Wednesday, February 23, 2011

HONDA-DOT

10PM ang shift ko nitong nakaraang dalawang linggo.. Kung may malaking pagbabago man sa trabaho ko, iyon ay hindi ko na kailangang maging "honda" (on the dot ibig sabihin para sa mga nagttrabaho sa call center). Madalas ay pumapasok na ako ngayon na relaxed at hindi na kailangan ng mahabang paliwanagan kapag late sa trabaho. Pero minsan lang ako late sa trabaho. Siyempre, kailangan ko na maging good example. 

Minsan nagising ako ng sobrang late. Nasobrahan yata ako sa tulog. Malapit lang ang tinutuluyan ko sa opisina - yun ay kung magtataxi ako, na nangangahulugan na dapat may pera ako, na malaking dagok sa budget ko every time na lalabas na ang sweldo. Minsan, ginawang feature article ng FHM ang lifestyle ng mga taong nagtratrabaho sa call center. Pahayag ng mga taxi driver na mapapansin mo daw na taga call center ang pasahero kapag sakto ang bayad na iniabot sa taxi driver. Madalas ay ganun din ang ginagawa ko at marami din akong kilala na kahit wala na ngang pera ay nagtataxi pa din araw-araw. Siguro ganun nga ang realidad ng buhay. Kaya ngayong nagtaas ng singil ang mga taxi, iniisip ko kung gaano kalaki ang epekto nito sa mga call center employees.

Sa mga ordinaryong araw naman ay mas ginugusto ko na kasama ang paglalakad sa pagpasok ko sa trabaho. Wala akong masyadong exercise sa buhay kaya sinanay ko na ang sarili ko sa mga mahabang lakaran. Bitbit ang iPod, lagay ang earphone sa tenga, tali ng sintas sa pinakamahigpit na porma - handa na at simula na ng araw ko. Marami akong nakakasalubong na tao. Hilig ko ang mag sight seeing ng magaganda sa paningin. babae ang ibig kong sabihin. Ang iba sa kanila, posturang postura na tila ba nagbebenta ng encyclopedia. Ang iba naman ay takaw-tingin. Sila yung mga tipong stunner pero dadaan lang talaga - dahil nagkalat din naman ang mga tulad nila. Maraming uri sila pero wala talaga akong paborito. Simple lang kasi ang prinsipyo ko sa mga bagay na ganyan. 

RULE # 1: Lunurin mo na sa titig at wag kang maghangad ng higit pa dun... baka madisappoint ka lang.
RULE # 2: Kung balak mo na baliin ang Rule # 1, humanda ka na.

Pagdating sa opisina, bukas ng PC, magbabasa ng email, magdadasal na sana maganda ang number na lumabas sa nakaraang araw, hanapin ang kinauupuan ni manager at mag-pretend na busy ka at maghanap sa station ng crush ko na ahente kung saan siya nakaupo sa araw na yun.Kumpleto na ang araw ko...at yan ang kadugtong ng kwento ko. 

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

My Newfound Addiction

WOW! I have not blogged for a month. I was really busy the whole time. I finally have my own team with 15 agents. I'm just excited to give details about the whole transfer experience which I might include in my future blog posts. 

Another thing that has kept me busy was my newfound addiction with torrent files. Seriously, I have no idea about torrent files ever since. I was looking for a copy of the 2010 NBA FINALS between Boston and LA and a friend suggested that I try looking for a torrent file. But hell I don't have any idea about those kind of things. I mean I download music files from Frostwire but when it comes to movies, its either I watch them in theaters or I rent at Video City. I stopped buying those pirated movies in Quiapo since the place mostly sells new movies and most of the movies I love to watch were bit old and rare to find. So I have asked friends who have been experts with downloading movies and they gave me different websites but unfortunately I can't understand any of those things the websites were mentioning like seed, leech and all those stuffs. So to cut the story short I went back to Frostwire since I found out that they are also capable of downloading torrent files (though a colleague told me it might take weeks to download files from Frostwire). I still tried my luck so I typed in Love Actually and double clicked the results and as soon as it started downloading the movie, I almost believe that it might really gonna take weeks before it finished everything. After an hour browsing other Internet stuffs, I went back to Frostwire to check the numbers on how many percentage it has downloaded already. I was shocked when I found out that it's almost done. FAST. I really thought it was bogus so I opened it as soon as it was completed and shoot, its showing Bill Nighy singing Christmas Is All Around which is part of the opening scene in the movie. I almost shouted EUREKA


Now, I have like 10 movies in my Netbook that I'm starting to fear my hard drive won't be able to store all movies that I would be downloading in the next few days. I'm now a certified movie pirate. I fear Ronnie Ricketts would barge into my room and get my things and sue me for movie piracy. LoL. 



Anyway, one of the movies I was able to get a copy from Frostwire was about a young John Lennon before he formed the legendary Beatles. It tells the story of how her Aunt Mimi and mother Julia raised her from a small place in Liverpool (which is another legendary place that is part of my bucket list).

Today is my rest day and I'm planning to spend it watching movies I. Certified movie pirate - that's me..!!