looks more user friendly now...more later