Memoirs 2008 {Part 1}

New job, new friends, new challenges, cultural experiences, milestones, lots of quarrels, (hihihi... what's new?), road trips, out-of-the country travels -- My 2008.

JANUARY

Started my first legitimate project with Soluziona at Globe. I was given the opportunity of choosing my team - Dustin, Ma-ann, Renee and Rheb... and though things weren't that smooth, we turned out OK. The first 3 months were the most challenging! We had to learn everything the hard way as there were no or minimal documentation. I'm so proud of what the team has achieved right now... they know the system inside out!

FEBRUARY & MARCH

My brood gets bigger as I got to handle the administrative duties of the other globe project. My other "kids" - Migs, Paolo, Mark, Jan, Basil, KC :)

Went on a road trip with two of my bestfriends to Canoe Beach Resort, Zambales. Made a side trip to the famous Anawangin beach.

APRIL

Gave my good friend, KIM, a big surprise when I went to Malaysia for his birthday celebration. Only Vera knew I was coming! You should've seen the look on their faces when they saw me. I guess it wasn't only Kim who was surprised... hehehehe! It was a short but memorable trip. Stayed there for just 1.5 days.

MAY

This is one sad, sad month :( Two weeks before my birthday, I had a BIG fight with a close and dear friend. No need to expound on it. Let's leave the past where it belongs... hehehe

My birthday eve was spent with my bestfriends - Jaja, May and Ramil. We welcomed our birthday (May and I share the same birthday) with coffee from Seattle's Best at MOA. They did a good job in cheering me up and help me overcome sadness even just for one night.

Ohhh... this was FLEX BEN month!!!! This benefit really made my month despite everything that happened. I got my Nikon D60 DSLR Camera and my iPod Classic 80GB through flexben!!! Yippeee!!!

JUNE

Bumped into the friend I had a fight with during the last day of the Pyrolympics and we both acted as if neither of us existed. We ate dinner at the same table, I chatted with our common friends but neither of us said a word to each other... not even an eye contact!!! Later that night, I realized that not being in good terms is just silly and things would be much, much better if we made up :) A few days later, I called him up and fixed things with him. His birthday came and passed and we were OK! yey! In retrospect, I think the friendship is better because of what we learned during those times :)

Went on a road trip with Mai and Ramil. I invited Ramil to join us because I wanted to go to Norzagaray, Bulacan. I thought he knew how to get there... him, being a Bulacaño... BUT I should've known better... we ended up going to Tagaytay! It was worth it... it was Ramil's first time to get there... I also drove them to Caleruega :) It was fun having Ramil join us... one of the rare moments Ramil agrees to something apart from dinner or coffee :)

{TO BE CONTINUED}