New Year Ramblings

Happy Year of the Fire Rooster! I promised myself to blog, travel more this year and work less lol. I have been pretty tied up lately not because I was busy with the holiday season but it’s cuz I had to work on a Christmas day and so as last night, New Year’s eve. I know, I know, it sucks to be me. It’s actually the first in three years that I, inauspiciously had to spend two of the most important time of the year at work which eventually left me lamenting over it, the downside of working for the BPO industry. Does holiday even exist? Please tell me more about. 

Rants..

I hate to start the year with ample remorse and I promised myself this year to hopefully retire from the BPO industry because I want to live a normal life, sleep at night and most importantly spend the holidays with my family, I don’t wanna be the odd one out anymore. This industry eventually enslaves people and rob them out of their precious time with their loved ones. They boast about the bigger pay, yeah only because you have to give up a lot of things because they require your undivided time as if you’re no longer a human being who deserves to rest and spend time with everyone who matters to you. I don’t want to rant but the sleepless nights because you have to work, the countless hours of overtime and insurmountable stress, it’s just not worth it. 

Wanderlust...

Moving on, my always long term goal is to be able to save up and travel, always to travel, to work to fund my trips because this gives me joy and washes out my exhaustion brought about by work and urban living. I still haven’t decided though where to head off this year, maybe Bagan, Myanmar or Chiang Mai, Thailand? Who knows. 

Books, More books...

Late for the Noche Buena, opened
my presents alone and cold food
waiting for me when I came home. 

I want to collect and read more books this year. My sister had to ask for Lang Leav’s “Lulabbies” (for book collection purposes) this Christmas during their office ‘exchange gift’ thing (no matter how I think that the whole ‘monito monita’ thing just doesn’t make sense because you're compelled to ask something from someone who happened to pick your name written on a piece of paper, shuffled and shoved in a fish bowl or box and let them buy it for you. I mean, why not just buy it yourself to save other people from exerting effort in wrapping them yet you knew from the very beginning it is what you asked for in the first place right? That’s just really ridiculous but yeah, for the spirit  of Christmas lol). 

Ok, I should stop with my ramblings now, I still had a prosperous NYE nevertheless. It’s time to de-clutter, out with the old, on with the new. Again, Have a Happy & Bountiful New Year y’all! I’m hoping this year would be better than the last like I always say.

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xmas rants...

this past week wasn't good to me. i was so stumped at work and even during break time i'm still doing admin stuff and i hated that. i really need balance in my life right now. i'm a bit worried lately, my hair breaks pretty easily i guess due to stress and chemicals.  i also thought, maybe it's due to hair re-bonding since i had my hair re-bonded three times already and the recent was last month. so, i bought myself this hair treatment pack with keratin and promised to at least take some time caring for my hair /go for hot oil treatment whenever possible. maybe i just relied to much in salons to take care of my hair and i failed to do my fair share in caring for it as well.

i'm a bit feeling bad because i won't be able to go up north this christmas. as much as i would love to since i don't have work from christmas day up until the 28th of december because i just can't leave my sister behind since she has work after christmas. maybe, we'll just figure something better like watch movie or cook some pasta for noche buena. sob. i feel so sad about it. why does it have to be that way? my elder sister told me she loved my gift for her, this m&s' hand lotion since it's really cold where she's based and the weather makes her hand so dry. our niece baby gab also loved the clothes i bought for her and that the little fella screams every time she would take those clothes away from her! t'was funny, i really don't know if she already knows how to appreciate it or she thought it's a toy lol. it's hard to be home alone this christmas.

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