happiness, sorrow, despair and craziness

yahoo!!!!

2004-12-17T13:13:00.000-08:00

well it has been a while that i haven't posted anything...anyway, i got work now...though it is just part time job it's a good start for me. this happened last monday. when a guy who is a manager of johnny carino's named phil who is my dad's regular customer bought soup and sandwich..i was washing the dishes when my dad called me and introduced me to this man. dad seized the opportunity to tell phil that i graduated from B.S. Hotel and Restaurant Management and i need to have local experience...then phil told me to go to the resto on wed for interview... tuesday we went shopping for my pants and boots for my interview.. night came and i discovered that my resume was not in the diskette that i have..i panicked ...good thing i called the philippines and asked them to send me thru email my resume...but the catch is they still don't know how to send email so they had to call my nephew to send it...then wednesday came and i was rushing to print my resume but the prob was it wasnt printing then i discovered that the printer ran out of paper so i had to really rush and find paper really quick. i got some papers and funny thing is the format of my resume had uneven spacing coz the pc here has a diff format. but i i didn't care i just need to print those out...i went to the restaurant and i discovered that i had to fill up an application form and no need to pass my resume....but good thing i used my resume for reference of my past jobs or whatsoever...i got the job..and now an employee of Johnny Carino's Italian Restaurant as a hostess (like my job at Burgoo)...i was quite nervous of everything coz im in a diff world now away from the philippines...slowly but surely im trying to adapt in their "culture"...also i was so surprised to know that my trainor is 17 y/o and so were my other workmates...but they were more surprised to know that i was 24 y/o coz i looked younger than my age (ehem ehem) some thought that i was a senior in high school (more ehem ehem)...there was one time that one guest of the restaurant who was a kid asked me "did u just started working?" ..i said "yes" and she replied with " i thought so coz u really look quite young"...that made my day...it made me really laugh out hard...oh well i finished my 3 day training and last night was my 1st day out of training and it was a hell lot harder coz i get to close alone and my hands were sore and hurting because of the detergents and soap that i used...but i guess i'll get over it...till next time amigos.......

first week in the US

2004-11-22T13:23:00.000-08:00

well ive posted some thing in my yahoo groups so i decided to paste it here.

hi guys! it has been 6 days since i left the philippines. im now inmy dad's place...i left the philippines at 10pm and arrived LA5:50pm on the same day,november 15. i met my 2(ian and paul) out of3 brothers who are really tall leaving me looking like a midget.myother brother james wasnt home then cause he is away for college.myweek has been slow. last tuesday, me and my dad were supposedlygoing to the social security admin office cause i lost my old cardin the philippines(and that card is very essential here to get a joband a license) but we didn't go there cause i woke up late 2:30pm(very michelle huh? hehehe). wednesday, my birthday, i woke up 9am(with the help of my alarm clock) and i accompanied my dad to dosome errands. afterwhich, we went to the social security adminoffice but the line was so long because we came in very late so weleft and went to my dad's mini fast food(as small as a stall in afood court) in a swapmeet(small virramall). my dad was the onlypersonnel there so he did the cooking,serving and washing of thedishes.it caters asian food but it wasnt doing that good because theswapmeet isnt really filled up with people but guess what??? thevendors there are his patrons.to make myself entertained my dadrented a dvd of white chicks(uncut version) and i watched it insidea storeroom laughing all by myself.thursday, me and my dad went tothe social security admin again now earlier around 9:30am and thepple there said that i will get my card there in about 7-10 days.istayed home because my stepmother is going to have a procedure doneto her called colonoscopy.so i just started reading the book countof monte cristo...another slow day.friday, my dad's bday, i waswoken up by a phonecall from a friend in new york. i again stayed athome and that night will be a joint celebration of me and my dad'sbday.so that night while i was talking to a friend over the phone mybrother james surprised me and gave me a sweater for my bday.thenafterwards we made some preparations for the party and eventuallysome guests came. i saw my long lost cousins w/c in contradictionddnt grow as much cause im still taller than them.we ate a lot andafterwards, my brothers hooked up the magic mic and sang a song. mybrothers, ian and james were commedians.they sang song in a veryfunny way but paul was different cause he knows old filipino songsw/c i dont know and sings them really well.he's a part of theirdrama club in school.then they passed the mic to me and it was theirfirst time to hear me sing. i guess the magic mic has been good tome cause it gave me a couple of 100 score(ehem ehem).we sang tilpast midnight then left the mic to my dad who really into singingand scoring 100.my brothers and i went to their room and stillexchanged stories. my brother showed me a picture of hisfriends,pets and his apartment.i guess i slept around 3am last nightand woke up 11:45am earlier. well right now obviously im not thatbusy. just text me thru my globe # 09272191031 and ill answer thruchikka.hope to hear from u guys. take care.

p.s.
since im lazy to make a new blog il just make an additional blog here...

the other day i woke up at 3am...since i can't get myself to sleep again, i tried to read the count of monte cristo in the hope of making myself drowsy...but 5am came and still im still up and about and i noticed there something peculiar on my window...it's like a picture from a christmas card...when i checked it out..it was SNOWING!!! accdg to my bros it was quite early to have snow because it usually snows around december...gosh it is so cooooold!!!

just starting....

2004-11-06T02:27:00.000-08:00

well after 10 years of laziness(quite an exaggeration but the lazy part is true)...i got a blog!!! i'm here at my friend's office enjoying the wonders of free internet use. nine days more and i would be leaving my dear philippines... a mixture of excitement and anxiety of what life would would i face there....to be continued ....well it took me 11 days roughly to post this so as not to waste my time and effort...ill just hav it posted..