Hey I’m back

January 24, 2010

Nope…I did not go on a long vacation……I was not even out of the country the entire time I was not able to update my blogs….I was just incommunicado.  It’s by choice. I just don’t have anything exciting to write about  except I was just in and out of the hospitals the entire time for laboratory exams and such both as a patient and as the watcher. 

January has not been good to me but hopefully February will be better. Right now, I am on sick leave again til the 30th due to tension migraines. I seriously think that this is really time for me to look for other options since I’ve been sick on and off since September and I’d be the first to admit that the industry I’m in right now is really toxic. I’m also a little bit sad that I will soon be handling another team. My agents for the past three months were really good and despit the short time with them, I have really bonded well with them. I was really blessed to have known seven wonderful agents who were so likable .My hats off to Amy, Mark, Dennis, Grax, Alex, Kiking and Bogart. Let’s not be sad guys. We will still push through with ur planned outing in Camiguin two weeks from now. I don’t break promises. Hopefully with the transition schedule, we will have more time for togsh2x………I promise you this that I will still be here for you guys. You can still run to me when you have problems.

Back to Reality

January 4, 2010

For most of us, it is back to reality after a long vacation. Don’t you just hate it when the Christmas season is over and everyone is scampering back to work or school? No wonder everybody is looking forward to Christmas all year long. But for people like me who work in BPOs, long vacations are just fantasies for us. Most of us are even working during Christmas and New Year. This is in fact the busiest time for us. But hey…..we’re thankful. Callers on queue mean business is good so our jobs are secure. But try telling that to us when everyone else were having reunions and parties left and right and we’re the only one missing coz we are busy taking in calls or pacifying irate customers looking for supervisors. Well, who says life is fair?

I treated my kids to swimming at Apple Tree yesterday. They had fun frolicking in the sand and we had our lunch there. The food was delicious. We ordered chicharon bulaklak and lechon kawali. (Hey my kids are quite finicky with their food so I can not order food with sauces, they totally hate it.) But the service sucks! It took so long for our order to arrive and we were already famished when we got there in the first place.

Afterwards, we went to Divine Shepherd and brought flowers to Lolo Pao’s grave. We then went to Echo Church for mass. We went home early so the kids can check if they have assignments and prepare their things for school.

My kids really had the time of their lives last Christmas. Thanks to the generous titos, titas, doting grandparents, ninongs and ninangs, my kids received a lot of gifts that made them really happy. Aside from that, they are regular party troopers and attended one occasion after another. The one culminating the season was a Karaoke Get Together at Wat Ever.

My New Year’s Resolution

January 3, 2010

Happy New Year everybody! I have been pretty laxed last month with blog-writing. I have attended too many parties and drank too much wine last Xmas season and it’s now back to reality for me.  Like everyone out there, I have alist of my New Year’s resolution that I can hopefully accomplish. Hope this is not just wishful thinking.

1. Always count the small things. I will not take for granted the small things in life coz sometimes they are what can make me the happiest.

2. Don’t expect too much from others. It’s always better that way. At least you wouldn’t get disappointed when things don’t go the way you planned it. Often, the people who ended disappointing us the most are the people we expected to be there for us.

3. Spend more quality time with the kids. I have realized that Dylan and Dion are growing up faster than the blink of the eye. I will try to be more patient with Dion and more tolerant with Dylan. They are my life and I should be ble to show to them how blessed I am to have them in my life.

4. Always be there for my friends. I love my friends and without them I wouldn’t know how I would have survived the last quarter of the year without them. I may not say it often and it may not look like it, but I appreciate all the advices you have given me. There are some issues in my life that I need to work out on my own but I am really thankful for the friendship.  Likewise, always remeber that I am also there for you when you need it.

5. Always look at the bright side of life. From now own, I will always think positive. I will look at the glass and say it’s half-full than say it’s half-empty. Letting go of anger and past hurts will benefit me and not the others. I could never undo the past and there’s no use crying over spilled milk.

6. Give time for healing. I will take things one step at a time and I will always remember that in order for others to respect me as a person, I have to respect myself first. Respect begets respect.

7. Be decisive. I should not crumble or weaken at the first sign. I should go through with whatever decisions I made. It amy not look that way right now but whatever I ahve decided will always be good for me and the kids in the long run.

8. Most of all, I will learn to put God back at the center of my life. I will teach the kids to always have time for HIM.

Upon reading this, I realized tht the list I made are all about the things that could help me be a better me. I hope I will be able to follwo through on this.

According to fengshui and horoscopes, the year of the tiger is still not the year for me but I know it would be better than last year. =) No year could ever top the misfortunes year of the ox brought me.

Let’s start the year right everyone!

2010

January 1, 2010

 

I’m welcoming 2010 with open arms. 2009 has not been good to me. It was full of frustrations, disappointments, heartaches, betrayals, broken promises and sickness. On top of it all, I was held up at gunpoint on the last few days of December while I was waiting for the shuttle to pick me up. The holdappers got my cellphone (my mom’s early Christmas gift to me), wallet, money, and a pouch full of branded and rarely used makeup. *Sigh* They even got my favorite perfume and cologne. I’m just thankful that they never hurt me and they did not get my watch and jewelry in their haste to leave the crime scene.

With all the bad things that happened to me in 2009, I’m pretty much optimistic that 2010 will be a better year for me. I don’t think I could go lower than that and my experiences in the past year has made me better, stronger and more equipped to face future challenges.

I’m starting the year right. I am letting go of my anger. I have forgiven those who have hurt me, I have learned to let go of the past and I have asked for forgiveness to those people I have hurt unintentionally. I have also thank my friends and loved ones for being there for me and for accepting that I can never be what they expect me to be.

It’s think…think…think positive for me for 2010.

On a side note, I’m taking advantage of the fact that the kids are still asleep from staying up so late to enjoy the New Year’s celebration. I have the house to myslef but there’s too much cleaning up to do. Hahay….I so hate housework. I don’t mind cooking but I really hate the cleaning up that comes afterwards.

Til then…I’ve got dishes waiting for me to wash……