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The weekend settled amazingly, I joined the company outing and it was a blast. I never thought that I’d have so much fun with my colleagues, in fact it was a whole lot better that I’ve expected. How we’d wish it was an overnight affair, but either way at the end of that tiring day it was so worth it.

The sun was basking gorgeously in the early morning sky, stupid me to have forgotten my old-reliable SLR camera. Maybe I was quite conscious to even bring it, I’d be an underdog against those digicams and DSLR’s, but that’s the least of my worries, I’d be worried though if I left my mp3 player at home, I’d be slumped without music on a long and tiring ride.

I’d be putting up photos probably in the next day or two, I’d have to scour them from buddies of mine who have ‘em, and off-course I gotta load ‘em up on flickr, as for now this post will be as bare as an elephant’s butt.

Here’s the deal, I’m really too lazy to write nowadays, since there’s really nothing much goin’ on, well, there was this supposedly “big thing” that happened a few months back, but that stuff is boring as hell, and I now realize just how shitty and what a stupid nonsense it was.

A week after being dumped in the morning shift at work, I can probably say that I’ve managed my time well, in a 5 day work shift I’ve attained a level of responsibility out of it, a ratio of 3:2 lates isn’t a bad thing, after all I’m still coping with all its chaos, afternoon traffic, the hoards of people out in the streets and off course the all mighty sun.

Having this early shift does have a few quirks, hmmm, actually there’s nothing I can think off, hahaha! but its ok in someways, I get to go home early, or probably go to the mall or something, or I could go to my buddy’s house and hit on sweet mary jane (pucker up!). I now understand why “TGIF” is so fuckin’ hip with yuppies! its the best day of the week, you get to do whatever the fuck you want without minding work! and if I can re-phrase it, it’d be TGIFF, “Thank God It’s FUCKIN’ Friday”.

Got nothin’ much to post after the holidays, something went on, but definitely uninteresting. Work has been so far, very much mediocre, an email here, troubleshoot there, but definitely better than the previous. Most of the tools that we use are now activated for my account, that which makes it more flexible when troubleshooting stuff, especially when it comes to accessing remote servers.

Well, it’s been a long vacation for me, it was at least a month of bumming around, mostly trying to make it at the end of the day without hurting myself. Tomorrow will be another “first”, got the new job wrapped up last week and I’m headed for a new endeavor, hopefully this time everything falls nicely into place.

A couple of days from now, its gonna be december, the last month of the year, it started off right for me, well, if you look at it through corporate eyes, but I’m still daunted by a lot of questions, what I’m speaking off are personal stuff, I cannot seem to shake ‘em off, somehow it still haunts me. Maybe, I need a shrink.

Finally! I received the job offer that I’ve been waiting for the past couple of days, I was worried though that I might not get the job, but thankfully I did, I gotta move though, I have to have a printed copy of the JO by tomorrow and bring it to the company’s HR dept. so I can finish up on their pre-employment requirements.

I wonder, when will I start? it’s not that I’m eager to get to work again, it’s just that after a couple of weeks with nothing to do but watch daily noon time shows (got no cable on the tele … sorry), you get to appreciate the hassles of traffic and the unending politics at work.

I attended an officemate’s birtday party yesterday, I was accompanied by another former officemate who told me that he just recently resigned from his current job, being in the same company but now on different accounts, I was happy for my friend since he’s been dealing with a lot of hardships trying to pull up his stats in the last few months, now he’s ready to move on … hoping for a better career and a better life, best of luck to you bro.

Knowing what my current state is, I’ve come to realize that I’ve been pretty much stagnant ever since I moved to my current employer. The last few years were a bit ok, but things have been in a really steep climb recently, all of us in my team has had some minor and major disappointments with all of the changes, we’ve been dealing with colleague’s who’ve felt distressed and therefore abandoned the team to pursue greener pasture, and there’s the added work load which made the job more depressing and unrelentlessly boring and the worst part (for me maybe) is the passivity of the situation thus making me (us) feel that we’re unproductive and incompetent.

Right now, I’m still stuck and waiting, I’ve applied for several other jobs last week, I’ll just have to sit back and hope against hope that I’d find my own greener pasture.

I have been checking my gmail account mostly everyday now since I’ve been very eager of scooping out a new job, jobstreet’s been a big help, making it easier to sort applications out. Current employment status is no where near of being stable, so I have to keep one foot ahead so as to save my skin. Stupid of me though, I forgot to grab a copy of last sunday’s paper, I may have forgotten it because I wasn’t aware of what day it was … well, there’s always next sunday.

I’ll be back taking consultations calls this week, last week’s first-hand calls were grueling, not to mention my loser shift sched!. I’m relieved to be back on being a helpdesk personel that I am, but since there’s just gonna be a couple of us answering inquiries it’ll most likely be the same darn thing … this is starting to be preeeeeeetty unsatisfying. phooey!

Attrition here and there, a week won’t pass without somebody getting booted out of employment, too bad to those who’ve worked their asses off, their the first to go, quite ironic isn’t it. Well, if your working in a million-dollar-corporate-whore-house like I do, I guess it isn’t that surprising, at some point you’d encounter supervisors who tends to favor closely-knit co-workers, who don’t even have the capacity to do their work from being shoved to unemployment limbo, rather than saving the ones who are worth saving … this is what’s happening in the account that I’m currently employed in, I’m somewhat affected by it though not directly.

It’s saddening really, to see this gargantuous of an account to ever slip-up, just because of 2 numbskull-bimbos taking over management, don’t get me wrong, I don’t freakin’ care who or what gender is running the account, heck, the whole country’s governed by a female and I don’t mind and I don’t give a shit, just as long as the people who are trying to make this shit-hole, un-crappier every minute get what they deserve. The situation’s just too darn depressing, it’s clouding positive vibe in the whole account, ever since the new management came into the picture, everything seems gray and all these maggots started crawling in (mga bwaka-ng-inang sipsip!!).

I believe it’s gonna be another hellish day, work hasn’t been really that productive recently, it’s starting to be depressing at times. It’s most evident just by looking through the faces of each employee, everyone’s in a bunker. There’s nothing much to complain about, thinking about the company’s status, you just gotta have to make-ends-meet, it’s a cycle, that’s just what it is.

In other things that I’m very much enthusiastic about, I’m beggining to see myself as a “car-buff”, I hate to say it but I am, it’s always in my head, mods, engine upgrades, aesthethics, sound setup … just the thought of it having ‘em on my car gives me a creepy feeling, then again as I’ve mentioned it’s a cycle, how do I attain all of these when my livelihood’s in a dump … just gotta make-ends-meet i guess.