Three weeks on the job - training still. I'm having a little bit of information overload, but that doesn't stop me and my wavemates from having our bucket of unpreempted laughs.
I love our training. (Specific - training. I haven't had the taste of the production floor yet, so I'll keep my judgment till then.) These days feel like going back to school all over again - complete with classroom, white boards, classmates, trainers, modules, laughters, breaks, love triangles, love teams, crushes and so on.
There's 20 of us in our wave, and we all hit it off well. No KJ's, no spoilers - every body's just cool with each other. The constant prayer in our head right now -- "Let us make it to the floor together!" So high school, huh? Not really. I think every body's working hard for their spot. And it would be sad if some of us won't make it. The thought is heartbreaking. I'm getting emotional!
*laughsThis is all the mock calls fault. I mean, we haven't had our first mock call evaluation for the second part of the training - but thinking about it is enough to make me go "cuckoo!". By the way, the first evaluation's going to be this Monday. Let me pray for a moment here.
*silenceA little something about my CVG group:
Alain, one of my closest wavemate, reminds me of Nitz so much. Not necessarily physically, but he exudes a similar aura. Michelle knows what I mean - they met,
kay we hung out in Figaro the other week. He's the white version though! (I love you Nitz!)
Another one is Jello's schoolmate in law school, Lemuel, and he's such an adorable bully. He's the reason why I keep blurting out the "
b**at" word. I don't hate him for it - I'm just sure that he'll have his moment soon.
*plotting Two of my wavemates are also Mara's students - Donald and Faith. They call her "Miss Mara". I so can imagine.
*giggle Donald is the Beyonce/Britney/Nicole-wanna be - and he gave a flying kiss to somebody in class! I wouldn't say it here, but the class knows this.
*laughs Faith the fashionista-punk. She said she'd summon all the great writers in history... Them dead writers?Freaky! Anyway, one boring lecture, she doodled gay butterflies in my handout.
I also have a
kabsi, Vien, who always makes an effort to make a joke. It's the effort that cracks us up, not necessarily the joke. But he's usually successful in making us laugh.
Joy, our 30-year-old who is very much like 24. She buys the same shoes in three different colors, and buys three similar capris in different colors too! And she has been boarding house hopping since the first week of May.
My smoke buddies - Alain, Mark and Erick. You know Alain already. So, there's Mark who calls me Bebang, because he thought it was my nick name - or more like insists it's my nick name. He's also next to Lemuel for being the serial miss caller in our Avaya's. Erick who blushes like a steamed prawn every time he talks in class, but that doesn't stop him from raising his hand. He also forbade me from walking along the pipe near our smoking spot - after he learned that Alain reminded me of my being accident prone.
My giggle/laughmate Flor. I laugh, he cracks up. The next thing we know, the rest of the class joins the fun.
*bowThere's Mommy Aureen and Opaline - the Southern belles, since they're both from Pardo. Both are mothers, but Mommy Au's very
kikay and Opal is just svelte. Opal and I are both MassCom, but none of us were able to respond when we were asked about "Active Listening". So much for being...
The other mommies are Mommy Jossie, Zellah and Reene. Jossie, the hip grandmother in their reporting-ala-Zellah (role play), with two stupid grandsons named Lemuel and Erick. Zellah, HR,
*bow. She
ugtos-ly explained the payroll to all of us despite her own uncertainty, and because of that - she's now our official in-house HR. And Reene is our soft-spoken and
sekretong-tuplok mommy, who would transport her family to Cebu if she had a magic wand for a day - however, she will also transport them back to Cagayan by the end of the day.
*laughsThere's Stev and Jova. Stev - the stripper. She said she's be one, if she didn't know how to speak in English! Jova, on the other hand, is our tattoed photography-enthusiast. She wears the coolest shirts, but she won't let you read the print - you'll have to do your own investigative probing to be able to.
And there's our three dolls - Cherry, Cathy and Mae. These three are the girlies in the wave, but they're distinct in their own right. Cherry - the exotic animal protector! She's a biology major, and loves to study bats. (Bats? Well, yeah, bats.) Cathy is the politician in the making? She's planning to use Lemuel in her future cases - whatever that means. Mae - the one with a crush in the class! Hmmm... I so love intrigues. Mae and the crush! *
laughs----
I literally introduced the whole class, didn't I? Heh! Well, that's IBM Sprint Wave 179 for you, folks.
*I'll post our photo soon.
