I would just like to take this short opportunity to welcome the newest member of the Segovia Family from my father's branch.
Welcome to Mrs. Grace Carreon-Segovia, the wife of my older brother Maynard. They got married in the Philippine Consulate in Dubai last June 25, 2009. Pictures of their wedding will be posted on my Multiply site when I finally get copies of it.
When will they get married in church? I don't really know. But the most likely priest to preside that occasion would be my cousin, Father Chris Gonzales.
Anyway, congratulations to my brother and his wife! We would be expecting our nephew in 9 months time. Hehe...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Of My Nation...
For the passed few months, I have been browsing through the newspaper and reading almost the same thing everyday. It's becoming annoying that the same issues pop up every so often that are being discussed by the officials of my country and not really making any headway concerning the issue. The issues are being passed down from one table to another, debate here and there, finally making a consensus, approving said discussion only to know that the said discussion is being canceled because of some reason. (I am reminded of my former office that holds meetings one after another and nothing is really happening except more meetings.)
It's annoying to know that our country is divided mostly because of greed and being self-centered. Crab mentality has become so rampant that it's not only seen in the government but everywhere else as well. People try to back-stab other people so that he/she will get the upper hand of things. It's really sad.
The worst part of all this is the fact that if the Filipinos are united and helping each other out rather than taking each other out, we can be a great nation that can eventually rule the world! (Okay...ruling the world is an exaggeration but we might become one of the greats. :D).
Though the Philippine population is not as big as China, there are Filipinos all over the world. Oversees Filipino workers have been scattered throughout the globe working both blue collared and white collared jobs. There is a Filipino in nearly every important household all around the world that are either baby sitters/nannies or housekeepers. Not only that, most of the medical staff in the US and Europe would have at least one employed Filipino in their hospitals and clinics. There are Filipinos teaching young minds in different countries and Filipino actors have penetrated Broadway and Hollywood. Filipinos have been acclaimed by other countries for our creativity and artistry. If Filipinos band together as one, we can actually control the whole world. Just one day of not working in the Foreign country that we are in would freeze that nation to a stand still.
Fortunately for the other countries out there, Filipinos are not united and are too nice for our own good sometimes.
This is also the reason why even if we change the type of government from a democracy to parliament, it would still be the same. Changing the kind of government would be useless if the same things would be happening inside the system. It would still be the same work as usual, they would just be changing titles.
Not unless we change our ways and think of the nation as a whole first rather than personal gain will we be able to crawl out of the bad situation we're in right now. We're part of the top 10 most corrupt country in the world, and still we don't do something about it to change the image of our country. We still continue to cheat off each other and steal from the people they have promised to help.
2010 elections is looming in and the players would still be the same people as usual. Promises of a better tomorrow are being told left and right but those same promises were said in previous elections that have yet to be done. There is the option of electing someone new but changing leaders to someone fresh and new is all well and good provided that that fresh face would not be the same as his/her predecessors. It will just become sick-cycle that goes around and around, never changing.
Hope is low but hope is there even if it's just miniscule. We just need to open our eyes to the truth and unite as one then we can see a big difference to our country.
It's annoying to know that our country is divided mostly because of greed and being self-centered. Crab mentality has become so rampant that it's not only seen in the government but everywhere else as well. People try to back-stab other people so that he/she will get the upper hand of things. It's really sad.
The worst part of all this is the fact that if the Filipinos are united and helping each other out rather than taking each other out, we can be a great nation that can eventually rule the world! (Okay...ruling the world is an exaggeration but we might become one of the greats. :D).
Though the Philippine population is not as big as China, there are Filipinos all over the world. Oversees Filipino workers have been scattered throughout the globe working both blue collared and white collared jobs. There is a Filipino in nearly every important household all around the world that are either baby sitters/nannies or housekeepers. Not only that, most of the medical staff in the US and Europe would have at least one employed Filipino in their hospitals and clinics. There are Filipinos teaching young minds in different countries and Filipino actors have penetrated Broadway and Hollywood. Filipinos have been acclaimed by other countries for our creativity and artistry. If Filipinos band together as one, we can actually control the whole world. Just one day of not working in the Foreign country that we are in would freeze that nation to a stand still.
Fortunately for the other countries out there, Filipinos are not united and are too nice for our own good sometimes.
This is also the reason why even if we change the type of government from a democracy to parliament, it would still be the same. Changing the kind of government would be useless if the same things would be happening inside the system. It would still be the same work as usual, they would just be changing titles.
Not unless we change our ways and think of the nation as a whole first rather than personal gain will we be able to crawl out of the bad situation we're in right now. We're part of the top 10 most corrupt country in the world, and still we don't do something about it to change the image of our country. We still continue to cheat off each other and steal from the people they have promised to help.
2010 elections is looming in and the players would still be the same people as usual. Promises of a better tomorrow are being told left and right but those same promises were said in previous elections that have yet to be done. There is the option of electing someone new but changing leaders to someone fresh and new is all well and good provided that that fresh face would not be the same as his/her predecessors. It will just become sick-cycle that goes around and around, never changing.
Hope is low but hope is there even if it's just miniscule. We just need to open our eyes to the truth and unite as one then we can see a big difference to our country.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Good bye King of Pop
I would just like to take this short opportunity to my farewell to the King of Pop Michael Jackson who said to have died of a heart attack.
I didn't really like the person but I love his songs. And I'm sure those songs have already made him immortal.
So, good bye MJ! Rest assured that even if people find you weird, they would always love your music.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Office Firsts....
I have been working for almost three weeks already here in a Non-government Organization called Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities. Got the job of admin assistant and it's something different from the last few years of working in the gaming industry.
People might wonder why I took on the role of admin assistant when I had already been a supervisor and manager in the other companies that I have worked for. Well...frankly speaking, the only way I could get a manager position with the experience that I have is if I stick to the gaming industry...something that I really don't want to do anymore. I want to play the games, not manage them. So, getting a "normal" job is really hard for me. Some companies didn't really take my experiences seriously because of where I came from. So, I was unemployed for almost a year with no hope of getting a job. Until my aunt told me about the opening of admin assistant.
Honestly, at first I really didn't want to work here. It's not because of the huge step down from my previous position but mostly because my aunt works there. Pride has gotten in the way and I really don't want to make it seem like my aunt put me there. Also, because I wanted to get a position in the HR to actually use the things that I had learned back in college. So, when she first mentioned it to me, I said I'd think about it (but forgot about it afterwards). I still would have rejected the offer when she mentioned it to me again but I had a chat with a friend. He told me to take the job reasoning that I really didn't want to work in the HR but I wanted to write more. But becoming a writer by profession isn't really easy to do, even he a professional writer himself took a job in a call center so that he has money to spend on the interim while he is writing his next work. So he told me to take a job that doesn't require to do much thinking so that I can have more time thinking of plots and story lines rather than what to do if something goes wrong in the office. Less mental work in my day job means more mental work in my writing. And he was right. With everything handed to me with instructions, I don't really need to thing much in terms of making decisions. This means that my mind was free to wander and think about the stories that I am currently making.
Anyway, I have been working now for three weeks and I'm getting the hang of it little by little. And with only three weeks here, I have already experience a couple of things...Well, three things really that was most memorable to me.
First off was the fire drill. I have never experienced a real fire drill, with real smoke and fire engines outside the building and "injured" people being carried out in stretchers. They also made the lights flicker to make the experience a little realistic. It was scary to think that it might really happened in real life. Frankly speaking, it was also a painful experience since the office was at the 35th floor and we have to use the fire exit to go down. That's using the stairs to go down 35 floors. On a good note, it was going down so gravity was with us that time. But even with gravity helping, it was still painful. My legs were shaking when I've reached the bottom and my legs were stiff the next day that it was really hard climbing up and down the stairs or any elevated area. The pain lasted for 5 days until my muscles must have gotten used to the walking and the climbing that I do everyday to go to and from work. All in all, it was a good experience. A learning experience to be exact but an experience nonetheless.
My next major experience was "closing shop". Well, I don't really work in a store but it felt like the same experience as closing up. It was the day after the fire drill and I was finishing some stuff that was left for me to do by my boss who went on leave. So, I kept busy the whole day but the whole 8 hours of work wasn't enough to finish what I was suppose to be doing for the day so I have to say a bit. I did end up leaving the office around 8pm (pretty early considering I was used to go home around midnight) but everyone left before me. So I was alone to close the office. Aside from checking the lights and airconditioning if they're closed, I have to also close the door and lock it with both the top and the bottom. The bottom wasn't a problem. The problem was locking the top lock.
I'm not midget short. But I'm not a very tall person as well. So locking the top lock was a challenge. Since this was the day after the fire drill, my legs were very stiff and tip-toeing was very painful. When I tip-toe, I could put the key in the lock and turn it half-way...but that's about it. So, looking for a thing to step on was the challenge. I searched my bag for something solid to step on to no avail. And there were not that many people on our floor so asking for help wasn't an option either. It was a good thing I wore rubber shoes that time. It was a bit hard, that when I took them off and placed them on top of each other, it held me and it was high enough to turn the lock fully. Tired and in pain, I went home.
The pain in my legs continued towards the David and David Concert (see separate blog entry here).
Then, my last experience just happened last Tuesday.
The week before, the office scheduled a get together after office hours to play bowling. So everyone was there even for the people who didn't play bowling. So, last Tuesday, we tried to "close shop" at 5pm so that we can have more time to play bowling and still go home at a reasonable hour. We played two rounds with the same team. It was a tie. The first match, my team won and then the second match the other team won. It was fun. It was good to see people relax especially when you always see them so busy that you're afraid to talk to them in the office because you don't want to disturb them. I warmed up to them a bit. My boss called me the "silent achiever" because I was quiet in the office and I'm a small person (almost like a kid in their eyes) so they were a bit shock when I made three strikes, and a couple of spares.
All in all, it's a good experience. A different experience than what I was used to so it's good for me to experience new things. I told myself, if I wanted to really stay away from the gaming industry, I have to do a good here. It's not so hard to do though, people are really nice here and very helpful. And since I am just using this job as something to do while I write, it's nice to know that I can do it right.
One thing that I am hoping for now, since this is an NGO, I hope that I can stay here long and the organization gets enough funding to stay long as well. :D
People might wonder why I took on the role of admin assistant when I had already been a supervisor and manager in the other companies that I have worked for. Well...frankly speaking, the only way I could get a manager position with the experience that I have is if I stick to the gaming industry...something that I really don't want to do anymore. I want to play the games, not manage them. So, getting a "normal" job is really hard for me. Some companies didn't really take my experiences seriously because of where I came from. So, I was unemployed for almost a year with no hope of getting a job. Until my aunt told me about the opening of admin assistant.
Honestly, at first I really didn't want to work here. It's not because of the huge step down from my previous position but mostly because my aunt works there. Pride has gotten in the way and I really don't want to make it seem like my aunt put me there. Also, because I wanted to get a position in the HR to actually use the things that I had learned back in college. So, when she first mentioned it to me, I said I'd think about it (but forgot about it afterwards). I still would have rejected the offer when she mentioned it to me again but I had a chat with a friend. He told me to take the job reasoning that I really didn't want to work in the HR but I wanted to write more. But becoming a writer by profession isn't really easy to do, even he a professional writer himself took a job in a call center so that he has money to spend on the interim while he is writing his next work. So he told me to take a job that doesn't require to do much thinking so that I can have more time thinking of plots and story lines rather than what to do if something goes wrong in the office. Less mental work in my day job means more mental work in my writing. And he was right. With everything handed to me with instructions, I don't really need to thing much in terms of making decisions. This means that my mind was free to wander and think about the stories that I am currently making.
Anyway, I have been working now for three weeks and I'm getting the hang of it little by little. And with only three weeks here, I have already experience a couple of things...Well, three things really that was most memorable to me.
First off was the fire drill. I have never experienced a real fire drill, with real smoke and fire engines outside the building and "injured" people being carried out in stretchers. They also made the lights flicker to make the experience a little realistic. It was scary to think that it might really happened in real life. Frankly speaking, it was also a painful experience since the office was at the 35th floor and we have to use the fire exit to go down. That's using the stairs to go down 35 floors. On a good note, it was going down so gravity was with us that time. But even with gravity helping, it was still painful. My legs were shaking when I've reached the bottom and my legs were stiff the next day that it was really hard climbing up and down the stairs or any elevated area. The pain lasted for 5 days until my muscles must have gotten used to the walking and the climbing that I do everyday to go to and from work. All in all, it was a good experience. A learning experience to be exact but an experience nonetheless.
My next major experience was "closing shop". Well, I don't really work in a store but it felt like the same experience as closing up. It was the day after the fire drill and I was finishing some stuff that was left for me to do by my boss who went on leave. So, I kept busy the whole day but the whole 8 hours of work wasn't enough to finish what I was suppose to be doing for the day so I have to say a bit. I did end up leaving the office around 8pm (pretty early considering I was used to go home around midnight) but everyone left before me. So I was alone to close the office. Aside from checking the lights and airconditioning if they're closed, I have to also close the door and lock it with both the top and the bottom. The bottom wasn't a problem. The problem was locking the top lock.
I'm not midget short. But I'm not a very tall person as well. So locking the top lock was a challenge. Since this was the day after the fire drill, my legs were very stiff and tip-toeing was very painful. When I tip-toe, I could put the key in the lock and turn it half-way...but that's about it. So, looking for a thing to step on was the challenge. I searched my bag for something solid to step on to no avail. And there were not that many people on our floor so asking for help wasn't an option either. It was a good thing I wore rubber shoes that time. It was a bit hard, that when I took them off and placed them on top of each other, it held me and it was high enough to turn the lock fully. Tired and in pain, I went home.
The pain in my legs continued towards the David and David Concert (see separate blog entry here).
Then, my last experience just happened last Tuesday.
The week before, the office scheduled a get together after office hours to play bowling. So everyone was there even for the people who didn't play bowling. So, last Tuesday, we tried to "close shop" at 5pm so that we can have more time to play bowling and still go home at a reasonable hour. We played two rounds with the same team. It was a tie. The first match, my team won and then the second match the other team won. It was fun. It was good to see people relax especially when you always see them so busy that you're afraid to talk to them in the office because you don't want to disturb them. I warmed up to them a bit. My boss called me the "silent achiever" because I was quiet in the office and I'm a small person (almost like a kid in their eyes) so they were a bit shock when I made three strikes, and a couple of spares.
All in all, it's a good experience. A different experience than what I was used to so it's good for me to experience new things. I told myself, if I wanted to really stay away from the gaming industry, I have to do a good here. It's not so hard to do though, people are really nice here and very helpful. And since I am just using this job as something to do while I write, it's nice to know that I can do it right.
One thing that I am hoping for now, since this is an NGO, I hope that I can stay here long and the organization gets enough funding to stay long as well. :D
Monday, May 18, 2009
David and David Concert
I came. I saw. I enjoyed so much.
I was actually worried that I would be disappointed in the concert of the two Davids being that the tickets that we got was only in the Silver section and there were no seats. It was a good thing I enjoyed myself that even with the pain in my legs prior to the concert, I say it was worth the pain.
On our way to the venue itself, I saw a lot of teens and tweens accompanied by parents and guardians. My sister and I were joking that were were also part of that crowd because our mother came with us to watch the concert as well. The last time my mom watched a concert, it was in the 70's before my older sister was even an idea. So she wanted to know what the scene would be like in concerts today. She got to watch the AI last year so she was familiar with the two Davids. And thankfully, she liked David Archuleta that she enjoyed herself watching the little boy as he sings, like a doting mother watching her son perform on stage.
I wasn't shocked by the number of people who went to the concert. I was shocked though that I had seen equal amounts of parents and children in the scene. There were a lot of parents accompanying their daughters and their friends to watch this concert. It was surprising in a good way. And what I like is that even the parents enjoyed themselves.
Being a standing area, we situated ourselves near a big screen and the exit so that it would be able to watch "up close" and would be able to get out if the place becomes too rowdy for my mom. David Archuleta opened the concert with a series of songs that was in his album. His version of Angels was really nice. Like I said, he did the song justice. I hope that Robbie Williams will be happy that there was one artist who sang his song as great as he did. A Vanessa Calton song which he played magnificently, was a bonus. It was a nice song and seeing him play reminds of this Taiwanese artist that I really liked too. :D
When it was time for David Cook, the crowd were a little rowdy. But it was organized chaos. When David Cook went down the stage and went to the barricade to meet the crowd, my first thought was "Where's Becca? I'm sure she's there somewhere." And sure enough, she was. And from her blog entry, she may have died and gone to heaven with that experience.
I was a little disappointed though. My sister and I were hoping that DC and Archie would sing together, like when they sang Heroes in the AI finals. But they didn't. DC didn't sing my favorite song in his album but then again, it would have been weird if he sang it there since it was a slow song in his standards.
But in the end, it was a good night. They sang for two hours (1 hour each) and the crowd loved them both. Though, it was a bit of a long intermission from David Archuleta to David Cook, no one really minded as they were presented with a long fireworks display and DC gave his all eventhough, he was still grieving for the loss of a brother. I sang along with a lot of the music played by both artists, amazed at myself for knowing the lyrics of their songs.
My legs were stiff and really aching by the time we got home but I guess it was worth getting the Silver Section.
I was actually worried that I would be disappointed in the concert of the two Davids being that the tickets that we got was only in the Silver section and there were no seats. It was a good thing I enjoyed myself that even with the pain in my legs prior to the concert, I say it was worth the pain.
On our way to the venue itself, I saw a lot of teens and tweens accompanied by parents and guardians. My sister and I were joking that were were also part of that crowd because our mother came with us to watch the concert as well. The last time my mom watched a concert, it was in the 70's before my older sister was even an idea. So she wanted to know what the scene would be like in concerts today. She got to watch the AI last year so she was familiar with the two Davids. And thankfully, she liked David Archuleta that she enjoyed herself watching the little boy as he sings, like a doting mother watching her son perform on stage.
I wasn't shocked by the number of people who went to the concert. I was shocked though that I had seen equal amounts of parents and children in the scene. There were a lot of parents accompanying their daughters and their friends to watch this concert. It was surprising in a good way. And what I like is that even the parents enjoyed themselves.
Being a standing area, we situated ourselves near a big screen and the exit so that it would be able to watch "up close" and would be able to get out if the place becomes too rowdy for my mom. David Archuleta opened the concert with a series of songs that was in his album. His version of Angels was really nice. Like I said, he did the song justice. I hope that Robbie Williams will be happy that there was one artist who sang his song as great as he did. A Vanessa Calton song which he played magnificently, was a bonus. It was a nice song and seeing him play reminds of this Taiwanese artist that I really liked too. :D
When it was time for David Cook, the crowd were a little rowdy. But it was organized chaos. When David Cook went down the stage and went to the barricade to meet the crowd, my first thought was "Where's Becca? I'm sure she's there somewhere." And sure enough, she was. And from her blog entry, she may have died and gone to heaven with that experience.
I was a little disappointed though. My sister and I were hoping that DC and Archie would sing together, like when they sang Heroes in the AI finals. But they didn't. DC didn't sing my favorite song in his album but then again, it would have been weird if he sang it there since it was a slow song in his standards.
But in the end, it was a good night. They sang for two hours (1 hour each) and the crowd loved them both. Though, it was a bit of a long intermission from David Archuleta to David Cook, no one really minded as they were presented with a long fireworks display and DC gave his all eventhough, he was still grieving for the loss of a brother. I sang along with a lot of the music played by both artists, amazed at myself for knowing the lyrics of their songs.
My legs were stiff and really aching by the time we got home but I guess it was worth getting the Silver Section.
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