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Wednesday, July 31, 2024

All the meds I’m taking this flu season

I’ve been terribly sick the past few days and now is the only time I’m able to look at my computer for more than 30 minutes without getting a headache, so here’s an update!I’m not completely well. Thursday evening I started to feel like I’m about to get sick. I predicted that in my previous post. I...

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Urghh

Internet has just been restored after being gone for almost 3 days. Thankfully we were able to manage working on a hotspot. But it was hella spotty. Specially in this rain. Converge did a new thing where they proactively tell you they’re aware of the outage along with a ticket number, but all it really...

Thursday, July 18, 2024

An unexpected enjoyment

Walking around BGC when it just rained hits different. I’ve never walked in BGC after a rain. Generally, I hate walking outside when it just rained. It’s humid, it’s slippery, it could rain again, air gets filled with sweat, it stinks, etc. There are so many things I hate about the prospect so I just...

Monday, July 15, 2024

Hey Monday

Another Monday, another RTO day!Went to the office earlier than usual to attend an onsite event.Thankful to get a parking slot in the building.Curious about what’s gonna happen by August when a lot of people are gonna come back to the office. As I’ve heard, those who were given conditional WFH arrangements...

Saturday, July 13, 2024

My brain is fried

Oh man I’ve been working the entire day. I thought it would be easy to do prod testing and UAT on two different projects in one day but I forgot how deathly exhausting TESTING can be. I thought I’d be able to turn over all of my projects back to my clients for testing but I was damn wrong.I overly underestimated...

Monday, July 8, 2024

Today

I’ve had 3 coffees at this point. Brewed coffee from last night that I added milk to in the morning, hot brewed coffee earlier at dinner, and iced brewed coffee with milk right after dinner to go with my chocolates for dessert.I was excited to come to the office today. I had plans of being productive....

Monday, July 1, 2024

Getting our new car: a timeline

May 6 – Got in touch with a Toyota BGC agent; applied for auto loans online (BPI, Metrobank, Security Bank)May 7 – Applied personally at BPIMay 9 – Approved with BPI for 31.01%. Pretty high.May 9 – Applied online at BDO and RCBCMay 14 – Got in touch with RCBC, was offered 26.80%...