Sunday, December 13, 2009
Excited to the Nth Level
Haaaay! Wala na tlaga ako sa mood mag work. Nakaka inggit yung mga nag wo-work sa Pinas kasi I know again na puro Christmas parties na lang inaatupag nila. I know!
Nwei, malapit na. Konting tiis na lang. I have waited for this for a year! Yes, for a year ako nde nakalanghap ng polusyon sa Pinas at kahit saan ka pa at anu ka pa, hahanap hanapin mo tlaga ang amoy ng Pinas.
Hindi naman sa humihingi ako ng maraming trabaho ha. Pero nakaka dagdag din kasi yung mejo petiks mode ko ngayun sa work sa pananabik ko sa pag uwi. Wala masyado gawa kaya mas maraming time mag isip kung ganu ko na eexcite. Alam mo na. Hehehe!
Ay naku... Paulit ulit na lang ako kaya titigilan ko na kasi Im sure gets nyo na kung gano ko ka excited umuwi ng Pinas. Not to mention, 1st time uuwi ni Kylie sa Pinas. Uber excited lalo ako. Ayan, naulit ko naman... Stop na muna. Byers! :)
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Work and Others
So this week has been busy doing reprocessing of transactions that were not reprocessed during the first submission. Hope it will stabilize soon and no work for tomorrow.
Speaking of which, I plan to do my Christmas shopping tomorrow. A week and 3 more office days to go and Manila, here we come. I have never been so excited in my life. It has been a year since I have visited my home country. *excited to the nth level*. Actually so excited that I don't want to work anymore. *holiday mode activated*
Plan to go home early today and by early I mean like 6.30 pm. I hope there's no issues so I can escape early as planned.
Ciao for now.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Home Sick
Nde pala ako masyado nakaka update ng blog. Marami naman ako makukwento kaya lang wala ako sa mood mag wento. Pag malungkot pala ako nde ako masyado nag blog. Hehehe!
Chaka na lang me mag wento pag ayus na lahat. Am hoping for a better tomorrow. Naks! :)
See you again blog... when I am happy.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Happy Ulit!
Monday, July 28, 2008
Balik Trabaho
Kaya ngayun eto, back to work na ulit. As expected, na enjoy ko naman ang bakayson namin ni Jay-ar. Sobrang bitin nga lang. Palagi naman ganyan pag OFW at uuwi ng pinas. Sobrang nabibitin sa bakasyon.
So anu na nga ba ang aming pinag kaabalahan sa pinas.
Unang una, umuwi tlaga kami para mag pa executive check-up. At sobrang nawindang ako sa mahal ng check-up at gamot. Ang tagal tagal ko na kasing nde umiinom ng gamot. Since mataas ang cholesterol level ni Jay-ar at may UTI naman ako, kailangan na uminom ng gamot. Hehehe!
Sobrang na enjoy ko din ang birthday celebration ng aking cute na cute na pamangkin. Sa susunod ko na upload ang pics pag nagka time ako. Nag silbing reunion ng mga Recaldes ang birthday na yun kaya walang pumapansin sa host kundi mga kids lang. Ang mga adults busy sa chikahan and catching up with each other's lives. Hehehe!
Nakapag meet ako ang isang group ng college friends ko at nag check-in kami sa hotel para magkulitan, mag wentuhan ang mag kantahan gamit ang bago kong biniling magic mic. Hehehe! Nag punta din kami sa isang comedy bar at swerte naman kami kasi andun si Inday Garutay, Booba at si Chocolate kaya sobrang nakakatawa at enjoy tlaga.
Nag stay ako ng mga 3 days sa Calamba para makipag bonding sa mga relatives ni Jay-ar. Hehehe! Walang araw na nag stay lang ako sa bahay kaya sa sobrang dami ng gs2ng gawin at sa sobrang konti ng time, nde ko na nagawang makapag pa facial at makapag manicure and pedicure. Pero nakapag pa spa naman kami ni Jay-ar sa Calamba.
Tapos malling. Pero ang napuntahan ko lang na mall ay MOA at glorietta. Napadaan nga lang ako ng glorietta kasi dun ang meeting place namin ng mga college friends ko. Hehehe!
Haaay, super bitin tlaga. Kasi siguro dahil sa executive check-up kaya ganun. 3 beses din kami nag pabalik balik sa St. Luke's para dun. Nde ko na nga na meet ang VILLMA at JoBarCo kasi sobrang kinapos na tlaga sa oras. Pero sa October, I will make it a point na ma meet ko sila. Haaay, ang sarap sa Pinas. To follow na lang ang pictures. Sa uulitin! Babush!
Friday, July 11, 2008
Juan De La Cruz
Juan De La Cruz is symbolically used in the Philippines to represent the "Filipino". The name is roughly the equivalent of the American Uncle Sam and John Doe. Juan de la Cruz is usually depicted wearing the native Salakot hat, Barong Tagalog, long pants, and slippers (called tsinelas in Tagalog). The term Juan de la Cruz is also used when referring to the collective Filipino psyche. The terminology was coined by Robert McCulloch Dick, a Scottish-born journalist working for the Manila Times in the early 1900s, after discovering it was the most common name in blotters.
There was, however, a real Filipino by the name of Juan de la Cruz who was a coxswain of a steam launch who was arrested on suspicion of murdering two men on June 7, 1886. He was thrown into the Cavite jail and remained there for twelve years due to neglect of the Spanish colonial government, awaiting a trial which never came. When the Americans came, he was set free on May 1, 1898.
The name is Spanish which translates to "John of the Cross". The majority of Filipinos have acquired Spanish surnames largely due to more than 300 years of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines. The Roman Catholic Church also plays an important role in the naming of a child, with almost every other baby baptized and named after a saint. San Juan de la Cruz was a Spanish mystic and Doctor of the Church; a leading figure in the Catholic Reformation.
Activists often call Juan de la Cruz a victim of American imperialism, especially since most editorial cartoons of the American era often depicted Juan de la Cruz along with Uncle Sam.
Letter from Juan de la Cruz
The president was Diosdado Macapagal. Life was simple. Life was easy.
My father was a farmer. My mother kept a small sari-sari store where our neighbors bought sang-perang asin, sang-perang bagoong, sang-perang suka, sang-perang toyo at pahinging isang butil na bawang.Our backyard had kamatis, kalabasa, talong, ampalaya, upo, batao, and okra.
Our silong had chicken. We had a pig, dog & cat. And of course, we lived on the farm.During rainy season, my father caught frogs at night which my mother made into betute (stuffed frog), or just plain fried. During the day, he caught hito and dalag from his rice paddies, which he would usually inihaw.During dry season, we relied on the chickens, vegetables, bangus, tuyo, and tinapa. Every now and then, there was pork and beef from the town market.
Life was so peaceful , so quiet, no electricity, no TV. Just the radio for Tia Dely, Roman Rapido, Jonny de leon Tawag ng Tanghalan and Tang-tarang-tang. And who can forget Leila Benitez on Darigold Jamboree?On weekends, I played with my neighbours (who were all my cousins). Tumbang-preso, taguan, piko, luksong lubid, patintero, at iba pa. I don't know about you, but I miss those days.
These days, we face the TV, Internet, e-mail, newspaper, magazine,grocery catalog, or drive around. The peso is a staggering and incredible P44.00 to the US dollar.Most people can't have fun anymore. Life has become a battle.
We live to work.
Work to live.
Life is not easy. It was in Saudi Arabia in 1983. It was lonely, difficult, & scary. It didn't matter if you were a man or a woman. You were a target for rape. The salary was cheap & the vacation far between. If the boss didn't want you to go on holiday, you can't.They had your passport. Oh, and the agency charged you almost 4months of your salary (which, if you had to borrow on a "20% per month arrangement" meant your first year's pay was all gone before you even earned it).
The Philippines used to be one of the most important countries in Asia .Before & during my college days, many students from neighboring Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and China went to the Philippines to get their diplomas. Like Thailand, they went to study agriculture in UP Los Banos and earned their bachelors in the Phils and now we import rice from them. Its opposite now.
Philippines used to be the exporter of any agriculture products but now its different. We import because not much land (farms) they can cultivate due to private sectors who focused on developing houses, buildings, supermarkets, mall and others.
What happened now?Whats the government doing?Checking their own pocket, their own personal interest and pork barrels.
Wow!
Until 1972, like President Macapagal, President Marcos? was one of the most admired presidents of the world.The Peso had kept its value of P7.00 to the US dollar until I finished college.
Today, the Philippines is famous as the "housemaid" capital of the world.It ranks very high as the "cheapest labor" capital of the world, too. We have maids in Hong Kong, laborers in Saudi Arabia, dancers in Japan, migrants and TNTs in Australia and the US, and all sorts of other "tricky" jobs in other parts of the globe.
Quo Vadis, Pinoy? Is that a wonder or a worry? Are you proud to be a Filipino, or does it even matter anymore?
When you see the Filipino flag and hear the Pambansang Awit, do you feel a sense of pride or a sense of defeat & uncertainty?
If only things could change for the better...... Hang on for this is a job for Superman. Or whom do you call? Ghostbusters. Joke. Right?
This is one of our problems.
We say "I love the Philippines .. I am proud to be a Filipino."When I send you a joke, you send it to everyone in your address book even if it kills the Internet.But when I send you a note on how to save our country & ask you to forward it, what do you do? You chuck it in the bin.
I want to help the maids in Hong Kong ...
I want to help the laborers in Saudi Arabia ...
I want to help the dancers in Japan ... I want to help the TNTs in America and Australia ... I want to save the people of the Philippines ...
But I cannot do it alone. I need your help and everyone else's.If you say you love the Philippines, prove it. And if you don't agree with me, say something anyway.Indifference is a crime on its own.
-Juan de la Cruz
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Happy!
Today, I received a birthday gift from HP. Actually, matagal na kong ini-email ng secretary to go to HP office to claim it. Wala akong balak claim yun for three reasons:
1. Hassle pumunta sa HP office kasi naka base ako sa client site so nakakatamad
2. Malamang the gift would be kung anu-anung HP items lang (My PM gave me HP clock, HP shirt and HP calendar before).
3. I don't like HP. Not the office location, not the office, HP mismo! Hehehe!
But then, my good PM got the gift for me and hand it over to my TL ko give it to me kasi nagkita kami sa meeting kanina sa client site. You see, super abnormal para sakin yung situation ng team namin. We have a big team actually. Pero hiwa-hiwalay kami. My PM is usually in HP office, my TL, well I don't know where he reports for work then I am on client side. The rest of the team, yung dev team nasa India. So ganitong setup, parang wala akong ka-team. Loner sa client site. Pangit noh? Hehehe! But anyway, back to story, so my TL handed over the gift to me today after our meeting. I was surprised because it's a 4GIG PenDrive. So nde pala sya kung anu-anung HP item lang. But PenDrive is still an ordinary item right?
But this makes it extraordinary. It has my name engraved on it. Na-touched ako ng konti kasi it's personalized. So mejo nawala ng mga 1cm yung pagka ayaw ko sa HP. Hehehe! Sa bahay ko na lang nakita na may naka - engrave pala kasi when my TL gave it to me, dedma lang ako. I didn't show even the slightest amazement. Sabi ko lang "thanks" then yun na un. Hahaha!
When I was in Sunlife, kapag birthday ng employees, may card kami from CEO with a gift voucher worth Php300. Ewan ko lang kung tumaas na amount ngayun kasi mahal na bilihin. Hehehe!
Oh well, yun lang ang kwento. Wala akong ginagawa sa office this whole week. Next week, paktay na naman ako. Pero bukas I need to go dun sa isang site ng client (yung remote site, remember?) to support a testing. Asar. Hehehe!
Anyway, I will just upload Cameron Highlands photos soon. Ciao!
Ps. Alam nyo ba na kasing layu na ng Singapore ang Cameron Highlands from KL (5 hours by bus)? O ngayun alam nyo na. Hahaha! Joke. Trivia lang.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Back to Reality That Bites!
Hello world! I'm back here in Malaysia. I arrived yesterday afternoon at mejo nde pa ko makapaniwala na andito na ulit ako. I had so much fun sa Pinas. Indeed, time flies when you're having fun! Super bitin tlaga!!! Looking forward na lang ako sa next bakasyon grande namin.
And guess what kung anu sumalubong sakin dito sa office? ERROR! hehehe!
I will post the chikas and kwentos and photos soon... Kailangan ko muna maayus ang error na yun... Laterz!
Ps. Gs2 ko na bumalik ulit sa Pinas. As in NOW na!
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Kambas ng Lipunan
Please watch this video. This is what we get from all these turmoil. Please watch it even if the streaming is a bit slow. I assure you, it is worth the wait and all your Internet bandwidth…
If you cannot access here, go directly to uTube by clicking HERE and watch it from there.
Let me end this post by these phrases...
Aling pag-ibig pa ang hihigit kaya sa pagkadalisay at pagkadakila gaya ng pag-ibig sa sariling lupa? Aling pag-ibig pa? Wala na nga. Wala na. - Andres Bonifacio
And yeah, I am dreaming of a peaceful Christmas...