I passed by Fully Booked at Gateway… they have these gorgeous notebooks and planners laid on a table… I so wanted to get myself one, but I don’t think I could afford it… utterly frustrating, I work hard, I work even when I am sick, and I can’t buy myself a notebook… sure, it is an eight hundred pesos notebook… but the point is, I work hard and that should allow me to buy whatever I want!
But I guess that’s life… I was on my way to South Triangle, in Quezon City… I don’t exactly know where it was… but I had an idea… I consulted google maps… and called the bank and asked for directions… I went as I need my atm card replaced… my card was so dilapidated, I think it was why, the last time I tried to get money, 4 machines cancelled my transaction, and the fifth said I have the wrong pin… only the Philippine National Bank’s (Santolan Branch) atm honored my card and allowed me to withdraw...
I asked my supervisor if I could have our HR department to take care of it, but she advised me otherwise as it will take 2 weeks the soonest… where as if I go directly to the bank, the issuing branch, I could get a blank card—my name not printed on it—to use instead… Funny, I posted the direction to my Facebook, and when I got home, there were a lot of comments, guessing where it leads to, enumerating call centers in the area of Quezon Avenue…
Yes, I have been dismayed by how awfully low my salary have been… but I am staying put, at least until April, only then will I consider, note, just consider, transferring to other call centers… reason being that I am to apply for a housing loan through Pagibig and give the new owners of the company I work for to redeem themselves… besides, I don’t want to take calls all my life, and I have a better chance to get myself to an off-phone post with a 2 years tenure here, than a new hire on another company…
Off course, this may mean not able to buy myself a new bag to cheer me up when I get lonely—specially if I see my online pay slip, double whammy actually, I get depressed how low it gets and realize I can’t afford that bag at Girbaud… or those Havianas bag… but hey, not the end of the world, little sacrifice, I am gearing for a big one—a house! That reminds me, I need a real estate agent…
After I was done with the bank, I thought I should see Tweety, of course she wasn’t home, which is at Delta, but I remember her saying cab fare to work, which is St. Luke’s, to be only 40-50 pesos, so I figured, I was near… it is, she explained later, if you take a cab and know your way… but since, I don’t know my way, I won’t dare trust a Manila cab driver… and Alge, said I should take a jeep to Quiapo, get off Mabuhay Rotonda, then take another jeep to Cubao…
He texted me… having hot fudge at McDonalds, waiting for Tweety’s reply… I tried calling her to let her know I am coming and get some direction, but she was not answering, I thought maybe she was attending to a patient, and just texted her… but I didn’t get a reply from her, instead it was Alge who messaged me, asking if our salary was in already… it was, the lady at the bank told me so, offering me the chance to get some money first before surrendering my old card, as the new card won’t work until the day after…
Then, he started teasing me again about the gorillapod I gave to TJ… I had one, it cost over a thousand… but I was not using it… and so when TJ won himself a digital camera at work, I thought I should give it to him… that was mid last year, and Alge was there when I told him so and didn’t say anything… I was not able to give him the gorillapod only after New Year… mainly because I don’t know where it was… and when I found it when I did a little new year cleaning, I gave it to him… Alge found out, now he is giving me a hard time about it, saying I just gave TJ a 1 thousand peso gift… you see I didn’t realize that, whereas I didn’t give him anything for Christmas, which coincidentally, also his birthday… adding injury, I who-you him… well, his name didn’t show up, because my old phone conk on me again, and so I transferred my globe sim on my Iphone, and most of my contacts was left on the old phone… and this is why he didn’t give me the Neyo concert tickets… and probably will never give me anymore concert tickets… he did, though, give me direction to St Luke’s…
I could just easily resolve this by getting him something nice too… perhaps not as nice at the gorillapod (read: expensive) but nice… the problem is, I no longer earn as much… besides, neither did he get me something last Christmas, I was not even invited to his party…! Okay, he did to, but I didn’t know I would be available for it…
So, I was at St Luke’s, I went straight to the main building… never been there before, I was told to try to two other buildings… I went to the other, then to the other… but apparently, thought a licensed dentist, Tweety was just a dental assistant… the directory on list the main doctor… good thing I have my Iphone and I have a picture of her wearing a plunging neckline, sporting a little cleavage… I showed her picture to the people at the information, and one of the maintenance guy recognized her and directed me to the right floor… and there she was…
Nothing much, she said she can’t even have her hour lunch break… they are expecting someone, someone important… bummer…
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