20 ft From The Ocean Floor
Hello beautiful people! How are you all doing? I hope you are alldoing fine despite this pandemic we are facing. Godbless and keep safe everyone.
I've been thinking on what to write today. I mean there's really no interesting things that happened in mylife lately but I realize that I can share to you guys my past experiences that might be interesting in your end. So enjoy reading beautiful people.
It was my friends birthday and we decided to celebrate it at the beach. They are my college friends. We are classmates from 1st year college until we graduated. We all have the same course. That might be the reason why we are very close to each other. We do our homeworks together, we ate our lunch together, we study together and we also do cutting classes together. As I am writing this now, I suddenly missed being a student. You don't need to worry about bills and your responsibility at home. I mean as a student you just need to focus on your studies, have good grades and pass all the subjects then make your parents proud. But as we grow older day by day, we've got more responsibilities as an adult, as a daughter/son and soon we're going to have our own family that we are to be responsible as well. But enough with the drama, hahaha and back to the topic, so yeaaah we are very very close up until now. So recently when we celebrated my friends birthday, we really had fun. We talk about our lives now. How we are all doing, and we also talked about all the things we missed during our college days. It was fun. We have foods, drinks and all. It was low tide so we did not get to enjoy the sea that much so one of my friends boyfriend suggested that we go to the thing they called "gango". It is somewhere far from the seashore and you need to ride a pump boat to be there.When I asked one of my friend of what is the use of the gango thing she told me that it is where fishermen put lots of coconut leaves in there for the fishes to take shelter and some fishes lay there eggs there and it is where the fishermen catch fishes as well.
I was kind of curious of what it looks like so I joined them even though I don't know how to swim. It was like where in the middle of the sea already and the sea was very very blue.It was beautiful. We stopped the pump boat beside the gango thing. The gango thing by the way is a square cement dropped in the sea and there was a big chain that connects the cement from the ground to the big styrofoam that floats in the sea. At first I was kind of hesitant to swim in there since it was very deep. I mean you really can't see the ocean floor. It was all blue and I don't know how to swim, so I just stayed in the pump boat while watching my friends having fun. I got insecure so I tried to conquer my fear hahahaha slowly and slowly I did it. I swim just near the pump boat so I can hold on the pump boat time to time. We are all having fun and time flies fast we went back to the shore. It was my first experience and it was all worth it. Everything was fun and everyone is having fun. It was a great day, I will always remember. On our way home I asked my friend how deep it was there in the gango thing, she said it was 20ft. I was like, ohhhh I was 20 ft from the ocean floor a while ago. Sounds interesting!
6 Hours Travel Time
A three hours ride to the city.
Hello beautiful people!
What a tiring day was yesterday! I finished my work at exactly 4:00 AM and yesterday my mama asked me to with her in the city since she wanted to visit her sisters who worked in the city. Since I am a good daughter, haha I said yes even though I still have work the following day. So after I finished my work, supposedly I need to render 2 hours overtime but I didn't cause I need to get myself ready to go to the city. We are about to ride a motorcycle to go to the town proper where we will wait for a bus that will take us to our destination when suddenly the rain poured. It' a heavy rain. So we decided to wait until the rain stops. After an hour an half the rain finally stops. We ride a motorcycle then we spent almost an hour as well waiting for the bus to come. When we arrived at my aunts house we ate and you know catch up with my cousins. my mama and auntie went out for a walk so I was left with my cousin in there house. We order some takoyaki which I really loved the most. It's one of the foods here in city that I really missed eating and we also paired it with milktea. Time flies so fast. It was already 5:00 PM and my mama and auntie is not yet home. We need to go home already because I still have work ate exactly 8PM and the travel time is three hours. When my mama arrived finally, it started to rain. Like heavy rain. So we waited again for the rain to stop. And ot took almost an hour before it finally stops. All I did in the bus was sleep since I did not get to sleep. When we arrive it was already 10:00 PM. Yes I was two hours late already and I have to cook first because we don't have dinner yet. In this kind of time, when you are in hurry instant foods will really save you hahaha. It does not take me more time to prepare our foods. At exactly 10:30 PM , I started working. During my breaktime, I slept even if it was just for 25 minutes. I mean, I am very tired and sleepy already. And I don't think I can finish my work. I am super tired.😭 So what I did is I told my supervisor that we are having power outage in our area then I slept🤭. I know it was not right to do it but my body really needs sleeeeep. When I woke up it was already 9AM. So I decided to render overtime since I was absent last night Hehe. And now I am writing this cause I am not tired anymore. I got enough sleep and I got all the energy. Hmmm? Should I bake then? What do you think? hehe
Thank you for reading po. Godbless us all!
My first baked Banana Cupcakes❤
Hello beautiful people!
Last day was just a regular day. Start my shift at 8PM and ends at 4AM. I slept for 5 hours and woke up at 9:30 in the morning. It was a cloudy day, no trace from mister sun at all. I was thinking of what to do since I'm really bored even watching movies bores me these days hahaha. I think I'm really a grown woman now. 😂 As I am walking back and forth in our small house , I saw the air fryer my sister bought few days ago and a light bulb pops in my head. Why not bake? I search in google and in youtube on what affordable cake than I can bake then I decided to bake banana cupcakes. Yaay! I checked all the materials needed first and also the ingredients. I chose to bake banana cake because the ingredients are not too expensive and it does not require a lot of materials. So I went to our town proper first which is a 15-25 minute drive from our house. I only had 500 pesos with me so I just need to do the most important materials hahaha. I bought a 30 pcs. foil round cup that cost only 35 pesos. Then I bought the ingredients needed , Cake flour, butter, 3bananas, eggs, vanilla, raisins, salt, sugar and baking powder. I want to buy the whisk mixer for it to be more easier in mixing the ingredients all together however my money was not enough so yeah, hahaha next time I'll buy you. I went home right away after I bought all the ingredients and when I arrive home I started baking right away. At first I thought it will not be a success cause I don't have a blender either that will blend the bananas so I was kind of worried. But I never give up hahaha I cut the bananas into small pieces first then I mix it together with all the ingredients using spoon. Thank God it turns out all right. I mean, It looks somehow similar in the video I was watching so yeah. I pit a small amount in the round foil then baked it for 5minutes. When it was done, I tasted one and wooooow! It was delicious. Yaaaay! It was not bad for a first timer hahahaha. I let my mama tasted it and she also said it was delicious and I also let my cousins tatst it was good. Hahaha Wow! I really did not imagine that it will turn really good. So today, I am going to bake again another batch of my cupcakes cuties and I hope I can share it with you guys and would like to know if you'll find it delicious as well. 🥰
Now I am planning on buying the other materials needed for baking so I can bake other kinds of cakes and also for it to be more less tiring in my end, you know it hurts my arm mixing the ingredients together since I don't have a beater. Hahaha 😂 And if you do have any suggestion on what to bake next please leave a comment , I'll try if I can make it. Just those cheaper ingredients please hahaha.
Thank you everyone for reading my article today. I hope you are all doing fine. God bless everyone.❤
Missed the Old Me
Hello beautiful people. I hope you are all doing fine and healthy. God Bless Us All.
It's been one week? two weeks? or 3 weeks have passed that I have stop writing , reading and interacting with you guys here in readcash. It's not because I am busy or because I don't want to anymore but it's because these past few weeks, stress is eating me. It was very hard. Very tough. No matter how much I convince myself to think beautiful things, to have positive thoughts always, to see beauty in my everyday life but the demons on me always win. I cannot stop myself from overthinking. I have so many questions that I want to have answers right away. I have so many "what ifs" that make me imagine things in the future. What ifs that makes me afraid of life. I wanted to share to you guys everything that I have been feeling lately and my thoughts as well but as of now I can't help myself to put them to words. My mind is not working. It is not in it's usual state I can say. I am not that happy go lucky girl anymore. The funny me, the happy me, it is gone. I don't know what to do anymore to bring back the old me. I smile in front of my friends, my family and to the people around me. People think I am ok, that I am totally fine but deep inside I am terrified. I am exhausted. I tried to think of ways that will somehow help me get out of this nutshell I am right now. I tried to watch movies but it did not help. I tried to read books, still did not help. I tried to communicate with my friends, I tried to open up to them because I think maybe in that way, I will feel less lonely. But no, it did not work. I talked to people and everything is just fine until i became alone again. My work is being affected already. There are many times that I did not report to work. My body says I can do the work and I should report but my mind state the other way around. It says I am tired and I wanna rest. I don't wanna get disturbed, I wanna be locked in a room by myself, just lay in my bed all day, all night, all week, all month. It's very tough but I know I can overcome this. Right now I am still fighting the demon on me but I know I can overcome this. I can and I will. I know God will help me.
I am so sorry guys for this article, for this kind of content . I know it is not inspiring to you my readers but for me who is trying to heal myself from something I don't know, it is a big help already. I will try my best to be active again in this platform and I will try to publish inspiring articles soon but for now please bear with me as I am still finding my way back to my old self.
Thank you everyone for reading. I hope you all have a good day.Keep safe!
Am I Going to be Jobless?
Have you experience being jobless? How do you feel?
Some of us maybe ok with being jobless and that is fine. I mean I am not against with that but for me who is not used of just being at home, sitting, watching tv, read the news or just scrolling the phone all day I am not totally ok of being jobless. I am not the breadwinner of our family but I like giving back to my parents as much as I can. I wanna spoil them with everything they want. That is why after my college graduation I did not take even a week of vacation, I looked for a job right away because I want to earn money to pay back my parents and I want my papa to stop working already. And even if I have a work, I always do "sidelines" . I do online selling as well and it helped me a lot. I'm the one who pays the electricity bill, water bill and groceries in our house and I give cash to my mama and papa as well. I also need money for myself. Sometimes the salary I received is not enough. I always render OT for additional pay but it is still not enough. There are times my friends invited me for an eat out and as much I wanted to say yes but I need to check first if I have money left in my salary. I need to prioritize first the needs of our family before anything else so at the end I always says "NO" to my friends invitation. There are times I felt tired already. I feel like I've been pressuring myself too much and I think it is not normal anymore but what can I do? I can't say NO to my papa and I can't just leave them alone. They are my happiness and I will do anything for them.
This past few days has been tough to me. Good thing that I have joined read.cash. I've got myself busy reading articles and somehow I forgot my problems even in a short period of time. If you read my previous job you knew the type of work I have. I do work from home and one of the struggle I always experience is when my CPU is broken. I mean it won't work anymore. I tried to fix it but no. It just stopped working. I tried to contact our IT department in our company for help but for no luck they cannot fix it as well instead they created a ticket for a CPU replacement. At first, It was fine for me. They said that the replacement would be delivered after two days. I waited. Patiently. And in that two days, I let myself busy reading articles here in read cash. After two days there is no replacement arrived. I contacted my supervisor and she said I need to wait for another two days for the replacement to be delivered. So I waited again. But for no luck agaim, there is no replacement arrived on the promised date. But I said to myself maybe It'll be late for a day or two. So I waited for another two days and I am quite impatient this time around. But there is no replacement again. I contacted our supervisor to inform what happened and she said that I can just picked up the CPU at our site and it is a four hours ride from my location. It will also be hard for me to travel since we are under MECQ, but our supervisor said that it would be easier if I will picked it up than wait for the delivery. I was kind of hesitant at first because I don't want to go outside our municipality because of this Covid 19 since we've got higher cases in our area compared to the last few months. But I have no choice. If I will still wait for the delivery maybe it will take another week for it to arrive. So yesterday I decided to go to the city even if it is against my will. I actually don't have a choice anymore. I need a job. I can't just wait for nothing. I need to do something. So I informed my supervisor that I will just pick up my replacement. It was actually not easy to travel to the city anymore just like the normal days. You need to go to the municipal hall first to ask for a travel pass and it is needed to be signed by the Mayor of the municipality. I waited hours to get my travel pass after that I rode a bus to the city. I am almost near when my supervisor informed me to chat the IT department to change the status of my CPU replacement from " DELIVERY" to " PICK UP". So I did chat our IT department but to my dismay they told me that it can't be changed anymore. I tried to convince the IT incharge, tried to pleased them but no, they said that it can't be changed anymore and there is nothing that they can do about it and they told me to just wait for the delivery which will be "WEDNESDAY". I cried. I was very disappointed and discouraged. I tried to message my supervisor but she was not online at that time. I was too heartbroken. I jsut cried the entire ride until I arrived at the city then I just went home. Broken.
I was hurt with the idea that I risked my life going to the city, I wasted my time, my money and my effort but they can't do me a favor. I mean I'm just being a good employee here. I am not blaming anyone. There is no one to blame but I just can't help but pity myself. Today is wednesday and it is already 9:50 PM and I am still waiting a text for my CPU replacement. I hope it'll be delivered tonight if not then I will be jobless for two weeks already and it'll break my heart more. Help me pray beautiful people.🙏 I miss taking calls already. I miss working and I don't want to be jobless also.😭
One week journey in Read.
I never thought I can earn while reading or writing and at the same time having fun. Who would thought?
One of my closest friend introduce me this platfotm (read.cash) she told me that I can earn in just writing articles and reading articles. That is impossible. Maybe that is a scam, i said. I asked her where did she found the website and she told me she was just referred by a friend also. At first I was kind of hesitant because you know in our world right now there are a lot of scammers already. I don't want to waste my time and effort as well to something useless so I never created an account. One day I got to visit my closest friend in the city and she encouraged me again to join read.cash. She showed me a proof that she is really earning and she had withdrawed some of her earnings as well. And I was like " Really? Is that for real?" I can't believe she is earning big amount of money just by writing articles, reading articles and interacting with other writers. So I said ye, I want to join this kind of platform. She created an account for me, explained what I need to do and the things that should not be done on the platform. At the very first day I was very excited and I read articles already and tried to interact with other writers. There are writers who upvoted my comments in their article with 0.01$ and I am so happy already. I showed it to my friend and she said "Just continue girl and you will earn more than that." I believed in her and then I started writing articles even if I don't know how to start yet. I did my best. At the second day I've earned 0.42BCH and I am so happy again. I read other articles and I can see that some articles are earning more than $10 and I was amazed. I said to myself, someday I'll earn as much as others earn in this platform. Soon. Also I am encouraging my other friends and cousins to join read.cash as well. But I what I really love this article that I can't put my phone even for a minute is the articles. There are articles that gave me life lessons, tips, ideas and moat of all knowledge to certain things I'm unfamiliar. There are articles that encourages me as well. There are times I got to compare my articles to other articles and I can say my writing is somehow poor but some articles that I read encourages me to do better. To keep on writing. To be more passionate about what I really love. It is just my second week here in read.cash and I am still discovering new things and exploring more to be better. If you have some tips please comment below, I will really appreciate it. Thank you.
Also big thanks to my closest friend @MissJo for encouraging me to join this platform, I love you friend. To Miss @CoquiCoin and Sir @TengoLoTodo thank you for sponsoring me, it really makes my heart flutter knowing that there are people who believed in me. Thank you again and God bless us always.😍🥰
My First and Last Beauty Pageant
Ever since I was a kid, I always dreamed to be on stage, with make up on, wearing a gown, high heels and proudly representing my municipality or our baranggay. I always dreamed to join beauty pageants. I watched beauty pageants and I can't stop myself to be awed by the performance of the candidates and in my head part of me wished that someday I can be like them. Someday I can join beauty pageants as well but unfortunately I am just 4" 11. So sad. I am not tall enough to be qualified to any beauty pageants.
During Elementary years we have this program we called " Prince and Princess". In this program you need to pay a certain amount of money for you join, I believe that time the minimum is 150 pesos. Whoever put up the biggest amount of money will be the prince and princess the rest will just be given a title like "Princess of Hope" that was my title way back then. I just put up 150 pesos for me to join since we do not have money and we need to rent a gown and find a make up artist to do my make up also. But even if I am not the princess that time, I was very very happy. It was my dream. My biggest dream when I was still a kid.🥰
When I get to High School. There is also a program we called "Intramurals". In this program, there should be a representative every section that will represent them. And it was my dream to be one of the representatives but sad to say I am not again qualified for I am only 4" 11. I just witnessed the program and never had I ever missed every Intramurals happened in our school. I always support our representative in terms of gowns or costumes needed. I think that was my way of saying how much I love those kind of program. It sometimes break my heart that I am not qualified for those kind of program because of my height and it comes to a point that I hated myself. I don't like who I am. And I even questioned God, Why? I know it was wrong but the "young" me did not understand. But I do now. I've realized a lot and I am forever thankful and greatful to the Almighty God for what I've become now.
Then I go to college. We still had the program we called " Intramurals" and same on High School a student will represent her department and again and again I wished to be "the representative" even if I knew in myself that I cannot be. It is very impossible. I am not that pretty and I am not that smart and I am not tall. What was I thinking that time? Haha But it hurts my feeling you know. When you know you could not really do the thing you love the most. That thought alone broked my heart. Until one day, our SK ( Sangguniang Kabataan) chairman conducted a program for our upcoming Baranggay Fiesta. I am the Treasurer of the SK Federation so I was part of all the planning and I suggest why not have a beuaty pageant, it would be great. Then a lot agreed. So yes, we had a Beauty Pageant for the first time in our baranggay. Part of me would love to join but I am to shy to asked our SK chairman because I am part of the planning. Maybe they'll think I've suggested it on purpose for me to join so i just kept everything in me and instead I let my cousin joined the program. It was great. I had fun conducting the program but part of me is still dreaming that someday I'll be on that stage too. The "kid" in me is still hoping and praying.
A year past and we planned to have another Beauty Pageant in our Baranggay for the second time around. We have nine "purok" or shall I say the baranggay is divided into nine and we call them purok. So there should be nine representatives as well to represent every purok. Everything is already planned but one representative backed out because she will not be able to make it since it is still there class time. Our SK chairman asked me to replace her instead. And without any doubt and hesistations I said yes right away. I mean this is what I've been praying for my whole life so why not? This is the opportunity I've been waiting for so I will grab it. I was the ninth representative and it feels so great. I practiced everything especially in wearing a 6" heels which I am not good at. Prepared everything. I was very excited. This is once in a lifetime opportunity so I will do my best. That was my thoughts. Then the night came, the most awaiting night of my life. I was very nervous. Other candidates had already won in other beauty pageants but there's me, a first timer, trying to widen my smile in front of the crowd, having the time of my life despite how nervous I am. I knew in myself that it is way too impossible for me to bring home the crown since it is my first time so I will just enjoy this show, i said to myself. We showed our talents, danced, showed our long gowns and do the Q and A ( Question and Answer). Wooow! I can still remember how my feet trembles and my hands shakes while I answered the question. And to my surprise, I got it to Top 5. Yeeeeey. 🎉 Then we had another set of Q and A ( Question and Answer) after that the winner will be announced. I can still remember my number that time, I was the candidate number 3. 😍 The fourth runner up was called, then the third runner up then the second runner up. I can't believe I made it to Top 2. I was holding the hand of the other candidate and I can feel evety beat of my heart while waiting for the winner to be announced. " And our new Miss Balygtiki is........ Candidate Number 3." I was shocked. I can't believe it. I was at the highest point of my happiness. I am very very happy that time. No words can explain and I felt the tears fall from my eyes. It was one of the best night of my life, I will never ever forget. Because of that one night, something in me changed. It somehow complete the "ME". It was my dream and it became a reality and I am so proud of myself. 🥰 I know it was my first and last beauty pageant but it made me whole already. God is just so good that I coudn't ask for more. He make me expereience the thing I really want to experience and He made it extra special to me. I can't thanked Him enough.🥰 And to my ever supportive sister, cousins and papa as well, for helping me in everything.😍🤧
I know it is not just me who have their dreams in life. I believe that everyone of us does. So if you think your dream is way too impossible, please don't think that way. We may fail sometimes but I know God is there to help us in every step of the way. Do not give up. Work on it and soon it will paid off, all the hardworks. 🤞Just believe in yourself, I know you can make it. 💪
Thank you fot reading beautiful people. You all have a nice day ahead. Keep safe.😌 Sending virtual higs to everyone.
Connected, No Internet
Hi beautiful people, how are you all doing? I hope everyone is safe and healthy and God bless us all.
A lot of us are using gadgets such as cellphones, laptops and many more. These gadgets are actually very helpful to our daily lives. Students used it for educational purposes, some used it for work purposes and some are just simply for entertainment. As we all witness, most of all the kids nowadays already owned cellphones or gadgets and they used it to play games, watched videos and to communicate with their family especially if there family is working from different places. Unlike before as I can still remember my childhood days, we do not have gadgets that time . We play games outdoor such as “habulan” (chasing games), slipper game or chinese garter games (ohhhh while writing this, I become emotional, I miss those moments with my friends and my cousins). I can actually compare the kids before in our time and the kids nowadays. I wished that they can also experience the things we experienced on our childhood time not just purely computer games or watching videos. But since we are experiencing this Covid-19 Pandemic, it is much safer for the kids to stay at home but I really hoped that children can play again outside without wearing mask or face shield and without social distancing of course. You may wonder why I write about this article but the main reason why I am writing this is because of the slow internet connection I am experiencing right now. People who have gadgets is not fully satisfied if the gadget is not connected to internet. They cannot browse, they cannot do facebook, youtube or google.
As I am writing this article right now, my laptop is actually connected to a wi-fi but it shows no internet. How sad it is. Even my phone, it doesn’t have any signal bars. That’s how unlucky I am to lived in a remote area. And yes, I am working from home but I am not in my home. Funny right? Haha I rent a room in our town and I think it is three or four kilometers from my house. I need to walk 3-5 minutes and then ride a motorcycle to get there. And these past few days, I am tired of my daily routine specially when the weather is not good. Sometimes I get wet because it was raining and sometimes sweat are dripping all over my body cause it is too much heat from the sun.
I inquired if someone can install an internet connection in my house so it will be less hassle for me but unfortunately there is none. There are three people already who checked our area but there is really no coverage here. I am considering on going back to city but my mama would not allow me as of now because we are now back to MECQ (Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine).I do understand my mama though cause health comes first before anything. But I am just too tired with my situation right now that I am thinking of quitting my job and apply here in our municipality. I’m considering it right now. Please let me know your idea or if you have any suggestions, let’s communicate. Maybe I’ll come up with a better plan with your ideas, who knows.
How I become a "Call Center Agent"
My Journey as a BPO agent......
Ever since I was a high school student I already dreamed to be a call center agent. Maybe I am influenced by my cousins who are working as a call center agent that time. I can say that they have big salaries and they always go on vacations. So I say to myself that I will be like them soon. When I reached 18 years old, I thought of applying to call center companies and stop studying but my mother did not allow me to. So I continued my studies and just a week before our graduation, I already applied to a call center company online. They called me for an initial interview and thanks God I passed. They said that I need to go to the company for another interview so right after our graduation I go to the city and find my luck there. One of my classmate on college as well applied on the same company I applied so we planned together. It is my first time to be away from my family and I am by the way the youngest child and we are only two siblings in the family. I am not used to be away from my family but this time I need to because I want to pay back all the things that my mom and dad did for me. I know it will be hard but I am very eager to work already. And I will surely do my best to be accepted in the company I want to be working.
It is my first time in IT Park together with my classmate, we roamed around the area, looking for the name of the company we are applying but for no luck we could not find it. There are people in the street they called them “recruiter” trying to approach us and informed us that there are other companies hiring. We tried to say no but at the end we go with them. Instead of going to the company we already applied online, we go to a different company. We tried our luck. We entered in a building, filled up a form, an application form to be exact and by the way it is only a one day process the recruiter said so we go for it.
First we do the initial interview, I was quite very nervous that time because it is my first time to be interviewed personally. I did my best, I can say. And thanks God I passed. I was very happy when the HR told me that I need to proceed in the next interview and yeeey! I passed again. The next step is what they called “mock call”. I actually do not have the idea of what mock call is. So here it comes, we will be answering a call and answer the queries of the customer. It is to test if we can handle customer’s or how we will handle the customer. I was very nervous that time. I do not know but because of how nervous I am, I can’t seem to hear clearly what customer is talking about. I just keep on saying “Sorry ma’am, can you please repeat it” or “Pardon ma’am?” I was actually lost of words. Then the next thing I knew is we are called to know if we passed the final interview. And sad to say I did not passed. I failed. The HR said that I did great with the first and second interview and I deserved a spot in their company so she told me go back tomorrow and she will put me on a different account but I am too discouraged of myself already. While the HR talked to me, I felt my tears slowly falling. I tried to hold it as much as I can. I do not want others specially the HR see me cry. And I also found out that my classmate is not hired as well. So we go out of the building and it was already evening. How fast time flies. It was morning when we entered the building, I don’t even eat because I was too focused on the interviews and I was too nervous to eat something. And now my stomach aches. I am very hungry, as I fall in line to order a food in a fast food restaurant, I can’t stop my tears from falling anymore. I cried while ordering the food. I was too heartbroken. I could not accept that I failed. My classmate tried to comfort me while eating but it doesn’t ease the disappointment I felt that time. I came to compare myself to my cousins and my sister as well. They passed the interview right away. Maybe I am not smart like them. What will they say about me if they find out that I did not make it? What will my mama and papa say? They have so much hope in me but I guess I am a failure. That was all the thoughts I had that time and it keeps my tears falling. But I did not lose hope, the next day we went to the company we already applied online. I know it will never be easy but I am too hungry for this opportunity. I passed the initial interview, then I passed the next, lastly I need to do “versant”. I hear some people behind my back that versant is not easy. I was very nervous when my name was called to finally do the versant. I was provided instructions on what to do inside the cubicle. When I am done, I was told to sit first and will be called for the result. While waiting for the result, I can’t stop my mind from overthinking. What if I will not pass again? What will I do? Then I prayed. I said to God “ Lord, I really want this job. Please help me. I do not want to be a failure. If this job is really not for me, please make it for me. I really like this kind of job and I want this job.” I keep on praying while waiting for the result. Then my named is called for the result, the HR said “Congratulations, you passed.” And I said “Thank you Lord.” I can say that the time I was hired, it was one of the happiest moment of my life and I will always be grateful for the opportunity the company gave me and to Our Almighty God as well. He never fail to guide me and helped me in every step of the way.
The lesson I learned in this journey of mine is to never give up. It is ok to feel disappointed sometime, it is ok to fail sometime. It is ok to cry if you can’t take it anymore, but what is not ok is giving up. Life is full of up’s and down’s. It will never be worth it to live this life without the challenges we faced. It somehow make us strong and it makes us stronger to face another obstacle ahead of us. Never forget that everything happens for a reason and God is always watching you and He got our back always. Maybe some things did not work out for us because God knows and God sees that it is not good for us and He have plans for us. Better plans. So let’s just trust him and enjoy every moment of the ride.❤
PS. I am now on my 2nd year of the company and I will also write my journey here in the past 2 years working in the company, maybe next time. Thank you everyone for reading, hope you all have a good day. Keep safe.
My Love Story Part 1❤ "On and Off Relationship"
Hi. I've been thinking on what to published in here since I am not doing anything lately, just stayin at home , keeping safe, not just myself but also my family and friends as well from these covid 19 since the new variant has already entered in our country (Philippines) and some of the towns are on locked down again. ( Keep safe everyone). So I decided to share my love story then, enjoy reading everyone.
"It was just for fun but turns out I love him."
I was on my second year of High school when I first entered in a relationship. So young right? Haha that is what they called "puppy love". My first boyfriend was my classmate. I actually don't like him it is my friends who want him to be my boyfriend si I just said yes when he courted me haha but we don't last a week because our teacher found out and she scolded us.😅 But even after that he sent me love letters saying that he loves me and he want me back in his life and I still have those love letters up today. I don't know what's the reason why I keep them but I keep them anyway.😂 I was on my third year High School when I have my second boyfriend. And the same with my first boyfriend, I don't loved him nor liked him that time. Maybe I am just impressed with the idea of having a boyfriend that is why I said yes again haha. We lasted for 3 months but broke up for no reason cause again I don't like him. He courted me again after like a month from our break up then I don't know why but I said yes again even if I don't like him haha. We lasted for 4 months but ai broke up with him for no reason again.😂
After like 2months he courted me again and for the third time around and I said yes again. This time I felt something for him. Maybe I already learned to love him or what, I do not know. We are quite more serious with our relationship until one day he texted me that He wanted to met me at the back gate of our school. I asked him why he wanted to met me there and he said he wanted space. He want to break up with me. I was shocked maybe because I already learned to love him and my ego was hurt. It should be me who initiate the break up not him.
After a month, we graduated high school and then we never see each other again during summer break. I thought that was the end of our relationship but no. We met again during enrollment on college. We go to the same school. And yes for the fourth time he courted me again and I said yes again and again but the difference this time is I said yes because I love him. Yes you read it right, I already love him. During the long run ,I learned to love him. He may not be the ideal man of my life but he stole my heart. Maybe because he never surrendered on me or maybe because we are really meant to be.🥰 I thought this time we will last, I mean I already love him and he loves me too so I think maybe this is it. Until one day, we are together sitting at the bench beside our school. We are just talking about life when he received a text message. I read the text message and it says " Ok babe, I'll text you later then." It is an unknown number so I asked him if he knew the number and he said his brother borrowed his phone so maybe it is his brothers girlfriend he said. I just nodded and nevermind the situation because I was too confident that he will never cheat on me. The next day we had our dance practice for our upcoming Intramurals. One of my friend is feeling sick so our dance trainor adviced her to go home and take a rest first. She is my closest friend during college days. Her house is somehow located near the town plaza. When she arrived at home she texted me that she saw my boyfriend in the town plaza together with a girl. At first I don't want to believe my friend, maybe she is wrong. Maybe it is just someone that looked like my boyfriend but part of me believes my friend so to make sure that it is really my boyfriend, I skipped our dance practice and went immediately to the town plaza and my friend is damn right. I saw it with my own eyes. My boyfriend, sitting on a bench with a girl. Smiling. No, they are laughing. They look like they are so in love with each other. I looked at them from afar and my heart is breaking. It hurts. Tears fall from my eyes. I want to approach them, I wanted to asked him who is the girl, I want him to tell me that the girl is just his friend but..... they are kissing. Noooooo! I can't handle the pain anymore. I run away from them while tears falling from my eyes. I can't breathe. There's no air. I stopped running and screamed so loud, I don't even bother the people around me. I don't care if they think I'm crazy I just want to let out the pain I felt that time. And even screaming don't help anymore. No, it doesn't ease the pain. I don't want to lose him.... I love him........
Accident... Who to blame?
Who to blame? Me? You? or the dog? It was my first motorcycle accident and hopefully would be my last.🙏 It was scary and it was traumatic.
It was just a regular day of my life. I woke up at 3:40 AM then start doing my work then out at exactly 12:00 noon. Eat my lunch, take a rest and then by 5:00 PM I watched movie at home. Then by 6:00 PM my boyfriend called me and said that we will be having dinner at their house. So I took a bath quickly, dress nicely and put light make up on. At exactly 6:40, we are on our way to their house. And just the same on our regular days we are talking about the things happened on that specific day when suddenly a dog cross just in front of us. It happened so fast. I don't even remember what happened the next few seconds. When I open my eyes I saw my boyfriend lying beside me. I was out of my mind for a second. People from the area gathered to help us. I hear my boyfriend ask if I am alright, I just nodded but honestly I am not. It did not sink in yet what happened. An elderly woman help me to get up and let me sit on the chair. She asked me if I am alright, I just nodded again. They checked my body if I got some injuries. I don't felt any pain that time. I looked at my boyfriend and checked if he got injuries as well and thanks God, there is none. I checked myself then I found some bruises in my knee and leg and in my right hand as well but they did not hurt. I don't feel pain. I told my boyfriend to just get going since we are all fine. Their house is just like 2-3 minutes drive away from the area where the accident happened and as soon as we arrived at their house that was the time that it sink in on my mind what happened and slowly I felt the pain on my knee on my hips and on my right hand. Every part of my body hurts. When my boyfriends family found out what happened they are so worried that they helped me walked inside the house because I can't walk properly because i felt too much pain on my leg and knee. They put medicine on the injured part of my body and I scream so loud cause it hurts so much. It hurt so much that I can't hold my tears anymore. I took a rest after they put medicine on my bruises. Thanks God it is just abrasions and it is not deep.
When the morning came, I have hard time stretching my right leg so with my right hand. I am having hard time tying my hair or even holding the spoon. It really hurts. So I decided to go to the near hospital and let the doctor checked on my injuries. After that I went home and filed a 3 days leave in my work and inform my supervisor about what happened.
Until now I still feel pain if I move my right leg and I still feel pain everytime I type here in my phone but it is bearable now unlike the other day. And I am still thankful to God that we are fine. That it is just a small bruises and that we are alive.😌 I can't blame it on the dog. The dog is too innocent and doesn't have a single pinch of idea. I can' t also blame my boyfriend for not driving safely and I can't blame him if he did not noticed the dog crosses the road. And I can't blame myself either. But I know it happened for a reason, whatever the reason is, only God knows and I know someday we will be thankful that it happened for I believe that God planned it for our sake. Maybe it is for us to realize that we should be more extra careful on driving, so whatever the reason is I will intrust it to God. No ones to be blame but it is a lesson learned.🙏🥰
Cousins are my bestfriends.
"Friends are forever but cousins are for life." - google
I grew up in a family where my childhood friends are my cousins. We are like almost 50 cousins in the entire family. My family resides 5 town away from the place of my grandma. Every summer my cousins and I met in our grandmas house and had fun. We played together all sorts of games back in early 2000s. We do not have any gadgets that time. No phones, no laptops, no social media. All we do is play near the river, swam together, climb in trees and go picnic together in mountains. Those are wonderful memories I have during my childhood days and that only happens once a year, every summer only.
Now most of the cousins that I consider as childhood friends are already married, had their own family already. Some are busy at work, some are still studying and some are just having the time of their life. Just like me, I am already working now and due to the type of work I have, I have not enough time to visit my grandmas house or visit my cousins place cause after work I am so tired that I need to rest and the next day I need to get up again and go to work. Same cycle. But even how hectic our schedules are, every occasions we always make sure that we can make time to celebrate each special occasions. Just like today,we are celebrating my cousins husbands birthday but unlike before we are incomplete because of different schedules.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAROLD!"
Despite of all the problems the world is facing, despite of this pandemic we still manage to celebrate your birthday. Yeeey!🎉Thank you God for making all of these possible. We had so much fun I can say. One day is obviously not enough to catch up all the things and moments we missed. All the talked that we had, I will treasure it forever. I hope we can extend the day for us to have more time for each other. God knows how we missed everything before.🥰 But I know soon we will have those moments again. We will have enough time to talked about all the things happened in our life though I know we can do it through social media account but it still feels different when we do it personaly and someday I know we will have the time again. Soon.🙏
No matter what life throws at us we will always be cousins and nothing can change that. We will always have each others through ups and downs. No one will be there to help each one of us but us. If you need me, I got your back and I know that if I needed help you guys got my back as well. 🥰 Through thick and thin guys we will have each other. As the qoute goes " Blood is thicker than water." - unknown.
Treasure every moment that you have with your cousins because time will come that you will not have same time. I mean nothing is permanent in this world but change. We grow up, we get a life, have our own family and we get less time to spend with our cousins because we are busy living our life. So let us all treasure today and live life to the fullest. Thank you for reading.😌
Hi! It's me, Lyn.
Hi! My name is Lyn but you can call me Etching tho. I am new here. I am just referred by my friend. I actually don't know what to write in here, I have no idea yet so I will just start in introducing myself. I am 22 years old. I have finished my Bachelors Degree in Education last 2019 and I am working now as a call center agent. I did not take the board exam yet since I don't like teaching anyways. It was actually my mom who wants me to took education becasuse she want me to become a teacher. But i don't feel like being a teacher. They say as time goes by I will soon to love this career but in my case it was a no. Never a time that it sink in my mind that I will be standing in front of my students and teach. I don't know but I think teaching is not for me. Really. I just took this course for my mom. And i do not know yet on what I want to be in life but I am already in my second year as a call center agent and I am happy with my job though I know it is not a lifetime job. As of now everything is good. Sometimes my mom and dad pressured me to took the board exam already but I don't want to waste my time on things I don't like. As of now I just want to enjoy my life.
I also like watching korean dramas. I think I already watched more than a hundred of kdramas already. I lost count hehe. Starting high school watching korean dramas during break time or even late at night is my hobbies. I also love idolizing korean idols. Followed them on social media, attend to fan meetings and bought some merch. But now that I am working I only got little time to watch korean dramas and I am not updated anymore to new korean dramas but I still watched though if I have some spare time. I also love traveling. I haven't traveled out of the country yet but I am planning to on the near future hopefully after this pandemic, when everything will be fine already.🙏 I love beaches also. Everytime I'm at the beach it helped me calm myself and think of positive things eventhough I don't know how to swim haha. Just the view of the beach the sand and the sound of the waves, it is everything for me.
I love animals too.😍 We have dogs and cats, three dogs and two cats. They are beautiful. Everytime i went home from work and I am tired, when i see them I feel happy. I mean when they lick my feet and barked and cuddle me oh! it makes my heart full. They are like my sisters. I love them and I can't afford to lose them. They are too precious to me.
And to end this article, I just wanna say that I am just a simple girl. I am a happy go lucky girl. Despite of all the problems life throws at me, I choose to be happy. Life is too short to worry and be sad. So I'll live my life to the fullest and you should too.😉 I hope you enjoy reading my article. God speed.
@etching
