Ph.D (dont ask why)

i was expecting that getting a summer job would be a breeze. submission of resumes plus a couple of interviews would do it. the former was without a doubt easy. but the latter? heck, i thought it was going to be thaaaat fast. and look at where i am now. an official bum! yey! not only was i rejected by two banks, ibank, which by the way received my first and only i-hate-you-for-rejecting-me award and hsbc (nah, i cant hate it. it's too good a bank to be hated. maybe i can have my chance next year... hell yeah, good luck to self.) at least citibank didn't reject me if that's any consolation. i was just late, which was both stupid yet safe and right. i wouldnt have wanted to give them a bad record by screwing up my interview. i think im still not ready for interviews. i know, it's sad. but at least i still have a year to prepare for it (yuck, people dont prepare for it for a year). it only scares me how employment would come next year. so i guess id just have to make it to latin honors list by graduation for that easier access to the working world. i actually still have options and time if i really want to work. but then just a while ago, i decided that im not gonna work the sake of working. i would want to enjoy wherever im working. although sans said that its only a matter of perspective, i still believe that i cant just get a job wherever it's available (and willing to hire me). it has to match, of course, my field of, ehem, expertise. so, look, i can still work at companies like abs-cbn. (disclaimer: i dont have anything against the mgmt people who will be working there.) but given that im a management student heavily interested in finance and the like, i think id be best located in a bank. so let's see, if next year the interviewee asks me:

interviewee: so why didn't you work last summer?
me: because i didn't think that the options i had were fit for my major/field of expertise.
I: why not?
me: because i didn't want to work just in some place for the sake of working. i thought it'd be a complete waste of my time. i'd rather be in a place where i know i can use what i learned and that whatever i will be learning will benefit me in the future.
I: great. blah blah blah blah blah.........
me: blah blah blah blah blah...
I: good. okay, you're hired.
me: thank you.

right. i wish things would go as easy as that. anyway, yeah, that's how i view things now. it doesnt matter that i dont have a job right now. at least im enjoying my summer a lot. i thought being a bum entails only complete boredom. i thought wrong. with pirated dvds of the movies missed and those which are still about to be shown, plus vcds of a hit comedy show, summer could be so much fun.

and so ive been having the semi-friends marathon for the past one week. enjoying it certainly. perhaps now i can call myself a certified friends addict. after only a week, ive finished 2 seasons already and will be starting on the 9th tonight. if i could only spend my days watching nothing but that , i would certainly do so. apparently i cant. anyway... i wonder why not that many people are as addicted to it as tin or myself. yes, i think tin's the only one i know who's addicted to it, except of course my cousins from whom i got the vcds. (and i will be borrowing next seasons 1-3.) summer ultimate goal: watch friends. seasons 1-9. cool. so far i love phoebe's character. and joey's. if only they existed in real life. hmmm....maybe when i go to the states in 2 years' time, maybe i can build my own central perk. doesnt that sound cool? and make it look excatly like the one in the show. hey, that's cool... going back, i thought it was purely fun. but one part made me sad. although i dont think i shouldve been.-- that part when joey was having problems on how he's gonna tell rachel what he feels about her. heck, that was really... awww-ing.

anyway, im off now to watch friends. again. *wink*