An Encounter With Scrooge

Yes, I meant Ebenezer Scrooge or at least that was his personality. You might be confused, so let me tell you a story that happened yesterday.

I just fetched my son from his classroom and we planned on going to a store to buy gifts and ham for Christmas. As, I moved my car going out of the parking-lot, I noticed a building traffic on the road and because of that I couldn’t get out to the main road.

To have a better picture of the situation, here’s an image I have created:

Legends:

• Yellow – my car
• Black – Scrooge’s car
• Green – Cars on traffic
• Tan – School
• Red Blue Stripes – parking spaces
• Light Grey – School Road
• Dark Grey – Main Road
• Orange – blocking

The parking spaces are filled with cars and in a hurry to get out, I tried to check what the problem is because it is not a usual scene to have this huge traffic in front of my son’s school. Upon seeing the root of the traffic, I approached the driver which is an old man and asked him a favor,

“Sir, could you move your car forward just a small space.”

I felt relieved when he did move, but indeed a small space. I checked the situation again and the first green car still could not move from its position, so I again asked a favor to the old man in the black car,

“Sir, if you want to park, could you move your car near the blocking, so that those at your back could go forward if they want to.”

The old man seems pissed and he said,

“I do not want to move any further.”

I then answered him calmly,

“Sir, you are blocking them and you are creating traffic.”

Angry old man argued,

“What do you want? Me going near the blocking and then later when its time for me to go out I would have a hard time backing out because there would be cars coming in? NO!”

The old man is obviously not in a good mood and because of his attitude I raised my voice,

“Sir, you are not in a parking space and you are creating traffic. I can’t get out of the road because of the traffic you caused!”

Old man Scrooge will not back down and he asked me,

“Where are you parked?”

I pointed to him where my car is situated. He then answered with a smirk,

“So, what do I have to do with it?”

This moment, I was confused why he said that. Can’t he see that he is causing the traffic and that is why I can’t pass? I answered him,

“Sir, you are not in a parking area and you are blocking the way for other cars to pass.”

He keeps on moving his head left and right as if saying NO, I am not going anywhere. Just in time, a car left its parking space nearby. This moment, I am already angry and when the car left its parking space fully, I shouted to old man Scrooge,

“There! Go and park your car in a proper place!”

The old man Scrooge moved its car to parking and the other cars passed without a problem and I was at last out of the school parking-lot.

After that incident, I was so angry and I asked my Mom,

“How could an old man be so selfish like that?”

Until now I wonder, how could someone grow old and be selfish like that; He doesn’t want to have a small problem in backing out when cars are coming in but he could swallow the idea that he could stop in the middle of the road and create traffic – THAT’S STUPID!

Lesson I learned this day: If this situation happens again, I would not hesitate to call a traffic officer and have them take the license of the driver causing the traffic specially those who are not in a proper parking space for “Illegal parking.” If the officer is hesitant to do his job, I would file a case against him for “Negligence of duty.”

Beware of 018774273368

It started 3 nights ago, I received a call from “no number” or 0000000. Whenever I answer it, I cant hear anything from the other line, not even a sound of someone breathing. This made me think that maybe there is something wrong with my phone, so I tested my speaker by calling a friend and everything is working well on my end.

After several calls that I answered yet fail to communicate with the other side of the line, it begins to scare me.

Years ago, we received a phone call in the middle of the night from U.S.A. bearing some bad news about my cousin. This was such a traumatic experience for the family. So, I keep on answering this call thinking it might be an important call because despite the fact that there are errors on the call it keeps on calling.

For the nth time, from scared my emotion turns to irritated. Then I thought, if this is an important call this person would try other ways to contact us. I am not the only one with mobile number plus we have a land-line. So, that night I turned off my phone.

I turned my phone on that morning and the day seemed normal until the clock strikes midnight. It happened again. It called, when I answer – fail to communicate. Eventually, I turned my phone to silent so that I won’t be disturbed when it calls.

Morning came, and no calls. Then I thought it would end, but I thought wrong. It called again just after midnight and this time using a number 018774273368 but also keeps on switching to “no number” and 0000000.

Having the number, gave me a reason to search about it and found out that there were a lot of complaints about this number.

Here are comments about the number:

They called us a moment ago:
Them: Hello it’s Julie from Major Brands. I believe you’re with British Gas
Us: No.
Them: E-on?
Us [clearly they're phishing]: No.
Them: nPower?
Us [how many are they going to go through?]: No.
[ approximately 12 suppliers later ... ]
Them: I can see you’re paying with Direct Debit.
Us [how? if they don't know who we're with]: No.
Them: How are you paying?
Us: We’re not saying.

My advice: don’t volunteer or confirm any information with the caller.

~.~.~.~

I got a call from this number today – i agree with tim above – total phishing scam. They said they were from the varification department from E-on and were calling to confirm my details… however, i dont use e-on so i just hung up on them.

I have had several calls from this number over the past few months… i just keep hanging up…

Source: Who calls me from

Same call as above: they said they had found viruses on my Windows computer and wanted to help fix them and they work very closely with Microsoft (although he could not tell me their Partnership status) – I enjoyed speaking to them as I use an Apple Mac – they try and direct you to a website – he actually hung up on me!!!

Source: Phone call comments

BE CAREFUL!

An Election Watcher

I joined a political organization which is The Young Friends Foundation, Inc. and because of this I became a Municipal watcher. I got the job without knowing the duty or responsibility I will be handling. Good thing the organization had a series of meetings before the election day, in where those experienced in the field taught us what we need to know to fulfill our duties. However, since it is the first time to have an automated election we have been warned that there will be a few adjustments. Before the election begun, everyone thought that the automated election would have a faster processing compared to previous year. We were so wrong in assuming that.

So May 10, 2010 was the judgment day.

As an assigned municipal watcher, I went to duty 12 noon as scheduled. Upon entering the canvassing area, we were asked to submit our “Appointment Slip” as the Municipal watcher. We were then given an attendance sheet to sign.

Printer and Laptop was unpacked and ready.

Canvassing Officers were given their username, password and usb.

Two of the canvassing officers are requested to key in their username, password and insert USB for verification before the machine could proceed to the next step.

A test print is being done, to ensure that the printer is functioning well.

Municipal watchers were ask to verify the results that the machine has before the canvassing has started. Everything should result to zero, and so it was.

After this we waited for more 6 hours for the Baranggay elections to finish for the assigned officer to transmit the result to the Municipal Hall.

Bottons on the left side of every Baranggay is in color red, which means that transfer has not started yet. Yellow, would mean transfer started but not yet finished and Green, means fully or successfully transmitted.

We waited for each Baranggay to go on yellow and green so that we could see the results for that area. Hoping that no error would occur.

Unfortunately, a lot of errors happened which kept the laptop operator restart the laptop again-and-again and so does the key in of canvassing officers.

I waited patiently until every Baranggay in my assigned Municipality has successfully transferred their results.

3:00 AM teachers still delivering results to the Municipal Hall.

Most of the municipal watchers could were already asleep. Good thing for me, I could go on for days without sleeping. This just goes to show these municipal watchers has not performed their duty like I did.

After the results were printed. Municipal watchers still have the task to sign a lot of papers.

I finished my job about 12 noon, which means I was there performing my duty for 24 hours. Some did not stay that long, they haven’t even signed any paper in which I have signed thousands. I am not a paper and pen kind of person, I BLOG – I need keyboard or keypad. I have sacrificed not eating nor drinking that full 24 hours and tire my precious hands that now have callus from signing papers not even for my fans, for the sake of doing my duty. It would have been a huge help for everyone if all the municipal watchers had done their job fully. The numbers of papers I have signed would have been reduce to hundredths.

FELLOW FILIPINO: Huwag naman po mag tatamad-tamaran. Lahat naman po tayo nahihirapan eh. HUWAG MAKASARILI!

My Presidential bet didn’t win, but life goes on… KUNG SANA KASING SIPAG LANG TAYONG LAHAT NI GORDON at VILLAR … YAYAMAN DIN BANSA NATIN … kaso … haaay naku … nagkaka-wrinkles na ako!

Haters are Cowards

I just like getting hate comments!

Why? Because they make me feel special.

Here are some of the hate comments I have received on this blog.

I edited the image to at least cover up my former employers.

I am not 100% sure if the one who made the comment using “P—– agent” is an actual agent of that company. I gotta say, that among the agents that worked for that company, I am the dumbest. So, I know my flaws! An agent who works or have worked for that company are smart, talented and intelligent. With the wrong grammars that I could notice from the commentator, I doubt that it came from that group. It was an honor for my stupid ass to work with that group. I am not saying I liked all the agents from there, but I have to admit they have brains bigger than mine.

I know admins from my former company are happy that I am not there anymore, that’s a FACT – I have been a pain in their asses when I was there.

I don’t really know why people make a big deal out of my existence. For years, I don’t mind other people in that company. I rarely even talk to my agents. Why make a big deal out of me being there? OH! I remember, if there are things that could catch my attention, I inform admins about it – I quote “JUST TO BE FAIR.”

Immoral *sigh* Am I the most immoral person there? Who knows … YOU dear commentator might be worst than me … but hey … you’re a hater … you’re life must be worst than mine … tsk tsk tsk

Obese? Me? WOW, I need lasiks!

Walks like a cripple. I have a knee injury and I have shown that to those who ask why I walk the way I do and sometimes just show it to those close to me for fun. I don’t intend to be a runway model. So as long as I could walk, I am happy.

My son. Hec and I have discussed about it. I have shared the story to a few people. Hell, I don’t even know who the father is, how could you be sure it’s not his? YES I AM A BITCH … but I am no whore! I don’t get paid for sex. From that, you might say because I am no good at it – unahan na kita – YES, I am lousy at it … might be the worst my partners ever had (wink wink).

Damak. Yes, I am. I only take a bath when I go out of the house. Sometimes, I don’t take a bath for days because I stay in my room all the time with a notebook or MacBook in my lap. I rarely get out of my bed. I have dandruff too, but right now it is not as worst as when I was working in the office. So, might be the stress that was causing it, or I just didn’t wash it off properly because of in a hurry going to the office.

Ugly, I have answered that one.

Grammar. I am not a good writer. I don’t blog to brag my skills in writing, I blog to express myself. I admit, most of the time I make mistakes and often I would notice it after posting. I edit some, but sometimes I just don’t feel like editing.

Those are my hate comments and my answers to give this haters some “consuelo de bobot.” I have more on my Intiendes blog before.

“Haters are Cowards”

Why is that? As, you can see ALL of the hate comments I received doesn’t reveal the persons identity. They are scared that a person might actually say something worst about them and that would humiliate them. Surely enough, if a person is a hater, it must mean that he or she is not happy with his or her life. The way I see it, if a person is living a happy life, then that person would see positive things about others.

Sometimes a hater would pretend to be someone they are not. I always give a benefit of the doubt whenever a hate comment uses a name of someone. As Mawe once said, it is better to answer it on your own blog to know your real identity because anyone could use your name when commenting – not his exact words, but something like that.

I know, people often misunderstood me. That is the reason why I opened my “intiendes” blog in the first place; To make people understand me better. But it has been filled with posts not related to the idea I created it for, so I created this new one.

If my actions are bothering you, then it would be better if you ask me why I do those things and perhaps you will learn from my experience. I don’t want to be misunderstood and I try my best to explain myself. You could cover your identity if you want to ask. Hate comments just lets me know your life is worst than mine, because right now I could see a persons mistake, try to understand why they are that way and I would see the positive side of it.

I appreciate those people who are brave enough to confront me of my negativity. To mention a few: Beverlyn Rempis and Rachel Jaro. For those people, “Thank You” for pointing out things I have to change and giving me a chance to improve myself.

I have plans that my next post on this blog should be something from those good companies who had given favor or support to bloggers, but I haven’t done it yet since I have got a lot of things on my TO DO list, but I am gonna skip some of it to work on the blogging task needed for those companies. Sorry for the delay! This hate comment just made me feel so alive! It’s my inspiration to blog.

The Driver Gave my Money Back

Today, is my daughter’s 5th birthday, but I am at work. I would be meeting her after work and would make up on my absence when I get back home from Manila. I promised her that I will give her my Gigabyte notebook so that she could watch all the movie she wants, but I guess I could find ways to put movies she likes on her iPod Touch.

So, I was going to my day job when I found out I have no coins to pay for the jeep. I took my Php 500 and gave it to the driver. He gave me back my money because he has no change. I told him to just have it change on a gasoline station. He answered me angrily – there’s no open gas station yet, because it’s too early. Well, upon passing a gas station, the driver was wrong. I just went down at the gas station for him to see that it is open!

Well, that’s my free ride this morning. I guess that’s a gift for me from that angry driver for being a Mom for 5 years now.

Happy Birthday my Hannah. I love you!

Still Sad but could Smile

I am really saddened of the fact that some people are too obsessed with things that they become selfish and hurt their fellow human being.

At times like this, I am glad to have friends and strangers that would agree with me and comfort me. Thanks to those who had given a pat on my back, especially to those strangers who just cares enough for a fellow human being. MARAMING SALAMAT! MADAMO GID NGA SALAMAT! THANK YOU SOO MUCH! MUCHOS GRACIAS!

I would like to share to you a video that surely put a smile on my face. As most of you knows, I am a chubby lover. So here it is:

I am not an Animal Lover, SO WHAT?

Okay, days ago there was an issue about a boy who killed a cat and have fun in doing it. People plurk about it, especially those Cat or Animal lovers. I aired my opinion, that for me it is nonsense and it is such a small issue. I live in Iloilo, and often the road from home to work is filled with dead cats. I was not the one who killed them, but obviously, most drivers here just don’t care about those animals.

So, the so-called animal lovers reacted gravely with the opinion I have given. Saying that it’s stupid. OKAY, so I get it people have different opinions. I respected it and left you to discuss it on your own because it was obvious that you don’t welcome opinions other than that of  “oh the cat is cute, and that is such a stupid boy.”

I left the conversation, because they  were getting too personal already. As a parent, I discipline my child. At one point, I blogged about shouting at my daughter because I couldn’t control my temper. I guess it is just normal for a mother to have these kind of episodes in their life. The animal lover made a big deal out of it, and say that I should know better; I should control my emotions when dealing with a kids tantrum. GOT IT, lesson learned!

There are a lot of things happening into my life other than that CAT issue. THAT in fact is just one minute issue that should have passed. I plurked “I am traumatized by UGLY people.” WOW, and those cat lovers thinks that it is again about them. HELLOOO … when will you stop? I LEFT the plurk conversation you were having, simply because I don’t want anything to do with it. It’s obvious you are not an open minded people!

Today, I opened my blog and was shocked to see comments coming from Cat lover. Aren’t you done? What do you want from me, to be pissed? Coz, you were not able to have that satisfaction because I was calm enough to admit I AM STUPID, I AM UGLY, or whatever you say I AM. IT IS UP TO YOU… BUT NOW YOU INSULT MY DAUGHTER? YOU WANT ME TO BE PISSED? I AM PISSED!

Here’s a screen shot of the comment:

What makes you think you are a better person than that of the one who killed the cat? The boy just killed a cat, and I care more of him because I know he has problems and he needs a tender loving care. YOU obviously have some problems of your own. Are you aware that YOU are now harassing me? YOU are way out of your line … please leave me alone!

I know myself and those sexy pictures you are talking about, I WAS JUST DRESSING APPROPRIATELY IN A POOL! DAMN IT, don’t you wear that kind of suit in a pool? You wear shirt and shorts? It’s up to you … I DON’T CARE!

I like sex, isn’t it obvious? I have two kids now and that means I have had sex more than twice in my life. To how many men, it is none of your business!

I happen to check what other people would say in terms of my beauty, so I made a survey: Am I Beautiful?

My english may not be as good as yours, but I could live with it. My client is not complaining, if he does I know how to improve myself.

PLEASE ENOUGH! I KNOW YOU CARE ABOUT ANIMALS, AND OBVIOUSLY YOU CARE LESS ABOUT PEOPLE! I just happen to feel differently, I CARE ABOUT PEOPLE MORE THAN I CARE ABOUT ANIMALS. I would rather think of the hungry children in Africa, than think of how many cats were killed by someone else. You should digg deeper. A person does things with a reason, and I feel for you for doing this to me. I feel for the boy for doing it to the cat. I hope you will be awaken and embrace that you, HAVE PROBLEMS that needs a professional help.

FYI: I don’t kill cats, and I don’t think I have killed one yet.

First Ride of Public Transportation for 2009

I have been the driver of my family during the Holidays, even if I lost my license and that technically I am driving without a license.

Today, was the first of me going back to the office for 2009. So far, everything went well during the office hours. I have given my gift to people I admire for being hardworking. Before I knew it, office was over and I have to ride a public jeepney going home.

In a jeep I have encountered being in an awkward situation. I know I am a big person, but I use my space respectfully while I am in public spaces, especially on public transportation such as jeep. However, the old man beside me doesn’t. I don’t want to be rude to him because he is an old man, but I was really uncomfortable being beside him. You may be asking why? It is because the jeep is crowded and here he is sitting on a slant position! Of course being slant means he may be occupying his space from his buttocks down but his body is occupying half of my upper space. I am a BIG woman and I sit properly. So, just to get out of that awkward situation, I let the old man have his slant sitting then I crouch to let him have all my upper space even lean on my back if he wills.

I was pissed, but I was calm and I have not eaten this evening, which means I have my diet today.

Updates on People in My Life

My Mom is shockingly good to me. This morning she told me she bought me 3 shirts, and I am currently wearing one of it. For a week, it is too much goodness from my Mom; First the Tattoo approval and then this? I wonder what has gotten into her.

My daughter was injured yesterday. I fetched her from school after her ballet class and she showed me her middle finger and it was swollen and her nail turned black. I asked my Mom what happened and she told me it happened in the school during her class hours (the morning) and she doesn’t know exactly the details but the teacher told her that Hannah (my daughter) closed the door and her hands was squashed. My poor little girl. The school security told my Mom that the nurses on the clinic had a hard time healing Hannah’s hands because she was crying so hard and they don’t have the strength to make her still. My Mom, would have her hands check by our Pediatrician today, just to be sure everything is okay.

My son had a cough this morning and so my Mom would be bringing him to our Pedia together with his sister. Hopefully when I get home this afternoon, I would receive good news.

My cousins husband won the STL. It was about time since they really need money and he won on the day of his birthday. What are his winning numbers? Simple, his birthdate!

Lastly, I was blog hopping when I saw the blog of a person that I have once argued. (I would name this person “P” and give female sexuality, so that I could explain the situation better.) I was reading the latest post of P when I noticed that she seems to be angry with someone. I read the next post and still, hatred. Read the post after that, and so on. Yes, still filled with hatred. I don’t know what is wrong with her, but she seems to be having problems with people who have higher position than her. May she find peace! I understand her griefs, because she seem to feel that she is better than her manager yet she is not one. Yes, indeed she is intelligent, she could even see grammar errors from her managers note. Maybe she was thinking, how could she be a manager when she cant even write proper english? Well, some just have skills to be one. My thoughts on this? If you think you are better than your manager, then show her what you’ve got. Don’t look at the negative side of things. Always see things possitively. You will always be rewarded for the actions you’ve done. Being bitchy and saying bad things about your manager wont do you any good professionally. Learn to be patient and kind. Say sorry if needed and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Be honest in everything you do, and do the best you can. For doing so, you’ll save yourself and would bring you in the path that you wanted. Good Luck!

Guess Who I Met on ScrnShots?

Two days ago, I created a template for my Plurk. It was the first plurk template that I have edited. I have a picture in my mind on how it should look like. After hours of working on it, I was finaly satisfied of my work.

I have uploaded it on ScrnShots because I am proud of what I have done. A lot of people liked it. After I finished my upload I searched for someone who have uploaded a screen shot of his or her plurk template. I noticed that someone had uploaded something similar to mine but doesn’t have a transparency effect on it. So, I commented on that screen shot.

Today, I was able to get a reply from the owner of the screen shot I commented. Guess who it was? It is the girlfriend of my ex-boyfriend/father of my kids. What a small world!

Now, I was thinking that maybe she would think I am spying on her or something like that.

Could you imagine the possibility of all the zillions of people on the net and using plurk and ScrnShots and me having to comment on my ex’s GF screen shot? I was actually avoiding butting-in to their lives because of some awkward situations. Ah, well, what is done has been done. I just need to be careful who I give comments to next time.