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Saturday, August 01, 2009
I don't like spending. I'm a total cheapskate. I hated asking my parents for money, even though I knew that shelling out cash is part of the contract between couples called childbearing.
This is one of the reasons I moved out to look for a job without any of my folks telling me to. I bet they've long gotten used to my sudden announcements anyway. We're not dirt poor, but I hate being a burden to anybody. (As to the reason why I moved out, I just knew that Cotabato was gonna drive me crazy. I can't wait to get my family out of that crazy place.)
I am now officially independent. Make that last Thursday, when I received my first paycheck. So what do I do for a living, and where? I copyedit manuscripts in an American publishing company in Cebu. With teaching as an exception, I couldn't have asked for a job more fitting for an English major. Since I've had no illusions of a grand, exciting yuppie life from the beginning, I have absolutely no problems to speak of regarding my current job. I perform the tasks required of me, not prodigy-like but sensibly enough. I have made friends in the office, of course excluding Kim (who is not only my workmate but roommate as well; we theorize that a few weeks more and one of us is going to smother the other in her sleep, I love you Rimberly).
I'm not homesick, though I'm already making vacation leave plans in my head. I live with two of my best college friends, and we have a blast making work-exhaustion bearable through sick jokes we never run out of. I have an out-of-this-world relationship with my boyfriend (who I love to pieces for coming here on my birthday, the day I got hired; I have freak luck, as Ruby's boyfriend said, dapat tumaya ako sa lotto nung July 9).
I'm doing fine here. I'm a far cry from the Fatimah in Cebu six years ago. I'm happy.
reding-ready for the interview
(badang concept by Faith Gumalal)
happy birthday to me!
Posted at 06:18 pm by shitoyaka
 | | | Hydeist
August 4, 2009 12:43 PM PDT
CONGRATS, DUDE!!! Wow, and Manong K actually got there, and on your birthday, no less! (Is that Ken on the picture?) Life is good for you, dude, I'm happeh! ^__________^
PS. Say Hi to Kim and Faith for me. ^________^ | |
| | | flipt
August 5, 2009 01:09 AM PDT
omg! u guys all look so happy there... T_T
congrats on ur first paycheck fats!
finally, naopen na rin url mo.. xD | |
| | | ami
August 9, 2009 08:55 PM PDT
Dewd = thanks dude! oo si Ken nga yung nasa pic. basahin mo yung nasa shirt niya, LOL. si Kim at Faith umuwi na by that time kaya absent sila sa pic. ^^
Flipt = Lip we're still waiting for you... | |
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