Wackiest Faces Caught on Cam #2

In this picture : My eldest sister Carmi and my nephew Earl Gabriel
Photo by: ME

This photo was taken during my nephew's first communion at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Project 6 Quezon City. Carmi asked Angela (my elder sister younger than Carmi) to take a picture of her together with her son near the altar. When Angela was about to click the shutter, a lay minister suddenly passed by causing them to laugh. Little do they know that I was actually right beside Angela holding my phone and taking pictures of them. I immediately laughed when I saw what I just captured. Angela, who's right next to me, asked why, so I showed my phone. She actually giggled and passed it to my mom and Carmi. Carmi hated the picture and she was kinda embarrassed. Angela described it as "literally laughing out loud". I uploaded the picture on facebook.com and tagged Carmi in the photo. I dunno if she'll remove it or not but still it's in my album, so we still have copy.

Jhay and the Big Screen : Avatar

I will be adding another feature here in my page entitled "Jhay and the Big Screen". Me and my movie buddy Tony has this goal to watch at least a movie or two before each month ends. I will be writing all my insights and judgments (all personal) here to give an idea to you guys about how I feel and see the movie. May this be a movie guide to y'all.


TITLE: AVATAR
Genres: Action/Adventure and Science Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez
Directed by: James Cameron
Movie House: Robinsons Galleria
Ticket Price: P171.00

After hours of stressful work, Me, Pj, Mitch and Tony decided to watch this film after our shift to check out the film. We've heard a lot of good response from people who already watched the film so out of curiosity, I went ahead and join my office mates in watching this. While waiting for the movie to start we had our lunch at Burger King and had a little chat. Our wait has finally ended after the clock strikes twelve.

The story was about a marine confined in a wheelchair named Jake. He was recruited to travel with his this group of scientist who's job is to study the life of the natives in Pandora. Mining a rare mineral that costs fortune is their main mission. Since living in Pandora's atmosphere is toxic, they've come up to this "Avatar Program" that would let them link their consciousness and emotions to an avatar which is remotely controlled by their human body. Jake, even if he has no idea how it is to live in Pandora, was given a chance to control an avatar. He was amazed on the beauty Pandora,learned and loved how the natives live and give importance to their world and finally made his was to the heart Neytiri, a feamle Na'vi. As days pass and as he learn their culture, he began to feel like he is one of them. In the end he fought not for the mission given to him but for the welfare of the world he learned to love and considered his own.

The movie was indeed great and full of action and suspense. We didn't watch it in 3D though. As many critics say the movie should be watched in 3D so you can appreciate the true beauty of the film. As for me, judging the plot and the story, although the film is very futuristic, some of the scenes or parts of the movie were kinda predictable already like the idea of making the main character fall in love to the world that is completely different from his. I am impressed with the effects shown in the movie so if you love animations then you should try this. All in all, for me the movie was one of those films that were over rated but just the same still the movie was good.

RATING:
3.7 movie tickets

Wackiest Faces Caught on Cam #1

In this picture (in order starting from left): Mitch, Melai, Ice and Mimi.
Photo by: Pj Bailon

I just want to share this picture I saw on one of my teammates album in facebook. This pic was taken during the christmas party of our team (Paul's Prophets). I cant help but giggle everytime I see this picture. I still remember the day I first saw this picture. It was a Saturday morning, I was lying on my bed and I was browsing Pj's newly uploaded album on facebook using my phone. My mom notice me when she woke up, I was holding my phone, laughing alone. Mimi almost lost her temper when she saw this because she's not aware that this was uploaded to the net. I definitely know how she feels because this is what others do to me. I love you mimi.

What's inside my Mind?

Recently I saw a couple holding hands while sitting in table near to mine. Maybe I envy those people who says they found their other half but to be honest I'm happy with what I have as of the moment. I enjoyed being single and gay. Still I'm looking forward on the day that I'll find my "someone". Just had this questions in my mind.

How does it feel when you are holding your lovers hand?
I just want to know how it feels to loved and be loved?
In our world, is there such thing as courtship? Then how would it start? Who should initiate it?
How does it feel when your time is getting limited because you need to spend most of it with him?
Will it hurt if he scream at you because you did something wrong?
If its cleaver to talk on the phone the whole night with him, will you hang up first?
How does it feel to have someone text you everyday saying that they love you?

I know how it is to be alone and I know how to define loneliness. As time goes by it's seem like it's getting worst.

My Christmas List

Yuletide season is about to come. They say that Christmas is just for kids but I say no. We also deserve happiness during this time of the year so I come up with this list of things that I want this Christmas.


Mom's recovery
-As I've written on my previous blog, my mom just accomplished some series of cycles of chemotherapy. She's doing fine as of the moment but she still needs to be under medication for five years. After five years I hope she will be cleared by any sign of malignant cell. I just wish my mom would recover fast. I'm looking forward on the day where she won't need to medicate and live her life as normal as before. By that time I'll get a peaceful mind.

Love
-For the past 23 years I've been making things good for my family especially for my dad. I was the least favorite son in the family so impressing him made me focus on things that would give me recognition. So I working hard on my studies and studying hard to get recognitions. Now I guess is the right time for me to focus on what I've been wanting to. I'm not getting any younger as day goes by so I might as well enjoy my youth while it last. Maybe I'll hang out with friends and go bar hopping, do things that I don't normally do. Maybe I'll bump on someone and maybe we could start from there. haha..

Peace of mind
-Thing are a lot of things that bothers me in the office that would require tough decisions. As I've posted in my previous blog, I am about to decide whether I'll leave the company or stay. I dread the day that I'll have to come up with a decision because I know at some point I'll hurt someone or I would have to sacrifice something. I just wish the season would at least change my mood or better if I'll truly find the peace and happiness that I want.

Digicam / laptop / new phone
- Nothing will keep me from having this must haves this coming year. My old nokia phone died on me so I purchased a new samsung corby. I nearly cried when it first landed on my hands because finally, I have something new for Christmas. I may not be able to buy the notebook and the digicam this month but I'll make sure that I'll have it as soon as I have extra money.

Baguio get away
-My teammates and I are planning to have our grand get away in Baguio. This is what I'm looking forward to this coming January. Hope we could kiss all the stress and pressure away and just be as normal as we could during the trip.
This would be my first time in Baguio so I'm really excited. I'll make sure to bring home some strawberries for my mom when I get home.

Make over
-There are certain things in my body that I want to improve. First is my body build. I am currently weighing 155lbs., and that's way heavier than my weight before. My aim is to at least cut it to 130lbs which is my weight when I was still in college. Next is my face. I have an oily skin and there are lots of scars or pimple marks on my face so I guess this year, it's time for a change and I'll make sure this will put to action.


Well as for now I'm just listing this things that I know I want and hopefully by next year, everything will be settled. My target is actually by midyear and hopefully I accomplished this things already so I can start thinking of bright ideas to do or buy things for my satisfaction.

Half Hearted

Shopping, eat in expensive restaurants, coffee in starbucks, movie dates, bar hopping, these are the things that I personally enjoy. Wonder how can I afford to spend much money on these?

I am working as a technical support representative somewhere in Ortigas. Never did I imagine that I'll be a part of this industry because after graduation, I see my self working in an office environment doing administrative works. Anyway, I'm happy with what I have right now and the joy it gives you when you get to treat your family with your own money is just incomparable.

Good compensation comes with great responsibilities and hard work. You don't get paid to do nothing. For some, they think that taking in calls is an easy job to do. Maybe they're right, you just have to talk with your customers then that's it, easy money! But personally, I guess they're wrong. You don't just sit and talk in the office, you are also susceptible to stress. You stay all night working while others are in deep sleep. At some point you would have to sacrifice your social life.

Recently, sudden changes just happened with the company that I work with. Huge volume of calls, new targets or should I say high targets, new management and on top of that, I now belong to a new team (I transfered to a new team lead). Things in our center, if would describe it, went from bad to worst. Some agents weren't able to adopt with these changes and some weren't able to hit the new target. Most of these agent are not anymore related to the company.

For the past few days I've thinking hard for something that would make a huge change in my life. I have been thinking of leaving my present company and move to a another where I could get what I truly need and that is growth. It's been a year and a half already that I started working as technical support agent. I can still remember the day I first step in the glass doors, full of dreams and ambition. Dreams that I know will be very hard for me to achieve and ambitions that I really need to work hard.

But of course, leaving my first job is a tough decision to do. I saw a lot of job openings that offers good compensation and career growth. But still I may need to consider few things that will happen as soon as a leave. I will be asking help from few people who could give me good advise regarding this. I just hope I will choose the right decision.

Bonding with My Best Friends

I recently went to Manila to spend time with my best friends. I guess it's been a month already since I last saw them. The three of us were all busy with our work as of the moment. KC and I are both working as a call center agent while JR is working somewhere in taft. Basically we dont have time for each other since my days off would be on weekdays while KC and JR are on weekends. Though it's not hard to communicate nowadays, still the feeling it gives when I'm with them is what I missed so much. I get the chance to talk to KC and for his future plans. He's about to leave his company now and move to NCO as a credits and collection agent which is a U.K account. JR also has plans on leaving his current work by next year. I as well have plans on leaving my work as an agent and maybe settle to a lighter work (maybe an administrative work would do).

Since JR arrived late, I was able to talk to KC a lot. He told me stories about his buddy. It's been a month now since they became together. Honestly, I never envied KC having "someone to share your day with" but to tell you guys frankly, I'm looking forward on that special day that I'll find someone I can call mine. KC normally asks me to go out and have some fun (I just don't like the idea of going out in a bar and wait for someone to say "Hi, who's with yah"). He says I'm getting old already. Looking for that someone was not my priority as of the moment.My idea about love is that "it will come unexpectedly" so why waste time looking for that someone when God will deliver it to your doorstep, in your convenience. But maybe Kc is right,maybe its my fault that I'm still single, or maybe cupid is lazy to strike his arrow on me.

After enjoying our time at chowking, we went straight to the 4th floor of isetann recto not to look for a giggolo but to sing our heart out. This is what I miss the most. I just hope we could do it often. We've been doing this for past nine years since we became friends. In the midst our differences lies this one thing that is common to the three of us, MUSIC. Among the three of us KC has the nicest voice which is kinda obvious because he had formal trainings while JR and I just had this passion for music and also with singing. We even had our own CDs. Yes, our own voices recorded in CDs and we're not talking about just one but three. I still have a copy of those CDs (though not all) and I uploaded that in youtube. I can still remember the feeling it gave us when we first had our own CD.

We ended the day playing our favorite computer game (frozen throne). This is where JR is good at. This game is about strategy on winning the game and making your hero strong. In life, that is where JR is good at, he's good in strategy. Imagine being a bread winner at an early age of 18. Managing their finaces as well as looking for his siblings is not easy to do. I admire his courage and that is something that I don't have.

I arrived home at 1am hoping the day would not end but still I'm looking forward to another get together with with these guys. Maybe we can try bar hopping next time. haha..