ADB Friends

I already spent a month in my new work and I'd say that I am meeting awesome people and I am sure I will keep meeting more...

I had never been in a company with too many QAs before! I mean, 30 QAs and more are quite a lot right? Some I already met, those I am working on with Oracle ERP and there are more that I haven't met yet.

But among those QAs, I have 4 companions that I am already considering as my friends. I can be myself when I am with them. We laugh a lot, we talk a lot, we eat a lot (and that is the best part of it, lolz), we love the same music, we dance together in the hallway while walking, we go and hangout together, watch movies together and we just mingle with each other quite good.

Here they are from left to right wirh St. Francis in the background: DetDet(checkered), Me, Cates(red lady), Minet(Miss Purply), and Angie (the one in yellow)

Friendship

I am having a realization for the past couple of days and that realization hurts me more than I ever wanted to admit...

It is a realization about friendship. I know that people come and go but I was hoping that those I consider and love as true friends will somehow stay. Stay, meaning, they are just there, not burning bridges or showing me their backs. But again, I have learned the hard way. Maybe some are really not worth keeping, foolish me :) Or maybe I have done something wrong but I wish I knew what.

Anyway, I have read this article about friendship and I'd thought I post it here:

http://www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp?catid=57&id=21933

Insight: Some people come into your life for a reason and some come for a season...

Proud to be a Filipino

I am very proud to be a Filipino despite what other races say about us :)

Here are some of the videos during the first ever and most memorable EDSA revolution there is. The moment when Philippines got its freedom from dictatorship...





RIP President Cory!

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...