Sneak Blogging

1 hour nalang and I can go home and watch my shows. I miss being a bum. I was able to get the latest SPN episode and I haven't had the time to see it yet. Inuna ko kasi kagabi ang Big Bang Theory. I really needed a laugh. And now that CoCo's gone from The Tonight Show, I don't have my nightly late night fixes. Well, maaga na rin akong natutulog ngayon. But even though I sleep early, I still feel sleepy in the morning. As if I'm not done with school yet, I still try to prolong my sleep as much as I can. Lol. That's why I designed the 5 More Minutes shirt, right. (Free endorsement ng SHIRT STREET!!!)

Hopefully later I'd be greeted by last week's Bones, 30 Rock, and HIMYM. Although may AI later and baka si Barney the awesome Stinson ang guest! And may WWE Raw. Lots to watch. Ugh. Pwede bang mag-absent para lang makapanood ng stuff. And I need to read all the unread and unfinished books in my room. Seriously. Ginagawa nalang silang apartment ng mga alikabok doon.

Oops, boss called me into the office. Papagawin nanaman akong concept ng TVC. Yey! Haha. Now I have to think about this hanggang makauwi ako. Gana utak, gana.

This is NOT Bumming

It's been almost 5 months since I've officially graduated. No, I still don't have a "regular" job. However, the t-shirt business is keeping me busy, even if it seems to my parents that I'm just lazing around all day in my room.

It annoys me that they think that. I mean, yeah, I do want a regular paying job because my money at hand is dwindling down to nothing. I'm estimating that my current fund will last me at most another month and a half. It's not like I'm not trying; I've applied online for 10 jobs and I've applied for another 10 earlier this year in our school's job fair. Sometimes it frustrates me that none of them are calling. I mean, I read and re-read my resume and it's not bad at all. I don't know what's wrong with it.

On the other hand, I'm totally having fun with Shirt Street. Yeah, it's hard doing online marketing (a concept my parents cannot grasp as legit), and since we're new and the market is more or less saturated, we have to go extra lengths to promote our site and products. We always have new ideas, but sometimes you just run out of those and you just stare at a wall, wishing for a miraculous sales spike. 

Last night, thinking of new ways to market even robbed me of my early-sleep plan. But it's okay. This is experience, something very valuable to all the potential employers out there. I've even started (self-) studying again. That's a big thing for me, one who thinks reading textbooks should only be done for school. Lol. Now I NEED to. I will have to raid my mom's bookshelf later. 

Still, it's sad that when my parents, and sometimes even my brother, sees me in front of my laptop when they get home, they think that I just wasted the day sleeping and idling by on Facebook. Grr. 

So... Ano Na?

Lintik talaga wala akong magawa dito. As in. Sana nasa bahay nalang ako nag DVD marathon o nagdownload ng latesst episodes diba. Marami rami pang Ghost Hunters yun papanoorin ko, tapos di ko pa tapos idownload yun latest Smallville, Supernatural, Ugly Betty, and Ghost Hunters. Epal. Eh pag uwi ko nandun na si Koko so agawan nanaman sa net yun. Whek. Ang bagal bagal pa naman ng net sa bahay. Aysus.

Sana nga talaga tapos na ako dito. Sana hanggang this week nalang ako. Ayoko na talaga, it's so boring na. I'd rather be a bum at home! At least I'm enjoying myself and my last summer as a student kesa andito ako, oo nga may net, pero ang dami daming taong umaaligid! Tapos may danger pa na biglang sumipot boss ko so mabibitin itong sinusulat ko. Shet talaga. Ala-una palang! Meron pa akong 5 hours na kelangan palipasin! Walanghiya!

So anyway, pampalipas ng oras... I'm surfing around checking our red carpet photos of AI7 people. Seryoso, ganun na talaga ako kaborad.

And look what I found!!!




















The Cooks!

They actually look good together... (pretends na hindi nagseselos)








..........iphophotoshop ko mukha ko jan! Mwahahahahaha!

Wasting Time

It's exactly 5:33 in the time card puncher thingy. I can't wait to get outta here.

So okay, tomorrow is Labor Day and I have no idea if I have to go to work tomorrow or if I can relax at home. My boss hasn't come back yet and I think I'd be outta here already when she does. I have to text her about this. I'd be really bummed if I had to come in tomorrow. It's a freaking holiday! I don't know if it is a working or a non-working holiday, but I don't care, because I'm not getting paid anyway!

Maybe it would be a good thing if I had to come in tomorrow. I mean, that would be one day closer to ending this right? But I'm looking forward to hanging out with my friends, although our swimming/picnic trip is in danger of being canceled (if it isn't already) because of lack of cars. But still, I'd love to kick back and watch DVDs all day tomorrow. And I hope it rains too. That would just make my day.

Anyway, for the past couple of hours, I've been redesigning my Mother's Day promo materials. My boss's brother is their brand manager so he checks my designs and everything. i have to say, I learned more from him today than I have the past week. His comments are actually helpful.

Time: 5:39 PM. I'm still here. Haha. I have three Ghost Hunters International downloading now, and one is about to be done in 20 minutes. I'm just gonna wait for that while I pass the time rambling on about senseless things.

I forgot to call Summit Media today. But if it's true that I actually have to spend 9 more days here, I'd be done by May 14, and I'm scared that it might be too late for me to work at Summit. But I'd really love to, even if i spend all May there. At least i'd still have one week in June to be a bum, and I had the first week of April for that too.

I do miss being a bum. Seriously.That's been my career all my life and now I find myself waking up at 6:30 in the morning every weekdays and actually feel like I'm used to it. I've been doing this for exactly three weeks now and I'm tired of it. I don't wanna anymore...

What if I had to do this every single day for the rest of my life?

Yeah, pretty soon I'd have to. I only have a year of school left. I'm gonna get shoved into the real world. I am TERRIFIED. I don't want my life to be like this every single day. For 9 hours I sit in front of a computer and do whatever. Write letters and design flyers and posters in this cramped little room with a banshee for a companion. Seriously. I mean, my workmates here are nice and all, and maybe it's my time of the month, but there are two here that got into my nerves today. They are so loud! Luckily the first one already went home. The other one is still here, and it's killing me. She talks to herself, LOUDLY. Like, shouting. I wanted to strangle her awhile ago.

OK, so I'm evil. But I really value my privacay, and there's just none of that here. And she is especially noisy today. But maybe it's just that time of the month.

Inhale. Exhale. I'm trying to calm myself down and try not to think of my grumbling stomach. I have less than 10 minutes to go before the clock sings its wonderful tune of freedom.

Let me try to distract myself.

So last night, I watched the latest episode of Supernatural. It was weirdly funny. Sam and Dean were supposedly accidentally included in a reality show very much like Ghost Hunters (the fake show was even called Ghostfacers! I don't even know what to make of that. Is it mocking GH? I love GH!). It was funny. Answer to the episode's problem: GAY LOVE. Between a living human being and a ghost.

Time 5:56. Yey!

Lintik!!!

OH GOOD LORD!!

I just found out that I will be stuck in this job for 9 more days! The barista intern here asked how many hours am I rewuired to complete. I said 120. Then she counted the hours in my time card. She said that if I finished this day, then I would be 8 hours over. I know right. And the 9 hours I spend here each day only counts as 8, even if I don't use my 1 hour break, which sucks. I wanna go on a break today, but again I don't have money. Besides, the internet connection here is really fast so I'm taking advantage of it and downloading everything. I only have this laptop this week. The 8 days I have to come back here after this week would be spent with the office laptop which is anciet; I think it's the ancestor of every other laptop.

So okay, it's 10 AM already. 8 more hours to go. Wow. That hour went by pretty quickly. I've just finished the new press release. It's so short, only 3/4 of page and it's already Arial 12 and double spaced! I have nothing else to say about the Barista for a Day program. That's it. Take it or leave it.

Hay. Right now I'm really pissed. Pissed off and bummed. I was really looking forward to being free within next week but no. I still have two more weeks, EXACTLY two more weeks to go! Argh! I'm going to go crazy here! In this hell hole!!!

I'm sorry for ranting, but this is just a seriously boring job. Yeah I know it's very relaxed and all, but I'm supposed to be learning something! And I don't feel like I am! I mean, I have learned a few things, but I don't know, I guess I just had it all worked out in my head how my OJT would be like. I even designed my own business card.

Man. I so need something to get my mind off of this shit later. Luckily it's Wednesday so there's AI later. I'm gonna hear David Cook's wonderful voice again. Yey!

Ok, that made me feel a tad better, but still I'm pissed. Fuck this shit talaga! I wanna get outta here. Shit!

Analog Heart

Here it is finally, Analog Heart by David Cook.

Enjoy!


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I'm an hour away from going home! Yey! I just wonder, why is it when I'm this near from freedom when the work comes? I'm asked to make another press release. Not that the first one sucked or anything. Well, okay maybe it did.

Today was my first meeting with a PR agent, which was not what I envisioned it to be. I thought they were gonna be all corporate and everything, which is why I chose to wear this crisp white shirt someone gave my mom. It looks so nice and corporate. But Lo and behold, it creases easily! I'd have to iron it every hour if I wanted to look crisp the whole day. When I got out of the car this morning it's already creased. Argh. So much for looking sharp.

Sp yeah, the meeting was really short, like, 10 minutes? It was very relaxed too.I guess that's because she's a classmate of my boss'. She said that a lot of cafes are opening right now so all of them are sending press releases about their opening. So I guess the first one I made wasn't technically garbage. It's just that a lot of people are writing the same thing that it wouldn't stand out anymore. Hey, PR class said that write something that's newsworthy and our opening is definitely newsworthy, with the lion dance and all. But I'm happy I learned something today: Be unique.

I actually learned something today! How cool is that?

However, I'm still hunting for my next ojt. I already called GMA and they said that they aren't accepting any more practicumers. So that sucks. So now I have my eyes on Summit Media again. I sent my resume once more but to a new contact person. They already updated their website and placed a contact specially for OJTs. Haha. That's good. This time around I'd really call. I so wanna work there.

I also want a job that would require me to give out calling cards. Haha!

Anyway, I managed to kill half an hour with this post. Man, I love this cafes DSL. 4 of the 5 episodes I'm downloading are already done, and the last one would no doubt be done just in time before I go home. This rocks. I'm gonna download everything here from now on. This would be like the pay that they don't give me. Lol.

Maybe tomorrow I'll actually download whole seasons. Haha!

Backlash 2008 and whatever else

So I'm at work again right now and my boss is away so I'm making the most of her 1-hour absence. Haha. She's a nice gal but pretty strict.

I finished everything that she asked me to design and I already sent it to her and her brother for approval. Hopefully they approve of them. I don't wanna have to do those again. I even made choices for them. But if they make me do that again, then I'd have something to do! Yey.

So last night was WWE Backlash 2008. I'm really glad that they didn't put it in pay per view anymore! Three hours of huge guys kicking each other's asses for FREE! Yey. That's what I call a treat, and food for my passive-aggressive side. Haha. Violence ration for the week.

So, what can I say about Backlash this year? Well... I miss Jeff Hardy. Haha. I haven't seen him in a long time. What happened to him anyway?

So, I'm glad Matt Hardy finally won the USA Championship. It's been a long time coming! How long have he and MVP been going at it? I can't even remember. He deserved it. And MVP is just annoying with his nose tape and Power Ranger suit.

For Batista and Shawn Michaes... That is a weird match up for me. But I love them both. So HBK won... I don't know how to react to that. they're both really good wrestlers but of course HBK is more seasoned. I really don't know. And they're fighting over Ric Flair! I mean... what???

Although I did cry all throughout Ric and HBK's Wrestlemania match. Seriously. The whole 30 minutes (or was i 1 hour?)

For Undertaker vs. Edge... All I wanna say is that the Undertaker can never lose unless he's cheated on. And I'm really curious about that new submission hold of his. What is it called? And does it really cause internal bleeding? I mean, that is serious stuff, isn't it? I know people will say, "But WWE is fake! it's all an act!" Is the bleeding through the mouth fake too? Did they somehow manage to keep a ketchup packet in their mouth and open it up during the submission hold? But if the bleeding was real... then isn't it dangerous? Being locked in that hold once would be harmful enough. But what about Edge who got stuck in it twice?

Last but not the least, the fatal four-way. Triple H is absolutely the most deserving to win. I'm sad that they're not DX anymore because he and HBK were a riot. I wonder if they're gonna have a go on each other again.

John Cena really has to discover tanning lotion or tanning booths or something.

Counting Down

I actually have something to do right now but I'm not in the mood. Haha. I'm really sleepy. It's already 4PM, which means that I've spent exactly 120 hours in this place. But I still have 2 hours to go through before I can go home and watch wonderful DVDs. I watched Meet Joe Black last night. I really love that movie. I don't know, it's just really nice and funny and weird and quirky and glamorous. And not to mention Brad Pitt. That's reason enough to go see it. Lol! But it has a unique story.

Maybe tonight I'll watch Practical Magic. I haven't seen it in a really long time and I'm glad that I found the DVD. It wasn't marked down like the other ones I bought which hurt my wallet but I had to have it's a collectible! The other ones I bought were The Craft and Beetlejuice. I know, it's all cult movies. Andthen Meet Joe Black is about Death on a vacation. Haha. Kinda twisted but I like it. I was even looking for the complete 2 seasons of Supernatural, but I decided to just wait for the whole series to end (hopefully this will be years later) so I could get the complete complete set, maybe in a special box or something. Lol.

I had my first "presentation" at work today. I hate that word. Presentation. It just drives me to panic mode. My boss went, "Okay guys, let's discuss promos for Mothers' Day. Merong ipepresent si Steph na proposal." and I went, "Ha?! Meron?!"

Of course I didn't write it down in my resume, but I have a fear of public speaking/presenting in public. I know that whatever job I'd get in the futurewould surely require that, but I really can't shake it off. At least today it was a bit informal so I just talked about what I thought of doing for that day. I wasn't really uber confident in my idea. I mean, I thought it was a pretty good idea, but all I've done so far is present ideas like those in class and wait for the teacher's reaction. If she doesn't like it, no harm done. Well, besides to my grade. But still. This time however, they're really going to implement it! What if I single-handedly cause this establishment to fall to the ground? Or if my ideas just sounded stupid? I mean, i don't know how to do costing. I don't know how much their raw materials cost. And numbers hate me so I rarely attempt to do math. I just... you know. Come up with ideas. Then I just let them look through them and see if we can implement it without going bankrupt. Another problem is that in school, we were used to making ads for big companies. But this coffee shop is tiny and can't afford all that promo jazz. So I had to adapt my thinking process into small scale business. Which sounds a bit awesome, but it just means that I have to be as cheap as possible with the freebies and stuff.

So I actually have a deadline! Banner, brochure, and shelf display announcement designs by tomorrow. Haha! And I still have time to blog, right? I've actually made 3 banner designs, 2 shelf display announcement designs too. And I still have one and a quarter hour to finish all this. And tomorrow pa. So what will I do tomorrow?

Ooooh! A staff meeting! Cool.

I'm running out of collared shirts to wear, you know. I've actually repeated some. Hopefully nobody noticed, right? I mean, I did wait two weeks before repeating. My mom's closet only has so much collared shirts, some even have missing buttons and all.

So anyway, I have to sneak-post this onto here again before my boss comes back in here.

1 hour 'til freedom and some food 'cause I'm starving and they don't give me free food or coffee here!!!

I FUCKING MISS HIGH SCHOOL

[07:13] deutzy_gurl13: hi henny!
[07:36] fudtripers: hey steph
[07:37] deutzy_gurl13: happy lunch! sorry storbo, i'm at work, really bored.
[07:38] fudtripers: you're working already???
[07:38] fudtripers: times have really passed!
[07:38] fudtripers: sa biz niyo?
[07:38] deutzy_gurl13: haha hindi pa, practicum pa lang. ayoko pa magwork noh hehe.
[07:38] deutzy_gurl13: dont worry di ka pa ganun katanda!
[07:39] fudtripers: hahaha
[07:41] deutzy_gurl13: sige nanga, magpepretend na akong nagtatrabaho. baka bigla bumali boss ko. hehe. c u soon sana!
[07:41] fudtripers: sure! inom tayo. hehehe
[07:42] fudtripers: take care

As usual, I'm really bored right now. I'm only waiting for my boss to come back so we could meet to discuss plans for Mothers' Day and stuff. I already called up Philippine Daily Inquirer like she asked me to, but they scheduled to meet with me on Friday to discuss details of their offer. Which is weird, because I just want to ask a few things about it. I guess the dude who handles that is super-kaduper busy. I'm not really sure if they're just gonna call on Friday or they're gonna go here, in person, which is really frightening because first of all, I'm already scared when I was asked to call them. I have low self-esteem like that. And for me to meet with them in person?! I mean, the questions that I prepared to ask weren't really difficult to answer. Yikes. What have I gotten myself into?

Anyway, so while my boss went back home to I don't know, have lunch and take a nap maybe, I'm taking the time to go online, check my mail, and maybe chat with a few people. And of course blog. So as usual, nobody's online this time of day. They're probably out having a fun vacation, bumming around, or like me, stuck at work in the middle of a glorious summer. The last one I'm gonna have, I might add, before I have to work for real, with pay and all.

So I found a couple of friends online, and also my high school softball coach. He's an awesome coach, and now he's also a daddy! Well, he has been for a few years now. But when he started coaching us he was single. Oh what time has done.

I've been kind of thinking about high school for a couple of days now, whenever I'm upstairs in the function room trying not to be bored. One thing I really miss about high school is softball. I like the game, but what I really miss about it was the camaraderie. The softball team was like a second family to me. We had fun every practice. Lots of memories were formed. Even though those Sunday practices resulted to my uneven skintone, I don't care, because I got a hell of a fun time every time we set out to that field. And the medals were cool too. It's just that, the team's chemistry was perfect. We were all crazy, even our coach. Which is proven by his "inom tayo" comment. Haha! He has been inviting us to go out for drinks for a long time now, but we never got the chance to. Hopefully this year it'll push through. Hmm. Maybe I should plan it.

Being in this job makes me feel really grown up, you know? Evcen though I'm not being paid and I know that I'd be out of this in a few days, I really got the taste of working for someone. It's scary because if I screw up, it's my life that's on the line. That's why I miss being in high school. One thing is that I was a teen back then, which kind of gives me the excuse to screw up. I can do whatever, not study, and still get decent grades. It's just easier that time. I can also remember being angsty and complaining how difficult everything was. I mean, yeah, Chinese subjects were a pain in the ass but besides that, I got to hang out with my friends almost every single day of the week. Now I'm lucky if I get to see them once a month.

Sigh. I'm actually working on my 100 things I miss most about high school. I'll post it soon. My boss is back and my ass will be fired if she catches me blogging during work! Or will she even care? Because I was completely staring into space awhile ago while she's beside me and she didn't even care. Whek. Whatever.

Three

This is indeed a day of celebration!

Since I got swamped with schoolwork the first three months of this year, I completely forgot about this special occasion:

MY BLOG'S 3RD BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOGGIE!

I can't believe I forgot my blog's birthday. I also can't believe that it's been three years since I first posted here. Whoa.

High school has been that long ago. :(

Anyway, no time for sad faces now. Another thing to celebrate about: THIS IS MY 300th POST!!!

WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!

I know, other blogs that are three years old has way more posts than 300. I mean, it's a toddler blog already. I will really try to post a lot more often than this. At present, I average 100 posts a year. Kinda pathetic, right? To think that about a quarter of those posts are seriously useless. Haha!

So there.

And last but not the least, the last thing I'm happy about today is that I'm 5 hours away from completing my minimum 120 hours practicum hours!!!!!

Actually, I'm really 3 hours away from completing it, but I can't get out of work early so I have to stay a couple more hours. I do wanna take a break though. I wanna get out of here for an hour. But the thing is, where will I go? First of all, I don't have a car. Second, I don't have money. I have a hundred pesos in my wallet and I have to make that last until the weekend. I could ask for this week's allowance though, but since World War 100 broke out at home last night, I'm gonna let the opposing powers to cool off a bit and ask for my allowance maybe tomorrow or the next day.

And one more thing is that I don't know when this practicum will end. Sure, I've completed the minimum hours but they said that they're gonna keep me until May. I'm hoping that means they're gonna let me go by May 2. 'Coz I really wanna get another job that's a bit more active and maybe one that pays, even just a small allowance.

So there. 3 celebrated things for my 300th post on my blog's 3rd birthday! Yey!

At Work Taking Advantage of DSL

Yes, that's what I;m doing right now whle pretending to work on promos for the whole year. Haha. I'm horrible. Well, I really am working on promos, and I'm happy to tell you that I've finished the one for May and July already. All I need now is the boss's approval and I can print it out and stuff. Next I'm gonna do the one for June.

I actually pulled the pump plug to plug in the dsl because there's no more available plugs in this tiny tiny office. Pity to the person who goes to the bathroom right now. Lol. I'm bad. I will replug the pump at noon, I promise. I swear, if I stood up and spread my arms, I'd be touching both walls. It's that small.

So I'm planning on taking up another job after this one. The thing is, the company I wanna go to requires a lot of certificates and stuff, and I don't have the time right now to get all of them because I'm at work 5 days a week. I can only go on a Saturday. Hmm. Maybe I will tomorrow. But still, I have no idea when this current job would end. My minimum 120hrs. would be up by Monday, and I wanna go already. but my boss told me yesterday that next week the PR agency will come here and we'll be meeting with them. That's so exciting! That's like the only exciting thing I've heard in two weeks. I think I'll prepare a calling card, just in case. PR is one of the things I'd like to do in the future and this could be an opportunity.

Anyway, I have to get back to designing these coffee cards.

P.S. I listened to the whole of Analog Heart awhile ago and it was just awesome. Awesome!

6 1/2 hours to go until freedom!!!

Work Blues

I'm at work right now, bored outta my wits. I've been given this marketing strategy thing to work on the whole week. As of this moment, I have reached the end of my daily supply of ideas. Basically, I'm done with this task and I still have 6hrs left in my work day. What the hell am I supposed to do? I don't have a computer or a laptop so surfing is out. I'm blogging with my phone right now because my phone doesn't have that complete keypad thing like a keyboard so it's difficult.'