Saturday fun!

I met up with my Harte Hanks friends at G4 for lunch. Then Mona and Ian fetched us with their van to their place. Guess what, we had our lunch again! Can't resist barbeque and soup. Afterwhich, we had a videoke session, courtesy of Mona's magic sing. Totally fun!

I'm grateful having them as my friends. I even feared of losing them, specially when i left Harte Hanks. But then you made me realize how special our friendship is. And I'm thankful that even though we have different sched's, we still manage to find time, to get together and enjoy each other's company. Trully, you guys are irreplaceable.

Me, only better.

Right now, seems like things starts going back to normal. Then I my QA feedback I've been expecting finally came out, and I'm thankful I got a positive result from QA Ian.

Had lunch at Chowking with Doreen and Taz, though I felt guilty I wasn't able to lend money for a friend, 'coz I already have a budget 'til next payday.

Talkin', hatin'...

There's a petty issue goin' on with two of my friends, hope they could fix it soon. 'coz it's hard since I'm like in between.

After shift Doreen invited Taz and I to Factory Depot at Mantrade to check out Levi's stocks. I didn't find something I like, though.

My name in Chinese

Suppossed plan to meet up Doreen before shift was cancelled, since she was still with her cousin.

After shift though, Doreen and I went to Ortigas to claim our ATM card from Equitable bank. Then we had our lunch at a chinese place called MXT. I'm not really into chinese food, but I didn't expect the food to taste so good.

Speaking of Chinese, I found this site that provides translation of english names into Chinese characters. Here's my name in Chinese:

I dunno if it's really accurate though, and I have no idea how you read it, but it says the names are mainly translated by the pronunciation. Try your name!

Home today.

My new shedule takes effect today. I'm glad it's my rest day.

Stayed all day in my room, with lot's of things and issues on my mind that I need to work out.

Emo mode... still.

I'm not really in the mood today. I'm just trying my best to pretend I'm okay when I'm taking calls. But it's not easy! I'm on mixed emotions. But I have to endure this. Hope things will be fine soon.

Had my lunch at McDo with Larry and MJ, then breakfast at Jollibee after shift.

"Love is a choice you make from moment to moment."

~Barbara De Angelis

So bad...

I'm sorry. This is not really a good day for me, but I don't think this would be a proper venue for it.

But anyhow, I would like to greet Jepoy a happy happy birthday!!! God bless!

Birthday greetings!

HAPPY BITHDAY to my niece TRISHA, and my officemate -- MEL!!!

Today Mike and I decided to go to Glorietta for some walk and snack. nothing much today though, we went home early 'coz my niece will be celebrating her birthday at home.

Hearts Day!

Let me first have my HAPPY BIRTHDAY greetings to RICHARD and AUNTIE EBENG!!!

And to all: HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

Is today really a big deal? Well most probably for those who do not have a partner, this is just one of those ordinary days. However, some would celebrate this day with friends or family, though very rare. But not in my case, 'coz my baby prepared something for me. However, due to some misunderstanding his plan didn't end all well, which i really felt sorry about. We'll just make it up at another time maybe.

At work, my Team Manager Ms. Dee made some effort. She e-mailed us a Valentines greeting and gave us chocolates as her valentine gift.

LESSONS FROM GEESE

We met my new team manager Deanne Magno yesterday shift (Feb. 12 '07) --- we shared our work expectations as an employee, towards our co-employees, and team manager. She also gave us a copy of "LESSONS FROM GEESE", and i would want to share it as well.

"LESSONS FROM GEESE"

Its really inspiring...

Fact: As each goose flaps its wings it creates an "uplift" for the birds that follow. By flying in a V-formation, the whole flock adds 72% greater flying range than if each bird flew alone.

Lesson: People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the thrust of another.

Fact: When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of flying alone. It quickly moves back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front of it.
Lesson: If we have as much sense as a goose we stay in formation with those headed where we want to go. We are willing to accept their help and give out help to others.

Fact: When the lead goose tires, it rotates back into the formation and another goose flies to the point position.
Lesson: It pays to take turns going the hard tasks and sharing leadership. As with geese, people are interdependent on each other's skills, capabilities, and unique arrangements of gifts, talents, and resources.

Fact: The geese flying formation honk to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.
Lesson: We need to make sure our honking is encouraging. In groups where there is encouragement, the production is greater. The power of encouragement (to stand by one's heart or core values and encourage the heart and core of others) is the quality of honking we seek.

Fact: When a goose gets sick, wounded, or shot down, two geese drop out of formation and follow it down to help and protect it. They stay with it until it dies or is able to fly again. Then, they launch out with another formation or catch up with the flock.
Lesson: If we had as much sense as geese, we will stand by each other in difficult times as well as when we are strong.

~~ "Lessons from Geese" was transcribed from a speech given by Angeles Arrien at the 1991 Organizational Development Network and was based on the work of Milton Olson.