Decision Making in Relationships

My family doesn't meddle much with relationships that we have. Not much, sometimes not at all. For one, it's not theirs to decide on. But if anything, they'd simply give inputs on their stand on relationships. Here are some of the lessons they've told us in advance:

• Never be with someone who throws plates at you when you argue.
• If there's a trait that you don't like about him/her, think about it if you can withstand, accept and live with it for the rest of your life. If not, stop wasting your time.
• Be with someone who brings out the best in you. 
• Find someone you enjoy talking with--because that's what you're most likely to do in your life together.

I brushed it off, shrugged it off, and put it at the very back of my mind. I didn't think I'd need that. I know how to choose. And yet, when time came for me to decide, I came back to all of these. The very basic suggestions that my parents laid down years back are actually some of the most important ones; they are somewhat my deciding factors.

I'm glad to have had these points to ponder on; it really helped me. I hope it does the same to you, or to anyone reading this blog.

Errand Runners - Philippines

Oh. My. Gosh. It's been months?! Hahaha! Oh well, I've really been so busy.

Updates. Now. (That kinda sounded like Krispy Kreme's "Hot Doughnuts. Now.")

1. I quit my job at IGT for the Travel Process Associate post. Reason? I effin' hate my TL.

2. Now I have a new job! Yep! That's just weeks in between. I don't even have my clearance and my last pay from IGT yet. I am almost done with training with Sitel, for a chat support account. Great, right? It's chat, I love typing than talking BS over the phone, and there's one major thing that made me apply at Sitel: I'm on wave 1!

3. We finally managed to launch the business last June, and I'm so proud to say that the business is slowly picking up. Of course, I'll discuss!

Errand Runners is some sort of errand/concierge/all-around help. This is already a growing industry in other countries; however, people used to have househelp here so it's not absolutely necessary. Initially, we thought of condo-living people who are at times helpless coz they don't have a houseboy or a maid to help them out with stuff like bills payment, moving furnitures around, etc. etc. Right now, we are also inclined on helping businesses save on their messenger expenses: we do documents transport, billing and collection, to name a few.

As exciting as it may already seem (well, at least to me), we currently have a growing market for: overseas Filipinos who need to do some errands in the Philippines (like we had one who needed to send a cake to a loved one); and brides/grooms (we have an errand tomorrow which needs to acquire a copy of the Certificate of No Marriage).

I am giddily excited! We have errands on a daily basis now.

I hope you can refer us to whomever you deem needs our service. Pretty please? :)

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For more info, visit us on the web: www.errandrunners.ph

On Blog Leave

Hi! I'll be on blog leave muna... We're currently setting up a new business and we're so busy. I'm getting workaholic with a full time job and two 'sidelines', co-managing the station and now an entirely different business.

Will blog back to advertise when we're all set. Have a great summer, you guys!

How're ya?

It's almost a month since I blogged! Can't believe days went by that fast. I'm currently on our second(?) week for product training...and again, it's exhausting. It does make my brain work, and since it's a travel account, I'm pretty much enjoying myself.

We've gone from 8am to 4pm shift to 4pm to 12mn shift, and now it's our third week on 12mn to 8am shift. My body clock is just ruined and I seem to be very unhelpful when I get home because all I wanted to do is sleep. But anyhow, I try. Yes, I do.

I'm getting the shopping feeling again; it's like I just can't get enough of shopping. I've endlessly been browsing through eBay.ph for bargain and unique stuff. Bought a few items too. I love shopping. Last Sunday we went to SM Megamall, bought ourselves a pair of Chuck Taylors and I bought another pair of brown flats. I finally went back to the Memo store and bought a black topper I've been eyeing for the past couple of months. Finally! Haha. More shopping to come!

I've been so detached from reality and I don't even know what's going on with people lately. So, how have you been?

My English-exhausted mind

Oh wow, Friday. It had been so long since I last said, "Thank God it's Friday!" Whew. What a week!

Last Monday marked my first day at my new job at InterGlobe Technologies at McKinley Hill. This week was is the first of the three-week voice and accent training. And I tell you, it's exhausting. It's my first time to undergo such training because the last time that I was in a call center, I was only a part-time employee. Thus, they didn't bother to train us as thorough.

But this week, I--and the rest of the 'wave'--underwent a lot of pronunciation, grammar and thought organization  hardships. It makes you wonder why one had to learn such terrible English from kindergarten to college. All this time, I used to think that I am good in English, but come voice and accent training, I was totally lost.

For example, there was this discussion about prepositions, and some parts of it left me dumbfounded. I was on training from 8am til 4pm, but as soon as I got home, I always had to Google something. William, our trainer, is good at what he does. I thank him for that. I even told him that I'm kind of rethinking about my grammar in all of my previous posts!

Tiring as it was, the perfectionist in me is craving for more information. I want to be good at writing and speaking English. I could not allow myself to write for all the world to read, or speak, in wrong grammar. And to this I say, "bring it on!"

Rudeness at the Moviehouse

After a long Valentines weekend composed of a three-hour treatment (that includes a hot milk bath) at Devarana Spa with our overnight at Dusit, and the Crossover Buffet on V-Day, we decided to go out and see "Valentines Day" at Eastwood. It's a holiday, it's a weekend, it's family day Sunday. People are all over the place.

We always get our movie tickets as soon as we get to a mall so we don't have to worry about that later on... Come movietime, the final seats on our row was:

EMPTY--Couple1--EMPTY--Us--EMPTY--Couple 2

We literally strategically chose our seats so we don't have to rub elbows with anybody considering the jampacked screening times. Right before the opening credits rolled in, here came a middle aged couple with a teenage son walking up to our row, at Couple1's side.

Apparently, she bought the three empty seats and asked us all to move sideways so they can fit and sit together--smack in the middle of the screen. What got to me more was how she asked me. She just said, "Siguro pwede namang yung isa doon diba," sternly, and pointing at the empty seat between us and Couple2. It may be dark but I knew she'd see my expression with the glare of the screen. I rolled my eyes at her.

The son sat beside me and said a quiet "thank you," and he seemed so ashamed of how his mother had behaved. Well he should be! The mother asked Couple1 nicely if they could move to the empty seat to their left, and talked at us like that.

Fuck these people who ask you of things like you owe them.

Be my link?

I checked on my blog right now and I suddenly remembered how long ago it was since I bloghopped, you know given the fact that a lot of people check on their Facebook accounts more than they check their email. So I was looking... and looking. Then it hit me: I don't have my links!

Grr. Okay so people I could add your blog as links if you want to, just leave a comment on this post with your blog url. Thanks!