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Before Summer Officially Ends

Finally, our team had our first ever summer outing together last May 27-29. As far as I remember, the last team activity that we held out of town was back in 2004. Connie was still here then.

Our team outing was in Antulang, Dumaguete. All of us joined except Sel, who went to Palawan for their honeymoon.

I’m so lazy to describe the whole place so I’ll try my best to comment on the things which we failed to capture with our cameras. 😉

  1. Their food is so-so. The most that I enjoyed was their breakfast meals.
  2. Their service is overly slow! When we realized this, we learned our lesson. What we did was, if we’re having dinner at 7pm, we go the restaurant and order at 6pm then we leave and wander around. So when we get back, we’re sure that our food was ready.
  3. They scrimped us on ice. During one of our dinners, we told the waiter to just leave us a bucket of ice so that we don’t have to call them anymore. His reply was something like “Pwede po pero kelangan po kayo magdagdag ng 20 pesos per bucket”. Our reaction was “What?!”.

So much for that. Here are the pictures instead.


This is my first time to ride an airplane. Woot woot!!! Thanks for capturing this. 🙂


Jeng, Shindz and me. I’m trying to get the feel of it.


Hello from Dumaguete airport!


We were supposed to be picked up by a coaster but it left early. We thought that the driver wasn’t informed properly so we had to wait and take pictures! Hahaha!


When we arrived in Antulang, we were greeted with a “lace”. What’s with the cooler? It contains my breast pump. I will be expressing my milk while I am away from Ayex and bring it home.

We had brunch in their restaurant because we arrived at 11AM. After that, we were supposed to settle to our rooms but the only room that was ready was our Boss’ room.


This is our Boss’ room. Sooooo fit for him!

We had a three-hour long meeting, which we tried to enjoy despite the heat and the call of the pool.


Finally, we were able to settle to our own room after the exhausting meeting! Our room wasn’t big but that’s OK. I was joined by Shindz and Therese.


We went sightseeing after we fixed our things in our room and dressed up for some swimming!


Their beach is not very nice but I’d say, their infinity pool is really great!


The next day, we rode a yacht to APO Island for more swimming and snorkeling! First yacht ride and snorkeling. That island is divine!!! Its marine life is awesome and a true feast for the eyes! There was a school of huge fishes swimming around me and for a while, I thought they will bite me! I super duper enjoyed my first snorkeling adventure.


We had a day tour of the city before we went back to Manila on our third day. Of course we went to the pasalubong shops too! We brought home Dumaguete’s famous silvanas.

too many bad news happening

I haven’t finished the other parts of my update, which is still sitting in my drafts. Now I am here to write about something else. Something that is totally unexpected.

I mentioned in my first update that I’m quite swamped because my PKM just resigned. Some time last week, my team leader told me and Therese that Bong, our guy content editor also resigned to pursue personal goals. And today, after eating lunch, I had another bad news.

My routine during lunch time is to eat lunch and do my mommy thing afterwards. While I was doing my mommy thing, another officemate, Sel, knocked in the bathroom to check if it was me. She said, Nikki alam mo na? I can sense in her voice that it was some kind of a bad news. Earlier, I read an email from my TL where she said she has another news. But I never thought that it would be a bad one. After Sel knocked, she left and said that she’ll just wait for me. I was beginning to be tensed. I heard Therese call my name from the pantry (it’s right outside the bathroom). So I went out and asked her was is going on. Bimbo is already resigned.

Bimbo has been my manager since I entered Trend. I was a scholar back then and then became an intern then an employee. Our life before was simple but it evolved drastically over the past two years.

Why didn’t I get a feeling of this happening when he asked me how do I find his newly cleaned cube? It just felt terrible. As Therese said, it’s 3 in a row. He and I are the remaining members of the old team and on May 18, it would just be me.

I should not have anything against this. I know Bimbo have contributed a lot to Trend’s KM Team and he did a great job as the support portal manager. It just feel sad. I’m still speechless.

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