rubber band

Rubber band is a short length of rubber and latex formed into a loop. Its of course elastic and durable. But it also has its limit to the point that if you stretch it too much, it will break off...

Work has been great in the sense that I have been kept busy, pretty much engaged but still able to attain the much valued "work life balance". This is one of the reasons why I haven't been blogging lately. And the rest, well... let's just say I'm living life!

Two major events this February that happened in the past weeks have been:

Valentines Day
One of the most dreaded day. But if finally came with the hope that it wouldn't be the same as last year or the year before! Surprisingly, the night before I received some flowers from Joel, my cube mate. They were callalily flowers. The kind of flowers I liked. He gave them to 7 girls in the office including myself. He has been such a great cubie and I really appreciate all his help and time when I needed someone to chat with. I told him, he's future girlfriend (since he's still single) would probably be very pampered and lucky to have him as a boyfriend. Hope guys could be as thoughtful as him. I also received chocolates from Mommy Wheng (she's my confidante in terms of work and the pet peeves) and lastly Cadbury chocolate from hmmm...SECRET! Happy thought!
I finally realized how great the feeling is if you won't expect and it all just comes as a surprise. At the end of the busy and tiring day, I went home to my family happy and contented. I just wish we could've had more time to hang out that day. Of course it would just be dinner. But then again, any time spent with him is important to me.


BORACAY!!!
The following day we were off to Boracay. Took a flight from Cebu to Kalibo, Aklan! Rode the coaster from Kalibo to Caticlan and finally a pump boat ride from Caticlan to Boracay. Another never-have-thought-I-could-be-here moment. A dream come true. The sand was so fine and the company I was with - maia, ipay, rhea, edu, jon, bing, andy, canence, sly and che - were great bunch! All the time I was there, I couldn't help but think how I wish someday I could bring my family here to enjoy the beach. It was an island with a long stretch beach and lotsa people in beach shorts and bikinis. More on this on the next blog!

The week after I'm back to being a rubber band. There were times I was to break but then I bounced back to being a loop. I am elastic and durable! I should get through whatever turmoil and stretching there could ever be...

Pet Peeves

I'm not the type of person who holds grudges. If you cross me just give it at most a day for me to recover and the following day, everything's back to normal. But this time, this pet peeves' voice keep ringing in my ear. Her high pitched complaints, her swearing and even her evil laugh haunts my dreams. I'm supposed to just shut it and go on with my work and the rest of my life but she's every where. She's just actually across me...How can I avoid commenting when every time she speaks she makes a fool of her self trying to make a fool out of everybody. Yes what we've got here is a miss-no-it-all b*tch! I should slap myself for trusting her with things about me not expecting that she might use it someday to embarrass me in front of everybody. But I let that point pass because its not too destructive of my reputation. But then comes arguments with regards to work. Trying to set professionalism into play, I calmly explained my side trying my best to sound patient and calm but then her selfishness paved way to her stupidity and waived her capacity to comprehend the process of what we are doing. Steam was coming out of my ears and my face was red and I felt like I was having a fever all of a sudden. Instead of arguing more which by the way I so dislike, I walked away. I went first to Louise's cube to vent out silently, cried a bit to let the steam off and then went to Rhea's cube to laugh it off. Somebody saw me crying and asked. I was tempted to give a bit of what happened and it turned out the entire people in the office well except for her so-called ally disliked her attitude. Then I realized I pity her, she might have friends but someday, they may also leave her because of her bad attitude and foul words.
We'll be having our training for Advanced Smartforms and Advanced IDOCs next week so I won't probably be able to chat and answer emails right away. I'll probably stay as far away from her as possible. There goes my pet peeves for the week... I hope it'll be better next week.