Wednesday, February 28, 2007
fire drill + stilettos = hell
Anyone who has tried going down 38 floors in 3 inch stilettos will tell you they wish they had been out of the office the whole day. Ang sakit na binti/paaa ko!! Lecheng fire drill yan, grrr!!!!!
Friday, February 23, 2007
You are from Accenture if...
This has been all over my inbox today. Some things are so to the point, they remind of that 80's kid list....
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You are from Accenture if:
- Rex Lallata Jr.
1. You love your company and makes no apologies for it (- Bill Green)
2. You mistake the mall as an extension of your office.
3. Your cubicle is at least within 100 meters radius to the nearest ice tea cooler.
4. Your office is somewhere along the MRT line.
5. You know that roll in roll off is not something you do with the deodorant.
6. You do geek speak like BS7799, SEAKK, ATIS-GDN, x5999.
7. You say ".. it's Confidential" when you don't know the answer.
8. Your body's liquid component is 33% blood, 33% ice tea, and 33% eight o' clock juice. <- kulang ng coffee
9. You also have traces of 'lumot' juice in your body. The City Service says it's green tea. You wonder why the City Service still prepares you that lumot juice when nobody in the world really likes it. You utter distaste by also referring to it as 'sitaw or kangkong punch'. <-haha
10. You take a nap after lunch. You have mastered the talent of snoring without the sound and sleeping with your eyes half open. How ingenious. <- err... di ako natutulog pag lunch
11. You go home late night and grab yourself a burger and coke as dinner at the nearest Mini-Stop or Burger Machine, unaware of those drunk bullies staring at you on the side ( - courtesy of Winston Cruz in one of those People's Hour sessions) <- oh so true...
12. You sit happily in your chair clueless of global warming because the air conditioning is frigging cold. <- truelaloo
13. You don't know Sugar Mercado or Boy Uling. (Sugar, who?)
14. Your fashion perception is limited to wearing black from your waistline down (black toenails included). <- di naman, may blown and gray slacks naman ako...
15. You play basketball in the middle of the night.
16. You watch Prison Break, Grey's Anatomy, 24, CSI or anything that requires a bit of a brain activity.
17. Okay, okay, you also watch American Idol.
18. You go to the gym when everyone's going home. <- haha
19. You are into sports which either be as physical as basketball or hilarious as finger-wrestling with your office mates.
20. You are drowned with abbreviations like SEAAK, WBS, ATIS, PWS etc.
21. You have a compilation of abbreviations either stuck in your memory, stick notes, or saved in a notepad file.
22. Until now, you still have no freaking idea what on earth SEAAK means. <-haha!
23. You know that there is Sunrise even at night, 24 hours a day, six days a week.
24. You do yoga.
25. You don't do yoga, but you still find your best position to sleep on a chair. 26. Your imaginary friend consists of Sy Betty (CBT), Snuffalafagus and Ice Cube.
27. You get Ice Cube from e-mail and not from the fridge.
28. You don't feel that you have a boss.
29. You dial O when you want to order Take Out lunch.
30. You get annoyed when people make noise inside the elevator.
31. You get annoyed when other Accenture employees talk loud inside the elevator.
32. You are relieved when you realized that those talking loud inside the elevators aren't really from Accenture.
33. You sometimes forget that you are from Accenture and you talk loud inside the elevator.
34. You love life.
35. You live love.
36. Your life is love.
37. You think you are smart.You know you are smart.
38. You celebrate Christmas parties 4 times (one with your team, one with the project, one with the Bench people, and one with the whole Accenture) <-ang saya, di ba? :)
39. You know that Bench is not something to warm your butt with, but another endless sessions with CBTs.
40. You forget that Bench is also a shirt and underwear.
41. You know SCRIBO. You define yourself in two words : Best People.
42. You pose for a picture gesturing the Accenture 'V' sign either Korean-style or putting the V behind your friend's head.
43. You discuss something with someone over a conference call and punctuate the conversation with "Get's mo?".
44. You do your work not because you are afraid of your boss but because you don't want to fail your teammates who believe you can do it.
45. You get scared people won't notice when you die because you are stuck at work.
46. You feel you are surrounded with best people.
47. You think everyone is nice, happy and useful. <-useful? ano ba yun...
48. You consider your teammates as the extension of your family.
49. You have at least one Accenture jacket.
50. You have an Accenture bag, Accenture pen, Accenture electric fan, pouch, shirt, or notebook. 51. You wish you have an Accenture fridge, Accenture house, Accenture car and Accenture water dispenser (Ha ha ha).
52. Your secret in cooking comes from the Maya kitchen.
53. You mistake People's Hour as the Yoshinoya hour because of the meals they serve. ( Well sometimes, they also serve Pinoy meals, Thai meals, Value meals, etc.). <-pede ring Max's hour
54. You slouch at your chair like you own the world.
55. You work on Saturdays not because somebody tells you to.
56. You only put off your computer on Fridays. <- minsan pa nga hindi....
57. For security reasons, you wish your head covers the whole of your 17'' monitor. (Maybe, you want to try afro, or inject your head with fluids, or wear headgear the size of planet Earth).
58. You know that someone is from Accenture by simply looking at him. (Yes, it takes one to know one)
59. You enjoy your moments with your family because it's something you can't always afford with the nature of your work.
60. You are trying to go home early to catch you baby awake, but you always end up like that.. trying.
61. You know where to go in cases of fire and emergencies. (To the left, to the left...)
62. You don't know where is your head office (...it's really because you don't have one).
63. You get pissed off when someone pronounces your company as 'acksencha'. You argue that it is pronounced 'ahhhk-sent-yurrrr'. Payn, whatever.
64. You answer yes and no when friends ask you if you work in a call center company.
65. You have to pay P50 just to be able to wear maong on the holidays.
66. You had rewritten science by reformulating E=mc 2: Energy = McDo 2x a day.
67. You go to work and the first thing you do is check your email and try to empty your inbox. 68. Your unkindest remark to your teammate includes "Kelan ka maro-roll off?", which is not even understood by 99.9% of the human race.
69. Most of your jokes is incomprehensible to the average human being and you wonder why. Up to now. <- oi di naman...
70. You are invited to attend your friend's wedding and you ask "When is the Go Live date?" <- ha! so true
71. Your idea of a rockstar is your teammate who knows C and C# coding too well but doesn't even know how to do C minor on the guitar strings.
72. You have the solution on how to save the world. For real. You join community initiatives which sounds somewhere like Piso para sa Pilay, Maong para Makatulong, Tong para Tumulong, Diyes para Sa Buntis. Bente para sa Hinete. This list goes on and on. <-lol!!
73. You live in the fast lane. You live up to the great Latin philosophy 'labore dura et ludus durus' - work hard and play hard. (Well that sounds good in Latin, only that I just made that up. Ha ha)
74. You play 'the-first-one-to-blink-loses' against your computer monitor. It's ok if you get ruptured retinas, you win anyway.
75. You call your boss on a first name basis.
76. Your boss is also referred to in three letters like EMA, BTL, ATI, OMG and the like. (No, GMA is not in the list.)
77. You are working in a project under a shady codename like Project Timbuktu or Team Tickle-UrAnus. This makes your friends upset and suspect you work in an underground network alliance which makes the Yakuzas and Mafias look like smalltime, bluffing sissies.
78. You haven't seen Bill Green in real life and you wonder if he really exists. This puts him in the league with the world's most mysterious characters like the Big Foot, the banker in Deal or No Deal, and Big Brother.
79. You know nobody's blaming you when you get into conversations like 'Sinisi kita kanina sa email ha'. <-hihi
80. You are plotting for world domination.
81. You enjoy a basket of fruits from the 'HR Angels' after your wife do the laboring.
82. Your super heroes include ASLA for money matters and ATIS for everything that requires fixing. Mending of broken hearts not included.
83. You know that ATIS is not always a fruit.
84. Your team lead is your good friend ('Outside the kulambo ka na naman?' ), enemy ('Ha ha ha'), enemy ulit ('Asan na deliverables mo?'), and psychiatrist ('Sige, pagpasensiyahan mo na lang') rolled into one.
85. You know that i-Talk is not a monthly TV program to rival i-Witness. It's a date with your psychologist.
86. You change password every 75 days. You twitch and turn trying to remembers all those passwords that you have. At the end, you call ATIS to reset your password. <- ay sobra... kakainis
87. You are a Bermudian subject (Your company was founded in the Bermuda Triangle, that's why).
88. You play the 'first-one-to-reveal-his-salary-loses' with your team mates. You know that salary information is confidential but you still entice your team mate to divulge his. Those who lose are called 'victims' and they can no longer participate in the game. Currently, you are ranked No. 27in the list and you are up against the No. 1 seed. Like you are playing tennis. <-may naloko na ko nito
89. You are bugged by those annoying credit card companies every hour in your office phone. They suspect you are filthy rich. Maybe filthy, but not rich. <- sobra... mga istorbo
90. You are injected with a tracking pill in your body so that your whereabouts are traced by the company. Until now you don't know about that, do you?
91. But seriously, you are a player in this society. You have high hopes. You have dreams. You have a brilliant mind in working out solutions. You have hopes that this country is worth living after all. You want to develop young minds and contribute in your own little way. This country is failing your expectations but you are still here to give it a shot. You wish people would just work and help themselves out. You are God's little blessing to this country and you know you will help in every way you can to give this country another chance. <- remains true until di ko pa tapos bond ko :P
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You are from Accenture if:
- Rex Lallata Jr.
1. You love your company and makes no apologies for it (- Bill Green)
2. You mistake the mall as an extension of your office.
3. Your cubicle is at least within 100 meters radius to the nearest ice tea cooler.
4. Your office is somewhere along the MRT line.
5. You know that roll in roll off is not something you do with the deodorant.
6. You do geek speak like BS7799, SEAKK, ATIS-GDN, x5999.
7. You say ".. it's Confidential" when you don't know the answer.
8. Your body's liquid component is 33% blood, 33% ice tea, and 33% eight o' clock juice. <- kulang ng coffee
9. You also have traces of 'lumot' juice in your body. The City Service says it's green tea. You wonder why the City Service still prepares you that lumot juice when nobody in the world really likes it. You utter distaste by also referring to it as 'sitaw or kangkong punch'. <-haha
10. You take a nap after lunch. You have mastered the talent of snoring without the sound and sleeping with your eyes half open. How ingenious. <- err... di ako natutulog pag lunch
11. You go home late night and grab yourself a burger and coke as dinner at the nearest Mini-Stop or Burger Machine, unaware of those drunk bullies staring at you on the side ( - courtesy of Winston Cruz in one of those People's Hour sessions) <- oh so true...
12. You sit happily in your chair clueless of global warming because the air conditioning is frigging cold. <- truelaloo
13. You don't know Sugar Mercado or Boy Uling. (Sugar, who?)
14. Your fashion perception is limited to wearing black from your waistline down (black toenails included). <- di naman, may blown and gray slacks naman ako...
15. You play basketball in the middle of the night.
16. You watch Prison Break, Grey's Anatomy, 24, CSI or anything that requires a bit of a brain activity.
17. Okay, okay, you also watch American Idol.
18. You go to the gym when everyone's going home. <- haha
19. You are into sports which either be as physical as basketball or hilarious as finger-wrestling with your office mates.
20. You are drowned with abbreviations like SEAAK, WBS, ATIS, PWS etc.
21. You have a compilation of abbreviations either stuck in your memory, stick notes, or saved in a notepad file.
22. Until now, you still have no freaking idea what on earth SEAAK means. <-haha!
23. You know that there is Sunrise even at night, 24 hours a day, six days a week.
24. You do yoga.
25. You don't do yoga, but you still find your best position to sleep on a chair. 26. Your imaginary friend consists of Sy Betty (CBT), Snuffalafagus and Ice Cube.
27. You get Ice Cube from e-mail and not from the fridge.
28. You don't feel that you have a boss.
29. You dial O when you want to order Take Out lunch.
30. You get annoyed when people make noise inside the elevator.
31. You get annoyed when other Accenture employees talk loud inside the elevator.
32. You are relieved when you realized that those talking loud inside the elevators aren't really from Accenture.
33. You sometimes forget that you are from Accenture and you talk loud inside the elevator.
34. You love life.
35. You live love.
36. Your life is love.
37. You think you are smart.You know you are smart.
38. You celebrate Christmas parties 4 times (one with your team, one with the project, one with the Bench people, and one with the whole Accenture) <-ang saya, di ba? :)
39. You know that Bench is not something to warm your butt with, but another endless sessions with CBTs.
40. You forget that Bench is also a shirt and underwear.
41. You know SCRIBO. You define yourself in two words : Best People.
42. You pose for a picture gesturing the Accenture 'V' sign either Korean-style or putting the V behind your friend's head.
43. You discuss something with someone over a conference call and punctuate the conversation with "Get's mo?".
44. You do your work not because you are afraid of your boss but because you don't want to fail your teammates who believe you can do it.
45. You get scared people won't notice when you die because you are stuck at work.
46. You feel you are surrounded with best people.
47. You think everyone is nice, happy and useful. <-useful? ano ba yun...
48. You consider your teammates as the extension of your family.
49. You have at least one Accenture jacket.
50. You have an Accenture bag, Accenture pen, Accenture electric fan, pouch, shirt, or notebook. 51. You wish you have an Accenture fridge, Accenture house, Accenture car and Accenture water dispenser (Ha ha ha).
52. Your secret in cooking comes from the Maya kitchen.
53. You mistake People's Hour as the Yoshinoya hour because of the meals they serve. ( Well sometimes, they also serve Pinoy meals, Thai meals, Value meals, etc.). <-pede ring Max's hour
54. You slouch at your chair like you own the world.
55. You work on Saturdays not because somebody tells you to.
56. You only put off your computer on Fridays. <- minsan pa nga hindi....
57. For security reasons, you wish your head covers the whole of your 17'' monitor. (Maybe, you want to try afro, or inject your head with fluids, or wear headgear the size of planet Earth).
58. You know that someone is from Accenture by simply looking at him. (Yes, it takes one to know one)
59. You enjoy your moments with your family because it's something you can't always afford with the nature of your work.
60. You are trying to go home early to catch you baby awake, but you always end up like that.. trying.
61. You know where to go in cases of fire and emergencies. (To the left, to the left...)
62. You don't know where is your head office (...it's really because you don't have one).
63. You get pissed off when someone pronounces your company as 'acksencha'. You argue that it is pronounced 'ahhhk-sent-yurrrr'. Payn, whatever.
64. You answer yes and no when friends ask you if you work in a call center company.
65. You have to pay P50 just to be able to wear maong on the holidays.
66. You had rewritten science by reformulating E=mc 2: Energy = McDo 2x a day.
67. You go to work and the first thing you do is check your email and try to empty your inbox. 68. Your unkindest remark to your teammate includes "Kelan ka maro-roll off?", which is not even understood by 99.9% of the human race.
69. Most of your jokes is incomprehensible to the average human being and you wonder why. Up to now. <- oi di naman...
70. You are invited to attend your friend's wedding and you ask "When is the Go Live date?" <- ha! so true
71. Your idea of a rockstar is your teammate who knows C and C# coding too well but doesn't even know how to do C minor on the guitar strings.
72. You have the solution on how to save the world. For real. You join community initiatives which sounds somewhere like Piso para sa Pilay, Maong para Makatulong, Tong para Tumulong, Diyes para Sa Buntis. Bente para sa Hinete. This list goes on and on. <-lol!!
73. You live in the fast lane. You live up to the great Latin philosophy 'labore dura et ludus durus' - work hard and play hard. (Well that sounds good in Latin, only that I just made that up. Ha ha)
74. You play 'the-first-one-to-blink-loses' against your computer monitor. It's ok if you get ruptured retinas, you win anyway.
75. You call your boss on a first name basis.
76. Your boss is also referred to in three letters like EMA, BTL, ATI, OMG and the like. (No, GMA is not in the list.)
77. You are working in a project under a shady codename like Project Timbuktu or Team Tickle-UrAnus. This makes your friends upset and suspect you work in an underground network alliance which makes the Yakuzas and Mafias look like smalltime, bluffing sissies.
78. You haven't seen Bill Green in real life and you wonder if he really exists. This puts him in the league with the world's most mysterious characters like the Big Foot, the banker in Deal or No Deal, and Big Brother.
79. You know nobody's blaming you when you get into conversations like 'Sinisi kita kanina sa email ha'. <-hihi
80. You are plotting for world domination.
81. You enjoy a basket of fruits from the 'HR Angels' after your wife do the laboring.
82. Your super heroes include ASLA for money matters and ATIS for everything that requires fixing. Mending of broken hearts not included.
83. You know that ATIS is not always a fruit.
84. Your team lead is your good friend ('Outside the kulambo ka na naman?' ), enemy ('Ha ha ha'), enemy ulit ('Asan na deliverables mo?'), and psychiatrist ('Sige, pagpasensiyahan mo na lang') rolled into one.
85. You know that i-Talk is not a monthly TV program to rival i-Witness. It's a date with your psychologist.
86. You change password every 75 days. You twitch and turn trying to remembers all those passwords that you have. At the end, you call ATIS to reset your password. <- ay sobra... kakainis
87. You are a Bermudian subject (Your company was founded in the Bermuda Triangle, that's why).
88. You play the 'first-one-to-reveal-his-salary-loses' with your team mates. You know that salary information is confidential but you still entice your team mate to divulge his. Those who lose are called 'victims' and they can no longer participate in the game. Currently, you are ranked No. 27in the list and you are up against the No. 1 seed. Like you are playing tennis. <-may naloko na ko nito
89. You are bugged by those annoying credit card companies every hour in your office phone. They suspect you are filthy rich. Maybe filthy, but not rich. <- sobra... mga istorbo
90. You are injected with a tracking pill in your body so that your whereabouts are traced by the company. Until now you don't know about that, do you?
91. But seriously, you are a player in this society. You have high hopes. You have dreams. You have a brilliant mind in working out solutions. You have hopes that this country is worth living after all. You want to develop young minds and contribute in your own little way. This country is failing your expectations but you are still here to give it a shot. You wish people would just work and help themselves out. You are God's little blessing to this country and you know you will help in every way you can to give this country another chance. <- remains true until di ko pa tapos bond ko :P
Monday, February 19, 2007
Burned out
I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote a post on September 28, 2005. If I could just spend one day like that in the office...
I've always remembered the first time I have to oversee a KS Session in the project: I had fever, a runny nose and a stupid headache that I couldn't even stare at the monitor for more that 10 minutes straight. I still went to work even though I was sick since the previous night.
However, for the past few weeks, I get up feeling well, but with the least bit of determination to go to work. I've been wondering where all the eagerness and engagement went. Siguro I just need another trip to Palawan? haha, I wish. Or maybe another dinner at Circles? Hay...
I've always remembered the first time I have to oversee a KS Session in the project: I had fever, a runny nose and a stupid headache that I couldn't even stare at the monitor for more that 10 minutes straight. I still went to work even though I was sick since the previous night.
However, for the past few weeks, I get up feeling well, but with the least bit of determination to go to work. I've been wondering where all the eagerness and engagement went. Siguro I just need another trip to Palawan? haha, I wish. Or maybe another dinner at Circles? Hay...
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen
I've never been a fan of the Back to the 80's thing on RX 93.1. I guess the only reason I still listen to the Morning Rush on Wednesdays is that Delamar gets to choose the stuff for the Top 10 (hehe :P) When they played this particular song yesterday, I just had to stop in front of the radio and listen to the whole thing. There wasn't much of the actual singing in the song itself, it's more like a monologue forced in between beats. The lyrics had so much sense in it that many listeners asked for its title right after it played...
Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97,
Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis or reliable then my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice....now.Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, nevermind, you won't understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded, but trust me in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future, or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind: the kind that blindsides you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts; don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive; forget the insults. (if you succeed in doing this, tell me how).Keep your old love letters; throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives; some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of Calcium. Be kind to your knees -- you'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40; maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body: use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it; it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance...even if you have no where to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions (even if you don't follow them).
Do not read beauty magazines; they will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents; you never know when they'll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings: they're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but what a precious few should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps and geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.
Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old; and when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse, but you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you are 40, it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia; dispensing it is a way of wishing the past from the disposal--wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
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