First Pay in Sandpit

I received my first ever salary from ADU yesterday. My emotion's neither happy or sad about it. Sheesh, if you only knew the whole story behind this check... but still, am thankful. Hayy, this will just slip by my hands. Why? I haven't paid rent for 2 months. Tsk. Now, all I'm wanting is for September to end.

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Wish me luck for this new whole month. Ayayay!

Episode 11

Today, I received my residence visa. Woohoo! After all those nerve-racking experiences that happened, I can finally be at ease. Who would ever thought that I'll be an official OFW? Haha.. Anyhoo, I prolly should end my episodes. Yes?

Super thank you Lord for all the blessings. I never expected anything BIG like this would happen.

Cheers!

Episode 10

You're prolly wondering what happened next in the series of my episodes. Well, I'm now here at sandpit, for almost a week. Getting back here seemed like a roller coaster you know but am glad all ended so well.

August 14-15: The date of my departure. I arrived NAIA airport by 8:30pm though the plane will depart the next day, 1:15am. I'm thinking, I'd better be early.. it's Friday and it's payday. I don't want to lose my temper on traffic, not that early. I'm saving it at the airport. :D So, I waited there for like more than 2 hours. I can't check in my baggage as my "very important papers" are still not on hand. Past 10 in the evening when the mogul arrived, panting, he gave me my papers and instruct me what to do. Enough with the details... in short, I passed through our airport though this time, it was all smooth and easy. Up until now, I wonder how come? Weniwei, I arrived Abu Dhabi earlier than expected.

August 16: First day at Abu Dhabi University (ADU)... officially. All went okay.. my boss was happy that I'm finally back.

August 18: Had some medical procedure like eye scan, xray and blood test.

Now, am waiting for the result of the medical exam so ADU can apply my residence visa and labor card. Hmmm.. I guess that's about it. More senseless episodes in the next few days. :)

4,343 miles...

...away from home now. I'm starting to miss EVERYTHING. From bogart, our hideous dog, to the red paint of our outer home; my bed and our forever messy living room; the unusual scent of my bedroom due to my old books and Xioms'  as well, all lying on my dusty floor; our literally dirty kitchen and my favorite spot whenever I want to lit my Marl; Mom's delicacies even if it's just sardines; my weird sisters, Achi and Taza; my one and only crazy Mom; my loving niece, Nicole; my close friends and most especially, my baby Xiomai.

Now, I think I need some rest.

Episode 9

Twas more than a week and I thought I won't be receiving any good feedback from the mogul. I tried texting and asking him for favorable results but it turned out am ranting again. He specifically said that I should be relaxed and that I should wait and be patient. For goodness' sake, my flight is almost near like tomorrow, I need to be present at the airport. Fuck you man! My left eye never failed twitching since the day I learned that I needed to rebook my flight. Mom said it was because am super stressed. Puhleeeaasseee... I don't want to throw another $100 for this.

Midnight when I received a text from the mogul that I'll be having my PDOS the next day at around 8am. Oh crap. I should've took a power nap awhile ago.

Anyway, I woke up early this morning, attended PDOS and yeah, went home writing this shit while waiting for the time. Tonight's gonna be my flight back to Abu Dhabi. If there's a term for that feeling of agonising-stressed-pseudo-excited freak, tell me.. because that's what I am experiencing right now.

So, one last step... then I'll be able to put an end to the idea of pissing in my pants. D'oh!

Episode 8

I don't actually know when will these episodes end. So here goes...

Yesterday, I am expecting a call from the mogul for my pre-departure seminar but to my surprise, I just received a text from him around late afternoon stating that we're having a big problem. The problem was I have to miss my flight tomorrow. Why? My papers didn't come out that day, that the system is fucking down and it will be released on Monday. Frantically, I contacted my superior in Abu Dhabi, told her what's going on and asked her to have my flight rebooked. I didn't realised that twas weekend there and all offices were closed. In short, she can't be of any help. In fairness, she tried but still no use. Nobody's been answering her calls there. I am completely in rage with the mogul at that very moment. As much as I want to curse him or break his nose, I can't or else I'll really be in deep shit! Damn it... this is not the way we planned. He told me that I will fly on the 8th. But what to do? To ease the anger, I just thought that this has got to have a reason. Maybe Lord just didn't want me to be on that plane. So be it.

Today when I woke up, I still haven't got any feedback from Abu Dhabi re my flight tomorrow morning. So I figured to make my flight rebooked by me self. I called the Etihad office here in Manila and asked if there's anyway that they can rebook my flight schedule. Luckily, there is but the thing is, it'll be on Monday next week PLUS I have to pay 100 USD for that process. FUUUCKKKK that! So before I could actually say yes, I told the operator if I can call back again (as I need to have it finalised first with the stupid money-sucking mogul). I immediately phoned the mogul and asked if the early Monday flight next week is feasible. He said yes, so I did have it rebooked. I just hope there won't be anymore problems after this. My goodness, 100 USD is no joke! It'll be shouldered by moi! This should work smoothly by now.

I have never been sooo tired and stressed in my whole life until today. Hayyy LIFE is really full of shit. I don't care if it's too early but I need to drown myself with beer!

Episode 7

Yesterday, I got an unexpected news.. that I'll be flying back to AUH very soon. My flight booking is confirmed and since then my butt's been panicking.

To tell you honestly, my problem in Episode 6 hasn't been resolved yet but I am confident that everything's gonna work out the way I planned. Plan A or B may be marked X but I still got 24 letters left in the alphabet, right? Hehe.. Anyway, I went out this morning to meet with this mogul who's gonna make my plans work. I just can't digest our "law" and left myself hanging on to nothing. Sometimes, we indulge ourselves to do some acts of evil in order to reach our goals. Now then, nuff of this shitty story and give me some support. I will, in no time, tell you all about these craziness when things are accomplished. Promise.

It's another day again, I better be sleeping now.


xo