Update on My Crazy Life

Would you agree that sometimes life is crazy, fun and addicting?

I've had this terrible accident last Friday, I think I blogged about it already, but until now the wound is still in the process of healing, good thing my ring finger is no longer swelling and it doesn't hurt that much anymore.

My sister failed the nursing board exam, she took it months back and we all waited for this moment, but she failed. I'm gonna be honest about it, I cried. My family's not the rich type and we've all struggled so she could finish this course, I know she tried everything she can but still failed. Maybe it's not yet her time.

Mom is really depressed, so is my sister, she barely spoke to me when I called her. I brought her here last Sunday to console her broken heart, gave her all the encouragement she would need for the next battle on November. Told her to find a job while doing a self review, I know it's gonna be a tough fight but life isn't about being too comfortable. We brought her back home yesterday, knowing the battle plan isn't gonna be easy but happy because she knows that I'm always here to support her. I also told her to temporarily stop her hobby in photography and anime, she has all the time in the world after the next board exam. She needs to focus this time.

Last Tuesday, still part of the plan to console her and to get off the daily routine, we went to La Mesa Ecopark with her bf Carlo. It was a crazy ride not entirely knowing where to go. I only knew how to reach Novaliches but after that I'll be damned lost. So, the ride went smoothly until we reached Novaliches except for some car related problems which Jeff took care of.

We got lost approximately 10 times before getting to SM Fairview supposedly in time for lunch. We had troubles finding our way out the subdivision which is supposedly the short cut going to SM. 20 pesos left our pocket just so we could go back to the real non-mountain like road. After a hefty meal and some groceries we purchased for our supposed picnic we then tried to look for La Mesa Ecopark, voila, we got lost again, we even reached the far end of Kaybiga Caloocan, which is really far from Ecopark.

After a good 30 minutes we reached La Mesa Ecopark and it wasn't that fascinating, it's just like going to the province with all those trees and couples getting their prenup pics all over the place. We rested inside the bamboo house if I can call it that. When my sister and her bf got back from viewing the dam, we decided to go home.

The drive home is pretty okay, or so I thought, when this traffic guy in yellow hunt us down because of this crazy coding system (yes, coding kami that time, lakasan lang ng loob yan). This traffic guy took Jeff's license and took a really good luck at him, he said that he's probably his relative even showing the guy's name from his cellphone. Yes, he let us walk away just like that, he didn't even took Jeff's P100 offering.

After reaching Malinta Exit, I finally gave Jeff the freedom to use NLEX instead of going through the hassle and traffic of Mc Arthur's Highway. Jeff thought it was the best experience of the day, I loved it too. In fact, we're planning on going back to NLEX pretty soon.

One more update, my boss, finally gave me the afternoon shift. After nearly 2 months of working my ass off on the night shift they probably noticed that I was so getting stressed out. Now, I'll be staying in the lax shift for the next three weeks. I'm so happy because I'm able to sleep more than 8 hours a day now.

So sorry for the very long post, so many things happened that I wasn't able to blog about, I hope you didn't get tired reading it. So here, life for me is fun, crazy and addictive, these experiences make the ride really to die for.

SoundSkool

I woke up today with so many things to do, then I checked my email just now while working, and guess what, I got an email from Nescafe. Wondering what could it be and why I'm in their email list, I checked out the link they gave me, until I saw this video from their site. Pretty cool and crazy... Really made my day.

The Sneezing Baby Panda

I found this post in facebook and despite of me crying all day because of a cut on my finger, this really made me laugh so much, it made my day.

Walking Disaster

I'm now officially a walking disaster, I just murdered my left hand's ring finger using the plastic blades of our owner type jeep's fan. I first thought it was nothing until I saw so much blood coming of it, I was literally shocked and all I did was sob. Jeff was driving that time and I didn't want him to panic, so I took every courage I had to show him that I'll be fine and kept reminding him to just go on with his driving and I'll take care of it when we get home.

It just hit me, we've been in Bulacan for four months and I never miss a month that I'm not sick or I get into an accident. I can't imagine what disaster I'll be in next month.

Reasons Why I Miss Pasig City

5 Reasons why I miss Pasig City.

1. Very accessible to everything, malls, churches, market, 24hour fast food, 24hour Mercury Drugs, accessible rides (jeep and trycicle), 24hour lugawan in Jenny's (love their lugaw).

2. Near Eastwood, near Metrowalk, near Serendra.

3. I love the people, especially the vicinity where we used to live, they are so helpful, in fact, those living in shanties are more helpful than your rich neighbors. I miss the noise and the polution.

4. I miss not worrying about what to eat because there are food stalls every where I go, everytime I want to eat, whatever I want to eat.

5. Living in Pasig City is like living in Bronx (though I've never been there). You're just few minutes (?) away from New York. It's like living in the real world.

Oh... I dearly miss the Pasig City I love, I wonder why I ever ran away from your loving arms. Maybe someday, I'll try to go back, we'll never know.

Life Update

I'm neither loving or hating my life today.

I opened my eyes today with a wish that my buyer would reactivate his Odesk account, I was deeply praying for it because I know our finances will be deeply affected by a sudden change. It's a weekend and the chances are pretty slim, but I still prayed and hoped.

I still decided not to make amends with Jeff, I don't think I can handle that now. I only got one rule, please please don't do things that will irritate me and you'll see who I really am when I'm angry.

I plurked today and I hope my karma would go up up and away... Oh for the sake of karma. I getting tired of this..

I'm still not satisfied with our househelp's performance, maybe I should teach her my cleaning style tomorrow. I got nothing to do anyway. One more thing, I'm beginning to hate her adobo, a week will not pass without her cooking adobo atleast twice.

I'm about to let go a client, this Magento guy got into my nerves the other day. I know I need the money badly but I won't let this guy get into my nerves again, he's a walking stress for me.

I'm currently listening to Magic 89.9's radio portal, their songs relaxed me a bit, reminds me of early years. Hhhhmmm.. my prime years. Loved it, no regrets.

I just browsed Mama Sacha's facebook profile, finally after ten thousand years she approved my request. Well, I think she forgot her password that's why she can't log in for weeks now.

I'm still taking cetrizine daily before I sleep, trust me, it's making me cranky and unproductive. I'm just gonna let 6 more days pass then I'm hoping to be back to my old self without medication.

I miss my old self, my happy go lucky times when I didn't think about the future and just let my day pass without worrying anything. Now that I'm married, though without a child yet, I feel that I have more responsibility and that I have to work twice as much as I used to.

I mentioned to a friend today, life depends on your daily decision, if you fail to make the right one, there's a consequence bonus to that. I guess there was a day when I made the wrong one and karma is just trying to even out and decided that today's D' Day.

Sometimes life really sucks. This is one of the moment when life really sucks, and I do too.

Reflection and Rant (together in one)

I ended my yesterday earlier today (hhmm..), around 6AM when I ended my shift and drank a cetrizine, which the doctor required me to take right before bedtime. He said that though my ear infection is gone, he still cannot flush my ears due to the holes he found in them. Also my right ear is still extracting some liquid which I don't know what.

Anyway, due to cetrizine and my 3-hour sleep yesterday I immediately dozed off and slept like I've never slept before. I woke up around 11 AM, realizing that I missed the supposed chat with my newly acquired client at 9 AM, good thing he was still around when I went online. Until around noon we started talking about the task I just did last night. He thought it was okay, apparently he's asking to do a remote session, for some reason I didn't ask what for. So, while talking via skype he then said that I should do the task while we're on remote session on my PC and while talking via skype. Isn't that irritating? His job is not as hard as hell and I believe I can do it without him ranting and instructing me what to do.

After sometime of trying to work it out, uploading pictures in Magento encountered some error, I thank thee Magento for the glitch because I really had to eat lunch, for pete's sake it was past one already. He even blamed my PC for it, I don't mind, I just had to eat and stop the non-sense he's asking me to do. After he let go of me I immediately closed the session and ended the call, it was the most irritating work experience I've encountered, one of the reasons why I've decided to work from home is to get away from nosy bosses, but this client of mine is no exception. That's what the Odesk screen shot is for, so the clients can check if their providers are doing exactly they require.

During lunch time I took time to reflect what had just happened, he just said that the first sample jobs I did was fine enough and there's no other problem with it. So, why in the world would he watch my screen while we talk on skype and be on a scheduled job where it's just data entry, it's not even a VA task. I even asked my husband's opinion about it, mentioning that although what he did was it's still a job and we need it badly, but come to think of the situation, here I am working my ass off day and night, and yet this guy, out of no where would hire me but comes out as an irritant. It would definitely salvage whatever anti stress spells I have left.

Upon coming back from lunch I just told him I'll troubleshoot my PC and find out why Magento isn't taking any pics, but at the back of my mind I have a plan.

I slept for another 5 hours, again probably because of cetrizine, and when I woke up, I immediately wrote a letter to him, telling him that I didn't like what just happened and it's not my working style. Had I known that he'll watch my screen while I do his task I wouldn't have let him take control. It's up to him if he's still interested with my services, not to be proud of my skills, but I'm just one of the few who knows how to configure Magento and if he's not willing to compromise then I can let him go.

Hopefully God will bring back my old client Richard, he's the best there is. So, tonight I'll have to settle to my underpaid and over worked self.

Hole in Wall

I went to the doctor this morning according to my scheduled appointment, he checked my ears again and I was so relieved to find out that the swelling is almost gone. There are still few pain once in a while and some colorless liquid coming out of my right ear but other than that I feel better than last week.

I mentioned to him that I've been having painful reaction towards the liquid medicine (I forgot the name) that I put in my ears, that happened when the swelling subsided about two days ago, so I told him I stopped using that liquid drops. The pain will only go away after an hour and I promise you it's worse than a toothache.

Upon hearing this, he checked my ears and found out that there's a hole on each ear. On the left ear he found a hole which is around 20% of the size of the ear drum, the right ear has about 5% of the size of the ear drum. That explains why every time I put the drops it gives me one hell of a pain. So, upon learning this, the doctor could not flush out my ears just yet and I'll have to wait until my ears recovers from these laceration.

Also, he noticed that these holes were not from massive cleaning and it was in fact due to the infection from God knows where. So, I guess it wasn't my fault at all. He said that I stop taking the heavily dosed medicine he gave me a week ago and just concentrate on healing my ears and stopping the infection full time. He gave me another medication which I'll take for the next ten days before bed time. I'm thinking this will really doze me off so I'll better take this before I sleep this morning.

Then I'll see my doctor again next month, however, it things get worse then I'll go back even before the one month period. I wasn't allowed to swim, I'm so sad by this, if I would then I'd have to wear something to cover my ears, but I'm so afraid it'll just worsen the case, so I'd just skip swimming for the next month.

So, I'm hoping that these ears will heal soon and I mean soon.

Level 27 on RC!

After several months of pondering whether I should try out facebook or not I finally gave in not because my friends use it but because of the feedback I get from Restaurant City. So, last May I tried working out my restaurant, patiently waiting for my cook to get energized, trying to trade ingredients to my friends, well, most of them I don't know personally.

Now, I've reached level 27, and I've decorated it the way I imagined how my own resto should look like. So, let me give you a glimpse of Kikos Lubak Aia, where we serve fine dining food to our hungry customers. Try out our Sensational Lamb Skewers, Gourmet Lobsters and Sensational Pumpkin Pie.

Super Unexplainable Day

This blog is created as my own personal diary, where I can share my thoughts and experiences for an extra ordinary day, to separate a quite boring life and my uber active lifestyle.

I don't have the energy to fully explain what had transpired during the day as I only got 3 hours of sleep this morning after my night shift, I'm supposed to be sleeping but these problems kept me awake and come 10PM I'll be awake for the next 8 hours. That's 21 hours straight.

I've had so many rants last June and the early part of July, now, instead of ranting let me pray to God to give me the peace of mind I've been wanting to have, the patience and the perseverance to succeed. Please take care of my family, especially my parents' health.

Also, please do guide me and Jeff in our daily decisions. I guess that would be enough for today, tomorrow is a new day and I'm hoping to recover from my ear infection soon.

Take care guys.

I'm Being Taken for Granted

Do you sometimes feel like you're being taken for granted when you don't speak up?

I now feel that I'm being taken for granted. Since I've had this ear infection I decided to keep my mouth shut because it irritates me when it hurts when I talk. I think you're all aware that the ear muscles are somehow interconnected to the jaw, thus with ear infection, I'm having a hard time chewing and talking, things I love to do.

I wanted to rant about my current boss, my task is pretty simple, wait for a customer to request for a chat, support them with whatever their concern is about then end the chat when it's resolved, isn't that easy? I thought so too. Until I got to meet the other co-employee they hired a week after they hired me. They said this girl will take the afternoon shift just before I log in, originally, this shift belonged to my hubby, or that's just what my other boss had been telling me, apparently he's not always available whenever their supposed training is about to start, this irritates me too.

Then another irritation came when during the interview process they told me that we will have to do this outside of Odesk because they're not yet aware how Odesk works, but just today, I checked that they have been registered in Odesk since 2007. For the first week I didn't tell them that I have an ear infection on my left ear, my bad, apparently this other boss of mine wants to have a skype chitchat before I start working, so I'm forced to use the CDRKing headset, which is really tight. Until the latter part of my first week I had to decline talking to him and just use speakers, I let him do the talking, and I told him about my two ears being infected.

Going back to my first rant, apparently, they introduced her to me last Wednesday, I think she's nice but not too friendly, I don't care anyway. Then hours after that meeting I decided to check out Odesk for other job offers just to update myself on what's new in the job market, and I saw her name, applying for a job, so I took the chance and browsed through her profile until I saw that she was infact hired through Odesk and guess what, her pay is more than double than what I'm supposed to have, well isn't it fun?. At first I was hoping that it's not really her and that I'm mistaken her for another Odesker, until I confirmed it straight from her the next day.

Actually, I have no issues about my salary, I mean this is what I think is reasonable for someone who's just starting in their company, but my point is, if they are able to offer bigger pay and they think I deserve it, why would they let me settle for less? Come to think of it, this girl is in the afternoon shift and I work my ass off in the night shift. It's just so odd that my boss keeps complementing me on how fast I got the work flow and still hired someone else with higher rate and let me suffer in the night shift. Arggghhhhh..

One thing more, yesterday was my second week and supposedly my payday, which they promised when they hired me. I was about to discuss it with them but the other boss logged in just to give me my passcode for the night. I also messaged my boss about my pay, only, he answered when I was already sleeping, and the irritating part is I gave him my payment method just right after I was hired, when he replied, he was asking for it again. The entire day I was waiting for them to log in, missing out few hours of sleep, heck, I need my hard earned money, two weeks in the night shift is no joke.

I was even tempted to just log out last night because of the revelations that struck me, however, I still want to give the benefit of the doubt, but where are they right now? I even spoke to the girl they hired and she said my boss logged in but went off right away and the other boss didn't log in at all. So, there.. I'm now officially being taken for granted for being so nice and polite.

To end that first part, let me talk to you about the second rant, this is about the househelp we just hired, she was very nice and so hardworking at first but lately I've been noticing that she no longer pull her ass to work and do the cleaning. I don't really tell her what to do because I think she's an intelligent househelp, or that's what she's been portraying to be and I expect that she'd do things without us telling her. I told her many times to tie the trashliner because my little pup would eat garbage when he smells it. But for some irritating reason, she would not listen. Now, there are garbages in the lavatory and in the garden as well. I'm beginning to hate her. I just cannot force myself to speak to her because of my current condition. I don't want to add more stress to what I'm feeling now.

These people would really see who I am when I'm angry and I'm not gonna let them do these things to me just because I don't speak up.