First Two Weeks

Thanks to my dear friend, Gia, I remembered that I have this blog. And I haven't written in a long time.

Okay. Last December 23, my dad called me and had some news. Basically, I had to leave Manila by the first week of January. So here I am, sitting in the terrace at the back of a Hong Kong guest house my aunt manages, freezing my fingers and butt off so just I could chat with my friend and post an update.

I went to a construction safety seminar on my first weekend here. It was quite a learning experience. I enrolled for the English instruction and it turned out that the instructor was a Chinese man. He was very knowledgeable, you could really tell, but he could barely pronounce the words properly. Not a very good thing, especially for someone like me who's not familiar with chinese-english.

When I got in the room, most of the seats were taken. Most of the people there were men. I found four ladies on the third row and decided to sit with them. Turns out, they don't speak English, and they kept talking to me in their language. I'm not sure if their Indians or Pakistani.

I got 95% on the test. I also passed the hands on exam. Well, everyone passed. But I'm proud to say that I did it on my own. I'm not being mean or anything, but the ladies beside me didn't seem like they could understand the questions. It wasn't any use peeking at my answer sheet, which the one nearest me did shamelessly, because we had different sets of questionnaires. They ended up copying from some Malaysian guy seating in front of them. I passed my papers as soon as I was done with them. Everyone got their cards minutes later.

The next week, I spent mostly in my Aunt's bedroom, watching every movie on her shelf. After I finished those, I got CD's downstairs and continued my movie marathon. Thankfully, a family friend came and I got to borrow his laptop. I was able to go online but still ended up watching movies on his computer.

My dad bought me a laptop, which I told him I'll pay for eventually (completely ignoring his 'don't worry about' reply), and I just found out that the program I was gonna use it for wasn't compatible with the operating system. Tsk, tsk. What a waste of time. I'm gonna have to carry this back to the store and ask if they could upgrade to W7 Pro or downgrade it to XP so just I could use my program.

There, I'm kind of sleepy already so I've summarized my first two weeks the best my sleepy mind is able to.

Tuesday Blues

I just finished my latest estimate. Now my mind is floating.

What do I want to write? I've been planning on having a style of wiring in this blog. Since I don't have all the time in the world to write, I'd just have to share my dailyusings. Something like a post that Dianna Agron made in her tumblr account. Short but very inspiring.

I'll start when the first muse visits me.

Holiday!

I am sooo glad that I didn't have to get up extra early for work today. I do hope that all the Muslims around the world are having a peaceful celebration of Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice).

I had to work late last night since today's a non-working holiday. I had to balance 3 project deadlines yesterday, I was literally stumped for the better half of an hour. I couldn't figure out which was the most important and which I could do with the least amount of time. Nevertheless, I finished them to an acceptable degree. Come Wednesday I don't think I'll be rushing as much. I'd probably just spend the day checking my estimates and writing follow up emails.

I am also lovin' the fact that Pia is here to spend my free day with me!

2NE1 Gold Team Hoody FOR SALE!

I now have the my 2NE1 hoodies but because of how much the customs charged us for the jackets, I'm selling one of them. I live in Manila and I would only agree to meet ups for the payment.

Please, if anyone's interested, just leave me a message.

Don't forget to leave me a message with your contact info!

One Busy Day

I had the busiest day since I started at my company. Never thought I'd have to spend so much time on progress billings. Not to mention, rush through a bid proposal for submission. Ugh, and I still have another project on the list because I can't find the time to estimate it on top of semi-supervising an on-going renovation.

But I will survive! I'll have everything done by Saturday. Count on it.

Customs nightmare

I just recently bought 2NE1 gold team hoodies via my friends credit card. The problem now is the package is on hold t the customs because of the fact thy the entire thing was declared to be around $200 (my friend ordered one too).

Now, because of money constraints, I'm forced to sell one of my jackets. My loss is the gain of another, I believe.

I'm not sure how much I'm reselling the hoody, but it's gonna be between 4,500-5,000 Philippine peso (but I can negotiate). I'm still figuring out how to claim them from the customs.

But, I'M DEFINITELY SELLING. If anyone's interested, just leave a message.

Happy Halloween!

We spent the Halloween at the mall. There were a bunch of kids coming in and out of various shops, asking for candies. All of them were so cute! I wish I spent a day in costume when I was younger. There were really a lot of things that I wish I could've done.

Later in the afternoon, I met up with a friend. Her nieces and nephews were adorable! One in particular, Pao the baby Tigger. I couldn't help myself so I asked to carry him around as we walked to the next building for the registration.

Overall, it was a fine day. I was with my mom and my sister the entire time, enjoying the fact that we got to see the inside of a mall again.

It has been a long time since. Mostly because I was busy paying bills these past few weeks. I normally take everyone to the movies or just plain window shopping. It's been strained this October.

Anyway, Halloween made up for it. It was a super fun day with my family.