Random Thoughts

I've got so much to say I don't even know where to begin but let me just try.

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DOG-EAT-DOG: Love it or hate it, kissing ass is an unofficial necessary evil in the corporate world. But this doesn't mean that you shouldn't have to fight back when bitten.

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CORPORATE SLAVE: Six months ago, my dad was berating me for the fleeting nature of my career path. Now he's criticizing me for limiting myself to what he calls as my "voluntary imprisonment" all because I'm much too in love with my profession as eTelecare's (harrassed) resident language trainer for its Makati site.

Imagine having to forcibly pull yourself out of your warm and comfy bed just so you could come up with wise strategies (and sometimes desperate measures) to polish the accent of your trainees so at the same time, you could hit the required attrition rate for your own performance evaluation.

Imagine having to deal with egocentric forces of nature in the corporate world that won't even apologize for (evident) errors that wreaked havoc to what could have been an otherwise peaceful work day or at least change the spelling of your last name even when already cited for an apparent inadvertent input of the letter "z" instead of "s".

Oh what the hell. I love my job. After all, it's my "practical dream job". I just hope I really did successfully pull off that company events host audition. So much for making fun of "my precious" name. Haha. Imagine being able to hit two birds with one stone if fate permits! @:)

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HOT PINK PLUS WHAT'S NEW: new phone (I love my hot pink Motorola V3x!), new two pairs of shoes, new skirts (my legs deserve the exposure to sunlight, haha) that could go too with my not-so-new hot pink long boho skirt from the US, new long-sleeved shirts (time for a change; have had 'nuff with the "unusual" shirts), new condo unit in (faraway! *gasp*) Taguig ("ouch" on the budget), new bags (my gorgeous camel office bag from Kimbel, the classy chocolate brown clutch bag my May trainees gave me and the hot pink native bag another trainee of mine gave me), my hot pink  iPod, soon-to-come new bed from my condo agent (haha, pressured!), new (classy) tan shawl (again, from my May trainees who often saw me shivering in the igloo we call our training room; love it, love them!)

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WHAT MATTERS: Somebody has YET to change my mind on the following things:

politics

1. I don't like Honasan, Trillanes and Lacson. This dislike doesn't have anything to do with their common military denominator. But over Trillanes, I like the other two for their political experience and know-how. And over Honasan and Lacson, I like Trillanes for his moral turpitude.

2. I don't like GMA. But right now, better her than Erap. 'Nuff said.

life in general

1. Got this one from my boss: Your tardiness and absences, no matter how seemingly legitimate the reasons may be, ARE STILL tardiness and absences.

2. If for practicality and short-term goals, I believe that you work not to save money. You work to live. And the idea of "living" has with it the idea of great long-term dreams and ambitions. Better to be lesser in gifts but determined and patient to succeed than to be full of talents but critical and yet idle.

3. Believe you are beautiful and wise. No one else will unless you take it upon yourself to stand up and stand out and show the world who you are and what you're capable of.

You love, you criticize, you accept, you adjust, you fight back, you learn, you share, you live.