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for February 2008.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, people of the online world…this is my 500th post. I am seriously too tired to do some celebratory whatever, and I really planned to write this sometime else when I’m more clear-headed and not stressed out. I was supposed to write this one yesterday, but I was too strung out yesterday to write anything even of little substance.
Plus, it would be better to write today seeing as this day only comes once every four years, right?
To be honest, I’ve never been so stressed out in my job ever since I joined the company until now. It suddenly feels like we have so much workload and so many things to do outside work that it’s driving us crazy. Or at least, driving me crazy, but only because I’m neurotic like that. :P Hah. Sometimes I wonder if I took up too many responsibilities, if I have bitten off more than I can chew. Or if I just simply lack time because I’m on midshift and all the work comes in at midshift and all other activities just decided to come in this month too. Ack. I don’t know the reason, but two things for sure: February is the busiest month I’ve ever had, and I will definitely be resting after this. No extracurriculars, only the real work I have to do. I will devote my free time into rest & relaxation to practice work-life balance but in the cheapest way possible because I’m almost broke (which means no Nike golf…but then again I don’t play golf).
But February is just about to end. I still have tons of stuff to do today, but before I finally prepare for work, Joni tagged me to write down 10 simple joys, or 10 things that recently made me happy. I’m sure this would lift my spirits up somehow, and be ready to face the stress of today. Let’s see…
- Finishing one of our project team’s objectives for the quarter, and almost finishing this other one.
- Two consecutive dinners with IBM Club friends.
- Watching the footages of our account’s team building last December. Good times.
- Being able to pray more the past few days, especially the other day when I got hit by something God told me. Iyak tayo, dali.
- Meeting up with some college friends last weekend.
- Buying new clothes for a friend’s upcoming wedding this Saturday. :)
- Receiving a commendation from a client.
- My brother who fetched me for the entire month of my midshift, despite our initial agreement of me going home by cab twice a week. Thanks Kuya. <3.
- Despite all the stress, the planning for our Barangay Hall. It’s stressful, yes, but I love being behind the scenes. :D
- Today is my last day of midshift! Wohoo!
I’m supposed to tag people…but I’m too lazy to start linking people up. So to anyone who wants to do this, feel free to do so. :)
I should get ready for work; I still need to buy a wedding gift for tomorrow. I need to do something unique today — this day comes once every four years, you know. :D
Next week, we’ll be moving out of our current office and transferring to a new yet older office (since this building is older than the one we’re occupying right now).
In a way I feel kind of sad that we’re moving out of our lovely 10-floors building where elevators are fast (so fast that we can even do elevator races and no one ever bothers to say “UP!” whenever an elevator is closing in on them, because the next elevator is already there), and we have an entire elevator wing to ourselves. Goodbye to the brighter walls and the non-magnetic cubicle walls, our HUGE pantry, and how we’ve all been comfortable in our spots for the last eight months. See?
Okay, our desks don’t really always look like that. This was taken six months ago, during the International Week at work. We planned to have our dogbone — as what we call our tables — decorated in a Pahiyas Festival theme with a GIANT sunflower. We did all of these in a day. =D That’s my table on the right side, the one with a Switchfoot wallpaper. It looks a lot less cluttered then, you should see my desk now. Heh.)
Yes, I’ll definitely miss my building. It feels as if I would never be step in that building anymore, which I know I still will, but not as often. Hay.
But I’m not dreading moving into the new-old building anyway. Though the elevators there are slower, and the walls and dogbones there are less colorful, the walls are magnetic, and we can pin stuff on the walls so at least there’s more “decorating” powers. Plus our team would not be isolated anymore since our Ops Lead and Ops Manager decided to put us right smack in the middle of the wing which we will occupy, in the middle of all the other teams where some hardly knew us. :P That should definitely perk things up, especially when it’s my turn to be on mid/night shift again. Come to think of it, it would be fun to go on night shift there again, since we’ll all be in one wing, and we won’t be “alone” outside from all the other teams. It would be just like a training room once again, since we have one whole wing to ourselves. :D
Yes, I believe in optimism, which is why I do not dread moving that much. :)
And speaking of decorating…if our walls weren’t as colorful as it is right now, I might do something like this. Hm, like I would really be able to do something like this; it’s hard enough to bring plants in at work, let alone maintain it. Hehe. But it’s a nice idea; if only we have something like Ikea or directbuy to get nice and cheap furniture stuff. I know there’s Ikea PH already, but I find some of their prices a bit too expensive. >_>
But that move isn’t for another week. I still have to focus on other more important things, like the upcoming Barangay Hall, the docs stuff, and yes, more work. But it’s okay, God’s with me anyway, and with Him, we can conquer everything. :)
So I woke up late again today because I slept early this morning, and the first thing I saw on TV was the Oscars on TV, which I ended up watching for the last one and a half hours in the comfort of our leather home theater seating (…which is how I liked to imagine it). :P Now, I’m not really much for foreign actors and actresses (heck, even local) as I’m not much of a movie watcher who remembers who the actors and actresses were unless I really loved the movie…so it wasn’t such a big thing for me. But I enjoyed watching the show, especially during Jon McLaughlin’s performance of So Close (Enchanted! ♥).
This made me remember my younger years when the “best” writing I can do was all done in scripts. I used to write Sailormoon episodes in script format back in elementary, where I made sure their new powers came out in my stories. When I stepped in high school, I became the default scriptwriter for our Ibong Adarna, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo plays and the Florante at Laura video. I loved doing it even if it required me to read ahead, because I get to deliver the story in dialog, which our books totally lacked back then. In college, we had a video production class, where I wrote a 25-page script for class, and then another one for our finals. I think that’s one of the reasons why I have a hard time writing descriptions in my novels. All the dialog in the scriptwriting made me rely on dialog. :P
I think that’s also the reason why I can see some — if not all — of my stories being filmed. At least in my imagination. Complete with soundtrack. Haha. I can imagine scenes that seemed to look better when done live than on paper. Or maybe that’s just my lack of descriptive powers (as of now) that’s making it like that.
I think it would be really cool to have your written works on screen…even if they sometimes butcher it. Heh. My friend Chris did that to one of my works in high school, which I never got to watch so I didn’t know how it turned out. ^^; But seriously, I’d love to have anything I’ve written be acted out. It doesn’t even have to be in Hollywood — it can be just in our local cinemas. Fall Like Rain? Whee.
But first, I have to finish writing that. :D
Enough of the daydreaming; I should get ready. Shopping with mom in a while! :)
Side comment: Ack, I feel like my writing is so…disorganized. I feel like I can’t gather my thoughts correctly and write them down on the blog. Eh, this is what stress does, I knew it.
I know, I know, I’ve been a very delinquent blogger lately, it’s not funny. My only excuse is that I’m very busy at work…and I’ve got a lot of things on my mind. Like…work. And all the other stuff that comes with it, like extracurricular activities, and projects and stuff. Eeeh. Hello, am I a workaholic? Eep. Plus the fact there’s nothing really interesting to write about now, because all I am busy about is…work.
Gah. I need a break.
Ironically, I took a break yesterday by watching a movie and going to Timezone and shopping with some of my college friends…and we all talked about our own work. Ack, it just doesn’t end! Why can’t we talk about something else…like HDMI switches? Or okay, maybe not, because why the heck would we be talking about that? Anyway.
Tomorrow…I mean today (since it’s already 12:45 am), I need to shop for a dress for an upcoming wedding. I plan to go out and get something since I didn’t get to buy a top yesterday, as well as get the wedding gift bought already. I’m torn between shopping by myself and shopping with someone. I like to shop with someone as it’s excellent bonding time, but sometimes it’s tiring, especially when there’s so many people. It’s also quite tiring shopping by myself because sometimes I don’t trust my taste. Eh. This is what happens when you hate to shop when you were young. >_>
But I need to find something to wear for that wedding…else I’ll end up wearing something I usually wear to work. That’s not good. Plus I want to buy white shoes too, since my shoes are just about to break.
So I guess I will go out tomorrow. I mean, later. MUST. GO. OUT. I’m going to end up using my new credit card (hereby named Lizzie) because I haven’t paid for Sylvia’s bill and I need to save cash. >_> And if I’m going shopping tomorrow, I should start my mantra already: I’m gonna find something nice that fits, I’m going to find something nice that fits…
Wait, that’s not my mantra.
I am beautiful the way I am, and I will find something that looks really great. I am beautiful the way I am, and I will find something that looks really great.
Ooookay. That should cover my semi-blog leave…by rambling. I really should sleep.
It just hit me. It’s February 17 today…which means only one more month till I turn 22.
Eeeeh. Just as when I’m really enjoying my being 21, I have to face turning into another age.
Then again…age is just a number. Right?
So now I’m thinking of what gimmick I shall be doing on my birthday. The fact that my birthday falls on a Holy Monday (for the first time ever since I can remember) kind of shortens the list, as I don’t want to have any parties or big eating things on the day itself as I plan to fast during Holy Week. That, and I’d probably be too tired to do anything since I have a scheduled team building with the IBM Club the weekend before my birthday.
Now…what to do, what to do…
I could just opt for shopping. My birthday IS after payday. :) New dress, new shoes, new underwear, new pants, tops, hoodia (okay, maybe not that), new books…or even a spa treatment. Like I said, no bigtime treats, except maybe for my family only — and let me just add yet, especially for people who’d visit this and react at that :P — but maybe I could bring something to work. Like…a dozen Krispy Kremes. Or something like that. I could also bake a cake — like that double layer chocolate cake I’ve been planning to make for the longest time — but I think I’d do that on Easter. Double celebration, yes? :)
That’s all I could think of for now. What’s really cool is that my dad’s going to be home on Holy Week. Yay. :) So la familia’s complete on my birthday. :D
My brother’s asking me for a wishlist, which I have yet to compile for this year. :D The one at the very top of my list is the bookshelf, followed by the external hard drive for Aslan. Of course, there’s the still much-awaited sunflower, or that I-can’t-believe-you-went-through-all-this birthday surprise…but a Pilot G-Tec C-4 0.4 black pen would be okay too. ;)
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