I'm at the office ryt now, before that I went to barangay hall to follow up a blotter case (ha ha ha langya). It was a simple scenario of "friend reklamo" but estafa will be a serious situation. So let them be, sa monday naman magkakabayaran na... "God is watching us"I go to bed this morning at 4am and automatically woke up at 6:30am (please, give me sleeping pills hu hu hu). My friend told me that "parang kang aswang!, sa gabi ka gising!".... ok ok, di bale sana kung nakakatulog ako ng umaga, e after that I have to go to work (darn!). I'm a graphic artist (aning! aning!) and also a freelancer, my daily routine are not the same as others, lalo na kapag hataw sa gawa (project). I am a mother, a wife, a workaholic (away tayo kapag pinatambay mo ako!)...That's me!
I started this kind of a situation 7 years ago, "nasanay na ako sa puyatan" in short "ako ang taong walang gabi"...laging gising, sometimes more than 48hrs (ilaban mo ako sa lamay sa patay, hindi ka uubra). I tell you why, nagsimula ako masanay when the era of "WWF"...oh yes! I'm a big Ultimate Warrior fan!! (beware Hulkters!)...BOOM ganun na. When I was in College ganun din, making plates was fun to do but the labor of making it was hard, lalo na yang Scenography! (making a miniature stage)on our time wala pang graphics at pc subjects (jurassic na kami he he he) so its mano-mano by hands, can you imagine there's dis subject in advertising that you must create a logo... or any font in a size of 12pts sa pc e kinakamay namin, lucky for the students dis days na hindi sila umabot sa ganun. Or making 4 plates in different major subjects on the same deadline (wheewww!). Pero after that... masaya na! (I miss you guys!). When I started working at the age of 18 (turning 18 in 21 days to be exact) so it was 19 kopong-kopong pa yun. Naransan ko yung walang pera sa bulsa cause yung salary ko e para lang sa tuition fee at pambili ng gamit para sa school, yung para sa transpo e "bahala na Diyos ng chekwa bukas!", My lunch will be a marlboro (minsan 50/50, hati pa kaming tatlo sa isang yosi) at tubig sa drinking fountain na muntik pa ako mabiktima ng amoeba!!... I said to myself, "I'll never go hungry again" (huh! Gone with the Wind!), I suffered from that situation for almost 2 years, then... eto na, napunta na ako sa graphics year 1999, nagsimula na panibagong kalbaryo ko. I was working sa umaga then school sa hapon (or vice versa) then bakla sa gabi...este banda pala. Hindi normal naging buhay ko ha ha ha (natawa pa), samantalang yung mga friends ko e ang tanging prob nila e exams at plates while I was thingking of "where the heck ako kukuha ng pambayad sa kuryente bukas?". Dekada na ako sa ganyan (job), I roam around the metro to work for the last 10 years. Then dumating ang moment na may extra income. Then I got married and raising a daughter. Parang hindi nga ako nanay dahil sa trabaho ko... e daig ko pa Hosto at Hostes kung magpuyat, talo ko pa tanod sa barangay kung magronda sa gabi. I wake up at 6am (swerte na yung 7am), do the daily morning rituals, minsan may dagdag pa kapag nagising yung anak ko ng maaga, pasok sa work... trabaho, trabaho, trabaho... then uwi, minsan may OT until 10pm, then uwi, minsan magluluto, then kain, pahinga ng konti, kukultin ko chikiting ko or minsan hindi na dahil pagod na, then gagawa ng sideline at 12 midnight until 3 or 4 minsan kapag gulpihan sa deadline e hangang 5:30, pahinga ng konti ulit... ligo, pasok!! (hala). I do that sometyms more than 20xs a month, kaya don't ask if I look like I'm having dis Anorexia look. They even doubted me as a drug addict because "ang lakas mong mag-trip men... tamang gawa ka sa madaling araw" thing... I realized na hindi ko ka kaya at baka I will end up like my brother who died 6 years ago at the age of 35 because of the same gawain (naku! may 6yrs pa ako para mabuhay). Nakakaramdam na ako ng hindi maganda, I even hallucinate kapag napupuyat ako "Huh! nakita mo ba yun? may ibang tao ba dito?"... nyeee, may "bulong" na ata ako. I rested for 3 months (dis year), no more freelance jobs anymore, then I quit sa banda para iwas puyat at mga gastos (dahil para akong nanakawan kapag tumutugtog kami), lumipat ako ng job sa QC (parang ganun din) sa layo at transpo... TALO!!! Then quit nanaman sa job, pahinga ng 2 weeks, at bwiset na yan sinabayan pa ng bagyo at hi-tide at pinasok ng tubig ang bahay namin sa Atlantic place ng Malabon. Balewala!!! at eto nagsisimula nanaman ang freelance ko (parang hindi ako mapakali kpag wala non)... hayyy!! till when kaya ako makakapag vacation... dream ko yun.
