Brain Wave

4/9/2007, monday

it’s my off from work.  well, i should have gone somewhere this day… grrrrrr……

4/10/2007, tuesday

got to watch "stomp the yard" @ greenbelt with direq niel, darren, and sarah.  i really wanted to watch this film but didn’t know when it was to be shown.  good thing we’re scheduled to have a mtg that night @ koine admin for the scholars’ workshops - then direq invited us to watch and have our mtg @ greenbelt instead… haha — because we’re running late for the movie sched, we watched first then had our dinner/mtg at around 12mn @ Bubba Gump.  kewl! :Þ  as always, I LEARNED A LOT that night… how koine started out, the lives of each remarkable scholars, their mis/adventures in the mission stations, the life of Trankilyo (i hope i spelled that right), the breakdance grooves: clowning and crumping, and i should try to watch anime…hehe and so much more!  i definitely had a blast that night.

4/11/2007, wednesday

oh what a day. i got a call from an agency who happened to see my resume at some job website.  i was asked to come to their office for an interview at noon the next day for a nutritionist position for a fitness company abroad.  OMG! is this for real?  i discussed this among my team - expectedly, they pushed me to go to the interview.  my gulay, i will be absent for Nth time!  no more paid leaves for the first quarter for me… hay… wat a hay, there’s no harm in trying… the agency was asking for RND referrals so i sent them RND’s i know who might be interested.

4/12/2007, thursday

this is it! i am absent for the interview.  i met my friend dang (whom i’ve worked with in Nestle Wellness) at r.galeria then we went straight to the agency which is situated beside her office’s building — she didn’t come to work either so she was covering her face with her hair while we were crossing the street. haha!

the interview was supposed to start at 1pm, we were asked to come at 12nn for the exam briefing.  at 1pm, the interview hasn’t started yet.  there were 10 RND’s for interview that day, plus me… so that makes us 11.   since the interviewer hasn’t arrived yet, we had our (quite heavier than board) exams first together with the PTRP’s who were also invited for interview for Personal Trainer position.  at 2pm, we’re done with our exams. still, the interviewer’s not in yet.  she came in around 3pm…finally!!! i was 2nd to the last to be interviewed — when it was my turn, the interviewer (who was also a dietitian) seemed to be already in a hurry. 

4/13/2007, friday

still had a hangover of what happened yesterday… i was hoping but not expecting to receive a call from the agency.

at around 3 or 4pm, as i was holding my cellphone (for no reason), a familiar landline number was blinking in my cellphone screen… goodness, it’s the agency… i passed! and i am asked to come tomorrow noon for final interview with employer/owner of the company at crowne plaza hotel. Man, it’s too fast!  they said it’s for immediate employment that’s why it’s fast.

the first thing that entered my mind was the scholars’ workshop the next day…….where i am the track coordinator for music……. my gulay!  right there and then, the first thing i did was txt direq, and inform my mom that i passed.

4/14/2007, saturday

lampaso day!

got up early in the morning to go to admu before 9am to observe how things flow in track coordinating and to give to the scholar who will be track coordinating (on my behalf) on the classes where i won’t be around (because of the interview).

by 11am i left admu to go to shangri-la mall to change into my "corporate costume" then went to the agency (mtg place).  i was surprised to find out that only 3 RND’s were chosen. well anyway, we’re supposed to go to crowne together by car or something but because there was a problem with the driver or the route or whatever, we walked from julia vargas ext. to crowne! good lord!!! mind you, i had blisters on my pinky toes from the previous day — and it’s getting worse because of this walking idea! arrrrghhhhhh!

so we arrived at crowne (thank god!).  we were told that interview will start at 1pm… again, there had been problems in terms of room reservations etcetera, etcetera, to cut the long story short, we started at 2pm (when i’m supposed to be back at admu already for my next class……grrrrrrr……. damn! nice time management huh!).  they let all the PT to go first… darn! 

then it’s my turn — you can easily spot the employer in the room except for he’s the only one in the meeting room, he’s also the only dark matter in it —– hey, hey, hey, don’t get me wrong… i’m just being honest. the interview went well although i don’t think i impressed him that much especially when he asked me "why do we need nutritionists for when there’s already softwares in the internet where you can enter ur vital stats then after a few minutes, u get your diet plan."  i was quite irated by his question and the way he delivered it….. i answered him (in an irate tone):  "we sir, technology has its own flaws… it’s not that intelligent… it can only give you the basics… and i’m definitely sure, the diet you get is the same as those who gets their diet from that site. we were trained to compute your diet based on your needs and we can also do substitutions… say there’s one food item written in that diet you got from the site that you can’t meet because either you’re allergic to it or it’s not readily available, we can give you substitutes based on your need and your lifestyle.  also, if you have, say, diabetes, we can also alter your diet for your specific health needs…."  — haha! belat!

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 10:22 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.