It's Been 16 months!

The last time I posted anything was back in Feb 2009. It has been 1 year and 4 months since my last blog entry. Wow, this feels like a confessional box.

A LOT has happened in the past 16 months... and yet, i'm still as single as ever! Waah!

But, I'm older, wiser, less hair due to stress... wider, but not taller... got more gadgets... and more friends!

Just dropped by to say hello to my blog. Hope I get to update this more often. This is all FB's fault, I just got hooked! Hehehe!

till next time... hope it won't take another 16months.

PC CPR

As if i'm not already stressed out with problems in the office and at home, my computer decided to conk out and die on me the other day. GRRR!!!!

Good thing all those years I spent in Technical support paid off and I was able to breathe new life into my computer by doing a full format and recovery. God bless FFR's!!!

I spent a total of 1 hour and 36 minutes to recuscitate my laptop, and VOILA!!! It's alive! It's Alive!!!

tendencies

I knew I had criminal tendencies all along.

But what I never knew was that....

when my criminal instincts start to rear its ugly horns,

murder, surprisingly,

is not priority.

Lately, those instincts have been pushed to the limits

and yet I'm finding myself rather calm.

When left alone with my criminal instincts, my creativity blossoms

and when it does, it scares me.

Glory Days are here

We had a slight problem last Saturday. We couldn't decide what to do with our team's prize money. Should we spend it all in one go? Should we use it for lunch or another Teambuilding trip? Should we go to this place or that place? How much exactly do we have?

It's the kind of problem that I like to have.

In the end, we decided to flex our gastric muscles and push the limits of our blood pressure. We ate lunch at Seaside in Metrowalk for 3 1/2 kilos of Shrimp Tempura and 3 kilos of Calamari. We stayed on till 3pm just talking, laughing and getting drunk. Grabe si Clyde, lalong dumadami yung kulot pag nalalasing.

And siyempre, puro picture taking kami at that time. More pictures are available here.



It was a great celebration, the money was used wisely. Paul couldn't have said it any better "Pinaghirapan natin to." They really deserve it!

We can truly say that we have gotten back the Glory Days!

Perfect team!

It's official. The team won the Perfect Team Award for October!!!

For the whole month of October, the Aardvarks had perfect attendance, no absences at all!!! It's amazing! This is the second time that the team was able to pull it off. They still hold the record.

Congratulations Aardvarks!

Leap of Fun

Here I am having fun with the Hyenas in Pansol, Laguna last Tuesday. This was definitely one of the highlights, JUMPING INTO THE POOL!!!

Can you imagine how low the water level dropped after this jump?!!! Hehe!

TSUNAMI!!!!!!

Sarah and Jaypee

I know it's kinda late na, coz this all happened last week. Pero I just wanna express how proud I am of my peeps. Two more people from my former team, got promoted again. Congratulations Mami Sarah for being a Coach track trainee and for Jaypee for being and SME track trainee. I'm so proud of you!

I wanna take credit, pero I can't. Hehe! They deserve the promotion coz they really worked very hard, (teka, mukhang di yata bagay kay Jaypee, hehe!). O well, tapos na mga petiks moments mo Jaypee, pero all the same, I'm so happy for you. At last, natupad na ang mga plano natin for you.


Mami Sarah, sometimes when I see you swamped with work, medyo nagi-guilty ako kasi parang lalo kang nahirapan... pero I know that you can handle all the workload, and I know that you'll be one of the best coaches in the company. You had it in you all along. I'm here to support you all the way!

Congrats again! Big Mama proud!

Glory days are near

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I'm so proud of the Aardvarks! The past week alone, they have exceeded my expectations, they have proven that they are the new team to beat!

First, we had an awesome time in our first team building outing in Laguna. Everyone pitched in to make it a success. Walang arte arte, everyone was game. We laughed, danced, sang, ate, swam and laughed some more. It was the perfect opportunity to see teamwork at its best.




They also proved they still got the charm. They worked really hard to pull up their metrics and stats. Their CSAT scores were in low for the first 3 weeks of October. But on the 4th and 5th week, they kept their eyes on the prize and finished the month within goal. Their CSAT score went up through the roof and even got 93% for the 5th week of October. Galing galing!

After that, in the same week, the team won The Best Halloween Decorations. They defended their title and has been the champion 2 years in a row.

And finally, this team is the one of the last 2 contenders for the "Perfect Team Award" for October. We are trying to break our own record of being the only team who has perfect attendance for 1 whole month. 5 days to go, and we're so excited!

Haah! I can see that the Glory Days are so near! I'm so proud of you guys! Keep up the good work and remember to have fun!

lapnos

After a sleepless, hectic and grueling week, I'm finally able to sit down and update my blog. SHAKS! I miss blogging. I miss my ka-bloggers. I miss sharing my mundane thoughts to the world. I miss the freedom to express my feelings, thoughts and creativity.

When everything is a whirl and frantic mess, God finds a way to get your attention and teach you a lesson. In my case, it was in the form of a LAPNOS. Yup! I have 3rd degree burns on my left leg. It literally forced me to 'sit down' and 'stay put'. So now, I have no choice but to relax, heal and on the upside, get back to blogging. Galing talaga!

It was either an act of God or katangahan ko na naman. I went grocery shopping last night with Tek, Kujo and Mommy in Hi-top. After shopping, they went ahead in the parking lot and passed by through the side entrance near Henny Penny. Since naiwan ako, I decided to go through the front. It was really crowded kasi daming cars passing by and motorcycles parked in front.

I miscalculated, forgot my body's dimensions, and tried to squeeze in between two motorcycles... feeling payat kasi. So walking sideways, my leg accidentally touched the searing hot engine of one of the motorcycles. Then I felt a sharp burning pain down one leg...when I bent over to take a look, a large patch of skin was dangling from the hot pink flesh. Grabe! It was sooo painful!!!!


I had to put a cold cream on it to prevent the flesh from dehydrating and getting infected. Right now I'm nursing it with petroleum jelly. This is a first for me. I've never had a major burn wound in my life. Not fun at all. Muntik na maging crispy pata yung paa ko.

As the old adage goes, 'every cloud has a silver lining', and I totally agree. This injury was a gift, really. I have time to heal and rest, time to update my blog, time to chat with my friends... and I get to have breakfast in bed! Hehehe!!

blog update

I know I've been neglecting my blog lately. I just kinda lost momentum coz life just got too busy.

I'm not really complaining, I like to be busy. Especially if I'm doing things that are worthwhile.

I'm finally done with "The Project", YIPEE!!!! (that's for me to know and you to find out). Let's just say that it's something that's loooonnnggg overdue. I may have missed my deadline by 10 days but at least it's done now. I'm feeling good about that. Now it's time to synchronize swatches and make sure all efforts are according to plan.

In the meantime, it's time to get some rest and vacation. I've lots of trips lined up in the next few weeks.

Promise to keep my blog updated about that!