I’ve spent 9 days (including 4 day offs) of vacation.

Things that happened….

    * My son celebrated his 1st birthday last October 28 (his actual birthday is 29th)….

    * My son’s baptism (i’m a Presbyterian) also happened that day…

    * Went home to my hometown with my wife and son and spent 4 days there…..

    * Had a quarterly evaluation meeting with my sunday school staff.

    * Tried to fix my pc using an old (slow) 6gig hard drive…. it worked, but slow

    * Packed our things (the house we’re staying, my in-law’s, is going to be renovated)

    * in all of these, I am with my family.

Vacation, but tired.

 back to work, have to be serious again…. 

Soli Deo Gloria

Next week, our operations department estimated that there will be a very low volume of calls. With that, they offered a one week vacation for some of the agents. Well the offer is tempting and tricky. It’s 5 days. Two of them are paid vacation, while the other 3 are not (but no effect on our metrics or performance grades). It was offered yesterday, and I am thinking not to get into it. But when I talked to my wife about this, she told me that I should take the offer so I could have a rest Since I am working at the night shift).

So, I took the offer and, alas, I have a 5 day (technically 9 including the day offs) of vacation. Though I would only get two days of pay next week (without the night differetial), I believe the rest is enough. And at last, I’ll be able to spend longer time with my family. It’s semestral break and my wife’s on vacation also from teaching.

Also, It’s my son’s birthday on monday (but the celebration is on sunday). So, I have time for him.

I am also planning of going to my hometown, together with my family.

A long vacation, and also a lot of things to do. (But it’s worth it).

I might not be able to post blog within the week, but I’ll try to.

God bless you.

I had a very satisfying weekend….

Satuday, after getting home from work, I took time to play with my son. He already starting to walk. So I took short videos (using a digicam, have no video cam) of my son while walking, stubling and laughing and playing… He’s a very active boy…

He also can speak a word, and it is “Hello”. My son’s 11 months old and he’s already doing things typical 11 month Filipino baby doesn’t do.. yet, he only those things when he want to. If he’s not in the mood, he won’t do it…

All in all, i had a good time with my family. Though i wasn’t able to get enough sleep, I am still satisfied.

I thank God for my family…

Soli Deo Gloria…

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