Tuesday, February 26, 2002
Notes to Self
1. Never wear a yellow sport shirt and shorts to Gerry's Grill.
2. Never wear a maroon polo in Don Henrico's.
3. Never wear a black polo shirt in Starbucks.
4. Beautiful girlies can be bitches.
5. Mind your own fucking business. Never moderate another channel's chat or they'll kick you in the ass bigtime.
6. Know when to say no.
7. Love yourself sometimes. Give yourself a break.
7:26 PM
Monday, February 25, 2002
Walk the walk
Going to the main work area in the office, you have two choices: you can choose the longer route passing by the news people and the HR or you can pass by the empty hallway. Some people from technicals call it the wastelands. I call it the Confrontational Walk.
You see, you usually encounter another officemate on the walk. And sometimes it can get pretty uncomfortable to force yourself to nod or to say a greeting or two, especially if the person is a boss or a not-so-close workmate. And so others choose the longer route, avoiding the walk. Or they avoid the Confrontational Walk and pass through Hell, the smokers' area.
What's the point of this blog? Hmmm. Good question. hehehehe.
3:14 PM
Saturday, February 23, 2002
It's way past ten o' clock in the morning and they're still not here. And I thought I was the latecomer! I don't know about you, but I really hate it when people show up really late. We've an event in two and a half hours and I'm here in the office waiting for the premadonnas to show up. Is this a girl thing or something? Maybe it's what you call "fashionably late". Now I know how Estragon and Vladimir felt.
We launched last night in Davao. Considering that there were no streamers and flyers announcing our arrival, our traffic did pretty good. There was even this TXTer who went out to meet TJ Sparco and Lightning. Hope the chat picks up today.
10:29 AM
Friday, February 22, 2002
This is my first time I spent a night in the office and I had real bonding with Mark's beanbags. They're so comfortable to the point that a good part of it is smothered with saliva when I woke up this morning from my nap. Maybe the office furniture guys should consider making a beanbag office chair. And while they're at it, they can put in a neat set of Altec Lansings for that total office experience.
It's Friday today. My teammates will be coming in soon because they're leaving early this afternoon for Davao. I wished I was on that trip, too. Actually, I can join them if I really wanted to, but then no one will be left here to do the command base logistics. I hope everything goes well on their journey. I hope they bring back something Davao-ish. (I'm not talking about durian here.)
Booboo of the week goes to Moby for his on-air interview with celebrity Leandro Muņoz: "OK TXTers! We're back here with Leandro Valdemor!" Oops. The guys at Benpres said that on the first gap, he called the celebrity "Alejandro".
Tomorrow's the eyeball party and I'm getting scared. It seems like a lot of people will be coming for that afternoon of all nonsense. From Dan's last count, we have more than a hundred people coming. I'm betting more will be getting the invites today! I hope God will do another miracle on the mozzarella sticks and buffalo wings, similar to the loaves and the fishes!
So there. After my teammates leave, I'll go home and get some sleep.
8:13 AM
Thursday, February 21, 2002
Thursday is like Friday but not quite. That's what I like about it. With Thursday, you can look forward to the weekend without thinking of Monday.
11:04 AM
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
The Amazing Race
The race is on. Time will tell as to which team emerges the victor and be hailed as the ruler of all SMS applications. We're off to the South. They say there's gold in them hills. We'll see.
My teammates are ready for the flight early next week. In the meantime, with our fingers crossed, we descrate the hallowed halls of this company's technical operation center and dub tapes like we have never dubbed before. We pushed a button here and we pushed a button there, trying to figure out how the contraption works. From here on, there is no more distinction between us -- we are TV people as well as Internet people.
Will we take the crown or will we go down taking along our precious server with us? As to how all of this will end, is still to be determined.
Thank God Applebon is back.
7:56 PM
Here's Fiesta's Quotable Quote on Marriage:
"I feel the pressure, but I'm not yet ready"
12:52 PM
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
Radiowell
Isang araw, pumunta sina Papa Bear, Mama Bear at Baby Bear sa Payanig sa Pasig upang subukan ang kanilang Giant Slide.
Pagkatapos bayaran ni Papa Bear ang entrance nilang tatlo, pumila na sila para sa Giant Slide. Si Papa Bear ang nasa una, sunod si Mama Bear, at si Baby Bear naman ang sa huli.
Unang nag-slide si Papa Bear sa Giant Slide sa Payanig sa Pasig.
"Whooopppeeee," sigaw ni Papa Bear habang dumadausdos sa Giant Slide.
Sumunod naman si Mama Bear.
"Whooopppeeee," sigaw ni Mama Bear pababa ng Giant Slide sa Payanig sa Pasig.
Huling-huli namang nagslide si Baby Bear sa Giant Slide.
"Radioweeeeell!"
9:46 AM
Saturday, February 16, 2002
The trip to Cartimar was quite refreshing. It's a trip to the past and the future all in one -- a trip to past because I met a lot of old biking friends and shop owners, and a trip to the future because now I know where my future salary will go to. (Insert drool here).
Happy birthday to Olive.
5:57 PM
Thursday, February 14, 2002
Life seemed to be so much simpler back then. Before, I wake up, go to the office, moderate the chat, and go home. Now, I wake up, go to the office, moderate the chat, and go home. Seems weird.
6:48 PM
Wednesday, February 13, 2002
Heard from today's Mass during the homily...
Priest: Good afternoon everybody.
People: (in unison) good afternoon.
Priest: As you probably know, today is Ash Wednesday and tomorrow is?
People: Ash Thursday
Ayos!
10:46 PM
Saturday, February 02, 2002
Met with the guys at Sony Music yesterday. And I instantly had this crush with their manager. Sigh. Why do they always have to be goddamn coņitas? Why do the rich kids have to be the beautiful people? Is it the Spanish Mestizo blood? Tell me! Unless I have a Toyota 4-Runner and hang-out at 78 Orange, I don't stand a chance. And I really doubt if you can take them to Divisoria and Quiapo.
There are really some days you hate being middle class.
hehehe.
10:27 AM
Friday, February 01, 2002
Special High Intensity Training
Here's another one of those wonderful e-mails you get from time to time. Thanks to Jojo
In order to assure the highest levels of quality work and productivity from employees, it will be our policy to keep all employees well trained, through our program of Special High Intensity Training (S.H.I.T.).
We are trying to give our employees more S.H.I.T. than anyone else. If you feel that you do not receive your share of S.H.I.T. on the job, please see your manager. You will be immediately placed at the top of the S.H.I.T. list, and our managers are especially skilled at seeing that you get all the S.H.I.T. you can handle.
Employees who do not take their S.H.I.T. will be placed in Departmental Employee Evaluation Programs (D.E.E.P. S.H.I.T.). Those who fail to take D.E.E.P. S.H.I.T. seriously will have to go to Employee Attitude Training (E.A.T. S.H.I.T.).
Since your managers took S.H.I.T. before they were promoted, they do not have to do S.H.I.T. anymore, because they are full of S.H.I.T. already.
If you are full of S.H.I.T., you may be interested in a job, training others. We can add your name to our Basic Understanding Lecture List (B.U.L.L. S.H.I.T.). Those who are full of B.U.L.L. S.H.I.T. will get S.H.I.T. jobs, and can apply for promotion to Director of Intensity Programming (D.I.P. S.H.I.T.).
If you have any questions, please direct them to our Head Of Training Special High Intensity Training (H.O.T. S.H.I.T.).
10:23 AM
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