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It's a small world after all..

Today was the first day I went to Galleria again in such a long time.. Went there primarily to get my COE from Corie, but when I got there with Behng, Corie, all of a sudden had to ditch us. AGAIN. And so we decided to buy some stuff from the grocery when lo and behold, the Person-Who-Shall -Not-Be-Named appeared from my periphery with somebody all too familiar.

I'm not big on chance meetings, especially if the person isn't that close anymore. I just had to avoid the meeting lest I get stuck with fake "word-vomit" in the middle of the mall..

Anyways, I'm really off to bed now since I have a 9pm shift tonight.. so I'll just come back when I've got more stamina to think and write out my thoughts.

'Night for now.

kathy

I think Rommel took this video while Kath was planning the teambuilding around 2 years ago.. Notice the drawings on the white board.. hehe.

midterm madness

See my clutter? It's only 2 days before midterms and I still don't understand a lot of things.. especially holding times on bank deposits.. bleh. Good thing the exam is open everything (notes, modules, PCs) so I guess I just need to master navigating so I'll know where to go. I can't wait to finish training as well as the nesting period. This surely is a lot harder than what I thought but I strongly feel it's all worth it. S7 here I come, cringing all the way.

I'm still buiyng time and basically avoiding studying so forgive me for the random thoughts.. Oh yeah, here's a shot of the view from my room..

If you look very closely, UB is actually on the second picture.. hehe. I will forever miss that building. Too many memories there i guess.

Anyways, I'm hungry.. I had my braces adjusted yesterday and all my teeth feel like they're about to fall off and are too weak to bite anything harder than bread.. So i'm on a bread diet since dinner last night which is gruesome since I can't eat as much as I want to. Oh well.

Onto another week of studying tomorrow.. Rai will be out for the week and will be substituted by someone who looks very familiar.. I forgot her name though. So before I finally go, here's a quote from one of my favorite books of all time, Richad Paul Evans' The Carousel:

"Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed."

That "High School Physics" feeling..

It's been 2 straight days that I'd find myself just staring at Rai when she's having lectures up front.. I mean, i get to scribble little notes on the things i hear but i really find it hard to focus... and most of the time i am just too sleepy to listen.. I'm back in high school Physics.

countdown ..

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adjustments

Barely got home from a very very very long day of lectures on financial markets and online trading.. I guess what adds to the fact that days are long for me is because;

1. I wake up at 7:20am ( i adhere to a 10-minute "gulong period" before i actually move out of bed), take a bath, prepare breakfast, eat, get dressed and fix the modules i need for the day. Leave house before 8:30am.
2. 15-20 minute jeep ride to rotonda where i have to line up for the ayala-bound fx. (lining up alone takes around 30-45 minutes on good days)
3. Trip to ayala takes another 30-45 minutes depending on the c5 traffic.

All in all travel time in the morning takes an average of 1.5 to 2 hours. Going home at 8pm is a whole different story.

Anyways, I'm not all that whiny as compared to last week since i'd like to believe i'm getting used to the entire situation or maybe i'm just getting good at denial. haha. No pain, no gain though.

So I've been thinking lately.. well, more about what has happened in the last month or so and I'm surprised I don't harbor that anger that I used to feel. I'm more inclined to apathy now and it kind of scares me. I dunno.. it's funny how I used to get messages from former colleagues on a regular basis, letting me know what's been up in their lives, what is happening in the place I'd left, without me ever asking to be updated. And now that the updates are no longer, I kinda miss them. Guess I miss what I left, in general. Everything is just so different now and there are times I look for old friends, not so much physically, but at least embodied in the new faces that I see and i get sad knowing it's never going to be the same. Here, I have to start from scratch.

I have to admit that what I am doing now is harder but I also have so much reason not to give up. Where there's greater risk, there's higher (if not infinite) profitability. I don't even think of this as an obstacle. I look at myself as part of God's intricate tapestry, that which is to be weaved into something beautiful in time.

random thoughts..

bonds

STOCKS

options

liquidity

custodian



NASDAQ

NYSE

ticker symbol


MUTUAL FUNDS


ROLL-OVER IRA

merger

security

trading


financial markets


market value

Escheatment




Residual Sweep

Stock split


phishing

___________

... just some of the gazillion terms i came across today.. it's been a long day, I'm feeling very tired yet positive that things are eventually going to fall into place.

Here's to hoping.

chapter 2?

12 hours of straight slumber isn't that bad considering I haven't had that in amost 4 years. Oh well.

I am about to start a new chapter of my life on Monday and it feels so weird that I'm still nervous about the entire thing despite the fact that I'm not even new at it at all. I just don't know what to expect since I have been living in a routine for the past few years and new people scare me. hehe. Seriously. I just have this aversion for making conversation just to befriend people who will end up not really being my friend because I'll realize we have nothing in common but was just stuck in one room too long and had to talk. Anyways, there's a lot of things that needs to be done before Monday. I have to polish on my world economics and prepare my requirements.. plus I need to buy new shoes. haha.

Enderun

Enderun School

Nice if they opened in 1999.. hehehe. Probably the best Culinary Arts school in the country. And the most most expensive one, I suppose.