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bisaya na jud ko

--written october 9, 2008---

back when MBA started, i remembered hating Cebu and cebuanos because of Cebu Lakers. cebuanos are so rude when Negros Slashers are playing in Cebu. So when it is the other way around, the coliseum would be all packed with supporters to watch the Negros Slashers and Cebu game. we would in turn, be the cruel people mocking Cebu players. eheh the coli would be closed even during practice games of Cebu Lakers because everyone hates them.

i would always comment then, law-ay ang mga cebuano(cebuanos are ugly) :D but that was only on basketball though. when it was 2 years before graduation, my friends and i were all set to work in manila. but after our tour to manila and cebu, we thought we liked cebu better. less pollution, less traffic, but still plenty of opportunities.

and just like a dream come true,my first ever job was in cebu. i was lucky to find one and start immediately after graduation and the company is really good. but this means sacrifice as well. i will be leaving home for the first time. and unfortunately, my college friends are not with me. i am with 4 other BOYs from our school. im the only girl that got accepted :( one is my classmate, but at that time we had a gap :p the other one is our schoolmate which is not really a close/good friend, and i do not know the other two. the only consolation i had that time was the salary, and the fact that two of my high school barkada were there. one was already working there, and the other one will be there for review. so at least i still got company.

learning the dialect was never easy. attending the orientation and listening to our company nurse talking about tambal, etc is one thing i could not forget. i would always turn to my seatmate and ask for the meaning of the word :D but one thing i really appreciated is that we started in the company in a group. one guy also knows ilonggo so he is our translator ;) all the girls in our batch would usually hang out. and our batch had a lot of laag(out of town, or just around cebu), making it fast for me to learn bisaya.

now after 4 years and 9 months of working in cebu i am saying na bisaya/cebuano na jud ko(i am really cebuano). or i got used to using the dialect i guess. even if i talk to ilonggo or tagalog(my officemate here now are all tagalog), sometimes i subconsciously use cebuano words. even when thinking, or praying, i would use bisaya instead of ilonggo. :) good thing i am using the word correctly. some words are still foreign to me, but when i talk, im glad that i sound bisaya rather than sounding ilonggo using bisaya words ;) some would even say that they thought im cebuano and not ilonggo :p

even when i am no longer in cebu, i still have friends who are cebuano. all my friends and housemates here and of course soi are all bisaya, so i think i will never stop using the dialect. the connection i had with cebu will always be there. home for me is bacolod and cebu.

even if there are still more cebuano words to learn, i am glad i learned some of it well and am using it correctly :)

a dose of massage

waaahhh!!!! not again!!!

m squeezed =( fufufu ;(

no, no to 800am from mukaigawara again pls...

seeing the line while on the stairs going to platform 4, i am definitely sure that we're going to have our dose of massage...we even waited for the next train coz the line is so long..

i am so squeezed with this big, no, huge guy in front of me.. ;'(

it's a squeezing experience from kawasaki to oimachi..that is 3 stations of suffering..

=(

and from oimachi, twas a little better without that huge guy.. =p

there is this two girls who i think jst experienced getting on the train to tokyo that they are also laughing especially when there is this one guy who went out and just shoved her off out of his way without any politeness or respect or whatsoever..

and i can even hear them saying: "sugoi!"

i wonder what is so amazing about it :S

ok ra ko wlay masahe...sa cebu na lang k =p

ok ra pd k 730 mohawa...pra wlay masahe =p

huhuhu

feb 10 na!!!!!

15days..

=)

and they even manage to read inside the full packed train..tsk tsk...

sugoi! =p

blah blah blah...

its 235pm and i am trying to focus on tracing the code and checking their javadocs..

there seems to be a pattern on all of these codes..but its getting routinary and boring...and yet, its taking up a lot of time translating the japanese comments to english...

its already february 9 and i think we've been here that long..well, i guess we really does...but still, its going to be 16 more days before we could finally go back to cebu...that is if we will not be extended...after the meeting a three weeks ago, and a discussion two weeks ago, we havent heard from them at all...lloyd said that they have been busy with the SI1 an SI2 testing at YRP for 05B..

no statement of work, no clear deliverables, no meetings, no progress at all...and i believe that we have been here for the turn over...it seems that the BT was of no use...we are not able to communicate with them coz they themselves are so super busy...

nyways, im trying to have a break ryt now...trying to wake myself up...i think everyday here has been a struggle....a struggle to wake up early in the morning...a struggle to catch up the train..a struggle not to get squeezed inside the train..(ironically, also a struggle to squeeze myself inside to get on the train and not wait for the next one coz actually, same scenario will be happening...it is all packed still...)...a struggle to chew and like these foods, which i cannot understand or speak their names or even know what is in it...a struggle to understand and interact with all these people...a struggle to stay awake all day(i wonder why i always feel sleepy here)...a struggle to wait for 9 or 10 pm to come so we can go home...and a struggle to wait for our trip to end here..

don't get me wrong...i am not saying that i dont like this trip..i am a person who loves to travel...we are glad to be in this trip together as a group, experience winter and snow, a not so hectic schedule that we can still go home by 7pm, no ot on saturdays and all, go to different attractions here and even be able to go shop and buy stuffs here...

its just that, maybe i dont like things that i do not have control of or when we cannot actually demand from them to make it clear to us what we are actually doing here and what deliverable they are expecting from us...
m just ranting here...nonsense stuffs...

but despite with all of these, i am actually begginning to appreciate this place...except i think with their overworkaholic attitudes...this place is nice, well-disciplined people, expensive yet i think, is just right for the compensation they are also giving to their people...which leads me to thinking on "what-if?"

no, maybe not now...not now when i still have a bond...not now when i still have a reason to stay...

ahahaha....and it all boils down to one person... =p

wished he is reading these too...coz all the while i am here or wherever or whatever i am actually doing, i would still be reminded or would still be thinking of him...

this is useless...this is nothing...this is just a result of my restlessness and sleepiness..but hey, all i have written are true ;)

911!!!!

(why aren't they moving?!?!???)
february 1, 2006

every morning would really be a traumatic experience in riding trains...
from my previous posts, i think i never missed to mention how packed it is always, like twas already full, then arriving at Kawasaki station, only 5-6 people will go out, leaving the train still packed and then 15 more people would be going inside...and since Tamachi is 5 stations away from Kawasaki, the same thing happened in those 5 stops..

this morning is different though...not because its no longer packed but its sooooo packed that twas my first time that i felt like i am squeezed to death....i was just annoyed coz from Kawasaki to the first stop was ok...but from the 1st stop to the next stop, twas soooooooo irritating...people at my back went out on the first stop so we moved backwards. then there's this two guys at my back that holds on this rail something...when the people goes in, they keep on pushing...so i continued to move backwards...sadly, those two people at my back are not moving at all...much worst, they're resisting the push and i was soooo squeezed....edric was in front of me, and i know that within the trip we will be going through the domino effect again...good thing i can hold on to his jacket..i was really pissed off with those two guys coz i was really squeezed..they jst dnt simply maintaining their balance but they are actually pushing me too...tsk tsk...i dnt get why they are not moving and they keep on pushing?!?!??? is there another way from Kawasaki to Tamachi??? it really ruins my day...at that early!

nyways, on the 3rd stop, this one guy went out..since he is at the back, he again pushes all those people in front of him so he could go out...grabe!!! haller! does this people still have manners or this is jst natural here?!? then there's this couple who went in..i was facing sideways that time..no choice thats the only space left for me..tsk tsk...the guy is facing at the other side of the door...then when the train moves, and changes tracks, were on a domino effect again...and well, what could i do? i jst have to bow down, and close my eyes and stop breathing...he is so close to me that i felt like i have to bow down or i am going to be face to face(literally speaking) with him...and the smell...tsk tsk..thought perfumes are jst cheap here..i wonder why they're not using it...

hahay....got 24 more days of this...i really envy those who are seated..i wonder where they started riding that they were able to grab some seat...and can even sleep too...waahhh!!

and oh, btw, now i understand why they are used to sleeping or closing their eyes when inside the train...maybe they are used to this packed trains and they are jst closing their eyes instead of looking at all those faces right in front of them... and so even at any trains and at any destinations, they are still closing their eyes =p

now i get it =p

btw, m a little better now...thanks to all those people who even are not here beside me were able to listen to me and make me talk till i get tired and felt easier to deal with the pain...

=) (naa na smile =p)

"uy"

(when the train changes tracks, then i woke up from my sleep)
January 26, 2006


every time we go to the office and go back to the hotel, we never stopped complaining bout how packed the train is(bumper to bumper =D) and how long our trip is...i make it to a point that i would at least take a nap or even jst rest my eyes when inside the train so i wont feel tired and sleepy due to lack of sleep and get bored when inside the train ;)

this morning is still the usual scene...packed train, bumper to bumper, no more holding on the rails inside the train for support when the train is moving, no more talking inside the train, domino effect like when the train is moving and one swayed to the left, everybody is swaying to the left, or to the right, or forward, or backward, and all...i tried resting my eyes for a while....i forgot that near the Shitte station, the train changes tracks and its moving that much...

most of the time, i would gain balance even m not holding on any rails or even when all those people at my back will be moving forward when the train moves, but this time, i was caught offguard...it was like a domino....people at my back moved forward, i was off balanced and moved forward too...ehehe...i felt like i was stumbling and i woke up from my nap =D

and when all people are jst calm and silent, due to shock, i was the only one who said "uy" =D ahaha...then juvy and i laughed =D ahahah....that time i really felt like i am falling..ehehe.... LOL

that was one hell of a sleeping experience =p

lesson learned: never sleep when the train is packed and when m not holding on to something(holding to juvy's jacket would do =D ), especially when its near the Shitte station and Kamata station =p

;)

and so i thought....

(when i thought im all over it...then the MR arrived)
January 20, 2006


late as in late na k naka mata....we have to be early so we can go out early in the afternoon coz we are going to purchase our ticket for......DISNEYLAND!!!!


some bad news though...when miss noemi arrived, she told us that there's a forecast that there's going to be snow tom in tokyo..so there's a possibility of no train...which means: POSTPONE ang DISNEY :'(


huhuhu...nt sure whether id be excited of the snow or i should be disappointed coz we wont be pushed thru wid our disney plans..

waahhh!!! i thought im done with this!! MR for IRE?!!??? tsk tsk tsk.....was borrowed from EMS later in the afternoon coz there's and MR for EMS IO...of all modules, EMS IO pa jd! ehehehe...