I remember just now an incident that happened on Saturday, June 26th.
I was on my way to Trinoma, a popular department store in Manila, to see my friend because I will accompany her in buying Itouch.
So I was in the bus, sitting on the window seat with my earphone on my ear.
There was man who got on the bus wearing a plain t-shirt and pants.
When I look at him closely, I can tell that he is in need of something.
Then, when he started to speak in front of us, passengers.
He told us that he asked permission from the driver to solicit from the passenger.
What do you think was his reason?
Well, in tagalog, he said, kailangan nya ng 800 pesos in order for him to buy medicine for his baby who was in the hospital that time.
My heart bleeded that time when I heard what he said.
I felt really bad and gloomy.
Sabi pa nya, galing sya sa another bus and ask for an ample amount from the passengers to para nga naman my ma ipambayad sya sa hospital.
Tapos, while he was speaking, he cried and said, nahihiya sya sa ginagawa nyang panghihingi ng pera ngunit wala syang ibang paraan na alam dahil yung work nya, kung meron man which I forgot ay hindi sapat yung income nia.
Ou, he cried. Umiiyak sya habang sinasabi nya ung kalagayan ng baby nia sa hospital.
Sabi pa nya, nilakasan lang nya yung loob nya dahil he wanted to keep the baby alive.
Siguro, nasa critical condition yung baby that is why ganun na lang ung pagsusumamo niya sa mga tao.
Well ako, nakikinig pa rin ng mp3 sa ipod...
I really dont paid much attention kasi ayoko syang tignan dahil at times, I am emotional especially kapag family na ung ni papagusapan..
I felt bad kasi, I did not give any amount.
Panu ba naman, my money that time was just enough for my fare. Kasi I believe na, my friend will treat me meryenda after namen makabili ng itouch nya kaya I did not bring an extra.
So ayun, nalungkot kasi i was not able to give him something.
There were some people na nagbigay and the others kept their hands closed.
For me, whether what he said was true or not, we should help one another.
Seldomly you will see fathers na nanghihingi ng amount from other people unless talagang in need.
Ayun, nakita ko pa rin ang ni tatawag nilang bayanihan in terms of giving money to that person for his baby's hospitalization.
BTW, nakabili na nga kame ng Itouch for my friend and we got it for only 9,990 pesos.. That was really cheaper compared to mine.
Well, I got my itouch 3 months ago so what do you expect? The price will surely decrease.
Anyway, just like what I expected as well, she treated me for dinner @ a fast food resto.
And I got back home at around 7pm..
Peace out!
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Sa aking pagbyahe
Araw-araw, bumibyahe ako papasok sa trabaho at pauwi ng bahay. Umaalis ako ng bahay namin ng tanghali, kadalasan 11:00am. Sumasakay ako ng bus, mula sa Bulacan, kung saan ako ay nakatira papuntang Cubao. Umaabot ng isang oras at kalahati kalimitan ang byahe ko. At habang nasa bus ako, it's either I listen to music or natutulog na lang ako kapag nasa NLEX na. Sa pagbyahe ko, ang dami kong nakikita sa paligid. Kadalasan, mga tao na nagtitinda, or yung mga taong nag titinda ng chicharon, kendi, bottled water, mani at kung anu-anu pang pamatid gutom. Minsan kasi kapag inabutan ka ng uhaw or gutom sa byahe, sila yung mga taong makakapagsagip sayo sa nararamdaman mo ng sa ganun eh maging okay ang byahe.
Marami rin akong na o obserbahan sa paligid. Sari-sari ang mga pangyayaring aking nakikita.
Minsan nga, mga mag jowa na naglalakad sa gilid ng kalsada. Meron din isang matanda na namamalimos. Nung isang araw naman, may isang bulag na lumalapit sa mga sasakyan kapag red ang stop light at nanghihingi ng limos. Marami pa rin ang nagtitinda ng sampaguita lalo dito sa may bandang Katipunan. Sa may Aurora blvd naman, hindi mauubasan ng tao ang makikita mong naglalakad. Minsan nga mi nakasakay ako, dalawang matandang babae, nagpababa sa Bus terminal goin to Batangas. Meron din isang matandang lalake dala ung isang tandang na manok na panabong. Ang kulit nga tignan kasi talagang sa loob ng Bus - aircon to ha, tumitilaok ung manok. hehehe.
Ganyan ang karaniwang senaryo sa pagbyahe ko sa umaga.
Pagdating ko ng Farmers-Cubao, maglalakad na ko going to Puregold, andun kasi makikita ung mga jeepney going to CitiBank,Eastwood. So sa paglalakad ko, sa Farmers plaza, dami rin tao. "On Sale" nga lage dun. Parang Divisoria type, dami paninda at dami ka rin mabibili.
After Farmers Plaza, Gateway naman, doon mejo sosyal ang mga tao na makikita mo. Kadalasan, mga students from different schools and universities ang nakakasalubong ko.d Ung iba, naka tie pa, pormal ang dating. Meron nga mi hitsura, merong mga cute, magaganda, gwapo at meron din mga panget syempre.
Mainit maglakad sa tanghali, kaya naman may dala akong lage na payong, umulan at umaraw, at least protected ako.
11:00pm ang out ko sa work. So kung tutuusin, mejo late na. From Eatwood to Cubao, minsan eh around 12 o clock na ko nakakarating, pero madami pa rin tao sa ganun time.
Pagpauwi naman ako, nakakasabay ko sa paglalakad ung mga taong nagtatrabaho jan sa Shopwise-Cubao madalas or di kaya mga crew sa fastfood resto.
Lam mo ba, kapag sa bandang Gateway, makikita mo na madaming lalake ang nakaupo dun. Mga mi hitsura kung tutuusin, maayos ang mga damit, mapoporma pa nga. Karamihan pala don ay mga 'callboy'. Ou, nung una, nagulat ako nung nalaman ko from a friend na kasabay ko pauwi. Perom halata nmn kasi sa kanila eh. Basta,every night, madami dun. Kapag nakipagtitigan ka, ay naku! Patay ka na! Kasi for sure lalapitan ka. Kaya nga kame ng mga friends ko pag nalalakad eh straight forward ang tingin kasi kontin mali lang, malamang ma ta type'an ka nila. hahaha
Meron nga dun minsan, isang lalake inabutan ng cash ng isang mama na nakakotse. Sosyal no! Bayad siguro yun sa service. ^^
Nung one time na nagStarbucks nman kame, dami din dun. Usually, mga bisexuals or bicurious or whatever ang mga nakatambay don. Or maybe, mga taong mapoporma lang tlaga. Pero with all fairness, may mga looks naman. parang mayayaman nga eh..
Kapag pauwi, dun ako nahihirap sumakay ng bus, kadalas kasi wala ng byahe straight to Bulacan. Kelangan lang ma tiempuhan yung last trip. at kapag wala na talaga, I go to the alternate way, kung saan, it will take me 2 hours before I can finally reach my house. It takes 5 rides all in all. Grabe no. Pero adventure, kasi nga I can see many things around.
When I go the other way, sa Monumento ako sumasakay ng jeep going to Bocaue exit. NLEX kasi daan ng jeep kaya meyo mabilis ang matagal eh ung mapuno ung jeep. Tapos ung mga nakakasabay ko dun halos kakilala ko na sa mukha. Panu ba nmn kasi, madalas kame kame ang magkakasabay sa byahe. Kung makapal mukha ko e tinanong ko na mga names nila. ^^
Sa pagbyahe, kelangan lang talga maging sensitive ka at aware sa mga pwedeng mangyari. Iba na kasi ngayon eh. It is no longer safe to travel late alone. Kaya doble ingat tlaga. Lalo na ko, I had a very bad experience already.
Ibang adventure talaga ang nagbibyahe. Nakakapagod, literally pero Im used to it. Sabi nga ng mga co-workers ko, award daw ako kasi ang layo nga ng house ko at tagal ng byahe ko. Sabi ko nmn, sanayan lang yan. Ou, im really tired of it. Pero iba pa rin kasi kapag sa sariling bahay ka uuwi after a very long time at work.
I had tried to live alone for 2 years already and I can say that I already knew how to live my life by myself. It was really hard, sometimes boring, good, exciting and wild. hahaha
Ang sarap talaga makipagkwentuhan lalo na sa mga taong maraming karanasan sa buhay. Ako? madami pa kong kwento. Sa susunod na lang, sasabihin ko ung ibang highlights ng buhay ko. :))
Chillax everyone!
Friday, June 11, 2010
My Teams
In my 11 months of stay in YBM Phone n Talk. I've been into 2 teams already.
The members are: HT Lence, Mentor Naomi, Mentor Camille, Bless, Janelle, Divine, Patty, Megan, Matilda, Bless, Terry, Lucy, Lester, Ian.
The picture above showed my Head Teacher and co-teachers in the team.
Since it was my first team, I found them cool. Well, to be honest, they are silent and not very hard to approach.
They are nice to talk to.
Ayus naman sila lahat eh..
But, I am not very close to everyone. Meron pa ring gap that hinders me to be really close with them. Im not sure what was that gap pero meron talaga.
At hindi ako at ease sa team na ito.
The picture above is my current team, TEAM HONEY.
I feel very comfortable with my team mates and my Head Teacher.
My HT never fails to reach out to all the team members.
She's easy going and cool.
My mentor, Matthew.. he's kind..funny.. Marunong magbisaya,,
My team mates are very very nice to talk to.
We shared the common interest: kumain [eating]
We laugh together, kwentuhan to the max even we have classes.
We go home together..
Basta!
Im at ease when Im with them. They dont pressure me. They are nice to me.
I will miss them, since im going to join the NOwon Interactive Speaking English (Video class) program starting on Monday, June 14th.
Well well well...
Time is fast approaching and I'll be moving to my third team..
So far, I enjoyed my stay in YBM. In fact, I became the Teacher of the Month of APRIL. [apir!!!!!]
It was really flattering because there were other teachers, older than me [ more tenured ] but still, they chose me.
It really made my stay more meaningful and exciting.
No matter what happen, I will continue fighting.
I may not be in Team Honey anymore, still, I can go and talk with them any freetime that I have.
I know they are always there.
Tsaka.. maliit lang YBM no, isang floor nga lang yun.. hahahah
See you around guys!
:))
Peace out!
The members are: HT Lence, Mentor Naomi, Mentor Camille, Bless, Janelle, Divine, Patty, Megan, Matilda, Bless, Terry, Lucy, Lester, Ian.
The picture above showed my Head Teacher and co-teachers in the team.
Since it was my first team, I found them cool. Well, to be honest, they are silent and not very hard to approach.
They are nice to talk to.
Ayus naman sila lahat eh..
But, I am not very close to everyone. Meron pa ring gap that hinders me to be really close with them. Im not sure what was that gap pero meron talaga.
At hindi ako at ease sa team na ito.
The picture above is my current team, TEAM HONEY.
I feel very comfortable with my team mates and my Head Teacher.
My HT never fails to reach out to all the team members.
She's easy going and cool.
My mentor, Matthew.. he's kind..funny.. Marunong magbisaya,,
My team mates are very very nice to talk to.
We shared the common interest: kumain [eating]
We laugh together, kwentuhan to the max even we have classes.
We go home together..
Basta!
Im at ease when Im with them. They dont pressure me. They are nice to me.
I will miss them, since im going to join the NOwon Interactive Speaking English (Video class) program starting on Monday, June 14th.
Well well well...
Time is fast approaching and I'll be moving to my third team..
So far, I enjoyed my stay in YBM. In fact, I became the Teacher of the Month of APRIL. [apir!!!!!]
It was really flattering because there were other teachers, older than me [ more tenured ] but still, they chose me.
It really made my stay more meaningful and exciting.
No matter what happen, I will continue fighting.
I may not be in Team Honey anymore, still, I can go and talk with them any freetime that I have.
I know they are always there.
Tsaka.. maliit lang YBM no, isang floor nga lang yun.. hahahah
See you around guys!
:))
Peace out!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Ticha... I'm boring!
It's Tuesday shift and something surprising happened in my schedule!
Guess what?
All of my students were gone! Amazing!!!
That means I don't have anything to do for 9 hours in the office but
to eat, talk, sleep, talk, and eat again.
Hahahaha
Earlier today, I went to the office one hour ahead because of the
training for video class program. I was really excited to the fact
that I'm gonna be seeing my students in person in the class.
For me, that's cool and fine.
The training lasted for 30 minutes I think?!...
It was just an introduction of the website that we are going to use
which is www.nise.kr.
Actually our pictures were already posted in that site. I am the only
chubby teacher that you can see there wearing red checkered polo...
That's really funny! And I don't like my picture there..
There's going to be another training tomorrow at the same time and
hopefully I can make it to be early again... Good luck!
So far, I'm just enjoying my petics schedule.. No classes for 8 hours
and I think it will last until Friday because by Monday, video will
start it's first day! God bless to us teachers!
I ended my shift today without doing anything.
Ooops! I called an interview class today from Shekina's schedule. I'm
missing my students especially those who are close to me.. I hope they
were distributed to nice teachers who have a lot of patience like me..
Chillax!
Tomorrow is another day!
Peace out!
Friday, June 4, 2010
This could be the start of something new!
Its June!
this might be the start of the rainy season...
prepare to get wet by the flood and rain.. hehehe
...
Ive been working for YBM since July last year and I find my work a little boring already. Well, its not toxic but what im doing is already a routinary work for me though at times, its still good and funny.
By the 3rd week of June, our company is going open a new account and its gonna be different to what Im currently doing. It's a "Video Class" program. Both parties can be seen by each other through webcam.
I was chosen as one of the teacher that will handle the said program 2 weeks from now. Actually, the manager asked me if Im interested about it and... well.. I asked some questions regarding the programs since its gonna be new. The manager promised that its gonna be not so difficult. He told me that pronunciation, diction and grammar would not be very important. Perhaps, catching the attention of the students would be the main focus and also, the class flow should be really interesting and full of fun. So I guess, it will require a lot of energy.
I agreed to handle Video class knowing that its gonna be more challenging for me. It will require great effort for sure. Though I know that its tough, am still interested to try out something new. Being an online teacher for 10 months is good and I think its time to give myself a break for the daily routines that Im used to be doing since then.
Im hearing a lot of negative thoughts about the said program. Since its new to everyone, there is no set of policies yet and im wondering if there would be an increase in terms of salary. Well, Im hoping that there is..
I noticed that some people are questioning my decision. There is this one person who approached me in a sarcastic upon knowing that Im gonna be joining the video class program. Though this person was smiling then, I find it really really plastic. To interpret that person's action: It is like I dont have the gutts to be in that program. It is like this person is telling me that I should not be part of it. Shoot! I dont care!
I see this as a new challenging work. I find it interesting. I had handled man to man type of teaching ( academy type ) so it wont be different for me to see koreans face to face. What is different is its gonna be in a video type and navigating the program but the rest is all the same.
Im gonna miss my current team. I am happy with them. They are very jolly and most of us share the common interest. But, Im still part of the company though. I will just be moved to the next room so we will still be able to bump with each other.
sigh...
I need to prepare myself. I don't expect anything because I might be disappointed so better not to expect.
Peace out!
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