Post-it advices # 6

Shakey's, Pearl Drive

"When senses weaken, life has to end. Love doesn't." ♥

Post-it advices # 5

Grotto Vista, Bulacan

"When an impossible must happen, put it on God's to-do list."

You are beyond my imagination

My head has been filled with crazy, negative feelings lately and it was so ridiculous of me to pinpoint every shortcoming of yours. I still cannot decipher what level of sensitivity I have reached to the point of eyeing even the nonsense facts, marking them on my 'wrong move' list. Foolish.


Nevertheless, as faultfinder as I am, you need not to bribe me with sweets, flowers or any sort of fancy things because trust me, when we fight, it's not your puppy eyes or the sincerity in your apologies that soften my pained heart, but rather it's the fact that it doubles the pain to see you guilty of my charges. The fearless girl who always voices out any inhumane treatment or deed, a woman given the authority would jail criminals and bad politicians would not be of exemption - after all these traits of mine, I would never want to witness you feeling sorry for the things you unintentionally did - because I love you so much. And in times like these, even as mad as I was, remembering all the good and sweet things you are doing for me made me love you even more...

JUNE 2011

Thank you will never be enough but let me list down every single thing that the other girls will have the reason to be jealous of me, having you as the best boyfriend alive - in the whole, wide, world.

• Who would have thought that there are times when you arrive home, hungry and tired, you still choose to talk to me without even bothering removing your shoes first?
• Blessed is your mouth for saying how much you love me always, without the effort from me, forcing you to do it. 
• You don't have the slightest idea how much I appreciate you for staying up late just to talk with me till dawn on the phone, even at times you sounded so sleepy. You still try your best to hear me at my talkative hours.
• Waking up every morning, doing our daily texting routine, work break gaps every 9am, 12nn, 3pm until your dismissal. Squeezing our fifteen minutes, updating each other and feeling the excitement to talk again. Talk about missing you over and over.
• Coming before you when you pick me late from my work, even if I waited a minute or so, you'd still be hugged and kissed because I just wanted you to know how much it means to me how you struggle preparing straight from work just to be with me.
• And how in the world you don't have any vices? I don't have to be jealous of your time with your friends, school, work and others because you give me ALL your time, as if there's no time to sleep, eat, go to the rest room and stuff.
• You never fail to impress me with your dreams and goals in life, sometimes feeling jealous how I cannot be as ambitious as you.
• I like how you hold my hands, like blinking an eye would be the end of the world.
• No one ever made me this confident as you. Being with you makes me the prettiest girl on earth, as far as the animal kingdom and aliens and other out of this world creatures.
• The way you call me names feels like getting noticed by my first ever crush.
• You are so conscious about the way you look but Babe, you're the most handsome guy ever in and out, even with eyes closed, your words are handsome enough for me.
• I love how you can be so jealous like a kid. Just so you know, I love you so much - six feet under, below sea level. 
• What did you do with my Paps and bros? Why all of a sudden they let me go out and date? See, you are so charming. :)
• Kissing my hand means you respect me, the way a boy should respect her mom. And you just give me the right dose of respect a girl needs.
• Growing and learning with you had been the most fun compare to sitting in a classroom.
• You are the only person who I am in no doubt, will stick to a promise.
• Attending mass together feels like rehearsing for our wedding. 'Kiss be with you' as my favorite part.
• Singing for me even if you don't know the lyrics makes me want to jump off a cliff because of so much kilig...
• Promises of being together in the future, like forever really exists.
• Worrying a lot when I am silent for a reason we are both trying to identify. Hearing you say you love me is hundred times much better than hearing a sorry.
• Thank you for always telling me I'm beautiful, even at my most haggard, monster-looking days.
• When I am so tired, you have the right timing to behave, feeling my almost vegetable body like you are a hanger and I am a shirt.
• We never slept together, but your last words on the phone bring you around, hugging me from behind like you are Casper.
• Marrying me is your greatest dream. But no, marrying you is MY greatest dream.
• "I'm hungry Babe." And suddenly you want to deliver me food. Suggesting a pasta which you know I could not resist. Making me more hungry!
• I'm sleepy and the next thing I know you're sleepy too. We do things together even we're far from each other. Cool, isn't it?
• When it rains like this, you remember how I hate this kind of weather. Just the thought of you remembering how I fight the rain back makes me 'hey, that's so thoughtful of you.'
• You called me 'madre' once just because I don't wear too-revealing clothes but you delivered it as if it was a compliment. Thank you for always reminding me that I don't have to prove anything to anyone. 
• PDA for us means kissing me on the cheeks. Sometimes stealing a kiss on the lips.
• I know how much you love cars, especially that Mini Cooper dream of yours. Seeing how hard work you sweat makes me foresee cars on our garage, one for each of us including our pet dog.

*The list just goes on and on.

Jealous girls?

Let me continue this as we go through counting more months and years and decades. I might even write a book someday, telling the world how one person is close to being perfect. God, thank you. Maybe I've been good to deserve him. :)

Happy 7th month (440th day at present). When I say happy, think of exaggerating it. I love you baby. Stay the same. You are beyond my imagination. Thank you. And please, do not cry for God's sake. Hahaha! :D

Meet you at the altar. Soon!

Little goal

Part 2 of FAREWELL ADVERTISING

*A goal to a bigger goal

July 2011

   Surprisingly, when I had my first ever presentation, I did not feel nervous at all. Maybe one factor was that I was introduced to the client weeks before my big day so I had a glimpse of the atmosphere of the place and the aura of the big people I will soon face. Aside from that, my client was very soft-spoken so I am confident. In terms of preparation, it did not eat much of my time as I was expecting. The longer process of groundwork will come after the client has agreed to check my proposal and asked to send him samples and rates of our services. That is where the real challenge comes. And I can say that I had a hard time preparing the second proposal because I have yet to familiarize myself with provincial ad placement. I had to make a research first about their products' area of coverage outside Manila.

   The second time I presented was better. I am more confident. I tried as hard as I can to louder my voice, to make it seem like I know the ins and outs of my business with my client. And I think I succeeded enough to make my client stick his nose with my services. I made sure I highlighted their competitors (performance) to persuade him to place an ad. And he did later on.

   Now, I should get myself prepared if I encounter new and bigger clients. In time, it will be just like meeting friends with a little goal - the goal of getting their accounts. :)

Signed,
J.A.F.

Post-it advices # 4

Goldhill Tower Condominium

No matter how abstract your dreams are, it will still inspire you whenever you feel like giving up. C'mon, it's FREE!

How do you measure success then?

MY DILEMMA MONTHS AGO - I sort of figured out what I want to become. But before talking about that, let me just bore you with my struggle back then - in case you are one of those people who are still undecided on their career path. DILEMMA Part 1

Up to this point of my life where I assume that everything feels okay and almost perfect, I am still in dilemma about what road to take for my career path. I can do all sorts of wishy-washy things. In fact, I can stick my nose to whatever boring activity so long as there is a goal. On the contrary, I can also be as fast as a bullet when I want to quit. And there are also times that I may not go back to where I left. That’s how worst I am. And mind you, these are not decisions like what ribbon to wear tonight or whether I will have my Barbie shoes on or my glass slippers. It is not as easy as it seems. We are talking about MY FUTURE here!!! I wish I could just answer, “I want to be a doctor” when asked by somebody, or maybe a “Come what may” will do. Or best if I could just declare, “What future?” Hell no, of course.

There is so much to do with my life. I could just simply do my work, earn and do my usual routine everyday and then that’s it. To make it more exciting, I will meet friends in time, plan activities, shop, cook, love, curse – even daydream if I am too lazy to do real actions. Can be fulfilling for some. The problem is not that I cannot identify everything, in fact I can, but what really frustrates me is that I don’t know what to label “first,” “second,” “third,” and so on. Define priorities? How do you sort yours? By period of time you will be able to achieve it? By how you like this and that among others? By benefits of tomorrow? What? Alphabetically? A appears first and Z comes last? Nahhh.

The truth is, writing tops my list. I just don’t see any future with it. Conceptualize, compose, publish. And then wait. Then wait. And wait more. zzzZZZ... What will happen after that? But what does really matter to me? Sometimes, I wonder why I took a broad course, not knowing that there will come a time (like now) that I will be so overwhelmed with all of the opportunities waiting. If I took Engineering, my only dilemma will be what kind of engineer will I be. And the choices are countable.

How do you measure success then? Are we successful if we are getting paid for what we do? Can you also consider success being happy without any recognition to enjoy? Or by success, we mean to say we are both happy and fulfilled? If I list down all of my goals in life, will those be just frustrations to mourn once in a while? I fear the word REGRET.

What if, after I settle down with my career, I suddenly felt the urge to become a doctor? A fortune teller? Or a drag racer? Will that be too late for me?

Where’s Hogwarts? :p

Take it from me this time

Part 1 of FAREWELL ADVERTISING

*Since I will be changing career soon, I hope this would be of help to those people who want to pursue advertising.

June 2011

Working in an advertising company never crossed my head. Ever since I decided on my career path, I always see myself in print industry, which I expected to be more of a desk job – in short, stiff and boring. In my search of a first job that will hopefully suit my skills, I find it very interesting to be part of the creative world of advertising. I didn't imagine myself doing some sales talk with an open work schedule, meeting people now and then, but the picture of me handling both desk job and field work makes everything fulfilling to my part, especially we run a couple of print clients.

My first day had to do with numbers, and that’s the only time I enjoyed Math so much given the formula and calculator. It has been a much surprise to know how much a tiny ad can cost so much, wondering how a small-time business that wants to place an ad for exposure would survive without struggling for budget. Everything in advertising is risk-taking. How would one know if this ad will have a positive result? No one can really tell, unless your surname is Sy, Tan or Lopez. That’s given, they are our business tycoons. But how about those who are just starting? How on earth would they guarantee staying in the industry?

What traits do you have to possess to be able to endure this kind of job? Or maybe, stay long? In my week of experience, it is very unlikely of me to be comfortable with facing different kinds of people, especially the professionals. What do I have to be confident? Nothing for now. But I find myself prepared everyday to face people, even speak to them. I can also see myself doing my supervisor’s job. With that, I've summarized every single thing I’ve learned from my first week at work:

• The key rule is patience. If I can hold my annoyance over a client, I can definitely be successful closing a deal.
• Time management. Everyday, I am expecting loads of work and there are things that will require a lot of time. Creating a schedule will be a big help, especially if you can monitor everything you need to work on.
• Multi-tasking. In line with time management is being able to do several things at the same time. If I can text while surfing the net, I can surely do a paper work and a phone call not exactly at the same time but within the same hour.
• Presence of mind. Surely I’ll have late night's sleep but keeping everything on focus will help me survive a day, with flying colors.
• Writing down everything. Man is intelligent and has the power to remember things which we store in our memory but it can also fail us. Taking down notes will help you remember things which your mind cannot and will let you know how much work awaits you if you just relax and relax, not work.
• Attendance. Impression can last. Not showing up will absolutely makes someone tag you with a “no-show man.”
• Sticking to schedules. That’s why they are called schedules. You have to meet them. Deadlines are as important as attendance. Failure to submit a requirement can ruin everything in your career, especially your relationship with people. You can even lose your job.
• A yes-man. But also learning when you can say no, no matter what. Honesty is still the best policy.
• On-going process of learning. You don’t know everything, questions will pop everytime, everywhere without you realizing it. Ask and learn continuously.
• Good relationship with people. Some can pull you down but they might also be a helping hand.
• Do your job well. And make sure you love it.
• Embrace opportunities. You can never tell.
• Take note of your seniors’ advices. They know better than you with ages of experience.
• Pray always. Nothing will do better without His guidance.

*These are only half of the things I need to know. The other half will be theories and principles, and those are yet to be learned and found out.

In this field of work, I realize a very important thing that the big companies do not know: You don’t need to hire a person from the top schools in the country. Not all advertising people came from prominent schools, but I cannot deny the fact that it is an advantage. I myself came from a really good school but it is nothing compared to the top universities which are intimidating to me. This job does not require a high intelligence quotient. I am just an average student and my achievements are just a point something of those of a magna cum laude, or even nothing compared to his. But one point in my life, I experienced being on both ends, up and down. And maybe, it will put me to success with so much practice and practice. In one way or another, even the greatest people started from humble beginnings, failed and improved. I am still in the process of learning. I can still fail. I have yet to discover many things. And there’s always room for improvement.

Signed.
J.A.F.