Away from work

It was nice to spend one full week without thinking about work. While I may have done a lot more walking for the past seven days than the whole of last month combined, I still enjoyed it. It was refreshing not to think about work in a place where the weather is often just right (not too hot and not too cold, for me at least). Not once did I think about opening work email. How I wish I have enough money to stay there for a month or two.

On this day in 2009

Noticed this in FB on the right hand side today.

On This Day in 2009:

Yesterday, I turned down a 1-year assignment in another Asian country, which would have commenced on October 1. I'm just too happy to be back home last week to entertain the idea of an even longer term foreign assignment in such short notice. But I did think it through and decided that Cebu is best for me at this time. Today I've learned that the replacement will be another Cebu resource, so I guess all is well. :) [posted September 11, 2009 at 11:05pm]

Change really is the only constant in this world as I no longer feel the same way after two years.

The hardest thing

There I was wearing the very dress shirt and pants that I wore on my first day of work in Cebu, watching my colleagues, my friends, perform their group presentations, thinking, they are what I will miss the most when I leave.

Easter weekend

For the first time, I spent the Easter Weekend far from home. It was both tiring and restful at the same time. But I was so feverish starting on our first night and all through out the second day that I thought I'm going to call in sick today. But I got better on the third day. However, I still had to miss work because I was greeted with a broken water pipe at my apartment when I reached home last night. Don't exactly know when the pipes cracked, but when I woke up this morning it seemed like the hole grew twice its size than when I finally decided that I don't have the necessarry tools to fix it myself and that I'd better sleep and report the damage to my landlord the next day, which is today.

Another vacation leave down the drain, just when I was saving them all up for another out of country trip this September and of course the usual vacation on Christmas week. But I didn't really have a choice. I'll worry about my remaining VLs when the time comes.

Holy week 2011

This would be the first time that I will spend the Holy Week away from home. Holy Week, like Christmas, is usually that time of the year when people working away from home come home. At least for me. But I know for certain this is true to most people I know. I expect majority of the people in the office will be on vacation starting Monday.

Part of me is sad that I'm not spending a restful week at home that I usually do every Holy Week since I started working away from home. But part of me is also happy to break from routine once in a while.

April 1, night

In my room. On my bed. It's so quiet here. Except for the wind rumbling in the distance and the tone of an upcoming rain.

In two days I'll be leaving home again. I've done this enough times already that one would think there's no sadness anymore. And yet there still is. Even though I'm only here for a few days total in a year, this is still home.

Keep walking

On my way to work one day, I found a rose along the way. I wondered why it's lying there as opposed to being shown off in someone's vase. What is its story? I tried to pick it up, but in a moment it was gone. It wasn't there. I continued walking.

* Finally deleted my Friendster account. The paragraph above, which I wrote while in that site is the only thing I saved.

* The photo is from Fringe. This is really just a test of posting from Blogger android app.

Worth it

There are three times in the year that I make it a point to be in my home city: the Holy Week, few days in the week of All Saints' Day, and the last two weeks of the year (Christmas). For this week's All Saints' Day, it's worth the expenses and the travel time for, among other things, this:

Watching the rain drench everything.

Sitting at the front porch in the afternoon, watching the rain drench everything in front of me. If I wasn't tinkering with my new phone, I'd already be in the middle of it. Drenched.

Fringe 3.0

I've decided to trim down my TV series watch list this season. I'll just stick with Merlin 3, Fringe 3, Amazing Race 17, The Big Bang Theory 4, How I Met Your Mother 6, and Glee 2. I don't think I'll be able to cut this list further. The rest I'll just watch next year on DVD (divisoria editions).

Fringe 2.0

Fringe was my favorite series of the recently-concluded
regular TV season. But this is _really_ just a test post that if
successful will help me blog at the office. :)