Back to Reality

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.