Saturday, March 28, 2015

Hell Week? Holy Week.

When it dawned upon me that it is already Palm Sunday tomorrow, I panicked. After so many years, this is the first time that I'm not prepared for anything at all. The final eight days of the Lenten Season is always the busiest and right now, I'm still so disoriented that it hasn't sunk in that tomorrow is the beginning of our Holy Week. To others, this is considered a 'hell week'; but even though it seems so, this is still one of the three most exciting events in my church...

Monday, March 23, 2015

Our Next Lives

I was tired. I was exhausted. And during those rare moments that I actually admit that, there's only one thing I ask God for. It's to see you. It's to be able to talk to you even for a minute, hear from you about what you've been doing and what you've been planning to do. After all, you've always been my refuge. You've always been a sanctuary. My stress reliever, my favorite escape. I could always ask for you. You've always been very generous of your time when it comes to...

Sunday, March 22, 2015

CitySavings Bank (Valenzuela Branch) is Officially Open!

Four days after my last blog entry, I'm now announcing that CitySavings Bank Valenzuela Branch is now open! With office hours running from Tuesday to Saturdays (9AM to 5PM), we're nearer to public school teachers of the city and is ready to be of service to their financial needs. Naks. Lakas maka-marketing! The bank opened on March 20, 2015, attended...

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

I Never Meant to Make Friends But...

Prior to starting my job at CitySavings, I have made it clear to myself that I am not supposed to make friends to anyone. I have learned the hard way that attachment is the easiest route to heartaches so I was very firm with my decision. I couldn't jeopardize my job for 'friendship' anymore. But apparently, I'm bending my words yet again. I've said before how much I enjoyed my branch exposure at Caloocan, right? I'm having a great time working with people who are close to...

Monday, March 16, 2015

Happy 1st Month!

Time flies fast, doesn't it? Just a month ago, I was fussing over the fact that after three years of being stuck at home, I'll finally be starting on a real job that would require me to go to an office everyday, in my corporate attire. It was an unusual thing for me because I got used to being just who I recklessly want to be. But of course, things have...

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Sepanx

When I first knew that we were going to be deployed to branches for an early exposure right after our four-day orientation, you can imagine the anxiety. I didn’t know anything about banking operations. I didn’t even know how to properly do debit and credit balancing. I was practically a noob, and it literally felt like I was pushed to go to a full pledged war with a waterless water gun as a weapon. Now, imagine how the nervousness doubled when I learned I was assigned at...