false alarm...

i was suppose to start my training in m&m last night... but instead, i found myself still inside the XOR (Xmen-Omega-Rolex) blue box ops, sitting on my chair, logged on my computer station and doing my mailbox tasks...

yeah... my m&m training was postponed and my stay in rolex was extended... :)

i had to stay mainly for the smooth mailbox transition... our OM informed us last wednesday or thursday (can't clearly remember) that our client did not allow our immediate transfer and required one of the IST members to stay for 2 more weeks... to make sure that the turn over of the tasks goes well...

but this, for me, is both happy and sad...

happy because i will be staying for two more weeks in rolex... this means i still have 2 more "relaxed" weeks -- relaxed meaning i don't have to think yet of m&m.. i'm still around the people/crowd i know.. still inside the comfort zone.. not the "petiks" type of relaxation, i actually have a lot of mailbox tasks to do.. but since i've been used to it, it's lesser pressure... gets?

but this also makes me sad because this implies that i would be going to training alone... i will be attending classes and entering the room without knowing anybody from the crowd... feeling like a total stranger.. that sucks! what worries me the most is i'm not that sociable... meaning if i don't know you and you won't talk to me, i won't talk to you either... it takes me quite sometime before i completely mingle with acquaintances (people i've just met)...

and yes... i was the chosen one... i don't know if i should be considering this as lucky or not.. a part of me says YES.. and the other part says NO... well, whatever it is, i know and i always believe that everything happens for a reason.. reason that i will know in due time... i know that He has His own plans for me... and i know that He knows what's best for me... :)

so for the mean time, let's reset the countdown to 13 days... :)

~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

and the countdown begins...

my last week in rolex begins tonight.. but since i'm on leave today, 5 days is down to 4...

today, the sky is cloudy and droplets of rain are falling non-stop... i was suppose to wake up at about 8 am in the morning because i had to go to Quezon City hall to renew my NBI clearance for my new program... but the weather kind of disagrees with my plan for the day, i wasn't able to get up until 11am due to the cold weather... if it wasn't that important, i would just be sleeping the whole day... mainly the reason why i filed for a leave -- just to rest...

despite my laziness, i managed pulling myself out of my bed and going to QC hall for the renewal... the process didn't take that long... since i'm just renewing, i just had to pay the fee, take a photo, then after that, would be claiming already... however, i had a HIT in their records... the clerk asked me if i had finished working for 5 years in the philippines, i said "no, tatlong taon pa lang po...", then she told me that i still have a HOLD DEPARTURE ORDER... this is because of my DOST scholarship. but that should have been lifted because i was suppose to serve for 3 years only, the same period/duration that i was able to enjoy/use the scholarship... and my 3rd year in eTel (october 17) marked the end of the bond... so i'm actually not sure what happened... this is so disappointing and unexpected.. she said i'd be able to claim my clearance the earliest on 11/12... but i had to submit it tomorrow, 11/04... how lucky, huh?! after thinking that i will be able to claim it the same day... the exact opposite happened...

sigh... we should really be expecting the unexpected all the time... because they happen... they really do... especially when you least expect them... being transferred to another program this early is actually already a very unexpected thing for me...

right now... i'm feeling disappointed, sad, happy, excited, nervous, pressured, etc. yeah, you may call it mixed emotions... as it is, literally... disappointed of the delay in my NBI clearance... sad that after 3 years i would be leaving rolex... happy that i'm no longer a mailbox officer, back to being an agent, meaning lesser tasks and responsibilities... excited for the training, to meet new friends... but nervous at the same time of the certification and phone lab... pressured to finish all the due mailbox tasks and to pass the cert...

life is indeed like a box of chocolates.. you'll never know what you're gonna get.. we'll never know what's gonna hapen... we just need to grab every opportunity that comes along... so i'll be taking this as an opportunity... hopefully a good one... for career growth and movement... so help me God... :)

MnM, i guess i'll be seeing you next week.. :)


~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

judgement day

earlier this day was when we found out the results of the exam we took in m n' m... boss roan met us at about 2 am or 3 am to tell us that 4 out of the 5 examinees passed... that's me, ching, chiqui and jenni... and we're scheduled to be transferred on november 10, 2008...

i actually don't know how i should be feeling... isn't everything happening so fast?... we were told of the new program, only on saturday morning last week... then we were scheduled to take the exam the following tuesday, at 1am... results were then out today... we're transferring soon... we barely even have time to prepare ourselves for the transfer...

i'm glad that the four of us passed... but there's one who didn't, sadly... and the result swept 3 of the mailbox members... so we had to schedule a transition for the persons in line, replacing us 3... i'm just shocked that this had to happen this early... i have been expecting that a lot of us will really be transferred this coming ramp down... but not this early... i'm used to transfers happening in january... not november...

well, i guess that's life... everything really comes to an end... and nothing lasts forever...
just like TKA (they kiss again) which will be airing last tomorrow, october 31, 2008... i will be missing my Joe Cheng aka Michael Jiang so much!!!!

so, it's closing time...
farewell rolex..


~jenni~ching~chiqui~gracie~
soon-to-be-"ex-rolex-girls"...


~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*