Work and Love (updates)

Since last Tuesday, i have been working under the cold calling group of Showcraft EVN, an events company handling various types of events such as Gala Dinner, Dinner and Dance, Product launches and more.
They have serviced Starhub, LG, Prime Minister's Office, Supreme Court and more big names in various types of industries.

My job is rather simpler compared to most telemarketing job.
How i market and handle consumers are really different, however, this is no saying that i do an easy job.
It gets tougher as the day goes by when you haven't find the right person to talk to, and there are receptionists who just love making your life much difficult.
There are also company personnels who are usually in a rush and have no time to communicate and you are forced to drop them an email instead, which you know will never be able to reach them the way you can do verbally.

My job scope does not require me to sell products or any ideas really. My job is to look for appointments with companies who practices Dinner and Dance, or any form of events really, inform them that Showcraft EVN is intrested to render their services and attain information required by our events producer(s).
In all, remarks of companies matter!
Also, LUCK!

Pay is really not bad. It's per shifting, roughly above $6 per hour, more than any other job that i have taken up. But the paper work is very tedious too, definitely.
In all actually, everything is fun and to think about it, it is really an eye opener to the events company in Singapore. This is the first time i have worked in this industry and line, and when school reopens, let's just hope that i will be able to do events coordinating for their upcoming events on weekends:) It should be fun!

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Since last week, Shenath and yours truly, were never on the same page and has always been on each other's neck. A lot of misunderstandings and fault finding really.
Gets really tiring but despite it all, i guess every couple need to ask if you want to better the situation or do you want to remain this way.
Of course there are the good and bad, the happy and the sad, but there's always be just love.
Idealistic or so it seems, love need not be perceived negatively and with unwillingness or doubts.
Love itself is not what makes the relationship a good or bad thing really, do you know what it is?
I think i do.

It's your action that creates the impact of how love is supposed to be.
It is you who determines if you want the negative or the positive side of your relationship. Really.
And therefore, i shall stress that positive thinking and a little bit of hard work on being nice and thinking positive will bag you a nice day with your other half.

Try it and believe.

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After work today, Shenath picked me up from work and we headed to where the fun is.
It was a nice time spent and we enjoyed whatever outcome of it all, of course the cozy and warmth feeling you get when you are with your loved one just increases and heighten your emotions.
After that, we headed to downtown east chalet for Lyn's bf, Aaron's birthday.
We stayed for an hour, saw a St. Hilda's schoolmate who exclaimed non-stop how toned down i am and how much i have changed - drastically.
LOL i really guess it was cause she was used to the dramatic aspect of me. HAHA.

After these, shenath and i had a really great talk. Communication was profoundly great and we are hoping more of it to come.

I love you darling. Mwahs!

finally, something to share.

Tropical storm ketsana/undoy

(courtesy: abs-cbn news online)

I didn't expect how grave the situation in Manila will be what with the tropical storm reaching just signal 1.
I was frustrated really, as mum and i watched the news on our premium cable channel TFC, we can't help but wonder together with the news anchor:


Where are the rescue teams?
What is taking them so long?
How come the response is very inefficient?
How come only the family men in the country are shown in the footage to be the only ones doing the rescue?
How come there was no officials, and how come only have helicopters TODAY only?



There are various other questions that puzzles us and im sure the filipino expats here in Singapore will feel the same when i see the footages.
It's quite disheartening that it seems as if the were not being efficient.
But as the situation's gravity increases, only then do we get tons of response.

I must say, however, that it is great that the rich and the famous are doing their best to help the government and the media to increase the efficiency of the rescue.
Some lend their speed boat, life jackets, rubber boats and the stars contacted their endorsers to provide food and drinks to the casualties.

However, it still feels very saddening to hear text messages saying that they need help, that they are trapped, their loved one lay dead on the kitchen and is unmovable as the water is not receding.
Another story yesterday, a group of kids dropped into the water when the bridge they were passing over gave way, and i wish their souls to rest in peace.
Also, there was a pregnant women who gave birth today, apparently who has been trapped from yesterday.

I am still worried however, i cannot contact my family in The Philippines.
Im sure my clan is okay cos one of the officials i contacted assured that my subdivision has no death and only experienced  but i'm not sure about my dad and my extended family, who lives by the valley.
The worst thing is that even the former governor's residential, who is a family friend and who lives somewhere near my dad, is reportedly submerged.
The entire town has submerged and i just hope dad and my half siblings are okay and so those family friends.

I just hope that even if dad is with the MMDA officials, he'll be okay rescuing those casualties.
I've never really felt so panicked as i have felt today.

But honestly, i hope that the Philippine government and local town governments to increase their efficiency and increase the speed of their process of rescue in any disasters.
It gets really frustrating, and if im already feeling like this, what more those casualties.

Nevertheless, the Filipino media is commendable in reaching to various helplines, the rich, the famous, the government officials etc. It has always been the media in my country that presses all these officials...
Kudos to abs-cbn, but of course to the various relief group.

Sympathies goes to the casualties, the dead and of course the rescue officials that have been recovered dead just awhile back today.

Links about the storm:
Link1
Link 2

To filipinos, you can hear all the updates here.
DZMM

To pinoys who want to help:
Click here

heal the world.

I wanted to post about my weekends, but something egged me on to go to youtube and typed in 'heal the world'
and then of course Michael Jackson's song 'Heal the World' was at the top of the list.

So i clicked it.

I watched it.



& then i teared.
From the start to the finish.

and yet, the world is still not safe.
the world still needs peace, and we are all fighting for it.
what if no matter how hard we try, it'll never going to be healed?
in the first place, who are the main culprits that damaged it?
who or what?
or is it always meant to be like this?
i hope not.


& for Michael Jackson, rest in peace.
despite the charges put on you, nevertheless, you and your songs always have a place in our hearts.

with love,
MJ (Mary Jean)

what a day.

i know it's late, a quarter to the witching hour actually, but my brain is still active, and is eager to convey the day's event.

nothing spectacular really, but what made it worthwhile was the fact that Jeanath had a nice day out.

that no matter the entirety of the day's happening, whether we had to travel to school to return a damn hard disk, which as a matter of fact, is weeks-old overdue,
and that we had to bus back down to town,
and having enticed by The Cathay, we missed our movie timing for Gerard Butler's The Gamer, over at Cathay Cineleisure, because The Cathay looked and felt nicer.
We also had to sit in for the Final Destination 4, despite being reluctant, we just sat in and watched the movie.
Then Shenath understood the reason why i didn't want to see another Final Destination series again.



So how i found it?

SAME SAME.

SAME PLOT.
SAME GORE.
SAME ADRENALINE RUSH.

Any difference?

NOT REALLY.

IT JUST GOT GORY.
TO ATTRACT AND SELL THE 4TH SERIES OF THE -

SAME PLOT
SAME GORE
SAME ADRENALINE RUSH

I swear if they make another movie from this, i'm going to flip.
Can't they tweak the damn story line?
What if someone did find the way to trick Death.
C'mon! My life's been threatened like a few times already, so why am i still alive now?
From birth i was supposed to have died, and so why hasn't death come for me?

Yawns. (note to death: im not asking you to come for me k. it's just my thoughts of the movie.)

Oh well, MOVIES!
just freaks the hell out of you.

Okay so after the movie, we met up with Boon, one of Shenath's networking classmates.
But we en route to Sakura for dinner - thai fried rice for me again! (:

I think i'm really going to develop MLM phobia.
and how now brown cow are we going to be polite and turn down monday afternoon's appointment.
first Venture Era, now... Amway.
Oh my oh my.

& eventually, the fight and test of my friendship will Laura was conquered.
i'd thought that it was it, no more friendship, but then again, i guess i do mean a lot to her, just as she does to me.
i guess we are just entering a phase in the friendship department, just as how fights can bring couples closer, it does help to know the bad parts of your friend and if your friendship is good enough, acceptance is in order.

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So anyway, i would like to end off this post with a short lovey dovey message for my dearest boyfriend, and words of encouragement for my bestfriend.

darling, i love you as i have been loving you for these two years, and counting.
there are times we can never see eye to eye, but we gotta accept that we are for each other,
down and always around.
it's hard to accept sometimes, and it's hard to fight the tidal waves of negative emotions,
but i know i can see you as my husband.
we need to grow on our own pace and respect each others limits and also celebrate each others' strength.
i love you, always, and more.

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and to a couple that might be over, i just hope u both take a deep breath and weigh the situation.
don't always assume that the other is wrong all the time, ask yourself your fault and not push the blame on each other over and again. eventually, ask yourselves, do you love each other? and do you love each other to give each other a rest when everything is suffocating? do you love each other to make sure that love prevails?
easier said than done, but hey, i have done it. we, jeanath, as a couple has done it.
and so why shouldn't you? any of you?
i'm sure it's just a test.
you guys can't see how much you love each other, but i know you guys do.
A LOT.
so don't give up. but jeanath suggest to keep calm and have a breathing period so you guys can think on each others' shortcomings.
and hey, when you both have fresh mind, it'll be worth it to come together and make up.. then make love. haha *winks*

best regards,
Jeanath

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Everyday is a NEW day.

So yesterday, it wasn't eventually such a great day, due to a sudden stumble in the love dept.
But i guess thinking positive creates the magnet for positive events to occur in my life.
I have a strong belief in the power of the mind, as well as karmic balance of individuals.

I also believe in aura and the philosophical nature of life.
That's why sometimes, quote-of-the-day phrases can inspire me.
It can get to me and create a form of drive, for real.
I try to find the gees and mechanism of these quotes, and how they are formed, made popular and actually create a form of significance to me, and many others.

I'm not really posting this to talk about quotes of the day, or of philosophical matters etc.
I just wanted to share with you all that you should welcome these aspects in your life, these positive thoughts, aura etc, if you seek comfort and a new form of peace within (:

First step: Breathe in, breathe out.
Next: Think that you want the good outcome from the day
Next: Think positive
Next (most important): Practice positivity.
Last: Thank the higher power, God, nature, etc.

Finally, i want to share with you that if you have been feeling that change is in the air.
Be it in economy, politics, environmental, health, and your personal life.
There is an astrological reason for this really.
Believe it or not, i think astrology is a study that shouldn't be taken lightly nor with the regard that it is nonsensical.
Sure those psychic fakes, those daily horoscope that say you will be the luckiest person today or the otherwise, can be disregard in credibility, but i'm saying the real studies of planetary movements and the astronomical aspect of astrology.

Oh and to come back to my point, the reason that amazes me is this:

"Saturn and Uranus will be exactly opposite each other again on September 15, forming what is known as an 'opposition' in astrology -- two planets positioned 180 degrees apart. This is the third of five such oppositions that started on November 4, 2008, and it will continue until July 26, 2010. These oppositions always come in a cycle, and happen approximately every 45 years. The last time these two planets formed oppositions was 1965 to 1967, and before that from 1918 to 1920. The Saturn-Uranus opposition that sent us on a roller coaster ride last fall and earlier this year returns for an encore to evoke more major shifts, both in your personal life and globally. Think back to November 2008 and February 2009 - what was happening in your life back then?"

Think of these changes:

(hotlineoncall.nationaljournal)

1. US appointed its very first African American President.

2. Japanese ruling party failing to get votes and support after many years of being in power.
3. Health peace changes: discovery of bird flu and then swine flu, and the potential threat of having these two virus combined.
4. On the lighter note, Facebook clinched majority usage in Singapore from Friendster within these timings, dun you think? :D yey for facebook.

of course there are more, even within your inner self, your family, your loved one, everyone.
there is this call for change that seems very appalling, yet needed.
and to think, there's a particular force that ensures this.

think on this.
enjoy!

changes.

I am glad that finally, i have had a change of blogskin.
It has been quite a while since i actually liked something from blogskins.com, that i need not edit much.

Of course, before this, i was actually stuck to two different types of skin, and thank goodness i found this.
It's hard to find a simple but nice one.

Well, it's 1.57am.
Not asleep yet, due to this blogskin changes, facebook, and nevertheless, a sudden outburst of yet another, FIGHT.

Sometimes mundanity is quite better than the sudden fluctuation in the day's event.


But then again, a part of me begs to differ.
There's this itch in me that go against this sudden notion of a mundane type of life.
Oh hell, i will rather have the ups and downs of life, than get stuck still in the day-in-day-out activities.

But then again, i guess i say this out of tiredness.

Anyway, i haven't blogged lately over here really, and this has a good reason really.
I am currently building my portfolio, my aspirational line of work, that creates endless possibility in the creative industry.
I am rather enthusiastic about this endevours, and needless to say, i am hoping to put my best into this, and who knows it might get big and eventually become a form of establishment of my career.

I always love the idea of being my own boss, but i know that requires A LOT.
A lot of sweat and labor, which i am prepared really.
So please wish me all the best for my aspirations, as best as i can wish you all of yours.

All of us has aspirations, and i would like to share this motivational quote;
If you follow your passion, success will follow you.