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Need a Change?

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to just step out of your comfort zone and venture into new things to make you feel more fulfilled in life? Are you fed up with the work or industry that you've been in for the past few years and just wonder how it would be outside the world that you've been entrapped? Well I am! For the past 8 years I have been working in the same industry that has got me to places and situations that I have never imagined that I'd even encounter growing up. It's both a good and a bad thing and it's more on the good but I have grown tired of the usual routine. Waking up in the morning (Or at night if I'm on a graveyard shift), do your rituals, get a cab, report to work, do the usual tasks on you daily checklist and feel exhausted after 8 to 10 hours of work. Eat breakfast, browse the net or play online games, listen to music until you fall as sleep and repeat. It has been a cycle for the past few years and It's
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100 Days with Mr. Arrogant

Naesarang Ssagaji (100 Days with Mr. Arrogant) I was really not a fan of korean movies before but after watching 200 pound beauty and My Wife is a gangster. I was starting to love em.  I watched this film yesterday and find it kind of applicable to me so I was able to empathize with the girl in the movie. The movie was fun and heart warming.  Synopsis : Ha-Young ( Ha Ji-Won ) is a high school student who was just dumped by her boyfriend right before their 100th day anniversay. While walking home, upset and frustrated, Ha-Young kicks a can that ends up hitting Hyung-Joon ( Kim Jae Won ) in the face as he is driving his expensive car and it ends up running into a wall and getting scratched. Hyung-Joon demands her to pay him back, but she ends up running away..but of course, she dropped her wallet! Hyung-Joon ends tracking her down the poor high school student and writes up an “Enslavement Agreement’ that allows Ha-Young to payback for the damages through 100 days of doin

Training and Development vs Operations Production

Training and Development vs Operations Working in the BPO industry has its pros and cons. It's how you position yourself that makes everything work. I am fortunate enough to experience a lot in the corporate world in such a young age. Let me go ahead and share my journey: Von as a Trainee: 2009 - I was accidenatally employed in one of the top growing BPO in iloilo. I told myself "why not, it's a decent job! I dont want to be a bum anymore". I never really excelled while in school so this is a new way for me to test my capabilities and intellect. I always topped our training assessments and call simulations. I didnt have any experience with customer service at all (My mom and dad worked for PLDT for 25 years and I never really asked how they performed im their jobs) all I had was my good communication and comprehension skills. After 2 months in training, I ranked #8 out of 565 trainees. 2011 Q1- After resigning from my previous company (after 2 years of sta

Love 101

Love. A very big and overused word nowadays. Nobody really understands how it goes anymore. How It starts or ends. Here are a few things about love based on my previous experiences: Love at first sight Nurtured love Accidentally in love Let's start off with the 3rd one. Accidentally in love - I met this guy at work a few years back. Very nice, an orphan, well mannered and a street smart. He's quite slim and his height was around 5"6'. Everybody thought he's straight including me. He was idolized by most of his friends because of his perspective in life. He's funny too but corny most of the time which actually makes him cute. We became close and inseparable over time. In short, we became best of friends. Every weekend. He'd sleep over my place and we'd just have lots of fun before going to be like watching scary movies and just talk and make fun about what we've observed with our peers at work. Till that night happened. I was asleep and h

 The Guy with the Blue Jeans Part 1

It was a cold winter night. Jasper decided to take a walk down the streets near his manor to unwind after a stressful week at the office. He was still thinking about how he got disappointed after the big presentation that made with the big boss and didn't even get a simple "good job". He's 29 and gay, living alone at a big manor with no pets nor a lover to be with. He started working at 16 when his parents died in a car crash. He has no relatives to rely on, so he worked and studied at the same time. He made sure that he gets through with college to secure a diploma with good grades to make his resume top others when he applies for a job. He got into an advertising company at 21, got promoted to an executive assistant at 22 and now he's the regional manager of Winter Dreams Advertising Inc. After a few blocks of walking and relaxing his mind, he decided to grab a bottle of beer at a club just a few blocks away from his manor. He stayed for a bit to

Manila Journey

After 3 months of being assigned in Manila, I’m now back at Iloilo where I truly belong. Let me give you the highlights of my 3 months stay there, what I learned, who I’ve met, loved (again, I never learn), moved on from, had peace with, taught and more… On the week of August 20 th , my Boss surprised me with an announcement that I’ll be assigned in Manila for a month to help launch a new campaign for the ongoing growth and partnership of our company and client. I had the most anxious and excited feeling that was unexplainable. I had a lot in my mind when I heard that announcement: -I’m gonna see the person that had been on my heart and mind for since august 2011. -I’m gonna be bugged by my Ex once he hears my arrival in manila. -It will be the first time that I’ll be going to manila alone. Usually I’m with either my parents or my Ex for 4 years. -It’s the first major campaign that I’ll help launch. We’ll all start from scratch, from policies to training and developme

"Mandy"

It was the fifth call I got from her that day. I finally said yes, just so we could get over it. It had been raining for more than a week, so much rain it made everyday seemed so restless and gloomy. She called and said she was coming up. It was the third time she came up to see me that week. I carried her excuse of why she came all the way here and went to meet her at the nearby seven-eleven. She was standing there alone, carrying her red umbrella. Her friend had dropped her off. It was raining and she was shivering. She looked weak and fragile in the harsh rain, wearing not enough to keep her warm.  I walked up to her and said, "You shouldn't come see me anymore," and stuff like how we shouldn't be together. She said, "I miss you." I told her coldly, "Lets go, I'll take you home." She did not open up her umbrella, I knew she wanted to share mine. I said, "Open up your umbrella, let's go." Unwillingly, she opened up her umbrella