last tuesday habang kami ay nagsasagot ng quiz namin sa SQL, may unknown number na tumawag sa aking celfone.. akala ko naman sa e-transcript yun kasi sila yung laging tawag ng tawag sa akin eh. nagulat ako si ms. imelda ng levelup.ph ang tumawag! sabi nya "are you still interested working with levelup.ph?" sabi ko naman "YES MA'AM!" so ayun nga nag-set sya ng schedule for my final interview: July 23, 2008 at 10am. GRABE!!!! akala ko wala na yun kasi isang buwan ang lumipas bago nila ako tinawagan. ndi na nga ako umaasa eh, todo explain naman si ms. imelda na ngayon lang daw talaga may available na date for interview at pasensya na raw kung umasa daw kami.. hehe.. pero ok lang yun, nung binaba ko yung telepono as in nanginginig yung mga kamay ko, ndi ko malaman kung sa nervous ba ako or sobrang excited lang ako hehe..

so ayun na nga July 23, 2008, interview time na. Late nga ako dumating sa makati ave kasi nahirapan akong sumakay ng jeep ng guadalupe (from buendia taft) kasi may mga nanghuhuli na mga pulis kaya ndi tumitigil yung mga pinapara kong jeep kung meron man puno.. ayun 15 mins late, nakakahiya.. hehe.. pero ok lang mabait yung manager.. nakalimutan ko yung name.. so interview time, tanong nya kung bakit daw ako nag-resign, bakit gusto kong magtrabaho sa kanila, my future plans, ano yung mga nilalaro kong online games (syempre pautot sinabi ko na nilalaro ko yung mga games nila) tapos kung may nilalaro ba akong mga PC games (sabi ko naman mga starcraft, etc.). Sabi ng manager, "Ah! oldschool huh?!" feeling ko tuloy gurang na ako.. hehehe.. so wala na nman syang masyadong tinanong, tpos sabi nya "well your credentials are good and i have no problems cause you know how to speak and write english (naks!), so YOU'RE ACCEPTED, CONGRATULATIONS!" nung narinig ko yun sabi ko sa sarili ko ANO RAW? hahaha music to my ears! gusto kong tumalon sa tuwa dun sa loob ng office nya!!! hehe.. tpos ayun nag-explain na sya kung ano yung game na i-hahandle namin, sabi nya RF online.. haha kaya ayun binigyan ako ng installer ng RF online at pag-aralan ko raw.. sabi rin nya hintayin namin si ms. imelda for the job offer..

hehe habang naghihintay ako, nakilala ko na yung future teammate ko, hehe si carlo, ang kulit, kakakilala lang namin close na.. hehe.. ok naman sya eh ang daldal at least may newly found friend na ako kuno... tpos si john din late na nga lang sya nakarating pero naka-abot sya sa contract signing.. ahihihi.. pag nakikita ko to KINIKILIG AKO!!!!


hahaha!!! grabe kaya siguro naging tambay ako sa bahay ng isang taon! hahaha.. worth it ang pagiging palamunin ko dito sa bahay! atlast nakapasok na ako sa dream company ko!!!!! at sa sobrang saya ko di ko mapigilan ang laging mag-smile at ayan nilagnat ako.. hehe..badtrip! may lagnat ako pero todo internet pa rin! WALA LANG SHARE KO LANG!!!!!!!!

Browsing through my recent favorite TV website (whatever you call it really), I looked at hundreds of titles from every thing I have missed out since the last time I picked a fight with my brother because I wanted to watch the Stanely Cup Finals in '99. The fight got so big, I have sworn off watching TV -- this and partly realizing that TV is short for A Complete Waste of Time. Today, I thought it was time to upgrade my many activities to one plus music.

So I clicked on The Wonder Years. Of course I had to take a refresher's on it by googling. I have always dodged the sitcom because I found it odd that a middle-aged man narrated the thoughts of such a small boy. Then, I had been transferred straight back to my childhood. How I did things in school and otherwise. Some were quite similar except that I was way much younger than Kevin and was definitely not the shortest in my class.

I wore pigtails to school every god-forsaken day. I aced most of my classes (that surprisingly included math, only up until second grade and then it went downhill from there). I was the kid who did not touch her Play Doh until she finished her homework. And then one day after school, I stayed in the cafeteria waiting for my brothers to finish class. I took out my notebook -- I believe it was for Science class -- and started doing my homework. I had a hard time finding a clean table. There were morsels of rice and ketchup sticking on the plastic covers.

Then a teacher went up to me and asked me what it was I was doing. I said, "I'm trying to finish my homework so that I won't have to worry about it when I get home and have more time to play." You know what she told me? She told me to stop and wait until I got home because homework meant doing the work AT HOME. That was Lie number one. Felt dubious, but I listened to her, anyway. Now I totally know what its like to wait until I got home to finish work. So much I procrastinate in between idleness.

Lie number two, consisted of basically even more lies. My eldest brother at the time was in his freshman year. He told me one thing about life in high school: high school is pointless. College is where it all starts. While there was some half-truth to it, you can't expect me to digest it to my advantage. I really do as I am told. When I'm told to check if the doors are locked, I do exactly that. If I find the window rolled down, I sometimes have doubts about asking whether I should roll them back up or not. Then again, I have not found myself in the company of a bigger idiot to actually tell me to check the door even having seen that the windows had been rolled down.

Lie number three, never forget to blow your nose when you have colds, or the fairies will drive you up the ceiling and you will never come back down. My mom told me this particular lie. Technically speaking, she did the right thing, because I have always wanted to fly (until this day). But that also meant looking like a moron with things sticking out of my nose with the hopes of experiencing low-effort levitation, permanently.

I'm sure there are more but this is me at Seven A.M., part of my exercise, in preparation for spending the next couple of Days in the Trees. For the sake of variety, what were some of the lies people told you?