New blog. Again. Www.carlvela.byethost32.com

Aw, Geocities.

My blogger got ruined because I upload my codes in geocities. I'll revert it to a generic template. :(

Annoying.

Pag sinabi kong wala, wala. Umuwi ka pa dito, sana di ka na lang umuwi. Hindi na nakakatuwa yung bawat 30 minutes magrerequest ka ng kung ano ano. Leche.

I'm sorry, I'm leaving.

Moving on to carlvela.wordpress.com.

Tired.

Last Friday I wasn't able to go the gym because there's a Combat marathon at FF the following morning. So I was saving up energy for that. And of course, I want to log some hours on Arkham Asylum.

I woke up at about 5:30AM on Saturday because I can't go any farther than that nowadays. And if sleep exceeds 6 hours, I'll be feeling a little woozy. So I opted to do some running but I found out that it rained last night and the road is wet. So I decided to just stay on my room. At about 10 AM I went to gym. The car isn't around so I have to brave the floody streets of Vergon and commute. I did some weights and at 1PM the marathon started. Normally, Combat lasts for only an hour, this time, it's 2 hours. I did some Combat Marathon before so I know I can do it.

There are at least 50 people on the room at the start of the marathon. At the end we were only 20 or so. So that's a little accomplishment to myself. After that, I went home. I was also planning to go to the Jabbawockeez show at ATC and get some pictures in. But due to the two hours Combat, I was pretty swamped. So I just stayed at my room.

A couple of hours later, my friend invited me to Poker night. So I obliged since I haven't been with them for quite some time. I got back home at 6AM, pretty much wasted due to fatigue not because I was drunk. I was planning to go the office to finish up some work since I still have no idea if there's work on Monday because the RD guys in FB are confused on it as well.

So I slept for a few hours. 4 hours to be exact. I woke up at 11 and went to the gym again to get the adrenaline pumping to wash out my swamped feeling. Another normal Combat session and the feeling is great. I drove to a shop to get some DVDs for my DVD night and went straight to home.

So I was pretty much swamped as I type this entry.

Shooting the Shooter

Shooting the Shooter,
originally uploaded by Carl Allan Vela.

Just got home from La Union. We were planning to surf but unfortunately, the waves are not cooperative. We were there for 2 days, enjoying the beach and the company of each other.

There are lots of people too, given that it was holiday. Good thing we have girls on the group to organize the trip. Anyway, it was all good.

Untitled.

Wow, I never thought I'd say this but this is the first time I am feeling bored at work. It all feels so monotonous. Yeah, I know, being in the corporate world is monotonous but for me, it has been taken to the next plane, so to speak.

Lately, I've been planning on resigning, and I've been thinking about it a lot. I know we're still in recession and there are a few guys kicked out of the company for no solid reason whatsoever, but I need to take this risk. I need to grease the old gears and study again. IT is a pretty competitive world, and I don't want to get left behind, and if you don't take risks, then you'll never get far.

What sucks is that like most of my colleagues, I never got the annual mid year bonus + increase. I look forward to that but what I look forward most was the thing my boss said during my evaluation early this year. You know, the 'P' word. He was saying something along the lines of - "I don't tell these kinds of things during evaluations but that means that it will really happen." Few months later - nada, zero, zip. It sucks because I think it's never going to happen.

And I think no one is safe in the lay offs, I might be next, who knows? I've been with the company for three years and yeah, there's some kind of fulfillment on that - you know, to have lasted this long. I've gained a solid ground work on the corporate world which I didn't get during my first working stint at ATP. RD has molded me and for that I am grateful.

But being grateful will not take you anywhere, like my first friend in the corporate world, Rico said you have to suck all out of a company. Learn what you have to learn and fly. You're not in this world to get as many friends as possible - you're here to build a foundation for the future.

So, 'utang na loob' aside. I think it's time. It has been fun.