JOURNALS OF A FILIPINO SEAMAN

Only been a few days since my last log and yet a lot things went by just like that. I'd try to put as much information as I can and recall the things that had happened. Christmas Dinner Held by TRANSCOM at the roof deck Christmas Day… It was fortunate that Aunt Milen will be joining us for Christmas and that she granted our invitation, to be honest It's really important to me and my sister that Aunt Milen joined us in Christmas eve.  Aunt Milen is currently undergoing kidney dialysis three times a week just to keep her alive and I'm not exactly sure how long will she hold up on that kind of situation nor even sure if this will be her last Christmas, That's the main reason why Christmas is very important this year because of Aunt Milens situation. On work… Since this is holiday , I decided I should try out my new outfit I bought from the local mall along with the new shoes I bought (Pictured on my last entry). Honestly speaking I really look great after I tried it out , ...

Tested and synchronized my Android tablet PC on the public WiFi network of SM Mall Marikina. I fully utilized its abilities and the test turned out to be more than I hoped for. So far as of the moment I have integrated two (out of three) twitter accounts in one integrated interface , along with fully integrating four yahoo mail accounts and three face book accounts. To simply put I had successfully converted my Tablet into an all in one device. Now the only problem for me is were would I buy a Pocket WiFI device for the internet connection. In other news... Things that i bought for two weeks , new shoes also :-D For the moment my salary got into a bit of a problem when two different ATM machines didn’t dispensed money and later registered to have dispensed the money when I checked it our on the main bank. It was a problem for me that metrobank and PS Bank Atm machines , ate up my 1000 PHP (each ATM machine , I withdrew 500 PHP).  At first I only thought that it was a server error o...

(Videos taken inside the heavily guarded and secretive production floor area in a call center, I used my spy pen camera in taking a video) Since the groups recent transfer from tech TV plus dept to Customer service department , I had now  reached the maximum number of call I took in a single day ever in my whole entire career as a call center agent.  The total number of calls based on the record on our CTI Phone tool was 60 calls took in a single day.  Quite a lot right ?!  based on the numbers that was put up and taking in half a hundred call is almost just roughly 8 hours of phone time is no easy task . I myself couldn’t imagine that I made a record holder reaching 60 calls that day. Anyway bulk of the calls I had been receiving are from the TV Plus department which apparently according to my T.L. John that my phone line hasn't been rerouted yet and even though I can support it , I have to pretend to don’t know it and transfer it back to TV plus. For now , Our grou...

Made plans about a lot of things lately , some of these plans are the one's slated for next year 2013. Honestly its about time that I made something meaningful for myself and in the long run that I'm here in the Philippines.  I had been thinking of this for quite sometime now and that It would have been beneficial for me to be returning back to college to study marine engineering by this summer. I have thoroughly decided about it and I think my reasons are valid, I wanted to make something out of my stay here and that I just didn’t end up to be a bum. In news related to work. As of the moment things appear to be stable situation on my job and that in some ways I'm still doing my same old kinds of daily objective's though its certain that I'm still struggling on my metrics and that I'm below the average productive telephone operator , in fact I'm under qualified on almost all aspects based on metric scores on TRANSCOM standards. However despite the majority o...