It was an eventful week to say the least! I attended two Web design meetings, laid-out 3 tarpaulins and edited the company newsletter. But this is getting ahead of my story.
On my second day, I was tasked to create a tarpaulin which has a deadline at the end of office hours. It was my first time to even think of being assigned to create a graphic work at that scale. I called up my artist friend and asked him about it. God was just so generous at that time.
Rendering overtime work is not really an issue with me but I just couldn't that day because I had to attend a class. For this reason, I asked when my deadline was. The person who is supervising my work at the moment made a remark that I was waiting to beat the deadline. I calmly told him my situation. He was kind enought to allow me to leave the office in time to attend my class.
I really can't complain about the team I am assigned to at the moment. They are good at what they do and they are dedicated to their job. We had late lunch because we were all engrossed with the task at hand. This happened both Tuesday and Wednesday.
Thursday was more relaxed. As a result, I was able to give time to processing my some of my internal papers and attend the noon mass. This was really one of my dilemmas in leaving DLSU. Then, I thought that I could be in a better paying job with better perks but I might lose the spiritual nourishment I get from daily masses. That's why I was so overjoyed when I knew of the daily masses held everyday.
I enjoyed another blessing this day. I was asked by my CEO to go over the upcoming office publication. Was I surprised by the amount of work that needs to be done on the paper! To think that the publication date was so near. I asked the writers who were responsible for it. he told me that the people on our team are the writers in the paper. I jokingly told them that I was seriously thinking if I want to keep them as friends. It was a good thing they were good sports about it. They even gave me free reign in checking all aspects of it.
Now, my team leader trusts me with editing the articles he writes. It flatters me, boosts my confidence, to say the least. Now I know clearly God's purpose in assigning me to this office. May I not tire to be His functional instrument.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
My First Day in My New Office
My first day at work was both boring and eventful. I'm getting ahead of myself. Here is how it went...
My boss assigned an officemate to be my buddy. He is nice but he is not open to suggestions he is so rigid! I tried to talk to him about a new technology and he kept on insisting the old way is better! It was a good thing he did not take it personally.
On my first hour, I received a phone call informing me that I am being called to attend a meeting. The agenda was the redesign of the existing Web site. I just listened carefully to their exchange of ideas. After the meeting, the hours dragged on. I simply killed time to say the least.
Then I thought of having my class reference xeroxed. I asked where the nearest copy center is and they informed me it was ok for me to xerox the whole book in the office free of charge. After that, I was able to read issues of magazines just stacked everywhere.
Close to the end of office hours, a familiar face dropped by the office. I gave him suggestions on how to improve exisitng documents. He was not open to it yet he was game enough to ask me to work with him. Similar to the start of my day, I also argued with him.
On my way home, my mind was filled with ideas on how to improve existing office procedures. I actually made a list of them. Now I know my purpose for being here. God surely is generous with his blessings.
My boss assigned an officemate to be my buddy. He is nice but he is not open to suggestions he is so rigid! I tried to talk to him about a new technology and he kept on insisting the old way is better! It was a good thing he did not take it personally.
On my first hour, I received a phone call informing me that I am being called to attend a meeting. The agenda was the redesign of the existing Web site. I just listened carefully to their exchange of ideas. After the meeting, the hours dragged on. I simply killed time to say the least.
Then I thought of having my class reference xeroxed. I asked where the nearest copy center is and they informed me it was ok for me to xerox the whole book in the office free of charge. After that, I was able to read issues of magazines just stacked everywhere.
Close to the end of office hours, a familiar face dropped by the office. I gave him suggestions on how to improve exisitng documents. He was not open to it yet he was game enough to ask me to work with him. Similar to the start of my day, I also argued with him.
On my way home, my mind was filled with ideas on how to improve existing office procedures. I actually made a list of them. Now I know my purpose for being here. God surely is generous with his blessings.
Friday, February 02, 2007
My Day Without a Plan
Yesterday, I gave my sister-in-law a small amount of money. I just felt that I had to share my blessings. I asked her how much she needed and gave an additional amount. The sum total was still small, to say the least. She dropped by the house to get it.
Last night, my mother forwarded a text message from my sister-in-law saying that she and her two daughters were sick. My two nieces vomitted several times and she was down with fever. I asked her how I could help her. She told me that I could just give enough for the medicine of one of my nieces. As she was sick also, I offered to take the money to her home.
I sent her a text message at a decent time this morning and told her she could text me if she was already awake so I could drop by their house to give her the money. Her elder daughter missed going to school so she prepared her first. As she was also not feeling well, and her younger daughter was also sick, she sent me the text message late in the morning.
I reached her house a little after 11:00 am and left around 11:45. They offered that I ate lunch with them but was shy to accept. I had lunch at a mall. I was so tired going around that I felt so sleepy when I got home. I fought sleep as it would cause me to sleep late come night time.
Then my classmate sent a text message around 5:00 pm saying that our meeting in Makati at 7:00 pm will push through. I haven't taken a bath by that time so hurried through all the motions. I met another classmate in going to the place. The traffic was unbelievable! It took us 45 minutes to reach Quiapo. We decided then that we'll just stay at Robinson's Place to have dinner. We informed the meeting organizer.
It turned out, the organizer took 2.5 hours to get to Makati. She told us that our other friends told her they would arrive around 10:00 pm. She was urging us to meet her then. We could understand her disappointment but really couldn't join her anymore because we had early morning appointments tomorrow. It was a good thing she was understanding enough to cancel the meeting.
My friend and I just had dinner and malled. We haven't done it in a long time. We missed talking about the nonsense and the things which concerned us most at home, in work and in our everyday lives.
I have a class report tomorrow and still haven't read on the topic. Yet, here I am in front of the computer documenting My Day without a Plan.
Last night, my mother forwarded a text message from my sister-in-law saying that she and her two daughters were sick. My two nieces vomitted several times and she was down with fever. I asked her how I could help her. She told me that I could just give enough for the medicine of one of my nieces. As she was sick also, I offered to take the money to her home.
I sent her a text message at a decent time this morning and told her she could text me if she was already awake so I could drop by their house to give her the money. Her elder daughter missed going to school so she prepared her first. As she was also not feeling well, and her younger daughter was also sick, she sent me the text message late in the morning.
I reached her house a little after 11:00 am and left around 11:45. They offered that I ate lunch with them but was shy to accept. I had lunch at a mall. I was so tired going around that I felt so sleepy when I got home. I fought sleep as it would cause me to sleep late come night time.
Then my classmate sent a text message around 5:00 pm saying that our meeting in Makati at 7:00 pm will push through. I haven't taken a bath by that time so hurried through all the motions. I met another classmate in going to the place. The traffic was unbelievable! It took us 45 minutes to reach Quiapo. We decided then that we'll just stay at Robinson's Place to have dinner. We informed the meeting organizer.
It turned out, the organizer took 2.5 hours to get to Makati. She told us that our other friends told her they would arrive around 10:00 pm. She was urging us to meet her then. We could understand her disappointment but really couldn't join her anymore because we had early morning appointments tomorrow. It was a good thing she was understanding enough to cancel the meeting.
My friend and I just had dinner and malled. We haven't done it in a long time. We missed talking about the nonsense and the things which concerned us most at home, in work and in our everyday lives.
I have a class report tomorrow and still haven't read on the topic. Yet, here I am in front of the computer documenting My Day without a Plan.
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