Mission Accomplished...

We have just finished our presentation for our 2012 Business Plan. And It turned out alright. Although I must admit, I quite forgot one line on my spiel but according to my team mates, it's not halata. It was so unnerving, so surreal. To think that I was there, in front of our big BIG Bosses and presentig about out plans and strategies for next year - oh my! I'm still shivering. But it went so well that our next year's budget has been approved. I'm so happy that I've pulled it through. Thanks to GOD talaga!

Now my next assignment is my preparation for AJ's 4th birthday. I actually intended to celebrate it simply. Like Spaghetti and Cake lang with the whole family. But my little girl is requesting to have a swimming party just like what we did on her Ate Eunice's birthday last July. Imagine that! She is so demanding for a 4-year old! So my husband and I decided that it would be a swimming party on her birthday. Ha-ha! Spoiled little brat ain't she?

a career milestone...

Next monday will be our Company's 2012 Business Plan presentation. I was once of unfortunately fortunate one's to present this year's BP. This will be presented to our Company's President, Chairman and stakeholders (including investors and partners from South Asia). Being away from school for almost a decade made my memorization a little too rusty but I think I can fix that. My real problem is my NERVES! As in! I do have problems w/ speaking in front of a lot of people, i buckle and stutter a lot. Not only that, but something in me makes me lock all my systems and make me shutdown. And the more everybody lauds me and says "kaya mo 'yan", the more I would want to curl up and hide.

Now I have to work this all out Big Time! With only less than a week before the actual presentation, I have to steady my frying nerves, I have to memorize and correctly pronunciate my high fallutin' spiels, and to top it all I have to remember to SMILE. Which makes it all the more difficult. Because, Okay, I have already memorized my spiels, but i buckle, when i do not buckle, I have to remember to smile, and when I did start to smile, I forget my lines. Haaist! Who says life is not difficult?

So I need to learn how to put this act up together. This is a big opportunity for me to show them what I got (If i really got "IT"). I am praying to God to help me soothe my nerves, to help me remember all my lines and make me look confident in front of my bosses.

I hope that I can do this...

To God be the Glory.

on bus terminals in malibay

Last all soul's day, my mother went to her province in Roxas city for a vacation, she stayed there for a week (I'm so inggit!). Then she went back via Ro-ro and arrived at 3AM in Manila. She was supervising over my 2 cousins who were hauling sacks of rice off the bus when somebody snatched her bag. My cousins attempted to run after the snatcher but my mother held them back, too afraid na baka saksakin sila ng snatcher. She then sat down on the sack of rice too trembling to move. After a while, the dispatcher from the bus company (I won't say the name - basta it's somewhere in Malibay, Pasay), went over and ask my mother if she wants her bag back. My mother said yes and told the dispatcher na di baleng walang pera basta yung mga Id's and documents nya mai-save. The dispatcher told them to wait. After 30 mins or so, the bag returned (even the wallet I gave to her) but her celphone and all ther money were gone (good thing she only has less than 500 in her wallet - bad thing is - my check - worth 3K -payable to cash - cross checked - was also gone). Nakakaloka, we all think that the bus' dispatcher knows the snatcher or he might also be kasabwat. We don't actually know if we should be thankful for the "good-natured" dispatcher since if it weren't for him, my mother's bag won't be returned. But...there's still a big BUT there...

This should be an eye opener to all bus companies out there...
I don't know if there's anything left to hope for but still..

I hope that they CAN be able to implement stricter and tighter security measures (CAN being the operative word) to ensure their passengers' well being.
I hope they CAN also oversee the welfare of their own people (again, CAN being the operative word) so to ensure that their employees will be able to refrain from being to friendly with scalawags and savage humans (or from being scalawags themselves).

As for my mom... well she learned her lesson...(i hope), she'll not be taking Ro-ro anytime again soon)