My Unremarkable (?) Day

Today is one of those unremarkable, lazy days that you easily forget as soon as you wake up the next morning. It is uneventful. It's forgettable. Most of my time these days are spent like that.

The Agony of Waiting

Anong petsa na?
image courtesy of  www.guysglubhouse.com

I’m still waiting for my job offer from the company in MOA where I went for an interview almost a month ago. Let’s see, I applied July 25^th, was accepted and was told to wait until the week after for the job offer. First week of August came, and they called me and said that the post will not start until September 12 and they will let me sign the contract the week after. The week of August 8 came and no call from them came. Now it’s been two weeks and they haven’t called yet. I’m beginning to lose faith in this company, to be honest. I guess I’m not used to being told to wait this long.  For my last two companies, it didn’t take a week for me to sign the contract, so I’m pretty much new to this waiting game. But I know I have no choice but to wait.

I have another job interview on Monday for a dayshift content writer position for a company in San Juan. I was pinning on whether that or a non-voice account in Makati for a sports bookmaker account. The content writing gig is for computer hardware so I’m sensing that it will be more up my alley compared to the latter choice. I actually had to google what “bookmaker” means and turns out, it’s a process like taking bets for a sports event. Sort of gambling. Numbers and sports are my natural enemies, so I better stay away from them as much. I hope that the interview goes well though. The job offer on the content writer post seems a little concerning (13K) so I have to wait and see. If that doesn’t go well anyway, I can try the sports betting stint. At least it’s non-voice. I ‘ve already had enough Avaya.

And if that fails too, I can go to the job fair from another BPO in Taguig I got invited for. Though the interviewing process is to be done in Market Market, the non-voice account I’m interested in is going to be in Cubao. But the thing is, I really don’t like going to job fairs in general. Well, I applied for that specific post online but the SMS notification I received from the company is a generic invitation for a job fair. And to me, that speaks on how the company treats its potential employees. I feel like they’re just concerned on the number of heads they can produce on that event and not really serious on finding a fit candidate. I still prefer my interview process be done in the company’s HR office since it’s more proper and professional. And more sincere, if you ask me. But if the previous two options don’t work out for me, I might as well give this a shot.

Beggars can’t be choosers anyway.

A Dose of My Own Medicine

Today, my nephew royally ticked me off. Teen angst isn’t fun when you’re not the one doing it.

I’m slowly making my way back to my insomnia habits so naturally, I slept late last night. Imagine my surprise when I was awakened by a loud pounding on my bedroom door (good thing I keep it locked everytime). It was my 12-year old nephew having one of his major temper tantrums. And it’s all because he can’t find the charger for his Nintendo DS. How the hell should I know? I’m nowhere near that thing and I don't play with his toys. And I just slept  four hours ago! Inisin mo na ang lasing ‘wag lang ang bagong gising.

Jholo, my eldest nephew
why can't they stay young forever?

My family is used to pacifying the temperamental nature of  this nephew of mine. Since he was the first grandchild, we spoiled him. And his good looks, which he thankfully got that from his father side of the family, made him spoiled even more. My sisters would buy him the toys and gadgets he wanted and all the designer clothes. If he doesn’t want to eat what is being served, he will ask to eat something else. He and I share a constant battle for dominance for the remote control and TV supremacy. Before I got my netbook, we also fought over our family desktop PC. But deep down, I know he is an extremely smart and funny kid, just not a very patient one. And I love him to pieces.

When he couldn’t find the damn charger anywhere in the house, he kept shouting and throwing things around in utter chaos. At his age, hormones are starting to kick in so he’s venturing into the dreaded teen angst stage. It was tantrums on a whole new and destructive level. He kept throwing cuss words at everyone. Being deprived from my much-needed REM sleep, I shouted back and retaliated. Of course, I just can’t sit back and take this. Somebody has got to teach this kid about respect. So a major tantrum like that wouldn’t go unpunished without a dose of my royal scolding. Admittedly, I had to fight the urge to hit him. He is becoming a young adult now and I realize, I just couldn’t do that. I figured that it’s his mother’s job (my sister) anyway to use brute force if needed. I am just an uncle so I have to keep my place.  I can only discipline him verbally. And if it’s cussing he wants, then it’s cussing that he’s going to get. And nobody in my family can outcuss me. Nobody.

That royal scolding seemed to have put him in place and he stopped being a brat. I have long accepted that my two nephews and my niece like their other uncle (my elder brother) better than me. I'm okay with that. I admit that he’s cooler and more level-headed than I am. I scold them more and order them around more. But I love the fact that they are, in a way, more afraid of me than him. It makes disciplining them a lot easier.  I;m sure they’ll appreciate that one day.

My nephew’s outburst made me think of the days when I was being the spoiled brat. Seeing him throw the whole living room upside down was like a hard look at myself when I was young. Was I worse? Maybe being pestered by my nephew’s tantrums is my karmic punishment for acting the same way when I was his age.

The spoiled apple doesn’t fall far from the uncle tree.

You're Most Welcome To Make Me Giggle, Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper, you silver fox you! Can't you just melt?
image courtesy of www.cnn.com

Why is it that CNN’s openly gay anchors are so freaking hot? I remember last week, I was crushing on Don Lemon after I saw his picture in a Huffpost article and now Anderson Cooper’s adorable (albeit girlish) giggles had me crushing on him big time like a high school girl.

I was watching the Today Show when they showed a clip of CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper having a bad case of the giggles on live national TV. He was in the middle of his satirical piece on The Ridiculist about the French actor Gerard Depardieu who had to pee in front of airplane passengers because he couldn’t hold it in while the cabin restroom is still being occupied.

I’ve always found Anderson Cooper to be insanely hot eversince I saw him do a cover story for Oprah. That grayish white hair that he wears so good and those steely blue eyes give me the hots in the all the right places. If I can only abduct him and make him my slave (and all that it implies) I would. He wears his age so well and he's a living proof that old dudes can be hot. And being an esteemed investigative journalist and writer surely means he has brains on top of his smouldering looks. Sharing the Vanderbilt name and being easy on the eyes doesn’t hurt either. And he’s openly gay, so yay for me. He has a partner though but who cares anyway.

I have always been fond of smart guys (and girls) and I admit that I’m a sucker (pun unintended) for smartypants and nerds. I mean, gym-buffed and cute men can definitely attract my attention but their effect on me doesn’t last long. They’re only as good as the next beef cake. Smart guys like Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, James Franco and Atom Araullo who have both looks and brains exude a certain aura of confidence in them that makes you want to see them more. It keeps you wanting more. Smart is the definitely the new sexy. Come to think of it, it's always been that way for me.

Sigh. If only there’s a store where you can order guys like these.

An Ending to the Cold (Shoulder) War

As mentioned in my previous post, I have a sort of tampo towards my friends and I have been ignoring them for more than a week now. But thanks to Lanchie’s response (thank you Lanchie), I have come to realize that I’m being overly (read: excessively) emotional about it. I guess it’s one of my flaws that I have to work on. Being emotional for me works both ways. I care too easily in a good way and in a bad way.

I thought that I had enough sulking. And I’m sensing that their already missing me (narcissistic alert) and our group is really messed up without the usual noise that our usual conversations bring. So I decided to drop my issues and be back to being my normal cheery self again. And I know deep down they missed me, they just won’t admit it. Ha ha.

Gem finally bought a laptop by the way, and a pink one at that. So now, all of us have pastel-colored computers (mine’s purple and Divine’s aqua blue). The laptop doesn’t have an OS pre-installed though; which is understandable since she’s on a budget and an OS add-on will cost her extra 5K. We can easily find a workaround for that and that will save her money. Plus in that way, we can customize the programs Gem wants to install on her laptop. That’s going to be a great help to her, seeing as she’s not that technologically savvy, we can avoid the chances of her getting duped by shrewd computer salesmen when it comes to software extras.

So tomorrow, we’ll be going to Ivy’s place to see our cute godchild Leon and to hang-out. We will also install an OS to Gem’s newly-bought laptop and add some software to it. Ivy promised to cook us dinner. Sardinas (Processed Sardines), as I have requested. I've been craving for it for a good while now (and just by thinking about it, I'm almost drooling). Funds are tight for all of us so we promised ourselves we won’t be splurging much. Just a cozy dinner, slumber party and maybe a few drinks would suffice. It’s going to be a blast anyhow.

Gem's new laptop: Lenovo z470. Ang pambaklang laptop
image courtesy of www.scts.co.th

Wow! Now that I think about it, a lot in fact has happened today.

Funny how sometimes we think our day is rather boring but when we sit down and think hard and long enough on what actually transpired, it turns out the day is not as uneventful as we thought it was.