I was never qualified for Nidec's position after my name wasn't there on the Employment Office list, obviously because they like 25-year-old techs who may prefer to reformat a whole hard disk than making a backup and fixing the partition. So I printed two more copies of my resume and later I'll be there at the Employment Office to try my luck again ( Read more... )

Finally got relieved to see that Michele17 has posted a very small message, telling us Ranatics that she's alive and well in Albay after Reming, although it seems that the shop she's in is running on generator power, no ventilation and certainly the city is still in a mess, with communications and power lines being repaired ( Read more... )

Kinda worried about Michele17, one of my best friends as far as Ran archery is concerned, because she's smack in the middle of Bicol province, and Reming cut a swath across the countryside. Hope she's really okay and alive, because the casualty count is becoming uglier by the day.

Ditto for Crimson Goddess, because Hugo Chavez in Venezuela has ( Read more... )

There's a slight chill out in the storm-laden air today as I drank my coffee right on a balcony 18 floors above the ground, and damn sure I can remember the day vividly -- November 11, 2003 -- down to the clothes I wore and the big red scooter I used to ride on to work. I thought that the damned text message I received on the cell as I woke up ( Read more... )

My old friend since college held quite a good birthday party for his 3-year-old daughter, and naturally for the big boys there's the cases of beer and pulutan. Damn, we went through three cases, songs, great talk, having helluva good time before passing out drunk ( Read more... )

Face it: you have a country that seems to be threatened by a possible general uproar by next year, along with a major diplomatic black eye caused by six crapbirds unworthy of being called US Marines after "enjoying" an evening with a local girl at the wrong place and the wrong time (if proven guilty they expect stiff penalties in the stockade ( Read more... )