Ground mouth

I don't think a month passes by without Smartbro fucking up its services in one form or another. This time around, it's the same old bogged down internet. The reason is either they're doing enhancement or the base station has technical problems, which could also be considered for the former. Couldn't the monotonous reasoning of those service representatives come up with better causes? As much as I would like to offer words of guidance in a primitive manner, being indurated for the nearly 3 years of service is practically ridiculous. It's not as if Globe is any better so it's pointless to consider switching to another ISP bearing the same troubles.

In other bleak news, an NGO surprisingly called me up after I had failed to get into the shortlist like a month or two ago. A pat on the back for Bolix's correct assumption about NGO's terribly slow recruitment process. Anyway, the recruiter on the line never failed to emphasize that I'm going to undergo a panel interview at an ungodly hour and am I pissing in my pants in fright already? A part of me is. Again, Bolix regaling me with his stint in an NGO where he not-so-kind-of-well-nearly botched up panel interview morphed into a Spanish Inquisition, has me up the wall for my upcoming one. With luck I got the chance to read the NGO's mission vision, and the job description of what I had applied for before the internet went down. Like what I'd said to Ate Gigi then, it's not as if I really paid attention to the job description before I clicked on 'apply'; I just had see if part of the requirement was being a psychology graduate and voila. Good thing my workload isn't that heavy at the moment. Beth's going to have her own version of panel interview tomorrow morning--a job position I particularly nudged in her direction. I was hoping to meet her at Makati but it's going to be impossible with the time difference between our interviews.

The preparation for item analysis is a slow acting disease. I had to plead with Beth to help me on sorting out 12000 entries before the item analysis proper could start. That's just for one branch alone. I still have 8000 entries to sort out until next week. Damn it all to hell.

Apparently, Keroppi has friends other than snail and white knot of cloth friends of his. I bought a spring notebook last night bearing 'Keroppi and Friends' design showing 6 other frogs of various colors and facial expressions. That green frog was my favourite Sanrio character when I was a kid. Hello Kitty was too feminine and the Little Twin Stars were literally fairies. I liked the color green, the idea of a smiling frog and a repetitive name so I settled for him.