grr

I suck at job interviews. Really, I hate interviews. I’m just not a good salestalker.

 dammit I so want to get a job, but I have to practise my interviewing skills. Pisti giatay oi.

2nd Chance?

Sometimes I think I am given a 2nd chance of figuring myself out.

Being a homemaker for almost 3 months, where the highlight of my day is having Mr. Pesky come home , 2nd to that is cooking for dinner (I never thought I would enjoy cooking, me of all people!), is not so bad after-all. I realized that I can live the whole day without getting bored, that I would enjoy just being myself.

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Do I really want to pursue a career in I.T.? Is this what I really want or am I dictated by society to go into this field, this is afterall one of the most in demand job in the industry and the pay can be very rewarding.  Does it have to come to what I want vs. money?

Mr. Pesky and I have been discussing that if he gets another offer from another company with a higher rate to boot then I would lose my work(because of his change from L1 to H1b visa) unless of course they will sponsor me a working visa. I said to him that I was ok with losing my job (wala pa nga akong trabaho eh) that I would just go to school and study another course, a course which my heart tells me to enroll to.

I have crazy thoughts of applying at Starbucks and Shoprite. Maybe I will be a good barista, I love my coffee afterall and then I thought of enrolling myself to a healthcare profession because I enjoy helping others. Maybe I should be a psychologist since I am a good listener or maybe I should go into the financial world because I “think” I’m good with money matters.

The thing is I don’t know what my heart is telling me, do I need to commit hara-kiri, get my heart out and hear its whisper.

Arg! I hate this phase

So, the job-hunting has begun. I still do have a problem with my working permit, f**k that! I’m applying for a job, I know it will get sorted out. So help me God!

I hate this, you know, the applying-for-a-new-job phase of my life. I hate interviews because my mind would conveniently blank itself out. My head is swimming with technical terms i.e. asyncronous, delegate, threading, marshalling,DLLImport. Argg!!!

Why am I in I.T.? why? why? So, today I’m drinking myself to oblivion with caffeine and drowning myself with these techie stuff. Gawd! I hope the interview tomorrow is not going to be a technical one *panic mode*.

Our new baby

On a lighter note (compared to previous post), we purchased make utang a pre-owned car. I call her vroom-vroom, how original can that be harharhar! Thanks to my auntie who gave us a very good loan.

 Click on picture to view the original size.

Do I look cool or coolang2?

me and vroom-vroom

a la marilyn monroe

ang baby namin ang cute!

Yiek is currenly teaching me how to drive, gawd! there are so many rules and I panic too easily. Bad for the heart. tsk!

Fate’s latest hurl at me

I had everything planned out. That’s all I think about Every.Single.Day. I think about it Before.I.Go.To.Sleep. It was what kept me sane when Yiek goes to work and I am left alone in this bleary house.

I was suppose to

apply for work, get accepted and offered a handsome pay,just enough for us to live comfortably.

send balikbayan boxes middle of the year to the folks back at home, containing Nine West shoes for my sister, pyrex dishes for my Mama, Wii console for brother, Bed Sheets for Yiek’s mother, and some other stuff to Yiek’s relatives and my friends.

buy an ipod/iphone.

buy an imac.

buy myself a digital camera and video cam.

go to Europe.

and

have a baby.

But all that has changed when I received the letter from homeland security. My world came crashing apart and all the things that I planned so painstakingly vanished into thin air. It seems, destiny has other plans for me.

Backgammon

I used to get backgammon game-board as gifts, but I never knew how to play the game. As I kid I couldn’t understand what the game is all about so I just put all my backgammon game-board to the storage room.

I came upon this site, read the rules and downloaded the game. I never knew is what that easy. This now goes to my list of games-to-play-when-I-have nothing-else-to-do, which is often these days. Bah! it sucks not having a job, at least I get to play games like this one.

Old times Bingo

When I was kid, my grandma used to host Bingo games in her small backyard. We kids would be so excited because we can win all sort of toys and candies. Oh what a joy that time was!

Reminiscing those times, I surfed the net and somehow got myself to an online bingo site.Not only did I have loads of fun, I can win real money too! C’mon download it now, so you will also have fun playing.

If bingo is not your thing, you can also play other games like poker and slot machine.

Just our luck (take 2)

I should be studying I know *beating self up*, its almost February and it would be a trial time for me. Why? because I’ll be looking for a job and I absolutely hate job interviews. I fear that I’m not knowledgable enough, like someone might ask me “Enumerate the lifecyle of a page.” and I might give them a silly answer like open firefox, type the url and viola there is your page. LOLZ! Somehow I can’t remember the cycle so help me GOD! There’s the pre-render, render uhhmm that’s it! thats all I can remember. So I must read a lot dammit and here I am blogging. why? why? why? Why am I doing this to myself.

After5 minutes…

Ok, I searched the web. Apparently, these are the events: Page Request, Start, Page Initialization, Load, Validation,Event Handling, Rendering, Unload. Ask me again in 10 minutes and I won’t remember all that. harharhar!

I’m in a sour mood right now, I don’t know if its me or Yiek but I assume its really Yiek (eh sabi ng manghuhula ako daw ang nagdadala nang swerte sa kanya, na ubos ko na cguro power ko di ko ma kerry siya). We’ve had our stream of badlucks since going here, and it seems we will have more of it, bring it on! First, Yiek’s L1 was delayed by 2 weeks, 2nd- I got delayed by 3 weeks because of system failure, 3rd- Yiek’s ssn got delayed by 8 weeks, 4th-we couldn’t open a checking account because the chexsystems denied our application saying that his ssn does not exist, 5th-we were finally able to open a checking account from another bank and guess what? their system got jinxed and our checking will not be open until tuesday, 6th-the car that we wanted got sold yesterday and we will be 1k overbudget and last but the not the least, we found another car to our liking and what do you know it got sold, minutes after we called the agent. Bummer! I think Yiek has the bad luck aura here, I even joked to him that he was the reason winter is delayed. I read from the news that the last time this happened was last 111 years ago.

Anouncement

As if I have that many readers harharhar.

 I will be posting in my other blogsite about money matters, finances, finds on the internet, advices, what I miss in the Philippines and other stuff. So head on there, come on go there pronto!

 Of course I will still be posting here, this will be my personal blog, the other one would be an impersonal blog *duh*.

New Year 2006

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

New Year for us was spent on the bus. I’m not kidding!!! We went to New York hours before New Year’s eve to get a glimpse of the ball dropping in Times Square. As it was still early we decided to roam around NY. We went to Saks 5th Ave where we saw beautiful window displays. I was really enchanted with the displays, as I was pinoy I didn’t want to go into the line to see the displays, I just transferred from window to window and read the story about the snowflake girl or something of that sort. I was blocking the street I didn’t care. Funny though, Yiek put his head on my shoulder and accidentally pulled my dangling earring and I shouted, all the people were looking at me but I still kept on shouting LOLZ, if your ears were pulled wouldn’t you shout? NY was full of people and I had crappy pictures. This is what I don’t like when touring with Yiek, I get crappy pictures!!! Yes we have an SLR but my gulay he takes pictures of facades, anything that catches his eye and pictures of me touring the place are just a few and they are crappy!!! I have to get a camera on my own, a point and shoot one, so I can just take a picture of myself while touring, how sad can that be? Tsk!

one of the window display

another window display

There was also a Christmas/Snowflakes show on the building of Saks 5th, you know the kind you see in You Tube where the lights move in rhythm with the music. Saw The Rockefeller Christmas tree which isn’t that big and tall, makes me wonder what the fuss is all about but the tree was beautiful nonetheless, as expected I have a crappy pic, in my defense, there were lots of tourist and it was hard to get a position with the tree behind me.

angel ako!

ang sikat na tree, bow, may kapre pa nakaposing

out of focus, galing ng camera man ko

Yiek also brought me to Grand Central or was it Grand Station whatever, you can see this place in lots of movies. The place was enchanting, I really loved it, it reminds me of european buildings, so if I were to go on europe since I’m easily enchanted by these facades, I would most probably be dizzy from all the be-yu-ti-ful buildings. I want to go to Europe now na!!! LOLZ!

turista na humaharang sa daan

time travel

Since it was already 6 pm, we decided to go to Times Square, all the streets were closed and we had to walk from 40th street to 55th and the back to 55th to 40th, bummer, the crowd was overwhelming, people where pushing each other and I was sandwiched between two guys. When we finally got in and had a good spot, Yiek suddenly had the urge to relieve himself, and we had to go find a rest room. When we got back we couldn’t get in our previous place and the police won’t even let us stay in the sidewalks. Bummer!!!! Pisti giatay! nagtugatuga ko ug dut-dut, nya mawala ra diay ko sa among lugar!!!

ang daming tao!!!

I went home pouting and not in the mood! What a way to spend New Year’s eve, I did get to see one and I mean one 5 sec firework. Hooo weellll!! Goog thing, Yiek’s staff house were having a party, it was still fun.

take na lang ng picture para mawala ang inis ko grr!!