Welcome 2010~!

First of all, since it is January 1, I would like to greet everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR~!

For now, I will only be replying to comments.. I wil be posting an entry maybe later today after our street party in our subdivision.

@Ongaku: Actually, I have started with the job hunt because I wanted to land a job in the US.. I’ve been looking and I have found ones that I really like.. Problem is, I’m not yet done with my portfolio, but I am working at it right now, the reason I went back to my blog actually. Haha. I am trying to make a PHP site so I’m learning based on Wordpress and from W3schools. :3 I am planning on staying for at least 6 months before I resign, or until I get a new job..

@Nyuu: Yeah. That’s one thing that I realized too… A lot of my friends are on call center jobs right now.. And somehow for me, I think they are wasting their college degrees… But hey, that’s they’re life, right?  As mentioned, I am looking for a new job, but not in the Philippines… I’ve wanted to go to the US since my dad passed the nursing boards several years ago. But my mom didn’t agree to him going to the US and petitioning for us after, so he just continued with his profession here as a doctor. He’s good at it anyways.

True. Hahaha. I haven’t blogged for so long I think I can create about 10-20 paragraphs of stuff to put in. But I ain’t doing that. Haha. That’s alright. I wasn’t used to using twitter until I started working. I usually only post my rants there so I think Izzy and Miyuko are already pissed at me for always ranting there..

Anyways, I gotta sign off and finish my portfolio. See you all soon!

Moving On… We have to..

I’m back! I’m so sorry to have gone away for the past 2 months. Ongaku’s recent comment to my previous post reminded me that I had a blog and that I haven’t been using it for the past months.

I’ve been quite busy with work. I landed a job on one of the country’s dermatological clinic and provider and I can’t say that I neither like it here nor do I hate it here. Let’s leave it at that. Hahaha. I just realized while I was in the shower this morning that I had been in this company for exactly 2 months yesterday. I don’t like the pay, so I’m willing to stay here for a year or maybe 6 months tops. Then I’m off looking again.

To Pauline: I wasn’t able to take the job… But I am still looking for a part-time job. As mentioned, my pay here is low, so I’m kinda looking for another one… The job that I REALLY wanna have is being a web designer. My current job still has that bit of an aspect but I don’t get to do a bit of coding. So coming from a school which gave me a lot of thinking with programming makes me feel so vulnerable to it right now with what I’m doing. I’m just doing some layouts for brochures, posters.. Those kinds of stuff.. And I wanna get out of it the next job that I get. Even for part-time…

So much had happened the past months that I hadn’t been blogging. Family issues, relationship issues, those kinds of stuff. But mostly, rants from my job which I won’t post here anymore. Ahaha. I might post it on my LJ account. I’ll post it here the moment that I remember my password there. It’s been months since I opened that account as well. I hope it didn’t get deleted. Hahaha.

If you guys have twitter, add me so I can also be updated with you other than blogging since I rarely have the time to blog anymore… My twitter name is aynechan or maybe you can search the name Ynah Pantig. I’m not sure about the search thing.

I gotta go. My supervisor is here.

A month had passed…

Hi! I’m back. I’ve been gone for almost a month now and a lot of things had happened. First thing is my grandfather who passed away (thank you to those who commented and said that his version of the Swan Song was great). After that, we’ve had a rough road in the family… My sister had an accident I think that was the week after his burial.. The wheel of a truck suddenly slipped out of the truck itself and crashed into my sister’s car. Luckily she was not hurt or anything. Not even the wind shield was touched. So, yeah… Lolo (my grandfather) had been watching over us.

BTW, I edited the Swan Song. I had a few errors upon trying to read my lolo’s handwriting… I just fixed it before typing this entry.

After that, our van came next. It had been showing its defects since last year but they couldn’t see the problem here so my dad had to bring it to the city to have it fixed. And it was. And then just today when my dad was to get the van from Chrysler, our Honda Accord 1996 edition was again in an accident. Someone hit them at the bumper at the back while they were on their way to our condo. Luckily, again, everyone is safe.

So much had happened the past month… Heartbreaking, and also pocket breaking (monetary issues) since everything goes out and only a bit comes in… But, I guess it’s okay… It’s not like this happens every month for every year. Maybe everything just fell into place at the same time…

Enough with the sad things. I’ve been job hunting since June and only this week had I been called by 4 companies already (including the one that just called me today). Yesterday I had 3 job interviews and I will have another one on Friday. I’m not sure on where to go. Lol. I also have another offer coming from the US but this offer will be home based… I’m not yet sure if I can take on that offer because I don’t work as well as much as I would if I knew someone is watching over me. So, yeah… I’m still giving it a thought though. It is an opportunity for me… A step to the US I guess.

Give me your thoughts about the US offer.

Swan Song

The Swan Song was written by my grandfather (may he rest in peace) and I would like to share this song (I’m not really sure if it’s a poem or a song) to you guys… He wrote this years and years ago (maybe during the 1940’s) and I just tried to decipher it a few minutes ago with my dad which gave me a terrible headache..

When I have crossed the bar my dear
Shed no sad tears for me
Just let me lie where you are near
Then sweet my trip will be

Goodbye then no more I can tell;
My life is ebbing thus:
Just share me prayers so farewell
My dear fellows, adieu

He’s been saying farewell to the world for the last how many years through this song… While I was typing it, I cannot help but shed tears. I will truly miss my grandfather…. Even though for the last few months of his lift he couldn’t even remember my name, and not to mention who I was… But I don’t care. I love him no less. He had always been my birthday-buddy since we only had a day separating our birthdays… And he was the very first one who taught me how to drive when I was like 4 years old… (the steering wheel, I mean).

Please pray for his soul and that may he rest in peace with everyone else…. I know he is in a much better place now… And he will always be there to look after us. Love you lolo….

Jobless. Job-hunter.

I mentioned in my previous post that we are going to be visiting the US sometime next year.. Well, I just learned that we will only be staying there for two weeks, just enough to cover my sisters summer vacation (she has summer classes so she only has two weeks worth of summer vacation). So, we might not be roaming around the country like we used to the last time we visited. I wish I had the option to stay and go around though… Sigh.

Due to that time constraint, I learned from my mom that we will only be heading to Disney World, Florida for the entire vacation. Two weeks out of the country.. I don’t think that’s enough for me. I might re-think my debut gift of a tour to Europe instead of Japan (actually, I really am re-thinking that fact. )

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