citi, AI and cute girl, which after TWO LONG WEEKS of working at citi still has NOT been introduced to me!!!

my office mates are cool. i think most of the people there (only those in close proximity) are at the same level of addiction to AI as i am. though while i dig for carrie, most of them, the girls, are for constantine. but sorry, he's been eliminated weeks ago. though yeah, i feel your sorrow for such a HUGE loss.

anyway, it's a battle between "the rocker with soul and the country girl with heart". and who stood out? ha! no surprise there. been rooting for her for the past... 8-10 weeks. as each one member of the audience witnessed how each one of them grew, for me, i saw how carrie slowly became that sweetie sweetie cutie cutie vocally charged lady. and i believe, ive just fallen in love with her.

looking at the past winners of the competition, i'd say, she's now my favorite. there were so many things she's done. one, she made me like angels brought me here, which i was close to despising before, thinking that it was another cheezy david pomeranz ballad. though almost as stiff as a wood (others aptly describe her wooden), i still think that what brought her the title was her powerful vocal, maybe the most powerful i've ever heard, after whitney or mariah. american idol is a competition of both the vocals and the personality. and as simon firmly said, she has the likability factor. i couldnt agree more.

biases aside, performance-wise, bo takes home the title. yet despite his power to get the people on their feet and groove to his song, i do believe he really didnt deserve to win AS MUCH AS carrie did. on a scale of 1-10 of being deserving to win, bo for me stands at 7. carrie, 9. the disparity is the result of the stark difference between their vocals. bo can hit the high notes, yeah. but carrie can take songs to a waaayyyy higher level. she's flexible. she's excellently effortless during performances (with the exception of the first and last songs during the last performance night show where as simon had said, her vocals were on the edge. independence day was sung just right. since definitely it was not the best display of her vocals).

i dont wanna proceed with AI analysis anymore. again, i have too much to say about it.

the cute girl in the office still is.. well, we're not yet in speaking terms. hanggang tingin pa lang din ako. next week, i'll be down to my sorta last week at citibank. i know that was fast. i don't know if ive said this, but im kinda used to what i do there so i dont mind anymore. and it's also annooying how we're still not introduced till now!!! can anyone from the office please read this?!?!?!!????!

(there's the accompaniment of yahoo launchcast anyway. makes work more fun... but damn, i hate it that i can't sing out loud!!! singing in my head is waaaay too much torture for me. it's like being asked to hold that shit that's ready to stick out one's asshole!)

quite unfortunate that i wont be able to attend the graduation tomorrow. either fiesta got in the way... or... the graduation is wrong timing. they couldve set it next week instead. oh well...

PS1 i want the citibank ID strap!!! can anyone please get one for me, if theyre gonna give it out tomorrow???

PS2 can i just hold on to my secPass instead of surrendering it at the end of my work there? if ever though, i'd be more than willing to trade it with that strap!

hayayay.

i feel like i have so many things i wanna talk about, again, that i dont have enough free time to write down everything... i was just thinking a while ago, how if still im not able to post, all the thoughts inside would just explode.

i wanna write about how work's going.
i wanna write about what i read in newspaper.
i wanna write about experiences.
i wanna write about my plans.

haaay... i wish there was a recording device for the computer that automatically encodes and that which no longer requires that i type everything i say.

yesterday and today.

it was sad saying goodbye to bmw. though the time i spent there wasnt really a lot, i still bonded with my officemates. waking up to a new day with a new workplace, with totally new environment and different set of people to deal with, it was very new. nostalgic. reminiscent. sad. exciting. pretentious. confusing. thinking that only yesterday i was still entering the glass doors of autohaus, with the luxurious cars welcoming me to the place, and a girl over at the information desk who would greet "hi adriaan"... i already miss that. all the singing, insanities and the country music that i played during my last few days of stay there. haaay. i wish there were two me's. the other one who would go to gloria jeans at 7 in the morning to read the newspaper while waiting for the time. i would miss the grumpy old men who would refuse to provide information about them lest someone not from bmw is trying to get to their fortunes. no more fax this and that for quotation. no more "autohaus hello?" in the morning or afternoon. no more 8-7000 jollibee delivery nor 8-mcdo to satisfy the undying lust for fries.

now, it's just facing the computer all day. with several people around me making some noise just to disrupt the seemingly long reign of silence as each one proceeds with his work. no more music. no more sneaky ym-ing. no more gag toni and mai.

hope something good comes out of this experience. at par or exceeding that which i got from autohaus.

relax, aight?

i just realized how i'm slowly becoming a grumpy old man. and yeah, it is hell scary. reminds me of one of the teachers i had for accounting. (those who were in the same class as i am would know who im talking about.)

im excited to work at citibank. i will be going back to manila tomorrow. hhh... a day earlier than what i wanted. o well... im not sure yet if i should meet up with jay on sunday for that band thing. well... going there won't really mean that we're already closing a deal or that im already saying yes to his offer. just scares me a bit how it might add up to the stress or work load i will be having next sem. (yeah, i already have this presupposition that next year would be stressful for me considering my plans. o well.. this is what i decide to do with my life. just hopin everything goes fine.)

deep sigh.

abnormal

You Are 35% Normal (Occasionally Normal)

You sure do march to your own beat... But you're so weird, people wonder if it's a beat at all You think on a totally different wavelength And it's often a chore to get people to understand you

How Normal Are You?

one more thing

oh i forgot. i decided ill minor in finance. i swear thats final.

mainly on ojt

last night was stressful for me having to prepare for two interviews- for citibank internship and ASES application- plus deciding whether to minor in finance or it.

next week's my last week working for bmw, which i have come to love. it isn't as stressful there although there could be lots of work to finish. it has given me more than the experience i expected to gain. fun-loving people and kalog! we should take pictures on monday. three or four of us- me, mai, toni and maam hannah. i just hope she'll be there. anyway, i might no longer be able to meet the bosses as ive intended to do since im leaving on monday morning (because i still have to fix some school stuff and proceed with the interview for ases [ill explain later]). doesnt matter. i honestly didnt expect for my stay at autohaus to be fun. like i told other people, i thought that id be bored to death there. that was right after my first day. however, eventually, i learned to like what i do, feeling more responsible now. and getting that taste of the real world after 4 weeks of working for them, that i was looking for. so yeah no regrets. although some of the stuff i did there were clerical, i dont care. it's all part of it. having to answer the phone and be the operator for as long as half a day, to photocopy stuff and everything else don't bug me anymore. no pay? so what? i liked it sooo much there that i even considered working there for like a week more or two. but there came that much awaited offer from citibank.

i was called yesterday and was asked to report to them supposedly that afternoon but since i had work, i told the person that i can only go today... i dont wanna give out a very detailed account so ill just tell the major things that happened. i went there to take that IQ test, which got me frustrated after finding out the result (45/48). honestly i thought i perfected it. now im thinking, what did i get wrong? oh well. doesnt matter. thats still a 93.xx% (no i didnt compute for it. i was just told by the person who interviewed me first. (i went through 2 interviews which went fine anyway). i was just thinking that getting that job after going through 2 interviews still wasnt as self-fulfilling as i wouldve wanted it to be. i didnt go through the 'difficult' questions i was so fucking worried about last night. oh well. at least im in. that rocks, doesnt it? though ill be working for only 3 weeks, that'd still gain me experience. and a couple of lines in my resume. ha. nice. anyway... today was fun. i just realized how there were sooo many ateneans there. first i saw miguel on his way to his area, the 9th floor. (yeah he was late. i got there at around 940 and he was just on his way to work!!!) then when i got up to the 11th floor, where i was supposed to be at, i saw deb, a fil12 blockmate couple of years ago... then there was niq who seriously surprised me! AND got me so stressed out!!! when she invited me to lunch, she first met up with the other interns working there. and here comes another atenean, clarissa who was introduced to me couple of years ago when niq and i were still blockmates. upon reaching the lobby, i saw a group and recognized a couple of them as ateneans. they were seemingly deciding where they were gonna eat lunch... haaay. narrating what happened is soooo tiring. to cut this short, i also bumped into nel (bernie's friend) and paul (former mktg classmate). anyway, the other people niq and i were with were also fun! the two guys there are lasalistas. one of them looked smart and kwela. then there were 3 other girls, who according to niq are from UP. i guess i'd have more stories to tell as i spend the rest of my summer there. and hey, im getting paid!

the second interviewer's questions basically just boiled down to one question: do you like to work here? hahahahahaha. interview over. briefing on tuesday. (of course, id have to say goodbye to my bmw family first.)

thats it for now.

PS last night's amazing race was soooo disappointing. rob and amber didnt win. but they were soooo freaking close.

and all of the AI finalists screwed up. each one got their dose of negative comments from the 3.
and anthony's gone. now we got the perfect final three. my prediction is that, vonzell's leaving next week.

blogging from work.

just recently, period covers last month till now, i seem to be drowning myself in a lot of readings. defnitely not for school but rather for just some inner satisfaction of the geek in me. initially, i was only up for some recent events buzz reading Time and what i get in my inbox from economist.com letting me stay as updated as possible. but my propensity to spend have gotten me a bigger coverage of what i read now. just the other day, i got myself a copy of gq, for some strange reason. trying to be a fashionista now eh? i dont know. but hell the magazine was expensive. yet having gone over the articles, i can say that it might actually be worth it. it was a thick imported mag anyway. by the way, that's just for trial. (and i seem to enjoy looking at the pictures as well as reading whats featured which only means that i might get another (and my last) copy next time. last because with my plans for next year i dont think i can still afford to read extra readings.) anyway, besides gq, i also got national geographic a couple of weeks ago. trying to be smart. haha. well you know, reading a lot cant and wont kill me unless i decide to just stop eating to devote all my time to the activity. hell, i wont do that. i love eating too much for me to forsake it. ha.

ends here for now. gotta go back to work! and im too distracted to write. so maybe tonight ill continue.

on my interest for currents events...

im not sure how long this entry would be. ive been delaying my writing since the last time i posted. maybe it was due to the fact that theres so much i wanna write about that i felt like i didnt have enough time during those times that i intended to write to talk about the different issues that have been lingering in my mind for some time already. no these issues aren't the ones that bugged me months ago. rather, these are the more current ones ive found in the paper and have seen in the news. the one that has my attention the most for the moment is the UK election. this may sound dumb but i still don't know the exact process of how a prime minister is elected. in a while i shall find out and maybe post here.

for some strange reason, i have so much interest in what's happening to the states and uk, or more like the bush/blair buzz. just look how glued i was on cnn when the Us elections was being held; though not so much now on the recently concluded uk elections (where blair has gotten the majority, that is 354 seats, thus having him re-elected as the british prime minister. and that is despite conservatives' michael howards propaganda against him since he hates him personally, as well as the disclosure made by the attorney-general, telling the public of the lying made by blair.)

caring so much on what is happening to both nations, of which im not a part, grew into me maybe last year. for the simple reason that being aware of what was happening in the world seemed smart for me. (additional thought: or maybe and most likely, it was because being in a country where there was no other tv station that i understood due to language barrier left me with no other option but to just watch cnn and care about mother earth. yes, im referring to my trip to china last summer.) now i can't say that the reason why im still following what's happening to the world is still the same reason i became 'interested' in such matters. maybe after some time of watching, i already became REALLY enthused about 'em.

following that, on the other hand, are the local issues that puts the country on a higher level of political instability.

ill continue next time. im still reading on how a PM is elected.

what my birthday means

Your Birthdate: June 12

Being born on the 12th day of the month (3 energy) is likely to add a good bit of vitality to your life. The energy of 3 allows you bounce back rapidly from setbacks, physical or mental. There is a restlessness in your nature, but you seem to be able to portray an easygoing, sometimes "couldn't care less" attitude. You have a natural ability to express yourself in public, and you always make a very good impression. Good with words, you excel in writing, speaking, and possibly singing. You are energetic and always a good conversationalist. You have a keen imagination, but you tend to scatter your energies and become involved with too may superficial matters. Your mind is practical and rational despite this tendency to jump about. You are affectionate and loving - but very sensitive. You are subject to rapid ups and downs.

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

nothing.

i dont have anything to write about tonight. i just want this unbearable heat to vanish.

im done with friends seasons 1-3. waiting for 4-6. i guess for tonight id have to catch some movies.