The Daily Grind

That’s one of my wishes this 2012. I want to visit Paris and I want it to happen. I am claiming it!

Have a grand 2012 dear readers and visitors! May we all have something brilliant to happen to us this year and the years to come!

Stay safe and warm. God bless.

I noticed I’ve been drifting. I don’t know anymore the path I want to take. I am going back and forth to the profession I took and studied for, and to the one I am truly passionate about. The latter has the upper hand and has been for more than half a decade now. But then I am now in a quandary over the fruits of this passion I am indulging in.

I need to contemplate what I want my life to be now more than ever.

Do you know where you are going to?

Speaking of office dating or office romance…

Let me tell you my experience with it. No, I didn’t date a co-worker. I had two bosses who dated each other and it was the food that fed the gossip mill in the office.

The CEO of the company I worked for got separated from his wife. While managing his very own business, he met a newly hired sales assistant. She was pretty and charming and she was also separated from her spouse. They clicked and before you know it, the sales assistant was promoted to the second highest position in the company! She became the president and from then on ‘worked’ hand in hand with the CEO.

Of course, tongues started wagging right after the promotion. Who wouldn’t suspect something fishy when a mere sales assistant suddenly becomes the president of the company without buying into the business, right? Rumors began spreading like wildfire that the CEO and the president were having an affair. And you know what? The rumors were true! They became open about the romance after a while when the president made a huge mistake of passing the phone to the CEO when she just told an IT guy that she was already in bed, asleep, when he called.

In a way it worked for the two of them. But then when the CEO’s kids would visit the office, there was always tension around and that was the conflict created by the romance. Other than that, it was just business as usual for them. Unless it was raining and you would hear the CEO asking the president for some sexy time!

Eeekkk!!!

You know as a human being I do think we are all entitled to some kind of retreat from the daily stuff we do. Since I have been living in the city for so long a weekend retreat somewhere remotely resembling city life is what I search for.

I saw a cabin that a friend of mine posted in Facebook. It’s a mountain retreat and when I saw it my being craved for a day or two in a place like that! I just know that it will recharge me, relax and calm my overstrung nerves!

I remember reading that the number one cause of various sicknesses and diseases these days is stress. If you live in the city, just making sure you get to pay all your bills on time with the meager income you get every month can stress you out in no time at all! Can you imagine how stressed I am all the time?!? A weekend retreat is truly something that can help me a lot physically, emotionally and spiritually.

I just wish I have the time and money to spend for one…

Describe what you’d do with an extra four hours today.

If I have a car at my disposal, four more hours would mean going just a little bit far from the city. Maybe go to Tagaytay or Subic. Or maybe just a trip to Mall of Asia or somewhere around that area. It would be cool just to drive around, eat out, and then drive some more. Especially at night time when there’s less traffic. Or maybe somewhere in Antipolo.

Driving around would be really good. I miss going on road trips, even one just inside the city limits.

Unlike some people, I love being on the road. I like it more than reaching the destination already. Weird, huh? That’s me!

Being alone is natural for me. I don’t go pitying myself like other people. I am more confident than that. But there is always a tug in my heart when it comes into focus that I don’t have someone to call my own.

I know it will come, yes. I only have to wait and strengthen my faith.

But there are moments in my life, after feeling the tug, that my faith wavers. My soul yearns for that someone to hold me and tell me everything’s going to be okay.

Hay…

Whenever I see photos of the Great Wall of China, I get this confirmation from my God that everything is possible. That there is a way to do even the hardest of tasks if only we put our minds to it.

It’s like a prayer being answered.

I don’t know how you handle your problems, or even small worries in life. I’d tell you how I handle mine… I pray. I’m not preaching here. I’m the last person to ever preach to you. But I am telling you that it’s what I do. I don’t rely on it. I also do my part by acting on what I think is the best course of action I can take. I do pray and it’s like going to the shrink. I talk to my God and tell Him what’s nagging me and it lightens my load. It may not totally take away the worry or the problem but at least I was able to pass on even a small weight off my shoulders.

Do you know what I realized lately? Spending some time alone is good for the mind. It’s good for the soul. Some quiet time, away from every one else, even for a few hours can give you bliss. Believe me.

It is also a good time to sort out personal issues. Talk to yourself and ask yourself where you are at in life. Are you on the right path towards achieving your goals in life, or are you going to different directions making your life spiral out of control?

I also realized how important it is to feel that you are self-sufficient.

Try being alone even for a day or two. And tell me if it didn’t lift up your spirits!

I miss Makati City. I worked there for half of my ten-year professional career and it is a lovely city where you can find almost anything and everything you are looking for. It has three big malls – SM Makati, Glorietta, and the beautiful Greenbelt malls. The last two are owned and operated by the Ayalas. If you are working in that area of Metro Manila, you have surely been around Ayala Avenue and its underpass. You’ve probably eaten at The Enterprise Towers already. Have been enchanted by the skyscrapers that almost seem like reaching the clouds.

I don’t know if I will be working in Makati City again if I go back to the corporate world. I might. Or I might be working in another city. Who knows. I just feel like telling every one how much I miss the city where I started my professional career.

I believe almost every household has a kind of home-office set up already. We are all used to bringing home work we want to finish. Or some of us are working at home so we need something similar to an office set up in it.

The photo above is not my home-office set up but that’s a desk that I love to have with those two gorgeous desktops! Don’t you just get a very good vibe looking at it? It’s so clean and tidy! I like!