I am still alive..

For most people I know I have disappeared from the face of the earth. I do not blame them for having such assumption - I have not emailed, called or texted anyone that is not work related for the past couple of months, starting January. Even my bestfriend was surprised to see me actually online on an instant messaging program because I am never on it lately.

Looking at facebook pages I suddenly felt sad, and nostalgic. I saw myself tagged in some pictures and I couldn't help but think "I was standing next to them last year, where was I this year?". I had a text exchange with Austin two weeks, I said, "I wish I was back in UP", "I know you do" was his reply.

So I guess a bit of some updates are in order. To be honest I cannot even call people because I had to change phones and lost a lot of numbers in the process :/

1. In the homefront, our "case" has been progressing lately, even though it had to be pushed by a couple of ten thousands in the process.

2. With work, things have primarily settled a bit. I no longer have to stay until 10 PM everyday, 7pm will do. My bosses are awesome, they feed me a lot so I love them. I am going to enrol in the Philippine Trust Institute soon so, that keeps me interested with the stuff I work with, and helps me not pine after yoopie so much. There's also an in house badminton court at work so we play there after overtime, when there are no rush or 500 accounts for maturity the next day.

3. Social life at the moment is also related with work people >.> but it's okay, if it werent for the lack of boys in the department it would have been totally awesome! Imagine the department is like full of women with only ONE SINGLE MALE. Geez, the guy is getting tagged with everyone.

4. I am still pushing ahead with my plans-settle myself with work this year, and get into lawschool next year. Though theres still a bit of a problem with logistics which may affect my choices, I guess I'll cross the bridge when I get there...

I am still alive..

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It has been awhile since I last wrote anything so I thought, hey let me type it up before I forget to do so, or feel lazy enough to.

I watched Michael Jackson's memorial on television and I can't help but think that everyone is there in either mind or body, except him.

Work is going good, my salary was higher than I expected, that was even better.

Need to work on a saving plan, seriously.

Otherwise, I would not survive working right next to the biggest mall in the world which schedules it's mall sales during payday weekends.

Realizations

When I was in second year college, my professor once told me "You're so young, yet you are already cynical", and I just smiled thinking I knew what bad things to expect from this world.

I realized I was dead wrong. I still had my idealisms in the right place, so much so that I can't help but feel disappointed, and some how cheated with the little reality bites that I have come across with so far...

It was one thing to work for the academic community. Things hardly change except perhaps more paperwork and bureaucracy to deal with.

It was another to work for the entities of a less than ideal capitalistic society.

In the end you just want to scream it is not fair!

It is then you realize that they were right, there is still the inner marxist mentality in all of us.

 

Well Goldilocks came for a visit....

You know job hunting is like a Goldilocks looking for the perfect porridge - some are just too hot, some are just too cold, and we are eternally looking for the one that is just right.

My first day as a level three officer starts on the 16th if my soon to be boss gets her way :P I am lucky in a way because she is eager to have me.

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The other day an exclassmate texted me, "you do not update your blog anymore" to which I replied "yeah I hardly visit LJ these days", "Nope the casia one". So here you are ms. special mention, I don't know how you got here which is really weird... might as well make this site public soon.

I just hope this site doesn't get spammed with a lot of "Ate, where is our yearbook" type of comments.

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Obama's Inauguration

Obama's Presidential Inauguration Speech can be found here.

I was watching the whole time it happened. In a way I cannot help but think of Obama as the American version of Erap Estrada. He was the long shot. The inexperienced guy, but to whom everyone can relate to, on top of being able to say everything that the people wanted to hear and more. However, Obama was greater than Erap in one respect, whereas Erap ended up dividing the nation after he won, Obama seems to be able to keep the states in America united after elections. I believe that is his biggest achievement to date.

However, despite the moving words I still found myself unsatisfied. His speech was no different from the speeches he gave as he was campaigning for the presidency two years ago. The speech yesterday was motivational but it was also playing safe. It never defined anything about his goals or upcoming projects. He did not even say whether he planned to continue or stop the war. His theme had always been about the need for change, and the need for action but he never told us the direction of where does this change plan to lead us.

The last time change was called for, it gave birth to Communism in Europe, and dictatorships in South America. I am now very wary of the changes that will happen to this century-long hegemon.

Ehh???

So I enabled Google to transliterate my page on the settings option page, thinking that Hindi readers can finally read my page in the offchance that they pass by it... but I didn't realize it would change my English to Hindi and hinder me from reading this page myself. LOL

Last week I had six different companies interview me. The first one gave back an unfavorable response, I then had three "yes", and I'm still "waiting" for the last two. Nonetheless I have already signed with one company whom I believe gives the best benefits among the three offer sheets at hand.

The first time I got turned down, I felt really sad. The first time I got hired I felt really ecstactic.

Its been a roller coaster week.