Manila.. the first time I have ever been here i have told my self I will never ever try living here.. there was that MRT/LRT where it's completely packed people! it's so hard to move around. then the traffic of course. it was not just an urban legend it is so real and i thought cebu had the worst traffic.
i never thought that i would even consider working and living here. what you would really do for love right?
May 5, 2010 was the last day of my work in IN-CHEE-AR and my last day to be in Cebu as well. I flew to Manila all by myself for the first time. it was awful though how of all the flight delayed it has to be the one i was taking. 3 hour delayed and i felt like not going to Manila anymore. and so i waited impatiently for if i don't i will be jobless for a long time if i stay just in cebu and yeah long distance relationship sucks! BIG TIME!
Arrival at manila it was already 2am in the morning. have to wait for my baggage and have to travel from the airport to the boarding house. Saw the place I was staying and I am loving it. we have tiled floors. a terrace. our own cr. i definitely love the place!
I canceled on my first scheduled interview because i was not conditioned to be interviewed. I didn't cancel on my Beriberifone interview though which was scheduled in the afternoon. So for the first time I traveled from boarding house to Ortigas. makoi thought me how to go there but when you lack sleep and when you are tired you cant tell the difference between left and right. i have to be on my own now because makoi needs to work. how i even got out of the village was already a big challenge. plenty of time have i turned to a dead end and boy was it scorching hot! and i hail out the wrong tricYcle. driver would give me a little laugh every time i would ask in bisaya.
at last i got out of the village and as makoi instructed i took a bus on my way to ortigas. manila is huge! makoi was on the phone telling me to look to my left and look for certain establishments and still this coconut shell of mine was just i guess too dumb. it was hot and i was sleepy and i was already having a bad time because i have no idea how to get to ortigas and i was almost late for the interview. i wanted to cry and just buy a plane ticket to cebu ASAP! i am having trouble speaking in tagalog that was why i couldnt ask for direction. Makoi was already angry at me for being too weak and i couldnt blame him. finally i saw UNIONBANK and i remember that building the first time i went to manila. I remember we passed through that building just before we arrived at ortigas. so i was saved after all.
i took an exam on c++ and was i disappointed at it. i hadn't had any review and I forgot about pointers! i hated it! after i finished the exam i was interviewed by two guys and was it awful. It was like freezer inside the room! Whenever they would ask me a question my voice is trembling. i couldnt understand what they were asking me. i just wanted to light myself a fire. i was frozen until i couldnt take it anymore and i asked the two guys to turn down the airconditioner! both of them were laughing because they were both also cold! i am not confident about the interview. It was awful. the last thing i said to my interviewers was can i get out now?
now they tell me to wait for the result. they will have to evaluate the exam i took and yup the interview. i doubt i am gonna hear from them again.
well after that feeling a bit defeated i decided to go back to my boarding house to unpack my stuff and get some rest. I went home safe and i didnt get lost. just that the van i was riding didnt understand when i said "lugar lang". i said it like 3 times and he finally asked "bababa ka ba?".. :)
well that's about my first day here. tomorrow is another day hopefully by then i will learn how to speak tagalog fluently.
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