The first four paragraphs of this entry has been written on Oct15, the rest on Dec05.
it's been a while since i've last lived in the national capital region. i spent three great years in UP diliman where i should have been studying computer science but instead studied life. instead of reading my course materials, i chose to glean trivia from people. instead of attending classes, i chose to immerse my self in the complicated society man and all those crap. it's actually a nice way of saying i totally 'unstudied' in UP.
You might expect a sad, tragic ending but it actually ended relatively well. I finished computer science in a school in Davao and I'm now a very successful programmer of high tech softwares and rich beyond anyone's wildest dreams. I live in a three (3) storey house with a yacht in the lake in the backyard. I own and manage an all-girls highschool and have hundreds of call girls working for my call center. By the way, did I mention I'm mildy delusional?
But that is not the point of this blog today.
I'm back in manila and not in the comforts of the UP campus which I once called home. I'm here to find a job despite my delusional success. And despite owning an imagined black cutting-edge techonology black car with *insert cool sounding car accessory here* and shiny new *another exotic car part here* which runs on distilled water, I chose to travel by mass transit vehicles from tricycle to jeep to bus to mrt.
*Dec05 Update*
Delusions aside, I actually found a job. I now work still a programmer but this time for a bank (I'm not sure if its legal to state where I work, but I read blogs of employees getting the sacked after they squealed stuff about their employers. And I'm not about to bite the hand that feeds me, or at least not until I win the mega-lotto draw). According to the job offer, I would be handling atm transactions. That is what I tell people if ever they ask me what I do. But if they care for more details, this is what I tell them:
The 'programmer' of atm transactions is the operator of an atm unit. The operator 'works' inside the atm. You may fancy the blue screen interface and buttons of an atm, but it's actually manual operations inside with the 'programmer' manually counting the bills for your 1,000 withdrawal then type and print the receipt. I always wondered why the bank made sure during the phone interview that I'm below 5'7" and below 80kgs, it made sense because they have to make sure I'll fit inside. And if you ever seen those slim and small atms, think midget programmers. I also use to complain whenever atms go offline, but not any more. An offline atm means the programmer's snack/lunch/restroom break.
With this new understanding of atms and bank atm transaction programmers, go and treat atms with new found respect. And after every successfull withdrawal, whisper thanks thru the money chute.
Go ahead, we can hear you...
