fun time with the girls

a simple dinner, a few fraps, long chats ... it really takes very little effort to make us happy -- photos courtesy of jen

changes...

hay life!!!! it's not that i don't like changes, i'm just that type of person who is very attached to my comfort zone. like the brand of shampoo & soap that i am using are the same brands that i have been using since high school. i may change the variants but it would still be the same 2 brands. i only get to shift to new brands if i was not the one who bought it or just to avoid product build up on my scalp.

how many times have i gone to wendy's to order anything other than bacon mushroom melt, ham & cheese, baked potato with cheese & bacon? or eat at kfc and not order hot & crispy chicken or hot shots with rice and sweet chili sauce or a zinger? NONE! i would always consider buying other things would always end up buying those that i have been accustomed to...tsk tsk tsk. dunno if its part of my being OC or it's because im always uncomfy in trying out new things.

these past few days a lot of changes happened around me, some good, some not so good & there are those that i really do not like: BST is up so we came to work an hour earlier, instead of working from 8pm - 5am its now 7pm - 4am, not much of a big deal to me since i was carpooling with darwin. last week zar & i, along with carr & tess, moved to a new apartment in rizal village, alabang to avoid the summer traffic in laguna. coming from the resort paradise of the philippines, we just had to do it or otherwise take the chance of being late for work every single day or losing hours of good sleep =( this is a good change for me because now i get to sleep for 8 hrs uninterrupted. our room is just so conducive for sleeping. its also great that i get to leave the apartment at 6:30pm & be at the office by 6:45pm, so cool!

now this week is the big change that i am still not prepared for, nor do i know how to deal with...yet. my shift changes from 7pm - 4am (sat/sun or split off) to 3pm - 12am (fixed mon/tues off), quite drastic don't u think? unfortunately our team did not rank good enough for us to get our preferred sked, which is still a big puzzle to us considering that the our numbers were good, so we were stuck with the left over choices. i was upset at first but then my friends were able to provide me good points about this change that is worth considering. one major perk is that i get to sleep at night! yey! it's as if i just stayed up late to watch tv; i can still have a night life, i could still catch freestyle at 19east or bellevue for their 2nd set after my shift ends; and my rest days would actually be in the day as in with sunlight & my family also awake. the only downside it that its on a week day so i don't get to spend much time with them, especially for family occasions which is normally done on weekends =( but the major pain in the butt is...tenen! our team, along with 2 others would be moving from the 4th to the 2nd floor! it's a major pain because our lockers are on the 4th floor, considering that we are only allowed to bring our headsets, pencils & mugs on the floor we would have to come to work earlier than usual for a trek from the ground floor to the 4th to keep our bags amd get our things & then back down again to the 2nd. just thinking about doing it 2x a day already stresses me out. plus we don't have permanent stations there, so that would mean that i would have to sacrifice my wrap time after calls because my handy notepad for copying & pasting my documentation records will not be readily available and for someone who has a big issue about my comfort zone, i hope you could understand if i would be cranky almost everyday. right now the only thing that makes me hold on to this job are my friends, seeing my my tranchemates everyday just to vent out & laugh out loud...but they're taking that away from me as well. good thing gladys would be moving to our team by next week at least i'll have one more tranchemate on the team...

depressing ain't it? well there's nothing much that i could do about it but to abide by the great decision of our really smart management team who always considers their employees welfare

kyle's 7th birthday v2 full

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