The week that was (August 29 - September 4)

Sunday: Got up a bit early to go online. I was supposed to do some photo-editing but I guess my willpower is weak for the time being.

Monday: I wasn't able to get up early to edit pictures because I didn't have enough sleep the previous night. I left home early and had my breakfast at Jollibee. After my breakfast, traveling to the office was quick and I got there within an hour. Work was quite steady as I was able to process some tickets and emails. I bought my lunch at Landmark as I was looking for the latest issue of FHM Philippines (September 2010 issue) but they said its not yet available. It was raining heavily at around 7:00pm that prompted me to stay in the office for a while. I took the Ortigas-Legarda route since there were no PVP bus travelling on a holiday. It also took me almost two hours to get home. My wife was quite tired after the results we got from the hospital last Saturday.

Tuesday: Got up early even if I slept for less than my required 7 hours straight. I was able to edit some snaps I took during the I Heart Makati photo contest and uploaded them. I left home at around 8:05am but I got to the office at around 10:20am due to terrible traffic. I was able to work on some tickets and have them fixed. I went out to look for a good lunch since it would be my last day today in the day shift.As I got back to the office after taking out some food, I didn't notice that there were free food already courtesy of my office mate who will be migrating to Australia within the next few weeks. After my shift I went home right away.

Wednesday: I wasn't able to get up early to edit some pictures even if we went to bed early with my wife. Instead, I'm using the desktop here at home to connect to the internet as well as trying to make myself feel sleepy later in the afternoon for my shift tonight. I'm thinking how to update my daily happenings here starting tonight. I had a hard time falling asleep since I had more than 6 (or 7) hours of sleep the previous night. By 6:00pm, I got up and just killed some time before preparing for work. It was raining hard as I travel to the office. I got here by 9:35pm and started to buckle-up at work. I'm still getting used to working night-shifts though.

Thursday: I got 2 calls before leaving the office. As I went to Harrison Plaza to meet my mom, heavy rain poured. Unfortunately, I left my umbrella at the office. After I meet my mom, I went home right away because I really missed sleeping. But it took me a while to reach home as the city hall in Manila was flooded. Instead of waiting for a bus to Legarda, I took the LRT (Central-Doroteo Jose-Recto-Legarda) to get home. Good thing my wife was still there before I went to sleep. Good thing, I was able to doze-off from 9am-2pm. After a quick lunch, I went online as well as edit some old pictures from the previous autograph signings I had attended. At 4:00pm, I went back to bed to get some more sleep and got up at 7:30am. I don't know if I was able to doze-off this afternoon. I left home at around 8:45pm but my wife was not home yet. I bumped into my wife who was on her way home and kissed her goodbye for work. At the office, I got a call and it was for an outage that needs to be escalated. 

Friday: Had another call but an easier one.And to close my shift, I got 6 of 13 calls for the night. The most in a long time probably. I left at around 7:30am and my mom texted me saying that we have to attend my sister's pamamanhikan. Before I got home, I bought some medicines for my wife since she already consumed all of her supply. I got home at around 8:45am and slept from 9:00am-5:30pm. But my sleep however were disrupted several times since I'm still in the process of adjusting my body clock. Then I reported for my night-shift again and was able to accomplish some tasks

Saturday: Early morning was really quite boring especially if there are no calls for quite a while. I amused myself by watching some video on the internet (mostly NSFW). Then I immediately left the office after my shift but went to Intramuros to have my breakfast there. After that, I went home right away and took a 3-hour nap before heading to Macapagal ave to attend my sister's pamamanhikan (together with my wife). Then we went back home after an hour for me to get a few more hours of sleep. Then I'm off to Robinson's Galeria to attend the Autograph Signing of Bianca Manalo. Then I had dinner with my friends to bond and share stories with about what's going on with our lives. By 8:30pm, I left the building heading for the office on a Saturday shift all by myself.

XD

My experience at Philippine Travel Mart

Last Sunday, I was able to visit the Philippine Travel Mart held at SM Megamall. The event showcased a lot of destination tours that most of us haven't been to as well as beautiful hotels/resorts where we can stay while we're there. I was supposed go go there between Friday and Saturday but due to work conflicts, I was only able to go there last Sunday since that is the only day I could come on a weekend.

The cost to get in was at 50 Php which I didn't mind paying. As I go inside the venue. This was organized by Organized by the Philippine Tour Operators Association (PHILTOA) as it showcased several tourist destinations that was really enticing to the eyes. There were also booths for hotels, resorts and tour operators for them to show their products and services to tourists and backpackers. If do have more than enough money, we could tour the entire country with a lot of interesting destinations.

I don't know if I was late or not because I wasn't able to get the maps/brochures of the places I wanted to visit within the next few years. But even with that, my bag got full with all the brochures they gave me whenever I visit their booth. and it got really heavy with those papers and fliers. I got really tired going around the area as I checked each booth and watched some sidelines there.

The experience was nice for me and I'm looking forward to the next Phillipine Travel Mart 2011 perhaps.

FHM Autograph Signing September 2010: Bianca Manalo

Earlier this evening, I went to Robinson's Galeria to attend the FHM Autograph Signing of Ms Bianca Manalo. Even with lack of good sleep, I still went there to meet my friends as well as have my FHM signed by no other than Ms Bianca Manalo. I got there ahead of time so I was able to have a good chat with some of my friends. The event was quite quick but we were able to have our magazine signed twice. After the event, we had dinner before leaving for the office.

I'll post the pictures once I have edited some of them. XD

Two Pamamanhikans in less than a year

This afternoon, my wife and I attended the pamamanhikan of my sister for her upcoming wedding on September 25. To be honest, I wanted to skip this since I'll be coming home from the office. My mom was very persistent in wanting us to come. I had to talk to my wife about it and told her that we will be there between 12:30-1:00pm.

After my shift, I went home right away to get some sleep to attend my sister's pamamanhikan. I got up at 12:00pm with a headache but that didn't stop me from going there. I had to accompany my wife first to send money to the province before going there. It took a while before we got a cab and another 15-20 minutes to get there. Once were there, I felt hungry all of a sudden and ate after my mom introduced us to our future brother-in-law together with his family.

I still remember my own pamamanhikan with my wife last year (technically, 11 months ago). That was also fun but the food we had this afternoon was not as plenty as we had last year. Well probably its their (my brother-in-law's family) call what food they want to eat.

Our stay there was short since they were there since 12:00pm (we got there at 1:30pm). We went back home and got there 30 minutes later before taking an hour nap for another event. XD

How's my first night in the office

I almost fell asleep during my shift due to lack of enough rest as well as I am still in the process of adjusting my body to this kind of scenario. Probably in a week or two, I'll get used to it. But for now, I'll enjoy adjusting my body clock again. XD