emblazedParadox

me vs. my other half

2009-10-25T23:10:00.000-07:00

yaay! it's been when since I last posted somethin' here??!! blame it on a lot of things especiallly my second managed blog that steals all my posts from this blog! I'll second the motion if anyone would say that this blog is totally left behind! huhu

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THIS AND MY OTHER BLOG:
1. this blog is for my personal issues about my personal life! So everythin' happenin' to me, the emotions and all that cheesy stuff, they're all posted here. My other blog is for me to sustain my fanatic addiction about Lady Gaga, kpop and everythin' that I'm a fan of.

2.this blog is kinda old and the layout is sort of so ordinary compared to my other blog's layout. That matters a lot since a blog's layout plays a big impact on the blog's whole package ait'??

AND THE REASON WHY I SELDOM WRITE ON THIS BLOG:
nowadays, I just feel that my whole self is eaten up by my fanatic persona! Especially right now that I'm goin' gaga and drooling over Taeyang and over Taeyang's hot abs *drool*! and how can I not be a fan if all the updates about him are served to me in a silver platter? there's alwaystaeyang that spoils me with every Taeyang thing I could ever possibly imagine, and TvAnts is also present in giving way for my kpop addiction, and here's twitter that lets me follow lyle beniga, shaun evaristo and aimee lee lucas! see, even this part of the blog is dedicated to Taeyang! and you can't blame me!

another reason would be, there's nothing new about me personally. I'm just stuck in front of my desktop nowadays since it's sembreak celebration,meaning-->more hours to be updated with all my fanatic idols through the internet! and what's worst is that, our next semester's schedule is gonna spoil me again with my fanatic addiction since our classes will start at 11am everyday! that gives me a lot of hours to be fanatically updated! whew! I can't blame myself with that now! haha

okay, you might be wonderin'..what's this pic doin' here??
ANSWER: nothin'..just speakin' of sembreak, kinda miss my classmates.. without them, I will not be able to be mean and bad! haha! they let me improve these skills! mishoo all Tiumpenz! see y'all next semester!

credits to El Parac for the pic and credits to me for uploadin' it here! lol

my other half

2009-09-13T01:28:00.000-07:00

I have finally created another blog about anything and everything I can criticize and praise..

visit my other new blogspot account..

http://theethileenireseeffect.blogspot.com

Pickup Line Comebacks

2009-08-29T23:19:00.000-07:00

Man: "Haven't we met before?"
Woman: "Yes, I'm the receptionist at the VD Clinic."

Man: "Haven't I seen you someplace before?
Woman: "Yeah, that's why I don't go there anymore."

Man: "Is this seat empty?"
Woman: "Yes, and this one will be too if you sit down."

Man: "So, wanna go back to my place ?"
Woman: "Well, I don't know. Will two people fit under a rock?"

Man: "Your place or mine?"
Woman: "Both. You go to yours and I'll go to mine."

Man: "I'd like to call you. What's your number?"
Woman: "It's in the phone book."
Man: "But I don't know your name."
Woman: "That's in the phone book too."

Man: "So what do you do for a living?"
Woman: "I'm a female impersonator."

Man: "What sign were you born under?"
Woman: "No Parking."

Man: "Hey, baby, what's your sign?"
Woman: "Do not Enter"

Man: "How do you like your eggs in the morning?"
Woman: "Unfertilized !"

Man: "Hey, come on, we're both here at this bar for the same reason"
Woman: "Yeah! Let's pick up some chicks!"

Man: "I'm here to fulfill your every sexual fantasy."
Woman: "You mean you've got both a donkey and a Great Dane?"

Man: "I know how to please a woman."
Woman: "Then please leave me alone."

Man: "I want to give myself to you."
Woman: "Sorry, I don't accept cheap gifts."

Man: "I can tell that you want me."
Woman: "Ohhhh. You're so right. I want you to leave."

Man: "If I could see you naked, I'd die happy:
Woman: "Yeah, but if I saw you naked, I'd probably die laughing."

Man: "Hey cutie, how 'bout you and I hitting the hot spots?"
Woman: "Sorry, I don't date outside my species.."

Man: "Your body is like a temple."
Woman: "Sorry, there are no services today."

Man: "I'd go through anything for you."
Woman: "Good! Let's start with your bank account."

Man: "I would go to the end of the world for you.
Woman: "Yes, but would you stay there?"

source: http://www.jokesandhumor.com/jokes/18.html

Long Time Plans for Intrams

2009-08-20T05:34:00.000-07:00

and the loOong wait is FINALLY over... Intramurals is finally rushing in and my excitement is not about my desire to show my athletic skill to the crowd coz I don't even have that at all!! My athletic skills are just nowhere to be found! What I'm most excited about are the number of days that there would be no assignments, tests, awakened-by-the-alarm-of-my-phone-but-still-i-am-late days, till-9-pm laboratory schedules and all those stuff that makes every student shiver..Well I guess, every student deserves a break and the teachers as well!

Now, what am I gonna do with the almost-one-week vacation?? EVERYTHING!!

Plans:
1. update and redecorate my 'Strangeville' village in SIMS2 (it's already been a long time since I used this application. Sort of missed it!)

2. buy new furnitures and decors for the waterworld-inspired room of my pet Azunsion in pet Society

3. level up my points in Restaurant City so I could hire another employee... I'm dying to have one!

4.do my programming activities in my Intelligent Systems subject. I'm still doubtful about this since I can't force myself to have some interest about it but I am still keeping my fingers crossed that by the end of the vacation, I can finish all the activities *cross cross cross*

5.and the rest,I still need to think about! My problem is...lots of things are going into my mind and I am wondering which should come first and least! hmmm... Hope this problem would occur frequently... and not problems that would ask for stressful analysis and solution that should be written on papers *Assembly* *ehem* *Intelligent Systems* *ehem*

Desperate Joke

2009-08-07T03:47:00.000-07:00

Student1 had a wound on his index finger..

Student1: "Hala papercut!"

Student2: "Duh, papercut ka dyan! para lang jud naay english imong samad!"

get it??!!

Found At Last!

2009-08-03T04:53:00.000-07:00

There's this article that a co-trainee of mine let me read during summer. It was a 3-page article but she only gave me 2 pages for me to read on. I was really thrilled to borrow the last page but I wasn't able to do so just until I filed my resignation letter and never saw my co-trainee again.

The article bugged me again when my Sociology teacher gave us an assignment.. We were given a topic and we need to discuss it in front of the class for 20 points. My discussion was about a characteristic of culture and that is "Culture is shared". The article was then the first thing that came up to my mind since it would be a very effective article to discuss that is somehow related to the discussion. I've been browsing the net for the article since I don't have any contact with my co-trainee and what a joy to fortunately find the article during our illegal use of internet on the laboratory(ssshhh..)

and here's the article that I've been looking for, for hours. It's an article written by a British journalist, Matthew Sutherland who spent six years here in the Philippines. The article was written in the year 1999. It's about his amazement, amusement about our pinoy culture.

A Matter of Taste by Matthew Sutherland

I have now been in this country for over six years, and consider myself in most respects well-assimilated. However, there is one key step on the road to full assimilation which I have yet to take, and that's to eat BALUT. The day any of you sees me eating balut, please call immigration and ask them to issue me a Filipino passport. At that point there will be no turning back.

BALUT, for those still blissfully ignorant non-Pinoys out there, is a fertilized duck egg. It is commonly sold with salt in a piece of newspaper, much like English fish and chips, by street vendors usually after dark, presumably so you can't see how gross it is. It's meant to be an aphrodisiac, although I can't imagine anything more likely to dispel sexual desire than crunching on a partially-formed baby duck swimming in noxious fluid. The embryo in the egg comes in varying stages of development, but basically it is not considered macho to eat one without fully discernable feathers, beak, and claws. Some say these crunchy bits are the best. Others prefer just to drink the so-called 'soup', the vile, pungent liquid that surrounds the aforementioned feathery fetus...excuse me, I have to go and throw up now. I'll be back in a minute. Food dominates the life of the Filipino. People here just love to eat. They eat at least eight times a day. These eight official meals are called, in order: breakfast, snacks, lunch, merienda, pica-pica, pulutan, dinner, and no-one-saw-me-take-that-cookie-from-the-fridge-so-it-doesn't-count. The short gaps in between these mealtimes are spent eating Sky Flakes from the open packet that sits on every desktop. You're never far from food in the Philippines. If you doubt this, next time you're driving home from work, try this game. See how long you can drive without seeing food and I don't mean a distant restaurant, or a picture of food. I mean a man on the sidewalk frying fish balls, or a man walking through the traffic selling nuts or candy. I bet it's less than one minute.

Here are some other things I've noticed about food in the Philippines. Firstly, a meal is not a meal without rice-even breakfast. In the UK, I could go a whole year without eating rice. Second, it's impossible to drink without eating. A bottle of San Miguel just isn't the same without gambas or beef tapa. Third, no one ventures more than two paces from their house without baon and a container of something cold to drink. You might as well ask a Filipino to leave home without his pants on. And lastly, where I come from, you eat with a knife and fork. Here, you eat with a spoon and fork. You try eating rice swimming in fish sauce with a knife.

One really nice thing about Filipino food culture is that people always ask you to SHARE their food. In my office, if you catch anyone attacking their baon, they will always go. "Sir!" KAIN TAYO!" ("Let's eat!"). This confused me, until I realized that they didn't actually expect me to sit

Down and start munching on their boneless bangus. In fact, the polite Response is something like, "No thanks, I just ate." But the principle is sound-if you have food on your plate, you are expected to share it, however hungry you are, with those who may be even hungrier. I think that's great. In fact, this is frequently even taken one step further. Many Filipinos use "Have you eaten yet?" ("KUMAIN KA NA?") As a general greeting, irrespective of time of day or location. Some foreigners think Filipino food is fairly dull compared to other Asian cuisines. Actually lots of it is very good: spicy dishes like Bicol Express (strange, a dish named after a train); anything cooked with coconut milk; anything KINILAW; and anything ADOBO.

And it's hard to beat the sheer wanton, cholesterholic frenzy of a good old-fashioned LECHON de leche feast. Dig a pit, light a fire, add 50 pounds of animal fat on a stick, and cook until crisp. Mmm, mmm... you can actually feel your arteries constricting with each successive mouthful.

I also share one key Pinoy trait ---a sweet tooth. I am thus the only foreigner I know who does not complain about sweet bread, sweet burgers, sweet spaghetti, sweet banana ketchup, and so on. I am a man who likes to put jam on his pizza. Try it! It's the weird food you want to avoid.

Duck fetus in the half-shell, items to avoid in the Philippines include pig's blood soup (DINUGUAN); bull's testicle soup, the strangely-named "SOUP NUMBER FIVE" (I dread to think what numbers one through four are)and the ubiquitous, stinky shrimp paste, BAGOONG, and it's equally stinky sister, PATIS.

Filipinos are so addicted to these latter items that they will even risk arrest or deportation trying to smuggle them into countries like Australia and the USA, which wisely ban the importation of items you can smell from more than 100 paces.

Then there's the small matter of the blue ice cream. I have never been able to get my brain around eating blue food; the ubiquitous UBE leaves me cold.

And lastly on the subject of weird food, beware: that KALDERETANG KAMBING (goat) could well be KALDERETANG ASO (dog)... The Filipino, of course, has a well-developed sense of food.

Here's a typical Pinoy food joke: "I'm on a seafood diet.”What's a seafood diet?" "When I see food, I eat it!"

Filipinos also eat strange bits of animals---the feet, the head, the guts, etc., usually barbecued on a stick. These have been given witty names, like "ADIDAS" (chicken's feet); "KURBATA" (either just chicken's neck, or "neck and thigh" as in "neck-tie"); "WALKMAN" (pigs ears); "PAL" (chicken wings); "HELMET" (chicken head); "IUD" (chicken intestines), and "BETAMAX" (video-cassette-like blocks of animal blood). Yum, yum. Bon appetit.

Amusing Names - Filipino Style

"A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches" -- (Proverbs 22:1)

WHEN I arrived in the Philippines from the UK six years ago, one of the first cultural differences to strike me was names. The subject has provided a continuing source of amazement and amusement ever since.

The first unusual thing, from an English perspective, is that everyone here has a nickname. In the staid and boring United Kingdom, we have nicknames in kindergarten, but when we move into adulthood we tend, I am glad to say, to lose them.

The second thing that struck me is that Philippine names for both girls and >boys tend to be what we in the UK would regard as overbearingly Cutesy for anyone over about five. "Fifty-five-year-olds colleague put it. Where I come from, a boy with a nickname like Boy Blue or Honey Boy would be beaten to death at school by pre-adolescent bullies, and never make it to adulthood. So, probably, would girls with names like Babes, Lovely, Precious, Peachy or Apples. Yuk, ech ech. Here, however, no one bats an eyelid. Then I noticed how many people have what I have come to call "door-bell names". These are nicknames that sound like - well, door-bells. There are millions of them. Bing, Bong, Ding, and Dong are some of the more common. They can be, and frequently are, used in even more door-bell-like combinations such as Bing-Bong, Ding-Dong, Ting-Ting, and so on. Even our newly-appointed chief of police has a doorbell name Ping. None of these door-bell names exist where I come from, and hence sound unusually amusing to my untutored foreign ear. Someone once told me that one of the Bings, when asked why he was called Bing, replied "because my brother is called Bong". Faultless logic.

Dong, of course, is a particularly funny one for me, as where I come from "dong" is a slang word for... well; perhaps "talong" is the best Tagalog equivalent.

Repeating names was another novelty to me, having never before encountered people with names like Len-Len, Let-Let, Mai-Mai, or Ning-Ning. The secretary I inherited on my arrival had an unusual one: Leck-Leck. Such names are then frequently further refined by using the "squared" symbol, as in Len2 or Mai2. This had me very confused for a while. Then there is the trend for parents to stick to a theme when naming their children. This can be as simple as making them all begin with the same letter, as in Jun, Jimmy, Janice, and Joy. More imaginative parents shoot for more sophisticated forms of assonance or rhyme, as in Biboy, Boboy, Buboy, Baboy (notice the names get worse the more kids there are-best to be born early or you could end up being a Baboy). Even better, parents can create whole families of, say, desserts (Apple Pie, Cherry Pie, Honey Pie) or flowers (Rose, Daffodil, Tulip).The main advantage of such combinations is that they look great painted across your trunk if you're a cab driver. That's another thing I'd never seen before coming to Manila -- taxis with the driver's kids' names on the trunk. Another whole eye-opening field for the foreign visitor is the phenomenon of the "composite" name. This includes names like Jejomar(for Jesus, Joseph and Mary), and the remarkable Luzviminda (for Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, believe it or not). That's a bit like me being called something like "Engscowani" (for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern

Ireland).

Between you and me, I'm glad I'm not. And how could I forget to mention the fabulous concept of the randomly inserted letter 'h'. Quite what this device is supposed to achieve, I have not yet figured out, but I think it is designed to give a touch of class to an otherwise only averagely weird name. It results in creations like Jhun, Lhenn, Ghemma, and Jhimmy. Or how about Jhun-Jhun (Jhun2)?

How boring to come from a country like the UK full of people with names like John Smith. How wonderful to come from a country where imagination and exoticism rule the world of names. Even the towns here have weird names; my favorite is the unbelieveably-named town of Sexmoan (ironically close to Olongapo and Angeles). Where else in the world could that really be

true?

Where else in the world could the head of the Church really be called Cardinal Sin?

Where else but the Philippines!

Note: Philippines has a senator named Joker, and it is his legal name.

No kidding!

courtesy of my notes in facebook

2009-08-02T05:39:00.000-07:00

1. Where did you take your profile pic?
* in my own small room

2. What exactly are you wearing right now?
*black shirt and pants

3. What is your current problem?
* knowing that tomorrow is monday...school napud??!

4. What makes you happy most?
* no classes, food-siomai, icepop,chocolates, internet, blogging(oftentimes na lang!), feeling of appreciation and admiration (0_o)

5. What's the name of the song that you're listening to?
* paparazzi by lady gaga

6. Any celeb you would marry?
* david cook, taylor lautner, leonardo dicaprio, will smith..

7. Name someone with the same birthday as you:
*sarah geronimo (see, i'm also born to be a star! )

8. Ever sang in front of a large audience?
* yah, i sang 'More Than Words' together with my other 3 classmates during our Speech Communication class. It's either we sing or we fail! No choice at all!

9. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?
*no, they always said that a celebrity looked like me! yikes!

10. Do you still watch kiddy movies or kiddie TV shows?
* yah, as long as they're not tagalog-dubbed!

11. Do you speak any language?
*uu.. bisaya, tagalog, english

12. Has anyone you've been really close passed away?
* uu..grandmothers

13. Do you ever watch MTV
* yes, before..

14. What's something that really annoys you?
* getting out of something that I really wanted
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Chapter 1
1. Middle name: detablan
2. Nickname(s): ayet, tlyn, irese
3. Current location:Pardo, Cebu City, Philippines
4. Eye color: dark brown

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Chapter 2
1. Do you get along with your parent(s)?:uu
2.Are your parents married/separated/divorced?: married
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Chapter 3: Favorites
1. Ice Cream:rocky road, chocolate, cookies and cream
2. Season: winter
3. Shampoo/conditioner: cream silk
4. Favorite Thing: cp, desktop, g-tech ballpen, notebook, etc .
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Chapter 4: Do You..
1. Dance in the shower?
* uu..sometimes

2. Do you write on your hand?
* yup if I can't find any paper to write on..

3. Call people back?
* nope..don't have the credits

4. Believe in God?
* uu

5. Any bad habits?
*uu.. can't think of any right now but I have a lot

6. Any mental health issues?
* hmm..let me think about that!!

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Chapter 5: Have You..
1. Sprained stuff?nope
2. Had physical therapy? nope
3. Gotten stitches? nope
4. taken painkillers? nope
5. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling? nope but one day i will
6. Thrown up at the dentist? nope..lol
7. Sworn in front of your parents?nope
8. Had detention? nope

Chaper 6: Who/What was the last
1. Movie(s)?
* -in theatre--> The Transformers: revenge of the fallen
* -in the comfort of my own home--> the Devil Wears Prada

2. Three people you texted?
*can't remember, don't have load for a couple of weeks now..

3. Person you called?
*i haven't even texted anyone! so much for calling someone!

4. Person you hugged?
*karen, julie, ilyn-->during the idiotic fight!

5. Person you tackled?
*none

6. Person you talked to on YM?
*just consider fb, raul(college classmate), shiela(highschool classmate), julie(college classmate)

7. Things you touched?
*uhmm.. mouse, keyboard, speaker,headset... everything!!

8. Food you ate?
*rice, lumpia, siomai..yumyumyum

9. Drinks you drank?
*coke,juice, water

10. Things you said?
*"lagi ma!", "binli ko ug sud-an hap"

11. Person you kissed?
*is kissing your crush's pic on your desktop screen considered?? if yes, then david cook

12. Place you went?
*school, home

@19

2009-07-24T07:42:00.001-07:00

19 GIFTS I WANT TO RECEIVE ON MY 19TH BDAY..
(in random order)
1. new school bag
2. G-tech 0.3 ballpen refill
3. white laptop
4. pair of fancy earrings
5. birthday cake with lots of chocolates
6. chocolates
7. siomai sa Tisa
6. large wallpaper of either Taylor Lautner or David Cook
7.mp3 of 'Dear Life' by Anthony Hamilton
8. iPod
9. fabulous green-colored watch
10. poem written spontaneously by the sender
11. my self-portrait
12. adam lambert's song compilation
13. dvd of Grey's Anatomy Season 1
14. roller coaster ride
15. bunch of red roses
16. bunch of P100 bills =)
17. one-night birthday bash blowout / icepop party
18. kwek-kwek
19. gifts for my pet Azunsion in Pet Society

going gaga over Taylor Lautner

2009-07-19T05:09:00.000-07:00

who could ever resist this Godly creation....

Taylor Daniel Lautner (born February 11, 1992) is an American actor and martial artist who is perhaps best known for his 2005 family film performances in The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D and Cheaper by the Dozen 2 with Steve Martin or as Jacob Black in the 2008 film Twilight. He also appeared on the UPN sitcom Love Inc.
from:wikipedia.com

top five TOP FIVEs

2009-07-17T19:58:00.001-07:00

1.david cook
2.leonardo dicaprio
3.taylor lautner
4. shia labeouf
5.shrek

1.pastry chef
2.web designer
3.interior designer
4.singer
5.makeup artist

1.siomai
2.kwek kwek
3.ice pop
4.halo halo
5.burger

1.painting
2.photography
3.baking
4.dubbing
5.computer programming

1.New York
2.Seoul, South Korea
3.Paris, France
4.New Zealand
5.Hollywood

Prelim...ggRrR

2009-07-12T01:32:00.001-07:00

Since our prelim exam is approaching like hurricane and I'm absolutely not yet prepared, I guess I need to temporarily give up my precious indulgences like:

1. taking care of my pet, Azunsion, in pet society.
>>to those bloggers/pet owners, please do take care of my pet for me and FYI, I accept giftsSSs (preferably furniture and wall decors) anytime of the day..

2. downloading torrents
>>been downloading a few lately...most of them are even queued up!

3. and of course...the INTERNET!

whew...but I promise myself that after this hurricane, I'll go food tripping and internet surfing...

ciao!

What Defines You?

2009-07-10T23:28:00.000-07:00

Took this test on facebook and guess what the answer is....

"You care a great deal about how you look. You are a very good looking person and everyone seems to think so too."

can't agree more...lol

the Maze, the Twins and the Question

2009-07-09T04:27:00.000-07:00

comment back your answer...

In the center of the maze, there are identical twins, each standing in front of an identical door. You are to go on a door that would lead you out. One of the twins is always lying. The other is always telling the truth. You can only ask one question to one of the twins for help. What will you ask to ensure your way out?

worries...worries...worries...

2009-07-08T08:24:00.000-07:00

Worries???? I've been experiencing tons of these lately...

1. My major subjects are causing me major problems..tsktsktsk. Probably I just need to study more..

2. My pet Azunsion in pet society is getting poorer and poorer... I need to beg from my friends for them to give me their used clothings, used furnitures and all those things that they are all abundant of... hope I can use a cheat in that application! (maggie told me about the possible cheat but I wasn't able to pursue it..)

3. I've been spending a lot of cash lately...probably the effect of all the depressions! Like today, I've spent more than a hundred in my food intake alone (2 pcs. of siomai, 1 mountain dew, mcdo burger, mcdo float, mcdo twisters) not mentioning my transportation fare..

4. I've only been taking less than 6 hours of sleep.. and it bugs me... not used to it!

whew...the bad thing is, I knew they are now dominant in my everyday living still I'm not doing any action to put them all in trash...

cornfield line

2009-07-06T17:19:00.001-07:00

This is the corniest line taught to me by my product trainer, leah, when I was working before in Sykes.I've been using this line frequently...

>If someone throws a corny joke on you, say this reply

"Duol inyoha ug kamaisan, corny man gud kay ka! "
(then make hideous laugh for that person to laugh na lang pud)

So if ever you are a victim of corny lines by your friends, say this line and you'll be the corniest person alive...

the MUST-HAVE-ABILITIES of a call center agent

2009-06-03T22:04:00.000-07:00

I didn't know being a call center agent is quite challenging...IN ALL ASPECTS!

First, you need to be able to adapt to the changes that you will be experiencing everyday. A good example is the capacity to be a nocturnal being like in my case, my login time is 2.30am and I don't have any choice but to go to Sykes as early as 10.00pm just to avoid the harsh and dangerous night streets and if you are going to ask me about how I handle myself from 10pm and beyond? I don't even really know how I managed to be able to wait till 2.30am without anything to do.. probably having my other agents to chat with is the key.

Second, you need to be alert and wise in looking for a good desk to sit in for the next 9 hours. Since I'm still a newbie and I still need the help of my supervisors and team Lead, I need to sit near their desks just for easy access. It's really hard to find a desk especially if it's in the queue hours because almost all of the desks are occupied so I guess going to work early is another plus for me.

Third, the ability to protect yourself from IRATE CALLERS! Well, I don't often get irate calls everyday and luckily when I get calls from irate callers, they don't want to speak to an agent but to a manager right away so my main task regarding this issue, get a supervisor to take the call and after that, I'm done...

Fourth, the ability to be awake even if your eyes won't open. In the first few days, a cup of coffee or a glass of EXTRA JOSS would not even do the job so I don't have any choice but to answer my eyes' call of sleep! Well, I do have some of my co-agents to wake me up after an hour! My supervisors will not catch me though since I'm in a sitting position when I sleep with my headset on...so it's still like I'm taking calls.

Fifth, the ability to sleep even if the sun is in its hottest degrees! This ability is probably the easiest one since you are all drained up when you go home and even if the sun is in front of you, it will still not deprive you from the mandatory sleep that you need!My logout time is 11.30am and probably the time that I can go to sleep is around 1pm and everyday I wake up at 7-8pm and then I prepare myself to work again and do the same routine EVERYDAY!I don't even get the chance to watch TV and to clean my room even just for 5 minutes. If you are gonna do a room raid, I would not even care because probably, I would not even notice you sneaking into my room since I'm asleep!

No one told me it would be this tiring and draining! One of the things that forces me to continue taking calls, going to work, sleeping in the middle of the day even if the sun is striking hot is my salary! This is my first work experience so getting my pay every 15 and 30 does all the job of getting this stress out of my body! Whew! I just can't wait for June 15 to come!
ciao!

SYKES experience

2009-05-16T20:31:00.000-07:00

Whew! It's been a long time since I posted something in this blog...quite busy now with my work(it still tingles my ears to know that I do have my work now!) But anyway, to those who weren't able to know what's my agenda nowadays, I want y'all to know that I am currently working at SYKES ASIA INC. (a call center here in Cebu). I didn't know how I passed all the interviews and exams but I'm sort of happy being able to try a new thing in my life...this is actually my first work experience so it's kinda cool.

I started last APril 20 and from that day on, I was really busy plus that fact that my schedule is like a roller coaster ride. Right now, I experienced to be in the morning, mid and graveyard shifts and that's just for about a month now. There's a sort of rotation on our schedule so it's kinda cool as well.

The training? hmmm...well, for the first two weeks, I had my language and core skills training. It's all about improving our English communication skills, knowing the basic ways to handle calls and having a little knowledge on the 50 states of America. We were even asked to memorize America's National Anthem! hehe

Right now, I'm having my product training--> this is the nosebleed part! Since my account is connected to AT&T Internet Services and I'm a Technical Support Representative, I am assigned on the troubleshooting part so tons of lecture and discussion should be thrown upon me but I'm handling them well right now.

Last pay day was my first pay day of course and I just can't believe that I'm receiving so much thousands for just the training but I'm saving my pay to buy something for myself probably a laptop or a new desktop..not bad huh!

I'm looking forward of receiving live calls and be on the floor using lots of tools and try to answer all the callers even irates! This is the part that I'm so waiting for and I think that the time is near maybe on the first week of June or last week of May!

And my studies? Well, I already have my study load for next semester and how will I manage to do this? I really don't know!

-->by the way, I use IRESE as my name in SYKES just to make it cute...lol

till my next post! =)

Under the state of Depression

2009-04-04T18:56:00.000-07:00

Have you ever been into a situation where you had a hundred percent confidence in your sleeves yet, the thing you really wanna have was given to another person and you believe for yourself that you are better than her? I'll raise my right hand for that!

the DETAILS--in summary

ExcelAsia endorsed me together with my other 2 co-trainees to a company. When we got there, we were interviewed and with us was another woman who was older than us (that made 4 applicants in the room and one interviewer). The interview went on for about 15 minutes. After that, we were then evaluated and a minute more, the woman was then asked to transfer to another room. The three of us were left in the room and we had a little chitchat about the interview and it ended when the interviewer came and then she told us the bad news-- our application was rejected and the woman was then sent to the second process of her application!

Just the ordinary scene of an interview right? YOu might think that I am just overreacting and I'm expecting too much but what was annoying is that, the woman's only edge was she had her working experience. I actually even spoke better English than her! I even converse better than her during the interview! If we base it on confidence, the three of us were even more confident than here! One thing bad was that the company could only pick one from the group to go to the second level of application...it sucks...really sucks! I could have gotten the job...but with their process and way they pick their possible employees, it's all a mess!

What happened to us after the interview? We ended up at the Terraces and spent an hour talking about the issue. We then realized that it doesn't mellowed down the depression so we just went home!

It's all heating up!

2009-03-21T22:57:00.000-07:00

2nd semester is definitely over! No more from-classmate-copied assignments, night-before-the-deadline-passed projects and sometimes-cheated tests. It's all OVER! It's like a breathe of fresh air that clears not only my lungs but me as a whole. After this serious storm, a good sunshine is absolutely appreciated. But I do think that I did not make the best of me for my final exams...especially in my Physics (lec and lab) but as of the moment, all I can do is simply sigh while I recall the stupidity that I made with some of the subjects but now, I'm trying to move on and enjoy the summer.

This Monday, I'll be having my first call center training at ExcelAsia. It's from 6am to 2pm and the same routine will be going on for two weeks. I did grab the opportunity to be trained since it's all for free plus the transportation and meal allowance of P78 per day. Not bad huh!? Atleast my English and communication skills will step up on a higher level but I'm not saying that after the training I'll be communicating with people with my blond hair and white complexion, atleast I'll have my skills improve a little bit!

I do went on lots of IT-related job hunting just to make my summer profitable and buy something for myself that is worth the effort but I'm still having my second thoughts because of graveyard shifts and companies may not accept applicants who just wanna have a summer job in order to be paid for the next 2 months. But who knows, maybe there's still a company that really needs human resources and is probably looking for people like me. I'm very much open with that!

My blue print this summer: Find a summer job with a week-training and earn a lot and later on, a week before the start of class, buy something for myself! Sounds great! Now, let's put it into action!

Questionnaire from Mam Em

2009-02-28T18:30:00.000-08:00

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?...
My first name (ETHILEEN) is just made up but my second name(IRESE) is sort of pinag-isipan at pinagkaabalahan...'I' is synonymous of me, RE's after my father's name, Renato and SE's after my mother's which is 'Tessie'

2.TALK OR TEXT?
no other option?? Im not a TEXTful person(I can live with a cellphone with no load at all) and eventhough I talk a lot, I am not that talkative in terms of the deep issues like friendship, confrontations and problems. I just don't know what to say if I happen to face these issues.

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?...
Yes especially with my G-tech! G-tech's the best pen for me though it's sort of expensive. I am picky with my notes so I use this pen for me to have that likable study manners and for me, it works!

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?...
chicken, chicken, chicken but I always eat siomai during lunch though! no other choice...it's the cheapest!

5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?...
hmmm... my david cook tracks and videos, my blog account (http://ethileeniresedeborra.blogspot.com/) and my novels! They are all my babies!

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?...
Of course yes... who doesn't??(just kidding!)! but I am also friendly and approachable!

7. DO YOU USE SARCASM?...
Not so... I am sensitive with the feelings of others (well...sometimes yes but just by accident ....hmmm...but intentionally too!! )

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?...
I think this is for mam Em...

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?...
Of course... I want the adrenalin rush on my nerves.

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?...
corn flakes

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?...
no ties for me...

13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?..
rocky road, cookies and cream... basta kanang walay definite na color! wahaha

14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?...
their fashion and gestures

15. RED OR PINK?
green!

16. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?...
hmmm...selfish and selfish

17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
My highschool friends and my deleted files when our computer's busted! it hurts!

18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO COMPLETE THIS LIST?...
yah...why would I say no?! I want to meet people! You know, just friendly =)

19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?...
blue pants and brownish closed shoes

21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?...
the hum of the electric fan

22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?..
green... yung may ribbon and flowers and stars!

23. FAVORITE SMELLS?...
chocolates, siomai, kwek2x, barbecue, calamares, paklay, chicharong bulaklak... I know we're not talking about food but I do love their smell!

24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?...
MACSAVERS' agent. I was inquiring about their PC products

25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?...
Yah... Mam Em's sister is my close friend. Mam Em's also my blogmate! hehe

26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?.
volleyball, basketball(if live! I used to watch my father's games-he's the MVP before! go go go)

27. HAIR COLOR?..
blackish to brownish. I want it dyed and be given the greatest makeover of all time but I just can't due to time constraints and budget problems!

28. EYE COLOR?...
Im dying to have it blue but it's just brown

29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?...
Nope... I do have a good eyesight but if it's just for fashion... yes... the blue-colored one

30. FAVORITE FOOD?...
refer to question number 23

31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?...
neither of the two! Scary movies really frighten me... happy endings are forgettable! I do love tragic ones because it's jaw-dropping! Expect the unexpected!

32. Last Movie you watched?
Slumdog Millionaire... my third watch

33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?...
red floral duster

34. SUMMER OR WINTER?...
Winter... Im so overdone with summer... I want some cold!

35. HUGS OR KISSES?...
a kiss with a hug

36. FAVORITE DESSERT?...
halo-halo if not, icepop!

37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?..
people who I owe some money!

38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?....
people who have utangs

39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?...
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow... I can't finish it because of some priorities! ggrrr....

40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?...
cd-r king logo

41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?...
American Idol season 8

42. FAVORITE SOUND(S)...
David Cook's tracks

43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?...
Westlife

44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?....
literally, Bohol but I'm with my family... away ra man kaha sa imong balay??

45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?...
I can memorize a dance step by just looking at it for a few times...

46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?.....
in the hospital...forgot the name!

47. WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK?...
David Cook's but sad to say, he's not in my friend's list!

48. HOW DID YOU MEET YOUR SPOUSE/SIGNIFICANT OTHER?.....
by American Idol! I am the only one who knew that I am David Cook's significant other! ambisyosa biya ko!

THREE NAMES THAT FRIENDS CALL YOU:
1. Ayet-my home name
2. Etz- tiumpenz' name for me
3. Tlyn- people who are lazy enough to call me ETHILEEN

THREE MOST IMPORTANT DATES IN YOUR LIFE:
1. July 25- my birthday
2. December 25-I do receive a lot of gifts
3. December 31- the time when I make a lot of preparations for the new year ahead!

THREE THINGS YOU'VE DONE IN THE LAST 30 MINUTES:
1. downloaded videos from youtube and converted them to 3gp format
2. watched a rerun of American Idol
3. burned a cd

THREE WAYS TO BE HAPPY EVEN IF YOU'RE JUST AT HOME:
1. internet surfing
2. movie marathon
3. eating

THREE GIFTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE:
1. white-colored laptop
2. Dual Core processor with a good video card
3. chocolates

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. computer-related hobbies like internet surfing
2. eating
3. watching American Idol

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO FOR VACATION:
1. New York
2. Los Angeles, California
3. Hollywood

THREE FAVORITE DRINKS:
1. icepop
2. mountain dew- always have a dose every lunch!
3. mango shake

THREE THINGS FOUND IN YOUR POCKET
1. fake gucci coin purse
2. 2GB and 4GB flash drive
3. ballpen(G-tech)

THREE FAVORITE COLORS:
1. green
2. white
3.gray

TOP THREE HANGOUTS:
1. bedroom(night time only! limoot man gud basta buntag! )
2.internet cafe
3.sala

TOP THREE U LOVE SO MUCH:
1. family
2. highschool and college friends
3. David Cook

TOP THREE WHO YOU THINK (OR HOPE) WILL ANSWER THIS SURVEY:
1. tiumpenz
2. CCS teachers
3. unknown people

TOP THREE "THINGS" SPECIAL TO YOU:
1. our PC
2. phone
3. files

TOP THREE THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY LATELY:
1. tiumpenz' hang-outs and gigs
2. my web programming abilities that I had proven last CCS Days celebration though I hadn't won
3. downloading videos(not the porno of course! )

TOP THREE REASONS WHY YOU ANSWERED THIS SURVEY:
1. to know thy self
2. to have something posted on facebook and on my blog
3. it's cute! thanks mam Em

My whole month of February

2009-02-22T18:46:00.000-08:00

just to sum it all up...

1. Received a green bracelet from Karen as her Valentine's Day present.

2. Celebrated my Valentine's Day with my family and some of the tiumpenz.

>>bought by my father as his Valentine present for my mother!

3. Bought a lot of stuff! Never thought I got all these:

>>an ergonomic keyboard for my ergonomic needs! I've been planning to buy this for a long time!

>> a bear-decorated brown pouch for my cellphone

>> this book, 'The Spellman Files' by Lisa Lutz from BookSale, was sold for P15.00

>> 2 pairs of earrings as my bday gift for my mother! Why these? so that I can also use these P20.00 worth of jewel! I never bought anything for my mother that I hadn't used for a little while! haha!

4. Received a pair of black earrings, red-shade bracelet and keychain from Apple during our 'Exchange of Gifts' last Feb 16.

>>I do love the earrings and I love wearing them!

>> a shot with Rica and the gifts!

>> I also got 3 letters from the tiumpenz, rica and apple

5. A suprise birthday bash for Mam Cherry was celebrated with a pink delicious cake and a video presentation as presents!

>> A galactic force of F1 exerted so much effort for this! cd cover printing is already taken cared of by yours truly! =)

>> a birthday is not a birthday without the birthday girl...Maam Cherry

6. WORST: Our computer's busted and my files in my drive were deleted!

7. The day after our computer broke, it was then reformatted and nothing's changed: I haven't got any single file from the computer

8. Tiumpenz decided to join the Video-Making Competition for the College Days Celebration. But we haven't made up our minds yet!

9. Due to our PC's breakdown, I decided to have a back-up copy of the files so I bought a 4GB flash drive.

10. Bought another two books from BOOKSALE (The Divine Secrets of Ya-ya Sisterhood and the other by Patricia Cornwell which I forgot the title).

11. My mother bought me a gray-colored transparent bag big enough for my school stuff! I've been wanting it for a long time!

SPECIAL FEATURE: Flying Cow on the move! I wanna name it Josephine, some David Garcia Jr. and some, Jollicow! It doesn't have any real name since it wasn't baptized yet! It's Tiumpenz' little baby!

>>so, so cute....

One thing adorable about my Physics(lab)

2009-02-06T19:45:00.000-08:00

It is no secret to those who knew and to my friends that I hate Physics. I'd rather implement a circuit in our Digital Design class than make a Physics experiment. That's how much I hate doing those experiments requiring analysis and patience and some sweat. Even in the laboratory, I was really not involved in the whole experiment thing. I don't have any talent of connecting voltmeters and ammeters to resistance boards and all those freaky stuffs. The best thing that I could probably do during experiments is to compute the data with my calcu since the formula is just in the book.

Well, maybe Physics(lab) isn't that bad since I can make money out of it! Yup, if you won't believe me then ask my classmates(it's not through gambling or through monkey business ofcourse!)! If you're gonna ask me how, then I'll just say that it's simple--Since our teacher requires us to pass a report for every experiment and since we follow the same format for the report, I can do the encoding stuff and through the glory of email, I can send my classmates the softcopies of the reports. And it's all worth P7.00/classmate. And that's not all! After they do some necessary add-ons on their reports, they can send those back to me(through the glory of email again) and I can produce a hard copy with the negotiated price of P2.50/page(It's that low since there's 'Flowing Colors' willing to do the printing for P3.00.). My profit? Well, I can come up with an amount more or less a hundred. It's not bad though! At least I can reap something fruitful from something not bearable like Physics.

One thing adorable about my Physics(lab)?..I can put up my own business!

turnng gold and platinum

2009-01-30T20:21:00.000-08:00

from the newsletter I had recieved from the people behind http://www.david-cook.org' ...

"David Cook Is Gold And Platinum

First news first, as of January 22, David Cook's self-titled album was certified platinum. This means a million albums have been shipped out to retailers already. As far as how many were actually sold, we are at the 916,000+ mark and will continue to see him succeed. Another side note, the second week of January announced David Cook's "Light On" going gold, selling over 524,000+ copies of the single. "

Now that's how he COOKs his album... PLATINUMly and GOLDly! yeh, yeh, yeh!

Amateur Book Nerd

2009-01-16T21:10:00.000-08:00

I officially am an amateur book nerd! That's how I describe myself after reading the whole Twilight series. I just realized that reading books aren't bad! It just needs a lot of patience to finish a 3-digit-or-more page book. Due to my addiction, I continue downloading e-novels from the net and tried to read those on our computer if I had time. I still don't allow it to ruin my study habits! I'm more focused right now on getting a minimum of 4.0 on all of the subjects since my previous semesters didn't let me get out of subjects that gave me a 3.9 and that's frustrating.It just deprives me of getting a discount on my tuition.Enough for the grade and subject stuff! Now, the amateur-book-nerd-conversion came to life when I bought my first new (well actually bargained) 40-pesos priced book from 'BookSale' last Monday when Raul decided to give us a treat on his birthday! We went a lot of window shopping and I ended up buying this book entitled 'Odds' before we had stuffed food on our tummies. I hope I can carry on with the title that I had given myself efficiently and not end up putting my money and effort into waste.

Twilight Saga

2009-01-02T21:13:00.000-08:00

For almost 2 weeks of having my computer as my bestfriend for reading the ebook versions of Stephanie Meyer's twilight, new moon, eclipse, breaking dawn, it has finally come to an end. I'm sort of proud of myself for despite the high cost of electricity bill, a mother who always tells me to turn off the computer everytime she sees me doing the whole ebook thing again, and the eyes that want to take a rest, I still manage to insist my desire of finishing the whole series and I've got a job well done. I now don't have any problem of keeping the euphoric desire of reading the series for I already finished reading it this christmas break. Such a relief and to tell you, it was all worth it!

SERIES spoiler and summary:

TWILIGHT. The book sorts of tackles more of the infant romance between Bella Swan-a newbie in Forks who lives with her father Charlie and Edward Cullen- a cutie in school who is one of Carlisle's adopted sons. Bella here is still grasping for the truth about Edward's being a vampire, his family and the whole hunting thing. To complete the story, we've got this bloodsucker James, who is in thirst for Bella's blood and at the end of the day, James was defeated by Bella's lovey dovey Edward. This book sort of prepares the mind of the people on the coming adventures, scenes and revelations that will later be seen in the next books.

NEW MOON. If you are looking for fights, breathtaking action scenes and more romance from Bella and Edward, this is probably not the so-good book to read (but you still need to read this for you to know the whole story! lol). It actually takes the side of new discoveries, revelations and heartaches if I may add. It was when Bella was left alone by Edward. She just felt so much pain and it's hard for her to move on. For months, she was so depressed of Edward's leave until she found the sunny and happy feeling that she hadn't felt for months through Jacob. Jacob - the werewolf(enemy of the vampires) is also revealed here in the story. He had been destined to protect the treaty together with the other boys who together with him, joined the pack with Sam as the Alpha. The book also introduces us to the Volturi, a coven that protects the secrecy of the vampires. For me, I think this book is the most less entertaining. PEace!

ECLIPSE. Well, this is the book to grab if you want some triangular romance between Jacob, Bella and Edward. They are all in Forks, so little of a place to have humans, vampires and werewolves live. lol. In this book, the vampires and werewolves are having an alliance between the possible danger of Victoria and her coven with the newborns. They got preparations on how to defeat them and later on, they succeed. About the triangular romance, Jacob had left Forks to give himself space but to the Jacob fans like me, don't worry coz he'll come back in the next book.

BREAKING DAWN. Bella and Edward here got engaged and later on married each other. They had their honeymoon and stuff. Bella is actually a little pervert here but I understand her since she wants it before she turns into a vampire! lol! Then, Bella bore her child who was at first mistaken by some of the Cullens to be a danger but Bella succeeded in keeping the baby(mother's love and instinct probably). Bella then gave birth to Renesmee(child's name gotten from the names of Renee and Esme) who is half-vampire, half-human. She's just so adorable and she even has a gift like Edward and Alice. To save Bella from death when she gave birth to Renesmee, Edward was left with no choice but to turn her into a vampire. If you're asking me how Jacob felt about the whole thing, well, he's fine since he had imprinted on Renesmee. The Volturi then heard about the child and decided to pay the Cullens a visit. To make the long story( 556 pages is no joke! with the fact of an ebook considered! ) short, the Cullens,the other vampires who flew all the way to Forks to help the Cullens and the werewolves got to keep Renesmee alive! And as any other fairytale says, they lived happily ever after.