Creative Thoughts

These are pictures of our little baby bless who is now 1 year and 2 months old. At her age, she has brought tremendous happiness and joy to our family. She is a blessing in disguise indeed. I say blessing in disguise cause she was not planned at all, but I realized in the end, she was meant to be for me, and for us. She was meant to complete our family, and to complete some of the missing pieces in my life. Her presence simply gives me and my husband, more purpose in life and more motivation to pursue and continue seeking a better life for all of us, specially for our special one. We keep on working to make ends meet, and to save for the future. Our life is indeed a very simple one with lots of dreams and goals. Together, we know that we can achieve all of these. Of course, we the help of God, who has never left us. That is why, serving Him and giving a part of our average income to Him is very important for us. We try our very best to live within our means. I just find it funny sometimes, that other people keep on complaining about the economy and about their life status, but they never ever do anything. They keep on spending as long as they want. They eat out a lot of times, almost every weekend. They spend on unnecessary items and realized that they have no money left, and they have to screw up the little money left for the next payday. It’s just so illogical for me.
Remember, that whatever you do right now, will determine your future. If you want a better life for your family, you have to do something about it. You have to take control of your situation, and stop complaining or blaming what you are going through with outside circumstances. In short, we have to take 100% responsibility over our own lives.
I am saying this, because starting a family of my own, who started from scratch or nothing to whatever we have right now, I realized how important our decisions are. I learned how to use money in the most efficient way. I was a spend thrift before, but it totally changed because of what we’ve been through.
Oh, off topic by the way, christmas is fast approaching. I am excited for the season, because this is baby’s 2nd year. First year, she was still few months old and has no idea of what’s going on. I am hoping we will enjoy this year. I am already thinking about presents for my loved ones. I wish I could be there at the mall, if there’s a sale . Hmm, here’s the cheapskate in me again.
I’m thinking about some online shopping. Better start finding for a site that sells high quality items but low price. I remember a commercial about Buy.com, which stars Howie Mandel. It really made me want to check out the site. According to him, the site offers a lot of great deals, and imagine its free shipping. I think, that’s what busy moms like me needed for Christmas.

It’s been 2 weeks since I’ve been suffering from headaches due to prolonged exposure to the radiation of the computer. I can’t avoid it, since we work 9 hours a day, and that’s the time that we stare at the computer doing our work. I know its my eyes cause my eyes hurt and you know this feeling that you want to vomit and you feel dizzy when you stay longer than an hour in front of the pc? I think, I really need glasses now. I will try to buy the eyeglasses for me this afternoon. The hubby has been telling me to buy one for protection. Now, I kept on extending it and here I am suffering because of my eyes. Huhuhu!

Starting today, Monday my work schedule is now 3 am up to 12:00 pm.
Whew! Our supervisor realized I am just a walking distance from work and so she placed me on this schedule. I don’t know what to say. I was shocked when I first saw the final schedule. I was like, okay, okay. I can do this. But, deep inside I was really not so convinced. I waked up very early, 2 am. I had to wake up Ronel too, so I have companion. I can’t walk that 500 steps alone, of course. I am typing this at work, cause we have less calls today due to the holiday season. I hope, this happens everyday. Nah! It takes 10 minutes or more, before the next comes in. Wow, what a nice treat. The advantage of this schedule is that time flies fast, and I still have the rest of the day to spend. That’s about a half day.

Wow, time flies so fast. October has left, and now we are on the 2nd day of November. How was your holiday? To me, I didn’t really feel it that much, cause I was just working. Except that we had all the decorations in our workplace because of a decoration contest for halloween.
November is here again, and I am so excited on what’s in store for me and for my family this month. I’m sure its gonna be another blessed month. I am happy cause I am celebrating my first year in my current work. I am now a regularized employee, since I was in my 6th month. Dream come true. Hehe. But not really, cause I have no plans to stay for too long in my job. It’s not the kind of job I wanna do forever. I am happy too that through all of these contemplating I finally realized what I really want to do. I wanna be a teacher. I never realized that until now. Yes, I wanna be a teacher. Just thinking about it, keeps me excited and more motivated. Once we are financially stable I will continue my studies, take up the teacher’s board examination and apply to be a teacher. Whew!

Many people love to collect certain items. It’s just that, they love doing it and its their hobby. Some people collect ordinary items such as stamps, mcdonalds freebies,
letters, stickers, photos and the like. Richer and more priviledge people have more extravagant collections. Some celebrities own hundreds to thousands of shoes, signature bags,
cartoon characters, Tea Collection, pots, vases and porcelains, scented candles, jewelry, fashionable clothes and other items which are normally luxury already for the average people.
Some people even have this color coding wherein they choose their favorite color and buy items which all have the same color.
Collecting items is indeed a great hobby. According to research, it helps prevent stress in adults and keep them happier and more insane.
Now, let me start to think of an item to collect.

I was doing some blog hopping, dropping and researching the other day when I bumped to a site that sells wholesale fashion jewelry.
I was really amazed cause their prices are so low and affordable yet the quality of the jewelry are very good.
Today, through the wonder of technology, online selling is already one of the great opportunities that you can venture.
I have a coworker who sells fashionable clothes to us. I am amazed by people who have an eye for opportunities like this. Not everyone has the guts to sell, so its really an indication that the person who is doing that, has the courage to sell and is therefore willing to take risks to achieve the goal of earning an additional income.

I got my very first kudos call, last October 17. What is a kudos call? It is a call wherein your caller will express gratitude and appreciation for all your help and efforts made. It happens rarely, since most callers are in a hurry and so they don’t have time for that. In a kudos call, a caller would ask for a supervisor or manager, and when he or she will be speaking to your supervisor, he will be expressing gratitude, appreciation to the service you showed him.

A kudos call is a sign that you are doing well as a customer service representative. If you got a kudos call, everyone in your company will be emailed and everyone will know about the great job you did. In a year, this is my very first kudos call. I wasn’t really expecting it, cause I do finish calls very fast. The caller was so happy I resolved his issue and thus, he asked for my supervisor.

According to the caller:
was incredibly helpful and very pleasant. No complaints for me… She did a super job and really helped and then you know I really needed help. I just wanted to say that.

The criteria that God my kudos call approved as per our Quality Assurance agent

Appreciation was initiated by the caller.

Agent sounded pleasant during the call. She did not only exude technical expertise but displayed good customer service as well.

TSE was very spontaneous during the call which resulted to a smooth call flow.

And you know, whats the best part of it? You’ll get to have 1,000 pesos additional salary for each kudos call you get. Amazing, right?

It has been said that in a relationship, if one is too needy, he or she would sap out the energy out of the other person and in the end the relationship is most likely to fail unless
the needy person starts to make some drastic changes. Too bad, but I admit I’m the needy one in our relationship. Ever since, I have battled with too many emotional issues.
I was doubting if I was supposed to write about this, cause I don’t want to impose any bad image on myself, but I guess, I just don’t care anymore.
All I need is to vent out. All I need is an outlet. People who would listen and be there for me. I started to doubt myself and had all of these issues when my dad left.
I know it’s not enough, you might say. But there were still other negative experiences that led me to this state of mind.
Not having our own home and just living together with our relatives who control our lives and decisions, and who made us feel like we can’t live without them.
Losing my real identity and letting them instill in my mind what I have to do and what I’m not supposed to do. In other words, I became a robot.
Hiding all my emotions and ideas within myself. This all led to hatred, negative and turmoil emotionally and psychologically.
I became too attached with the guys who made me feel special and important. It was a very big mistake to focus on love instead of my studies and of opportunties on my way.
I did everything to get out of the cage where I’m in, and without any experience or assurance of what’s going to happen, I ventured out on my own.
I clinged again to the love of a guy who was there for me in those times. And even if I didn’t know I could actually do it, it happened.
I gave in to my emotional weakness which led to me being pregnant. Those 9 months was full of emotional battles and depression, but he was there for me.
He never left and proved to me that he will never leave me. He has seen all the bad in me. My lack of emotional control, my being unreasonable, perfectionist and everything, he accepted me.
But still, as time and time goes, I now have a family, there is still a missing piece. I’m still full of hurts and pains.
It still comes out every now and then. I still have it within me, and it still haunts me. There are times that I don’t understand myself, and there are times when I feel like I’m alone even if I have them with me.
We had survived a lot of misunderstandings and battles because of his wide capability to understand my attitude. But there are times that i felt like he never understood at all.
Like he’s not there, even if he is. He is a good man, but I think his love for me is not enough or something.
I know, its me again. I know. The devil is still battling with my emotions and using it to ruin our relationship.
I have tried many times to change and to be better. Yes, there are improvements, but it is still there.
The anger, resentment, hatred and pain is still within me, it’s still haunting me and it is affecting my relationships.
I hope he will never leave, and I hope he will stay until the day would come that I would learn to love myself fully and to accept my weaknesses even if I’m not perfect.
I would do everything to become better, because I love my family. It makes me cry to think that one day he might get tired of me and leave to find a person who is better than me. That has always been my fear (partly because of my experience with my own dad leaving mom).
If ever that would happen, I would be totally hurt but I couldn’t blame him for anything.
If only there’s a passport to happiness, I would surely buy it. But it’s not easy as that. Life is really like this, so we have to deal with it. All I ever wanted is to live a happy and meaningful life.

Nowadays, saving on gas is indeed a great help. Good thing, my work is just a walking distance, and that saves us some bucks to spend on other more important things.
Our world is facing economic crisis and we really need to cope. People have been learning all sorts of strategies just to save some money to be spent on more essential things.
I have a friend at work, whose sideline is selling clothes on her multiply site, Buying and selling online is becoming more and more popular with the wide availability of the internet.
Anything is possible, if you have an idea. Paypal is one popular way of making sure your purchases are secured, but I just discovered there is still one more tool that we haven’t known yet.
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