2016 - Part 01, episode 02

Where'd I left ya?

Okay, got it.

So yeah. The kid is into a lot of trouble like in a deep foxhole. He's talking weird stuff and really was out of it. This is definitely something to cause some serious concern.. especially for me. Why? Well, I did have a brother who got hooked into drugs, got crazy and all and now he's lost a few turns on that part in between his ears. I have to park that story for some other post cos it's kinda long and I still have a long way to go to finish this bangin' yearender, eh?

So, after just a few pop of those meds the doc gave him, he declined to take s'more. It's got some awful side effects on him. I can only imagine his sufferings.

But.. too make this long story short, days and months passed by and the boy recovered. Not only was he able to recover physically and mentally, but best of all, spiritually. He just went 180 degrees!

He does all things differently now. Miracles do happen.

I thank the good Lord above for all that he's done for him.

So now, the other highlight of this year was my untimely departure from my day job. Yep. I've written a few stories of that in here and in fact is the single biggest reason why I started this blog.

I was working for the company from October 1999 to August this year. 16 long years. Prior to that, I was working for another company with the same owner for almost two years.

Basically, I was doing too well and resting comfortably in my laurels... that was until some guys and gals from the higher ups took it upon themselves to jolt me in my comfy seat and did an ops on me the nasty, nasty way.

It's like a power grab. They wanted to change the way things are run by me but they had to do it in a backstabbing way. So, like a rat caught in a tight and slippery rope, I bailed out, pronto!

Well, it didn't end well for me and the company. But like any other company, they will continue to thrive and prosper even in my untimely departure. Four months later and I'm still on recovery mode. I still have some hate and misgivings. I had my moments of depression to battle with. So, basically, I'm not out of the woods yet. But... I have to move on. Life goes on and it will continue to go on because more than anything else, there's a higher purpose for all of these. I can't afFord to just sit around and wait for dole-outs.

Later on, I went out and applied for some call center job. I got into three companies in just four months... imagine that!

The first one, I didn't last a week. Graveyard shift sucks. It was setting appointments for some solar company. Selling to be precise. Second one, I applied for a chat support position but got into a customer service representative. Again, graveyard and worst, the training was just going soooo fast! I was having a hard time absorbing the lessons to be learned especially on how to navigate the system. Lasted for a week. Not bad, eh?

Third and lastly, it's for an Australian account. It looks like I've found THE ONE. Training was great. The trainer was very good and the vibes was great. Best of all, it's dayshift!

Finally, I was devirginized!!! To getting calls, that is.

However, I could not imagine myself doing that job for 8 long hours! No, No, No!

Sitting there and taking calls made me feel like a sitting duck. There's a lot of things I can do and I'm there getting pounded one call after another. The calls kept coming in. They call it - queuing.

In hindsight, I kinda regret quitting that job. I should have soldered on and take all the poundings, at least for a few months. It would have been great for my character.. to make me better and stronger as a person. That one was a good month and a half of work.

Anyway, I have some great ideas that I hope I can launch in 2017. I'm just finalizing everything and getting it in order.

2016 was really an eventful year. I can't feel bad about it. What doesn't kill you only makes you better, right?

So, next year, I aim to better myself, my family and my relationship with the good Lord above. Of course, to my friends and associates as well.

Whew! It's done, homies!

2016 - Part 01

Yeah, 2016. What a year it is!

So many things has happened.. I've lost count of 'em all. Well, let me count the ways..

My son got into a lot of trouble in school early this year. He had a girlfriend whose really into him. I mean, not to brag, but the dude is quiet a looker. So much so that his girlfriend would come by the house and they'd spend hours in his room 'praying'. So, that, got him in trouble because he's not going to school anymore and he's spending most of his time with this girlfriend of his. And, my siblings who volunteered to spend for his education because they want him so badly to be a physical therapist, are very, very disappointed. That course, by the way,  is steeply expensive.

Then, as if it wasn't enough that he screwed up his education, he got into drugs. Yeah, the kind that could get you killed these days? that's that. Well, his pals were scions of some wealthy family and they kinda like him and then one thing led to another and before we knew it, voila! He's hooked!

From then on it was all downhill. Her mother, with her maternal instinct, caught him red handed a few times sniffing that maryjane thingy. I was more lenient. We often see it in the movies, right? Kids getting high and all that. We're cool cos we're IN.

Wifey was paranoid and she kept bugging me and I wind up giving my son that lecture that merely goes between his ears. What can I say? I was busy doing my thing earning all that molah we all strive for in our lives. Ya know, security and stuff.

Then, one day, when I thought "what's the worst thing that could happen, eh?" Yep, the worse is yet to come, hombre!

Well, as it turn out, while he promised to stay clean from that day on when we had a father-and-son talk, he was hanging by the rooftop of our house while sniffing that cannabis thingy and he was getting out of his mind!! Boy, I'm soooo @##%$^^%!!

Again, wifey to the rescue. Since I'm more of the passive kinda poppa, she was really on to something. And so, I went up to check on him. Positive. He is weird. He did a lot of writings. On the paper and on the walls. It's pretty amazing really, what he did. I didn't know my son had some depth in him.

So, we went to have him checked to some psych doc. He was given some sleeping pills and something to calm his mind. I mean, he was too alert and kept talking about out-of-this-world stuff.

Days went by. The medication he was having was quiet a struggle for all of us. His face changed whenever he popped that pill he was given with. Some kinda muscle deformity happens when he's on it. He slept like a baby but it seem like he was making faces. It didn't help that we were scheduled to have some out of town trip with my close pals and we had to make excuses why he looked like a horse... that thing the horse's do with their mouth - get the picture??

Anyway... I have to cut this story short cos it's reeeaaalllyyyy gone too long. Four days more to go and this story will be a wrap. Should be able to cover all of 'em 2016 highlights, eh?!

Part 01, episode two coming up next....