Today – I am absent due to head pain, but because of that I’ve come to realized that there’s no time requirement and no qualifications for friendship to develop and grow. I’m just over a month working at Next IX Systems Inc. but I suddenly feel the feeling of miss to the people I’ve come to work with in the company. It’s rare for me to feel this way  but I am feeling it now. I think it’s because of the fun I am having while in the company. I call it the funny wrath of a Nile Sensie.

This started with the evil funny master planner Raffy Gozon Englis. The master funny villain of a Nile Sensie. The one who constantly make the workplace fun and healthy place with a twist of wrath. Slowly giving low blows to his subject, a Nile Sensie. Igniting the fire that would free the sharpened arrows to the subject. Like any other villains, he has his own army of apprentices, IPhone Master Developer Jay-Ar Atamosa, Group Jump King Lester G. Cabalona, Aviva Supreme Eman Daryl. Together, these guys made the evil funny master invincible (rawr – murag lion).

But wait, there’s more adding to the army. The assistant managers Eddie Ybanez and Vince Loremia adding some arrows that tickles to the bones of the subject. From time to time they hit small blows to the subject that lightens the worplace’s atmosphere even more. Waiting at the sides to make a devilish smiles and simple laughs that spells more arrows for a Nile Sensie are Neftali Papelleras and John Rey Borres.

Above these all, the audience hungers for more joke to explode are Ebi, Angela and Rey Philip Siega Regis. These guys are sitting at the front row while the act is on going all day and everyday.

But our subject a Nile Sensie would not let himself being just a mere subject. He will fight to his last breath. He will be strong and brave all these funny villains. He will not let the wrath hurt him. He will not let himself hit by these sharps arrows of low blows.  He will win the fight. He will.

But not until a Nile Sensie will fight back, this story will remain unfinished.

In my possibly last month here, let me have this moment to introduce to you my LRDC Support Services team mates.

Firstly is our Project Analyst, Miss Gladys Lumanog. A married woman, about 5 feet tall in her 30′s. A beautiful, nice and warm project analyst. She’s been with Lexmark for 8 years now including her contractual years like I am now. A very professional and witty analyst. She is willing to impart her learning to those who are willing to learn. She loves to see people growing and learning with her help and guidance.  She masters Lotus Notes , Visual basic and .Net programming. A woman with a heart. A true definition of small but terribly witty woman.

Then Genevieve Tero, also an application developer. A former contractual employee now having her time as a regular employee. A meek woman with wits. She does best with her job. She know what she is doing and is confident about it. A seldom talker but a frequent performer as I would describe her. The management even plan sending her to travel for China to facilitate the project there. Unfortunately, because of the error entered on her birth certificate, she can’t be there.

Mr. Renemar Sultones, a web developer. He is an LRDC home grown programmer. He has been with LRDC for six months now. He’s here in this team even before us. A master of PHP programming and also has a wide knowledge with Java programming. He has developed big and difficult systems in his short stay at LRDC. He is a man who knows how to value a single peso from his pocket. He is the sole person in our team who has saved more than half of his 6 months salary. A human ant in action. A millionaire in the future.

Roche Plando, an application developer. Still under contract with an agency like me. A programmer by heart with a shadow of a beauty queen. I’ve been with this guy since the last year of college. We’ve work with many software developments since then. He is knowledgeable in PHP, Lotus Notes and .Net Programming.

Finally is the guy who joined the team last. He is Jeremy Ling. He master PHP programming as he has worked with this programming language for many years now. A former team lead now a IT Web Developer. I can’t tell you more about this guy except that he is professionally and personally good.

These are all my team mates here at Lexmark Research and Development Corporation. A stay with them is forever valued and treasured.

Now is the first day of December 2010 and I can’t get over the feeling that it’s Christmas again. The time for love, joy and happiness. The yuletide season! The season to share love with family, friends, love ones and mostly for yourself to make this season full of joy and happiness.

Last year, I was still with my previous employer. I can still remember I emceed the company Christmas party together with Iresh and my friend Bobie. It was the most memorable and the happiest christmas party I’ve ever been. Wheew. Writing this sadden my heart because I will not be experiencing it again. Never again. I’ll be missing a lot. Lots of my friends. To name a few, there is who I call Mami Mai, Dhang, May, Melanie, Miss K, Noel, At Riza, Ivy Taas, Ivy Gamay, Emz, April, my batchmates and whole of Anthem. (Sigh).. I just missed you all. I may not be with them but I am still thankful though for the chance and the time to experience  such a party. I wish them success and happiness in life.

I am currently at the office but I can’t miss the first of December 2010 without writing anything on my blog. I’ve got two deadlines and presentations later this afternoon but it’s okay. It’s fine cause I know I’ll be fine. I could only wish for more of the words love, joy and happiness entails as much as I would like to feel the true meaning of success.

Merry Christmas All.

While we were on our way to the salon, I started reminiscing that small and always smiling little guy. Everytime I see him, he never lose that smile. I still want to see that same smile when I’ll meet him.

Our personal driver Mr. Welkie didn’t know the salon or where the new market is. What we had is the direction given by Julnamie which we just followed. Fortunately locating the salon was not a hard task. We arrived at the place with a big question mark on our faces. We all had the same question in our mind, if it was the salon where Niño was.

Rheamy was the one to recognized Niño first. I was still in question if it was really him, but he recognized me first and greeted me with a smile. The smile I wanted to see from him. He even called me “Ga” which I am not used to be called. Welkie and Rheamy were laughing upon hearing what Niño called me. But it was okay. It was not a big deal.

We stopped at the salon for a very refreshing talk with Niño. It was a fun filled talk. Everyone was all laughing. This guy never changed. He was the same Niño that I’ve know decades ago. Our next stop is Anthony’s.

Anyways, just as soon as I posted my first blog, the second came next and so on. I am also conscious with my blog’s daily visitors. I always check my blog stats to check if the number is incrementing everyday. I been so happy so far with the result because each day, I have visitors and they are adding up to total.

Today, I checked with google to see how my My Daily Servings fair with the competition on google rank. I was stunned with the result. Though the ranking with Google Pilipinas and Google USA is not the same but either way the result made my heart leaped.

For Google Pilipinas, My Daily Servings rank first:

And for Google USA, My Daily Servings rank second:

See if for yourself, google keyword “My Daily Servings” or “mydailyservings”

All came back to me. Everything that I planned before I graduate from college back to the years when I’ve stopped studying until the day I graduated from high school. All the plans from there came back to me upon hearing Joan’s line. I have great plans and aspirations in life. I worked dead hard just to achieve those dreams but I fell short. I am not even half way there. I’ve only achieved less than I planned to achieve. I’ve only reached the first step of the ladder on the way to the top.

Knowing how far it is, makes me feel nervous and scared of life. A year is just days away. Every year that ends, is another year adding up to my age, another new pressure and a year less to my target. But I am not achieving anything. What I am scared of is living my life amounting to nothing. I’ve been living this life for more 2 decades now. What about the next decade? Will I be achieving something for myself? Something that is fulfilling? Something that is the realization of some of my dreams? Too many questions but until now I deem grasping.

Please visit bogoonDOTcom to know Jo Ann Origenes’ line that strike me straight to the heart.

I read a comment on my post from my friend Jerilyn Calambro about our friend; Blesselda Capacio’s nearing flight abroad. I was so shocked, awakened and disappointed. I was shocked to hear the news about her going abroad because it is not this soon that I am expecting her to go out from this country and find a vast prairie of opportunity in another country. I was awakened and at the same time disappointed because from the time that I got her number from our common friend; Welkie, I failed many times in sending her an SMS. It was almost a month now when I had her number but I failed to send her a simple hi and hello.

Right after reading the comment, I instantly grabbed my phone and sent her a hi and how are you. A message of missing and love for her was all I could do during that instant. I could not understand my feelings very well that time but all I know is to say all those words to her. I really miss her so much even if I failed many times contacting her. Gladly I received a reply from her and the texting goes on from there. Then I suggested to have a reunion with the group before her leaving for another land. And I am writing this post hoping that:

WENDILYN REÑA
JERILYN CALAMBRO
BLESSELDA CAPACIO
LAVINIA MONTEBON
CONCHITA CALUBAG
JESSICA GEMUTA
ARMIDA JADRAQUE
SHARON AZARCON
RAMONITO ROLDAN

could read this. Guys, let us meet before Blesselda can be far far away from us all. Please text me at 09228408714, 09103408714.

I will be waiting………………..

We just walked our way to Julnamie’s house. Before really seeing Julnamie, we were guided by a little boy to where she is really living with Niño Sayson(one of our batchmate and Julnamie’s better half). Reaching there place was disappointing because she was not there. The excitement I had was about to burst but I keep my balance. So we went to her mother’s place. There was Julnamie beside a the well which is also just along the national road. She was doing their laundry. I could almost run towards her but I keep my pace. I went to her and hugged her. God knows how I missed this girl so much. Beside her was her little princess. Oh, I can’t remember her princess’ name. My bad and my apology to Julnamie.

She was also surprised to see us three there. Like she always was, a very accommodating to her friends, she left her laundry to settled for a talk that we never had for more than a decade.

Julnamie Castro, a daughter of the barangay’s health officer, a typical morena, beautiful, an twinkling eyes, a good hearted, good sense of humor and true friend. This is how I remember her. Her princess was sitting on her lap while we were talking. That talked was like in my grade four. It is as if I went back to the past along with Rheamy and Welkie. We were like sitting there as grade 4 students. Hearing Julnamie’s voice while she was talking to us, she brought me back to the past. Though she has her princess and Niño in her life, she is still this Julnamie that I’ve known. I thank for time didn’t allow her to change into someone I could not even dare looking. She was still this girl I always wanted to see.

The talked was so light, funny and full of good memories in the past. Then we decided to go to Molobolo Spring to bask ourselves in the cold spring and a sea water just beside it. To rekindle, reconnect, and spend a little more time with each other.

Remember my post ”A dinner with my friend to call it a day”? She is was the girl I was referring to. Remember also the I’ve mentioned in that post about their moving to Tuburan? That is how my hope of seeing her there started. And finally, I’ve seen, met and hugged her. I just missed Rheamy so badly.

There are many reasons why I missed her so much. For one, she is the daughter of a couples who was so good to me way back in my childhood – my tiyo and tiya. Second, she is one of my closest relatives. Third, she is my classmate and batchmate. Forth, she is one of my closest friends. Fifth and final, she was so good to me and someone I just cant dare forgetting. And so I really longed and looked forward to seeing her. I am just so blessed that day that I’ve met her.

Rheamy Ligtas way back in elementary was a refine and beautiful girl. She was quite at times and rowdy at some times. She was good in class and to everyone in the campus. But you just have to make the first approach because she was not used to doing it first. I cant forget competing with her for the best in writing which she eventually won. She was a lady amidst kids.

We went along well with our other barkadas. It was only when I transferred to the city for my last year in elementary that I separate ways with them.