Let’s Drink To That

Those were the thoughts going through my head today while I was driving in downtown Dumaguete. I was extra careful in driving since I was driving on an expired license. LoL. Being the law-abiding citizen that I was, it was bothering me that I had been doing just that.

My conscience got the better of me, so I headed down to the local Land Transportation Office (LTO) to secure a driver’s license renewal form so that I could perhaps take care of my renewal tomorrow, while I was still in Dumaguete. Anyway, it wasn’t 5PM yet but the window in charge of issuing renewal forms was already closed. Typical! I opted to finish my medical/drug tests instead, the results of which would be available first thing tomorrow morning. I am going to the LTO office early tomorrow so that I’d be first in line and hopefully be able to finish my license renewal before the morning is over. I’ll be dragging Borski along so that she could renew her license as well.

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I got in touch with BPI customer support earlier this afternoon (on the prodding of a friend/badminton buddy of ours who works at the local BPI branch here) to follow up on the status of my credit card application. That friend of ours even advised me to sound angry on the phone so that they would prioritize the delivery since it was already due December of last year still. LoL. They had previously tried to deliver my card late last year but found that I didn’t leave an authorization note with Borski to receive my CC, so they did not leave it. I called up to inform them that I had left the authorization on the first unit of our apartment since more often than not the first unit always had someone to receive in case there were deliveries such as those. Anyway, I was informed that they tried to deliver the said card 3x already, the last one being last January 19, and that my card was already destroyed. I mean, cmon! Well, needless to say, I did manage to raise my voice a bit as I was pissed at the mix up. I did inform the customer service rep that  I explicitly gave instructions for them to deliver it to the first unit.

Anyway, they informed me that they would put up a request for reactivation of my account and schedule a delivery of my CC. It wouldn’t be due for 2 weeks so I will be waiting for that. I hope there will no longer be a mix up this time.

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I am also taking care of my requirements for my passport. Among all of us siblings, I am the only one who still does not have a passport. Blame it on restrictions put forth on me by the Republic of the Philippines. No, I do not have a pending case, and no I am not a terrorist (although at times i think that I do look like one…LoL). The restriction is part of my agreement when I signed a contract with the Department of Science and Technology as one of their JLAP scholars. Anyway, I did accomplish my end of the agreement, with 3 years accumulated employment duration with a local company, and I just recently secured clearance from DOST so that they would already remove my name from the blacklist. I just got my baptismal certificate this afternoon. Good thing the attendant was extra accommodating and just made me wait for a few minutes instead of making me come back for it the next day. I hope to be able to complete my requirements by this week.

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Whew! I was able to do quite a lot of things today. Now I am looking forward to an evening of badminton. Yahoo!

Yahoo! I will be home for Valentines. I am missing Borski so much already. Today is my 28th day of duty (straight, mind you!), so it is but expected that I am looking forward to getting some time off and being able to relax and spend Valentines day with Borski.

She called me up just now, and was quite annoyed as to why I was not giving her a definite date of my arrival. LoL. Anyway, as usual, I was planning on surprising her again by coming a day early. I told her days before that I’d be arriving on Sunday yet, so boy is she in for a surprise when I come home tomorrow.

The more they stay the same..or so the saying goes..

I was feeling quite introspective today as I was pondering over the goings-on in our family. What came to mind was how very true the simple teachings we were taught when we were still young. Among those, we were taught that whenever we did something wrong, we were taught early on that we had to say “I’m sorry…” Even to the point of mimicking our parents, we were taught that whenever we were at fault, we had to apologize.

During those times, there was no such thing as pride. If you were at fault, you had to apologize. It was as simple as that.

As we got older, and as our eyes were slowly opened to the realities of life, and when we sometimes feel as though we can stand on our own, we sometimes become guilty of this thing they call “pride”. Even though we are at fault, sometimes we find it hard to extend an apologizing hand first.

Sometimes I wish you could see through my eyes. I wanna take you back to the time not so long ago. When they would not allow as much as a fly to land on your skin. When they did all that they could do just so no harm would come to you.

Before you start pointing fingers, we must ask ourselves, have we taken a look at the mirror lately?