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Team GRID

When I joined the account last November, I inherited an entire team from another manager who moved to the Billing LOB.  The team name was GRID, after the racing game.  They were a merry mix of mostly non-tenured agents, with a splash of the very tenured.  One thing was obvious – they didn’t have much ownership for the team as a whole.  We’ve come a long way from that time, and we’ve seen a lot of members come and go. We’ve joked about changing our team name (specifically to Viva Piñata), but we never really got down to doing so. 

Yesterday, we finally went out as a team to somewhere farther then Red andG2.  We spent more than 24 hours eating, drinking, singing, swimming, and joking around, at Villa Natalia, Sta. Maria, Bulacan. 

It probably wasn’t the best team building activity that any one of us has been to, but it was our team excursion.  It would also keep them quiet for awhile, until they ask for another outing in two months’ time. Haha 🙂

The team’s being split in two; I’m keeping eleven and most of them are remnants from the original team I took over for 6 months ago.  Of the ten that got transferred, majority joined the team in the last 2-3 months.  I’d still keep tabs on them though, they won’t really be rid of me that easily.

I took pictures, of course. But I’m not ready to share them just yet. I’ll try to write up another post before hitting the sheets. 🙂

Two-week Vacation!

Tonight will be my last night at work and then I’d be on a two-week vacation! Yay!

I’ve got a lot lined up for the next fourteen days (in no particular order):

  • Go swimming for our much anticipated Team Building (happening on Wednesday-Thursday)
  • Meet up with girlfriends (tomorrow it’ll be Anliza, then an EcoPark photo shoot on Sunday with Jo, and hopefully time for my 8/0 UP friends too)
  • Baler, Aurora with the boyfriend (this is for Mom’s outing/meeting for work, but R&R too); this will be for four fun days at the beach! 
  • Register to vote (hopefully by Monday/Tuesday next week)
  • Ship out our package for Pens of Hope. 🙂
  • Sketch out my next (and hopefully last) weightloss plan
  • Draw a plan for our next giving project

These are some of my bloggy goals although I doubt if I’ll actually get to them:

  • Redesign this blog.
  • Overhaul my photoblog (or maybe I should just put up a real gallery?)
  • Explore other online earning channels 

Okay, it doesn’t look like much does it? There’ll be lots of time to slack off too 🙂

Cellphone Charm

Mom decided to brave EDSA and drive herself to pick up Dad from the airport this morning.  I decided to go with her, I knew it wasn’t going to be an easy drive. She only drives from home to work (and back), and that’s not even daily – only when Dad’s away and the car’s free.  

From the passenger seat and with the belt safely on, I could sense that Ma was somehow nervous and of course we were going at a very safe speed 🙂  

So with Dad back from his business trip from The Netherlands, there’s something for everyone in his bags.  He got me a violet Ruth-Robin bag with Amsterdam written all over it, and I picked out this cellphone charm from the handful that he brought back:

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Of course I’d take a photo of it and display it on my blog – this is my blog after all and I can talk about the mundane if I want to 🙂  But as soon as I looked at the photo I took, I wasn’t happy.  And just as I’ve done so many times since January, I took shot after shot until I captured it the way I really liked to show it off. 

I tried it this way:

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But that didn’t make me happy so I tried another angle:


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I didn’t like the edge of the table there though. I did like how the charm itself looks so defined.  Still, I wasn’t satisfied so I tried another way:

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Now that, in my eyes, was promising.  It was clear.  But the mini havs totally upstaged the Amsterdam building.  That cannot be. 

So try again I did:

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That one’s close enough, me likey. 🙂  I am almost done then?

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Even with the floor showing through, this is my favorite from the bunch.  I love h0w the colors came out. I used a trick that Walter (an OM from work) showed me last week, it was using the internal flash (is it called internal?).  The colors turned out softer and more natural than when you just use the flash like normal diba?

 

Juana Change

Last night through The Probe Team, I met Juana Change.  She embodies an advocacy calling for social renewal and political reform.  We will be electing a new president in May 2010, and Juana Change (May Paner in real life) and her friends seek to educate the Filipino electorate such that they may vote wisely for the next leaders of this great nation. 

On a more personal level though, she is also undergoing changes.  She seeks some reform in her own life.  She’ll be undergoing a politicized weightloss program in the next 360 or so days.  After all, she says, how can she call for change when she herself cannot let go of her excesses in life?

I would love to say that I want to join her in her journey to wellness.  But I don’t want to commit to something again when I am unprepared.  I will take little steps in this journey.  Next week, I will register to vote.  Then maybe, I’ll also be able to plan out my own path to a lower BMI.

Anyway, here’s one of Juana’s YouTube videos, visit their blog to learn more about their campaign, and see her other videos:

Boys Over Flowers

Did you watch Meteor Garden when it was all the hype back then? I did.  Xi Men (Ken Zhu in real life) was my favorite of the F4.  Now, ABS-CBN is airing the Korea version of the serye, Boys Over Flowers.

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When I first saw the ads on TV about this version coming out, I had my doubts. I mean, Meteor Garden is what started the invasion of Asianovelas (TV series coming from Taiwan, Korea, and Japan) in Philippine television.  They really got us hooked.  I watched the series, and its sequel.  Friends talk about it. Was I working when this was shown? I remember talking about it at work too. Haha.

But I got to see the pilot episode on Monday, and I love it! So I watched it again on Tuesday, and again last night.  I like Jan Di’s character, you can see how strong she is from the start.  And I now have a huge crush on the Hua Zi Lei character – Ji Hoo.  He is so cute, specially when he tries not to smile.  That’s something to look forward to every night (and another reason to be late for work, ugh).

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