Prepare for your year to be transformed. Filled with witty facts, unusual holidays, eye-opening questions, and so much more. Not a day will go by where you will be bored, after all, this isn’t just an ordinary planner.

Not only does this Journal change your life, it helps change the lives of others as well. All proceeds of this Journal go to the building of wells and schools, and the planting of trees all over the world.

Few weeks ago, I saw pictures of the Starbucks Planner for 2009 in a “Multiply” blog entry. Starbucks planners are really controversial every year. At first, I believed what I have read that it wasn’t nice. But actually, I started to like it after I held one. Anyway, I also came by a blog about “This Journal Will Actually Change Your Life!!! 2009″, and I was convinced after reading the article that’s why I decided to buy it in Power Books.

I am actually curious and interested about the said planner that’s why I wanna try it. It actually starts on December 29, which is tomorrow, so I think I will have some sort of “dry run” first before the year 2009 comes.

The journal/planner has a monthly view, and a weekly view and summary, aside from the things mentioned in the first two paragraphs.

So, if you don’t have any planner/journal yet for the coming new year, you might want to try this one and see if it can really change our lives in 2009.

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Posted in TJWACYL   Tagged: Journal, Planner, Starbucks Planner   

Yah, I know this is a very late post. Wahehehe. But at least, I still managed to post this one before the year ends.

Actually, this trip was really unplanned. December 1, I was already decided not to join my work mates because I really had lot of things to do back then. Decembe 2 morning, I told my mom and sister that it was the “supposed” day of our Bohol Trip. They insisted me to join. And without any further thinking, I finally decided to join my work mates.

During that time, all I thought was, “It’s the experience…”

I know that if I tell everything we did in Bohol, I would need a very long blog entry. Haha. So as much as possible, I want to just summarize my Bohol experience.

We spent 3 days and 2 nights in Bohol. We stayed in Dumaluan Beach Resort on the first night, then in my officemate’s friend’s house on the last night. We spent our first day on the beach right after we arrived in Bohol. The second day was the most exciting day because it was when we tour around Bohol. My favorite destinations where we went were: Loboc River (I cried here due to unknown reasons! OMG!), Man-made forest, Loboc Tarsier, Hanging Bridge, and of course, the amazing Chocolate Hills.

All I can say while I was looking at the Chocolate Hilss was… “Wow!”. God is truly amazing for creating such a wonderful scenery. I just hope we take good care of His creations.

Besides seeing and experiencing Bohol, I am really thankful for the people who let me join the trip - Linnette, Jas, Sharon, and Wella. These ladies are wonderful. I really can’t say that we are friends already but at least I got to know them better and I hope we’re already on our way to being good friends.

Posted in Road Trip   Tagged: Bohol, Chocolate Hills, hanging Bridge, Loboc River, Loboc Tarsier, Man-made Forest   

Matapos ang ilang araw na sobrang busy dahil sa mga Christmas parties at shopping, heto na uli tayo at Pasko nanaman! Binabati ko ang lahat ng isang “Maligayang Pasko!”

Nawa ay maging maligaya ang Pasko ng mga kapwa nating Pinoy na nasa ibang bansa na hindi makakauwi sa kani-kanilang mga pamilya ngayon, pati na rin sa mga kapwa natin Pinoy na bagama’t nandito sa Pilipinas, ay kailangan namang magtrabaho kahit sa araw ng Pasko. Alam ko medyo malungkot ang pakiramdam, ngunit hangad ko pa rin na sana ay maging masaya sila sa araw na ito.Hangad ko rin na maging maligaya ang Pasko ng ating mga kababayan na walang makain, walang masilungan, at walang maisuot.

Huwag sana nating kalilimutan ang tunay na dahilan kung bakit natin ipinagdiriwang ang araw na ito. Ang araw ng Pasko ay araw ng kapanganakan ni Hesus. Magdasal tayo ng taimtim kahit saglit lang. Magpasalamat tayo. Sana marealize nating lahat na hindi ang mga materyal na regalo ang mahalaga sa araw na ito, kundi ang pagkakataon na magkasama-sama ang magkakamag-anak at magkakaibigan, at yung makapagbahagi tayo sa iba ng ating blessings.

Maligayang Pasko sa ating lahat!

Posted in MoBlog   Tagged: Christmas   

We thought that we will be having “White (Shining and Shimmering) Christmas” as the theme of our Christmas party for this year. But according to our poll, the 80’s Christmas Party won.

I have been listening to a lot of “New Wave” songs again recently. I love new wave music. I remember back in 1999 when I became addicted to this kind of music. Well, thank you to the Chorus Girl CD.

I have told my fellow rookies (new employees in the previous year) that I will join them in the presentation, if ever we will have one. And so I did! Practicing at night after work is so stressful, but it’s just fine since I like dancing. Seeing my officemates practicing their presentations made me more eager to perform. Our Finance & Admin department (where the MIS department belongs too) was supposedly not going to perform anything due to busy schedules. But maybe they realized that it would be okay if most of us will perform. I can see that they also didn’t care much about winning. They just wanna have fun, which is a nice thing actually.

The preparation for the party was really stressful for the people who organized our party. But it was all worth it when we saw the outcome last Friday night. It was so nice to see my officemates wore their 80’s outfit. It was a very colorful and happy night.

The two groups I joined in the presentation both did not rank from first to third, but I don’t care about it because I really had fun that night. I realized that 80’s party is so cool.

What made me happier is that I was supposed to win the “Rookie Of The Year” award. This award is given to those employees with less than one year of stay who have a good performance. But I was disqualified because technically speaking, I have been an employee of the company for a year already last Wednesday. But still, I feel happy, since a friend of mine won the award.

I was also nominated for the “Jack Of All Trades” award. I am also happy for it even though I did not win. Being nominated is already more than enough.

It was a very memorable night for me - food, new friends, nice performances, prizes, disco, etc. At least for a while, we left our work behind and had some fun!

Posted in Work Files   Tagged: Christmas, Christmas Party   

I woke up with a lot of things in my mind this morning… work… things to do for Christmas party… Christmas gifts… etc. I was really lazy to move because it was really cold since last night. I really miss staying in my bed for lot of hours.

Everything was just normal till I am about to go down the underpass. I suddenly remembered that today marks my first year in my present job. Wow, how fast time flies! It’s already been a year. And I didn’t expect this… honestly.

Why? It really took me a lot of time to adjust in my new environment. I almost resigned during my first week of stay, as well as with my 4 months of stay in this company, but I kept on giving it a chance. I also thought that I will just finish my 5 months contract. Lots of plan in my mind that did not happen.

In fairness, I have learned to mingle with the people here and I realized that most of them are good and easy to be with. They are all different from one another, but at least they blend with one another.

Work is really tough but I am happy that I feel challenged and growing as well.

But this doesn’t mean that I already see myself growing old with this company. I still have this passion to do something else… doing new things, and doing what I like. But this company has already been a part of my life which I am really grateful for.

If I will stay here for another year… well, I still don’t know.

Posted in Anthology, Work Files