The Decisions

After several weeks, I finally was able to post my first journal entry for this new year. This will be the first of what would be my frequent diary-style writing which unlike my previous blogs has a more personal, loose style of telling events and emotions. And guess where I am posting now? I decided to move my blogging from Friendster to Blogspot though I promise to make my blogs more entertaining yet remain very opinionated like what my past posts have been. I hope you like it.

END & BEGIN. The first two weeks of January have been very hectic and strenuous for me. Expecting the roll-off (end of engagement) from the ACCS project, I got to train our replacement for more than a week. Their ages are enough for them to be my mom and dad honestly. However, they are really nice people especially Sir Charlie and Ms. Kakai who even treated me lunch on my last Thursday and Friday, in the project. As of the time being, I am back at bench waiting for my next project assignment and I can only hope that the next one to be something better and to keep me longer (not that I was terminated or something but project engagements have predetermined roll-in and roll-off dates).

OLD & NEW. Finally had my hair color done at a local salon last January 7 (it probably is starting to fade by the time you’re reading this). It took about three grueling hours to get the treatment done and I have very little complaints since the result was good. My hair is now dark brown but when the light hits it, the color tends to look lighter (thank God not purple!). First time to have done this because normally since I started noticing gray highlights on my hair, I’ll buy a kit and let my mom do the trick for me. It’s like 50% cheaper done that way but trying salon-made hair color is better of course.

YES & NO. Just last week, I went to Ideal Vision to get a new pair of multi-coated eyeglasses which I long have planned to get with the confidence that the payment would be reimbursable in our company’s medical allowance. It took me a lot of time to decide which frame would suit me. 24 hours later I got my new eyeglasses, brought it home only to realize that maybe this is not what I wanted. I’d still prefer my single-coated glasses I’ve had since college when I am home and contacts when I go out.

COME & LEAVE. I went to Mark Jeff’s birthday bash in Tanza last January 13, joined by cousin Sheena and Jhing. At first I thought of not coming, but upon considering that I never been out of the house since the 2007 began, I gave it a try. Besides, it was just really nice of Mark Jeff to invite us despite that we don’t get to see and hang-out with him that often. Upon coming I got quite confused if it was Mark’s birthday I was in or his Dad’s because majority of the visitors are perhaps his father’s classmates in elementary. For a while, I also thought he invited us for New Year’s Eve party since there were quite a few distracting fireworks or maybe not, just leftovers from New Year’s celebration. Left the party early, it was an okay night. I got to eat prawns and satisfy my booze craving, I got to hang-out with my cousin Sheena and her new N70 phone, and we ride a scooter with Jess, who I haven’t seen in a long time.

ENTER & EXIT. On January 19, I was rushing to the rest room in Glorietta 4 for a quick mirror check before meeting my friend Sarita for dinner. A man turned his face away from the mirror after checking is look, and I suddenly recognized him and before I could say a word, he exited the rest room, leaving me in front of the mirror thinking to myself… OMG, it’s a small world indeed. I last saw this person stranded in September and I’m still not gonna give any name this time.

Sometimes decision-making is not in our hands and it leaves us with no choice but to just accept it and move on. But whenever we get a chance to decide for ourselves, in the end, we either find satisfaction or regret with the decision we made. We get another chance, and before we could decide to take that chance or not, it slipped away once more. Then, we realize that this is only the beginning of the many decisions we have to make this new year.