MY THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS

I MISS YOU ALREADY POPPA BEAR!

TE QUIERO MUCHISSIMO!!!!!!!!!

I AM S.A.M.

Yes I am! FINALLY! The announcement was made this afternoon and my Division Head was the one who relayed the message.

Truly grateful that he acknowledges and appreciates my efforts. I was told by a colleague that my paper was submitted November or October of last year.How'd he know? Apparently he was the one who submitted it. I already knew about it as well because my Division Head told me about it and advised me that I should just be patient. I am and I know he is true to his words so I stayed and patiently waited.

It was funny because a Division Head from the Branch Banking Group congratulated me via SMS and all the while I thought it was because of the success of the launch of the premier card that we had last night. So I just said thank you and mentioned to the marketing boss that another branch was happy with last night's event. It only sank in on me that the congratulatory remark was for me when I received the call from my Division Head! It was such a moment of pure bliss! We were having lunch then when I received the call. Me, my direct boss and the other channel manager were given free lunch with the marketing peeps since we were part of the success of the launch. They never had a clue of what the call was for. I stayed mum about it. Happily rejoicing my victory deep inside. When I got back to the office, people are starting to congratulate me in person, email, and more sms messages. I am really grateful that people are happy for me.

It was more rewarding when a staff mentioned to me that my experience is such an inspiration and what I told her before was really inspiring. It was truly a humbling moment. I honestly can no longer remember that day when we talked about work but I am glad she remembered and I made a difference. I love talking with people and it becomes rewarding and meaningful when you became an inspiration or an agent of motivation. I will not stop talking then because of this he he he.

Seriously.

I really love my job now primarily because the big boss knows how to take care of his people and the bigger boss is the same. Both are my former colleagues from the british bank that I used to work for. I am glad I am with this Team and part of this Group. I am grateful that people still care and it's not a dog eat dog world and I hope the culture stays this way.

"Work on your next promotion", I was told by my Division Head.

WILL DO.

MOST DEFINITELY! * wink *

BACK UP PLAN

Last Sunday after going to the bus terminal for my parents' trip back to Lucena, I was planning to watch the concert of Tears For Fears at Araneta Coliseum but when I got there, tickets were sold out! It was a sigh of disbelief! I should have bought the ticket a long time ago even if I have nobody to watch it with. When I was finally decided to watch it last Sunday I was with nobody anyways and it was indeed too late. I was thinking since my Brother will be coming home after 5 years of living in a different shore, we shall be having some family thingy of some sort. I later on realized that his trip back to Toronto was in May 1. No regrets still. I'm sure there will still be some opportunities out there to watch them play.

And as I decided that Sunday was a reward day for me, I just went to the Gateway cinema and did a movie marathon. I picked Iron Man 2 and The Back Up Plan.

I liked Iron Man 2 the most. It's action packed and the effects were great! There are just some unexpected mushy moments when Iron Man was watching the video his dad made for him to show that he's very much loved and appreciated. I guess it can't be helped but to show that to have a human effect on his character. But still I find it mushy * bleh *

The Back Up Plan was something you can watch just once or when you have nothing to watch at all he!he!he! But seriously, it was ok. The lead guy was cute anyways and yeah the story too. Typical but cute. Maybe I was just wanting to have my hopes to be visualized via the movie he!he!he! Hope of having a family of my own too. Hope that one day I will end up with THE ONE. A sweet, responsible, spontaneuous, fun-loving MAN, not just a guy but a man who's true to his words. Yeah! I finally can say I admit behind the facade, I also would want to have a husband and kids of my own. I know my parents' marriage is also what I aspire to have, they have highs and lows but one thing is for sure, they are indeed partners who stick to their promises of being together for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, and until death do they part.

I know my day will come. THERE IS STILL HOPE FOR THE FLOWERS.

REALIZATION

Today marks the end of our Business Communication Workshop held at our Pasong Tamo office. It was a fun 4-day seminar and I learned a lot while enjoying it. The facilitator was excellent thus my enthusiasm to attend the program on a daily basis. He's very helpful and impressive. He doesn't even make you feel intimidated. I hope in the future I once again get to attend a workshop facilitated by him.

This workshop made me realize how I love the English language and how I would want to perfect its usage. It made me think that I really would want to have a career abroad as a pre-school teacher for I love kids and being with them.

I truly hope I will be given an opportunity to work abroad. As what BIG GUY said "HAVE FAITH." I have and will continuously hold on. Hope things will pan out soon. Very soon.

I'm now willing to tread the unknown. I know I will be able to make it there. I will just walk by faith.

And as what my friend's shout out in Facebook states " Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain "

I WILL. AND I AM READY TO FLY.

" TE QUIERO "

YO TAMBIEN!

... y yo se tu conozco.

READY TO FLY

I'm currently at the airport right now waiting for my turn to board the plane bound to Davao City. This is the second time I'll be visiting the city courtesy of my company. I'm so loving my job because of perks such as this although much is expected too!

I'm sure I will deliver! AMEN!

SWEET VALENTINE

This is the first valentine's that I haven't received a bouquet of flowers from that somebody who normally sends one even if there's no occassion. But I don't really mind now. I received an unexpected email from a new friend whom I gave out some travel advice for his trip to Singapore. I'm just so happy I was able to help out and truly grateful that he remembered to greet me on Valentine's. So sweet. That's one heart-warming incident last weekend.

Another one was the expected call from that special person on the other side of the globe. Glad he also remembered sans the flowers je!je! And the usual greetings from my parents and other siblings. I guess I'm still my Mom's baby because she even texted me to ask how my Valentine's day went.

But for me, the most memorable of all was the gesture of 2 of my nephews. It was such a pleasant surprise they exerted efforts to give me the most beautiful flowers I've received so far even though they were just picked from their own garden.

It's just so heart-warming to know that these kids would do things to make their Auntie happy, not that I was not last weekend. It started as a joke when I kidded them that I'm a pitiful person because I don't have a date on Valentine's day and nobody's giving me flowers.

My 4 year old nephew kept on raising his right hand and telling me he's going to give me flowers on Sunday for Valentine's while his 12 year-old brother was just silent and kept on smiling. Lo and behold come Sunday before I left their house to go home, the two siblings fulfilled their promise to me.

At the end of the day, it's still your family you can rely on. At the end of the day you will realize .... Children really don't lie.