Rant and Rave...Little Wolf Style

This has been the weirdest day that has happened to me. I have been scolded at, I had mistakes here and there, and a power surge that made me crazy for a little while. But through it all, it was okay since I get to be with someone I haven't seen in a long time.

First off, my rants. I have an impossible aunt whom I am unfortunately working with. I went to the office today at 7:50am...on regular days I would have been early but since we have a seminar today, I was late. But I have a good reason to be late. It was traffic. Metro Manila is so full of these traffic jams that I'm use to it by now but today wasn't really a good day for it though. My other good reason is that I have a fever. I was really sluggish because I don't want to push myself too much...being sickly and all, I really have to take care of myself.

Anyway, when I arrived there, she already went on and on babbling about how wrong it was for me to be late at a time like this. I should have been early...blah...blah...blah (I was only half-listening since I am sick after all). Don't get wrong. I have always been Ms. Punctual. I have never been late on any appointment whatsoever. This has been the first time that has happened to me. The reason why I'm pissed off is because she should know this! She's my aunt after all and she did live with us long enought to know our personalities! But no, she kept on blabbling about how it's so wrong!

But finally she realized that I wasn't feeling well. But instead of symphatizing, she went on telling me how wrong I was not to call just to say that I can't come to work. Now, this got me confuse...First she scolded me for not arriving on time, then she started scolding me for coming to work at all!!! I do not understand that woman at all!!!

Worst part of it is, she just can't seem to separate me as her niece and me as an employee of the department that she's in. She keeps molding it together that it shouldn't be. For one, she's not my boss. My boss is her boss as well. We both work directly under her. If ever there was someone who should be scolding me, it should be my boss and not her. And my boss only advised me (take note: "advised" not "scold") me about two things...my clothes for the day [she told me I should have worn nicer clothes - which was entirely my fault since I only wore shirt and jeans that time when I was really planning to wear a decent blouse and jeans (I was a runner and documentor that time, I have to wear comfortable clothes to move around)] and the misunderstanding about the junk dealers (i was suppose to put their names and contact number on the list but what I did was call them to ask for their handouts for photo-copying purposes). But all in all, she told me I did a good job. I actually apologized for my screw-ups that day bur she said that it was alright. She even thanked me for the job I did (running around the school, answering questions of some participants as best I could, going to and from different buildings and banks).

Anyway, I really wish that my aunt is like that. The only reason I actually tolerate her is because of my father. My dad loves his sisters very much that it's only out of respect for him that I'm doing this. I would have answered her in front of everybody if it wasn't for my dad. She's lucky I love my father very much to just sit down and keep quiet with the whole ordeal.

To top of my ranting, I was already writing in this blog about today's happenings when suddenly there was a power surge. The computer died momentarily and it erased all that I have wrote in this blog. Hence, I have to write again. But I had to scandisk first and defragment the computer to check if there are any errors and stuffs. After 30 minutes of checking, it was finally done but the computer was torturing me yet again. It won't go online!!! We have to restart the computer three times (excluding the power surge) to get it running again. I was honestly praying like hell (kinda ironic, ain't it? "Praying like hell"?...:D) so that nothing bad would happened to the computer. Thank God (the one above and not below) that He answered my prayer. I finally got online and started writing again... (and my first entry was already long. :'( )

Anyway, today wasn't actually all bad. I got to spend some time with an old friend of mine whom I have treated like a baby brother when we were in High School. Ever since I got in touch with him again, I sort of been asking him to wait for me when he goes home (he works in Makati so we usually meet in Glorietta). I really missed having him around when we weren't in touch during those college years. He was the only friend I have who I actually don't mind calling me "Ate". And it was really nice to hear him say it to me again.

Anyway, at least I ended my day well. I can actually go to sleep knowing that another day is through. Another challenge passed. Let's see what tomorrow's adventure will take me.