It's been a while

It's been a long time since my last post here in my Xanga. That doesn't mean nothing is happening. Actually, there's just too many things happening in my life right now, it would take more than a day and a night to tell about all of them. Not that I've abandoned blogging... actually at the moment, I'm still stuck infront of my PC, my only presence to the world known online, on YM, Friendster, Multiply, and such. I'm planning to escape from this bubble soon, but not yet, until I finish two more projects left for the semester.

Anyway, not so many people still drop by this xanga. But if ever you're still wondering, most new posts are on my Friendster (http://pulanglangit.blogs.friendster.com), and photos posted on  my Multiply (http://pulanglangit.multiply.com). So if ever you're interested to find out, or you just have nothing else to do, just drop by those sites.

Until the next time!

Hell Week

Isn't it strange, I say it's hell week, but I still have time to post in my xanga baby? Haha, just read on.

I say it's hell week not because I have countless exams for the week coz I actually don't have any. I'm not saying it's hell week because there are numerous deadlines for the week - there actually is just one this friday, and two early next week. It's hell week because of our friggin Feasibility Study (our equvailent for thesis of most college students), of which the Technical part is due this Friday and we've got less than a week to cram all the information we need for it. Not that we're cramming... but we're being forced to cram by the circumstances, no thanks to him who must not be named... Yup, I'm panicking like I've never panicked ever in my life. I just don't show it much. Besides that, we've got three other projects with deadlines pouring over us like rain on a September afternoon. More panick. And I'm afraid of panicking because I'm afraid it might spike up my heart rate and wreck my system (just ask me why, its a long explanation). I'm afraid, and then I panick once again.

Right now, I'm too exhausted from the day to write the paper. I'm too exhausted from driving around Ortigas, going around, here and there, to meetings and interviews for our projects. I'm too exhausted from panicking. I'm blogging as a way of distracting myself, not from what I have to do, but from panicking. I'm doing a lot of distracting just to put my brain back into its functional mode.

I can feel the hell week slowly taking its toll on me. Early afternoon, I was wondering if I was able to take my medicine (for my heart) this morning, because I was palpitating once again. I took another dose then; I was allowed an extra dose for the day anyway (but I usually just take two doses each day, in the morning and at night). Just tonight I realized I did take one this morning. Well, I took another one for tonight. I need all the pharmaceutical help I could have to get me through this hell week. That's all I'm relying on right now.

It's hell week, because I need to make the impossible possible this week. And it's pressuring me like pressure cooker (I can just imagine how that meat is feeling). A technical plan in one week, no kidding. Three other projects in the kiln due in the next few days. And I haven't mentioned my extracurricular stuff - the newsletter I need to help with that we have to release by Monday, and the finance mini-workshop we are preparing for this coming friday.

I don't have the energy and the right state of mind to do anything acad related tonight. I'll just do everything tomorrow and the day after. I need to relax. Eat something sweet. Read something non-acad related. Just do anything other than acads.

My baby is back...

Wala lang... may DSL na ulit sa bahay, after a little over a week. Seems such a long time.

State of Agitation

No DSL since Friday... and I'm extremely agitated off my head. I just realized, I could survive a year without landline, but I'd definitely go beserk without my DSL connection even just for a week. Then, have to wait for more than a week before the new connection is installed. I have to be content with borrowing my mum's dial up (the one we've been using since 4th year HS... its an ancient one), until the new one comes.

Perhaps I have no life... I'm stuck infront of the computer for the longest time, and most of my social life occurs on YM. Maybe I should take this opportunity to explore other things. And thus I end this post, leave cyberspace to explore the real world.

What work?

Funny, I received a letter from the mail today. It said "McDonald's Philippines" on the envelope. Yes, it did have my name and address on it. Surely, I wondered what it could be for.

It was an invitation to apply to their company, for a management career track of course. For as long as I could remember, this was the only time I ever received a letter inviting me to join anything. A big leap maybe?

Yes, I did reply with my resume. Just because. I know I would not be graduating in the next 8 months, but what the heck? It won't hurt to give them a copy of my resume, if by any chance they would like to keep it and get back to me when I'm available to work already.

I just wonder if there'll be free fries.

McDonalds or Jollibee???
    

Au contraire, I saw a list of job vacancies of the Jollibee group of companies posted somewhere in our college. They have a relatively interesting list of job opportunities, one which I know I am fully eligible (as soon as I graduate). The 8 months also stand though. But I also sent in my resume just for the heck of it. I don't think there's anything for me to lose. Same reason with McDonalds.

I guess the fates are conspiring to push me to start sending job applications. Besides the two I've mentioned, I accidentally got into Petron's and Pilipinas Shell's work opportunities website (while I was doing research for a project), and I had the urge to download their application forms. I started filling them out already. I also fixed my resume a little (its a little near perfection, but I'm bragging a lot... although it's a lot better that the lots I've seen at my friend's desk). All these (fastfood, oil companies, and all) in just two days. I don't really rush into applying for work. Guess it's the least of my worries for now (but it kinda worries my parents a bit, I wonder why... but I'm kinda confident I can get into a company I like).

Gosh, my 8 months is so near yet so far, and I do have plans of travelling abroad (US and Canada) first before taking on my very first serious job. But first of my worries is to graduate. Then, the rest would follow. But as I've said, I don't think there's any harm in applying for work in advance.

Lessons learned

*  It's better to go directly to big companies' websites to apply. Jobstreet and other online job application websites offer work from smaller companies who don't have the resources to put up their own job application website.

*  You'll never really know what you'll get from the mail.

*  Sometimes when it rains, it pours. Sometimes, the things you run away from are the things you really should be doing and the things you should be paying attention to.

*  Good opportunities are usually those you need to run after. But sometimes, they also come to your doorstep, you just have to answer.