It’s Edsa Day and My Day : 21st Birthday 2.25.2012

My day had just started

After a month of planning for the big celebration the day has just come. I and the rest of the barkada just planned a night swimming for my birthday and for us to reunite after a long weeks of not seeing each other. After long thread of emails and a lot of exchanged text messages and phone calls we have finally set the day.

It was Aiyin’s (my niece) 1^st Birthday and my birthday as well. My day actually started with greetings from workmates and friends in FB wishing me a happy birthday.  The day was so well and after ending my shift I had very smooth travel going home which made me more relax and worry free.

After Aiyin’s Christening and a short deep sleep, the big night has just came. Glenn just came home to pick me up and he was late! (I was a bit disappointed because I waited for him for an hour, but then he was able to take off my inis eventually.) After buying necessary stuff for the night swimming finally we were on the way to Pacific Waves Resort. I was too sorry for being late to all my friends who patiently waited us. Buti na lang it’s my birthday . . . but still they keep on teasing me for the penalty which do not work because my wallet is almost in 0.00 balance :P

It’s Bonding Time

I am happy to see my friends with their partner to be with me in my birthday.  I am also surprised with plenty of foods they have prepared.

I called it a feast: each shared something for our meal.

With yellow ribbon:  Euly played with the cake ribbon and put it  on the top of our food to commemorate EDSA day :P

I deeply thank each and everyone for bringing in something.

Eden and L.A for the plate and other disposable utensils plus big pakwan

Shey for bringing hotdog, tocino etc. and for the water jog

Eloh and Anjs for sharing with us adobo, lumpiang shanghai and healthy sandwiches

Cha and Nolan your presence in enough . . .

And Glenn for my cake :D

           After the eating and bonding session (never ending story sharing) we have lighted up 3 lanterns. It was so amazing as we see each one of the lanterns fly and give light in the dark sky. We as well as the other people in the resort were happily watching the lanterns flew away.

Below are pictures taken during the lighting up of  lanterns.

           It’s swimming time. After changing our swimwear we all had started to dive in the cold water pool.  Group pictures taken during swimming were all taken by Eloh.

          It was 11:00 PM when everyone decided packing things up to get ready going home. It was indeed a big day for me and for the barkada. New happy memories have made, I wish we’ll do it often so we can have fun, enjoy and relax together. I am hoping for part 2 :D Thank you friends for making my 21’st a memorable one.

Group picture before going home

It’s time to Thank God

I have so many things to thank God for another year he have to me. Those are:

1. Crossing paths, me and The Feast - I was able to gain hope, faith and life lessons  with you through series of talks and preaches given by Bro Alvin and reading Bro. Bo’s Blogs.  The talks are amazing and life changing.
2. Blessing me with new Job.  – I finally got the job I really wanted.
3. Drawing me closer to my family. – My job helps me a lot to get closer to mama, papa, Kuya, Evelyn and Eleonor.
4. Giving me nice and friendly collegues. – I am enjoying my night shift work together with my new friends at work Lory, Rhage, JP , Mike and AA.
5. Having a Cool Manager and Team – I am happily enjoying moments with the QA team and we have a good and cool manager. 
6. Stronger relationship with Glenn – I am grateful for have the best time with him. Enjoy eating and sharing stories and new lesson I’ve learn everyday.
7. Gaining new friends - for allowing me to meet and enjoy with Glenn’s friends Nell, Ethel, Lucky and Jasper.
8. For a healthy life and sick free body  -  for the past two decades you have take care of my body and keep me away from illness.
9. For all small blessing everyday.  

Thankful ,

Treasured Moments in dB Wizards

It's a bit sad that I'll be starting my Blog saying goodbye to my DBWizards Family. I had worked for the past 9 months in DB and I will miss my teammates and workmates I use to enjoy chatting and laughing with. I would want to recall my days in DB as a wonderful and interesting experience to help me realize my wants and goals in life.

dB Wizards company Logo in the lobby

To share my experience, my journey as an IT professional started last May 10, 2011. I was hired as a contractual Service Desk. I worked supporting a Finance Application with different users from all across Asia Pacific and Middle East Asia countries. Well, I can say that my job as SD was a bit easy but there are times it made me pressured and stressed. I also struggled on my shifting schedule plus the commute hours I need to spend just to come to our office from Bulacan. I started waking up as early as 3:00 am (for 7 AM to 4PM schedule) to fix myself and get ready for an estimated 3 hours of travel from Bulacan to Makati. For 1PM to 10PM shift and I usually got home past 12:00 Midnight.

Like any other experiences in life, my work in DB made me learned many lessons and great teachings I will never forget. I learn to work with people, to be a team player, to laugh when you are stress, to express myself and to raise my points, not to take reprimands personally, to be confident in talking with clients (telecon moments), and I also improved on correspondence with the clients and users emails. These are few of the things I’ve learn from my first professional job and I thank DB and my Team for that.

More of my experiences, I also had enjoyable captured moments with DB and here are some of them :

Company Tour in Eagle Point Resort in Batangas taken last May 2011

Halloween Costume Parade with Dalton (the pirate and the fairy)

Picture with the HR (Ms. Rush) and other winners of Halloween Costume Parade

Christmas Party in Metropolitan Club in Rockwell, picture was taken before or after (can’t recall anymore) our buwis buhay presentation number. Me and Dalty danced Can’t Be Tame =))

Food Trip with Dalty in WingMan in Pasong Tamo Makati

Managed Services lunch in Dencios in Paseo Center, Sir Onnie’s treat for being Wizard of the Year

With Ms. Marie and Rose

Picture taking to my workstation and db stuffs before endorsing them to the new user

Team pictures during my last days in dB Wizards

Moments in Ayala Triangle Garden during my last day in dB Wizards

I will cherish all the great experiences I had with these people. I know our paths will cross again. I’ll keep in touch with you guys. Till we meet again my dear wizards . . .

Regards,