There’s a lot of things to be happy about today. First of all, traffic was not that bad on the way to the office. Although there were a couple of cars who were very slow on the road, as if they were walking on the park or is just plain slow! And then when I got here at McKinley Hill and onto the parking lot, I saw a car going out of a slot… so I raced towards that direction and parked. Its quite near our building which is the first time I ever parked that near since we moved here in McKinley Hill. Another happy news is that my colleagues from Alabang will moved here on Monday! *joy* I know its only been a week since I last saw them, but we’ve been friends for two years (we all joined the company last August 2006) so just imagine the *bond* we have. And finally, I’m on leave tomorrow! *lol* I need to go to LTO for car registration tomorrow as it is the last day of the month (talk about procrastination). I also plan to go to a car shop and have my car glammed up, eh? I just plan to have new car tints, leather seating (or maybe a new seat cover), and probably have it auto detailed or if my budget doesn’t permit me then have it car washed only. *lol*

What’s keeping me busy here at work are ebooks! Ok, maybe only one ebook. But I plan to read some more… I just need to finish this one I’m reading and I’m off to find new ebooks to read. Right now, I’m currently reading PS I Love You by Cecilia Ahern. I’ve seen the movie before reading the book, and the movie and the book in concpet is the same but the story is very different Its day 3 today of reading the ebook, I just cannot concentrate at times because a boss might pass by the area and see me reading nonsense. *lol* Oh well… Need to stop blogging now.

Weird title ‘no? But that’s what happened today.

Frustration
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So my boyfriend and I planned to go to Asian Hospital at the Maxicare Representative clinic to have our respective check ups. We’ve been planning this since last December. I even called up the Maxicare hotline and even the Maxicare at Asian Hospital to confirm if they are open during weekends, Saturday to be specific. And both confirmed they’re open on Saturdays. Even the person I talked to at Asian Hospital told me that they’re open as early as 8:30AM and that we should arrive earlier because there’s a lot of people/patients during Saturdays. So when we got there it was already 9AM and guess what? At the front door it says that their office hours is at 10AM!!! But they we’re telling the truth when they said that there’s a lot of patients already waiting. So we waited until 9:30AM and the clinic was open but not by the Maxicare representative… it was for another clinic/doctor that has nothing to do with Maxicare. You see, Maxicare is just sharing a room with other doctors. The assistant of one of the doctors we’re calling and coordinating with Maxicare. And from what I heard the representative is on leave and Maxicare could not tell who will be reporting at Asian Hospital. A lot of patients we’re already waiting… I cannot breath because of the crowd in the clinic So my boyfriend and I just decided to leave. We will just try our luck at the Megamall branch next time

Shopping
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To vent out all of my frustrations, I went shopping. *lol* What an excuse huh? How I wish I could hit the jackpot at any internet casino website so I can just buy everything I see and like. So for my recent purchases, I bought a new black pants it was at 10% off. I also bought an orange t-shirt for 250Php, it’s very seldom that I get to buy a t-shirt for that cheap considering my size. And I also bought an office bag for just 290Php!! Original price was 899.75Php at Robinson’s Department store but apparently they’re on sale. I really couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the price because it was so cheap. I had to ask the saleslady if that’s the correct amount. *lol* And the finale of my purchase, is a new Creative ZEN. I was really looking forward to buy the 3rd generation iPod Nano. But all the stores we have checked out only carries the iPod Nanochromatic, so I ended up buying the Zen instead. What I like about it is that it has a card slot, so the memory is expandable I now need to search for a screen protector and a case for my new gadget.

What’s up? Just what I have mentioned on my previous blog, our company moved to a new location. So the usual 15 minute drive from home to office doubled. I now have to wake up earlier than usual so I can leave by 7am and arrive at the office by 8am. It’s really boring in the new location. There are no malls nearby so lunch breaks is spent at the office. If only I could play online casino games during my break time… But most sites are blocked. I even could not access my Plurk. Some of my colleagues are still at our Alabang office; I was just part of the first wave of employees to move to the new location since I as well as the other first wave of employees still do not have any projects at the meantime. So it’s really pretty boring even during work hours. I just hope I will be assigned to a new project soon. Or I hope my colleagues from Alabang office get to move soon so it won’t be that boring anymore at the office.

We will be moving offices tomorrow. Since our company has many employees, the move will be done gradually. Lucky or unlucky for me, I am part of the first wave of employees that’ll move on Monday. Let’s focus on the unlucky part first.

Unlucky because first of all it will be much far from where our house is. For the past two years, I can wake up at 8:00am and leave home by 8:30am so I can be by the office minutes before 9am. But now with the move, I have to wake up earlier. Make that 3 hours earlier. Then comes the time when we can leave the office, I can leave the office at 6pm and be at home before 7pm. Now, I will still leave at 6pm but by 7pm for sure I’m still in the bus or shuttle on the way home. I’ll be leaving home early but will be getting home late. Unlucky because I promised I’ll stay healthy by going to the gym every morning before going to work. Since the gym is walking distance from the office, I can do my work out by 7am and then still be at the office by 9am. That will not happen now I just have to do my work out on the weekends… Good luck to my goal Unlucky because most of my batchmates will not be moving yet. So I have no one I can comfortably talk to

Now for the lucky part, of course I need to think of ways to negate all the unlucky things I just said. *lol* My network will grow definetely. Since I have no choice but to mingle with who I am with at the office. So everyday I might have a new friend or acquiantance *yay* I’ll be moving out of my comfort zone, which is a good thing right?

I still have mixed feelings with the move. I’m excited and at the same time sad. It will be hard leaving the place that I grew up in terms of my career. That office was where I thought everything I know so far. Also I feel bad that I was not able to assist my counterpart on my last day because I had to go to the Makati office for a training I just hope everything is ok now. But then again, new place, new colleagues, new experiences.

So how was everyone’s first day at work or at school? Mine was pretty boring. Well, I started the day by going to the gym and then by 9am I was at the office already. My counterpart from India starts to go online at around 11am. Since there’s a 2 hour time difference between Philippines and India. So while waiting for her I started to back up my files and also researched on the problem she reported to me since last week. After lunch, that’s when my counterpart and I started to have a meeting. I’ll spare you the details because that’s too technical. But at the end of the day we still couldn’t figure out what’s wrong. So continuation will be today… After publishing this hopefully she’s online and we could start comparing and solving the problem.