TGIF!!!

I just found out today that there are lots of DVD stores at St. Francis Square. Wow, at least I do not need to go to MetroWalk for my dvds.

After office hours, my colleague and I went straight to St. Francis Square. I got the DVDs that I had been hoping to buy for a very long time. Now I won't have any problem looking for my favorite movies since St. Francis Square is just walking distance from the office :)

Then we watched the first mall show of Princess... She is so pretty and awesome!!! Her voice is very very nice... Too bad, I don't have my camera with me. I was not even able to take a video or a photo because my camera phone has dead batteries, LOL!!! Anyway, here is her version of "Single Ladies", which she also sang for the Finale of her show...

productive week

I have a very productive week indeed...

• I had my photo taken for the ID and I got it yesterday. I think the photo is quite good, got my hair really long right now.
• I managed to re-register at Comelec and I was amazed because registration is already automated. I just wished that the staff could type faster though :) Well, I really want to exercise my right on the upcoming election next year. I am already weighing who I will vote for president.
  
• I had a registered business name at DTI! Its A. Cabral IT Services! Since, I am a consultant now and is not under a regular payroll, I need a DTI registration to get the default 10% to 15% tax deduction. I find it so cool to have my own business name registered hehehe...
• After registering at DTI, I went straight to Robinson's Steps hehehe.. I inquire about the dance lessons. I watched the dance session last Tuesday and I think it is so cool. I decided to try at least one session this coming weekend. Its only 200 for 3 hours-session so it is not that bad. The session will include power dance, belly dancing and hip-hop. I really want to stay fit :)
• We had a project kick-off (lol!!!) My goodness! Apparently, the project lead had given me a very difficult project that none of the other QAs want to test. Haysss... I even felt my heart pounding during the demonstration of the BA. I find it interesting but I really prefer something simple for a change :( Though, of course, there is nothing I could do if that is already assigned to me. Anyway, we were given ample time to at least know the basics of Standard Oracle apps before going straight to the functional details of the actual project... I have until next Friday to get the knowledge-foundation of the basics. The database schema is so complicated as well as the backend stuff.. Gosh, I think my vacation is really over hehehe...
• And finally, I will receive my first paycheck tomorrow! That is the best part of it :)
  

Then, its Friday tomorrow!!! Yipee!!! I am going to meet some of my friends in Ortigas! Then I have the entire weekend to relax again! I think I will watch G-Force with my sister!

What a Monday!!!

Oh, I HAD the worst Monday in my ENTIRE working career yesterday, LOL! But it never dampen my high spirits...

Let me start. I didn't make it to my usual 8am time-in at work (I am always targetting it so that I have enough time to catch up with my old friends at Ortigas after office hours-5pm). Then I lost some money after lunchtime and I don't know exactly how and where but I have a hunch that it happened when I took out my cellphone just to take some pictures of the park inside the company premises, lols! (What a way to lose money!).

Its a good thing that I met up with my friend after office hours. We met at Mega A around 6pm. He just applied for a job somewhere in Ortigas Center too. Then, it started to rain when we were about to head home. At Ortigas Station, there was no bus going to South and we waited there for almost 30 minutes. It is very unusual because buses in Edsa usually come and go. So, we decided to go to Alabang instead. Luckily, there was one bus there going to Batangas but unfortunately, we were standing (fortunately, one good guy gave his seat to me hehehe!). We were informed that the traffic jam going South is terrible due to Iglesia Ni Cristo's grand anniversary celebration which was held somewhere in Calamba; that is why the driver will do a detour (exit to Cabuyao going to Los Banos then San Felix then Sto. Thomas) just to avoid the traffic jam.

My goodness! It is a good thing that I was with my friend so I didn't get too annoyed, he brought lots of food with him hahaha!

Then when we finally made an exit to Cabuyao to avoid the traffic, the bus broke down hahaha! So we have to wait for another one hour to transfer to a new bus. I got home 3am in the morning hahaha! Imagine that? the usual 1 and half hour ride became 9hours at most!

But looking at the bright side, I just considered it as a ROAD TRIP... Very unusual really... having that kind of detour just to get home. I am very thankful to the driver. If he didn't think of that detour, I guess I can get home not 3am but 5am! Goodness me...

So, I was not able to make it to work come Tuesday hehehe.. What a waste! But anyway, I got a picture of the park inside the company premises. Hehehe, I was just too shy to take pictures of the main fountain as well as those awesome galleries in the hallway... I wish to drink coffee in the park some other time :) and visit the library too... I love to get my hands on those books!!! I even had a chance to visit the West Core yesterday and it is totally awesome! I mean it is like having a mall inside a company. I can even pay my Citibank and Metrobank bills there without going out of the company premises.

keeping in touch

I was asked by someone to keep in touch. I really don't know if it is a good idea but I said yes just the same...

Anywayz, one of my best friends for 8 years just came from abroad 2 weeks ago... We were having a great time catching up. I hope he finds a job here in the Philippines very soon so that we could start to visit the places that we had planned for a very long time together with our other friends...

the half-blood prince

We watched Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince movie last weekend ( I was anticipating it since last year). I like the adaptation better than the previous one (Order of the Phoenix). Though others said that the movie is very dragging and some even fell asleep. But, I really like the sixth installment of the Harry Potter series. I even downloaded a copy of it from a torrent site and watched it again this week. I think they had captured the essence of the book as it is. All the essentials are there.

I cannot wait for the first part of the Deathly Hallows next year, hopefully!

midyear thoughts...

I am starting to enjoy my new life, my new environment. Maybe, as one of my colleagues said, I already past the hurt, grieve and anger stage; and that I already am in the acceptance stage.

Though it is just a temporary job, I can feel that after several months, I can smile and laugh again from the heart. I am surrounded with very nice people. Even if I just started with the new job last week, I feel at ease already with the people I am going to work with for the next six months. They are nice bunch of people, always looking after each other, sharing their food, their stories and always willing to lend a helping hand... There is always laughter in the air amidst those tasks and deadlines. Although I was told that some of the developers are bullies and annoying, I don't mind at all because I am kind of used to those kinds of developers already (after working with different organizations). I was even told that the politics in the company (since it is such a huge organization) is quite something too; but, I don't care hehehe... I am so used to these kinds of environment that I already learned how to be detached... There is no such thing as a perfect organization anyway. We can meet assholes or bitches in every organization. The challenge is to learn how to deal with them while doing your job very well...

Then in just a week, I can feel that I am ready to go back to testing... I am even excited with the project I am assigned with, which will start this Friday. I think it is very interesting, ERP systems-- the first ever system that I tested when I started my QA career... I know how challenging and engaging such system is :)

Though the process is not what I had expected it should be and the work is more manual than automated, I think it is fine for the next six months. I just need to feel that I love to test and I hope that ADB won't disappoint me...

I saw him at Facebook

I saw Enrico Dimatatac (aka Ricky) in Facebook yesterday and I tried to add him as a friend. I am a bit skeptical that he will accept the invite after those things that happened to us almost 8 years ago. But to my delight tonight, he added me as a friend :)

Come to think of it, I haven't changed my password since then. Most of my passwords if not all (both work-related or personal) has his name on it, actually, the password is a combination of our names.

He is happily married now. I am so happy for him. Now, I am free from one of the painful memories I had before... All I have now of him are those happy memories :)

Time heals and everything happens for a reason...

I wonder how long will it take for the latest one to heal.