From 1st grade to 4th grade, I studied in a school very near my mother’s workplace. It was actually so far from where we live. I remember being fetched by the schoobus at 5am! The only reason my parents enrolled me to that school was I can stay (and play around) my mother’s workplace in the afternoon.

Then on 5th grade, my parents decided I should be enrolled to a school nearer to our house. Well, it’s the nearest “competitive” co-ed school, I guess. That was the time, my sister and brother started kindergarten and nursery, respectively. It would make sense enrolling us 3 in the same school.

Anyway, the transfer was abrupt. I had no chance to say goodbye to my few friends, 3 that I could remember. Just the other day, I was browsing my cousin’s Facebook (who studied and graduated from the same grade school) when I thought of checking her list of friends. One particular surname caught my eye. Is it possible that this girl is related to one friend that I’ve been looking for?

I saw a familiar name. Familiar ‘coz she sort of dropped her first name and is now using her second name. I added her hoping she’s the right person and that she still remembers me.

Yes it’s her! We exchanged messages. I suddenly felt old. (Wait, I know I don’t look old ‘coz I use the best wrinkle cream in the market. I just felt old.) I felt that yes I made some faults but chose to be responsible of the consequences and made the right decisions.

But guess what? I’m only halfway the journey! I say, bring it on!

I know – I am so delayed with the news! It seems that after gray, brown replaces black as the new black. I have seen a lot of stores with brown combinations and I am liking it. Even at weddings, it seems brown is often paired with other colors. I haven’t decided which color combination I like best – I need to have to get back to you on that one.

Mr. Sun suffered a huge setback last month. He was delayed by grey skies and thunderstorms.

Nevertheless, Mr. Sun is here and it’s time to hit the beach! I wonder if I will be able to plan a trip to the beach with the family. (And as I was writing this, rain started to pour – GREAT!) I just hope BG will enjoy the beach – she didn’t enjoy the pool very much when we were in Bohol. But Mommy will never stop trying, of course.

This is the last day of the week but first day of work for me. I was on leave Monday and Tuesday, and was on training Wednesday and Thursday. I guess I’m still not in my working mood.

Anyway, the training was boring. The only time I got interested was when the trainor told us (chismis) about this local company on the brink of getting behind its competitors. So what the company did was hire someone from abroad to clean up the corporate “mess”. The first thing that this person did was asked all employees to log everything they do every 15 minutes. So based on those logs, they fired everyone (regardless of tenure) with redundant or unimportant roles. This person will leave the country after a year or so. Geez, you travel to another country to fire people then go home. Coolest job huh?

Note: I think ABS-CBN has done this in the past.