Retrospection
"After Forty Fucking Years..."
Monday, 10/13/03
After almost a month of restricting myself to go online, heto ko ngayon at parang hayok sa kakatype. Bakit ba? Eh sa di kami nakakahawak man lang ng PC sa work eh. There's no need daw kasi. Sabagay, tama naman sila, what would you need a PC for kung andun ka in-between the tank roof and the scorching sun? Saan mo gagamitin ang PC kung andun ka sa deck ng barko at nagpapakadalubhasa sa pagsukat ng level ng petroleum products? Okay, fine. It's not THAT necessary. Bahala ka na lang gumawa ng handwritten report (such technology di ba?). Goodluck sa'yo!
Well, anyway. So far okay naman ang buhay-buhay. Ayoko ng maghalungkat ng English. Okay na to. Hmmm, give me a few years time and I'd be scrambling under the bed for my English vocabulary. Naalala ko tuloy yung sabi ni Sir Allister, the human body has a natural way of purging parts that are of no apparent use, or those that we seldom use. Kaya kung di mo gamitin ang isip mo, chances are, in a few years time, your intelligence will take a quantum leap (with space-time in reverse). Shit! E pano na yung .... ? Does that mean it will shrink into "Dagul-like" proportion when not put in use? Hahahahaha! Wag naman sana! Di ko pa namamaximize yun into full potential. Ooopppss! Just a slip-out!
Feeling athletic kami ngayon sa bunkhouse. Sabi nga ni Orvie (one of my housemates and officemates kahit wala kaming office), kailangang i optimize ang facilities habang andyan. So he got each of us (me and Richard, my other housemate) a badminton racket. Tennis sana eh kaya lang mas mahal siya kaya okay na rin yun. Orbs was so excited to try the racket that we played right after he got home from a night shift (that's a 6pm - 6am schedule). Ayun, 6:30 ng umaga, eto ang Orvie at nambubulahaw sa kuwarto, hila ang bedsheets ko at nagyayaya ng badminton. E kawawa naman so, pagbigyan! Had a great time smashing (parang table tennis ah!) and sweating ourselves for about two hours. And now here I am with aching legs and arms.
I don't feel good when I look in front of the mirror. Ang itim-itim ko na kasi. Siguro mga 4 degrees darker than I used to be. "Moreno" (be sensitive, okay!) na nga ako tapos lalo pang nasunog. Two months pa lang yun. What more kung 10 months na? Scary! Hay. Hirap palang kumita ng pera. Pero mas okay na to kesa dun sa officework nga pero di naman siya financially rewarding. Errr, para tuloy nagmukha akong pera ah? Di naman sa ganun, pero sometimes it's a factor. Let's face it! Isipin mo na lang na reward mo yun if you do your work effectively and efficiently. Sige rationalize pa natin! Hehehe.
I wish I could say the juicier parts of our work in here pero hindi pwede eh. Confidential kasi so wag na lang. Mahirap na. Sometimes I'm imagining myself that I'm one of those spies in a James Bond movie out for a secret mission. Pero imagination lang yun. Asa pa.
Nonsense na yata to. Til next time.
Posted by bob @ 02:05 PM
Pahabol
I didn't know na trial period lang yung sa zonkboard. That's why if you'd scroll this page up a little more, you'd notice a very annoying notice (err, redundance) from the zonkguys. Did you notice? Ehem ehem, Nei? ... *grins widely*
Posted by bob @ 02:16 PM
Replies: 6 got mad
drei! ahmm... cge isipin ko pa kung pede kong pumunta. kasi chances are, next day off ko eh date naman namin.. *winks* :D
bob rants @ 10/14/03
hey trixy! musta na? 'stig ng angelina jolens naten ah? :D
bob rants @ 10/14/03
cho, yellow din! :D
bob rants @ 10/14/03
yello..!
cho rants @ 10/14/03
kuya bob!! you're back! hehe. sem-ender daw request nina ebe. (graduate na pala ako, i think)
drei rants @ 10/13/03
hi sko! yah, i noticed nga lahat ng binisita kong may zonkboard. i thought is my pc. =) how are you?
trixy rants @ 10/13/03
Invading the Cafe
Sunday, 8/24/03
Tristan finally decided to lend me some space in his website. It's one of those essays that I've already published in the previous versions but I'm hoping it would be worth a second look. Do check it out.
Posted by bob @ 02:04 PM
Replies: 3 got mad
nice blog. cant wait for tomorrow n find out what will happen next. kakatamad mag trabaho!!!
sassa rants @ 9/8/03
BOB!!! HAha. Yo know what? I just want to sign this EVERYDAY. Haha. Instead of signing your guestbook only once. Haha. Well... Short envery here. Haha. Well... See ya!
Bryant
nice... sa version 3 yun no? or two?
nei rants @ 8/24/03
All In a Week's Work
Saturday, 8/23/03
Holiday Friday
Still feeling exhausted from the 4-hour trip from Bataan last night. I took the bus trip over the ferry trip because it was half as cheap and I wasn't in a hurry. It wasn't the most comfortable trip, though. Must've been the 10 laps I did in the swimming pool before that. Ayan, feeling-feeling kasing mag-exercise eh. Ansakit tuloy sa ulo. Ang bobo ko pa kasi di ako nagdala ng payong, eh umaambon-ambon. I normally sleep during bus rides but that was the last thing on my mind. 'Twas the first time for me to take the route and I wasn't familiar with the bus stops, either, so I had to nibble at least seven candies to keep me awake.
Thursday: Rocking the Boat
We had to inspect two huge oil tankers today. Isang Malaysian tsaka isang Turkish Oil Tanker. On board Petro Concord (Malaysian) we had to inspect the tank compartments prior to loading, inspecting some things here and there, familiarizing ourselves with the various procedures. Had a taste of Soya drink, courtesy of the crew. It tastes more like liquefied taho with some indiscernible flavor.
Mas malaki tsaka hi-tech yung Turkish tanker, MT Gönen, but like the Concord, pang-export din yung product na niload sa kanya. Kadarating lang nung Concord pero yung Gönen naman paalis na. We were lucky enough to witness both kasi it would take days to fill a huge tanker. Mostly inspections lang yung nangyari on board the tanker (hindi ko na ikukwento yung details) basta nakakakahilo sya. Syet! Maalon kasi ng konti tsaka mainit tapos dagdagan mo pa na may amoy yata yung isang crew ng Gönen. Paksyet. Di ko kaya. Buti na lang di ako nasuka. Nakain ko pa rin naman yung Turkish lunch na ewan ko ba kung afritadang garbanzos yata. Tapos yung rice nila, although it looked nice, lasang wheat naman. And first time kong makakain ng pickled carrots and cabbage. Ewww! Sama ng lasa. Hmmmm...no offense meant sa kung sino man, I'm just stating my opinion.
Altophobic Wednesday
Yey! Climbing a 66-foot oil tank is quite imposing but quite an experience. Nakakalula! Ansakit pa sa binti. Hmmm. For that kailangan ko na rin yatang mag-gym tulad ni Nei. May gym naman sa housing complex, libre lang. Yun nga lang kakahiya, tsaka ang weird nun. Imagine seeing a not-so-horizontally-enhanced guy (para di masyadong masakit pakinggan.. hehe) inside the gym lifting weights. Ang panget.
Tuesday: Locked-up
Bored. Frankly, not an exciting day. Wala kaming ginawa after the briefing kundi magbasa ng manual na sobrang kapal. Yun lang. Kala ko pa naman pupunta na kami sa loob ng refinery. Ayun, nakatulog tuloy yung officemate ko at nahuli siya. Lumabas kasi ko ng room kasi kung hindi pati ako makakatulog. Eh nakasalubong ko si Ma'am Zoni, tapos sumama siya pabalik sa office (yung office na tables and chairs lang ang laman). Eh malay ko bang tulog pa rin siya pagbalik. I tried to warn him, pero mahina talaga boses ko eh. Tsaka obvious naman kung ilalakas ko di ba? Ayun tuloy, nahuli. Pero hindi naman siya napagalitan, pero kahit na na-guilty tuloy ako.
Monday: Disis It!
Letseng driver ng Trailer truck! Kung nanood ka ng mga morning shows nung monday, chances are nabalitaan mo yung grabeng traffic sa kahabaan ng North Expressway (southbound). First day at work, pero, thanks to one stupid driver I'm still stuck in the middle of the goddamn traffic at 9 am in the morning when I was supposed to be in Petron Megaplaza by 8 am. Not quite a good start, di ba? I was so sure I made quite a bad impression with that incident. Eh, kasalanan ko ba yun? I left home at around 5 am... okay, 5:30, hoping I can still catch an FX and make it on time. But, Lo and behold! Some stupid driver decided to make the center lane of the Expressway an extension of his parking lot. Nakatulog daw kasi inaantok. Well, hindi naman ako ganun kasama, naawa din naman ako sa kanya pero for heaven's sake! First day ko sa work! and I'm late. Imagine the stretch of the expressway from Bocaue to Balintawak all lined up with slow-moving vehicles. Wag mo ng iconsider na Monday yun. Where's the fun in that? This can't be happening. This just cannot be.
I still managed to arrive in Makati at around 10 am, wishing the ground would just open itself up and engulf me. Sobrang nakakahiya! Luckily, they've been more than understanding of the situation, but I made it a point to tell myself, "Shit, pasalamat ka. Wag na wag mo ng uulitin!"
So, to cut the story short, nakaalis kami ng Makati before lunch, naligaw-ligaw (first time ulit kasing magmaneho ng boss namin sa Metro Manila after some years kaya nalito-lito siya) sa kung saan-saan, finally, nakarating din kami sa Refinery sa Bataan at around 4 pm. Kakapagod.
Posted by bob @ 06:57 PM
Replies: 5 got mad
kuya bob, sory bout wat happened nung weekend. naputol tuloy rest mo dahil sa biglang tawag from work. hehe. at least nakadaan ka sa bahay! =)
drei rants @ 10/8/03
wow! big time ka na talaga! sana mangtreat ka namn sa unang sweldo. kahit starbucks lang!
lucky rants @ 8/25/03
ehehehe. sa tingin ko enjoy ka naman sa bataan...
nei rants @ 8/24/03
I'm originally from Bulacan. Pero I'm staying in Bataan on weekdays 'cause of work. weekends lang ako umuuwi.
bob rants @ 8/24/03
Hey you! Haha. You FINALLY got your blog goin again. xD Well.. One question: Nasan ka gali sa pilipinas? xD Well... See ya!
Bryant
Sunday, 8/17/03
Thursday: Grilled
I had to woke up as early as 4 am in the morning to catch up the 6:30 am ferry trip to Bataan, nervous and expecting the worst for the interview. I thought we were scheduled for the final interview but it turned out we were in for two consecutive interviews! The first panel interview was mostly probing questions about personality, background, etc. It was still okay, I think I handled it fairly nicely. After a couple of buckles and nervous ramblings, I survived an hour of gruelling interrogation. Or so I'd like to think. I'm not sure if I really did convinced the members of the panel, I just tried my best to be honest and sound honest.
As if we were half-baked chickens, it turned out one panel interview was not enough, so the Operations Manager did the final grilling with the toughest interview I had so far. Nakakaiyak. It's hard to avoid being blanked when you can't convince the interviewer with the best answer you have in mind. I just can't help feeling messed up after that. I thought my chances had gone down the drain.
Friday: Yey! I got gased!
Surprise! Surprise! I got the job! You can call me "Gasoline Boy" from now on. I'll be working for the company whose TV commercial features a car morphing into a cheetah. *wink* I'm bound for Bataan tomorrow. I'm not sure if I can still update this blog regularly, for we'll be doing field works most of the time plus I heard that we don't have our own office. No office, no PC, no internet connection. Well, not entirely; but I think I'm gonna have a hard time accessing the net with that set-up. I'll just try my best to go online as regularly as possible.
Hmm, come to think of it. Para namang andami kong visitors dito. Tsaka malay ko ba kung mamimiss din nila ko? *grins*
Posted by bob @ 09:23 PM
Replies: 3 got mad
congrats sko!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iva rants @ 8/25/03
CONGRATS!!!!!
nei rants @ 8/19/03
ay sus! wala daw oh?! magdrama daw ba? lolz.. congrats congratz!
lucky rants @ 8/18/03
Expecting the Unexpected
Wednesday, 8/13/03
Got a boost of confidence yesterday afternoon after the HR Associate from * called to schedule an interview (hopefully the last) cum plant trip to the Bataan Refinery. I was hoping for them to call since another call would make my chance of being hired, if not a sure fire, at least a notch higher. I was eating my lunch at the time, but after the call, I suddenly felt full and excited. Not that I’m making a big deal out of it because this is in fact a big deal in itself. Or at least to me. Finishing college a few semesters beyond necessary is already something to dampen down your self-esteem. To finish it with colors, (note: colors. Not flying colors) or rather with a “colored” transcript drenched in the essence of bloody 5.0’s, is enough to peg your morale to a record low. (Hala, feeling ko tuloy napaka-walangkwenta kong estudyante. Hehe.) But to have the opportunity to actually work for one of the country’s top company in spite of my not-so-impressive record is something to be thankful for.
I just hope I won’t preempt anything by writing this entry out of sheer excitement. In any case, I will keep my fingers crossed.
Posted by bob @ 03:43 PM
Replies: 5 got mad
waaheeehee!.. wala lang. grabe! ang hirapp ang tanong! naluha ako dun ah. lols.
thanks po sa mga suporta.
bob rants @ 8/15/03
uyy, yan ba yung *? wow, nakapass ka pala sa mga interviews nila... that's reason enough to celebrate di ba...
basta, kaya mo yan.. GOODLUCK!
iva rants @ 8/14/03
GUD LUCK!!
lhynne rants @ 8/13/03
uy, ayoko ring pangunahan.. basta kung ano man mangyari. update mo na lang ako... uwian mo rin ako ng souvenir ah? lolz
nei rants @ 8/13/03
Izit too early to say "congrats! congrats!" ? libre! libre!
lucky rants @ 8/13/03
The Phantom Menace
Saturday, 8/9/03
Kids are cute. Sans the little devil's costumes, that is.
Try living with three hyperactive brats and you’ll never need a membership to any of the nearest gym for your workouts, libre pang background music. Each day, your house transforms into a living sound system, complete with top-of-the-line subwoofers. Para kang naka-Dolby Surround Sound, ultra clear and crisp, unadulterated anytime of the day.
No ESPN on the cable? No need to worry. How ‘bout basketball? (Actually, kids trashing the whole house even if the trash can is just a few steps away), boxing? (or kids hitting each other after a heated argument on whose get to be the “IT” on a wild game of “taguan”), golf? (more like kids hitting the poor cats and dogs simply for the fun of it), or, wall climbing, perhaps? (read: kids climbing window grills like chimpanzees on the loose). You name it, they’ve got it.
But here’s the fun(?) part, in the midst of all the action lies your workout. Not convinced yet? Try being the boxing referee, the golf caddy, and the wall climbing guide and the basketball court wiper a.k.a. floor manager all at the same time. Pag di ka pa nangarag nyan, ewan ko na lang.
Hopefully, they’re not like that all the time. They can also be super sweet, especially if they’re eyeing your dessert after they’ve devoured half of the lot. May libre yung kiss. Halik ni Judas, ba? They are thoughtful all the time. Thoughtful, defined as someone who never forgets TV schedules especially cartoons. Kids are ultra-generous during mealtimes. They’ll be more than willing to offer, without batting an eyelash, food that they can’t finish or those that they don’t like eating, which are most likely veggies. Instant vegetarian ka nun! O di ba, healthy?
Kids are cute and adorable. But most of the time they are more like agents of mischief disguised as angels. But we already know that, don't we? Besides, we all were kids once.
- posted by Bob with a trident in hand while wearing his little devil's costume.
Posted by bob @ 08:59 PM
Replies: 2 got mad
o nga eh. baliktad kami ni cherry, she loves kids. although, i do, too in fairness. ayoko lang ng makulit na bata. madami kasi kong mga pamangkin kaya medyo ganun. :)
bob rants @ 8/12/03
*clap clap* nice entry... galeng...paano yan pag magkakaanak ka na? eheheheh
nei rants @ 8/10/03
Hunted
Wednesday, 7/30/03
This afternoon, I got the call I've been expecting for about a month now. I suddenly felt nervous and excited of what might happen tomorrow. Can't say anything more. I'm on the iodized-deficient side today and starting to sound robotic. Just forgive me. I'm just afraid I might screw this one up. Cross your fingers y'all. Wish me (good)luck on my interview.
Posted by Sko @ 09:46 PM
Replies: 4 got mad
hello isko! good luck! aight??
Jan rants @ 8/7/03
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tnx lucky & nei! the interview turned out well. I just hope they'd call me up for the next interview. :)
sko rants @ 8/3/03
The best greatest of luck to you, angry little brown man!
lucky rants @ 8/1/03
oist!!! gud luck! kaya mo yan!
nei rants @ 7/30/03
Something For the Little Boy
Thursday, July 24, 2003
Excerpts from the true-to-life film Antwone Fisher starring Denzel Washington (also in his directorial debut) and Derek Luke, in the title role:
Antwone: "Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?
Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own?
Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep.
Who will cry for the little boy? He never had for keeps.
Who will cry for the little boy? He walked the burning sand.
Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man.
Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain.
Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again.
Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be.
Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me?"
Jerome (Denzel):"Who will cry for the little boy, Antwone?".
Antwone:"I will."
Posted by Sko @ 08:20 PM CST
Replies: 2 got mad
It was one of the best movies of 2002 (according to Oprah.. hehehe). It wasn't released here, but I saw a copy of the book in Powerbooks.
bob rants @ 7/30/03
nice quote, pero hindi ko pa yata naririnig yang movie na yan...
nei rants @ 7/25/03
"It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere." - written in the dust on the back of a bus. Wickenburg, AZ
If any place in the world would be named Boredom, I could easily be elected as its leader by (de)merits of an extremely dry, and uneventful existence. Life in the confines of the four walls of our house is a raw unedited music video of Mom and my nephew haggling their way to school in the morning, my sis-in-law’s child-rearing antics, my brother’s annoying attitude, and myself in the midst of all the domestic (mis)happenings, with a cacophony of all the household sounds/noise in the background.
It seems like each day is dragging me to a downward spiral, my positivism (if there’s a pinch still left) slowly being taken. It doesn’t make sense. If I could only say all the things in my head in this webspace without fear of prejudice. What the heck? What’s the use of having a blog if you can’t? That’s probably why the thought of updating my blog entries is slowly losing its attraction on me… Fuck it. I’m not making any sense at all.
Posted by Sko @ 07:10 PM CST
Replies: 1 got mad
sometimes, ganyan rin nararamdaman ko, i felt like writing pero worried ako kung sino ang makakabasa. pero, blog mo yan, at nakikibasa lang sila...
nei rants @ 7/25/03
Tuesday, July 1, 2003
"Mad About The New Layout"
Yey! Sa wakas, after some more weeks (or months?) of hiatus, sko online is back again! Got so much more to fix here but I'm taking my time. Starting to get the feel of using greymatter for a change. All thanks to Nei who generously lent his layout and took the extra mile to fix some things in my new home, Iva's ashtraymix . Don't have much time online so I'd just elaborate next time...
Posted by Sko @ 11:53 PM CST
Replies: 3 got mad
hanggwapo naman ng nasa pic... how are you na BOB... btw, i think i deleted your number...
iva rants @ 7/10/03
yey! okay na! heehee. sorry i messed it up. :) thanks ulit!
bob rants @ 7/4/03
ayan... okay na sa tingin ko. email me kung may problem pa... ;D
nei rants @ 7/2/03
Monday, 10/13/03
After almost a month of restricting myself to go online, heto ko ngayon at parang hayok sa kakatype. Bakit ba? Eh sa di kami nakakahawak man lang ng PC sa work eh. There's no need daw kasi. Sabagay, tama naman sila, what would you need a PC for kung andun ka in-between the tank roof and the scorching sun? Saan mo gagamitin ang PC kung andun ka sa deck ng barko at nagpapakadalubhasa sa pagsukat ng level ng petroleum products? Okay, fine. It's not THAT necessary. Bahala ka na lang gumawa ng handwritten report (such technology di ba?). Goodluck sa'yo!
Well, anyway. So far okay naman ang buhay-buhay. Ayoko ng maghalungkat ng English. Okay na to. Hmmm, give me a few years time and I'd be scrambling under the bed for my English vocabulary. Naalala ko tuloy yung sabi ni Sir Allister, the human body has a natural way of purging parts that are of no apparent use, or those that we seldom use. Kaya kung di mo gamitin ang isip mo, chances are, in a few years time, your intelligence will take a quantum leap (with space-time in reverse). Shit! E pano na yung .... ? Does that mean it will shrink into "Dagul-like" proportion when not put in use? Hahahahaha! Wag naman sana! Di ko pa namamaximize yun into full potential. Ooopppss! Just a slip-out!
Feeling athletic kami ngayon sa bunkhouse. Sabi nga ni Orvie (one of my housemates and officemates kahit wala kaming office), kailangang i optimize ang facilities habang andyan. So he got each of us (me and Richard, my other housemate) a badminton racket. Tennis sana eh kaya lang mas mahal siya kaya okay na rin yun. Orbs was so excited to try the racket that we played right after he got home from a night shift (that's a 6pm - 6am schedule). Ayun, 6:30 ng umaga, eto ang Orvie at nambubulahaw sa kuwarto, hila ang bedsheets ko at nagyayaya ng badminton. E kawawa naman so, pagbigyan! Had a great time smashing (parang table tennis ah!) and sweating ourselves for about two hours. And now here I am with aching legs and arms.
I don't feel good when I look in front of the mirror. Ang itim-itim ko na kasi. Siguro mga 4 degrees darker than I used to be. "Moreno" (be sensitive, okay!) na nga ako tapos lalo pang nasunog. Two months pa lang yun. What more kung 10 months na? Scary! Hay. Hirap palang kumita ng pera. Pero mas okay na to kesa dun sa officework nga pero di naman siya financially rewarding. Errr, para tuloy nagmukha akong pera ah? Di naman sa ganun, pero sometimes it's a factor. Let's face it! Isipin mo na lang na reward mo yun if you do your work effectively and efficiently. Sige rationalize pa natin! Hehehe.
I wish I could say the juicier parts of our work in here pero hindi pwede eh. Confidential kasi so wag na lang. Mahirap na. Sometimes I'm imagining myself that I'm one of those spies in a James Bond movie out for a secret mission. Pero imagination lang yun. Asa pa.
Nonsense na yata to. Til next time.
Posted by bob
Pahabol
I didn't know na trial period lang yung sa zonkboard. That's why if you'd scroll this page up a little more, you'd notice a very annoying notice (err, redundance) from the zonkguys. Did you notice? Ehem ehem, Nei
Posted by bob
Replies: 6 got mad
drei! ahmm... cge isipin ko pa kung pede kong pumunta. kasi chances are, next day off ko eh date naman namin.. *winks* :D
bob
hey trixy! musta na? 'stig ng angelina jolens naten ah? :D
bob
cho, yellow din! :D
bob
yello..!
cho rants @ 10/14/03
kuya bob!! you're back! hehe. sem-ender daw request nina ebe. (graduate na pala ako, i think)
drei
hi sko! yah, i noticed nga lahat ng binisita kong may zonkboard. i thought is my pc. =) how are you?
trixy
Invading the Cafe
Sunday, 8/24/03
Tristan
Posted by bob
Replies: 3 got mad
nice blog. cant wait for tomorrow n find out what will happen next. kakatamad mag trabaho!!!
sassa
BOB!!! HAha. Yo know what? I just want to sign this EVERYDAY. Haha. Instead of signing your guestbook only once. Haha. Well... Short envery here. Haha. Well... See ya!
Bryant
nice... sa version 3 yun no? or two?
nei
All In a Week's Work
Saturday, 8/23/03
Holiday Friday
Still feeling exhausted from the 4-hour trip from Bataan last night. I took the bus trip over the ferry trip because it was half as cheap and I wasn't in a hurry. It wasn't the most comfortable trip, though. Must've been the 10 laps I did in the swimming pool before that. Ayan, feeling-feeling kasing mag-exercise eh. Ansakit tuloy sa ulo. Ang bobo ko pa kasi di ako nagdala ng payong, eh umaambon-ambon. I normally sleep during bus rides but that was the last thing on my mind. 'Twas the first time for me to take the route and I wasn't familiar with the bus stops, either, so I had to nibble at least seven candies to keep me awake.
Thursday: Rocking the Boat
We had to inspect two huge oil tankers today. Isang Malaysian tsaka isang Turkish Oil Tanker. On board Petro Concord (Malaysian) we had to inspect the tank compartments prior to loading, inspecting some things here and there, familiarizing ourselves with the various procedures. Had a taste of Soya drink, courtesy of the crew. It tastes more like liquefied taho with some indiscernible flavor.
Mas malaki tsaka hi-tech yung Turkish tanker, MT Gönen, but like the Concord, pang-export din yung product na niload sa kanya. Kadarating lang nung Concord pero yung Gönen naman paalis na. We were lucky enough to witness both kasi it would take days to fill a huge tanker. Mostly inspections lang yung nangyari on board the tanker (hindi ko na ikukwento yung details) basta nakakakahilo sya. Syet! Maalon kasi ng konti tsaka mainit tapos dagdagan mo pa na may amoy yata yung isang crew ng Gönen. Paksyet. Di ko kaya. Buti na lang di ako nasuka. Nakain ko pa rin naman yung Turkish lunch na ewan ko ba kung afritadang garbanzos yata. Tapos yung rice nila, although it looked nice, lasang wheat naman. And first time kong makakain ng pickled carrots and cabbage. Ewww! Sama ng lasa. Hmmmm...no offense meant sa kung sino man, I'm just stating my opinion.
Altophobic Wednesday
Yey! Climbing a 66-foot oil tank is quite imposing but quite an experience. Nakakalula! Ansakit pa sa binti. Hmmm. For that kailangan ko na rin yatang mag-gym tulad ni Nei
Tuesday: Locked-up
Bored. Frankly, not an exciting day. Wala kaming ginawa after the briefing kundi magbasa ng manual na sobrang kapal. Yun lang. Kala ko pa naman pupunta na kami sa loob ng refinery. Ayun, nakatulog tuloy yung officemate ko at nahuli siya. Lumabas kasi ko ng room kasi kung hindi pati ako makakatulog. Eh nakasalubong ko si Ma'am Zoni, tapos sumama siya pabalik sa office (yung office na tables and chairs lang ang laman). Eh malay ko bang tulog pa rin siya pagbalik. I tried to warn him, pero mahina talaga boses ko eh. Tsaka obvious naman kung ilalakas ko di ba? Ayun tuloy, nahuli. Pero hindi naman siya napagalitan, pero kahit na na-guilty tuloy ako.
Monday: Disis It!
Letseng driver ng Trailer truck! Kung nanood ka ng mga morning shows nung monday, chances are nabalitaan mo yung grabeng traffic sa kahabaan ng North Expressway (southbound). First day at work, pero, thanks to one stupid driver I'm still stuck in the middle of the goddamn traffic at 9 am in the morning when I was supposed to be in Petron Megaplaza by 8 am. Not quite a good start, di ba? I was so sure I made quite a bad impression with that incident. Eh, kasalanan ko ba yun? I left home at around 5 am... okay, 5:30, hoping I can still catch an FX and make it on time. But, Lo and behold! Some stupid driver decided to make the center lane of the Expressway an extension of his parking lot. Nakatulog daw kasi inaantok. Well, hindi naman ako ganun kasama, naawa din naman ako sa kanya pero for heaven's sake! First day ko sa work! and I'm late. Imagine the stretch of the expressway from Bocaue to Balintawak all lined up with slow-moving vehicles. Wag mo ng iconsider na Monday yun. Where's the fun in that? This can't be happening. This just cannot be.
I still managed to arrive in Makati at around 10 am, wishing the ground would just open itself up and engulf me. Sobrang nakakahiya! Luckily, they've been more than understanding of the situation, but I made it a point to tell myself, "Shit, pasalamat ka. Wag na wag mo ng uulitin!"
So, to cut the story short, nakaalis kami ng Makati before lunch, naligaw-ligaw (first time ulit kasing magmaneho ng boss namin sa Metro Manila after some years kaya nalito-lito siya) sa kung saan-saan, finally, nakarating din kami sa Refinery sa Bataan at around 4 pm. Kakapagod.
Posted by bob
Replies: 5 got mad
kuya bob, sory bout wat happened nung weekend. naputol tuloy rest mo dahil sa biglang tawag from work. hehe. at least nakadaan ka sa bahay! =)
drei rants @ 10/8/03
wow! big time ka na talaga! sana mangtreat ka namn sa unang sweldo. kahit starbucks lang!
lucky
ehehehe. sa tingin ko enjoy ka naman sa bataan...
nei
I'm originally from Bulacan. Pero I'm staying in Bataan on weekdays 'cause of work. weekends lang ako umuuwi.
bob
Hey you! Haha. You FINALLY got your blog goin again. xD Well.. One question: Nasan ka gali sa pilipinas? xD Well... See ya!
Bryant
Sunday, 8/17/03
Thursday: Grilled
I had to woke up as early as 4 am in the morning to catch up the 6:30 am ferry trip to Bataan, nervous and expecting the worst for the interview. I thought we were scheduled for the final interview but it turned out we were in for two consecutive interviews! The first panel interview was mostly probing questions about personality, background, etc. It was still okay, I think I handled it fairly nicely. After a couple of buckles and nervous ramblings, I survived an hour of gruelling interrogation. Or so I'd like to think. I'm not sure if I really did convinced the members of the panel, I just tried my best to be honest and sound honest.
As if we were half-baked chickens, it turned out one panel interview was not enough, so the Operations Manager did the final grilling with the toughest interview I had so far. Nakakaiyak. It's hard to avoid being blanked when you can't convince the interviewer with the best answer you have in mind. I just can't help feeling messed up after that. I thought my chances had gone down the drain.
Friday: Yey! I got gased!
Surprise! Surprise! I got the job! You can call me "Gasoline Boy" from now on. I'll be working for the company whose TV commercial features a car morphing into a cheetah. *wink* I'm bound for Bataan tomorrow. I'm not sure if I can still update this blog regularly, for we'll be doing field works most of the time plus I heard that we don't have our own office. No office, no PC, no internet connection. Well, not entirely; but I think I'm gonna have a hard time accessing the net with that set-up. I'll just try my best to go online as regularly as possible.
Hmm, come to think of it. Para namang andami kong visitors dito. Tsaka malay ko ba kung mamimiss din nila ko? *grins*
Posted by bob
Replies: 3 got mad
congrats sko!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iva rants @ 8/25/03
CONGRATS!!!!!
nei
ay sus! wala daw oh?! magdrama daw ba? lolz.. congrats congratz!
lucky
Expecting the Unexpected
Wednesday, 8/13/03
Got a boost of confidence yesterday afternoon after the HR Associate from * called to schedule an interview (hopefully the last) cum plant trip to the Bataan Refinery. I was hoping for them to call since another call would make my chance of being hired, if not a sure fire, at least a notch higher. I was eating my lunch at the time, but after the call, I suddenly felt full and excited. Not that I’m making a big deal out of it because this is in fact a big deal in itself. Or at least to me. Finishing college a few semesters beyond necessary is already something to dampen down your self-esteem. To finish it with colors, (note: colors. Not flying colors) or rather with a “colored” transcript drenched in the essence of bloody 5.0’s, is enough to peg your morale to a record low. (Hala, feeling ko tuloy napaka-walangkwenta kong estudyante. Hehe.) But to have the opportunity to actually work for one of the country’s top company in spite of my not-so-impressive record is something to be thankful for.
I just hope I won’t preempt anything by writing this entry out of sheer excitement. In any case, I will keep my fingers crossed.
Posted by bob
Replies: 5 got mad
waaheeehee!.. wala lang. grabe! ang hirapp ang tanong! naluha ako dun ah. lols.
thanks po sa mga suporta.
bob
uyy, yan ba yung *? wow, nakapass ka pala sa mga interviews nila... that's reason enough to celebrate di ba...
basta, kaya mo yan.. GOODLUCK!
iva
GUD LUCK!!
lhynne
uy, ayoko ring pangunahan.. basta kung ano man mangyari. update mo na lang ako... uwian mo rin ako ng souvenir ah? lolz
nei
Izit too early to say "congrats! congrats!" ? libre! libre!
lucky
The Phantom Menace
Saturday, 8/9/03
Kids are cute. Sans the little devil's costumes, that is.
Try living with three hyperactive brats and you’ll never need a membership to any of the nearest gym for your workouts, libre pang background music. Each day, your house transforms into a living sound system, complete with top-of-the-line subwoofers. Para kang naka-Dolby Surround Sound, ultra clear and crisp, unadulterated anytime of the day.
No ESPN on the cable? No need to worry. How ‘bout basketball? (Actually, kids trashing the whole house even if the trash can is just a few steps away), boxing? (or kids hitting each other after a heated argument on whose get to be the “IT” on a wild game of “taguan”), golf? (more like kids hitting the poor cats and dogs simply for the fun of it), or, wall climbing, perhaps? (read: kids climbing window grills like chimpanzees on the loose). You name it, they’ve got it.
But here’s the fun(?) part, in the midst of all the action lies your workout. Not convinced yet? Try being the boxing referee, the golf caddy, and the wall climbing guide and the basketball court wiper a.k.a. floor manager all at the same time. Pag di ka pa nangarag nyan, ewan ko na lang.
Hopefully, they’re not like that all the time. They can also be super sweet, especially if they’re eyeing your dessert after they’ve devoured half of the lot. May libre yung kiss. Halik ni Judas, ba? They are thoughtful all the time. Thoughtful, defined as someone who never forgets TV schedules especially cartoons. Kids are ultra-generous during mealtimes. They’ll be more than willing to offer, without batting an eyelash, food that they can’t finish or those that they don’t like eating, which are most likely veggies. Instant vegetarian ka nun! O di ba, healthy?
Kids are cute and adorable. But most of the time they are more like agents of mischief disguised as angels. But we already know that, don't we? Besides, we all were kids once.
- posted by Bob with a trident in hand while wearing his little devil's costume.
Posted by bob
Replies: 2 got mad
o nga eh. baliktad kami ni cherry, she loves kids. although, i do, too in fairness. ayoko lang ng makulit na bata. madami kasi kong mga pamangkin kaya medyo ganun. :)
bob
*clap clap* nice entry... galeng...paano yan pag magkakaanak ka na? eheheheh
nei
Hunted
Wednesday, 7/30/03
This afternoon, I got the call I've been expecting for about a month now. I suddenly felt nervous and excited of what might happen tomorrow. Can't say anything more. I'm on the iodized-deficient side today and starting to sound robotic. Just forgive me. I'm just afraid I might screw this one up. Cross your fingers y'all. Wish me (good)luck on my interview.
Posted by Sko @ 09:46 PM
Replies: 4 got mad
hello isko! good luck! aight??
Jan
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tnx lucky & nei! the interview turned out well. I just hope they'd call me up for the next interview. :)
sko
The best greatest of luck to you, angry little brown man!
lucky
oist!!! gud luck! kaya mo yan!
nei
Something For the Little Boy
Thursday, July 24, 2003
Excerpts from the true-to-life film Antwone Fisher
Antwone: "Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?
Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own?
Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep.
Who will cry for the little boy? He never had for keeps.
Who will cry for the little boy? He walked the burning sand.
Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man.
Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain.
Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again.
Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be.
Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me?"
Jerome (Denzel):"Who will cry for the little boy, Antwone?".
Antwone:"I will."
Posted by Sko @ 08:20 PM CST
Replies: 2 got mad
It was one of the best movies of 2002 (according to Oprah.. hehehe). It wasn't released here, but I saw a copy of the book in Powerbooks.
bob
nice quote, pero hindi ko pa yata naririnig yang movie na yan...
nei
"It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere." - written in the dust on the back of a bus. Wickenburg, AZ
If any place in the world would be named Boredom, I could easily be elected as its leader by (de)merits of an extremely dry, and uneventful existence. Life in the confines of the four walls of our house is a raw unedited music video of Mom and my nephew haggling their way to school in the morning, my sis-in-law’s child-rearing antics, my brother’s annoying attitude, and myself in the midst of all the domestic (mis)happenings, with a cacophony of all the household sounds/noise in the background.
It seems like each day is dragging me to a downward spiral, my positivism (if there’s a pinch still left) slowly being taken. It doesn’t make sense. If I could only say all the things in my head in this webspace without fear of prejudice. What the heck? What’s the use of having a blog if you can’t? That’s probably why the thought of updating my blog entries is slowly losing its attraction on me… Fuck it. I’m not making any sense at all.
Posted by Sko @ 07:10 PM CST
Replies: 1 got mad
sometimes, ganyan rin nararamdaman ko, i felt like writing pero worried ako kung sino ang makakabasa. pero, blog mo yan, at nakikibasa lang sila...
nei
Tuesday, July 1, 2003
"Mad About The New Layout"
Yey! Sa wakas, after some more weeks (or months?) of hiatus, sko online is back again! Got so much more to fix here but I'm taking my time. Starting to get the feel of using greymatter
Posted by Sko @ 11:53 PM CST
Replies: 3 got mad
hanggwapo naman ng nasa pic... how are you na BOB... btw, i think i deleted your number...
iva rants @ 7/10/03
yey! okay na! heehee. sorry i messed it up. :) thanks ulit!
bob rants @ 7/4/03
ayan... okay na sa tingin ko. email me kung may problem pa... ;D
nei rants @ 7/2/03
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