A Decade of My LIFE

I have shared my life with a lot of people and had a fair share with them. Looking back in what happened in my life in the past decade, so far, these are the most important things that had happened in my fabulous life. 

2000. The year I met my first girlfriend and experienced how love was great and pure. PERIOD!

2001. My heart was broken for the first time. I managed to be in the top of the class at the end of my third year in high school. My High School Senior life started.

2002. I met my second girlfriend but it only lasted for a short time. I graduated in high school although I wasn't able to give my mom a medal and I was frustrated and came to the point I blamed myself why I had to join the volleyball varsity team.  Still, I was happy because I started my college life being a TOMASINO.

2003. Ended a one –year relationship with a guy. Yes, my first boyfriend and had my second boyfriend who happened to my schoolmate but with a different course. Had my second out of the country vacation and it was in US. It was a family vacation and we spent our summer with the Arellano Family in Tinley Park, IL. We had side trips in Chicago, IL, New York City, NY, Orlando, FL and San Francisco, CA. It was a blast.

2004. For the first time, I flunked a subject because of a bad break-up. It affected me so much.  At the same time, I was accidentally become OUT to my family. Although, I admitted it to my aunt, my father’s youngest sister, and to my aunt’s best friend and later on, the best friend told it to my mom. My parents didn’t talk to me for a month because of what happened. In the middle of the year, I was introduced to Pinoy Pride, an LGBT Forum Site.

2005. Celebrated my 2^nd decade of existence. Pinoy Pride had their 1^st GEB party in Club Government, Makati City with its theme, Pride & Power. I was part of it and was their Logistics Officer at that time. It was fun celebrating PRIDE with your friends.

2006. Started my senior year in UST-Faculty of Engineering and I handled two organizations which were Engineering COMELEC and EnTER CoDe (Engineering Team for Emergency Response and Community Development) and became the Chairman and Vice-President for Logistics respectively.  I was so busy with studies, organizations, and other stuffs like thesis and projects. I still managed to have a social life.

2007.  First month of the year, the Civil Engineering Class of 2007 had a 5-day field trip Baguio with a side trip in La Union. It was a blast and had fun enjoying our vacation and not thinking about studies, thesis and projects at that time. I am part of the UST-Engineering Centennial Batch and I was proud of it because graduated on time. At the end of the year, PRC (Professional Regulation Commission) released a memorandum for all Civil Engineering examinees who took the Board Exam on November that the two subjects should have a retake exam. 

2008. January came for the Retake exam for the Civil Engineering examinees; I was one of the boycotters of the batch. For the second time, my parents didn’t talk to me and they immediately said that I should have a job as soon as possible because they wouldn’t give me any allowances anymore. I was forced to look for work and ended up being a call center agent for Sykes Asia, Inc. I never regret that I ended up working in a BPO Industry but thanking God for what He had gave me. I gain new friends again. Tiffany Gurls was born in this year and thanks to my fabulous friends, you know who you are.

2009. I resigned from Sykes Asia, Inc. last February to take the Civil Engineering May Board Exams and luckily, I passed after a two-month refresher course. Whew! I can now call myself as a licensed Civil Engineer and easily got a job at EIFS, Inc. were I was a Project Engineer but didn't stay that long. Then, I got bored. I applied again in BPO Industry and finally had my 3^rd job. I gain new friends. Then a bad news struck our family, my maternal grandfather died at the age of 87 last July. Everybody was shocked including my relatives in US and Canada. Lastly, my Berks never failed to have a monthly bonding.

2010. My life is still unwritten.

I was reading my past 5 Starbucks planner dated back 2005 and looking for a quotes that I had written when my friends sent me a text message and ended up with a quote that really struck me and what I can say to my life right now. 

You are what you repeatedly do. It starts with INTELLIGENCE, then a HABIT, then your CHARACTERISTIC and finally your DESTINY.

One-Year Ago.

March 3, 2008, I AM SYKES. This was the first day I started working with Sykes and I never regret working in a call center like Sykes. Although I don’t have any experience in a call center. I was glad that I had a work that time even though my course was totally different from it.

Two weeks of core skills and call center communication training was given by Sykes to its new employees like me and had two weeks also of product training from the account which I was affiliated which was Office Depot. During those weeks, I had the pleasure meeting new people and gaining new friends, which I was thankful. Especially the Unwritten Girls: Julius, Sushi, Red, Jan, Jojo and Me; and we were all gay.

I stayed for Office Depot as a Customer Service Representative for almost 7 months and had one of the closest friends,Jojo Bauda. Yes, he is gay also and we clicked so much but not to the aspect of moving to the next level. Heis like my elder brother. I also had the pleasure of working with three team leaders. First one, he is Vince Marcelino, which I was under from him for two and a half months then followed by Pat Paggao and stayed for three months. And last but not least, Daniel Pancho, that only last for 2 weeks also. I know it was short but all of my TL’s were the best.

Then came October, which I need to transferred to another account, and it was a totally different account. Right now, I was a Technical Support Representative for Kodak US Account. I underwent for product training for a month and started going live on November. I had the pleasure working with Heidz Mendoza, my team leader. I stayed for her for three months and she was a friend to me.

Sad to say but I need to leave Sykes so soon. I need to fulfill a greater destiny. Yes, I need to take the upcoming Civil Engineering board exam this coming May. Heidz doesn’t want me to leave but I need to. I leave Sykes last February 8, 2009 and it was really a hard decision for me.

It is almost a month since I left Sykes but I don’t have any regrets from it. Today, this is supposed to be my anniversary in Sykes and I am glad that I had been a part of it. Rather, I WAS SYKES.

I am SYKES!!!

Paano ko nga ba sisimulan? Hmmm....

Actually, may scheduled account interview ako sa Sykes ng 1pm. Ayun, saktong 1pm ako nakadating at late na kasi ako nagsikilos sa bahay. Haha. Pero ok lang. Wait ako ng 30mins bago tawagin na yung name ko. Natawag na rin sa wakas. Account interview process na. Blah blah blah. Basta, mahabang kwento ito. Nakakalokang mga tanong pero nasagot ko naman ng tama. Hehe! Akala ko nga failed ako eh... Nagulat na lang ako na pinababalik ako ng 5pm for Job Offer na. Yehey! Pasado pala ako..

2pm ng natapos yung interview. So, kumain muna ako sa Shang-Rila kasi yun ang pinakamalapit na mall sa Sykes, OSMA Bldg. 3hrs ako maghihintay. Ano naman ang pwede magawa??? Hmmm... Kaya ayun, napabili ako ng movie ticket ng di oras. Yes, nanuod ako ng Jumper mag-isa. Kala ko maappreciate ko siya at magagandahan ako. Hindi pala. Shit talaga. Maganda yung SFX niya kaya lang parang kulang pa rin sa dating eh. Hehe. Malalaman mo na 1:35 lang pala ang screening time ya. Di talaga sulit yung binayad ko. Sana JUNO na lang pinanuod ko.

4:40pm natapos yung movie kaya balik na ako ulit ng Sykes. 4:50pm ako nakablik sa Sykes. Hintay na lang ako na tatawagin ako. Ayun, tinawag na ako at may kasabay akong dalawa. Hindi ko natanong yung name nila eh kahit pare-pareho kami ng magiging account. Nga pala, Office Depot Account yung inoffer sa akin at pabor sa akin yung site kasi sa Quezon Ave. lang siya. Galing talaga! Contract signing na at nakakatamad talaga magfill-up ng mga requirements. Ang dami pala. Haha. Pero ok lang. At least my work na ako. Haha! Kaya lang, March 3 pa ako magstatart. At dating ni Macky yun. Hehe!

Natapos na siguro ako mga 6:30pm doon kasi dami pang chikahan eh. Hehe!

Kaya ngayon, pwede ko na masabi sa sarili ko na, "I am SYKES!!!"