shane? where have you been? it’s been almost a year in between posts! that’s a pretty long hiatus, don’t you think?

well, been too busy at work. same old alibi ey? yeah, it’s true. believe me for once. :P got my hands full, especially when the development manager left. i was his “junior” sysad. so, when he left, all his responsibilities on the administration department was now on my shoulder. been half a year since i think.

aside from not having my own computer and internet at home, couldn’t really write something after work hours simply because i was already tired needed to get home to rest. it’s only been last november 2009 that i got my own desktop and internet connection at home. so, now that i’ve adjusted, i’m blogging away!

so what’s new?

first off, i’m not living in makati anymore. we moved to pasay last october. at first, i was hesitant of the transfer. i hate traveling. it was just a walking distance from my office to where i used to live in makati. and i’ve been used to that kind of lifestyle even in my hometown, that the university is just a few blocks away from my home. but after surveying the place, i found out that it’s just a one-bus-ride from our new home to ayala avenue, which is just in the vicinity of where i work. so i got it considered.

the ironic thing is that transportation cost when i was still in makati is a lot greater than compared to when i’m here in pasay. back in makati, i would take a cab (since there’s no direct route for bus nor jeepney) which costs me about fifty pesos/one way. but while here in pasay, i would only cost me exactly twenty-two pesos, and that’s back and forth. ironic, isn’t it? living in makati is indeed pricey.

work related – i just turned one year in current employer. time flies by so fast, that i could hardly believe more than 365 days have passed. i’ve been given more and more responsibilities, which equates to information overload! yeah, i’ve been expanding my skill set day after day. there’s always something new, and it’s great.

i’ll have a more detailed post on work related stuff in the next few weeks, or months. :P

it’s nice to be back writing again, though. i missed wordpress.

yo, bartender! gimme one bottle of gps, will ya?

cheers guys!

more than a month? ahh yes, more than a month again with no updates.

why? (thinking of another alibi) well, i’ve been busy. it has been more than a month since i started at my new job and i never really had the chance to write a post. yup. even though i’m in front of a computer for about not less than 40 hours a week, i didn’t had the chance to start a new post, not even a draft. a very hectic schedule, it is.

it’s a new environment, so i needed to catch up with how things work in my new company. in my first week, i started off with drupal. i had a crash course on how drupal works, basic content management, the drupal structure, it’s themes and many more. it’s a good thing that i’m already used to using wordpress. they are somewhat similar. but still, since the approach in making the site is way different, i did have a hard time.

the first few weeks was really focused on drupal, and some minor systems administration tasks that needs to be done in between tasks in drupal. i also had some taste of c# last week, jumping right into intermediate to complex programming, which i had no real experience yet. but it was fun. and looks like this following week, i will again be back in the coding domain, c# still.

in just more than a month with the new company, it felt like i’ve been working for them for a long time. i don’t know how to explain it, but that’s how i feel. and it seems that every single day, i learn new things. and sometimes, it feels like ‘information overload’. but i like it. this is what i wanted. gain more knowledge, and expand my skill set. it’s fun and i’m enjoying it.

anyway, i’m already connected to the internet at home. yes, i don’t need to go to internet shops just to check on my emails during weekends. father and i purchased 3g kits from sun and globe. i’m using the modem provided by sun since it’s unlimited and my father uses the one from globe which is prepaid.

comparing the connections from the two 3g kits, sun has better connectivity inside our room and even in the living room. i don’t know the reason behind this but ‘coz i’m sure globe has higher signals when we compared the sun and globe mobile phones. oh well, as long as i’m connected to the internet while inside my room, i’m good.

okay, that’s enough. i think that’ll suffice for the lack of posts in february (haha). i’ll try to update this blog every week though, but no promises. ;)

mixed emotions? part of you still wants to stay, and another part of you feels it’s time to leave? that’s what i’m feeling right now. that’s what my other teammate also said during his last days with the team.

it’s never really easy to say goodbye. especially to those you’ve come to know for more than a year, to those you’ve considered ‘tropa/barkada‘, to those whom you can share fun and at the same time problems with, to those you’ve considered as part of your extended family.

this team, the grad team especially the americas (night shift), is to be considered as my extended family here in manila. i may have some relatives here, distant relatives perhaps, but i’ve never really been with them. all i had last june 2007, when i first came to manila was my old man and my godparents who live several floors above us.

but what’s done is done. i have to leave. there’s no turning back. all i hope is that my colleagues, my teammates would also treasure the moments they shared with me ‘coz i do. i’ll definitely miss the fun, the laughter, the sessions we call ‘1 bottle’, which eventually leads to 2 or more. ;)

anyway, this just crossed my mind but guys, what do think about ‘despedida‘ celebrations? who should be the one to shoulder the expenses?

yes, you heard it right. it’s not just a transfer to another team, but i’ll be leaving my current employer. i’ve already tendered my resignation last december and it’ll be effective next week. you may ask why, why leave now amidst the crisis in our country and around the world?

experience. i feel i’m not growing anymore. i’m still learning new things but i feel like i need something more concrete. i’ve already turned away from what i had finished in college, and been pulled into the world of information technology, the internet. way back in college, my friends would always ask me why i didn’t choose to be under the computer science department since they find me good at computer stuff. and now, i’m also asking myself the same question. but i have no regrets. i learned a lot from my course and it has broadened my knowledge.

the new work will be a challenge. a great one. my job description says i’ll be a developer, and i’ve no strong background in programming languages unlike those people who studied a language since their first day in college. i was able to learn them little by little through self study and that’s what i’m counting on for this new challenge. it will be to test my capacity to learn at a high pace.

another year has passed. 2008 was not a blogging year for me, but i hope 2009 will be.