This is Rrrrrrrreuben

12Nov08

Personal Entry #3

So I’ve been pretty busy lately working and the past weekend I just moved into my new apartment in Sunnyvale. It rained when I moved in. With a 9 to 6 job, swollen stinky feet, and going through the process of moving to a new location, I haven’t really had time or energy to write. I haven’t written anything crazy random in awhile now which makes me kind of sad. I get all these cool (or weird, however you choose to see it) ideas on stuff to write but I end up just forgetting them.

Now that I think about it, I remember one today. So I ask the customer withdrawing a couple thousand, “How would you like your cash?” She replies, “Large.” Now at that moment I was pretty bored and tired and I couldn’t help but entertain myself. I imagined handing her over sized bills like those big novelty checks you see in game shows. I laughed through my nose. Ahh those big over sized checks, gotta love ‘em.

Oh and what was also somewhat “Twilight Zonish” was some old lady and I mean pretty old looked at me in the eye and said I looked familiar. Interestingly enough she asked me if i was from Manila. My nostrils flared with amazement as I confirmed that I was in fact in Manila. I have no accounts of meeting an old lady but that was quite randomly cool and weird.

But I digest err digress. The past week I have had Virtual Training. Now when I say virtual, I do imagine wearing like helmet with 3d glasses, attaching cool gloves, and entering a virtual world but sadly it wasn’t that awesome. It was in fact a conference call while on the computer running a classroom type program with a facilitator and classmates of course. There were buttons to signify raising your hand, laughter, a green check to agree, and a red X to disagree. The whole time I wished they had a button to show, “Hey I’m goddamn hungry.” Or better yet, “self destruct“.

All in all the training experience through the virtual classroom was alright. Most of the time it was boring but we had cool upbeat facilitators. There was also this classmate who, everytime he’d talk, he’d start by saying, “This is Rrrrrrrobby.” Like he was a DJ of a late night radio show or something.

At times when we were idle or waiting, the facilitator would let us doodle on the screen. The whole week I seriously was waiting for someone to draw a cock but people would always draw it incomplete. It’d either be an 8 or a U or maybe a P. Hahaha those doodling  times were good. I swear at some points I was so bored, they’d ask draw what you had for lunch like we were preschoolers or something. I drew grass. Someone labeled it rotten moldy french fries. Uhh, fries don’t rot, they last forever! Haha. Supersize Me anyone?

Another side note from work, some co-workers suspect one of our customers to be a drug dealer / money launderer. Coincidentally, I befriended her immediately. (Haha)

Oh and info on the apartment I moved into. Its next to a mortuary. Interestingly enough, my job is also next to a mortuary. Hmmmm (play twilight zone music). And NO I was not scared to sleep alone.

I had the lights on =] haha

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