Author Archives: poeticnook

15 bucks

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– that’s the budget for the white elephant event on saturday, in case you don’t know what that is – it’s a new way to promote the value of stealing gifts this holiday season. went to metrotown and looked for anything interesting but found none. what makes it harder is that it has to be unisez. probably was looking at the wrong places – american eagle, the source, coast mountain, sportchek, then i gave up and just bought postcards and wrapping paper from the dollar store. i don’t want to be boring and buy a starbucks gift check. half the people are thinking of doing that already. wish i could be as lucky as zet, finding love at first sight while looking at one store window, but then it is easier to find things when your budget is a hundred bucks.

oh well, surely a giant light bulb would pop out of my brain at the last minute and i’ll figure something out. in the meantime i’ll concentrate on my chocklit monster project. hope i make it..

*crossing fingers*

friday night lights

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went away tonight, to somewhere i’ve never been to, to a place where i can step out and breathe the cold air till it rips my lungs apart. looked up to a star filled sky and listened to the sound of water breaking the rocks. i almost felt alive again, almost. yet it was empty, the darkness was vast and i could drown in it if i wanted to, i could get lost like so many others are lost everyday. but what’s the point really? when the line between sanity and madness is so thin that you can cross over with the snap of a finger if you wanted to, everything becomes so fleeting and volatile and scary. why do we hang on when it’s so much easier to trip and go overboard and be crazy..

this is one of those days when i just want to hop into a car and drive as far as possible from the toxic waste that is also known as the people around me. i need to find meanings, i’ve lost the motivation to wake up. i’m afraid that if somebody touches me, i will dissolve into molecules.

in rainbows

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there is hope.. after two days of snow and two days of rain, i saw a rainbow at work today – a promise that the sun will come out soon to erase all the greyness away.
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here my keyboard finds me at a loss, unable to type another word that might bring some inspiring quotation to life – especially when inconsequential worries are bugging me and i’m watching paramedics trapped upside down and bleeding in grey’s anatomy. haven’t been following this series for a while, the episodes have lain unwatched on my iphone for eternity.

tonight, had to report my atm card as stolen but was put on hold for a good 30 minutes before i could speak to a live person “there is no available call center officer to take your call” is still ringing in my ears – must be a real busy day for them. as it is for me, as always. can’t get funds from my bank now, still have to submit a notarized affidavit of loss to my branch that’s a thousand miles away. well, it’s a good time to start saving.

the battery i’ve been waiting for finally came, it’s late and it doesn’t fit. sometimes life hits you at the most unexpected moment in the most unexpected of ways. already spent around 15 bucks for the taxes now i have to ship it back to get a refund. hmmm things are getting more interesting everyday.

have to be in 2 support calls at 6am tomorrow morning, hope i’m sane enough at that unholy hour so i can effectively do my work. i also hope that my spell of unfortunate events would run out soon. my four leaf clover is on the verge of giving up.

**credits to ethos_tech who took this photo**

snowed in

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this is the view from our back porch, we’re snowed in, can’t go out. me and my cousins ordered mickey d’s mcflurry and mcnuggets while shopping online and watching reruns of csi.

more reasons to be lazy on a weekend when all around you is white flurries. wish i brought my office laptop home last friday, that way i could work from home on monday.

tomorrow’s forecast is torrential rain – mcslushies anyone?

turning leaves

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today is the end of many things – the naboplomo challenge for one, that means i won’t be obligated to post on this blog anymore, i will go back to the shadows and visit like a ghost once in a while – when i’m homeless and i can’t grow roots. it’s also our company’s last day of operation, they closed shop and sold their stocks so we’re now under a new entity. a good friend at work also had her last day today, she’s leaving for home tomorrow. watching people leave makes me sad, i wish i could go home too. it’s always easier to leave than to be left behind..

tomorrow weather forecast is 12 centimeters of snow, they’re planning to go to grouse mountain for snowboarding, i’m still thinking if i should come.. don’t want another cold weekend, i miss the beach.

when a door closes, it only means that something better is coming along soon, the purpose of it all may not be clear right now, but soon enough, when the dust settles, we’ll realize that all will turn out for the best. good things happen to good people, somehow.

tickers

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  • gadget lust: saw something i want on my christmas stocking, hehe now if i could only get santa’s direct line.
  • tons of work today, what else is new? don’t know how to make the gears turn, in an effort to forget one thing, i ended up forgetting everything else.
  • saw the dc – ny pics, argghhh! finally realized how fat i’ve become, like 10 pounds heavier than the week before at lv. how can that be? must be the chilly weather making my cheek puff, haha! nah, i need a diet and exercise plan, i’ll start tomorrow =p.
  • tonight i’m helping my younger brother with his homework – psychology and brain lateralization. i miss university, everything was easier back then, should have failed a couple of classes so i’d still be in school today harhar.
  • my mom is also on the chat window, recounting the latest military standoff in manila, another political turmoil brewing, and here i am, miles away, waiting for the world to change.
  • company’s last day of operation, just signed my quitclaim, now i’m broke coz they haven’t released the final check yet. should have been a writer instead, if i was going to starve anyway, at least i’m doing what i’m passionate about =p.

wfh

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the problem with working from home is there’s no closing time, noone to remind you to go home – coz you’re already home, noone to pass by your desk at lunch time to invite you to the cafeteria, and noone to drag you to the starbucks across the street for coffee break. so you go on and on until you realize everybody else is offline and you’re the only one left finding your way through the mess of buggy third party deliveries. the good part about this though is that you get to stay warm all day, no trudging along slippery sidewalks, no covering yourself up from the freezing rain and snowfall.

every day, we flip a coin and choose a road, each choice we make carries both good and bad things. it’s always a struggle to find the happy amidst the greyness of a holocaust aftermath, but hope floats despite the darkness, dusk reminds us of a sunset that ends all worries, and a dawn that brings with it a clean slate to help us write a new story..

we all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn’t good enough, then it has to do..

registered mail

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three weeks ago i ordered 2 spare laptop batteries at globalbatteries, yet up to know, it’s still lost in transit. sales support emailed me and said they sent it through usps and it might take 8 weeks, depending on how slow regular snail mail is. too bad, i was expecting to get it sooner so i could use it on my c1x, guess i’ll have to wait a bit more, didn’t know it took this long to buy things online.

yesterday i got a notice from canada post – a parcel for pickup at their collingwood branch, what a hassle, why did they invent mail delivery if i have to get it personally from their office? i also have to pay $25 before i can claim it. =( another ups package also arrived and needs brokerage fee before they can release it – the cost of which is half the price of the package, arrgghhh!

one thing made my day though, got a gift which is probably from the vpal global kriss kringle, can’t wait to open it ^_^ plus i received my wpe from cic. hmmm, one more year,

let it snow

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don’t you sometimes wish you could disappear even if for just a day? throw away that mobile phone, not check emails, stay at home or go somewhere where noone knows you and noone’s looking for you.. wish i could do that everyday. don’t know if it’s the gray or the cold or the snow that’s been bringing me down, maybe it’s all of them combined.

today i did just that – got swallowed into oblivion, stopped worrying, and just went away without warning, tomorrow i’ll be back into the fast and blinding world once more, one deep breath at a time, hello neo. time to bring out my winter jacket and snow boots..

on other news, i found a good deal on an itrip at overstock and ordered one. too bad it doesnt ship to bc.

empire state building

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used to be called the empty state building during the great depression, they hired people to go up and down the elevators to switch the lights just so it would look like it’s occupied – that’s one trivia i learned from the tour guide, don’t know if it’s true. this historic place was under construction when went in to take a few snapshots of the city from above. it was also unlike the john hancock, or cn tower, or even the space needle where the elevator person at least says something about the place – here we were just whisked into an elevator and went from one metal detector to the next. from the 80th floor, we went up to the observatory by stairs, just for the heck of it, twas 6 flights up and no turning back.

last night we witnessed how big a deal christmas is in nyc, carollers everywhere, buildings all lit up, shop windows filled with holiday decoration – the cynic would say it’s commercialism, but i think it makes the city more alive and vibrant, helps to distract yourself from the monotony of daily existence. i love to be in this place, bc looks so dull and gray now in comparison.

walked towards ground zero and saw the vast emptiness that used to be something. they’re rebuilding it into a central transportation hub. amazing grace played in the background as i read their sign – think back, move forward, afterwhich we proceeded to st. patrick’s cathedral.

as we packed our bags and head to jfk to catch our plane, i already have a list of what to do on my next visit: – meet up with friends, helicopter tour, walk along central park.