Interview

As all of you know, I am job-hunting now. I am currently a bum in a foreign land. All I have to do and focus on is landing a job in the soonest possible time. I admit, I am quite pressured, but not that much. I just don't like the idea of asking money again from my parents. The feeling sucks big time!

Anyway, I had my second interview this morning. I really want that job. I feel that I would grow there. I would be able to maximize my full potentials in that institution. Before I forget, the company is Rex Studio. It's a Chinese company established recently. I didn't feel burdened during the interview. Everything was great. I came in 10 minutes early- I know that's kinda late but what am I suppose to do, I went off on a different bus stop. I rode a taxi afterwards to be there on a decent time. The guy who interviewed me was not hard to understand at all. He almost had a neutral accent as compared to other people I come across with everyday. He asked questions about my professional profile and how I went from being a Consultant to being just a front desk officer. I politely answered that that was the only job I could get that would fit into my schedule. I didn't have trouble answering the questions. What bothers me is that if I don't qualify for the job. That would really bite me. Grr. Now, I just have to wait for their call. He said that they would update me within 1-2 days. I am really hoping and praying that I get this post. 

Here's the website of Rex Studio

Day 2 OJT at CLTV36 (late upload)

I arrived early at the office. Pero 'di naman sobrang aga dahil ang hirap sumakay ng alas-sais ng umaga. When I arrived, many co-workers were already busy prepping the script, the set, the make-up and other stuff na related sa live prod. I immediately got the feeling na this day would not be like my first. This would be somewhat different. At least, that was what I was hoping. My first task for the day was to photocopy 10 sets of scripts and collate them. Good thing I had a background in photocopying,  so I didn't have a hard time completing the task. My only mistake was imbes na face up ang text ng scratch paper, face down ko pinasok sa machine. Oyun, nagkapatong-patong tuloy ang print ko. Buti na lang talaga alam ko ang gagawin ko. Nag-print ako ulit nung mga nasira. LOL

After that, I was assigned to operate the tele-prompter. O diba? Feel na feel ko na ang pagiging PA. haha Mejo palpak nung una dahil ngayon ko pa lang nanavigate yun. Kahapon kasi, puro panood-nood lang ang peg ko. :) 

Natapos na din ang pag-aala PA ko and move na sa next task which is ang maghanap ng nawawalang tape. Inikot ko na ang mga nakakalat ng tapes and archives wala. I went to check if it was misplaced sa ibang departments pero wala parin. OM, nakakaduling din pala mangalkal...so ayun, give up na ako. Wala talaga ang tape ng "OSD Metabolic Surgery Raw". Di ko talaga mahanap kahit na pa apat ang mata ko.

Moving on, ibang level na ang pinagawa sa akin. They asked me to transcribe an interview. Nung una, kapa kapa pa ako because I don't know what to do and what-nots. So ayun, parang pakikinig lang pala ng lyrics ng kanta yun at the same time, type mo na din. I thought it was easy kasi parang nakikinig ka lang sa calls then idodocument mo. Hindi pala. This was much harder because you have to type every word uttered plus yung length nung mga sinabi nya. Akala ko nga matutuyuan na ako ng utak. haha Unfortunately, I didn't finish it yet. The other department needs the Tracker kasi e (player pala yun kung saan play-pause-rewind-forward mo yung tape. Now ko lang nalaman na tracker pala tawag dun.) So ayun tambay muna ako ng konti.

Lunch has passed and may new-old task nanaman ako. Akala ko malulusutan ko na...di pala. Inutusan nanaman akong bumili ng food. Tawid and lakad nanaman ako ng malayo. This time, mejo nag-iba na sila ng order: 5 palabok, 1 yemas and 5 softdrinks. O diba, social! Sabi ko tuloy sa sarili ko, magdadala na ako ng payong. Kahit pa manghiram nalang ako sa kapitbahay para di madulok yung zebra skin ko. 

I have arranged the food individually tapos noon, I went to help at the studio. May taping kasi eh. And-and-and, kumuha at nag-abot nanaman ako ng water. I know better this time na meron talagang may gusto ng maligamgam. Maybe because it's freezing cold inside the studio. Talagang nakakapanigas ng kaluluwa yung pagtambay doon. After ng ilang abot at bawi, natapos din. Next task is to give the food sa mga guests and escort them to the elevator. Dapat magpaka PA ka and say, "thank you, balik po kayo..." with matching smile na abot sa tenga. Effort!

Gayunpaman, I'm happy because I feel na I have learned something. Hands-on din pala sila. Pakipot lang sa simula. :D Siguro at first, they think na di mo pa kaya kaya instead of gambling na baka pumalpak ka, they would rather do it muna. 

Malapit na ang time and I am excited to go home. Nga-nga lang kasi yung pinapatranscribe sa akin, need pala matapos by the end of the day. Sa madaling salita, I waited for the News Department to finish using the Tracker nang magamit and matapos ko na yung work ko. Napa-OT pa tuloy ako ng hindi oras. Pero ayos lamang kasi masaya naman e. I'm getting the "feel" of it and so far, I am liking it. I finished the work after an hour or so and I emailed it to my Boss. O diba, kahit pagod oks lang kasi may natatapos akong work. 

At the end of the day, wala akong masabi. Masaya lang. Sana sa mga susunod na araw ay mas madami pa akong matutunan. Oh and sana mag-field ako-like yung out of studio taping. I bet, that is more fun than studio tapings. :)))))

Post Script: I will try and document my upcoming OJT days basta di ako tamarin. Good night. :*

Rants

Well, a lot has happened in a few months time... To start off, I just graduated from College. I know, it's way too late to write about it and all but I think it's about time to face it. I'm no longer a student. I should start paving the road to my chosen path or career. Am i right or right? I shall now act maturely and avoid doing irrational decisions. I shall now start to be a bit more serious...Even if I know deep in my heart that I CAN'T! haha

Second, I just finished my ever-consistent Summer Job. It was really fun! Even if at times, I feel like quitting because I feel that I am wasting my time there. That shindig was such an adventure! It made me learn a lot of things and at the same time discover stuff that would add to my developing personality. I'm quite sad that it has to end and we all have to go back to our normal lives. My gosh, I feel that that was indeed a summer affair. I feel heartbroken and sad. The separation (from my new found friends) is really making me anxious, hence, the separation anxiety I am now experiencing while writing this no-good insight of mine. 

I feel that I have to much more to say...ehem... write pala. But I'd rather keep my thoughts to myself muna (kuno) para may konting surprise diba? Alangan naman isang bagsakan na lang lahat ng kwento ko. HAHA Enough of this, I will write again soon. As in really soon. Adios! 

LIfe Nowadays

I am super-gaduper busy nowadays that's why I can't write that often. So many things has been taking my time like school works, projects and activities plus some personal stuff. I just hope that everything will fall into its place because I can not afford to make a mistake especially now that I am graduating. Hayyy. I feel so tired. :/ and I haven't got a complete 8-hour sleep for weeks now. Imagine me, looking like a Panda. My golly. This will soon end, crossed-fingers. 

Trumpet Flower

So, it has been a while since I posted something here. I was quite busy with school stuff like my Thesis and Documentary. I am intentionally avoiding ranting about thesis now so I will just share with you our Documentary Film Production topic which is basically about the flowers you see below. Our working title is "Trumpet Flower": A Devil within an Angel. Well, our topic is about this cute trumpet shaped flowers which is said to be used as an alternative to Marijuana because of its effects to human beings. Little did the so-called users know that this will change their lives forever- this will kill them figuratively or sometimes literally. By the way, our working title is "Trumpet Flower: A Devil within an Angel." We chose that because in some countries, these flowers are called Angel's Trumpet because of its beauty and Devil's Breath because of its hazardous effects.

According to www.rightdiagnosis.com,The trumpet flower is a flowering vine-like plant that bears fairly large, colorful, trumpet-shaped flowers. It is often grown in gardens as an ornamental plant. The leaves and flowers of the plant contain chemicals (solanine, solanidine) which are highly toxic. Ingestion of sufficient flowers and leaves can result in death. 

In Colombia, people use this to do criminal acts against other people like raping, stealing, murder, etc. What they do is they pulverize the seeds and then process it with some chemicals and voila! you have yourself a modern-day roofie. 

My Dad and I watched a documentary about this some years ago. And in the video, that person who used this actually lost his mind due to continuous use. This stuff will fry your brains and will make you like a living zombie without the power to control your free will. 

When we were drafting our topic for the Docu, my mates and I agreed to try this. But after some serious research and hear-says from experts, na-uhhhh, we decided we won't ever try this sick stuff. 

So done, with the scary stuff, my mates and I are headed to Baguio City where this is abundantly growing like a wild grass. We are going to be conducting interviews with experts there who has a background about the said drug. 

I hope everything will fall into its place and I wish that we can find a subject who can tell us his/her first-hand experience about this. Aright, I'll give an update as soon as I have some additional info. :) Ciao!

now what?

I had to do so many school-related stuff today, gosh, this day drained the shit out of me and the only way that I could unwind and replenish my diminishing neurons aside from puffing and huffing some cigs is by tweaking the layout of my Social Networking Site profiles. See, I am very stressed because it's Hell Week a.k.a. Exam Week and because of my expertise, procrastination, all my requirements are piled up and due in a few days or so. I am really looking forward to the day that this is all over. HAHA I'm sure I am going to celebrate bigtime! Okay, so going back to my SNS profiles, here is what I did. Feel free to check them out. 


Twitter: https://twitter.com/redjsabog
Tumblr: http://redjsabog.tumblr.com/


Oh and by the way, I created my official watermark/whatevermark mark too. Here it is! 

It is quite simple, I drew the exact thing on a clean sheet of bond paper and then I took a photo, uploaded it and then edited it via Photoshop. The color will vary and depend upon the photo I'm gonna upload. :)

I also edited this photo of me by changing the color to gray scale and by adding a text below plus my watermark. 

Hmmm, by seeing the stuff I did for my Social Life, I feel like I am somehow relaxed coz it has been days now that I've been ranting about how my social life is affected by school work especially Thesis. 


Post Script: Thesis, this one is for you. First of all, I just wanna let you know that I despise you. I hate your very existence and I don't see your point of being. And also you have no right or whatsoever to take my life away either literally or figuratively. I will not let you take my happiness away, ever! You can no longer stress me because I will defeat you. Copish? 

CLTV Trip

I went last Friday to CLTV 36 to get my certificate for training and guess what? As always, I've been disappointed again for the nth time. The Bitch, code named Dragon made sure that I knew she was important. She made me wait for a quarter of an hour just to get my certificate where in reality, it should have  been just like a 5 minutes or so. Kaasar yung mga taong walang pakikisama and worst, walang professionalism sa balat! I called her a few weeks ago to make sure that my certificate is printed and ready for pick up, and she said yes. But, when I went there, it seems it's not yet set. Hay nakooooo!

My Heart

I have been victimized by the song "My Heart" by Paramore! I can't get the phrase "my heart beats, beats for only you" out of my head. I therefore decided to make a graphic shirt layout made out of letters and hearts and g-clefs.lol Here's my final output. Hope you like it!

-------->> here's the song

07/12/12

I went to SM around 9:45 AM yesterday to watch the showcased movies of the award winning internationally-acclaimed independent film director BRILLANTE "DANTE" MENDOZA at Cinema 1. The first movie, Kaleldo was great. It was semi-mainstream because of the Star-studded cast but still, the basic elements of an indie film are still present. I like how Brillante was able to show reality without hesitations on this movie. The second film entitled "Manoro" was a bit sloppy. I know, the story was great but the cinematography was not at all good. I'm sorry, but I slept halfway through the movie. I liked how the story inspired people, but still, it's a bit boring. 

After watching the movie and mingling with Direk Brillante, our stomachs were grumbling and all so we decided to grab something to eat before going back to school. Since me and my classmates have a lot in mind, we decided to just head towards the Food Court and grab whatever we craved and alas! I got myself some mouth-watering Shawarma from Passport Foods. Ang sarap lang. Omnomnomnomnom. :))) oh, as you can see walang onions yung sa akin. Yay!!

After eating, we headed straight to the Terminal to attend our 4 PM class. We were late, but our teacher came much later than us. HAHA.