Dwill's Break

Stay Calm and Blog

2012-02-12T12:00:00.001+08:00

Geez, it’s the end of the world.

Office is wreck, this morning, we had our company meeting all of the employees are gathered like a class, and our boss surprisingly he has a class card!

Then he mentioned that he will call one by one and start to recite our vision, mission our values, my mind was in apocalyptic mode,

Oh dear, If he picked my name, I’m doomed!

It’s not that I don’t know our VMV, but if it’s nerve-wracking situation, the tendency I may forget and fail.

Shit. He starts shuffling the cards.

My heart is pounding like crazy! I think I can hear other people heart beat.

It’s a funny morning, now that I realized how up we are, usually at this kinds of company meeting everyone is groggy, sleepy and don’t even care.

But everyone is in full alert.

“oh please, not me…” I silently prayed.

The first one he called, was not my name, the second one was not me either, the third one thank God, its not me.

Whew, that was a relief!

I went home after a long hour of work.

I’m a lil bit tired, today is the 9^th day still I haven’t had a place to move out, my deadline is on the 15^th.

Oh. Men,

Yawn.

Earthquakes, Landslides, and heavy rain and a false tsunami that freaked a whole city

It’s the end of the world be prepared.

Dooms Day kits: Alarm

2012-02-09T17:33:00.000+08:00

Okay, so it's the end of the world, everything is a mess. Here are the things you might need just in case.
KIT: Morse code/ Sound / Alarm Kit

Why is this useful? Well, you can activate this in case of emergency to warn your colleagues.

It's better to be prepared than dead.
more info here

Cheers!

Felt like a shitty zombie

2012-02-08T16:12:00.000+08:00

Geez, it's the end of the world.

Woke up with a throbbing head, I literally drag myself out of the bed just to turn on the water heater, at this time of the year the temperature drops until 10 to 12 degrees, I grabbed a bread that was sitting in the table since last night and returned back to me bed curled up from the comfort of warm blankets.

The phone rang its alarm, again I had to gather all my strength and took a bath.

After the bath, I realized how messy my room was.

"I really need a girl in my life" I said with a smile on my face.

I grabbed my clothes as quickly as I can before the cold breeze hits my super hot damped body.

I quickly rode motorcycle and head to the office.

I felt a little hungry so I invited my office mate Nestor, to grab a quick grub on 7-11 since, it is still a bit early.

I feel a bit lazy today at work, but I mange to finished all the required designs, its a bit easy since I have my templates and all, this day is consumed by meetings, plannings and a lot of stuff that I found not effective, but I shared my ideas anyway.

I'm thinking of resigning from my company, you see I've been working my ass off and guess what is my current status, Probationary. Frigging-shit-eats-mad-ass-horse-magnet, they called me up earlier just to hand out a memo again. About the medical certificate with a tag final warning. kiss my ass.

It's funny, to think that they would allow a simple doctors note on paper just for complimentary sake just to depict the purpose, what for? I mean, this things aren't supposed to be the major things.

It's partly my fault for being to lazy to accomplish this simple task, but note taken.

( tapusin mo na kasi para wala kang problema, matagal na sinasabi ni mam ara sayo yan eh, tanga)

Oh, well.

It's the end of the world as they say so why bother, if this monopolistic oligarchy power tripping mafia don't care.

One of my friend said

"Moe, habang bata ka pa your priority is to focus on personal and professional development. You are way to talented and your potential so unlimited para lang ma stuck ka sa place na hindi ka makapag grow. I suggest na humanap ka ng better place where you can learn and grow at kung saan mo pwede makita yung career path that you envision yourself to be. If they value you, your talent and potential isang sign ng goodwill sa side nila is to at least secure your tenure as regular employee."

He has a point, but he also warned me to be careful don't rush into things, and make sure I get out clean.

Tip in Surviving an Apocalyptic world.

Don't be afraid to grow, learn and take chances, you'll survive better if you keep on moving rather than staying in one place.

Imagine. If your stuck in one base, with all the food, and security, and the outside is full of zombies, it would be better to take your chance and battle it out until you find a cure rather than wait in one spot and die.

It's better if you try rather than not trying.

Like my boss/mentor says, just trying is finishes the 50 percent of the battle.

Speaking of zombies, Capcom recently released the second installment of Resident Evil Degeneration a full CGI movie based on the famous game, entitled. Resident Evil: DAMNATION! That will revolve around the European War zone, with Leon as the main hero.

Cheers!

2012-02-06T18:53:00.000+08:00

Heres a tip in surviving an apocalyptic world.

The day my world ended.. I think

2012-02-05T11:32:00.000+08:00

Month 2/DAY 4

LEAP MONTH

Oh geez, it’s the end of the world. “I blame Hollywood and Mass Media for enforcing this Dooms Day Prophesies; Now I have to live every single day, just trying to survive and to make sure I’ll be able to made it out alive this year…”

Hi, My name is Dwill, I’m currently working as a Graphic Designer-slash-Media Specialist in a real estate company. Everything is going smoothly when the “Mayan’s” decided,

Hey, before we vanished let’s fool the people on the future by ending our calendar.

And that is when everything fucked up. Now it’s a buzz, a paranoia, an addiction to something that would happen based on some weird computation and smart analytical skills of some expert.

Shish.

I don’t have time with that shenanigans, I hardly even survive a day.

My girlfriend left abroad, I’m currently renting an affordable space, but now, I need to move out. This place is killing me. It’s too darn big for a single person. YES I’m single. We broke up before she left, I knew this day would come long distance relationship is a crap. (bitter) and this place reminds me of her, and the times we spent together and it’s time to move on.

I have a motorcycle, it kept me company for quite sometime, it help me survive and save money in my daily transport. I call him NEO, the black beast of cudirao!

Now , Im broke, I don’t even know where to get snaps (money) to get a new base, (house) or even a decent meal and I have to vacate my current house by the 15^th.

Bummer.

It’s just the start of the year and geez it seemed like the end of the world for me.

How to survive in a friggin’ apocalyptic world?

Tip:

Don’t loose Hope, keep looking, you may find some unexpected stash just right around the corner, or even just a mile away.

In looking for a base, don’t aim for fancy, aim for the 3 C convenient, cheap and comfort. Make sure it’s strong enough to handle intense situation like a mass zombie attack, or a flash flood.

Cheers!

Apocalyptic world: How to survive everyday before the judgement day.

2012-02-04T10:51:00.000+08:00

Oh geez, it’s the end of the world.

“I blame Hollywood and Mass Media for enforcing this Dooms Day Prophesies; Now I have to live every single day, just trying to survive and to make sure I’ll be able to made it out alive this year…”

Welcome to Dwill’s Break! A blog that will take you to an incredible journey of one man, plotting for survival and staying alive in a world that is doomed by politics, war and religion, in a world where everyone are zombies of currency, and oil. This year, brace yourself. It’s going to be a hell of a ride, and you will be part of this adventure, YES YOU!

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Join me in this epic quest.

FOR SURVIVAL!

CHEERS!

It's our 7th year of blogging so I changed the header :)

ISLANDINCEPTION: More fun in the philippines

2012-02-01T16:58:00.000+08:00

New years resolution: Online marketing viral site. Genius!

2012-01-31T18:04:00.000+08:00

Here's a very cool website by BBDO Denmark that let's you tweet a randomly generated new years resolutions, simple but plain genius. Have a try!

http://www.whatthefuckismynewyearresolution.com/

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Rest Day Reviews: The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo

2012-01-29T15:55:00.001+08:00

I was looking up on some films that I missed last 2011 and hopefully catch them in DVD when I bumped into the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 8 minute trailer.
I remembered a book I saw in the bookstore a few years back with the same title I was surprised that the trilogy has a movie now, I kept on digging some info on the net to only to find out that this was a hollywood remake of a blockbuster Swedish film and based on international best selling trilogy of Stieg Larsson, I like his name, Stieg... its like a slang of Asteeg.. (which means awesome in tagalog) Stieg.

It sure rhymes and it was awesome. The movie was around 2 hours and 30 minutes of gripping scenarios and mind blowing details, the story was inspiring and what I like most was the way they blend the scenes temperature and over all mood with such wonderful scoring.

It's a mystery covered in a pie of mystery, and Rooney Mara is now one of my favorite actress!
I remember her in youth in revolt and she is also in the nightmare in elm street and in social network in comparison, I did not recognize her!
It was a daring, exceptional role, a complete transformation!

Note: The piercing is REAL!

It's another level of pure awesomeness! I adore her.

If I'll get the chance to have a one on one interview heres what I'm gonna say.

Me: Hi Roonie...

Roonie: Hi Moe :) (<--that's a smile)

Me: you got a really nice tits.

Roonie: GUARRD!!!

Okay, I wouldn't say that, I would probably say nice things, errr.. (having a nice tits is something nice, is it?) or not they would kicked me out and call me a perverted fan and deport me back in the Philippines.

So It was a very moving character, I think she gave justice to the role, and I'm looking forward to the next chapter.

So here's the 8 min. trailer of the film, you should catch in in DVD, and have a twisted rest day. Enjoy!

Cheers!

LEGENDS NEVER DIE: POKEMON

2012-01-26T17:28:00.000+08:00

I remember back in 1999 I'm around 10 years old and brother (he would be around 11) brought home a Yellow Gameboy color, as far as I can remember he borrowed it from his friend and traded his race car (tamiya) just for 2 weeks. He thinks it worth it. We don't have the luxury of buying our very own Gameboy, so having one seemed to be a dream and what most kid our age, and the game was POKEMON YELLOW VERSION. Playing pokemon was beyond our wildest fulfillment. We got engaged and it felt like an adventure of the century!

He lend it to me when he was doing his chores, I trained his pokemon most of the time and he taught me how to play with it, We usually stay late at night sharing the gameboy exploring the world of pokemon-(sounds off and with a lamp.) My mom would be furious every time she caught us playing. I would like to watch and most of the time we argue over the pokemon to catch or not. I usually the one in charge in walking in the grass and beating wild pokemon for level up.

I was in the fifth grade when Pokemon became a sensation, I usually watch it on our local TV every Friday, it was one of my favorite cartoon time.

At that moment in time, I was one of the millions of Kids capitivated by the world of the powerful and wonderful creatures. Yes. I'm a pokemon fan and this post is about the The magic of pokemon 13 years after.

When I was in first year high, I remember my friend Ace is playing a pokemon game, I noticed it was a different one, at this point I'm hooked in a playstation. I closely watched it and he told me its the gold version, I told him that I used to play the yellow version and that seemed to be old school, then my other friend kirk, is playing the other version the silver one, and they started trading pokemons. I found it cool.

At my second year, My dad brought me a present, A purple gameboy that I've been asking for a long time. I have my money saved up to buy the silver and yellow version of the games, I started playing with Kirk and battling pokemon when we have the chance at school, my girl classmates would refer to us as pokemon addicts we also play cards once in a while but i never really understood how it was played hahaha.

Then other gameboy series came out, and I haven't got the chance to catch up, at some point pokemon fad fade away, the local and cable channels don't air pokemon cartoon show, and it came a time that it as difficult to get a game, and even watch epsiode even in the internet, everything was promotional.

I missed pokemon, until new wave of technological advances came through, access has never been so easy, I usually hang out in pokemon fan sites, get to watch past episodes in you tube, then they banned episode watching in youtube due to copyrights, and it was a heaven.

I got to play pokemon game on PC even though I don't have the console, got a collection of DVD.

and everytime I get to see pokemon I remember how happy I was playing with my big brother, I remember the time that my dad gave me that first gameboy color, I remember the feeling of magic.

Now, yeah i'm a bit 20+ but if they asked me, I'm still a pokefan.

A Lazy Mans Views: Films, Games, Comics, and other geeky stuff: CSDA, Artist of the month, and Sherlock Holmes

2012-01-25T15:40:00.001+08:00

INSIGHT

The best things in life are worth sharing.

That's my motto for this week, and I've been really busy handling work related self induced toxins in my life, so its pretty awesome to take a break just write.

This week we have some pretty geeky loads of stuff that might interest you a bit.

If your a digital artist (like me) Here's a great deal.

I recently found out about the Cordillera School of Digital Arts.
A graphic and animation school that provides awesome scholarships and tutorial session plus a TESDA and proud member of ACPI.
CSDA was founded by Raul Boncan in 2007.
Since then the program is in full bloom and now having free animation courses.

I really wanna join and try out my animation skills, I'm tryin to practice my drawing just in case.
You can visit them at

Unit B212, Lopez Building, Session Road, Baguio City, 3600 Philippines

Tel. 074-4425098
Fax.
Website: http://www.csdastudios.com
Email: voxwerks@gmail.com

I'll try to enroll this friday, will keep you posted if I got in. (finger crossed)

INFOCUS

So featured for today would be one of the Gripo Comics most promising artist Gamaliel Paz one of my facebook pals and a member of Baguio City Comics Awareness Society.
Best bit: Author and Illustrator of the Series entitled: Mystic teacher
I think he is one of the best colorist I've seen in years, clean, not so rough and beautifully blending inks, with his plot logically crafted with his characters complementing the whole concept.
You cannot please everyone, in one of his post he said that he got at comment for his online critiques stating that his works is "a piece of crap" and he should kill his parents and himself for doing it. At first he felt uneasy, He never heard that kind of rage, He got scared, lost the spirit and doubted his talent, but with the support of his friends, he stood up and continue his passion for drawing. Kept an open mind and just improved his skill.
So if you happen to visit this blog why not check his comics. A legend is being created here my friends. We will keep an eye on him in his future deeds. I like his concept maybe one day I'll create a animated feature or a film. :)

INDEPTH

So here are the weekends best of the BEST!

Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows

Well at first, I thought wow, this dude really rocks the weirdness, then at the middle part I became confused, like what did just happened?
This movie will make you think, a lot.
So while enjoying the movie, you should also try to find a clue and figure it out and try to guess the ending, it'll be more fun when you guessed it right. I got it at the climax, and said, yeah! I can be a detective huh?

So that's it for now, cheers!

Things You May Want to Know Before Visiting the UK

2012-01-17T16:47:00.001+08:00

I was chillin in facebook when I encountered this note in one of my workmates wall, his name is Paul, now somewhere in London, His a very bright dude, a monster in his field, funny and down to earth.

Being able to speak English fluently doesn't always mean you would be at home at an English-speaking country. Here are some terms, phrases, ways and norms you will be encountering throughout your stay in the UK:

1. "Chips" is the British equivalent to "fries" and the normal chips we have in the Philippines is what they call "crisps"

2. Don't ever ask for "load" in a store if you want to add prepaid credits to your mobile phone, ask for "top-up" instead.

3. "Move down" is a common phrase used when they want you to walk further away towards your present direction of travel.

4. Debit cards are more commonly used than credit cards to avoid paying a surcharge. All debit cards have microchips that are inserted to a reader and not swiped.

5. Shoe sizes are half-an-inch less than the conventional American size. If you usually buy 9-size shoes in the Philippines, then get an 8.5-size in the UK.

6. If nobody informed you yet, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road and drivers sit on the right.

7. Buses display route numbers but be mindful of the direction it is travelling to. You might just end up reaching the North when you are trying to go South. You will need to "request stop" or wave to the driver just like flagging down a jeepney in the Philippines. In other European countries, the bus will automatically stop if there are passengers waiting on the bus stop. Also, to avoid embarrassment, never try to request stoppage for a bus showing "Not In Service" even if the route number is still displayed.

8. Americans call it "subway" but UK residents would rather call it the "tube" since a subway is an underground walkway for pedestrians. They are not big fans of the overpass.

9. A "till" is a cashier or counter.

10. When travelling by train, "calling at" means "stopping at" and unlike the tube, long distance trains don't always stop on all stations along its way. Always read the route monitors.

11. They pronounce PANTENE as "panten" and GREENWHICH "grenich"

12. London is heavily inhabited by Indians, Pakistanis and Africans. Bago makarating dito, ihanda na ang ilong sa kanilang amoy.

13. "Cheers" means "thank you" in most occasions. Other slangs include "ain't it" that sounds like "INIT"

14. Ukay-ukay is not only prevalent in the Philippines, they also have it here in the form of a carboot sale (about a hundred cars gather at an empty field, equivalent to a rice field, filled with second-hand items.

I will have more to share next time. Thank you for reading through."

It was really interesting how our culture differ from one another, yet we all mean the same things.

We call it here in the Philippines "TANGA" moments when your in a situation, and you know your about to do something stupid and you realize it after.

I remember we went to Camarines Sur for the Ad Congress. Since its my first time, there are a lot of fail moments, lost in translation and decisions that had been pretty messed up.

The good thing is, You learned your lesson, that's the greatest achievement you'll ever had, another thing that you could do is share it! Like my friend Paul, he created a list, a little piece of his mind based on his experiences.

Keep it up Paul! see yah in the Olympics!

Dear 2011

2012-01-12T16:17:00.001+08:00

Dear 2011.

I will surely miss you. It's a roller coaster ride but we managed to get through. I learned to be humble, I learned to be more patience on stuff I usually don't have a control over, I got bullied a lot this year by superiors, I promised not to such acts when I'm the boss one day, I learned to be more open minded specially on ideas that contradicts my belief, I learned to see things from other perspective, what I find beautiful might not be pretty in someones eyes. I learned to appreciate life even better although I became impulsive when it comes to handling my finances.

I started it unsure, confused and a bit troubled. I'm searching for my soul and exploring my potential. Now I'm okay, I got my vision set to the future, all thanks to you.

Slowly I'm picking up the pieces, and I promise to be braver, I promise to stand for my right and for the things that is right. I'm not gonna be anyones puppet that they could control, I'll speak my mind, share my ideas and plans and if they don't respect what I deserve, let the best man win.

Thank you 2011 for a great adventure.

Now I welcome 2012 with a brighter hope. I made a difference in 2011, Now I will make a change.

Cheers!

A new YEAR! a new Adventure

2012-01-05T11:46:00.000+08:00

2012
The most exciting year for me, aside from the doomsday it's my year!Year of the water dragon!

goodbye 2012

2011-12-31T18:46:00.002+08:00

It's been a year of surprises.
Finally I can say that this 2011 has been a good start.
good career, good life.
to all my cheers!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

22nd Ad Congress: Getting there

2011-11-19T16:23:00.000+08:00

Whew. A sigh of relief.

At last we arrived, after more than 15 hours of cost country road trip, my *arse is swelling my back is aching and men my brain is like a milk shake.

We left Baguio city at around 11pm I basically slept the whole trip to Manila.

I woke up, still a bit dark, around 5:30am and we headed to the bus terminal headed for Camarines Sur.

The bus leaves at 8:30 so we need to kill some time, a lil bit shaken I snooze until it was 8am.

We left Manila and started the long road trip.

There are moments that i'll never forget.

On instance on a stop over, I'm wondering why people started taking pictures when our bus arrived. Is it me? Am I famous> NO WAY!

So I smiled.

Then again, behind me was this tall man wearing a black jacket and black jogging pants and a running shoes.

Who's that? I wonder.

I never seen him before...

With the commotion going on I felt lost.

Then a man said that dude was on the biggest loser a grand champion of 2M peso.

Wow. I dont care. I dont know him. Ha ha ha.

and then after that we all return to the bus, again there are people requesting a photo opportunity to this 2 couple right beside me.

I was like, What's wrong with this people? Who is that? I really don't have any freakin idea, that's it. Im not into the circulation of stars and showbiz, officially outcasted.

Wow. heavy.

So i just ignored them, soon to find out that half of the people in the was just here also for the congress.

So we checked the venue of the congress we arrived at Camsur Watersports Complex (CWC) at around 8:30pm hoping we could catch up with the registration but we didn't.

Instead we went to this opening party called FUSION the governor's night.

GREAT! I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse!

The food was awesome! and the best thing its free! (or paid for)

After that we checked the free photo booth and we got wacky.

A shuttle service is waiting for us and drop us in our hotel.

Some things I find not-so-good about this adcon.

Signage.

You came from a long trip and you expect people to just find the venue in a foreign place.

There were no signage and customer relations is terrible.

Plus hagard transportation if we hadn't bumped in a shuttle service tendency we might have walked from pili to naga.

Later day 2 of the con, my hopes are up. cheers!

early birthday PROMO! Trip to Manila!

2011-09-30T18:58:00.010+08:00

Baguio breeze, will miss you.

There are plenty of good and bad things that happened to me this past few weeks, and men it really hits hard when you realized your mistakes.

I've been really ignoring rules at the office during the last days of September, Higher ups often diggs power trip among it's subordinates that explains the Mafia post, so because of that, I got a awesome promo, yup we call it "PROMO" its a better term rather than suspension.

Oh yeah, I got a whole week off-NO PAY.

The good thing is I'm planning to visit my brother in Manila, I really like to see Felicity, she was born last September 26, but there has been a storm so I'm stuck at home, playing cards with my cousins and roommates, with no power its better to sleep and rest.

Wednesday, I headed to get my student drivers license.

Feeling refreshed on a Thursday morning, Me and my cousin Biboy head to Manila on a Road Trip!
We stopped over to Tarlac to see my dad, and my brand new motorcycle (oh yeah) a birthday gift.
We stayed there, I started practicing driving my motorcycle it it was so damn cool.

I'm gonna call you Neo

Friday around 3pm we headed to Manila, traffic jam greeted us, with flood waters rising with heavy rains pours on our bus, but I don't mind, I enjoyed watching the on-board movie.

It was past 9pm when we arrived at my brothers place, the baby was so cute, I noticed that her legs were longer, a good sign that she will be tall, she's quite big, I'm afraid to hold her or carry her maybe she'll fall and I'm not good with babies, I'm happy just to stare at her and see her smile, hold her little tiny hands. She sneeze a lot when a new person is around, it's quite interesting really, maybe i don't smell so good need to take a bath.

Felicity i love you

I missed my brother, so as much as possible we tell stories and catch up with one another. Now he has a daughter, and a wife. I suddenly felt i'm alone, with mom gone, he has been my wall.

But i'm happy for him, He had been to so many hardships hopefully this would be a brand new start, a new hope for both of us.

So we also visited our uncle in an army hospital, I met my other cousin who stays in Manila we hang-out and shares our grudges and life bitterness.

Sunday at around 11am, Biboy and me set back to Baguio, We arrived after 7 hours of road travel, hungry and exhausted, I feel asleep in the comfort of my own bed, tomorrow i'll start working with a fresh perspective.

THE MAFIA

2011-09-17T20:54:00.000+08:00

“You must take care of your family.”

They want to have an order in the system that they stirred chaos among the members, and now all hell broke loose.

As a part of the family, I’m aware of the past regulations that the bosses created, it was fair and just for everyone, and I say that that is the thing that I like the most out of this family, it has a heart.

Now it’s slowly loosing its nature, as some bosses try to manipulate the family members, wanting to control them with such greed and inconsiderate rules bending the truth and creating such a mess that affected and killed some of my friends.

First instance was deliberately destroying the reputation of one member from the godfather, with misleading info that caused her demised and uncertain death, a friend of mine somehow got a recording of a secret meeting, in the conversation the bosses agreed that they will use all their power to break the horn of the new member and kill everyone that opposed with them.

Now that fellow was demoted from his current position, pinning down allegations that serve no basis, he fought hard to bring down the mafia bosses, but alone he stands no fucking chance, he accepted the blood money and kept his silence.

This week alone, secret informants found dead and last week our head planner was ambushed, slowly, all the bright minds are gone.

The godfather has a vision, he said that the goal is more important the role, but somehow I don’t believe in him, he is blinded by the bosses that surrounds him, members are dying but it seems it was well justified and it seems its only normal.

Last night, I had a chance to talk to one of my batch mate in the family, I found out that he already received a death note, and he his just counting the days before he leaves, now his gone.

With the biggest heist in progress, everyone is preoccupied from the situation and tried to go over by the day and finished the entire task that is assigned to them.

I on the other hand started to retaliate; I was given a total of 5-death threat.

I’m not afraid.

I know someday the stink in the system that they created would poison and kill them… slowly, one by one.

I’m doing a shit-load of work; with the death threats they gave me would really demotivate and diminish the passion that I long for this family.

It’s a shame how a little few rotten old tomatoes would destroy such really good harvest.

-signed by the maniac

Dead Spot 11.11.11

2011-09-08T12:02:00.000+08:00

Mina ohh Mina your so wet.

2011-08-30T13:47:00.000+08:00

Gloomy Tuesday.

Today is the end of ramadan and supposedly no work, but since they required everyone to have a skeletal force for some unknown special reasons, So I'm here @ the office doing some skeletal to-do's.

The tropical storm mina poured her guts in the city of Baguio since this weekend harsh rainfall, thunder claps and strong breeze greeted my rest day.

The power was cut and to fully enjoy my little long weekend I went to the mall to charge the mac and do some work, also to but some stuff like comics just for fun, so I wont get bored, and look at that! a SALE! one cardigan wont hurt right? Before you know it, It was a shopping spree, darn it.

At home, well I watched some episodes of glee, read the comics and sleep the whole monday, still no power boredom and hunger came into me, and the best solution is GO to the MALL! again, and went home at around 6pm and slept. Whew. what a day.

Today, it's still raining with almost zero visibility in the road, I just found out that the Irisan open dumpsite the mountainous garbage collapse, i donno what to call it, a landslide or a garbage slide, and oh boy the people responsible for that tragedy killing 3 people so far including 2 kids are the city government pipz, and men you guys are in a really deep shit right now, with the national eyes on you guys for not following the solid waste management plan..

I made a story about this garbage problem in the city check it out

Aside from fallen trees, flooded streets, muddy roads and a marathon of rain shower, today would be the most boring day ever. If would rate this day without an internet connection it would be 10 stars as the worst boring day ever.

what else....

I would get a quick nap, so will update you sooner or later ayt?

see yah! cheers!

Must love MEMO's

2011-08-26T21:13:00.001+08:00

MEMO

mem·o

noun /ˈmemō/
memos, plural

A written message, esp. in business

Men, today had been a very nasty day for me in the office, so here's what happened.

Most of the employees are in a seminar on disaster management, So I was left in the office alone, It's not that I don't want to join them, they choose me to stay, I would love to be part of it but what the heck, There's nothing I could do anyway. So, Everyone left and I started to work and work and work and guess what, I finished it early surprised right, I said to my self, WOW working alone can give me full concentration, I finished a meeting with a group for the september 01 event parade for the charter anniversary of Baguio, I think it's the 102nd year, so Lunch time, I went outside to eat, cause I don't like the food on the nearby area so I decided to eat outside with friends, There is this regulation that you should time in and out during lunch breaks, and I hate that regulation cause were being constraint, we don't have an AM break and PM break just lunch break one hour is okay but the hassle naaah, it sucks.

then, it started raining, yeah there's a storm fast approaching.

it's a gloomy day, I can hear several issues regarding the human resource, but I stay positive about it.

when I was about to leave they called me in the office, I was called in the HR and then surprise surprise I have 3 super memo

first offense: Absent on VMB

well I talked about that on the previous post

second offense: Late time-in lunch

well, that sucks but what the heck, I found out that the exact time out and time in should be 12pm and 1pm only if you logged out at 12:06 like my case, I checked in at 1:07, thinking that i'm just a minute late providing that I deserve a 1 hour break right, but well thats not the law. so MEMO!

third offense: Facebook @work

haha, this one is grave, really. like I said I have nothing to do, and checked facebook in my mobile phone and online, made some comments, de stressed a bit and returned to work, yeah I know getting caught sucks, so I made general adjustment to my account to avoid getting this kind of memo in the future.

TIPS:

SO here are my tips in your office if you would like to use facebook in your office without getting caught.

1. NEVER EVER EVER add your boss, block him/her on the facebook universe so you would be free in posting anything stupid all you want without worry

2. Block your I.T. or MIS or ADMIN on your list.

3. use https:// not http://

4. Use name alias. if your name is Moe Ocampo, use an alias like prince harris lancaster oha!

you could easily deny that it was you.

5. change your profile photo, something that does not look like you.

and finally

6. privacy setting helps. use it wisely

so. hope this would not fire back at me hahaha

cheers!

Why not take a hike

2011-08-20T21:32:00.001+08:00

It was still early the cold mountain breeze was flowing freely at my window, oh I forgot to close that one, hope I didn't catch a "cold" I whispered to my self.

"It's so damn early.." as I force to carry my self out of bed, better get the water heater going...

After a great effort to convince my self to start moving, I went on and prepare for the day.

I arrived at the office at around 6:10 in the morning, well I was hoping to arrive earlier it's just that at this time of year, the clouds seemed to be pretty dim and the bed seemed to be the best place to stay.

I thought I was late, cause the call time is 6am, today will be a hiking day. (yeepee), but my fellow work mates also feels the same way as I did, we are all late, well most of us.

The trip lasted around 30 minutes, we arrive at the site and started carrying things like foods and cookware and also started taking group photos.

It was long trail going to the main camp house, and men the terrain is stiff and narrow, a bit wet, slippery since it rained last night.

We are going to the new site that we are going to develop, a 25 hectare land consist of 3 mountains a falls and a long snake like river.

The place was amazing, it's so relaxing and the forest is a virgin, no human trace of infiltration, I was a bit anxious about the development were going to do, hopefully it wont destroy the serenity of the place but to further enhance it for other people to enjoy.

Right now the path is hell, i'll tell you it was like "man vs. wild" episode as we venture deeper in the forest.

We settled down to the camp house, it was a made of pine wood and almost looked like a guard-slash-ranger house, it's cute sitting alone in the middle of the forest.

After a quick briefing, we headed out and explore the place the mountain slope is a bit of mess and climbing is a real challenge, my task with be taking video shots while my partner jeff is in charge of taking photos, he has the photos so i wish i could upload that here sooner or later or maybe on monday.

So, the best part was it was an extreme trekking with mud and blade grass greeting you in every step, but once you crossed the path and made it to the top, the scene was breathtaking.

Plus leeches

shit those fucking leeches, were not aware that the land is infested with tiny worm like leeches.

once you walked into the grass patch, they will sense it and they will start to attack, clinging into the tip of the leaves and literary jumping to its target.

I checked my shoes, and damn, those leeches are having a freakin' feast good thing not in my skin, with a shriek of a girl ( that's me) I started getting paranoid and stumping my foot like crazy and that caught the attention of my work mates, they started checking their shoes, and men we have a bingo.

Some has already sucked blood and having a good time in my partners legs other crawled under the shirts and we are all frantic.

And from there on, in every stop you should take a good look on your shoe and pull those leeches out.

We crossed 2 rivers and hiked 3 mountains and 2 hills, we conceptualized on the theme of the place and what should we do to develop it without destroying it's natural fauna.

It was an adventurous day, fun and full filling to be part of the team that first reach the place.

Hopefully this turns out well..

and oh yeah

MY boss fell on the river and we are all concerned about her phone rather than her safety hahaha, but she's okay, it's simply hilarious.

When life gives you lemons ask for salt and tequila!

2011-08-19T20:45:00.002+08:00

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”

After the ground breaking event, the marketing department is on a rough patch, with all the mishaps that had happened, the admin wont tolerate such "negligence of work"

Monday morning, like any given regular monday, we have a morning company meeting, and curse the traffic jam, I was 3 minute late from the 8am call time but i was confident that i can still catch up because most of the time, it'll start not exactly 8.

But the door was closed, I was wondering why, and I just heard my boss started talking, damn, got locked out, then I heard yelling and I knew he was mad, really MAD.

So, I hid on the Sales office, at that time I saw some of the late employees, YEY! I'm not alone.
And it went for ours, Janice texted me about the topic and she said that we are on a tight spot, boss is furious about the event and mark it, he will terminate someone.

Wow. I was like whoa, what the fuck, good thing I wasn't there, maybe i'll lost a spirit or something.

It ended @ around 10am, I hid on the comfort room pretending to pee, when the sector is clear I went out and well sneaked in.

That is how this week started, and that is just the beginning.

It's almost end of the week and yes, two of my friends resigned and it was heart breaking, yeah I know before I used to rant about them but, hey we've known each other we got closer, and men I hate this feeling.

I can't justify our mistake, but this is a bit harsh, one has been working for 3 years with the company, the other one was just got regularized and he has all this plans and his dedication was phenomenal, what happened was, there had been huge set back and the assumption was way out of control, it builded up and blown up this week, like a firecracker that exploded after the thread burned down.

I'm gonna miss them and this saturday will gonna have a farewell group party, and all I can say is, we have our differences, but each and everyone fill up what the other don't have.

Form this point on, there will be changes and it will never be the same.

Cheers!

Best of the WEB: 8 Tracks

2011-08-19T00:00:00.000+08:00

An online mix tapes that you can share to everyone. Is that possible?
check this out.

That's the beauty that 8 tracks. Create a mix, share it like other mixes enjoy the music, the best part, it's legal.
Check out my profile http://8tracks.com/modwill

cheers

Some Activities this week

2011-08-18T08:01:00.000+08:00

During the Ground breaking ceremony and Ribbon cutting of recent project development of our company, well I guess it end well, we closed around 21M on that day and the food was great. It was a hell ride preparing this event, I learned a lot in event management field and I guess were gonna do a lot of like this in the future.