3 posts tagged “friendship”

I am staring blankly at my pc... still constructing the resignation letter I will give my manager tonight.

Yeah it has to be short, well-mannared and not so emotional.

Oh yes I am emotional at this point! Whenever I try writing my resignation letter, my head gives me words that sound like I'm breaking up with my boyfriend. Indeed it feels like that. Almost 4 years of comfort under my company's safe wings.

Okay, so I'll copy a resignation template online. I guess that's the best thing to do.

But my heart is compelling me to write a long and emotional letter. Not only for my managers but also to my colleagues. I'm thinking so many versions....

The HR specialist, just called me a while back. Informed me that they raised their offer, closer to what I expected but not quite. I still accepted it, because this time it's not about the monetary value... it's about the new things I will learn and the new experience I will cherish.

Which brings me back to my doodling.

I have been endlessly questioning myself, am I about to do the right thing?

I really do not know. But I want to know, I am just scared that I might make a big mistake.

I have always had this feeling that I'm all dressed up but I have nowhere to go. Now that I have found a place to explore my capabilities, I suddenly felt scared to jump. I don't want to be a lost ball in the high weeds.

I have 2 weeks left, to finish things for my company. To bid goodbye to my friends and dwell on the memories I will bring as I move forward.

I am back to the wall, it's so difficult to decide. Although I know I have already made one. I am just anxious to finalize it.

The ball is in my court. This is it. I have to take the next step and move on.

I guess, I want to make this decision because I don't want to be stuck here and in the future I'd be thinking, "what if I took the job?"

I can always come back if I'm unhappy there. (There goes my consolation!) =P

It breaks my heart to leave. This has been my comfort zone. This place even makes me feel homier than my apartment. But life wouldn't be as fun without change. I don't want to settle for comfort.

I'll miss my friends, I'll miss my desk and my pc with a pink desk top. I'll miss my locker, the pantry, the entire city of Makati. I will sure miss a hell lot'ta things, but missing makes me grow. Detachment makes me strong and changes make me learn.

One thing is certain, I will always carry the values I have learned from this company.

No matter where I go, I will uphold the virtue of a true IBMer.

Happy 12th year anniversary to us!!!

It's such a nice thought to have good and real friends who stays with you through the test of time. They are considered treasure. And if there's one thing that is hard to do... that is keeping that treasure safe with you.

But I have done a great job in keeping our friendship intact. A way of keeping one is marrying one them. Har! In case you didn't know, my husband and I have been friends since our freshman years.

I couldn't help but cry at the sight of my friends, each year we get together and we make it a point to be all present in that event.

Recently, we had our 12th year reunion and it was such a blast! A party heary event I suppose. Seeing them is like catching some rays.

Another wonderful thing about being friends since then is when you see each one of you transform. From that little geeky nerd to a total knockout. From that big bully and annoying jerk to a well-round man ready to take care of his own family. As for me, from that "funny-jokes-on-me diva" who always gets drunk and kisses the can, I have turned 360 degrees and bacame a wonderful, gorgeous yet bitchy mom (such narcissism! Har!)

But however we have changed, one thing still remains the same... that is how we love each other.

It's fun to remember highschool days, back when we were listening to recorded love songs on tape (read this: CASETTE TAPE! Har!) during our breaktime, cutting classes and sneaking out of the room to get in line first for lunch, crossing the waist-high flood after a party, our Junior and Senior prom, our study habits and what not.

Each year, we meet, we will always talk about how it was before. Each year, we laugh our hearts out, as we reminisce how innocent we were back then.

Happy 12th year anniversary guys! I love you!

current mood

I was browsing my Friendster  friends and came accross the account I built for my colege girlfriends...                         Single Careererz. I felt very sentimental about it... years passed and I miss my friends, the days we hang out at Eliza's Tapsihan, Kinse Lang and Batibot.

Our days we spent by loitering around the campus checking out cute guys and of course bitchin around other college girls. I was a typical kolehiyala back then. I remember, other girls would try to bully me because I was such a "prima donna". Our group was one of the popular group in the College of Accountancy, and I guess one of the favored by the professors since some of us excel in school, but of course, some of us excel in cheating! Hah! We were bunch of "pilyas" (naughty girls) and snobs. We also have a few guy friends in the group and they also have their own share of roguishness.

Our group was mostly dominated by single girls and a single guy (John)- just so you know, he's not gay. We considered him our boyfriend since he's aloof with other girls except with us and he is very dear to us no matter how snob he is. We also have a gay friend Reego who loves designing clothes. We loved that fact that most of us are single, and we enjoyed each time we spent together. No heartaches, no lover's quarrel, no unsafe sex. Haha!

I miss the days we study at the library and the librarian gets mad because we were trying to laugh quietly. I miss the days we splurge on food and movies. We are buch of ladies with voracious appetite! We drink til we drop and we sleep together and wake up with an enormous hang-over. I miss our laughter, as if we don't care at all. If we were from a school of nuns, I thinked we would have been kicked out for we lacked finess and we were tactless.

We were proud that we're single. We were happy just by being each others' dates.

Now that I'm married, I can't call myself "singlecareerer", but I'm happy that I have once founded a cheezy yet fun group. A friendship made to last, even if we're all married or not!

I miss my amigas and amigos!