time to celebrate

Had dinner with my officemates at Dampa last night after work. It was a semi-celebration for me as well, since am now no longer a probationary employee. Weee! I passed the training period. I was so scared I wouldn't pass since I ask a lot of questions to the officers. (Pls. put emphasis on LOT. haha) Then, I was super touched because Sir Eric told me about the contributions I have made to the banks' operations...I never thought about those as noteworthy contributions. I just felt I was helping him out, since we are a team.

Back to last nite, we left work around 530, and had trouble hailing a cab since it was Friday and gimmick day for just about everyday. Got annoyed because there were some taxi's that just wanted to go to Quezon City or somewhere else. Why do taxi's choose where they want to go? That's so ironic. When we got there, we went to the market area to buy dinner. It was pretty funny, we were all girls (7 of us) but none of us knew how to choose seafoods, so Sir Eric was the one who bought the seafoods while we all looked on and did the carrying. After we were done choosing from the array of meat, shellfish, crustaceans, and fish, we went to Robbie's where they turned the stuff we bought into mouth-watering, tummy-filling, now edible food. We were so full! And, we still had enough for takeout. All this cost each of us around Php350. Pretty cheap.

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Other blog-worthy events:
-One of my friends from the embassy is going back to China. :( I'm sure going to miss her. She's also one of my favorite clients. She's always so nice to everyone, even when there are a lot of people and it takes us a while to finish her transactions.

-I'm planning to take cooking classes, baking in particular. I just feel that it's actually time I learned a skill. Or I might take up language courses, I did always want to learn how to speak French.

-Diko and family came over from New Jersey last August 12. Had lots of fun catching up and playing with my youngest cousin. Kids really do say the darnedest things.He was always saying something that made us laugh, but I think it was more of the innocent look he had on his face every time.