my beat

on this day, a year ago

it may be just an ordinary day for everyone but me. on feb 16 of 2011, it was the day when i knew my God above answered my fervent prayer for two years.

i actually hinted about it coming because my regular monthly visitor all of a sudden didn't come at the time when it should. after waiting for a week of delay, i finally submitted myself to a test. i was having a dilemma that day because i failed to buy the kit the day before that, and i was so giddy that time to confirm what i was suspecting, i could not wait any longer. then i remembered that i had a kit of it given to me during the shower party organized by my girlfriends. i easily located it on the cabinet where i hid it, and to my disappointment, it has long been expired. toink!!! nevertheless, as i said, i was so excited that time that i used the kit and tried it on, notwithstanding that it's expired and it may not give an accurate result. pinatulan ko talaga! hahaha i bought another kit the following day, and yes, it said of the same result than what i had on the expired one, two stripes there! gotchaaaa!!!

that day felt so surreal up to this day. it was something i did not expect yet i have long hoped for. fast forward to 2012, i am blissfully living it! my baby isobelle is 4 months now :)

bankers no more.. for some, that is.

if there is one thing i am most thankful about after having worked for a bank for four years, it is the thought that these people were brought together to become an important part of me.

banking as a career is a not at all easy. everyday you are faced with the pressure and stress from management and clients, and yes, the daunting task of counting bills one to one hundred a thousand times per day. i remember before, we would rant all the time while we were counting, sorting and arranging paper bills, leah and i used to describe it as trabaho nga makabogo. imagine you do that routine each and every waking day of your banking life, for tellers atleast. tell me, which part of your brain cells do you get to use by doing that over and over again?! i guess it was really something we have not learned to embrace. enough said. ano bah, nakaget-over na nga ako and now i am moving forward. naks!

i may have waved goodbye to the life that was, but not the relationships formed. it may have been just less than 4 years, but i have to say it's one of the best. these are the people i can personally confide, incidentally they are the only ones left here in surigao out of the few good friends i have, except for the febrero couple. so whenever i feel like chilling out, having a good laugh or needing someone to talk to, text brigade lang yan, hagudhud na tnan! not just for me, i would say it works this way for all of us. we are comforted with the fact that we have each other in crests and troughs. 

the gathering documented above was for two reasons. first, it was rubee's homecoming after the 'unexplainable' case. of course we could not afford to miss how he has been after that happened, what he had went through and how he is coping to recovery. and second, someone has to pour her heart out and tell us why the sudden decision. or is it just obvious na chismosa lang tlaga kami? hahaha

 it was one night of good food, boisterous laughter, recollections and bantering. need i mention? :D