Let’s Drink To That

Yup, to the readers..hehehe..am i too assuming to use the plural form, when in fact, the people who drop by this site may be just counted with the fingers of both my hands..LoL. Anyway, this appeal is for Tomtacks, if ever he does get the chance to drop by this site.

Can I ask you to accommodate this itty bitty request. Can you please also install the plugin for auto update of wordpress on this blog? Salamat kaayo pre!

I actually have tried doing it myself before, installing plugins I mean, but I somehow forgot how to do it already. LoL. I hope Tomtacks can find time as I am sure both he and ate Tere have their hands full with their bundle of joy.

I have been been trying to look up do-it-yourself (DIY) guides to wiring up a telephone plug. I have been reading up on the literature on wikipedia and it sounds simple enough. I hope to be able to pull it off.

You see, the wall socket in the apartment has not been completed and wires are sticking out from the wall. A few weeks back, I bought a wall socket so that I could take care of this fixture, only to find that there were 4 strands of wire sticking out. I’ve read up on the intricacies of wiring a telephone wire and I hope to be able to figure out the tip-and-ring configuration so that I could hopefully get the telephone line to work. LoL.

Wish me luck

That is a term I coined to describe how we were reprimanded by our immediate boss. That would be the equivalent of ’sinabon’ in Tagalog.

Hehe. Anyway, it was sort of a wake up call on our part, especially on my part as a trainee, as I do have a tendency to slack off when the going gets easy. And it wasn’t much of what you’d call a tongue-lashing as in a way, it was, as I said, a wake up call, as if we were held in the shoulders and shook up from our stupor. It made me realize that I still had an uphill climb ahead as to the things that I would have to learn as a novice drilling engineer, and the wide range of topics that I still have to cover (*sigh*). There’s still bit hydraulics, well casing cementing, and not to mention completion testing. Sorry if I might sound like I am babbling here. LoL.

Anyway, I am glad that I was ’soaped’. Sure it may be an ego buster. Cmon, whoever would want to have their boss giving them a mouthful of how dismal their performance is, right? However, It’s always the realizations afterwards that count. It’s not in the falling down but in the getting up part.

Time to turn up my gear into overdrive..

Sounds like the end of the world right? LoL. I was just referring to the end of my vacation leave, my wedding leave, honeymoon leave, or whatever you’d like to call it. LoL. Borski and I are quite busy opening our gifts before I would leave for my next job assignment in Bacolod. And it didn’t help that we were both down with the flu.

Anyway, I’d be leaving for Bacolod later today. I hope to be able to post as much, which I think would be quite challenging as I already had my Smartbro account there discontinued. Will just post updates if and when I can. Ciao.

We are taking the plunge tomorrow!!

If I were to describe my feelings right now, I could say that I am overly anxious, and a lot of things are running through my head at the moment, thoughts revolving mainly on the scenarios that could possibly crop up tomorrow, thoughts like the wedding and reception ceremonies being in total disarray. But come to think of it, I guess I am not at all that worked up. In a way, I have already conditioned myself not to get overly stressed thinking about it. After all, it would only be possible triggering causes for pimple breakout, and I sure could not use any of those right now. LOL. I guess the major reason why Borski and I are not so worked up and stressed (or at least just at manageable levels) is due to the efficiency of the wedding coordinator we hired.

I could genuinely say, and I mean it when I say, “Thank God for wedding coordinators!”

Let’s drink to that! Cheers!

Originally, our posting at our head office at Fort Bonifacio was just supposed to go on for a month, from Sept. 1 to 28. However, we had gotten word that we were to be extended ‘until further notice’ on this posting. This was unwelcome news because apart from not receiving our ‘hazard pay’ (which is one of the benefits that we receive when we are posted on the field), I had already quite gotten used to our field schedule, which was entirely unlike the schedule at the head office with was on a regular 8 to 5 shift.

Oh well, when we transferred to our new department, we always knew there was that possibility of us being rotated and being posted in our head office. The only thing that bothered us was the ‘until further notice’ part as this sounded so vague, and who knew, we could be posted here for 6 months for all I know.

I am crossing my fingers that it doesn’t at all happen like that and that we would have a definite term, say until the end of October. Also, our date with destiny is fast approaching…October 11 is barely a month away…

sigh…

Correction, here ‘we’ come.

Just drew the short straw today, and we were lucky enough to be the first group to be posted at our head office at Fort Bonifacio come Sept. 1.

AFter the culmination of our month-long classroom instruction at our Leyte Geothermal Production Field (LGPF), we were divided into three groups, to be distributed to our different sites all over the country. One group would be posted in Bacolod, and the other group at Bacman, Sorsogon.

While we will be there, we will hopefully be learning on the mechanics of contract administration and being part of the technical support team of all our other groups on the field. Personally, I am welcome to this development, so long as all of us gets equal opportunities to be posted at our head office. I just have one apprehension though..being the promdi that I am, I hope not to get lost in the place they call Manila…hahaha.

On a happier note, I will be leaving for home tomorrow…in time to reach Dumaguete for my birthday…yey!

Yay! It seems i just get the chance to post once every month. LOL. I am currently staying at the housing complex of our Leyte office, which is a 30-minute trip from Ormoc City.

Just a while ago, the Smartbro connection here at the housing unit where we stay at has just been repaired. It was damaged during typhoon Frank and it took them this long to restore the connection. Anyway, what’s important is we already have a connection here. Hopefully I can also find time to post because nowadays, I just cant find time to do the juggling.

I’ll be staying here for the duration of our 1 month training here in Leyte so hopefully I’ll be back in Dumaguete by the last week of August.

Anyway, I do hope to be able to post more in the next few days..