Leaving the nightshift

Finally.

It was bittersweet really. Last night was my last night as a "call girl." No I didn't resign, and no I won't leave the industry. It's just that I chose to be transferred to the correspondence department where people don't take calls and report for work like the rest of the world does - during office hours.

I'll miss my former teammates. I'm hoping we'll still go out on weekends. What I won't miss is the hypertension brought about by controlling my temper too much. I am well known for my patience during calls. Little do they know I have this volcano of a temper waiting to errupt.

Earlier I spent my last nightshift yosi break with a good friend. Without us saying it I know that we're both sad. He'll transfer to the same department, btw, but I'm leaving ahead of him.

I don't even want to start saying goodbye. I can't change my mind now.

That's why on Saturday, Imma round up the old crazyheads and party like there's no tomorrow.

To my former teammates: guys, I love you. I've said this a lot of times but I'll say it again. I stayed because I have you. Because our laughtrips are enough to make me forget that I hate taking calls. Because our friendship is suffice to make me love my work. Rest assured, I'll forever remember you as my family.

And let me say this one last time... "Thank you for calling and I hope you have a great day."

If I Were a Rockstar...

So I gave in. First it was Deiah, now it's Ronan. It's pretty interesting how random things seem to fall comfortably into place. Here it is, my so-called "Album Cover"


image: image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/higriega/3286005953/
quotation: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)


To get urs, follow these instructions..
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1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... Read More”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

5 - Post it!!

What We Need to Learn as Adults We've Learned in Kindergarten

Here's an episode of Pocoyo that made me tear up inside.
It was cute-funny and I swear I laughed so damn hard.
But then again it made my eyes well up more than it made me laugh.

Shallow, huh?

Watch. Maybe you'll understand why.








"Some things, like lost balloons, simply don't come back and there's nothing anyone can do about that."

"Hooray for having friends who wouldn't float away!"

My Halloween Birthday Thingie

Start:	Feb 28, '09 8:00p
End:	Mar 1, '09 10:00a

WaMu-Lion King Prod Team goes OOT

One hour trip from QC home to Makati office + 2-hour-trip from office to Laguna: WHILE NURSING A RATHER MEAN HANGOVER from the bday celeb I attended the night before.

Fell asleep while cloudwatching along the way

Relief Operation: Food and Booze for the Party Animals

Cookfest

Beerfest

Extra Joss Session

Hubaran + Hawakan ng itlog. *Grabe, ang dami daming ITLOG!!!*

Lesson ni Ma'am Mila

Lunod-lunuran

Videoke hanggang bumigay ang mic

Operation: Patahimikin si QA Jack sa pamamagitan ng siling labuyo

Experiment: Pwede bang matulog sa ilalim ng tubig?

Kapaan ng mga kung anuman

Takutan session ni Mama Nikki

Underwater challenge: balls of steel

Dodgebuko

Incriminating Photos

Gloria Jean's for four camwhores

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For you guys' downloading pleasure. Please suggest captions. Di ko ito kayang mag-isa. LOLx.

Goodnight, Lola.

My last grandparent passed away last Saturday. Lola Sion was 88 years old when she died peacefully in her sleep. Year after year she'd ask us to visit her because she felt that her time was arriving. This time it did.

Nanay broke the sad sad news to me first. I cried. I cried not because I didn't want to lose her. It's unfair to want to keep her here. She doesn't belong here. None of us does. It's just that I'm awfully gonna miss her.

I'll miss her nagging. I'll miss her asking yosi from me. I'll miss her stories. I'll miss her telling me that a proper lady shouldn't be driving. I'll miss her sermon on why it's better to eat vegetables and fish instead of McDo and Jollibee.

I'll miss her. Period.

Lola, thanks for taking care of us during our summer vacations when we were younger and more adventorous. Thank you for not sending us back to Manila when we almost killed your poultry when we set hay on fire to cook Kasuy. Thank you for letting us slip effortlessly away in the middle of the day to play habulan in the fields. Thank you for the mashed tomatoes that went well with most anything grilled.

But most of all, thank you for being our Lola.

Sayang Lola, di na natuloy ang panlalalake natin. Ikaw kasi, pakipot ka pa. Huwag mo kong isusumbong kay Lolo ha. Sabihin mo joke lang yun.

I love you, Lola. I'll never forget you. May God be with you.

And Lola, hamunin mo ng 41 yung mga tao dyan. I'm sure you'll beat them black and blue. =)

Your apo,
Lovelyn

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pic: My Lola's wall with pictures of her clan.

Tears for my Alma Mater

i'm still gathering my thoughts on this. here are some articles for now:


http://www.gmanews.tv/story/144601/Ex-adviser-Penalized-student-bloggers-not-notorious-kids

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/144361/College-editors-may-file-complaint-vs-QCSHS-for-suspending-pupils-over-blog

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090115-183564/Group-hits-suspension-of-QCSHS-students




in a nutshell, four students got suspended for ten days because they posted hate blogs. they posted hate blogs because they don't like what's happening at and to their school and they are suppressed to air their sides.

then they let go of probably the best teacher ever - one who'd train batch after batch after batch of future journalists to excellence. i should know. in was with batch 1.

had enough? they apparently haven't. they had to shut off the school papers!

I AM SO ANGRY I WANT TO WRITE THEIR NAMES ON MY DEATHNOTE. just kidding. but I am so upset. I am so damn angry.