reasons why i love DECEMBER

…COZ: 

    - most of my friends (and i)  were celebrating my birthday

    -christmas party!

    -simbang gabi (i make it a point to complete the dawn mass-no matterhow hard it is to wake up in the wee hours of the morning… )

    -christmas choral competitions and concerts (i love christmas songs, esp. the choral ones… ) 

      -the dazzling display of christmas lights everywhere (even though it hurts my eyes everytime i see something, but who cares? christmas lights on houses makes me a stress-free girl)

    -christmas!!!!!

ok ok… december for me is the busiest month for me because of the gruesome choir rehearsals, endless christmas shopping spree, church activities and all of the  craziness, but for me it’s the hapiest month of the year all because of it. 

 (and how i wish that i had somebody to share my hapiness with…)

again, happy holidays everyone!  

retrenchment

    retrenchment (re⋅trench⋅ment) - the act of retrenching; a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses.

it was a suprise for all of us that my office needs to cut down its number of employees because of the recession in the US. but what struck us the most is that the management didnt gave us any warning signs and such. in fact, the news came just after the management gave us our christmas bonus.

among those who were affected were my seatmate and the other one is my former team mate. the two became close to me and i’m still shocked from their sudden departure. those two were close to my hearts…

im still concerned about their fate after the company let them go… i just hope that they were still ok after what happened to them… but i know that those two were strong, and so i pray for them… i hope that they will overcome this… 

on the other hand, my immediate boss renren told me that i was “almost included” in the chopping block because of my attendance (tardiness actually)but what saved me from being included in the list of the people who fired from the office is my work performance. the incident actually is a wake-up call for me, and it makes me realize everything i did in this very humble office…

and it makes me realize… i need to do my job very well…and also to wake up very early for work…

and that’s what im intended to do…

so till my next post…

***to gumar and ryan, my prayers are always with you… till we meet again!

~cristal<3 

pressured but still ok…

i thought i will go through the same working routine but it was different. this month’s working routine turns out to be more stressful than i thought.

and as i was starting to do my [mandatory] working routine something came up: a special project from the upper bosses from the main office (in carson, cali) that needs to be finished (and thank god i was able to finish the task in no time) and other than that, my overtime is PAID! thanks to my boss…

 but for now i need to rush things and hunt for some sites that are needed for my work task… 

gtg, i really need to work!

~cristal <3 

Mandatory December Post

it’s already december and everything’s getting ready to gear up for the upcoming holiday season. i still need to rush things and finish with all the task (for work and for coro) so that i will not suffer from another cramming sessions that occur everytime deadline strikes. 

ok, i arrived early today in the office for the mandatory working routine, but there are some work related changes that pisses me off and ruins my day. but i won’t let that. really.

and also, the “one-who-makes-me-smile” is there, as always, doing his work (or should i say checking his social networking site accounts every now and then) haai…he makes me smile even just for a while… 

hope that i still have enough energy left for the upcoming events this months… 

till next time!

advance merry christmas to all!

-cristal<3 

end of hell week…? hope so!

it’s been weeks since my last blog post and i still in the process of revamping my personal blog. right now i’m tired, stressed out, and depressed, but i really need to get going. my work’s been killing my brain and the choir is draining my energy levels.

my work here at us auto parts has been great at first but as time goes by my workload increased and so is my quota. added to that is the stressful choir rehearsals and some personal problems (pertaining to my yournger gay brother, financial status, etc.)  well that’s life and what i really need is to deal with it.

for now there’s someone here in the office who managed to make me smile. yes, having urbanwitch and hermalditaness make my day right but there’s this special someone who really made my day complete. 

to you: thanks for being around.  

today is the last week of november. christmas is fast approaching and i just hope that this coming december will be more fullfulling than the previous months…

so that’s all for now.

-cristal <3