Posts Tagged "Daily Life"

The Saga of the Leech Continues

Posted by vienna on Oct 23, 2008 in People and Places | 0 comments

Remember about the leach I was talking to you about? The person I was referring to here and here. As you might already know, we are not in good terms. We fought and I decided that I’ll never be a friend to her again. I didn’t talk to her for months and she also didn’t talk to me and I was already ok with that.

But then she came here in Shanghai to live with her boyfriend who, as you know, is a good friend of ours. I was cool with that too. I told myself that if the situation asks that we meet, I will be civil with her and that’s what I did when Marcus and Daniel arranged a dinner before Marcus and I left for Austria. It was awkward but all went well. We didn’t exchange nasty remarks but we also didn’t make “beso-beso”. In short, it was just like we never met before.

One time while we were in Austria, I saw her come online in my Yahoo messenger. For me that was so strange because, we put each other on “Stealth” so I was surprised that I can see her online but that didn’t prompt me to appear online to her. To me, she’ll be in “Stealth” forever.

When we came back here in Shanghai a week ago, she tried calling me on our landline but because I am so accustomed to getting Chinese Telemarketers’ call, I didn’t answer our phone. Marcus always calls me on my cellphone so I don’t really answer the phone when I am not expecting a call. Then Daniel (her boyfriend) told me that she was trying to get hold of me. For me, it was like what?!? What is it that she wants now? So when I finally answered one of her calls, she was all like all sweet and nice and told me that she’s ready to forget everything.

I was like…. Ooooooohkkayyy. I did not really talk to her. I just let her babble. All I told her is “Of course we cannot return everything to normal again but you can be sure that I’ll always be civil to you.” And she was like…maybe someday we can be friends again. Iw! In my mind I was like “You wish!”, if I don’t need to be civil to you I won’t. You’re nobody to me anymore and the reason why I am agreeing to be in the same room like you are is because your boyfriend is the best friend of my husband and he is also a good friend of mine.

After the call, I wondered what she wants this time. I already know her as a userer so I am pretty sure that there is a reason behind her being all friendly again. And it didn’t take long before she revealed what she wants. She needs my help to get into the same German school where I study.

She’s stupid you know. I found that school without asking anybody’s help and she’s incapable of finding it herself!?! She’s now without a job. She has the rest of the day to do what she wants. Why can’t she simply go online and find the school since she anyhow knows the name of my school. She has to swallow her pride to ask me to take her to where I study? She’s sooo dumb.

And because I am not 100% evil, I told her that I can’t accompany her there (I’ll never go out of my way for her ever again) but when my classes start, she can go there together with me. So that’s what happened. Now, she’s enrolled in the same school like I. I thought ok… she can now shut up. But no… she had to ask me for my notes from my previous course. I simply told her I can’t lend it to her because I still need them.

I don’t need them anymore but I just don’t like to be used again. I don’t like to help her anymore in any way. I know she needs a job and I actually find one that she might be interested in but I didn’t tell her about it even though Mr. Kane explicitly asked me to refer a friend. She’s not a friend to me anymore because she does not deserve my friendship.

She can kiss my ass all she wants but she can’t change things the way they are. She shitted on me once and that’s it. I’d be stupid if I let that happen again.

Job Interview on a Sunday

Posted by vienna on Oct 19, 2008 in Work and Career | 0 comments

Hubby went to the Formula1 race today. He did invite me to go with him months ago but I declined. It is not my thing and I refuse to spend that much for a ticket to something which I am not really interested in. So I told to just go with some of his colleagues and make it like a boys’ day out.

He and his colleagues left early this morning because they do not like to be caught up with the crowd. I stayed in bed and tried to enjoy my long Sunday morning sleep but I was not very successful because I got a call at around 9:00 am.

The caller was Mr. Kane.

We agreed to meet at 1:30 pm to talk about a possible teaching job for me. I showed up early and the place was not too far from where I live so I thought that it would be very convenient for me to work there. After a few minutes of small talk, he said that I have a pure accent and he said that that is something which is not very common to Filipinos. He said that he met a lot of Filipino applicants already and most of these applicants disappointed him (raised my eyebrows when he said that). So anyway, he said that the students will certainly like me because I speak good English and I have a face value (ahem!).

Here’s what he offers. 46 hours each month of teaching and 3500RMB of salary. That’s not a very high salary but because I like to teach, the salary doesn’t matter to me that much. I would have really accepted it if the classes were in the morning. Too bad. The classes are scattered between 4:00 to 8:00 pm and the schedule is where the problem is. I simply cannot give my German course up which is, by the way, in a school located on the other side of the city. My German course runs from 1:30 to 5:30 pm from Monday to Friday and after a 4 hour long class, all I want is just to be home.

Sigh* When can I teach?

Looking for a Job in a New City

Posted by vienna on Aug 8, 2008 in Work and Career | 0 comments

We got here over a month ago and so far, I am liking it here. I have enrolled in language course that will run for about two months and after that, I can think of getting a full time job. For the meantime I thought of getting a side job during the days I am not at school and with the help of a friend I was able to sort of find one. I got an interview and my interviewer already expressed her interest to have me teach in their school but they only need teachers for Saturday classes so unfortunately for me, I can’t take the job.

Francis has to work from 8am to 5pm daily but most of the time he works until 7pm or 8pm. This doesn’t give us so much time for each other during the weekdays so we badly want our weekends to be work free. This is the reason why I can’t take teaching jobs on Saturdays or Sundays.

I politely declined the offer to teach on the weekends and I asked them if they could assign a job for me from Monday to Friday but sadly, they are not in need of teachers for the weekday classes. That was disappointing but towards the end of the interview, my interviewer asked me again if I am sure about my decision not to accept the offered weekend classes. I courteously said that I am sure about it and that I am sorry. Then she told me that she’ll keep my contact details so she can call me once they have a vacancy for weekday classes and she also said that I should call her immediately if I changed my mind about teaching on Saturdays.

So anyway, for a certain time (a few days), I think that that job will be there for me so I said “I sort of find a teaching job”. I honestly believe that my interviewer likes to have me join their teaching staff and for me, it would me very nice and convenient to teach in their school. But perhaps, this job is not for me or it’s not yet the right time to have this job. I don’t know but I’ll wait and I’ll keep looking for a teaching job because it would be nice to be able to teach again.

Going Back to School

Posted by vienna on Apr 30, 2008 in People and Places | 2 comments

Things are looking up for us and I am quite pleased.

We will move in another city and we will stay there for two years. In this time, I don’t know if I will be able to find a day job and I don’t know if I would even try to find one. I am happy with my blogging and I do earn money from it and that should be okay for now.

These two years can be spent on something else like going back to school for instance. I have a degree in Education but right now I have a growing interest in web and graphic designing so if I can find a suitable school then I will most probably study.

Where, Oh Where?

Posted by vienna on Apr 7, 2008 in Internet and Blogging, Work and Career | 0 comments

Why do I feel so busy when in fact I can’t find anything to do?

There are no writing opportunities that interest me at the moment so I can’t update all of my blogs. It looks like this month is going to be very dry for me.

I always feel tired. The kind of tiredness you feel when you are working like a carabao (we say this in the Philippines, I don’t know if you get it) but the truth is, I am not working at all. I am just walking around the flat, thinking, dreaming, of something to do. Funny because there are things that I must do but I keep on putting them off. Upgrading my blogs, designing a new website, learning German, house work, and writing are just few of those things.

Carabao? Am I writing it wrong? MS Word doesn’t seem to recognize it. It keeps on underlining it. Weird. I am sure it is an English term (of Tagalog-Spanish origin) for Kalabaw—a water buffalo.

Anyway, I don’t know why I feel so stressed out. Maybe, the idea of a stressful move is doing this to me. Yep, we are moving soon and until now we are not sure where.