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Farewell Note

Leaving an organization has never been easy. You leave your comfort zone, familiar walls, friendly faces, and the routine all at once. But there's always a very good reason for making this tough decision. Unfortunately, I've come to the same point where I have to make a choice. For more than two years that I've been with Convergys, I have been blessed working with the best people in the industry. I will never forget the times and all the hardwork that everyone had to put into the program to see it grow and expand to where it is now, starting from measly 18 agents. Never, not even in my wildest dreams, have I imagined us to grow so big and so fast. Surely a great accomplishment and it's all because of you...

For Boss Rain - Your brilliance will always be an inspiration. I've never worked with anyone with such amazing people skills and can squeeze in a few minutes of his time to talk to people and provide sensible advices in the midst of your never-ending busy days. I am sure you've been commended countless times and adding up one more won't do any harm. You're doing a very good job in keeping your people by being just and compassionate at the same time. I am sure you will go to greater heights because of those values.

For Elmer - You're not just my SOM. You're a friend, a mentor, and my counselor. For several times you have been my savior. Hopefully, I'll be able to pay you back someday for everything that you've done for me. I will always have full trust in your capacity and wisdom.

For all the OMs - Thank you for the guidance and for your infinite patience. Forgive me for stretching it a few times.

For the TLs (both in and out of SBC) - It has always been fun working with you. I've learned most of the things that I need to by following your ways. Keep on helping each other.

For the QSPs, SLTs, Eli, Tigs, Marie, Mikko O., Fred V., and Aubs - You've made work much easier for me. You were always there for support and I am so thankful for all the help. Aubs, congratulations on your promotion! I just heard. You deserve it. =) Eli, I wish you'd get well soon. You have my prayers.

For Shannon - You've been very very kind to me. Words are not enough to say how grateful I am for getting to know you. Sorry for not replying all the time.

For Medj - I will miss our lunch/dinner dates, our endless chats and daily dose of rants. Dino is a very lucky guy. Best wishes on your newly-wed life!

For Tris Tecson - Thank you for dropping me off on your way home a few times. I'll miss our chismisan. You're doing really well at work and in losing weight. I'll be happy to see you advance more. Regards to Joji and Gerry.

For Jade - My yosi and chika buddy. I've missed you every single day eversince you've moved out of the program. Now, I'll miss you even more. Your good heart and thoughtfulness to your family doesn't cease to impress me. Take care of Donald.

For Arni, Alfred, Pao, Coocoo, Marsz, Patty, Lala and the rest of Wave 1 (or what's left of it) - I can still remember the days of training. Look where you are now! We've met our goals. Well done!

For Nicole, Marvin, Karen, Donne, Archie, Auds, Shega, Liezl, Bing, Jennilyn, Alex, Burns, and Tiff - I had soooo much fun! You're a riot! Thinking of not seeing you everyday anymore brings me great relief. Haha! Just kidding. Seriously, thank you for being dear friends to me. You've kept me sane when I need to be. All our talks and moments together will forever be precious. You made life worth living. Stop crying, everything will be alright. Ang umiyak nakakagalet! =p
For my Team (old and present) - You have been my source of strength. Thank you for trusting me and allowing me to take good care of you. I would love to see you all reach your dreams. Aim high... Aim higher.

Finally, please keep my contact information and drop me a line or two once in awhile to ease the pain of longingness. In return, I'll keep you all as friends. It's a small world. I'm sure we'll see each other again. Til then, it has been an honor working with you all.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

Good Riddance

It has been awhile since I last posted an entry. What kept me busy? Cussing on my internet service provider day in, day out.

For three long weeks my DSL service bogged down. I've been a subscriber for about four years with my ISP (PLDT) and never had such a huge issue with them until recently. I could only browse selected websites and everything I try to open takes forever to load. I'm pretty sure the fault is not from my end coz I reformatted my computer and I directly connected the other computers at home to the DSL, but still to no avail.

After much effort, I decided to call their tech support department. Mind you, I dont like contacting them one bit because the wait time before a representative picks up usually take hours... literally! And so without having too much options, I decided to anyway and set my mind to be very, very, and I mean veeeeery patient.

After waiting for almost 2 hours (I was on speaker phone the whole time), someone finally answered. I just tried to cooperate and went through the whole elementary troubleshooting steps to correct the problem. Obviously, nothing worked. The agent on the other line told me to just wait for a few hours and hopefully things will be back to normal. Wait... Did I just hear the agent say hopefully? Oh man, that did it. My patience got streched to its limits again and I just had to burst. I am not paying a service that costs a month-good of groceries to just be hopeful that I'd get a better service. For three weeks I havent been getting my money's worth and the agent on the other line would want me to be hopeful that things will get better in a few hours.

I spoke with his supervisor and yelled and yelled and yelled and yelled. I thought I was gonna have apoplexy from too much yelling. But I guess that worked because the following day, they sent a "technician," who was supposed to make things back to the way it was before. Did it? Nooooooooo! And the worst part is, the guy didn't have the slightest clue on what to do. And even blamed me for the problem because I might have installed some software that's preventing me from surfing the internet. With that, I almost kicked him out of the door. I just tried to remain calm. I asked the guy, "What's your job in PLDT?" He answered, "I'm a phone lineman." At that point I was ambivalent. I felt like laughing and crying and dying all at the same time.

I got nothing against linemen. I mean it's a decent job. But for crying out loud, I am not getting computer lessons from someone who spends the most of his days up a post and hooking up wires and doesnt know the web address of hotmail. Believe me, when he tested my computer, he spelled hotmail as hotmale. Somebody shoot me!

Anyway, I just pretended that I believed his story and told him that I'll just wait for things to get better so as not to break his heart. As soon as he left, I called my freaking service provider and told them to cancel my service right then and there and not even bother to save me as their customer because there's no freaking way that I'm gonna change my mind about it. Exhale.

I'm a happier person now since I switched to cable. I'm paying one-grand less for a service that is 4 times faster than my DSL. All I can say is good riddance.

Alarm Clock

I was reading through my friends' Friendster pages. And stuff that I never knew they have were all flashed before my eyes by the hundreds of testimonials that I've read. I miss them even more. I wish I have more time in the world to spend extra hours just hanging out with them and do all the silly stuff that we used to.



How come as you get older in life, you live life less? More and more of your time are spent on being productive, when those times could have been spent in living life to the fullest. I find it really stupid and offensive that most of us are working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week to earn a living and yet don't have a life. We are all like mindless beings who are forced to go with the norms of the society to belong.



Then how do we make the most out of our lives? I have simple wants. The simplest things make me happy. Chatting the whole night with my closest friends and ten packs of cigarettes are enough. It doesn't even matter where. And still it's difficult to find time. I often find myself saying no to invitations from friends simply because I can't. Because I'm busy. But am I really? Are we really THAT busy?



I want to make myself more flexible and less caring with the things around me. I'm not sure if it's even possible with all the responsibilities. With all the bills to pay. I'm sure tens of thousands of you have the same concerns. All my life, I keep on worrying about so many things. I just want to get away from that thought and start living my life the way I want it to be. I just want to be numb.



I want to party all night, get drunk, smoke til my lungs expire, and dance to the rhythm of life. At the end of the day, I'll go home, sleep on my bed and wake up at noon. I want to give my alarm clock a rest. I want to be able to wake up getting a full eight-hour sleep without feeling guilty or worried that I might get late the following day. I want to read a book, play a new musical instrument, ride a bike, learn how to make a sushi, feel the grass under my feet, bunjee jump, see a goldfish pagoda, indulge in ice cream, and scream at the top of my lungs. It will be so nice to do all of that in one day.



But again, reality check, I have to make my ends meet. It's almost seven. I got to get my alarm clock ready.

Random Ramblings

Work has been exhausting this week and it's just a Monday! I dunno what's with me lately but I feel like I'm getting reprimanded all the time. God, I need a break! Everybody seems to be a lot hostile these past few days, not counting my friends though. And I'm starting to notice that my bosses at work are multiplying by the second that it's totally confusing me who I'm supposed to report to directly. It's like people are passing responsibilities to me left and right and everyone seems to be breathing closely to my neck. What's happening to the world? Did I miss anything? It's like I'm in a twilight zone. I don't normally allow myself to play the underdog. In fact, I've often bullied people around to get things going my way, but things are just simply pointing to the opposite direction. My stars are not working for me. And I swear this would have to stop. STOP!!!

I'm just looking forward to Wednesday. Hope everything pushes through as planned.
Hold your horses. I'm gonna tell you all about it if it does. It's a surprise.

Don't you just love surprises? Well, I don't. It makes me queasy. But for the sake of making my avid readers (yes, all two of you) hanging on to their seats, I'm gonna hold on to my teenie-weenie secret til you start pulling my sleeves and make me spill all the beans. If you can, that is.

In the meantime, I'm gonna keep crossing my fingers and pray to the highest heavens to please make this real.

Kissed and Made Up

(Shega, Nicole, Me, Liezl and Marvin)



I'm glad my friends finally decided to talk to me. Shega, who I thought would be the last to understand coz she's the one affected the most with my bad decision, turned out to be the first one to get over it. She's a very sweet friend. Charming in every sense.

Marvin? Well, he told me he wasn't really mad at me but just disappointed. Anyway, he said when he saw me again, he couldn't help but giggle just at my mere sight. What can I do? I'm just naturally adorable. Hahaha!

And Nicole... The one who has always been the closest to me. I don't know if she'll ever get to forgive me coz I know I caused her so much pain and put her into so much trouble. But I guess friendship conquers all. While I was waiting for the elevator to go up to the office, she was on her way up as well. I guess we were both in an awkward situation and didnt have much of a choice but to smile at each other. And right then and there, everything was fine.