An Agreement

January 30, 2010

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I was scribbling different ideas in my mind on how the game would be like. It was very obvious that Omni was using his marketing technique on me or rather a psychological thing. He was like.. setting my mind that I could win the game and I should never forget his name, that I should never forget a gay like him. Like, I should give something back to him if I happen to be the winner. Duh. What really made me laugh was the people in their office. They kept on telling me that I look so pretty, that I look like 18 despite the fact that I’m already 22, that I look like an actress and all kinds of praises. Oh yeah right. They were trying to make me feel nice. Go work your lies to your grandmother! They were trying to flatter me.

I thought the presentation would be quick. My 45 minutes started when I was inside their room. I felt like I stayed there forever! The presentation of their SC – Like I care what it means – bored me! I was actually telling lies because I know where it would lead me: invest on something that they would offer after the presentation. So much talk. Blah blah blah… I wasn’t listening anymore…blah blah blah…. all I wanted is to get it done as soon as possible. Blah blah blah… I wanted to waste the agent’s time that’s why I stayed. There was something evil on me too that time. I agreed on some of the agent’s questions, etc, etc. I thought I would get away with it, but unexpectedly, when Bruha (not the agent’s real name) asked me to sign an agreement that I’m allowing them to use my debit card, I was suddenly awake! What the heck? What are you talking about?! I shouted at my mind. Where did this nonsense had gone, huh? And to think, Bruha wanted me to write P9,800++ cash on the agreement. This made me mad!

Why would I give you that amount of money? What is this? A scam?! I thought I would only play a game?!

To make myself safe from my lies, I told her, maybe I should ask my mother first before signing any agreement. I was still kind to her! If I’m not the Carol I knew, if I am a different person, I would just walk  away and probably said something bad at her because they were trying to get my money.

I really hate that moment! She was so eager to let me sign the agreement because she assured me, my debit card would be declined if they would try to use it because I only have P3,000 credit limit (which is one of the lies I told her). She told me something about a documentation. Signing the agreement would only be for their documentation. I really couldn’t make my self agreement with her because we are already talking about money. She even volunteered to check my available balance to make sure I only have 3,000. Ok. I agreed. I used the moment to think of more excuses. When she came back, I told her I’m so sorry I will not sign anything. I didn’t want to spend any money. Of course, she knew how much my available balance was, so I just acted like I didn’t know it climbed up.

I really told her I would not sign anything, but when she showed me a flyer about a Medical Card, I got an idea to avail it if that would be my escape in that room. I wasn’t listening to her at all before she started offering me this. I was so stupid, right? And it was pretty annoying too! After I signed up for their so called Medical Card, Ms. Bruha announced to everybody that I was the newest member. Every body approached me and shook my hands! Congratulations! Congratulations! Duhh!! Congrats your face!… (Haha! Ok. I’m already being rude here.) ^^

The Medical Card only cost, P385. What a sweet escape! >:(

The Bruha showed me how to use it of course. It’s only like a reimbursement for the medical expenses of my beneficiary.

I am not closing my mind for these kinds but please, oh please people. Why do you have to push others if they don’t want to buy your stuff? Omni told me he will have a commission because he had me sent to their office. So, they earned an amount of money that instant! I don’t like this business. I WILL not like this business at all. I wonder how many people they had tried to fool.

I got my gift afterwards, at last! They let me choose from a wall clock, a big blue bag and an inflatable pillow. I choose the pillow.

I also get to participate to the raffle draw (for the $10,000 cash only, not for the car).  I dropped the two coupons that they gave me on the drop box in their reception room. Once again, the agents told me, one of their guys had a crush on me. Come on guys, THE GAME IS OVER! You don’t have to tell that to me now! You got want you wanted!

So, that’s how it’s going to be if you will encounter and let your self be fooled by them. They’ll tell you:

  • You can win the stuff that they’ll present
  • You have a free gift

but before you can have those, you’ll have to buy something from them first. What a slick business.

I was really mad. I was holding the pillow that they gave me. It was like, I bought the pillow for P385. I wouldn’t stand to see it sitting on my bed after what happened. So, I intentional left the pillow on the tricycle seat on my way home. I don’t need your Pillow.

>:(

Hi Miss! Do you have a Credit Card?

January 30, 2010

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I hate them! I also hate myself because I allowed them to fool me!

It was one of those afternoon weekdays when I decided to go to a mall to check out a shop that makes invitations. My visit to the shop was pretty short actually. The time I spent on the way was the longest. My travel time wouldn’t be long if I wasn’t stuck in a traffic. In any ways, that was my main reason for visiting the mall, to check out Card Prints‘, the invitation maker, samples. It only lasted for few minutes. I only had few questions to the store person about their rates, also if they would give us a discount if the invitation’s layout will be from us, etc and etc. I couldn’t finalize everything yet because we still have to make sure of our guests list plus the opinion of my one person. So, I asked for their contact details and we’ll call them if everything is set.

Here I gone now. I wondered what to do after that. It was too early to go home and I was still tired to travel again. I thought of checking out the new clothes in the department store, check out the price of a computer headset and finally, I thought of buying something to eat on my way home. I wasn’t enjoying anymore. There was nothing much to do in the mall because I already shopped for my new sandals and some small stuffs the other week.. plus, also the fact that I was alone in the moment. So, the best option was to go home and relax… or maybe surf the internet afterwards. ^^

“Hi Miss! I just want to ask a question, do you have a credit card?,” asked a man as I pass a scattered group of people who dressed formally. I know, I know. We usually avoid these kind of people in the mall because for sure, they’ll offer you something to buy or..something to avail.. or whatsoever.

You know what? I just suddenly found myself sitting on their space’s desk discussing about a cash price and a car that they would give away in a game! From what I can recall, they told me, they have a gift for me because I am a credit card holder and that they we’re really glad about it. Now, I was so eager to play the game that one of them were discussing me about. I would just name this person as Omni — I will still be kind to the persons and the company I met and knew. I will not reveal their real names or identity as the primary purpose of this blog write-up  is to share what I experienced and not to show any disruption. — Before Omni lead me to their office on the far end of the mall’s east wing, he reminded that I should attend their company introduction first and he was only giving me 45 minutes to play.

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Hints of the Changes

January 17, 2010

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Just like what I said in my previous posts, there are new things about yours truly. First of, I changed my theme! It was from a fence with green grass theme to a clean newspaper like one – a free theme from wordpress. Second change: Something that I still can’t talk to you about, but sure is making me happy. Third change: a thing that makes me practice and apply what I’ve learned over the year.

To be continued!

- Carol

Happiest Person

December 24, 2009

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Tears roll down my eyes as I look at the picture of couples dressed in their best.. Gowns, Coat and Tie. I wonder if some of them tend to cry as they walk down the red carpeted aisle..

The pictures were so inspiring. I never dreamed of something like it but, y’know, you can only be married once and it’s not bad to dream of something magical on your wedding day..

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL NEWLY WEDS! ^^

-Carol

See the pictures

Start of Something New

November 30, 2009

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I’ve been busy for the past few weeks. Seems like I will never have a new blog post unless I compose it at midnight.

It has been a great week, i think. :)

There surely is a start of something new in my story. I will tell you about these when I get a chance to sit for a while in front of my PC. I have a lot to share with you, I promise. :)

Act on it Kid!

November 12, 2009

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It’s been a while since I had a new post. It’s actually 12:50 AM as I write this. I just want to take notes of the stuff that I want to do… what I want to experience with regards to Web Development..

Do you also had a feeling that you want to do different stuff all at once? Gosh, I’m still young. I still have time to study all of it, but when a certain situation consistently demands that I need to know those, I’m already alarmed. I know this post might sound confusing.. Don’t know what my point really is.. All I wanna do know is to be a super genius girl… or to be  a Ms. Know-it-All at selected times.. I.. guess I’ll continue this post some other time.. Sounds crap right?

I’ll sign off today.. and.. try to act on those things ahead as fast as possible… As in… lightning speed fast!! (devil smiley) hehe.

Pinoy Big Brother Audition: First Judgement

October 19, 2009

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“Who was the last person you  spoke with last night?,” was the question one of the directors asked. Oh gosh, it was different. “Ok. That’s easy,” I thought to myself.

The microphone was passed on to the guy at right of the line and told them his answer. The next one to answer was Mhel, the guy which I was really comfortable conversing with in our line earlier. He told the directors that the last person he spoke with was his mother. They talked about his future, the things they like to achieve, etc, etc. I can’t really remember the rest of his answer.

When it was turn, I told them the last person I spoke with was Jesus (I know some can’t consider him a person ‘coz he’s a God), but I still decided to continue. I told him about me, participating in this audition. “If it’s not for me, it would be fine. No hard feelings,” with a matching smile on my face. :)  While I was answering their question, I noticed the director who asked the question continuously nodded his head as if he wanted me to finish my statement fast! I guess I told them so much that they wanted me to shut up and let the next one answer. By that time,  I thanked them and passed the mic on guy next to me.

It was.. weird. Haha. I felt weird. Why didn’t I just told them who it was and be done with it. So, all of us on the stage answered like that: Told them who and explained what was the topic of the conversation.

After waiting for the last participant to finish, I looked at the papers around the directors. It was our application forms. Bundles of ‘em. They looked at our picture while we answered their question. I also noticed direct Loren Dyogi standing behind the other two directors, crossed arms. He was wearing a blue jacket. Few staffs of the reality show also wore jackets. I wondered why. It wasn’t cold.

So, the last guy in our batch was finished. We stood there after few seconds and the director who asked the question thanked us for participating. We went down the stage and proceeded to the exit where a Security Guard was standing. We waited for their Queue on what should we do next.

The guard looked at a person behind us and nodded his head. After that, he asked us to remove our numbers (It was a yellow neon colored sticker that we put on our shirts which we also had to carry around even during lunch time).  That made us wonder. Was it over?

Yes. We think it was over because while we waited in our seats behind the division of the stage, we saw random people go out with their numbers on, smiling, happy. We guessed they got to the next level. Congratulations!

We are not sure but we still have unanswered questions in our minds. Will they call us for another audition? Hmm.. We didn’t think so. This was like a one-day-hiring process like most of the call centers. Even though, I felt good. At least I tried! I didn’t lost anything.

I walked out of the ladies room to meet my boyfriend. It was really funny, I almost laugh out loud! What an experience.

He led me to the mall’s exit and we waved goodbye to the mall. Goodbye SM…

Goodbye PBB.. :)

Pinoy Big Brother Audition: Participants

September 14, 2009

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The line of participants grew longer as time goes by. I couldn’t make my self not to think of what would happen if I reached the end of the it. Questions like, will they ask what my talent is? Should I speak english when asked so they would be impressed? Will the audition be in a room or on a stage in front of the public’s speculating eye? I’m glad my boyfriend was with me, that I had someone to talk to. He never left me until the line were moved to the mall’s west wing. He went inside to relax a little since he had been standing for few hours. I insisted to stay in the line.

The great thing about this event was I got to meet new friends which had the same hope as did: to be a housemate. We even wished all of us would be accepted so it won’t be too hard to adjust inside the Pinoy Big Brother house. We chatted while we waited, exchanged thoughts on why we wanted to join, etc.

Finally, around 12 or 1 pm, we made it to the mall’s 3rd floor where the stage was fixated. We all started to get really, really, really nervous when it was our turn to climb up.  There was a camera man taking each participants’ head shots which was displayed on the screen in front of three directors. We listened carefully to their question. It was about the Broadband issue way back that year. We also tried to answer that to our selves but I couldn’t find mine! I wasn’t aware of what was happening with the world. Haha. I told my self, if that same question would be asked, I’ll tell them honestly what I know. ZEro.

Again, we were all nervous. Conscious enough about the way we look. This was it. Judgement time!

New Domain

September 13, 2009

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Ok. I can’t wait for the colorfulstories.com backorder to be successful so I registered a new domain instead. hercolofulstories.com will be my temporary domain name for a year because colorfulstories.com will be available (hopefully) by next year, May 2010. I actually didn’t want the new domain, hercolorfulstories.com bacause it sounds like I own every stories or every posts in this blog. It’s like they are my stories, only focused on me. That’s not what I want for this blog.. I shouldn’t have choosen the domain in the first place. Anyways, I’m not in a hurry. Next step I need to do is to host this blog somewhere. GoDaddy I guess? But.. I can’t do it now. I guess I used up all my credit balance. Haha!

Thanks for the comments on My Own Domain, Own Blog Design and Own Feelings. I will definitely change the way my blog looks once I get all things in place. Will also make it SEO Friendly blog by next year once I get that colorfulstories.com domain. I’m not in a hurry. I have my whole life to work on this project. Haha.

:)

My Own Domain, Own Blog Design and Own Feelings

September 12, 2009

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I backordered colorfulstories.com from GoDaddy.com today. Hope it will be successful! I have lots of plans for my blog. I want it to have my own design.. You know, manage everything, make it pass the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) standards, be able to include music in my posts, videos, etc.

While I was studying on how to have my own website, I came across WordPress Fortunes. It is a site that offers a step-by-step blogging tutorials for beginners. It was interesting. It promises members that they would be a WordPress Master in 3 Days. Check-out its dedicated page for information if you’re quite curious: WordPress Fortunes Information. As you read through that information, you’ll feel a certain urge to sign-up because of the promising videos and tools that they would present. This isn’t free of cost! You need to be a member and give out $47. Too bad. I think this isn’t the right time for me to spend that money yet. I’ll wait for my back order to be successfull first so I can change this blog’s domain. No .wordpress anymore.. ^^

Ok. I’ll make this post short. Need to study how to set-up a subdomain for my boss. (sigh) But y’know what, before I end this, I want to get this feeling out of me. I’m the acting webmaster in my current work but I feel useless sometimes. I need to know lots of things to be successfull in this field! Like for example, we are using Umbraco as our websites’ back-end but its installation isn’t clear to me yet. I hope I was oriented on how to start it at first, but I guess I need to study this on my own. My first boss, which is the Director and like our IT Manager at the same time, is very busy to teach me. So now, my other boss, wanted me to get things done on my own rather than having my first boss there all the time. I know he was right. I always felt his disappointment or distatisfaction everytime I had tasks from him which wasn’t done the soonest time possible. It was my bad. Yesterday, he, my second boss, gave me a little pep talk about this learn-on-your-own thing. He gave me an assignment this weekend about setting-up a subdomain. How can I do that? Would it be connected with changing a settings in Umbraco? Would I need to access our server? I already know the answer:  START STUDYING.

Pinoy Big Brother Audition: Preparation and Venue

September 5, 2009

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I was already informed before ABS-CBN aired the audition for Pinoy Big Brother Season 3 in the television. I searched its schedule over the Internet. I asked my parents’ permission if I can join the said reality show and they gladly agreed. They said, they’ll get to see my attitudes and behaviors towards other people, etc, etc. Though I can’t really say if they were excited for me, yet they supported me. “Go if you like to go. No prob.” :)

I didn’t prepare much before the audition. I know some people did. I just went to a photo studio and had my portrait and whole body shot, got all the necessary requirements like photocopy of birth certificate, brown envelop and a pen (the most important thing).

The audition was held in SM Sucat so I really needed someone who can be with me. I was not familiar in Sucat so I had to tag my boyfriend along. As we got off the jeepney, we immediately saw a line starting to build up in-front of the mall. “Whoa,” was my immediate response. At that early time, 7am, I was number 1500++ participant. I wonder what time did those aspiring “housemates” came. So much people was there. We couldn’t find which was the end of the line. It was good enough to see an Event Marshal watching out for people like us. He told us to get a form and fall in the line in-front of  a long table near the mall’s main entrance.

Pinoy Big Brother Audition

September 4, 2009

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PBB3I really laugh each time I remember this! It was, I think, year 2007 when I tried to audition for Pinoy Big Brother (PBB) Season 3. My boyfriend and I were in the venue early in the morning and got to the end of the line almost late in the afternoon. I can’t remember the exact time I was done though. That was really an unforgettable experience. Please don’t expect anything! I never get in.  I don’t have the X-Factor that each actress, models or the public icon people have. :) I just tried my luck.

Before the audition date came in, I told my family not to spoil it to anybody. I didn’t wanted anyone know about me trying to take the first step of the Pinoy Big Brother competition. I’m just over with it that’s why you’re reading this post now…

Pinoy Big Brother: Double Up (or the Season 3) will be aired in the Philippines on October 4, 2009, Sunday. I’m excited to see the new house mates. I might recognize one of them. :)