struck by you and me
Friday, June 24, 2005
YOU AND ME by Lifehouse
What day is it
And in what month
This clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time
Cause it's you and me and all of the people
Nothing to do, nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people and
I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of you
All of the things that I want to say
Just aren't coming out right
I'm tripping on words, you got my head spinning
I don't know where to go from here
Cause it's you and me and all of the people
With nothing to do, nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all of the people and
I don't why I can't keep my eyes off you
Something about you now
I can't quite figure out
Everything she does is beautiful
Everything she does is right
Cause it's you and me and all of the people
With nothing to do, nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people and
I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of
You and me and all of the people
With nothing to do nothin to prove and
It's you and me and all of the people and
I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of you
What day is it
And in what month
This clock never seemed so alive
the angel rocked @ 11:05 AM
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rollin', rollin', rollin'!
Thursday, June 23, 2005
hey you! i'm back. anyways, i'm a bit happy today because i've received alot of ego massage this day. call me an ego-maniac but hey, i just love being appreciated.
i went to school today to get my transcript and to watch the annual chemsoc freshmen orientation. everything turned out okay for me, at least and i saw most of the people i missed there which was good. plus i got to see kel again. he actually skipped class just to see me. risky and irresponsible, yes, but it was certainly sweet.
on my way to school (on a bus trip to heaven), my already low-battery phone rang and the call was from an unknown caller. i answered hesistantly because i still need my phone on, so i can communicate with kel. it turned out that the call was from Accenture, a said multinational company. at first i thought it was SAGIP Environment finally calling me (yes, they still haven't called me yet and i'm losing hope, though i'm certain that they still aren't entertaining new applicants; i would know because the supposed new applicants are a few of my friends, it really is weird). what was great about it though is that they called me without me even applying for a job there. they must have found my records from the UP College of Science database or something. just proves then what they say, that if you graduate from a good school, jobs will be looking for you and not the other way around. or maybe it's just another crappy job opportunity. i dunno. please pray for me.
i'm going to Makati for the Accenture pre-employment test tomorrow. i'm just disappointed with the confirmation email the lady i talked to sent me. it was like, 'this is to confirmed that you are schedule... infront of strabucks-legaspi...' i thinking of asking her tomorrow ' grammar much?' wish me luck. anyways, i'm still praying to god to give me what is truly for me. if it is not this, i know he's just preparing me for something even better. :D
anyways i finally finished chapter 11 of WYC (Whenever you Call, my fic, my michadik rugs gave me the idea of using the acronym :D). i'm really glad they liked it. the hero-mich shippers at least. anyways i got to go now. is anybody reading this? *wondering*
the angel rocked @ 3:41 AM
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crash into me
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
we are all meant to fly, to soar, but we also fail and fall... so if you ever fail and fall feel free, you know you can always crash into me...
well, i kinda like this one quote one of my newer, younger friends at school sent me yesterday so i decided to quote it. it's really nice to know that there are people who are willing to be your airbags and shock absorbers come what may. :)
i'm on a hurry actually, after this i'm on my way to my second night at our hospital. my nanay vering was confined there and i've been very enthusiastic in letting her know that i want to take care of her. even if it means i have to stay late and wake up about 12 times last night just to attend to her needs. everything in the name of love.
i went home to take a bath, get a quick nap and get stuff for my second overnight stay.
school has started, well, for those who are still at school that is. and that includes my kel. it just means we can't see each other that often anymore now that he's at school and i'm still here at batangas. but we still spend much together in yfc now that we're partners.
speaking of which, yesterday was our sectoral cultural fest. the one wherein we have inter-cluster competitions for dance, song, one-act play, acoustic perfomances, and band. and guess what? we won in 3 of 6 competitions ang got the over-all champion title! yep. god is really good to us. and to me, it was a wake up call that we can really do great things in our chapter, we just have to believe and do it. i'm happy what happened got to touch the hearts of some of my members. for me, that's a great start.
the angel rocked @ 10:03 AM
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blabbering
Friday, June 17, 2005
song: say a little prayer
mood: uncertain
it's almost midday here yet i just got up. i went to sleep really late again thus the late awakening. i'm feeling not that okay though. i just learned that my bestfriend has found his princess just like i told him to. it's not that i don't want him to be happy... it's just that he's found her over a month ago and he didn't even tell me. plus i don't know why i have this stupid jealous feeling creeping all over me. it's ridiculous really. maybe all this time i thought i could handle him finally being happy or, i thought i'd have my bestfriend all to myself forever. it sucks really. i'm talking to him right now and i feel like a jerk pretending i'm all too excited about it. but i know this feeling will pass. soon, i hope. i know he deserves to be happy. it's about time.
the angel rocked @ 3:52 AM
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too weird for a first ever job interview
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
got that right, i had my first ever formal (which in the end turned out to be not formal, but abnormal) job interview a few short hours ago.
on my last post i told you that my friend told me about this research assistant job a professor at school posted. the job, after i went to school last friday, i learned, was not of a research lab assistant but more of an all around "executive assistant" for the environmental consulting firm SAGIP-Environment. i won't dwell to much on the details of the company but i what i can tell you is that it's not (at least not yet) a bigtime company.
last friday i went to dr. espino's office to inquire/apply for the job. she told me that she had yet to talk to the one who asked her help in finding the R.A. and she phoned him. it turns out that dr. marle cardenas, the chairman and ceo of SAGIP was confined for heart complications at the philippine heart center and that he wanted to interview me right away. right, by his hospital bed.
consequently, i went, and finally learned about what i was getting myself into. it was really rash, not to mention stupid of me not to even ask what sort of job i was applying for, let alone look at the ad tipe saw just to see what was written on it.
dr. cardenas is a really nice man. he was huge, and i learned later on that he had almost died 3 times due to diabetes, hypertension and the works. he was also already a bionic man, pacemaker and all. after my very light and friendly chat/interview with him, he told me to call the vice chair, dr. villegas to set another interview. he told me i could discuss money business with this guy. which just means i didn't get to learn then how much i'm getting paid if ever i accept the job.
the dr. villegas i called turned out to be a fellow batangueno and surprise, surprise, he's from malvar, the town next to where i live. he even speaks with our hardcore accent, and he was so friendly too. he told me to call him by tuesday morning to finalize the appointment.
which i did, only i texted him first instead of calling him, which was atypical and even unethical for a job applicant to do, i realized. he said that i come to the office at 4pm and that i should meet the general manager of the firm too.
unexpectedly, my mom and dad gave me more than a ride to the office building. they were supposed to leave and pick up my laptop at buendia but instead they came inside the SAGIP office with me! it was embarassing. imagine having both your parents at your side during your first ever formal job interview. i couldn't believe it myself! but that was not all.
during my interview, the manager told dr. villegas that i had some people with me and i admitted yes, they are my parents, so dr. pabs (feeling close na), being the jolly, friendly and sabik sa kababayan person that he is went outside his office and invited my parents in! they almost forgot about little old me, the applicant, as they raved about how my dad and him were schoolmates in highschool and that my tita nessy was his classmate. talk about a microscale world.
anyways, after all the excitement we were led outside the office and even ushered into the elevator by dr. pabs, with him assuring my parents that the company is like a big family and that they should not worry about a thing. my parents, who were initially a bit appalled of my plan to join the workforce as i was reviewing for the board exam, suddenly became like the marketers of SAGIP. they said my bosses were nice so it would be okay.
i on the other hand also felt a bit attached to the really small office at that short span of time. and though michael and i discussed that an 8 thousand salary wouldn't be worth it, i really didn't mind that much when i was told my pay would be between 8-10 gran. well at least for my first 3months there i hope.
what i'm hoping for though is that i get hired because they saw something in me worth hiring. not because i was obviously the first applicant who came to them (my friends just texted me this afternoon asking if i already got the job because mam espino told them as they inquired about the job too) or just because i was the fresh graduate who knew nothing but can be trained nonetheless. and definitely not also because my dad and dr. villegas were schoolmates and that we're kababayans. that would be just sickening and depressing.
i don't yet if they would hire me, but if they didn't they really were great actors leading me on. i'm hoping too that i will get it, because by now i don't know how i would deal with rejection.
the angel rocked @ 4:03 PM
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scrapbooking
Friday, June 10, 2005
hey y'all. :D yesterday, i started working on the more tiring part of developing our family's website. digging up old pictures. it turned out to be fun. but that was til i realized there were almost 60 of them my cousin jess and i needed to scan. (i went to the hospital first to have my heart checked because i was feeling chest pains since god knows when and i had a hepatitis b shot) it took us hours to scan and upload all of them, even on a broadband connection. it was nice however because i now have the means to start the website. plus i got a hold of these finally. ;)
bora??? i wish! hehe. these pics were taken last may 8, mothers' day at sea breeze resort in lian, batangas. it was a yfc fellowship activity for the provincial core group or kasangga. the water was really shallow even far from the shore so we had to all kneel just to soak ourselves up to the chest level. i found that very funny though. :D
it was my first time swimming on a beach here in the philippines. actually, my brothers and i first got to taste sea water at redondo beach, in california back in 2000. our father is not too keen on us swimming on the ocean actually, i think he has a phobia or something. that's why he never brought us on beach outings.
this one was taken last year, on my 20th birthday and my grandmother's 84th. it was my first birthday with kel and i together.. it was funny coz at that night he was also included in the family pictures. i'm sitting here with ate tintin, my bestfriend on my left, then jessa, and my brothers, earl and ej, there at the far end, goofing off. :D
anyways, i finished reading 'how not to spend your senior year' last night. out of the 12 books i bought since i graduated last april 23, that book was the third onein sequence. and why, you may ask did i finish it just now? well, honestly, i thought the introduction was boring so i took a hold of other more 'interesting' ones thinking i could always read it later. then, when i thought i had nothing more to read i finally tried finishing it. and guess what? it was a great book, with a very unpredictable story. talk about misjudgement.
the truth is, the book was not the intellectually-stimulating type, but i found it, like most of the books i like to read, enjoyable and whether you like it or not, i like my books light. i read them just for the sake of feeling good plus it helps me with my writing. i read heavy novels every now and then too, just to keep my self in touch with reality. :D
just now, i phoned a job application as research assistant to one of the professors at my alma mater (which later turned out a colleague of hers pala, was the one looking for an assistant). i was feeling really shaky and unsure at first, but it turned out alright. at least for now it is. i'm going to school tomorrow morning for a semi-interview. i'm keeping my fingers crossed. i just hope this is the one for me and if it isn't, i know God has something better. i'm grateful he gave me Tipe, my ever-reliable friend and long-time pillar of strength. he told me about the job and i knew that once he learned about the job opening, he immediately texted me. only he didn't tell me that. i just knew it.
i am truly grateful for all of my friends whom i am so lucky to have. you've all been a blessing to me one way or another. love you all! :D
the angel rocked @ 7:02 AM
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new look, old me...
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
hey have you noticed that my blog has a new lay-out? well you should have, it's looking really far from how it used to look! hehe. well, check out my design page for the credits, but hey, it took a lot of time for me to perfect it and make it how i like it. and i really wasn't satisfied of it til today! :D
so what's new? new layout, new links, new shoutbox! yes! and i'm proud of it! :D tonight i'm savoring my programming genius by gettting started with our family's website. i've already semi-finished our clan's directory and i've been front of the computer the whole day actually. it's sick really, but as i was saying, it's a whole new look for my blog, but then again, it's the same old me. sad, but true.
anyways i forgot to add to my last post that yesterday, mykel and i attended our first meeting as both cluster heads. it was a summit actually and i learned alot from it. but sadly, it didn't help slow down my passion for net-surfing.
the angel rocked @ 2:36 PM
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mighty morphin'
hi ya'll! it has been a while. well, i had a lot of free time the past week. i just didn't want to post a new entry until i got a hold of this...
nice huh? :D no, those are not the new generation mighty morphin' power rangers (as my cute inaanak excitedly hollered, hihi). that's me (in the middle), with my two loving brothers (ej at my right and earl, left) all wearing those trusty helmets. we went karting actually, go-karting, at the fiesta mall lipa. oooh, i forgot when though, was it monday? yep, last monday. well, it's the same day my mom got her new phone from the US. it's a sony ericsson t610 i think. and we obviously had taken advantage of it's camera feature:
i think i look ugly there, lots of bags under my eyes. i just wanted to share it anyhow. :D
anyways, we went karting, dig this, for free, because our dad got invited to a seminar about statins and stroke. the last time my dad had a seminar and dragged us with him was last may, when we went to enchanted kingdom. just when i thought everything was going to be a bore, bam! we went go-karting for the first time (not for free though, a big 200 bucks each, but it was fun) and paintball war (now this one's for free)!!!
last monday was a good day too because i got new clothes (which i am currently wearing), my mom bought them for me when we were at the mall. i guess she's feeling quite generous that day.
anyways, a lot of things happened last week. some of them i might say i'll be happy to forget about (sorry baby...). as usual i went to our board exam review and this time, i spent the night before at my friends' co-ed dorm near school. sad to say i didn't finish my probset though i was there and there was ACAD MODE looming large above that dorm.
my brother earl has been promoted to east-b sector head. that's right, i work under him now. our former head earvin has been promoted to provincial YCOM leader. the couple coordinators agreed that my brother was the worthiest (haha, this word isn't even grammatical sound) successor. i'm very proud of my baby bro. last night, i was teasing my dad that he already has the whole east b sector hierarchy as kids. ej as chapter leader of tanauan, i as cluster leader of cluster 3 and earl as the sector head. isn't that great? :D
and guess who took earl's place as my cluster partner? mykel. hehe. i know all that hard work will pay off. although i know he didn't do it for the promotion. as yfc leaders, we are all aware that our jobs here are all for God's glory and that this job is really unpredictable and hard. here, the more you get promoted, the more work you have to do. kinda like the opposite of corporate promotions.
tomorrow we're going to have the goodbye earl household meeting. at the same time, we're adding 5 more members to our cluster core group so it's also a welcome meeting. earl asked why was it that our core group seem to going to be more complete when he's already not a part of it? hehe, i just told him. syempre... go figure! :D
today i've prepared little sked cards for the newbies and old members of the core group. being part of the C3 core group will take up much of their time, especially weekends, when they are supposed to be taking their break from school. i've explained to them from the start that the position given to them is not that of a leader, but of a servant and that it requires sacrifice, faith and a lot of love. i am just glad that they didn't bail on me when they learned about that. i'm thankful that God gave them to us.
well, indeed this has been a very long post (what's new?). i'll catch up with y'all later! god bless y'all! :D
the angel rocked @ 8:41 AM
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