Getting On
A Matter of Degrees
It’s nail on the head time again, with Pol Medina Jr. (a.k.a. PMJR) on this time of year where young hopefuls march up the aisle, take a small bow to the audience, and accept the fake rolled up bond paper with the tiny ribbon, shake hands with the Principal/Dean and then down the stage again [...]
Half full the glass is
Of the numerous technicians, tech support specialists and programmers who have been a part of the company I work for, four are now in Dubai and seven are in Singapore. Greener pastures, they were looking for, either because they needed greener pastures, or the pastures needed them to feed. I don’t really understand why greener [...]
Time to go, Tita Glo
I had come in to work before 8am to make sure I had logged in enough hours to justify leaving the office early. As early as 2pm I saw them forming their ranks outside my office window at the corner of Estrella and EDSA. When I got the text message from Sam saying he was [...]
free rice
I found this on ruth’s blog, and it’s definitely something worth passing on.
how good is your english vocabulary? what if for every word you know, you could donate a spoonful of rice to feed a hungry person in a poverty-stricken country somewhere in asia or africa?
test and improve your english vocabulary online. for every [...]
Wish List 2008: A Tag
Got tagged by Lazarus today, a nick of time sort of tag as I had been thinking of a few material goals for 2008 but have been getting distracted by other stuff (as usual). Thanks, Lazarus, for getting me back on track.
My Wish List for 2008:
1. My own online store. This has been my dream [...]
Encouraging, isn’t it …
About a month ago the entire office went (in batches of 2 and 3 employees) for our annual medical checkup, a requirement for our medical benefits. Having been out of a doctor’s reach since April last year, I had full confidence that I would ace all the tests.
My results came back saying that although [...]
The sun sets on the Nayong Pilipino
I was in fourth grade when I first visited the Nayong Pilipino. I lived with my aunt in Quezon City and went to school at the Mater Carmeli School on D. Tuazon, so the Nayong Pilipino seemed to be a far-away place, several hours trip on the big school bus. Our itinerary was the Planetarium [...]
Unrivalled
Sans Rival at Almon Marina
My grandmother used to make sans rival, we’d have them for dessert on Christmas day, after feasting on chicken relleno and embutido con sinsal. The sad thing is my uncultured child’s tastebuds really didn’t care much for sans rival back then, preferring Hershey’s chocolate Kisses any day to the desserts that [...]
Wanted - Warm Bodies to Fill Cool Jobs (Part One)
European Chamber of Commerce Job Fair, Trinoma Mall, Day 1
It’s half past twelve and my smile has stuck to my face like a mud pack.
I forgot to make leaflets and posters for the wall outside, but that’s being taken care of. I had forgotten what it was like to be in one of these things, [...]
Red Tape (a treatise on how not to apply for a PLDT landline)
Red tape, according to Web WordNet 2.0 is a “bureaucratic procedure: needlessly time-consuming procedure”. Many an office procedure is bogged down by it, under the guise of ‘documentation’.
To add to my seemingly unending frustration with PLDT, here is yet another instance of red tape. They refuse to have me as a postpaid landline subscriber [...]
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