After a week of having dry and hard cough… I am still not feeling well….

Took meds prescribe by the physician… but it didn’t work for me… I still have cough…

I usually have cough during this month because of the random changes in temperature…

I am forced not to go to work last Wednesday because of my condition….

I am at work,,, and I am having hard time doing my job.. I cough and my throat sucks…

er….

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.

We just transfered to our new home. We used to be on the 4th floor of our building, now we are on the 5th floor. It is because of the expansion of our business.

Drawback, it is hard to transfer files. We’re not bringing our computers but we have to transfer files. And that is hard.

Well, have to adjust because the mouse is different from what we used. Everything looks the same except the mouse.

Anyway, have to get back to work.

Soli Deo Gloria.

When I was in my early teen age years, I became addicted to coffee. My minimum daily coffe intake was 5 cups  a day. That’s minimum. Then after months of having this addiction, I tried to cut it off. And I was succesful.

I was drinking at least a cup (sometimes none) of coffee a day then.

But now, I started working in graveyard shift, I have to take in coffee. And without my knowledge, my addiction is back. I can’t live without a coffee a day. Brewed or instant, I must  have a coffee.

But today, our coffee vendo machine is not working, and I forgot my mug at home. My mind is spinning. I am feeling sleepy. I NEED COFFEE. But I can’t. Maybe this lunch I can take some in the pantry. But how about for the next 4 hours of work. No coffee. Aaarrrggghhh…

Need to take this addiction off of me.

Have you been addicted to coffee?

Last weekend, my family went home to my hometown to visit my relatives and give out invitations for my son’s birthday. I wasn’t able to get enough rest.

This weekend, I will be going to Tagaytay together with my co-workers for our team building. We will go there right after our shift. This is sponsored by our company, so I have to come. We have activities and lots of side activities. We will stay there for one night and go home noon of the next day. But I will go home morning because I have to go to the 1st year anniversary of one of the church that I assisted (music).

So, I am expecting no sleep and lots of work this weekend.

God bless….

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