Goodbye Old but Young Friend

It's almost 18 years since we migrated in the metro and his family was one who gave the most warm welcome. Maybe because we speak the same dialect with his parents.  He was a little around 8years old then, I often go to their house, standby, wasting time. Life's not easy for his family, but they are happy... He was Happy! He was a sweet little boy who follows and respects his parents so much. I grew fond of him and how he call me 'ate' makes me feel proud as a real sister. I remember trusting him with my goldfish when we went for a week vacation at the province, though, my pet died during his watch, i cannot stay mad to him for long. Just like a brother.

After 3-4 years, he and his family left the compound. I seldom see him now, but i can vividly remember him. I heard he graduated high school few years later, i couldn't have been any prouder of his achievement so far. The next thing i knew, he left... for good.

I was surprise to know how his family stumbled and yet he remained strong. But maybe this was a battle he's not meant to win. He succumb to pneumonia.

This is not how i imagined to meet him again, but as i bid my final farewell, i'll always remember the good times we shared.

Goodbye my old, yet young friend - Michael John 'John-john' Ibañez... May your soul rest in peace.

My Review: The 5th Wave

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1st wave: EMP strike

The implication of the 1st wave is that all electronic gadgets were shut down. Thus, all means of communications were cut. Engines and machines malfunctioned causing chaos. Cars crashing, airplanes falling, and so on...

2nd wave: earthquake that caused tsunami

In the movie, you can survive a tsunami by climbing a tree. lol

3rd wave: plague

I can say that the heroine's family is a survivor because they only lost a love one on the plague, their mother who works as a nurse or doctor (i'm not sure) which was exposed to the virus of some kind.

4th wave: the Others as humans

Paranoia has risen when citizens found out that the Others already lived among them. And so, the hunt begun. Children were separated from adults. The adults were massacred and children were trained to combat.

5th wave: humans kiling each other

The trained children were deployed to combat with the alleged Others. Eventually, these kids found out that it was a trick to wipe out humanity. That the Others were with the military who trained them and the people they are trying to eliminate are the survivors of the first four waves.

Honestly, the movie is just okey-okey. I didn't find anything 'wow' in it. I even anticipated the fifth wave. I believe that the ending they did is an opening for its sequel since its novel (the inspiration) was a trilogy. I didn't read the novel so when i was watching the movie, i am still excited to what the next scenes would be. I would still recommend the movie to sci-fi fans but will warn them not to expect too much from it.

A Job Fair to Remember

Ok, so i am exaggerating. There's not much to remember on this event. Just an ordinary, typical job fair. I've been in different job fairs already, so attending another one is just addition to the experience. However, this is the first time in this institution: University of the East, Manila.

Upon invitation, the school asked for token/s to be raffled out for the participating students. We gave three pieces Parker pen with our company name engraved on it. The venue was kind of small, thus it looked congested for the nunber of companies who participated the event.

We were given a table and three chairs (2 for the company representatives and 1 for the applicant/student).

Tarpaulins (if any) was placed on the sides and back but facing the venue (i prefer it to have its back on the venue so students outside may see and/or read them).

Ventilation, they have a fixed huge fan in the left and a stand fan on the right. The companies may choose their table in a 'first come, first served' basis.

The  program was supposed to commence at 9am but it started at 10am.

To welcome us, we were entertained by the school's home-grown talent as they call it. Needless we know, they are Psych students (kabatak!) 👏 

After the prepared program, the struggle begun.

Only few students participated the event. Mostly were groups of Civil Engineering, Psychology, Marketing, HRM, Financial Management, Accounting Technology graduating students. They are kinda' picky of the tables (participating companies) they would want to go to. They only approach big companies like Chinabank, Metrobank, AB-CBN, Megaworld and the like. Unpopular companies like ours, had difficulty inviting students/participants to approach us (though we are already in front table).

Well, situations like this happens a lot. We went home, literally empty handed. But the good thing is, we were able to market our company to the school and students who are not familiar with us. See, there's always a bright side. Our participation in the event is still fruitful, it may not be what we expected it to be but what the heck, maybe the fruit of this hardwork will pay off in the near future.

The winners of our Parker pen with yours trully.

My Kind of Saturday

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Weekend, yes, happiness indeed! But this weekend is extraordinary for me, particularly my Saturday. I find it very productive and enjoyable. There are unexpected things that happened but also helped in the situation. Let me share with you why:

January 16 is the birthday of one of my beloved niece. She was promised to be taken to a very popular noontime show who will celebrate with her (one of the segment of the show). When we dropped them off to the studio at around 8am, we have to get back to bring shoes for her. Thus, traffic on the way, we rushed home to be back hopefully on time. Luckily, we arrived just in time. We are so excited for her (and for my mom). We had lunch short after.

By the way, this is my other niece.

At 1pm, i am to attend a seminar about resiliency with my graduate school classmates/friends. We thought of joining the said seminar to start our year right.

We were surprised to see that the venue was just like a small room with a maximum capacity of nine (yes, only 9).

The seminar started few minutes late because we still waited for some other participants, including one of our friend. 

While waiting for the others.

Resiliency was discussed and described at the beginning of the seminar. Further, the speaker talked about on how to be resilient by doing Shibashi.

After the Shibashi session... snack and wacky time.

Not the seminar i expected, but i can say that i didn't regret attending it.

With the other participants, organizers and speaker.

Yours trully woth our speaker.

Proud of ourselves as we received our certificates.

The seminar ended at around minutes earlier than 6pm. But wait, the fun didn't end there. Me, together with my friends went to Fisher Mall to meet my family (as my bro-in-law fetched my mom and his daughter from their tv guesting - naks!).

It was disappointing to know that the segment for the birthay celebrants were not aired and the main host was not able join them or greeted them. As a consolation and as per my mom's request (after so long), we treated them to Pedro n Coi, the restaurant put up by Shamsey and Lee. What's interesting about this restau is that it has a feel of classic Manila and or province ambiance. It was just so nostalgic since i was raised in the province. Not to mention the superb food and their very accommodating staff and crew.

We had fun taking pictures everywhere in the restau since we are allowed to roam around. And we are somewhat lucky that only few customers were there yet.

Even the condiment containers has a different touch (my mom on the background 😂).

Even the menu is so confusing, este, amazing...

A place also to have a father-and-daughter bonding.

I guess that's a wrap for now...

My Perfect 1st Blog Post

I am the type of person that believes in right timing. Nope, even before kalyeserye was born and lola Nidora's line "sa tamang panahon" started, i am a believer of right timing. Like this for an instance, i am always waiting for the right time, right opportune, to write my first blog. Then i realized, what is really the right time to do things? What am i waiting for? This made me think so hard... ok not that hard but a very significant realization occurred. When you are waiting for something to happen, things around you becomes what it felt as slow-mo. Time is unstopable and aging is inevitable, so why not do it now... YOLO (You Only Live Once), so why not seize the moment? It is never too late to do the things you like and make the most out of it.

Since this is my first entry, let me share with you what i wanted to do and accomplish for the year, it's 2016 by the way (and i am 15 days late for a new year's resolution):

1. Travel - be it with family, friends, colleagues or by myself. This is what i always wanted to do. I want to go to different places, explore nature, learn cultures. And when i say 'travel', that would mean in and/outside the country.

2. Graduate - yes, i already taken all the subjects from my Masteral program except for my research paper. When i'm done with my paper, i will be able to march for graduation. I just need a little motivation to start working on it again. I'm already half-way there so, yeah, push! 

3. Step up the ladder - yes, who wouldn't want to step up of their career? I don't think i know someone who does. I'm not sure though if i am ready for this, but if the universe conspire for me to have this opportunity, who am i to say no? Wishful thinking it may sound, just bring it on then we'll see...

4. Put up my own business - i just talked about stepping up the ladder but i am also thinking of having no boss at all (except for myself ofcourse).

5. Engage myself in stocks - i am just amazed on how you can help the economy and earn at the same time (even without the help of the so-called pyramiding).

6. To be fit - i've already started my journey about 2 years ago but then it stopped. So i want to get back on track again (even if it cost me around 3k/mo on it). I promote healthy lifestyle/living, i just hope i can stand for it (i hope my body aches pay off in the near future as well).

7. And everything in between - loss of words here, but, i'll come back for more when i can think of things i want to do, pursue and conquer.

This is it for now. Next entries will be anything and everything under the sun, so stay tuned.

Ta-ta!

Just me, anywhere and everywhere!