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Bestfriend Wanted

Monday, January 25th, 2010

It’s been almost six months since I started my job here in this place of constant boredom. It is better than taking calls, so I stay here editing transcripts. It’s not really that bad.

I do not know if I am going to be regularized by February. I have some absences and my performance isn’t exactly what you’d call stellar.

But if I do, and if there is some sliver of hope that I am to be regularized, I need a friend. A friend that gets it, a normal friend.

Not that I hate the people I hang out with, they’re actually very nice to me. But it sure would be nice to hang out with someone, male and heterosexual, for a change.

A co-worker once said that men in our company are either gay or ugly, they then look at me and say that I am an exception in that category. Now, they have changed it. The men in our company are either gay or geeks. I think superior geeks will shudder at the nature of our jobs. But seriously, I dont see many geeks here, maybe they were all transferred in the evening shift. But it sure would be nice to hanging out with some one different.

Yesterday, I confessed to Meow that I am beginning to talk like them. She was surprised that I said Gora so casually. Hahaha! It is not wrong to speak Gay Talk but it doesn’t really suit me. I don’t want to say all those stuff in normal conversation. They are beginning to rub off on me. NOOOO!

I want a friend who likes fantasy and cartoons. Someone who smokes and drinks. Someone who have a sense of humor that is similar to mine. Someone who does not fornicate with men. Please, please, please…

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Writing and Geek Parties

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

I have mentioned countless times that I want to be a writer, not necessarily a  prolific writer but a writer that writes for a living. That’s one reason why I chose that part-time article writer job.

Now, I am able to earn 300 pesos for five 500-word articles. Not very much, I know.

I downloaded way too many eBooks. I want to read them all, but I can’t due to my job. I badly need an eBook reader, a really cheap one.

My laptop is working against me. I need a new one. But I love this one, still.

While I was looking for Peter S. Beagle stories, which is hard to find in bookstores, I stumbled upon something about a Last Unicorn rave. Geeks know how to party. See This.

Three rooms of music and fantasy! Why aren’t there parties like that here?!

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Santa’s letters and decorating the place

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

I woke up. The birds are chirping, the sun is up and shining, and yes, there are always flowers in our very small garden. It could have been a wonderful day if not for the fact that I have work.

At work, because earnings season is over, there is very little to do. Many of us are helping out with the Christmas decorations yesterday. The theme for our department is Santa’s factory. They are making a big deal about it. There is a contest for it, and the Asians Equity department always win.  Let’s face it, as creative as we Filipinos are, if pitted against a group comprising of Koreans, Chinese and Japanese, we stand a small chance (I think it’s a cultural thing) plus they earn a lot more money than we do (just think of their budget — big). But who knows, with the effort they are giving into it… Baka manalo kami.

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work, work, work

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

I am so lonely at work. Hay! Wala akong kaibigan….

I am trying to cheer myself up, I have always been a loner. Maybe it’s pressure. With training at work, we are left to work independently with minimal supervision. Kaya siguro ganoon kakaiba yung exams namin dati. Voicewriting is tiring. We are left to practice and everybody is practicing because EVERYBODY  needs to practice and it is not like High School and college because we need to be really good because we all want this job.

I have been getting these really nasty dreams. I guess I am not really built to work in a call center, office or anything that has corporate associated with it.

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the last time

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

It’s almost over now. I am just two signatures away for my clearance at the call center that has a name that sounds very much like a taxi franchise.

We were planning to go to an acquaintance’s birthday but Meow canceled because she wasn’t able to get much sleep. I am a bit relieved. I wanna be lucid for this, and I was. My employment ended last Sunday. I do not miss it. I was afraid the past 2 days that I felt no strong feelings. Have I gone numb? How much of the old me was extinguishedd by working in a call center?

I went there again today, with my bulky backpack, armed with my notebook and Albert Camus to give me company. Seeing them was pleasant but I ask myself if I have established a strong bond with them. I kinda like them… mostly.

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Contract signed!

Monday, July 27th, 2009

I just signed my contract today for the new job as a voice writer/editor.

Don’t mind the picture, I was looking for a picture with a contract on it (my blog has been mostly text in months). Nagulat ako na isa ito sa mga lumabas. If you were thinking that’s a porn movie. Wrong! Akala ko rin. Hehehe.

It’s gonna be my last few days at work, I feeeeel soooo messed up. I wanted this job but I feel there’s something missing.

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Leaving work

Friday, July 10th, 2009

I have not signed the contract yet, scheduled on the latter part of the month. I am now leaving the call center that has a very circadian sounding name for a BPO company that sounds very smart and is a division of the company that also publishes those imported, heavy textbooks you hate carrying in college.

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The wait! The beads! The book!

Monday, May 18th, 2009

I am still waiting for calls. Yes, I am still hopeful of getting something published. Aba! Napagod ako sa pag-proofread ng sinulat ko at lagi pa rin akong nakikitang mali. Kaya nung OK na (or acceptable na), in-email ko na agad. Tingnan natin kung ano mangyayari, this is the first time that I went out of my way to actually work on a project that I hope will pay off. But I dunno, maybe it really is mediocre. But then again, so does many stories published out there!

I should not expect too much. I always get disappointed.

I still feel tired and hardly slept last night. Stupid shift changes…

I told myself that I will spend less but I am still weak. I can’t help myself.

We were in the bookstore, I found this box labeled Rudraksha, I was wondering what’s in it. It was heavy, if you shake it, I can hear chimes. It was on sale and 90% was slashed from its original Php 1,000+++. Being the impulsive consumer that I am, despite my tight budget, I bought it.

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This post clearly shows why I should stop drinking

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Somebody should stop me from drinking. People just watch me go… That is the problem when meowy’s not with me when drinking, I get very loud. I always say, di na ako iinom per patuloy ko pa ring ginagawa. I think I need to drink only with friends and with VERY strict supervision. I always hope I don’t turn people off. I have a strong personality when I am drunk. Friends used to tell me that my personality shifts when I am drinking.

I woke up at 12 noon and threw out bile, then slept again til 3:30.

I feel better now, there’s a lot of food at home, my aunt who came from Hong Kong whipped a lot of good food. My favorite is X.O., I don’t know how it is spelled but I am writing it as how they pronounce it. It’s a spicy concoction of scallop shreds and shrimp in oil. I love it. But today, I am not in the mood to eat. Just ate biko (my parents bought it for my uncle) and a couple spoonfuls of lengua and a piece of fried chicken. Very unhealthy indeed.

There are times I feel like I am deluding myself. I sometimes question the things that I do.

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I am not horny enough

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

I think it is now safe for me to write this, and I seriously doubt I will receive a callback.

I really want to be writer, it is a dream I have. I mentioned of me applying for a staff writer position for the country’s leading men’s lifestyle magazine (It’s not hard to guess the mag, isn’t it?) on my last post.  What have I got to lose? Nothing! I am the least person you’ll expect to apply for the company.

So I was shortlisted  for an interview… I attribute that for using word taboo on my initial application through the web. I may be wrong but that’s the only reason I can imagine. I made some preparations… I brought some of my sample works (more like edited and upgraded versions of my more outstanding posts) that I hope will extensively show my range as a writer. I have been expecting a formal interview which will challenge me as being a novice and yes, I have expected it to eventually dabble on the topic of sex. It is, after all, a men’s magazine.

So dressed up in one of my best get up (a bit conscious that I wore my high-cut military green sneakers with my business casual attire) I went to their offices and realized that this is only the third time I applied for a non-call center job (the others are course-related that I turned down) and the first from this industry.

I fought the nerves.

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