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Entries for February, 2005

February 3rd, 2005

what I learned in college

Posted by jab at 01:59 PM on February 3, 2005.

I learned a lot from my years in college.
These things I brought with me to the "real world".
Its amazing how useful the information is. By using the lessons I learned from college, I work faster and more efficiently in the office.

I just impressed one of my bosses in the copying room a while ago. He was having problems loading paper on the bypass tray of the photocopying maching. It seems that the paper keeps on getting stuck inside the machine and when its entering the machine.

I picked about 1/4 of a ream of paper. Held it on both sides, ran my fingers on the edge of the bunch, held one corner of the 1/4 ream and flipped it back and forth to create that slanted stack of papers effect. I then levelled the stack papers on its edge by letting it fall the table and made that humming sound of an even bunch of new paper, thus dislodging the pieces of papers from possible "sticking together" mess that causes the photocopying process.

I would like to thank the nice photocopying ladies of the hume building, grove and physci by teaching me the one lesson I could bring from college to real llife.

My Boss was impressed by "the technique' by which I prevented delays in the photocopying room.

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February 11th, 2005

mundane2fridays

Posted by jab at 05:08 AM on February 11, 2005.

On monday, I will be celebrating, together with millions of other people, the one occassion that tops the icing on my cake...

Singles Awareness Day... SAD

pakshiyet... damn you happy people... screw you...

wait-screw others! im single! wahoo...

ehem...

I suck at my job. I friend of mine and I have been talking about how we both suck at our jobs. Its not like college, where we had to juggle 4-5 tasks per day on top of doing the laundry, keeping the apt. clean, meeting with people, the social/love life, gimik, finances, parents, orgs, orgies...etc... oops...

Anyhow - at work, its do this...for half a day, then do this for 3 freaking hours and do this... and then, when somewhere down the line something goes wrong - blame it all on the new guy. The job is soo, boring... I dont even need a brain to work it. It's sit there, type, sort, email...shet... Mundane. ill. boring.

Just when your in the middle of something and about to get it done, your OTHER boss tells you to do something else. When the OTHER boss sees that your not doing what she said then she'll get mad... oh - cruel world.

I need to get fired. But I need another job first.

Its 5am here and Im up... Its Toni rose's birthday and Jewel wanted me to greet her through phonepatch. It was swell...great actually... I miss them.

Well, I guess Ill be updating soon.

It's Friday... thank God.
Currently listening to: pitter patter of rain
Currently feeling: whats recumbent?

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February 21st, 2005

Somewhere only we know

Posted by jab at 11:02 AM on February 21, 2005.

I walk across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete

Oh simple thing where have you gone?
Im getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
Im getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that Ive been dreaming of?

And if you have a minute why dont we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why dont we go somewhere only we know?

-Keane-
Hopes and Fears(c) 2004
Currently feeling: gloomy

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February 26th, 2005

my past 20 hours...

Posted by jab at 02:05 AM on February 26, 2005.

I woke up at 6:30 am... before I went to take a bath, I saet up the coffee maker to make some Irish cream falvored coffee. By 6:55 am I was dressing up for my first day at Ashton (the office Im working at).

By 7:20 I was driving along Hway 134 east towards the 2 south to bring alyssa to school. 7:30 am we drop off alyssa at school and by 8 am, via the sidestreets of Glendale, EAgle Rock and China town, I as able to drop mama and tita borbs at their office.

My office opened by 9m am so in between that, I was inside the van parked by the huilding reading the Nichomachean ethics of Aristotle and sipping my coffee. Between 9 that morning till 5 30 that afternoon, I was on the phone by the computer and doing the collections. My job is to collect from the clients, the 2,000,000 in total payables. I need to call them one by one and remind them of their hundreds and thousands of dollars they owe us...
POWER trip...hehehe

By 6pm, I was able to pick Mama up form her work and by 6:30 pm I was clokcing in at coffee bean for my closing shift. During that time, I never really felt tired while doing barista work. After countless of CAfe's, Latte's, Tea Latte's, Tea's, Espresso, and surprisingly a lot og cappuccinos...I suddenly realized, my system was looking for some poison.

By 12:30 am I was walking along fair oaks... JC, the bouncer at the local Bar McMurphys greeted me and let me in the bar, no checking of IDs... hehe Then I had two beers... an hour later, I was walking home.

Here I am...typing...

ahh...life... and the lack of it
Currently feeling: tired

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