Jerk. Feel like one as well. Stupid.
Let's just say it is too late already. Well, it is because you freaking waited too long thinking about ridiculous little things. Shit, there is only one person to bloody blame for this. You ruined me. Blast. And yes, I am freaking giving you all the credit as to why I am like this. Sick.
Am sleepy now, and all that thinking has wasted quite a number of hours. I could have blogged about these crazy kids in the back of a pick up who were giving us the finger or the fact that gigabits of mail storage is utterly useless if all you freaking have is a dial up connection.
But no, am singing Dream to Make Believe already. Sleep.
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I am not sure if this was merely coincidence or starting to feel the living Force.
An email was sent that I had leaves on May 18-21. Four days. Big deal right?
Well, it so happens that the release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is on the 19th of May. This is the US release at least and there has been no word if it would be an international release which would very much be the case as all blockbuster movies are released on the same day as the US thanks to piracy. Sometimes, days before the US release and that's not counting the difference in time zones.
This is amazing. It only sunk in when I was going home. I was like "Wait. Doesn't...? Ohhh....Nice." with a nice fat grin on my face. I went home happy.
I knew I had leaves on May, was not sure on what days they were. Now that I do know, I am so looking forward to it. Less than two months. Yes.
Cartoon Network is running the Clone Wars cartoon every 8 in the evening. Big deal. I have it on Quicktime format. Then again, that's just Volume 1 as there is another volume which would start airing on the 19th of April. Oh boy. We're getting all worked up with this shit.
Another thing I forgot is Liquid Paper Volume 4, a mix cd compilation released by Mitch of Nothing Nice to Say. For the whole week, there would be 4 tracks available for download each day. Once the day passes, the songs are gone forever. I do not know how I missed out on Volume 3 but am sure as hell not going to miss this one.
This is unusual, they are actually downloading pretty quickly. 4 songs in less than an hour. Not bad. At least I'd be able to sleep early.
Gift update. It's been sometime since anything had been said about the gift, the thing is there is hardly anything to say anyway. I guess I just need some private quality time unraveling the gift further. This is very grueling. Jedi Force Powers are of no use in this situation.
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Geocities really has something against my site. When I use Internet Explorer, it opens the main links in the same window ignoring the iframe completely. Would have been nice, but it was not designed with that in mind. Remarkably, using Firefox works perfectly opening links in the iframe. Just shows how crappy Microsoft is.
It was originally designed for IE hence the colored scrollbars but I was also peeking and checking what it would look like in Firefox.
So now, it's officially designed for Firefox.
Oh, you have not heard of Firefox? IE is not the only browser around and Firefox is leaps and bounds better. Much more stable and secure. Plus it has mouse gestures.
Go. Make the switch. It will make you sleep better at night. Oh, and you should bloody wash your dirty hands first.
It's amazing how freaking paranoid I can get when I think I have done something uberly stupid. The keyword is "think" since most of the time, it is not exactly the case. More often than not, I think that it is, feel bloody miserable about the whole thing, and find out later on that it is not. Talk about jumping the gun.
Everything is going smoothly, so no need to go all insane like that, okay? Just take it nice and easy.
Go. Rest now.
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You've got to be shitting me?!
You've got to be shitting me?!
That's what I said when I noticed I have not blogged since Wednesday. It's nothing about life or death or anything remotely close to that but is something pretty unusual for this month/year.
Well, it's not like I actually have anything important to blog about. The really important things I really need to say are still locked up somewhere inside this brain of mine hence are still unsaid. When will they ever come out? We have spent more than enough time waiting already.
Mom has wondered why I haven't flipped the FHM calendar to March yet. She found out it was only good until February 2005 and was wondering if I have a 2005 calendar. I told her I did not buy one. Heck, I do not even know who are the calendar girls for their 2005 calendar.
I have not been buying FHM since January this year, sure it has only been two issues, but I do not see any relevance in buying them anymore. I have a year's worth of unread FHM taking up useful space in my cabinet and I have no plans of reading through them. Aside from that, it seems that FHM has substantially dropped in quality through the years more so with the recent change of editors.
Yes. I have changed a lot. Imagine me without videogames, no FHM, no gigs, 2 movies per month (WTF?!). Remarkably, this has been the best year ever. Go figure.
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There is now an A-1 driving school in Cybermall which presents a good opportunity for me to enroll and actually learn driving from an instructor. Then it hit me, my student license had already expired. It was good for one year which we applied for on February of 2004 and now it is a complete waste. Am so lazy. Yes it is so good to have some else to drive for you but there are instances wherein it would be marvelous that you could drive by yourself. Shucks.
Speaking of driving, I had it when some drivers are so freaking impatient when pedestrians are crossing the street. Let's take Eastwood for instant.
Due to the fact of us being the 2nd most corrupted country in Asia (BTW, what's the first?), there ain't going to be any overpass for pedestrians crossing C-5. It's a goddamn highway and no one seems to care. Anyway, there are these drivers who can't even slow down for people who have to cross, especially when you notice that they are miles anyway and just speed up to avoid the pedestrian onslaught. The horns do not stop at all.
I have marked all of you and when I learn how to drive (I do not even need to learn how to drive properly for this), I freaking run over you when I see you crossing the street in a very flashy Grand Theft Auto-esque way.
Yes. Last day of work tomorrow. Three cheers for that. Followed by two day-offs. Another three cheers. Sadly, we do have to go back to work on Easter Sunday.
Am starting to think of ideas for the new layout. Table-less does not seem like such a farfetched one. Shit, I got to dig up my abysmal CSS skills. I do home I'd find the enthusiasm to do this new layout. I sincerely need to paint this site something else.
Almost ten now. Time to finally put this long day to rest.
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This webpage (livejournal for some) needs a serious facelift. The layout for the site itself has been unchanged for close to three years this April. Plus the whole "Perfecting Loneliness" thing is now a thing of the past. I have never felt happier in my life. All smiles all the time. Just don't watch me while taking calls.
Shit. I talk too much. I wrote an email to a friend last night and it was supposed to be a short "How are you doing?" kind of thing. Found myself blabbering on about a number of things (fine, just one thing actually). Ended up with more than a page. Crazy.
The problem is that I really don't talk much about personal stuff. Scratch that. I really don't talk much at all period. Hence the journal which was initially intended as an outlet for all of these stories and stuff I'd love to tell someone about. With the addition of the comments on the site and the Livejournal account itself, I have been expecting comments. Well, who would want to comment on your pretty much redundant life anyway.
Just a little attention. But it does not mean that if no one comments, no one reads or cares, they simply don't have anything to comment about so live with that.
Hmmm. It's late. Must sleep now.
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Work which starts at 6 in the morning is actually better as we can get home earlier. Or was it just Sunday?
Anyway, the rest of the week is back to 7 in the morning. Goodluck in getting home before the sun sets.
The day at work went by pretty smoothly despite the last bump which was the very last call for the day. The stress was felt much later though. This is not a good sign, the week is just beginning.
This clearly means that the sleep requirement must be met each and everyday of the week.
Bollocks! And I thought I'd be able to do more things with this schedule. All I do when I get home is go online, read webcomics and blog. Pathetic. I have yet to watch a movie, video or play a videogame on the same night unlike what I have initially have said or planned.
Just shows that we have moved on to more interesting and possibly more fruitful things in life. Yeah, right! Well, we may have but we certainly need to move on further than this.
Damn, and you honestly thought it would be so much easier once you had your foot halfway through the door. Am laughing at you stupid.
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Freaking ads in Geocities gave me fucking hard time this morning. I uploaded the pictures and all only to find out that the links to the picture do not open the window they are supposed too.
After closer investigation, I noticed that Geocities adds this advertising code right in the middle of the javascript which is supposed to make the pop up window open. As a result, it ruins the whole thing and clicking on the thumbnail does not do a thing.
Created an account with Tripod. Same bloody problem in the bloody same spot. Damn. Quite a waste since they support FTP.
With no proper training or education in javascript, I tried to manipulate the code. Initially, it in the code for the page itself, and that's where the problem lies. So I decided to copy the whole code and paste it in notepad which was saved as *.js (javascript). Referenced the webpage to the script file and it worked on my PC.
Uploaded the newly saved HTML code but it still would not open when the page was viewed online. Silly me forgot to upload the script file.
After uploading the file(s), everything performed as it should and everything is back to normal.
This had not been an issue previously, but Geocities may have added some ads for automatically generated pop up windows.
Glad that was solved. Anyway, it is time for bed now as work starts early tomorrow. 6 in the morning. Sweet.
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Wow. This has to be the longest time I have ever slept in years. Reached home around 11 at night and slept well into the morning finally getting out of bed by 8 in the morning.
GA with the team spent bowling, billiards and dinner at OJ's in Eastwood. It's the kind of gimik you can do at night which we have not done in ages.
Pictures have already been uploaded. Enjoy.
More strikes than the last time I bowled but still appalling scores.
Work schedules are quite annoying. Before they were released sometime around Thursday evening, they missed it one day weeks ago and now it has been a routine to release the schedule by Friday evening, the last day of the work week. It would be okay if there were no drastic changes but sometimes there are and you find yourself just slapped in the face, surprised.
Split day-off for this week, which should have been expected since we did get three straight day-offs last week.
Plans have been cancelled though. One's that even include decoding this gift thing.
Nothing much planned for the day-off except for the pile of DVDs I have to bring down. It's piling up too high already.
Oh shucks, because I did not blog when I got home last night, I missed a date.
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This is no fun. Just a tad more than 2 hours of travel time today. It's quite draining to say the least. On the way home, I am usually starving but by the time I get home, the hunger has dissipated a bit.
I wish I could fly. Sprinkle some fairy dust. Think happy thoughts. We'll fly home. You and I.
Or I wish I could learn Goku's instant transmission technique. That would be simply awesome.
Quite an insane workweek ends tomorrow. No big plans for the weekend (yet). Am scared about what I have been doing at work. Seems like that as soon as I was moved back to the morning shift, I am back to my old tricks. Shit. Touch wood baby. Touch wood.
Woah. That was one good meal. I am stuffed.
Time to sleep any minute now.
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Something important was missed out from yesterday's blog about the incident in Antipolo. Apparently, as the trucks were lined up on the road the other day, one was parked to close to the edge and fell down the cliff. It's not that deep say around 20-30 feet but it was such a long trailer.
The thing is, they pulled it out this afternoon so the already fucked up travel time of 2 and a half hours was extended by another hour. Blimey. And I thought I'd be able to get home early.
Can hardly imagine that it is Wednesday already. Got too used to the night schedule where in you go to work today and come out the following day. Even though I was on leave last Monday, I honestly believe that I have been working for 3 days now.
Damn. The number of movies I need to watch are piling up now. Borrowed copies of The Notebook, Polly, and House of Flying Daggers. Pirated copies of The Aviator, Sideways, and The Last Temptation of Christ. Let's not forget the other DVD I ordered, The Usual Suspects. I also want to rewatch Requiem for a Dream and Donnie Darko. Life is so complicated. I don't think I even have the time now for one movie. Shucks.
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First day back in the morning shift in ages. I almost forgot how bright the sun can be. One thing I would not forget is the traffic. The travel times have just been bumped up. I can't leave home with just two hours due to the traffic and the trip home takes close to 2 and a half hours on a normal day. Pffft.
The road traveled is very unpredictable too. On the way to work, there was this long trailer truck which stopped in the middle of the curve. Only a small area where vehicles could pass through was open. Problem is in the morning, there is an insane amount of trucks and due to their size, would not fit in this small crevice. As a result they had to park along side the road, further choking the road up.
Coincidentally, on the way home, there was another truck on the same curve (they had already removed the trailer) which kind of backed up on a pick up truck. Quick a wreck on the pick up but no casualties. It's just amazing that it happened on the same exact spot.
Hopefully, there would be no road accidents delaying anything. No road accidents at all would actually be good.
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Extremely tiring day today even though it was supposed to be my leave. Spent the day by finally getting my yearbook and diploma from school. Nothing special about the yearbook itself just that it is big and heavy. It came with an interactive CD which was absolute crap.
The diploma was uhmm, well a diploma. You know what it is. I just wish I could scratch out the last part of the school's name.
With it came the official transcript of records indicating that my cumulative GPA was 3.151. Not bad for someone who did not give much shit to the school. I bet it did not include the grades from my first school as I will not believe it could be that high with them. The grades from the first school where still in the transcript which is kind of embarrassing as the second page looked like a binary code with all the ones and zeroes. Yes, they seemed like they were dancing.
I am quite drained now, but it is all part of the plan. I need to tire myself so that if I sleep before midnight, I would not wake up before I need to which was usually the case in my previous life. It's all part of the adjustment in preparation for the day shift.
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One thing I forgot about being in the day-shift again is the lack of night differential. It easily makes our salary reach 5 digits each pay day. Without it, am back to a measly salary at a shift which is more costly than others. Sure hope I get promoted soon so that small difference would be made up for.
It's amazing how things have a complete change for the better ever since I changed shoelaces. Everything seems to be working out fine. Everything seems to be falling perfectly into the right places. This good. All good.
Watched Cursed yesterday, a Wes Craven film about werewolves. Nothing too special about the film itself, but it did have some funny parts.
Am actually on leave today, the past days were also leaves I applied for previously but would not be used up since they fell under the team's day-offs. This is the only working day I actually have free so I might as well make the most of it. I have to pay those DVDs I ordered at Metrobank, then I am thinking of dropping by school to finally pick up my yearbook and of course, my diploma. The bank is in the next town and there is no way I'd make it to school before lunch, which means I have to go out later and waste most of the morning.
It sucks to live so far from civilization. At least, I can say that they now deliver stuff to our house.
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Woah!
They were not kidding when they said Requiem For A Dream was depressing and shocking. The first few scenes seemed like any other movie except it was filmed with such style and awesomeness. The split screens, the view through the keyhole, the lighting, the speed and slowed down shots were just amazing. The best parts are the scenes where their addictions are being portrayed in quick images and catchy sound clips. The pupil dilation has to be my personal favorite.
Then the climax down to the ending was simply shocking almost disturbing (but not for someone who already is).
I am so fucking glad I paid P1650 for this copy. I have no regrets about it. Now I must most definitely get my hands on a copy of Pi.
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Ignore the insanely emotional and paranoid previous post. I was being too paranoid. No need to rush. Let's take things nice and easy from this point on. Everything is great. Everything is near perfect.
A lot of new things to report and I do not know where to start.
It seems that the 4 day leave I applied for 3 months ago was a pretty waste. It was our day-off last Friday. Then, when the schedule for the following week came out we noticed that our day-offs were on Saturday and Sunday. No work until Monday. Of the 4 days I applied for this time, only one would be used. Quite a pretty waste especially when you think that you have to plan it 3 months early.
It wasn't always like this. The very first leaves I applied for hit it right on the mark. 2 day-offs then the 4 day leave for a whopping 6 straight days of no show at work. Very much off the mark right now. Still 4 days is good enough.
Oh, and since we are talking about schedules we might as well mention that starting Monday, we are back in the morning shift, 7 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon, and so far our day-offs would be on Saturday and Sunday. Almost regular working hours ain't it? I can finally watch movies after the shift, go home by eight, play a few hours of KOTOR, blog and of course get a decent amount of sleep all in one night. Yeah.
Yesterday, I decided to watch the Donnie Darko DVD my brother sent me. It is a wonderful film but I feel I spoilt the magic by watching the Director's Cut first. I should have watched the Theatrical Version first then the Director's Cut. Since it is the Director's Cut version, it is significantly longer and explains almost everything about Frank, the time travel, and what the movie generally means.
If only had the choice of watching the Theatrical Version first.
This was in the morning of Friday and was expecting the DVD to be delivered. By noon, I was too sleepy so I had lunch and slept around 3 in the afternoon giving up all hopes that they would actually find my house since the last time I had DVDs delivered, they were not able to.
Mom woke me up around 6 in the evening saying someone was at the gate. The delivery guy did not bother waiting for me and just had my mom sign the slip. Apparently, he may already gone through hell and after finding our house simply wanted to get things over with and get back to civilization.
Opened the package and found an awesome amount of bubble wrap which I'd be popping later. Of course the DVDs I ordered where all there. Here's a picture.
Now I have two copies of the two disc Director's Cut version of Donnie Darko. One is Region 1 (white packaging in the last picture) and the other Region 2 (pictured below). I had no idea that The Usual Suspects would be on a double-sided disc.
The Region 2 copy has already been opened since I have had it for more than a week now. It's packaging is also better with a hologram of Donnie and Frank on the box. Since the two are exactly the same except for the packaging, I decided not to open the Region 1 copy. Anyone interested in buying it? It's senseless to have two exact copies of the same thing. If one was the Theatrical version, then I'd be keeping both of them.
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For the very first time since changing shoelaces (I surely hope you'd know by now what I mean by that), I feel so miserable, depressed, and shitty. I guess it's just me being so freaking paranoid about my own stupidity and being so naive.
Truth be told, I have never been in such a position before and for that am so sorry. All previous experiences were simply flukes. It's actually hard to imagine if they really happened in real (my) life or in my dreams.
So we take the lace off this gift, then what? Don't tell me you are going to wait months more before you start unveiling more of this wonderful gift. Sure, good things happen to those who wait, but if it is already standing right in front of you, you do not wait. You do not need to think things over. You just go ahead and open the gift with no knowledge of what it could possibly be. That is the exciting part, not knowing what it would be.
The gift, although staring you right in the face can still be snatched by someone else. And who knows, maybe the gift would grow some legs and simply run away when you blink due to your absurd sense of reason and stupidity.
Then how would you feel if that would happen?
Relief as you don't have to consider anything anymore and safely proceed with
your original plans without ever looking back. Or grief since for the nth time something good something
great and totally magnificent was presented to you and still you did not do a
thing but stare right back. Another portion of your life that goes straight into
the jar bucket called REGRET.
Make up your mind now. Actually, I believe you have. All you have to do Simon is just spill it out.
Now, if for some reason you have already fucked it up, am gonna stab you multiple times hurting what ever EGO you are slowly building up. Then again, based on previous experiences, you do this to yourself.
Oh boy Simon, you are so freaking weak. Just so terribly weak. You are so pathetic.
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Received confirmation message from PARConline yesterday regarding the DVDs I ordered. I'll be receiving 3 DVDs which means Requiem for a Dream was just missed out on the list. Three cheers for that!
They said delivery would be tomorrow which is perfect as I'd be home the whole day (actually, I am always home during the day). Now let's see if they'd be able to find my house this time. Hopefully, they would as I do not want to pick it up in Sta. Lucia again.
3 hour OT after work drained the life out of me. Reached home around 10 yet I find myself in front of the PC again. Simply could not resist, could you?
Might as well sleep now as I was told to do so an hour ago.
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Sometimes I can be so freaking stupid it annoys even myself. I do things that I know are totally absurd but I still do them. I have a gut feeling about some things but I do not follow it ending up annoyed at myself even more.
Let's not get all worked up now. Life has been pretty fabulous so let's not get depressed over such a small thing.
Two days left in the work week. Two cheers for that. Have scheduled leaves from March 11-14, unfortunately two of which fall on the team's day-off so I would only have 4 days off. In the perfect world, I'd have 6 straight days off. Sadly, perfection is an illusion.
Well, it's not like work is entirely a bad/negative thing. There are still things one would look forward to.
4 days is still a welcome break in this insanely tiring world. DVDs and KOTOR II all I want. And of course, let's not forget about sleep.
Am all psyched up about my day-offs that I bet they'd pass by faster than a freaking hurricane wiping through land.
Links. Links Links. Links. Links.
Stumbled across a few gems. Be sure to check them out.
For crazy Lego porn, click here.
For one fascinatingly disturbing children's book, click here.
And a comic about education from Machall.
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Why the hell does everyone have to call in the freaking morning?!
It's the only time I have for myself and I waste it sitting around because someone tries to call. Damn.
Well, it would be so freaking stupid if I use my time on something else like KOTOR or a movie on DVD.
Why the hell do I even have to go online when I have spent the whole day online already. Might as well take this a step further and read all of these bloody webcomics at work. Fuck any who is monitoring.
See. I wasted an hour already waiting for the phone line when I could have been watching Donnie Darko instead. Bollocks!
The list of DVDs which arrived this week from PARConline had just been sent. It has Donnie Darko: Director's Cut Edition and The Usual Suspects Special Edition but no Requiem for a Dream. This is depressing, it would have been nice if they missed out on Donnie Darko instead and not Requiem for a Dream.
It's just the list forwarded to members of the mailing list so until the confirmation message is sent out, we can't be so sure that it is not really included. Hopefully it was just missed out on the list but actually arrived. Let's have a little patience and faith.
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Some punk threw a stone at our van as it was cruising through Antipolo. Thankfully the glass took the fall and was strong enough to not let anyone inside get hurt. Stupid punks. Good thing it would be covered by insurance.
Work yesterday was so freaking draining it was no fun at all. It started out on a marvelous note but somewhere along the line, things got messed up. I was not able to take any of my breaks which I should have and could have made my day a little bit different.
I have the Donnie Darko DVD my brother sent me. It is the Director's Cut 2 Disc Edition. I just do not know how different it would be from the one I ordered through PARConline. I wanted to watch it but I was too freaking tired. Resorted to watching the trailers instead.
Slept and woke up a little earlier than usual and I simply wanted to blog. Plus I wanted to check if anyone commented on my blog yesterday. Apparently, no one did.
Regardless, good things seem to be happening and I can't stop smiling thinking about it.
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Dream of Helena and The Hearse
Shit. Cannot think of anything to place in this blog which is so not me.
Let's start with Helena then. It had been mentioned that it was great. Unfortunately, Punkrockvids did not have the video yet. Tried to google it before but miserably failed. Most of the sites I found either used quicktime or streaming video which was clearly out of the question.
Since I recently ran out of artists to download on Limewire I decided to do a search for Helena. A number of entries came up including some smut. Proceeded with downloading the video and the estimated time was calculated at 3-4 hours. Great.
Left the PC on as I watched Closer, which is a magnificent movie by the way. When I came back, I could not believe that it was finished.
Watched it once. Watched it again. Amazing. Awesome. Funny. Damn. Will watch it again before I sleep.
I finally started opening that gift I got last December. The gift I have been contemplating on opening ever since. I did not exactly rip open the whole wrapper, I decided (was forced) to open it slowly. So far, I had just removed the lace and I have to say it seems pretty and enticing, but one step at a time.
It may not have been done in the way I initially intended to do so, but as time seems to be winding down, it would do.
Time. It breezes by so fast. I could not recall that I even had two days off. Work resumes later. Of course, let's not forget to play I'm Not Okay (I Promise) before leaving for work to ensure a beautiful work week.
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Finally, a schedule has been revealed. No changes though. Saturday and Friday off and relatively the same time for each day.
Yesterday turned out to be quite a day running around the Metro hunting for a pair of shoes for my brother. He asked me before what shoe (basketball ones) he should buy, I did not know any so I directed him to 21121. He fancied the TMac 4.
Thankfully, there was no more need to go to Laguna.
Visited Megamall which did not have any in stock, then Shangrila Plaza which had one defective pair. I knew there was a Adidas boutique in Eastwood so we decided to drop by there before checking out Makati. Lo and behold they had a pair of good ones, I mean of all the places it had to be the one closest to work. The hunt ended there.
Before all of that, I decided to have a quick stop at Ever Gotesco so I could check some DVDs. 4 DVDs this time, Windstruck, The Aviator, Sideways, and The Last Temptation of Christ.
Windstruck is amazing and is it kind of hard to believe that it is a loose prequel to My Sassy Girl. As great and entertaining as this one was, My Sassy Girl is still leaps and bounds better.
Dial-up connection though annoyingly slow is still better than nothing. I have now just finished downloading the new Armor For Sleep album, What To Do When You Are Dead. Awesome.
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I do not know what kind a stunt they are trying to pull off at work but it is greatly affecting everyone as evident in the post-shift meeting earlier. The sad part is it seems that everyone is being kept in the dark. Everyone has this freaking sense of uncertainty, you can notice the difference in the work atmosphere just by stepping into the office.
Enough of this, I am not sure how legal it is to blog about work even though what they are doing may be not. People in the US can get fired for this.
It's Friday, our day-off and we have no bloody idea what our schedule is going to be for tomorrow. Normally, it is up by Thursday evening. For some reason, they were not able to make one and hence making us wait for a day. Bummer.
You cannot plan anything at all here!
Let's not get all worked up here. The week did end up on a good note when it comes to the number of calls. I think I have found the reason why the last few days have been utterly miserable.
I burnt this mix tape which contained The Killers' Hot Fuss album plus tracks from Coheed and Cambria, Matchbook Romance and Taking Back Sunday.
As a result of playing them while preparing for work, I had neglected the mix tape I created with two My Chemical Romance albums on it. It seems that ever since I burnt the CD I had been faithfully playing, screaming and air-guitar playing to I'm Not Okay (I Promise) each and every day while I am dressing up for work.
This seems to be the secret of my success and the last two days of playing it again have been a tad short of awesome.
This is weird. My brother wants us to buy a pair of shoes and send it to him through this friend. He could have as easily bought the pair there instead. Oh well, now we have to go out and hunt for this shoe.
Laguna, Makati then back to Rizal. Sheesh. Why does Metro Manila have to be so freaking big?
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Awesome.
Last day of the work week later which is always a bloody good thing.
No plans for the weekend yet as we have no idea yet when our day-offs are going to fall except for Friday as it belongs to this week. Hopefully they'd give us Saturday then I could probably go to Freedom Bar or what have you, finally mention those plans I have which is taking freaking eternity to materialize. Doesn't make sense, right? Well, good.
One more day to fix whatever mess I have spilt during the first three days. Let's make it decent enough, okay? And do not forget to relax.
Since work starts earlier than usual and color coding being in effect, I wanted to watch a movie before work. Unfortunately, the screening times are not too friendly plus there is no more The Aviator in the Eastwood Cinemas. Will probably catch it during the weekend if I do decide to leave home which very unlikely as I have KOTOR II to play with. I could borrow a DVD if I really wanted to.
Speaking of DVDs, it seems that I will be ending up with two copies of Donnie Darko. I ordered a copy together with The Usual Suspects and Requiem for a Dream last Sunday. My wonderful brother sent me a message that he also bought a copy and would be sending it through a friend who is coming home to the Philippines this month.
I am not sure what edition it would be but if you would be interested, I'd be selling one copy. Just leave a comment or something. Oh, and it would either be Region 1 or 2. I'd mention the details as I get both copies.
Might as well sleep now as I have to wake up two hours earlier than usual due to those facts stated above, work starting an hour earlier and no transport to work. Bummer but still, I am looking forward to an awesome day. Somehow I just have a good feeling about it.
Now let's not get those expectations up too high. You surely know what happens when you do so.
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The past few working days have been freaking terrible. Handle time is excruciatingly high. Frustration sinks in every time the timer reaches 30 minutes. It's amazing that I am still hitting two digits when it comes to the number of calls.
Then the email about promotions came out. 2 emails. 5 new promotions. Depression and frustration all over again. I am clearly left behind in this rat race. Oh how long shall I have to wait for thee?
Oh well, let's try not to be too serious about it. Relax.
Let's put a little positive perspective into things.
Each and every week after changing shoelaces has been magical. It has definitely thrown out the window whatever negative expectations I initially had. I've had the best metrics ever and I could now be classified as a "performer."
For crying out loud, I was among the few people who got a bloody PIN from the clients as a sign of much appreciation. That has to account to something. My performance appraisal was almost like a 14th month pay, so why get so gloomy and frustrated now?
Things happen for a reason, and for this one I guess it's to bring me back to earth as my head has been bloated so much that it has been the air for such a long time.
Plus, I think I am trying hard to push whatever luck or miracle this is that is happening now. One promotion at a time Simon. Just do your work properly and magical things do happen.
Anyway, there is one thing since changing shoelaces that never fails to cheer me up at work. Awesome.
Relax.
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