hazy, crazy days of mine
i have a new lay-out, and i just ♥♥♥ it!
i've been having rough days lately. i've also been going home late (usually before 5 or after 7 pm) consecutively for how many days now. last friday, we had a meeting in our youth organization, and i went home from my review at about 1 pm, i just went with joy and apa to the robinson's town mall near our review center, because there was a netopia branch there, and i went with them, i didn't surf the net there, though, i just stood around and bugged them for one whole hour. :P
after that, i went home and i surfed the net, then i went to the College of Human Ecology (CHE) building for the meeting. guess what, i was the only member of the batch #2 of our youth organization that attended. geez louise! i was late, i arrived about 5 pm already, but the meeting supposedly started at around 4 pm, but i guess they started late too, because in our organization, a meeting that starts at 4 pm, actually starts at around 5 pm, it's just the way things work in our organization, but i gotta tell you this, we're working on it, the tardiness i mean.
last saturday, i had remedial classes up to 4:45, so i got home at around 5 pm already, and i was so dead tired. x_X. imagine that, at our review in the morning, i spent only 4 hours, but if you combine it with the time i spent while i was in my remedial classes, that would total to 7 hours at the very least, so it seems like i alsto had a whole day review. whew! that was tiring. parang tumanda ako ng isang taon, and the funny part about it was when i looked out the window, saktong sakto na may puting kotse na mahaba na maraming puting lobo ang sumalubong sa aking mga mata! yun pala lamay. hayy. lagi na lang ako nakakakita ng ganun when i look out of our review center. bakit kaya? hmmm...
ust this sunday, i wasn't able to go to church, because me, my mom, and my dad had to go to manila to support my brother at the recently held steven curtis chapman benefit concert at the picc forum. for those of you who read my latest lj entry before this, the venue i wrote there was picc plenary hall, but the venue had to be changed at the last minute because they couldn't fill up the picc plenary hall, and besides, it was way too expensive, but you know what, the picc forum was actually a much better place for the concert, it really had an aura to it that added to the presence and feel of the whole event. :)
we were asked to wear black, because we were going to help out, i wore my penshoppe stripped and collared blouse, and i decided to just bring along my black t-shirt, and guess what, it's the hale shirt i bought at last year's GEB! yeah, i've been wearing it almost every month i think, and people have been giving positive comments about it. :)
i wasn't able to wear it though, because when we arrived there, my brother gave me instructions on what to do, and he assigned me to assist ate nica (it's pronounced ni-kuh) at the front desk, he gave me a cool (not to mention large) black steven curtis chapman t-shirt instead. it was really cool, and i felt really good about it. i was about to change my clothes when people started pouring in, i didn't have enough time to change so i ended up having on two t-shirts at once. at first i got sweaty and all that, but then i just forgot about it because there were too many people to accomodate. it was so stressful. i was the youngest member of the staff there, not to mention that i was the only one wearing a skirt. dyahe. i couldn't enjoy myself that much because of what i wore, i wish i had time to go home to change into my magical pants. but poor me, there was no time. hahaha but it was okay.
my job was to write receipts when ate nica was away, she had a lot of tasks, you see, and there were only few of us so we had to have some serious multitasking skills, luckily, sanay naman ako sa ganun. haha. :P anyway, i also tended to some of the client's questions when ate nica was busy or away, but sometimes, when it's a foreigner, i would just whisper to ate nica, "ate, hindi ako magaling sa english, ikaw na lang muna, ako na lang bahala sa iba pang pwede kong gawin.", sabay blush sa hiya. ;)
luckily, ate nica was almost always there whenever foreign costumers were around, but when she wasn't around, i tried my best to entertain their needs, i felt that i could do it naman, nauunahan lang ng hiya pati insecurity, e kasi ba naman, mga nagcall center mga kasama ko, but i'm not even that fluent in english. kamusta naman yun diba? :p
sometimes i was in charge of holding the money paid to ate nica for the tickets bought, and there were times when i was the one who wrote receipts for the people. wow. and look at my handwriting. it's not even THAT NEAT. i was shocked when someone tapped me on my shoulder and told me to do this, and to do that, and it was a good thing i didn't give a comment, because the one tapping me was actually the concert's official promoter mr. george t. gabriel. he asked me to run some errands for him, he handed me some of the reserved tickets, and he wrote down the contact persons so that i would know whom i would give them to, and i was kind of hesitant at first, because i had no experience whatsoever about the whole entertaining the concert audience thingy, but once i got the hang of it, i think i adapted well naman. :)
i got starstruck when i saw the members of u-turn sa may parking lot. deadma nga lang ako, kunwari hindi ko sila kilala, wala kasi yung digicam at that time, my brother was too busy so i didn't bother borrowing it from him so ayun wala akong souvenir photo of them. sayang naman, i like the chinito guitarists' voice kasi, saka maganda rin yung boses nung babeng vocalist. uhhh i don't really know their names. heehee ^^
habang set ng u-turn nandun kami sa front desk ni ate nica, there were still some people coming so we had to stay there. medyo nagkagulo pa sa lines pero naayos naman siya. amazingly, naging maayos na yung succeeding events. saya nung concert! it was very humbling and inspiring. steven is a great speaker, he speaks from his heart with humor and values, and he sings with faith and soul. he said, "hey, i'm not gary v, but i'm gonna keep on practicing" when he was about to sing the song "I Will Be Here", which he originally song and wrote after the divorce of his parents. galing, yung asawa niya ngayon, kaapelido niya nung college! iisa nga lang daw yung mailbox nila kasi parehas silang chapman ang apelido. galing ng coincidence noh? actually destiny na yun. he eventually fell in love with her, she fell in love with him, and he said to her, "do you want to share a mailbox with me forever?". awwww. sweet. they've been married for quite sometime now, 20+ years and he's more in love with her than before. they have 3 biological daughters, and 3 adopted daughters and they live a happy life back home. i can't wait for his next concert here! sana kasama na kayo. :)
hayy. napakwento mode na naman ako. dito na muna magtatapos ang isang kabanata ng aking araw, ngunit meron pa muli bukas, kaya abangan...
good night guys. have a nice sleep. :*