May 18, 2012

was one of the busiest, most exhausting, and productive days of my life. haha

// early morning i rushed to ready myself for the VUL exam at insurance commission at UN ave (komisyon ng seguro hahaha) because daddy says i have to get the license already before the end of the month. the VUL exam is a qualifying exam for people who want be licensed fund managers and sell investment policies. i was afraid i'd fail cos the mock exam was so 'wtf i didn't finish computer science for this, this is more like for financial management majors?'. anyway. i was required by my "manager" aka daddy so i had to pass it no matter what happens. thank you Lord because i passed. i can now sell investment units! anyone interested? >:)

// after the exam, went straight to makati to have my medical examination at PLDT - MGO bldg. went pretty late for the morning cutoff so we waited until 1pm. can i just say that i underwent hydrotherapy to prepare for this? i mean, i ate lots of snyders jalapeno so i could drink lots of water so my urine sample won't be too uhm, concentrated. the whole unfit for employment because of too much uric acid, cavity and damaged red blood cells scares me so. hahaha and while waiting for my turn, i was becoming too anxious kasi sobrang naiihi na ko!!! but i wouldn't  wanna waste my possibly less concentrated urine sample because my water bottle is already empty hahaha.

the rectal exam was really awkward. i dunno what the doctor pushed into my anus i think it was her finger or something. sooo freaking awkward, and that was the time i was trying to hold my super pee. grabe. sobrang parang nakakawala ng dangal. chos! ang arte arte talaga. tapos eto pa, HAHAHAHA sa sobrang paranoid ko na magkaroon ng "unfit for employment" remark, kinareer ko pati yung vision test. while waiting at the back i was already reading the eye sight test for visual accuracy. ewan ko ba. ayoko magsalamin eh. lol nakakahilo tuloy hahaha

blah blah blah, fortunately the dentist didn't find anything wrong with my teeth! i thought he was gonna comment on my cavities HAHAHA yun lang, fingers crossed on the blood test. grabe no? paranoid sa medical exam?!

the xray machine isn't functioning so i was told to go back on monday (tomorrow) haaayyy



// after the medical exam, went back to smart tower to get my pre-employment kit. it was supposed to be a mtg with a certain person at 4pm. i was there at 3, waited until 5 before i went to check if the person i'm meeting is already available... know what they said? ABSENT PALA. wtf. like what the hell is the receptionist doing with our names at the log sheet? stare at it? isn't she supposed to call the person we're meeting and tell her we're waiting? grabe lang. nakakainis. ayokong maginarte kasi hamak na aplikante lang ako pero, systema naman dyan! >:|

// in the end, we were accomodated at 6pm grabe grabe i have a meeting at 6 pa naman. good thing there was a fellow applicant who waited long hours like me, new friend alert! jeanne! yeyy. hehe we were able to get our pre-emp kit, which includes lots of forms to be filled up and a list of requirements to submit. NBI, Philhealth Metrobank, etc etc etc whew!

// after makati. gotta rush to mcdo ever for a mtg with the yearbook committee! whew buti we were able to finish the paging because it's important that we should settle the payment within this week! hehe >XD thank you Lord, thank you Lord! i arrived home at around 11pm na. haayy

// superthanks to ever loving body guard jeckidoo for being with me the entiiiiiire day since 6am! i superduperloooove you! roooolls obarrrr! nyarrgkkkughhharjk!!!! >XD yeyyy u flaaat! <3 <3 <3

// gotta love this day!

hindi pa pala ako nagpapasalamat

sa lahat ng mga nakilala ko sa tatlong taong pamamalagi ko sa FEU Diliman. whether natuwa o nabanas ako sayo basta nakilala kita, thank you! >:D

hahaha

Finally after 6 years!

every time i try to blog, i always don't know where to start. i told myself i should blog regularly, like daaaaily so i'd become more aware of my activities because i have a bad case of forgetfulness... but then again, i always forget. >:\

anyway, i graduated yesterday yeyyyy! whew! after 6 freaking loooong years of struggle, i was able to graduate from college, and with bonus honors! >XD honestly, i wasn't excited when i learned about it, i was more, "lecheng uplb grades! dragged me to the fourth when i should be first!!!" oo, sobrang bitter ko. super duper because i really want that spot on the stage, that part of the ceremony where i take 10 minutes of everyone's time delivering silly whatnots and of course ADVERTISING THE YEARBOOK. that was the plan mehn! that was the ultimate purpose of wanting to be on top. being first gives you a 10 minute chance to impress the audience more with your achievements, acknowledge important people in your life and blaahhh, but to me, it's a chance to reach out to the parents of more or less 200 students who, i am sure, have at least 1,500 in their pockets (i am sooo sure because i know they will all be eating lunch at cozy restos after) and wouldn't want their child to miss the chance to be immortalized in a lifelong legacy. i have even projected a presentation to go along with it, payment and write-up submission statistics, sample layout, etc etc etc. it's gonna be an epic speech.

but i know the plans God has for me, and he wants me to shut up with my plans of turning a supposedly solemn acknowledgement into a 10 minutes advertising stint. okay, Lord you win. i shut up. i just hope this uhm, enthusiasm that i feel wanting to push through with the yearbook with all my freakin dormant might will last until we actually produce something. hay.

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haynako alam nyo ba!! kahapon pa tong post na to lechugas nakalimutan ko nanaman tapusin! nyarkkkk
katamad! gusto ko na kumita ng pera at mag layout ng yearbooks! tagal ng pictures! kainerpssss >XD

still job hunting

hmm. reading forums have become sooo unhelpful in my quest for looking a job. the problem is that, i get to read bad stuff about some companies i'm applying to making them look less stellar in my eyes. i know i'm in no right position to be choosy, my goal for this summer is to just collect and select job offers but some forum posts are hindering me from journeying to makati to pursue some applications LOL.

crappy day! i didn't go on duty today because i supposedly have 2 interviews. morning at MISYS, afternoon at Azeus, and some decision making to do about Emerson.

i woke up pretty late this day so i slashed off going to the misys interview, after all the weather was so gloomy. i was so happy pa naman because they texted me yesterday and said i passed their parity exam. the one worth 4 hours, with 500 points total, 400 passing score, and has only 5 problems. i felt so proud of myself yeyyy! then i looked back at the posts at PEX and got discouraged. i know i'm not supposed to but... hay.

someone from Azeus also texted me yesterday for an exam this afternoon. i came in 15 minutes late cos i got so lost at ortigas hahaha plus it's super traffic and the weather is freaking bad. when i got there they had to reschedule my exam because their rooms are full already for some reason. haaaayy sayang get-up, pamasahe at sakit ng ulo ko haha

yesterday, emerson finally called back. and i knew it was already late because she offered me a different position already. an irrelevant sounding position considering my course. plus, it's still midshift. i dunno. hay.

hay. sakit ng ulo kooooo rarrrr

ayoko na magpadala sa mga forum posts! next week i'll be back at Misys, BPI and Azeus. also at Smart for a "possible job offer discussion" (well that's their term eh) haha. Lord, help me. >XO

a pause from counting sheep

God loves me! >XD

// cum laude! yey i'm graduating with honors this year! >XD i guess my computations were right, they included my uplb grades that's why i was only able to hit 4th. i swearrrrr i have a magna worth of GPA if not for my elbi grades. onasigenafoine. seriously! i want that valedictory speech, i've been dreaming of it since i hit #1 the first time. HAHA bat ba? i thought i could use it to reach out to the parents/guardians of the 190+ graduates and convince them that nothing could ever bind this batch better than a YEARBOOK. hahaha unfortunately, it's not my time to shine. aw k. nevermind.

// have i told you (sino? haha) about my job offer at pointwest technologies? i think i'll take it though i'm still waiting for better opportunities (i.e. calls). i'm not saying it's bad there, in fact i see it as a very strong job option because of the reasons below, however i'm in the process of exploring my "other" options hehehe

1. i will be most likely assigned at technohub which is only 30 minutes away by jeep, and 15 minutes away by Rainbow Express haha. sir HR says they're kinda crowded already at Makati so I can request to be deployed there. >XD
2. compensation is definitely not bad for entry level.
3. backreading on forums i read it's a good company who provides good training! good market value as an IT professional guaranteed. >:)
4. i won't be programming like hell! which is a good thing cos i never really liked programming. i'll be part of their sortof testing team. it's like if the software developers build the program, we on the other hand destroy it. yknow, find bugs and loopholes and blah. sounds fun really >XD



// before learning about the JO at pointwest, i walked-in at MISYS cos they have an opening for programmer trainees according to jobstreet. so there, i took their parity exam. a dreadful 500 points exam with only 5 freaking problems. more? passing score is 400. WOW. i've never been intimidated with an exam  for this long. as the HR was explaining the exam to us, i was like... whoa this company better offer a whopping salary if they're gonna torture their applicants like that.

on the exam though, it wasn't that hard. maybe the instructions were just intimidating cos they're too long. but it's manageable naman if you take time to really read it and understand the instructions. feeling ko naman i got the instructions, i just don't know if my score agrees haha.

// i got scheduled for a 2nd interview from Smart (3rd, if you count the phone interview), it was held yesterday and i totally screwed up so that's probably the last leg of my application there. i screwed mainly because of the programming test they gave, 7 problems, pick only 3 to solve, answer in JAVA. my freakin kryptonite. in the end i was only able to answer 1 problem, and i did it in flowchart cos i didn't prepare for java. i thought i was applying as Web Developer cos that's what the phone interviewer said they have an opening on. then suddenly, they ask you if you could also work in java/c so of course, you have to say yes just so you won't lose the chance to get in.

anyway. based on that 2nd interview, i got an impression that they give 20k salary. some of the benefits mentioned were... 1500 monthly load, 1500 rice subsidy, 3000 (or 5000? i forgot) clothing allowance, reimbursable taxi allowance for on-call assignments, also on-call assignments are counted as working hours.

even with all that, roles and responsibilities are a dragger when you hear about it. i guess Smart is looking for people who have maximum workload tolerance... or infinite i might say. hahaha

// goodbye Emerson for real. they never called back since the day i missed their first call. plus i forgot the name of the person who interviewed me. hehe

// my wallet, my big red wallet got stolen at Philcoa. all my valid IDs are there! including important (unliquidated) receipts!!!! >XO in that wallet are, 3 BPI atms, 1 union bank eon card, philamlife ID, philcare card, fitness first ID, NGCP trainee ID, Sm advantage card, laking national loyalty card, rustan's fresh card, lots of 1x1 pics of me and some friends huhu, my only copy of my TIN number, jeckie's 7th monthsary gift huhu.

AT LEAST WALANG PERA. hihi

// still no kwento about the 3-day summit. haha katamad. >X)

thesis, smart and pointwest technologies

THESIS IT! We've finally submitted our thesis (last april 17), our last and final requirement for college! this time i could really say hello to graduation! anyway, we had this book-bound at UP as a RUSH project and look at what they freakin did. The original title was, "Development of Computer Aided Instruction on Spelling", and look at how they pressed the letters. kayo na bahala tumingin, nakakatawa lang! hahaha at least naman they did a better job than those at FCM, ugly letter pressing, covering and binding haha weh.

april 19 was truly a blessing, i got 3 interview calls that i had to reschedule the other one. the first one is from smart communications, inc. (priority employer, Lord! have them call me back please!!!), the second is from Pointwest Technologies and the other, Askuserv Philippines. the latter is located at Greenhills and the rest at Makati so i prioritized the Makati located ones first. 

i stayed up late trying to locate the two on Google maps and also trying to plot my walking adventure based on the map. Smart is walking distance from the MRT station as Pointwest is to Smart so i figured i'd just walk forever hahaha grabe lang, i'm not used to makati and i know it's not a jaywalker friendly district so all my walks and turns have to be exact hahaha

so there:

@ Smart

the interview was fine. i just hope they call me back. please please, Lord? thank you! i could really feel the competition, feeling ko all the shortlisted applicants they invited for interview have strong resumes! one guy on my table is a top performer in his class and the other one whom he was talking with has had years of experience on software engineering. hay ewan. >X'(

@ Pointwest Technologies

i arrived there at around 11:30 and opted to take the exam already even though it would cost me lunch time. their exam was freaking hard, in fact they call it "The Hardvard Test" haha luckily, i passed! and so i kind of moved on to level 2 and was given ANOTHER TEST which was way harder. ewan ko ba, gutom na gutom na ko nun! i thought it was over after the 2nd test but while waiting for the interviewer, they made us write an ESSAY! haha then ayon interview and blah. after that they scheduled me for a final interview with their software engineer 4 chuva, supposedly head of the team where they're putting me in. some kind of microsoft business analysis and quality assurance chuvaness team nakalimutan ko amp but it sounds a lot easier than the software development chuva team hahaha joke. they asked me to come back the next day for that final interview BUT ARGHHHH that's the start of the 3-day leadership summit i was supposed to attend at ateneo so sabi ko i can't make it, next week pa ako available, ayon so they'll just call me na lang daw and probably get me in another team (the softdev team) kasi the microsoft chuva team will be starting on friday already. argh talaga argh. sayang job opportunity. lechugaaaaassss. i finished there at 6:30pm imagine hahaha

ang pinaka-ayoko pa naman na sinasabi ng interviewer ay, WE'LL CALL YOU. because chances are, THEY WON'T! >:'(

i'll try to blog about the Youth Leaders' Summit for Good Governance SOOOOOOON when i have time lol kasi super dami kong sasabihin tinatamad lang ako hehehe

basta ang pinaka-nakakainis lang dun sa summit ay, I MISSED THE CALL FROM EMERSON because my phone was on silent!!!!! sobrang devastating kasi peg na peg ko na yun eh, i mean, so far sa mga na-applyan ko, shempre priority smart, tas pangalawa yun, emerson! nako nako nako Lord. hay...

how did i know it was from emerson ba? i called back shempre! good thing it wasn't a dummy phone number, unfortunately it's their customer service who answered and they're not capable of tracking who called me so they advised me to just wait for their call again. ayan nanaman, maghihintay nanaman ako ng tawag. hay. hay. hay. e dati pa naman when i missed a call from east west, they didn't call back! anyway, yun naman ay rejected call hindi missed call so whatever haha

Graduation!!!

my (unoffial) grad pic!
 bought raw from the studio and edited via photoshop >:D

I CAN SRSLY FEEL IT! May 12, come closer! Argh. I'm downing all hopes of getting a laude, but if God permits and by some miracle (i.e. a change in policy, WHICH ISN'T IMPOSSIBLE SINCE THEY ALWAYS DO IT HAHAHA) they decide not to dig through my grades at UPLB, dear Lord, I will be the happiest graduate aloive! 

one of my creative shots

i didn't select this one, though i think it would be funny, just so i wouldn't "offend" anyone in the admin and blah IF it does look even a bit offensive in any way haha. i stayed at UPLB the same amount of years i did at FEU FERN naman so it's fair! yun lang, i didn't finish my studies there, and if i did.... then this post may be a decade too early.  my loyalty is 50-50, i'm half maroon half tamaraw. BUT, Dear Lord, if i graduate with the highest honors (emphasis on the "highest" please), then my loyalty will be 100% on FEU HAHAHAHAHA shempre doh. >:)