On Monday, September 7

Hi Team

Over this week-end, Malacanang has issued another announcement that the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Industry and the Electronics Industry will be exempted from the non-working holiday tomorrow, September 7, 2009. Therefore, please be advised that tomorrow is a regular working holiday at XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX because our company belongs to the BPO industry.

As this has caused confusion to our employees, and in the interest of time before the day begins tomorrow, I am issuing these guidelines:

· For those on billable projects, please come to work and lodge your time to your billable charge code. Please pass the word around (or SMS) to all concerned in your teams.

· For those whose billable projects are at the clients’ site in Metro Manila, it will be a non-working holiday for the client if their industry is not BPO or Electronics. If the client requires you to report for work onsite or offsite, please do so, otherwise, I suggest you take Sept 7, 2009 as a vacation leave upon the approval of your project managers.

· For those on the bench, you may take your vacation leave upon the approval of XXXXX XXXXXXXX.

· Employees in the support group may take their vacation leave only if approved by your managers.

For those taking vacation leaves tomorrow, please make sure to file your leaves in the Leave Management System (LMS). I am extending the LMS filing deadline to Sept 8, 2009 because of the situation.

Thank you.

XXX
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Kalokohan!

On Announcements

Over lunch, my officemate and I ranted that there will be no long weekend until November. Then lo and behold, we heard this news before heading home!

Yay!

Then again, I got an email that stated this:

Please note that it is still BUSINESS AS USUAL at XXXX on Monday, September 7, 2009 despite the late announcement of Malacañang declaring said day as a special non-working day.

All Delivery Managers, Project Managers and Team Leads must exercise sound judgment so that there is no disruption in service delivery and in order to avoid loss of revenues especially in Time & Material engagements.

• All employees who are currently on billing assignment must report to work and report their time to their billable charge code. However, those assigned in Manila Direct projects on staff augmentation must report to their projects if the client require them to.
• People on Bench are advised not to report to work
• Support group must provide for full or skeletal force

Thank you for your cooperation.

Now I am grateful that I am assigned on-site and I am not required to report to work!

YAY!

On A Moment of Pleasure

Darn it! I do think about you everyday. I do remember every look and every smile. My head rested upon your broad shoulders our arms linked, our fingers intertwined, no words spoken, just two hearts beating as one.

Grabe, it hurts so much. It makes me want to cry cause I cannot ever speak of the sensations I feel in my heart no matter how enormous the feeling is since in the first place I do not have the right to feel whatever emotion that is.

Then again, who am I to complain when I walked into this situation with my huge eyes wide open? It was my choice to lose myself in this insane emotion with you. No regrets. Just missing you.

I guess I should be happy now. Less complexity is what I wanted. Fate just made it easier. Nevertheless, why oh why does it feel so damn difficult?

"A moment of pleasure, a lifetime of pain"

On What Love Is

Everyone is capable of loving. It does not mean if one is not capable of loving that one is not capable to be loved.

I have done preventive measures in order not to communicate with you. I have erased you from my address book. I am not good with numbers thus I do not memorize it. I have immersed myself with various activities to keep myself busy.

However, it never fails. When I thought I have moved on you do something stimulating that prevents me from fully letting go. Somehow I find myself back to square one, sort off. Why is this so, I do not know.

How can I completely let go and not be affected? Should I completely erase everything that concerns you? Will doing so erase you from my mind and heart?

God, when will the time come when I awake I will not think of you? Is this what love is --- accepting the person despite one’s imperfections?

Ultimate Frustration

It truly hurts so much when one is looking forward for something then when the time finally arrives, it is cancelled.