The presentation has not yet started, the power point is still at the first slide showing the points of discussion during the meeting today. I don’t understand why we have this weekly event but I am the most excited. Name tags were placed on where everyone is expected to seat. My desk is right across…
Author: Gerald Pio
The Applicant
I embraced my backpack tightly, or should I say front pack? Rather than carrying the bag on my back, I placed it in front. A pair of pants, a shirt, and my resume – these were tightly stuffed inside. The bus opened its door and the blazing heat welcomed as I stepped out, I began…
The Probie
I inched closer to the edge of the building. The polluted humid air swept across my face. I could hear the cars honking amid the heavy traffic. They looked so… small… minuscule from up here. I held my breath, stopping the tears that were starting to blur my vision. What has made me come alone…
Hometown
The golden terraces glistened, the palays swayed flirting with the farmers for harvest. From afar, you’d see men, muddy from foot up to their long sleeves, sweat traceable on their backs. This is a usual day during the harvest season. The season you’d eventually feel that time is moving in normalcy. This along with the…
The Rebel
I breathed in the cold air as I slowly walked towards you. This place was much grassier. There were no fences and definitely not this overcrowded. The place has changed so much since. ********** A mi amor Maria Eliza, I can never forget how me met. It was 1925 when Mayor E. J. Halsema had…
The Volunteer
That moment was something I would always treasure. “Do at least one good deed a day.”
Daily Thought #6
Sometimes, reality sinks in and you realize that there comes a time when you have to give up or quit. Raising the white flag does not make you a loser, or a quitter. Nor will it ever define you. It makes you a strong person to be able to feel when it’s already time to…
Daily Thought #5
Would it be alright to give up when you can no longer cope up and act like you’re still strong enough?
Daily Thought #4
I don’t think I can ever go back to that feeling of pride when I was able to accomplish something, even the littlest of tasks. I am at that point where all I see are my incapabilities. Seeing someone sneer at you for saying something wrong, being corrected by colleagues in front of staffs or…
Daily Thought #3
When you are about to reach your breaking point from tight deadlines and reports, at the end of the day when you have composed yourself from the troubles of the day, that is when it will finally hit you – the realization that there are still things to be grateful for. You have superiors who…
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