Last week on Lean Shift

The schedule that was assigned to us for a 4-week time has come to its last week. I remember I was just very excited (as always) because it was fun starting the shift with the calls not that much queuing but it ends up queuing. But what's good about it is that I get to see most molino's on the floor before we get out. (^_^)

That week, I got engaged on a LOT of drinking sessions along with my teammates Weng, Loki, Elai, Honeylet, Bhuds, Marvs, Jane and Tom. It was almost every after shift. Weng usually initiates the invite, and most of us follows. What can I do, it's fun hanging out and having some drinks after a tedious day at work.

By the end of that week, PAY DAY!

STL Alain prepared a get-together party for the whole team on Friday at the Dampa Seafood Restaurants near the Mall of Asia. Specifically, the restaurant's name is Trinity Seafood House, I think. Since we all came from our shifts in the morning, I went to sleep and rested up to the afternoon. I went to the F Salon to get my hair colored again (brown with lighter higlights than last time). I spent about 2 hours plus and went straight home to refresh and get dressed for the event.

At the salon

Yeah... hairdo!


My hair (re-colored!)

I arrived at the front of the office building and met my other teammates as well as STL Alain. I rode along Jeni's car and we drove all the way to the restaurant. It was a hell of a ride, we were talking about everything under the sun and got to the Dampa later than everybody.

When we got there, I found Lyka, our teammate who just bore her first child earlier that week, grace the event. She came along with TL Mel, her partner. The food was awesome, the ambiance was so superb. Everyone definitely enjoyed the event. I think we were about 20 there. We even have leftovers because of the overflowing amount of seafood ordered! (^_^)

Along with some of my teammates

Me and Jeni

The table

Eat up, guys!


Lyka


Lyka, Me and Jewel


Drinker


Smoker?!


Marvs, Me, Elai and Jeni

The feast didn't end that evening. It was continued at Tagaytay, which I will be posting on the next post.

----------Robb----------

Three weeks?!

Oh yeah, this is what I hate the most about blogging. I sometimes to update it every now and then. I just didn't have the urge to do it these past three weeks. Even though there has been a lot of happy things that happened, I'll try my best to come up with a concise but complete summary of what happened on my November 2008. (^_^) I missed blogging! Much as I missed everyone here...



----------Robb----------

A Night Out at Miles' Place

Well, this happened way last week, November 1 to be exact. Our text clan members got together to celebrate (actually it's Harry's idea) a farewell party for everyone at Miles' place in Dulong Bayan, Bacoor. The recent days are not-that-exciting as one by one a member quits. Harry gathered all of us but he arrived pretty late in the midnight because he came with Clarence from Malate. I arrived there at about 9pm already because it took me a long time to prepare.

I met with my co-varsity player (who's also a member, codename - Katch) Osler besides SM Bacoor. As soon as we arrived there, the house was already full of people. I felt the urge to eat dinner because we're going to have some drinks there so obviously I need to eat. I invited Osler and his buddy Jedd, and the buddies Jake and Hartlove (I'm singled out, yeah!). I treated Jake and Hartlove to some meals on the resto we went to. Jedd and Katch told me they already are full so I just ordered for three.

When we got back inside the house, it's now more jam packed than earlier. The drinking is about to begin and I freshened up and got along with everybody. Miles was very accomodating and everyone seems to be enjoying the night. Stories here and there, shots passed on turns, the usual house party drinking. Of course, smokers abound the place as well.

It was very much late when Harry and Clarence arrived. We (Jed, Katch and Me) were in Miles' room talking (and me passing songs from Jedd's phone to mine) until about 3-4am. Then, Miles persuaded Jedd to treat us on a meal. We headed back to the same resto we ate earlier. But this time, Jedd and Katch ate along with us. I took some photos while were there because it ws ages before our orders arrived.

Me

Me again


Zaijha and Taki




Katch, Miles and Jedd




Harry and Clarence

And this is the time when we're waiting for our ordered meals...

...and thank Heavens it arrived!

and then everyone's happy!

mmmm!

After that very much satisfying meal (worth the wait), we headed back to the house and continued the drinking along with other members left there. Miles proposed that the clan be restored and she'll be the moderator-somewhat. Everyone agreed and up to this day we're all still textmates. It's fun having friends that many. (^_^)

----------Robb----------

My cat

I told StarFish that I'll try to post pics of my cat. Haha. He's kinda dirty because I wasn't able to bathe him for about three days ('coz I was busy at work). He's called SnowBell, I wonder where my little bro got the name, but I think he resembles Fat Louie of "The Princess Diaries" but I know he's thinner than it. (^_^)


I couldn't make him pose properly so I just disturbed his sleep on top of our jeep and took snapshots of him:

----------Robb----------

Halloween

My halloween wasn't that much typical. Of course, I went to the cemetery just as what most people do here in the Philippines. But the thing is, not in the family cemetery where I usually go, but in Dasmariñas Manila Memorial. I was invited by my friend Kurt to have some drinks in the cemetery (imagine that!). I went on and met up with them first at Kurt's house in Dasma. We carried some stuffs for preparation for the tent we're going to use for the whole evening of stay there. Since I'm on lean shift, I'm kinda used to being awake at night.

After they set up the tent, we started the drinking. JC and I went out of the group a couple of times just to eat at the nearby stalls of Dokito and Zagu. (^_^) I think the only picture that I got saved in my phone was this:









It's JC, my friend Kurt's buddy. It unfair 'coz I wasn't able to take my own picture that night. haha... (^_^)

I took a nap at about 3am then woke up an hour after. I went home straight immediately because the sky's about to pour rain.



----------Robb----------

Yellow Cab

Thursday, I was bombarded with questions on what happened, I told them honestly that I had a piercing headache that I had to go to the clinic to get some more medicine aside from those I took up at home. Good thing everyone believed me and I was spared for not coming last night on Molokai.

I had some of the weirdest phone calls today. I just found myself one time talking to a Spanish person who doesn't want to be transferred to the Spanish queue. It's the first rule to transfer Spanish to Spanish, but that customer was way too hard to persuade. I understood his situation, he's using a Vostro (the line of Dell systems were focused to troubleshoot) registered under SMB, our department. He's been transferred even by the Spanish queue to us, which makes it even harder for me. We're having a hard time understanding each other, he's mumbling his English, and there are some points that I wished that if only he's a Filipino, we could've talked in Tagalog! (^_^)

Another weird call was with a woman whose earlier calls have been handled by two of my teammates. She's very difficult to understand but good thing I had the urge to help her. 'Coz I was like the fourth person she talked to that day!

On the good side of the day, I got my SECOND COMMENDATION! (^_^) I was so happy because the customer that gave me that commendation was a Spanish person as well, named Sixto Collantes. His issue was just downloading Flash Player to have sound on Internet videos. Yeah!

After shift, we all got ready to go to Elai's place as we all planned to have some drinks there that day. Not everyone was there, though. Weng, Marvin, Loki, Honeylet, Dad, Ping and Me were the only ones who went there.

We bought some food, drinks and some others at a 24-hour shop at the gasoline station on the way. We arrived at Elai's place at about 4:30am and good timing, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is showing on HBO. We tagged Marvin into buying us a pizza and left with no choice, he agreed =p.

Marvin drove us to the nearby Yellow Cab on the Alabang-Zapote Road. Honeylet and Elai came along with us to buy the pizzas. When we arrived there, we immediately picked out the pizzas to order - New York's Finest and Chicken Strips something, haha I forgot the other name. Elai also requested Marvs to buy him Charlie Chan pasta.

While we're waiting for our orders, I slipped out my cellphone and took a hell lot of pics, haha. Here are some:

Wonderful. One word to describe that day. (^_^)

----------Robb----------