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Thought of saving space in cyberworld, I have decided to maintain one blogsite only and that would be my account in wordpress: (links below)

www.jayrfallesgon.wordpress.com
www.elitenapobre.co.cc (redirect)

Right now, I'm still thinking if I would still be keeping this or just transfer all the entries to my wordpress account.

ACTUAL SCENARIO…
TSR: Okay sir, can u please type “CMD” on the run field.
Customer: What?!
TSR: CMD, sir!!
Customer (irate!): WHAT IS THAT???!
TSR (getting irate as well!): OKAY!!! C as in CLIENT, M as in MUST, and D as in DIE!!!

This was just one of the many Call Center Bloopers I just read in one of the files in our office. It seems like a lot of comedic actions and conversations wander in every call center and I, myself, is guilty of it. I sometimes have flaws in talking to American customers and that is inevitable for my mother tongue is Filipino. For my 2 years of tenure in the call center industry, I have heard loads of bloopers and I couldn’t help myself laughing at them especially if that is being discussed with my colleagues in the call center world.

REALIZATIONS…
>Speaking of “ano”, “sige”, and other vernacular words (noobs couldn’t dodge these)
>Stuttering, mumbling, and staggering in constructing sentences and sometimes leading to not finishing the sentence at all because coudn’t think of the following words that would fit in
>Mispronounced words
>Not being well-versed of the Grammar Rules
>Forcing to adapt foreign accents resulting to some slips and sometimes really major slips

Enumerated above are some of the manifestations that a typical Filipino call center agent would never be as great as Americans in communicating the latter’s language for the fact that there will always be a thinline between the two whether how much we try to mimic their accent and/or pronunciation. There are some agents or Filipinos though in general whom I know are close to one but still they are not that fluent and/or consistent in uttering the generic language of the world BUT WHAT ARE THE IMPORTANT MORE ACTUALLY WILL BE THAT THEY CAN BE UNDERSTANDING VERY MUCH!! LOL!!!!

Here in blogosphere, it feels good to see people commenting on your posts especially if you don't know them. I mean it just means that you captured someone else's attention aside from your friends or what have you. Now, I have started doing my new blogsite where I can share my thoughts and POVs on every issue I may want to endure with but I'll keep my promise not to divulge myself there so that I could have a little privacy as to my identity. So that I can put everything that I want or anything that I can think of without being anxious as to what my friends have to say, just to dodge all the unnecessary comments like insinuations in office etc., so that they won't have any idea that it was me, so that I won't be encountering bad criticisms anymore, so that I could put everything without being shy because sometimes I have ideas in mind but was just so "chicken" of posting them that someone I know might read it and might lead to teasing. I also thought of doing this is freer...

A blogger sent me an email and advised me that it's good to put comments to someone else's blog because it also means that you're putting a portal through your own blog and you can capture lots of readers through your links by just commenting which I thought is a very good idea. Admittedly, I am so lazy of putting comments for the reason I don't know, probably just too lazy that's it.

So right now, I'll make sure to do some hop and surfing once in a while should I have spare time to do so and put comments as much as possible to every entry that will interest me..

Few years it had been, that I became exposed to the world of blogging. Before, I did not like how this thing works. I mean, I did not appreciate its beauty. I did not even think of being hooked by it. There was even a time that I felt corny doing it. Little did I know, I would be having three (3) blogsites. LOL!… and I reckon of making another one…

It just crossed my mind to venture into another blogsite that will showcase different themes of different things under the sun. May it be for music, places, movies, technologies, sports, TV programs, current events, religion, health issues, food, etc. I am thinking of doing it in BLOGSPOT.com. I am also reckoning not to divulge my identity because I see a lot of bloggers in the blogosphere without their personal information and still they capture lots of readers/viewers. I wonder I could do that too. I wonder if that would at least give me the satisfaction in writing but I’ll give it a try, anyway it’s just one click away to delete an account, isn’t it?

I am thinking if I would be focusing on a certain category or loads. My mind is twisted. I want something that is extraordinary, something that if you google it would appear in the top page. I want to see the million hits on my blogsite. I want something that will capture the blog readers’ attention and will make them inevitably write comments about it. I want something that would make companies advertise their products in my site for it causes lots of traffic. Haha! I’m exuberantly excited.

Can you suggest category(ies) that I could focus on? Should I stick for one topic or loads?

**If you would google my last name, it would show that I’m on the top 5, 1st page always. hehe.That’s what I want to achieve with my next blogsite. Good Luck!

I remember it was January 2008 when I bought my very first Starbucks tumbler. It was plain black with “Starbucks” name printed on it. It was so simple. I bought it with “Hindi Pantay” at Gateway, I recall. But before that, I was so reluctant in buying those kind of stuff which I find so expensive and yet you can get the same satisfaction by buying the “not-so-branded’ things. But because of the thought that loads of money pouring during holidays, I indulged myself of buying one since, ideally, I wanted to have one after I let myself out in that realm of skepticism. So there, everyday I would use it to the extent that my day was not complete if I didn’t use my starbucks tumbler. Months and months after, its beauty had faded. I would sometimes untentionally drop it. I remember, there was a time, I accidentally dropped it in a jeepney and it rolled over the Buendia Highway. Those incidents gave it lots of cracks at the bottom and few near its lid. It was November I think that I finally disposed it because the coffee was already penetrating the mini vacuum at the bottom. I did not have a tumbler for the half of November and the whole of December.

If my mind serves me right, few days after Christmas Day (2008), Rachiel gave me her hand-me-down Starbucks tumbler. It was exactly the same tumbler that I first had except that its size was smaller. She said that it was her Christmas gift for me (I don’t remember giving her any in return ). LOL!!! This person has so many starbucks tumbler for all you know. As far as I remember, she even left one in her locker at ACS Cubao. She hasn’t even been bothering of getting it until now and I don’t think she has any plan of retrieving it. So there, I used my second starbucks tumbler everyday with so much care because I did not want it to end like that of my first’s. I would always carry it with a grip so tight. I gave it all the caring that a man could give to his tumbler. LOL! Last week, when I was still in the office, I was in the comfort room, I placed my starbucks tumbler (filled with water) beside the sink and I ACCIDENTALLY bumped it and it fell off the ground (on the floor tiles). Imagine a plastic tumbler filled with water fell on a floor full of hard tiles. I felt so cold that time (I’m serious). I didn’t know what to do. It gave it 3 cracks i.e. one at the bottom and 2 at the lid area. After few hours, I managed to get over it but not fully. Before going home, I ate first at Jollibee to lighten up a bit. after almost 20 minutes of fast eating (because I felt so sleepy then) I left my Starbucks-tumbler-with-3-cracks at Jollibee. I just noticed it when I got home. I was so BOKYA. I was so perturbed of what would bok say if she found out that I lost her Christmas present.

I just realized that everything has its own end. It may be unpredictable but God won’t let it happen unless He has something better in store for you.

P.S. Before that incident, I received my Universal American Loot Bag (also useful). Inside, there is a clock, a monitor wiper, a coffee aluminum mug, and a plastic bottle with a built in straw where you can put water, iced tea, juice, or even beer.

This is the blogger's response to all the insinuations wandering around in our office that sort of exasberating some people (of course except me)... I am an Aries so expect a defense hehe...

Last week, may nag "tip" saken na may nakabasa daw ng isang blog (hindi ako sure kung iyon nga yung tinutukoy) ko at nagsumbong daw yun sa dati kong Team Manager na sinisiraan at "binababoy" ko daw siya. Ampf naman! Ang toinks naman nung nagsabi sa kanya. Mark down sa incorrect information. Nyahaha. Siguro kasi nung ginoogle nila ung name nung TM ko eh ang lumabas was in ellipsis form. Kaya kapag binasa ng may mapurol na utak eh magmumukha talagang tinitira ko iyong dating TM ko. Pero kung nabasa nya yung buong content eh baka naman lumuhod pa iyon at mag-sorry sa dating TM ko for wrong information nyahaha, kasi of what I know eh naka-public yun dati kasi naman wala namang masama dun sa entry na yun eh.. haaaaaaay... Ngayon eh naka-private na iyong entry na iyon (teka bakit ko pala ginawang private un? ampf) - wala lang para mamatay na iyong issue. Kasi naman December 2008 pa iyong date na ginawa ko iyon kaya dapat panis na iyon saka ibang team na ko ngayon. Ang team na sobrang galing (nyahaha yabang) -- hindi, proud lang ako sa team namen.

Mabalik tayo sa issue, so there, may narinig din akong issue na sobrang "pissed off" daw saken iyong TM ko nga dati. Ewan ko bakit. Ang iba pang issue na narinig ko eh bkit ko daw pinag-compare yung dalawang naging TM ko, bakit daw nag-blog pa ako, bakit daw ginawa kong public yung entry na un. Siyempre may nakahanda akong sagot sa mga yun nyahaha.. Unang una, sa nakabasa ng entry ko, you should have read the rules in my blogsite at hindi yung kung anu-ano yung mga sinasabi mo agad. Toinks. Next, sana bago magsumbong or manira eh binasa muna yung buong content para naman hindi nagkakasiraan ang mga tao. Wala naman kasi masama doon sa blog ko kasi it was my Point of View (check out the rules). Sunod, normal lang naman na i-compare ko yung dalawang naging TM ko kasi it was a big transition for me and our team thus, it merited a big change, pero it was never mentioned there na siniraan or "binaboy" ko yung bagong TM. Again, I would like to impress to everyone that all of the content is purely just blogger's responsible insights so kung meron mang medyo off sa paningin ng kung sino mang party eh dapat siguro gumawa muna siya or sila ng self-introspection kung ano ang nag-trigger sa akin sa paggawa ng entry na yun, hindi yung kinikwestiyon agad yung blog ko.

Doon sa mga taong hindi nabasa yung full entry ko (kasi nga naka-private na) eh gusto ko lang ipaalam na "hindi ko tinira ang TM ko or kahit na sinong naging TM ko dun". As a responsible blogger, I know my limitations and I know when should I make entry(ies) in private or in public. Whoever proliferated all these wrong insinuations owes an apology to the affected persons/parties. Lastly, to all the parties involved (direct or indirect), whether you dealt with it indignantly or not, there is nothing to worry about because that was just my perception and my reaction to the issue. If someone thinks that he or she is just doing his or her job, so be it. If someone tampered the very though of my blog leading to some confusions on different parties, then so be it. If someone would hate me for that entry and for this response, so be it. If someone thinks that I never liked my previous TM(s), so be it. If someone thinks that I ain't a responsible blogger, that I went beyond limits, that I did not care about other's feelings, so be it. But as for me, responsible bloggers only deserve creditable readers. Anyway, as I always say, Truth Is Always At The Middle Until Proven.

P.S. Nga pala, iyong may gustong makabasa ng entry na iyon eh magsend lang kayo ng 1k sa gcash ko and you'll get the soft copy PLUS T-shirt!!! LOL!

P.P.S. Er -- This is going to be my first and last response for this issue. Aritze!

VERTIGO.. “This is not a sickness but a symptom”. That’s what I read from one of the sites in the internet.

I just knew that our ears (specifically auditory perceptions) are important parts of our body that have something to do with balances, to make us stay in the equilibrium. One day, when I got home, I saw my mom having a nausea and it was a terrible dizziness leading for her to vomit three (3) times on that day. I did not know what to do. She just kept on complaining that her left ear could hardly hear. It has been her complaint ever since. Few months ago, she had it checked by a specialist and I thought that it was all cured because she felt good after the doctor did something to her ear. One morning, she said that she couldn’t last standing because things were spinning around her whenever she did and she felt very lightheaded that time. She even vomited all the food she ate. I and my brother thought that all she needed to do was to rest. The next day, she felt a little same way as yesterday’s so we let her rest again and told her to lie all day but she vomited twice that day. The third day, I was alarmed because she still felt a little dizziness but she did not vomit anymore. She was just complaining her sinus and her left ear. I panicked so I brought her to the hospital, to the emergency room, to have her condition diagnosed by a doctor. The doctor said that she was having a vertigo probably because of her ear problem. After few hours of observation, she was given a prescription. Of course all the bills were at my own expense and I don’t blame her and I don’t care about the money anymore. All I care now is to remove all the pain she has been dealing with. I even asked help from my auntie (her sister) about my mom’s case. She said that she will get hold of her doctor from Chinese General Hospital to have my mom’s left ear checked. I am really worried now. I have been praying to God. I was even hoping that my dad is still alive to help us in times like this. Honestly, while I was writing this entry, my heart is breaking. I do not want any of my loved ones to suffer. If I could only own the pains and bad feelings they have, I would do, but there’s no way could that be possible. Get well soon mom. I hope that everything will be okay after I brought you to the next specialist and I also wish that there’ll be no surgical procedure needed to treat you. I will always pray for your recovery. I love you mom!

I know that these are so tempting especially now that I am on a diet. Last Friday, I and Bok went to Trinoma to spend the little fortune we received from our office. We had been pin-pointing at each other as to where we would eat and we came up eating at Yellow cab. Bok let me taste the New York’s finest and spaghetti with 2 meatballs for the first time. I can be rarely found on those restaurants or food chains or what you may wanna call it for I was not so used to it when growing up. Honestly, I am into local restos or street foods or any other food corners for masses. Bok deserves a plaque of appreciation for letting me penetrate the world of technology and of those restos. TEEHEE!

P.S. We also watched Blood: The Last Vampire at Trinoma and it sucks to the nth power (though I like the girl protagonist whom I think was also the girl in the movie My Sassy Girl *Korean Version*) – nyahaha lots of “girl” word in this appositve..