May 17, 2024

It was surprising that we went in for a call fairly early today at around 12:03 a.m. We talked about a few things, mainly K-Pop and I got to show them this very funny video of Tiffany saying that she lost her shit, and cried, and went straight back to work. They found it extremely funny and they seemed to find it very funny. I mostly stayed up with them, playing horror videos from Sapphire Sandalo and Rob Gavagan in the background. Since it had been a while, I also treated them for food tonight as well. I got them that banana bread they've been craving for, and I ordered a burger, fries, and nuggets from Burger King. We ate while watching scary videos from those 2 creators. Eventually, we moved on to talking about K-Pop again and we looked at the horrible Tell Me performance in Universe Ticket. We laughed at how cringe it was and how horrible Vanesya spilled her lines. Then we watched ALL of the group performances from Universe Ticket. It actually lasted a long time and we were just singing along to the songs, seeing the performance, while they were doing other things in the background. I was just eating in the background and I haven't finished most of my food when I notice that it was already 5 a.m., around 5:30 a.m. to be exact. Anyway, I made a plan with someone for us to go to the event today sharing the same Grab car so I had to wake up early. It made sense since it was a car going from the south to the north and the destination was around northwest from our areas. So I had to wake up very early to prepare and I only had an hour or so of sleep. I disconnected from the call sometime around 5:30 and tried my best to sleep. When I woke up, it was around 7 a.m. and I noticed that someone sent an aespa video for me to watch. I replied to it, took a bath, and got my prep done. I called someone and we both got our morning started. Our morning took a while to complete and for us to leave our respective houses. Thankfully, booking for a ride wasn't that difficult, even though we were late. She got in the car first and then it stopped over my place. While preparing, I used the wrong cologne for my outfit and, in my infinite wisdom, I decided to douse my correct cologne all over my shirt. This resulted in me having an extremely strong and chemically-smelling outfit that even I had a hard time breathing out of. When I met her in the car, the first thing I wanted to do was laugh and apologize over it. We got to talk for a bit, about various things like how the roads were like in my village, and so on. She also asked me if I had eaten breakfast yet and she showed me the banana bread from this morning. We eventually got comfortable and I opened up a lot more, and even apologized about the extreme perfume smell. Our banter and conversation quickly turned out to be like how we would talk normally and it was a good start to the morning. We got to the building at around 10 a.m., an hour late from the initial meetup time and I was doing the Catallena "hoi hoi hoi" dance while walking there, which she found weird but nothing unexpected. We met up with a coworker while signing in to the building and we got up and then split up to greet our coworkers. I caught up with my batch mates in the company, those who have been here for 5 years with me, and we joke about random things. I was getting started on work as well and accomplished a few tasks. Additionally, I helped some of the new recruits who took over my old tasks and solved one of their problems. It kind of surprised me because I seemed experienced in that moment, and I never expected myself to get to this part of my career where I would be the one giving advice as a competent person, instead of the one asking for advice/help. I got back to my workstation after chatting with a few people, and then looked over my tasks for the day. Once I was done, I was talking to a few of my friends about macOS, my websites, and helping Nicole reformat her MacBook. I noticed someone was talking amongst our coworkers behind me and I joined in on the conversation. Our group talked about various things like Xyrk's folding phone, the various places in Cavite and Divisoria, Francis making jokes about Justin, and I was even made fun of because we were talking about alcohol for next week's company outing and I asked Sir Ernest if he could bring binatog along. They all sat in silence and then wondered why I brought up binatog when I was supposed to say lambanog. I rarely ever felt embarrassment but this one was a rare exception. Still, I'm glad to have a fun conversation like that and we all eventually dispersed. After a while, all of us attending were called into a section of the place for some announcement and some games. Some new hires were introduced to the whole company. I sat next to Pat from the creatives team and she noticed that I had an Omnitrix design on my watch face, and she found it so cool. I eventually showed her the Omnitrix app on the watch and she was so amazed by it. we played a few rounds of a game what was like "Telephone" but with actions. In my group's turn, I was the one who was tasked to figure out and I got 0 out of 2 guesses right. Dang, but we had lunch thereafter and I ate alongside my friends. I wanted to get water because I was kind of choking on my food, I felt it really get stuck in my throat and I was just holding it. Someone accompanied me to get water and since she didn't have a mug, I cleaned one that was lying around and gave it to her. After a while, someone gave me her spare food and I ate it throughout the course of the day. Our meals were from Kenny Rogers Roasters so it was pretty delicious. Once lunch ended, we returned to our tasks and I helped Nicole with her EndeavourOS installation. I socialized for a bit more, helped the new guys with some of my old support tasks and whatnot. Then we get called as the day was ending for some company announcements and updates. It seemed all good and we were able to take a group photo by the end. As the event was ending, it rained a lot. Someone and I had originally planned to book a ride home, and we tagged in Nicole along with us since she was going south as well. We tried for hours to book, but didn't really get a ride home. While waiting, Nicole, someone, Francis, and I were just sitting and I exclaimed that this was just a horrible storm for traffic: Friday, raining heavily, rush hour, and I threw in a joke that it was Mercury's retrograde or something. The other people I sat with, plus Torre who later joined, talked about astrology and other stuff in the background while I was just surprised at what had happened because of some lame joke I thought of. Since we couldn't get a ride, we just went downstairs so someone can get a drink at a Lawson Convenience Store. We waited for a loonggg time, I gave someone and Nicole ice cream. But we were all tired and drained, so we just had to abandon the idea of booking a Grab car home and book on our own. Someone went home first. I just walked until SM Megamall for whatever reason and fortunately found a ride there. It had been raining really heavily, but I didn't care since I was on the way home. Thankfully, I was able to get home safe. I got home and messaged a few of my friends and watched funny videos to de-stress and relax. Max, Meryll, I, and a few others had plans to meet up very early tomorrow for our Binondo food trip adventure, but it was just cancelled because Max went home really late and we were all equally exhausted from today's event.