Today happens to be our town fiesta but Cebu’s famous lechon is not on the table. My parents house looks deserted. They left ten years ago and settled in the Big Apple. My brother and his family also left August of 2005. Last Saturday we were at the airport to send off my younger brother who was bound for Brunei to work. The people closest to my heart are leaving for greener pastures. I too had that dream of working in a foreign land, maybe i still do but for now i’m settled with having a family of my own. It would be great fulfilling one’s dream in the land you can call your own.

unluckily the spare tire was also busted so i had to leave the dilapidated van on the street. in the afternoon, i bought a new tire and found myself crossing the street with the tire ribboned with straw. i think i looked funny holding a tire riding the PUJ. i wouldn’t need a man in my life if i knew how to change tires.. well, i don’t and i’m glad there’s the suki ‘tire changer’ on the way home..

yesterday, the vehicle again stopped and wouldn’t budge no matter how hard i stepped on the gas pedal? or whatever you call it.

Engine trouble again!
good if something like this happened
but i don’t own a bentley and i have no paparazzi stalkers trailing me.

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Baron and Wagele – Enneagram Made Easy

The Achiever (the Three)
Achievers are energetic, optimistic, self-assured, and goal oriented.

How to Get Along with Me
• Leave me alone when I am doing my work.
• Give me honest, but not unduly critical or judgmental, feedback.
• Help me keep my environment harmonious and peaceful.
• Don’t burden me with negative emotions.
• Tell me you like being around me.
• Tell me when you’re proud of me or my accomplishments.
What I Like About Being a Three
• being optimistic, friendly, and upbeat
• providing well for my family
• being able to recover quickly from setbacks and to charge ahead to the next challenge
• staying informed, knowing what’s going on
• being competent and able to get things to work efficiently
• being able to motivate people
What’s Hard About Being a Three
• having to put up with inefficiency and incompetence
• the fear on not being — or of not being seen as — successful
• comparing myself to people who do things better
• struggling to hang on to my success
• putting on facades in order to impress people
• always being “on.” It’s exhausting.
Threes as Children Often
• work hard to receive appreciation for their accomplishments
• are well liked by other children and by adults
• are among the most capable and responsible children in their class or school
• are active in school government and clubs or are quietly busy working on their own projects
Threes as Parents
• are consistent, dependable, and loyal
• struggle between wanting to spend time with their children and wanting to get more work done
• expect their children to be responsible and organized

..i know i’m quite an OC had to take the test before preparing/buying (?) dinner for the family..sorry boo

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i haven’t had a fever in months or even a year but sadly i woke up with fever.

of all days, it was the date when we were supposed to go swimming at Amara.

i haven’t been in an outing with my aunt for over decade who is now New York based. i also didnt want my two year old daughter to miss the opportunity of bonding with her aunt (my cousin) who is just 5 years her senior.

what the heck– i went swimming instead even if i was hot with fever at the inviting eternity pool.

with Cousins and Soren

Casey and Soren

Thank you Cebu Pacific for making this trip a reality…

Yes, it’s true — Cebu Pacific as a means of gratitude to its customers really gives out free flights. My hubby, daughter and I got a free Cebu-Clark-Cebu roundtrip ticket for free.

The reason why we were able to bring our daughter to Zoobic Safari in Subic. It was a fun and ‘educational tour’ not only for Soren but for us parents as well.

we had the whole g/f tables reserved so it is as if the band was playing just for us

as a bday song the Girl From Ipanema was sung for me..not exactly my fave song but it was cool.

The Gallery is one of the newest watering holes located in Mabolo, Cebu. It is where the new showroom of CANON where my hubby works is located.

-nice service, affordable food, no corkage for cakes brought from outside, with the band playing within an arms reach!

Rating:8 out of 10

a year ago i worked graveyard shifts in a call center as a customer care representative. the pay was good but i lived kilometers away from my workplace. everyday i try to resolve issues from my customers mostly about their billing statement. so everyday i try to look for a free workstation, log in to my avaya, the chat room and other resources required by our BPO company. while listening to erring customers i was devastated because my marriage wasn’t working and my then 20 month old daughter got hospitalized not once but twice while i was with the same company. so after the end of the ‘bond period’ i decided to resign being a call girl to devote more time to my daughter and maybe save our marriage.

it must have been fate but that same month when it was really difficult for me to leave my daughter at midnight or at two AM to get to work, i got a call from the HR Manager of the company that I am in now. she asked me if i was still interested to join the company since she has my resume from a job fair summer of last year. i remembered her face when i was in the job fair. she approached me from then an unknown company booth. she first asked me if i was in I.T and i said no. i then asked her if there was an opening in their HR or Admin Dept. she said none as of the moment and that the company is expanding. she then asked for a copy of my resume and said that she will keep me in mind once there was an opening for the position that i was interested in. true to her word, i got a call from her around 5 months after. she interviewed me and i remember being teary eyed in the interview. that week my marriage was on the rocks and i my hubby betrayed me again. i was hoping to get the job so i could be beside my daughter when she sleeps at night and hoping that my hubby will change his ways if i work daytime.

i was offered the job at almost the same salary i was getting less the night differential and commission. truly God heard my prayers.

so here i am blogging about my resignation to the same company that i thought would save my marriage and give more time to my daughter.. maybe i was wrong, no matter what you do for a living, where you work and how much you earn–it does not save a marriage. my hubby is still the same liar that he is and we got separated for 3 months and 2 weeks. i liked what i was doing for a time mostly travel bookings but i loved the flexi time which enabled me to kiss my daughter goodbye when i leave for work until 3 months ago when management decided to introduce txt connect. gone was my flexi time, and there i was leaving my daughter early morning when she was still sleeping like a baby..she has grown so much in one year.

i am looking forward to a new career, be it a SAHM, a proprietress or maybe fulfilling my dream of becoming a teacher. i am looking forward to a new home, a new environment, maybe new playmates for my daughter. i am looking forward to really making this marriage work for the last time. i am looking forward to being the best mother that i can be to my beautiful daughter.

i am moving on…

i´ve turned down this job interview not once but thrice because i don´t like to compromise my present job and the responsibilities that comes with it. the first text was for an interview at 1pm. i work in a place an hour away from home and i couldn´t possible rush home to change into another outfit and i wouldn´t want to arrive wearing jeans and shirt – clearly a taboo.

the 2nd text came for an interview at 9am, of all days it was the day when our CEO visited our office, now i wouldn´t want to disappoint my boss and our client of not being at their service, so i called again to have it rescheduled.

the 3rd one, i got a call and not merely a text asking if was still interested in the position and why i didn´t show up for the 2 interviews that was scheduled. i told her i did call the office on both occasions to request for a possible rescheduling of my interview. she called again minutes after to ask if i can go to the office that same day. i said i’m sorry i can´t but i would surely go there on Thursday.

with my 2 year old still asleep and her nanny at the backseat, my hubby drove me to Sunny Mactan! along the road my little princess was already awake and was in awe of the sight from the New Bridge. That vision of her brought a smile to my face, maybe it is really a right decision to relocate in this beautiful island.

we arrived at Mepz 30 minutes before the interview– that will surely impress HR.
right on schedule, the interviewer called my name at exactly 9am. we entered the office and she started grilling me..haha.not really, it was a casual interview and i was comfortable talking to her and my answers came from my heart..

i did like the company because it provided jobs to fulltimers, part -timers, working students and the like. after the interview, she thanked me and told me that she hopes that iĺl get the position and that she found me very qualified for the job. hereś hoping that the manager will like my resume and my answers to the interview.

now-now, i am not that familiar taking the public transpo in lapu-lapu. didn´t know where to go next so i asked. i was to take the tricycle to get to the vhire terminal–i almost forgot about the vhire and even asked for directions on where i could find the PUJ terminal going to cebu city. well, the tricycle brought me to the terminal for 8 pesos and i was on board the vhire van bound for Ayala for 30 pesos. not that bad–coz i was planning to take the cab and would have cost me 200 bucks more or less to get to the city.

i arrived in ayala and decided to buy snacks for my daughter and the thought came ..why not visit the office of the developer of our future home? all the while i was thinking it was at the FGU building. so i was at the 5th floor and MSY was not there. i went down again to check the listing, no MSY still and so i called their office- it was at Cebu Holdings Bldg.! oh oh..so i went to ayala again and walked the same path towards their office..when i reached their office, the rep told me that Bougainvillea got SOLD OUT last night. what? yes, Mactan is booming and home of migrants from neighboring islands, so real estate is selling like hotcakes. im still hoping that someone will cancel his or her reservation.

my hubby fetched me and we then proceeded to fetch our daughter from school. we had lunch and ate at my favorite chicken restaurant- Sunburst! on the way to another developerś office, we heard an explosion–it was our car tire! unluckily, we didn´t have a spare tire, so my hubby had to look for a vulcanizing shop to have the tire/s fixed. we are still blessed since we were at the safe side of the road when that happened even if it was a busy lane. Thanks God!

i’m crossing my fingers for a new job, a new position and maybe a new home…