QA Assoc.

When I was walking down Market St. here at Philly, an idea suddenly comes to my mind. I think I want to organize a sort of QA association in the Philippines. An association where QAs could gather, share their experiences, ideas and have fun together as well...

I think it would be so wonderful =)

I don't remember anymore

I wanna thank God for all my blessings. He is indeed a GOOD GOD. Always in HIS perfect timing. I never thought that I would manage to get over something really really painful.

I am currently here at Philadelphia for a Macquarie project. Well, there is no other Filipino in the office and the people are really not that hospitable but I will survive, I know I will...

I have a very funny experience though. When they gave me my temporary pass/ID, they misspelled my nick name. So instead of "Annie" they spelled it as "Annia". Hahah! I found it really amusing. The weirdest part is, I felt absolutely nothing. Even now, I can view old photos of him or even photos of him with her without feeling a thing... I guess, I really had moved on.

As what the song says, "I remember the boy but I don't remember the feeling anymore."

Jollibee!!!

This video makes me really happy while I am here at Philly... Panalo talaga ang Jabee na itoh! Hahaha!!!

Old Wine

It is easy to make friends, but it is very difficult to maintain a true friendship. Only if one is really lucky, one will get a trusted friend. In the 21st century, it is hard to find a trusted friend, who stands by you. People claim to be friendly, but real friendship is time tested.

Old friends are like old wine. They mature with age. Wine improves with age if kept in the right conditions and checked regularly and when uncorked the taste is magnificent giving you a warm and satisfying feeling.

Traceability

Wow! I am working on a holiday! Hahaha!!! Geezzz... It is for free since we don't have OT pay... I am the test lead in one of the upcoming projects while playing the role of a test member/consultant/mentor in another project... I cannot concentrate that much in the office especially when there are lots of people asking questions about this and that, I brought my test planning task at home.

It has been a long time since I created a traceability matrix, I am a bit rusty and it seems that I have forgotten how it should be done properly. But with a little help from Google, I managed to remember things now... Hmmmm... (note to self) next time, I will secure a copy of all the documents that I have done. I have created a lot of documents, test plans, test cases, matrices and other deliverable before but I do not have copies of them hahaha for future reference.


Hmmmm.. have to get back to work, I guess =) coz I still have those "objectives" to work on after...

a new perspective

I had several realizations these past few days...

I have new motivational factors...

I have new things I want to do, places I want to see and people I want to meet...

and I will start now...

I am now thankful that all of those painful things happened to me.. No matter how painful they may seem during that time... It is because of those painful experiences that I decided to lead a different path and therefore led me to meet new people who gave me a new hope and perspective in life... I cannot imagine my life now without them... =)

I cannot imagine my life now without Detdet, Angie, Cates and Minet... Those people who made me laugh during the time that I am in so much confusion... People who made life at ADB bearable... People who understand how I feel...

I cannot imagine my life without KX, Chona, Victor, Arvin and Kats. I cannot imagine my life without KX and Chona most especially, my team mates... KX who prays for me, who gives me hope and who made me believe in God once more. Chona, who is always there to sympathize with me every time I feel so down and too lonely.

The sincerity of these people gives me strength. I cry occasionally nowadays at the office but these people are always there to lift me up... like brothers and sisters holding out their hands. When I feel like I just want to sit like a child at one corner of Ayala and just cry my heart out, they lift me up... Even those people who I don't know personally and are in a different team like Jet and Joy are so sweet and caring... Sincere people... they are my angels =)

and life goes on and on

After having one disappointment after another... another heartbreak, I am getting used to it, LMAO!!! It is like, I cry buckets of tears already. My tears are getting more and more expensive these days, I don't want to waste them anymore over someone not worth a single drop...

After finding out something, crying my heart out for the entire night, getting a bad headache the following morning, I am still alive today!!!

And yeah, I managed to continue my daily routine and my overwhelming tasks in the office. Then, I have time to meet up with old friends in Makati, laughing and banging my head off a cute Korean's, yeah... I have a wonderful night! Oh, we just had bottomless Margarita and tacos at Chili's... Life is soooo goooddd... I just had a salary raise, yeah... after spending only 3 months in my current job, they gave me a salary raise... It is not that much but it still a raise LOL!!! And besides, I am not expecting any raise that early in my employment! And an additional bonus... I was so surprised when I found out this afternoon... I was too sleepy but when I found out that I got myself a raise and additional bonuses (an overwhelming amount I must say), I went suddenly awake! As in WIDE-AWAKE!!!

So. as I had mentioned to my JP friend, I will already give up on my love life since I really suck in it. I will focus on my career since it seems like I am so good at it... Well, as they say, play with your strengths right?

As I said to one of our junior test analysts when she got drunk last night over tequila and she had a very embarrassing moment >> BEEN there, DONE that; the key is "anything that happened there, just leave it there and just move on"

and life goes on....