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Things are not over unless they’re really over.  That’s what I have learned for the month of January.  Because when I thought nothing eventful would happen by the end of the month, something did, although not something that I would have wanted to happen.

That event, however, would not be (or not just) the topic of this post, because here, I want to share with you all the things that happened to me (and whoever was with me) during the first month of 2009.

Long Holiday

I took a long vacation leave for the Christmas and New Year breaks, but unlike my officemates, I opted to file a long VL after the holidays.  So for the whole first week of January, I was in Bicol, just watching TV and downloading movies from the Internet because there was pretty much nothing to do at home. :p

There were only two eventful things that happened during my long weekend in Bicol.  First is the annual family reunion being celebrated by my relatives on my Mother’s side, which is held in San Jose, Camarines Sur.  Not quite eventful, though, because all there really was were drinking and some money-shower games.  But I got to meet my long-unseen cousins, which was the good thing.

Then, I had my birthday celebrated in Naga City, probably the first time since I graduated from college.  It was a simple celebration, with me, Egie and Mama dining at our favorite Bicolano restaurant.  Just refer to my previous post for the details. :)

New Officemates

When I came back at the office on the second week of January, I saw a couple of new faces and missed a couple of old ones.  Back from Japan are Marvin and Sir Alwyn.  And while I already know Marvin, Sir Alwyn is a new face to me—someone whom I should learn to deal with.  He is a fun officemate, it turned out, but not too rowdy as most Development 1 people are.  Hehe.

Not present were Iggy and Kevin, who were already a week old in Development C when I came back from the long break.

Birthdays

Three Dev1 pipz celebrated their birthdays last month—I, Imee and Rommel.  But to the dismay of the two other celebrants, they remembered only mine.  Hehe.  Not that I’m proud of it or anything, but it just had to be written here. :p

I really don’t mind if my officemates would not remember my birthday.  After all, I have been with them for only two years.  I would mind, though, if my immediate family forgets about it.  Gladly, they didn’t.  And I am just thankful that my friends and officemates also remembered my special day.  In fact, they gave me a Red Ribbon cake on my first day at the office.

Farewells and Parties

Farewells never seem to be complete without parties.  Parties celebrated not for the reason that these persons are already leaving the group, but for all those years or months that they have been with us.  And for the month of January, we at Dev1 bid Imee and DJ our farewells as they leave our group to be transferred to – well – the other room!

So before the month ended, we had a small party (read: inuman) to commemorate (haha… bayani ang dating) all the hardwork and efforts that our two officemates have shown while they were with us!  Haha!  Ampangit pakinggan! :p But we really had our month end party, although not just for their farewell.

Well, the night started great and ended quite sour.  There was the usual fun, especially when the 1-2-3 pass game started, and the quite expected ending that cut the game short.  I won’t divulge the entire incident here in this post.  As far as I am concerned, the details of it must be kept private.  But I still feel sad that the night ended that way.  And I feel quite guilty that I did not do anything when in the middle of it all, I was already expecting something like it to happen.

The End

So that would be it for my January update.  This post is quite late to achieve my four posts per month promise for this site, but I hope that you would count it, as well as my previous post, as a post for January.  Hehe.  Excuses…

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