I'll be off to Bicol this coming Thursday evening, and will be back in the city Monday morning. A doctor-friend invited me to go on this trip, and I agreed right away because I've been longing to go back to Bicol. I might also have a chance to go to the beach there, but looks like I'll be going to the hot springs instead. Ah, wherever! I just need to get away from here.

I haven't had any decent sleep since yesterday. I went to this company yesterday to apply for work. In a breeze, I passed the inital interview, the skills test, and (I think) the final interview with the HR Manager (I suppose he is the one). After the interview, which wasn't well in my own standards, I was told that I still have to take this technical course/exam. I was quite disappointed because I knew I answered all the technical questions correctly, except for all the questions about Macintosh! What the fuck? I don't know anything about Mac! I used it once last year when I tried out for a part-time job in a photo company and it made a complete idiot out of myself.

About the job, I'm not sure if I'm going to take it. Here are the reasons:

1. First reason is that the workplace is located in Ortigas. If I'll be working graveyard again, I can probably still bring a car. Thing is, I'm tired of working graveyard. If I will be assigned in the morning shift, commuting will be more tiring for me and I also find it unsafe.

2. I still have to find out how much they're going to pay me for my salary. If it's just the same shit that I'll be getting (although I'm sure they will have additional allowances and bigger Night Differential pay) I may not take it right away. I hope they'll consider paying me my salary expectation I've written in their form. And in relation to my first reason, the travel allowance should be enough to pay for my transportation.

3. Quite hesitant to go back to the call center industry. The work I'm currently into is less stressful than what Technical Support Representatives working in a call center are getting. They get shouted at, they hear bludgeoning insults until their ears bleed and all they can say in return is "I understand your situation and I'm very sorry if you feel that way." Bullshit! In our company, if we get bashed by our callers, we can report those assholes to our superiors. At least something can be done.

4. We only have two sets of rest days: Thursday-Friday and Saturday-Sunday. In the call center industry, any day can be your rest day, and I hate that!

5. I'm gonna be on my ninth month next week, I was contemplating that I should at least complete a year of my stay. In my resume, my 2 previous jobs are at least a year old. It would've looked better in my resume that I worked years, not months.

6. Our company is still promising. It just turned a year and it is still growing. I am a loyal person and I want to stick to something which has potential. Why leave so early?

The thing is, I can't be loyal for now because my loyalty doesn't pay all the bills I have. We still have issues about not getting allowances and not increasing our Night Differential pay. We know we don't work in a call center but since we operate like one, we are paid like shit compared to those call center people who are earning much more. How long do I have to wait for them to give us the raise we've been waiting for? 

It's 6:28pm and I still haven't got enough sleep yet. I haven't drove to Bicol since January but I know I can handle it. I don't feel excited. Maybe things will change when I'm already there, where I can take a dip in one of their hot springs and probably get a chance to go to a beach in a nearby island.

I wish nothing bad happens during this trip.

Allergies again struck me as I woke up scratching my left ball (my left eyeball I mean and not the other "ball" ) and an hour later I started sneezing and used tissue paper for the rest of the afternoon. I wanted to go out! It's a Saturday for Pete's sakes! But I don't wanna go out with this condition. Now I'm having a slight headache... I feel terribly awful! <sigh>

Oh, you might be asking where I am allergic to. I actually don't know, and I've been trying to find that out for the past couple of years. A doctor told me last year that I have rhinitis, and it's something hereditary. I had to deal with it for months then for some reason it was gone. Now it's coming back again but I hope it will not disturb me any longer.

I've watched Spiderman 2 yesterday and it was amazing! (Yeah like the Amazing Spiderman!) Indeed, it's better than the first one and I can't imagine what the third installment would look like. However, my appreciation of the movie was quite disrupted by rude people inside the moviehouse. How many times are we told that we should turn our mobile devices off or at least put them into silent mode inside the cinema? Unfortunately, pinoys are still fuckin' stubborn about this kind of etiquette. I was so into the movie yesterday and during the key points of the movie, someone in the back would answer his cellphone with his loud annoying ringtone and he said "O, bakit ka tumawag?" Would you believe he did that three times, the last one happened when Mary Jane Watson went to Peter Parker's place they were having this special moment with each other! I was so into this scene, when that fucking person in the back did it again!!! And he said his "O, bakit ka tumawag?" very annoyingly loud!!! People reacted but it seems he doesn't care. He doesn't look jologs but what he did makes him one! My goodness! It happened 3 times and he doesn't feel ashamed of himself?!? I was tempted to kick him yesterday while going out of the cinema but I controlled myself.

I wanna watch something tonight but I don't know which. Kill Bill Volume 2 is already showing as well as Mean Girls. Thinking of going for a CineManila movie but still can't decide yet. I also have an interesting idea to do on Monday, watch a 9 hour movie which took the director 9 years to make! Deym! I wonder how it feels to watch that kind of movie. He He He!

As you would noticed, I haven't blogged for more than a week already. A lot of things happened since the last day I blogged. As much as I want to tell you about it, I'd rather not. Besides, I'm not really in the mood to do so.

I'll be working overtime tonight. I need all the extra money that I could earn. For several days already, I'm tempted to ask my dad if he's willing to hire me to do some extra stuff here in the office during daytime. If he agrees, I hope he can give me the salary that I used to earn before, which is really not much for people like me but would greatly help with the money I earn from my evening work. By the way, I plan to work full-time in the mornings. Do I sound crazy? I might be, but like what I've said, I need all the money that I could earn. Imagine this... daytime work starts at 8:30am and ends up to 5:30pm. If I am able to get a work schedule of 6:00pm for my nightjob, i'll be able to go to the office in 30 minutes. That schedule ends at 2:30 am. Within a few minutes I'll be able to go home and sleep before 3am, then wake up at 8am in time for me to work at 8:30am. If I don't get the 6:00pm slot, I can ask for a 11:30pm - 8am schedule and in 30 minutes I'll be in time for work at 8:30am-5:30pm. Sleep immediately at 5:30pm and wake up at 11:00pm then go to the other office.

It sounds unrealistic but I think I can pull it off. Besides, there are times that I don't get to sleep a full 8 hours so better make use of the extra time to work. And the work I'll be getting is less stressful - it wouldn't take a toll on me, maybe just my health...