Marvin’s Place

It’s been almost two months now since I started working as a Live Voice Response agent in a contact center here in the Philippines. We serve American customers, so we work nightshift (my schedule is 3am to 12noon). So, I am awake in the evening and asleep in the day.

I’ve been one year married (last July), my son’s almost one year old also (do the computations). My work eats my time for my family. At least I have saturdays and sundays for my family. But it is really hard since I have to sleep during those days… I don’t sleep and it affects my brain (not functioning correctly, hehe).

This day, I have to sleep in our office because we had a change in schedule (just for today) for updates in our system. So I didn’t go home. I tried to sleep in our sleeping quarters, and you know what, I can’t sleep. I feel I want to go home… but time bounds me. If I go home, I won’t be able to get back to work in time (due the sched).

When I fell asleep (after an hour), I dreamt about my family.

I miss them…. even though I see them everyday, I don’t have enough time for them… and it hurts me because my boy is closer to my in-laws than me.

It saddens me.. But I still thank God because I have saturdays and sundays for my family and ministry. Other contact centers don’t have those….

Soli Deo Gloria

I’m still in the stage of adjusting for work. This is (technically) my first job. After studying and doing nothing but stay home, here I am working in a contact center on graveyard shift. I feel very tired. But I enjoy what I do and also the people I work with.

Thinking about my family and their future gives me strength to continue working.

However, I am really tired. I need to get a good rest. But though the week’s almost finished for my job, mine’s not. I still have to do a lot of things this weekend. Have to do the invitations for my son’s birthday, assessment papers for our Sunday School, fix our home pc, and others.

But despite of all the stress, I thank God ‘coz He never failed to give me strength and knowledge. Without Him, I may have quit the job. I also thank God because our work schedule is Monday to Friday only, so i have Sundays for the Lord…. I still have Sundays to praise the Lord….

 ”God is enthroned on the praises of His people” - Ps. 22:3

Soli Deo Gloria!

(btw, it means glory to God alone)

While going home from work, my wife sent me a text message telling me to buy diapers for our baby, and also meat for dinner. So I went to a supermarket along way home. Bought the products and some other stuff (bought my favorite coffee creamer, hazzlenut flavor). When exited the building, it’s dark (it is 3 in the afternoon, sun should be shining bright). And along way home, riding on a passenger jeep, rain poured, and it was very heavy.

So I sent message to my wife to fetch me on the street. But there was no one waiting for me. I am already wet and I took shelter in a waiting shed a block away from house. I called my wife, she didn’t answered the phone. I tried to call someone else in the house, no one’s answering….. I sent messages to all of the people in the house, but nobody fetched me. To my frustration (I am a bit angry), I walked in the rain going home.

Now, I am not feeling well (worse than yesterday). I had a bit discussion with my wife regarding this matter, but it was resolved (my wife’s sleeping but someone who’s awake didn’t mind answering the phone).

Got to do work…..

What’s the use of mobile phones when no one’s answering it…..?

Monday morning, when I woke up, I had this terrible pain with my left shoulder. Maybe due to my tiredness and lack of proper sleep (working on graveyard shift for a contact center), I slept on a wrong position. It made my whole monday terrible. I should be sleeping the whole Monday, but due to the pain, I wasn’t able to sleep that much.

When I went to work, it affected my job. It’s hard for me to move my left arm and my neck. Gladly I only have to move my fingers and right hand most of the time.

However, the pain hasn’t yet subside and it’s already Tuesday. And it had moved to my upper neck.

Maybe I have to change my sleeping position or change the pillows on our bed….

it aches and it makes me feel like my whole body is aching….

Well, have to do work, with or without pain, have to take in calls….

Soli Deo Gloria..

I am the who preached in our church last sunday. My scripture reference is Galatians 4:4,5. It is about the law and grace… I believe I have delivered the message properly, my problem is….

The last time I preached in our church, It took me 1 hr and 30 min….. too long… It took me that long because I wasn’t able to prepare my transcript. So last Saturday, I still wasn’t able to prepare my transcript (due to the nature of my work, i work graveuyard shift). So i brought a timer during preaching. I told the congregation that it would not reach more than 20 minutes.. But my timer didn’t alarm, so when i felt that my message is too long, I ended it (properly though).

Then when I am checking my timer, I discovered that I set my timer to 20 hours instead of 20 minutes…

The next time I’ll be preaching, I’ll make a transcript to avoid overtime….

Soli Deo Gloria.

Forget about last weeks post….. let’s start with weekend…

When I got home from work, I ate lunch and then, me and my wife went to 3 different places looking for a venue for our son’s (so close) birthday. First, we went to Pearl, it is expensive (Php 220/head) and the place is hard to locate. Then we went to Jollibee, place is too small and.. Jollibee ‘again’…..

Gladly, while going to Jollibee, we saw an on-road restaurant having a birthday party… we checked it out… Boom…. place is big, it’s easy to locate, and cheap enough (Php 170/head 4 dishes w/ salad and drinks). All we need to do is estimate how many people will attend…..

I thought I could have enough sleep this weekend.. but no…. after looking for a venue, I have to prepare for my message for Sunday Preaching….

Have to wake up early… sleep in the afternoon,, not much… have to fix computer…. then…. darn… I lost all the data in my hard disk…… all of my son’s picts and other important stuff is in it… have to buy a new hard drive and pray that i could still recover data from the old one..

Monday, yeah, i got sleep, but i can’t because my shoulder is killing me…..

Up till now it’s aching…. i’m in work now,,, 30 minutes to take in calls…..

God bless.

despite all of this things…

Soli Deo Gloria!

I have already set up my blog site… then suddenly, I found it hard to use Joomla! for blogging.. Joomla! is a great (CMS), but for just blog, it’s too great…

I’ll be posting here (again) things I have posted in the Joomla!. Now, i’m using wordpress, simpler and more specific to blogging.

God bless you..

Soli Deo Gloria.