Saturday, January 5, 2008

The day we met Bonnie!

First, we went to Jezah's house to join them in their fiesta celebration. It was my first time to be there and to meet the other Jerks after a long time of exile in cebu (hehehe exile jud daw ang gigamit!). We had fun, we ate (of course,the most important part~!!!! ahahahaha and the sole reason why we were there? hehehehe), and not to mention, the all time favorite of all VIDEOKE!!!! after long hours of talk and laugh we finally decided to go home.
On our way home, we decided to "tambay" in the city just to kill the time. We passed by Quezon avenue road and saw an open apartment. Winston peeped on it same with Fhy and everyone else followed, we just laughed and unknowingly the owner was outside watching us, having fun with his place. When we decided to leave, The owner spoke and said " Gusto mo musulod?" then Winston answered yes , the owner agreed. But we just laughed and tried to leave. He then asked where are we going, our gay friend explained that we are just looking for a place to stay just to kill the time. The owner invited us to stay there, with him and drink. At first i thought he was just kidding, but he really did invited us to enter the room. It was dark and bare. But you will notice some papers posted on the walls. There were like poems. Poems of hatred, of disgust and disappointments.

When we were there, i thought he was just trying to campaign for his uncle who is running for Vice Mayor in Iligan city. But as the time goes, i realized that he was just looking for someone to talk to. Someone whom he can share his hurts, from his family and most specially his brother. He told us his life story and how ended that way. If you'll be very observant you would notice that there are lots of empty and full bottles of beer. In his punching bag, you would see a phrase of hatred and a name, where i assume he usually would punch on.
"FK" that was the initial. And you would see that in almost every poster.Base on the poems, i thought he was a psycho or something. because he keeps on talking about his brother and how much he hated him for what his brother did to him. He gave us 100 peso bill, he gave us dimsum pancit canton and something like chao fan? and he ordered siopao and 10 bottles of San Mig Light for 7 people, 8 if his included. That was a kid gesture from a total stranger. We had fun talking with him, in-spite of some scary moments when he was touring us in his room, that thing he showed us, honestly i was a bit scared and worried. But other than that, i really had a great time. It was a wonderful experience hehehe talking with Bonnie.
He just felt so alone and no one to talk too. So he would grab opportunity to mingle and talk to total strangers like us. He asked for our contact numbers so that he can call us for some time (we actually gave Winsy's number). heheheh when we finally decided to leave, i was touched when he said " Gikapoy kog kinatawa oi, Nalingaw jud ko!". an indication that he had a great time too and he was indeed lonely.
Til Next time Bonnie!!!!!!

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Miracles do Happen


Job Abandonment, the memo that I don’t want to receive, who like this anyway, no one right? For the past 2 years I tried to be the best employee as I can be. Following all the process, abiding the bylaws and respecting the heads trying to please everyone tried to be nice. There are just people that whatever you do they just don’t like you.
I really don’t understand what the main point of this blog is. I have mixed emotions. I just couldn’t concentrate in one topic. What I’m trying to analyze was why it’s not possible for me to go home. For sure they will just be offering voluntary go home for the people. For times like this I’m beginning to hate the company. But that’s the sad truth for industries like this. You have to be away from your family just to answer calls from people who actually doesn’t care about you. You try to act as if everything is ok, when its not. You try to smile and sound happy even if you’re just faking it. I envy those courageous people who walked out the door of this company and searched a greener or better Pasteur. They are so brave. And sad to say I’m not brave enough. I can’t just give that decision right away; I have to think of my debts, my siblings depending on me and most of all I have to think about myself here in Cebu . What would possibly happen to me if I loss a job. I keep on saying and I even keep on planning to resign but I just couldn’t do it. I just can’t. My friends might be sick of hearing those things from me. Its all just plans.
I wanted to storm the heavens with prayers to give me a miracle. Hoping that a miracle would happen starting December 29th at least until January 2.

Friday, November 16, 2007

About Me

I am Xy-Za a complicated, simple, creative young lady or should I say woman, who's currently settling in her hometown, Iligan City. I admit I am a workaholic, I am a person who can work on my own. Most of the time a perfectionist. I'd rather do things and execute tasks on my own rather than getting unsatisfactory results but when laziness strikes, I can stay in bed the whole day. I love watching movies, most specially when it's musical and comical. I am at times poetic and hopeless romantic. I cry watching sad and romantic movies, that's why I try to avoid them. When almost everyone loves Harry Potter, me? I'm not a fan. I haven't even dared reading 1 book of the Harry Potter series. I'd rather read architectural and interior designing books and magazines. I love to draw and paint and I love starring at the computer the whole day manipulating photos and searching interior design websites.


I am not a professional writer, nor a professional photographer.I love taking photos of simply everything. I don't have an expensive digital SLR camera, I only have a China made point and shoot and a camera phone. Despite that, I'm proud to say that I take good pictures (hahaha such a show off). I'm currently pursuing Culinary courses @ La Vetta Chef's Class and soon Interior Design courses @ Sofa-School of Interior Designs. 

Me and my family loves to travel and go on food trip. I have been to many places already with them and will travel the rest of the world with them, and hopefully with a husband. Yes,I am currently single but temporarily unavailable (hehehe). I have stayed in Cebu City for 5 lovely years where I succeeded, fallen in love and deeply hurt. So now I'm back in Iligan City, working as a Freelance Virtual Assistant


I gained experience in web management, web design and transcription services through self and online studies. I don't have formal studies with regard to this skills but previous clients have been giving me online courses and online trainings to master the field. I also maintain http://www.xyzaspeaks.com that I wish you would visit.
My freelance work experience includes ;
  • Audio Transcription/ Voicemail transcription; 
  • Medical transcription ; 
  • Data Entry ;
  • Encoding (50wpm) ; 
  • Research (using the Internet); 
  • Forum posting; 
  • Blogging and Blog Commenting; 
  • Online Marketing;  
  • Ad Posting ; 
  • Office related tasks; 
  • Social Network (Facebook,Twitter, DIGGS and MySpace) Marketing; 
  • Article Writing/Re-writing (SEO); 
  • Website Management;
  • Web Design [Wordpress and Blogger]
  •  Email Marketing include bulk emailing
  • Bookkeeping Services in QuickBooks. 
These is meant to just give you an idea of things that I have worked on in the past for clients. Please contact me for information about any of the above or to ask me if I can help you with something not listed above.

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Xy-Za Yape is working as an Independent Virtual Assistant specializing in General and Medical audio transcription, article writing, blogging and webdesign. For more information you may visit http://www.xyzaspeaks.com and click on the contact me page.