April 22, 2009 • 12:20 pm
Rafaella
Just recently a very good friend of mine gave me a very great and wonderful surprise…She gave me my very first camera, SLR old school using film. It is a Nikon F75. I love the old school feel of it. The way it just begs for a film to be inserted into its body for me to start shooting. I can’t wait to practice out with Z my most favorite model. Here are a few random pictures of Raffy from my trusty old camera phone.
Filed under: My Photography , gifts, milestones, My Photography, photography
Well I passed the final interview and was then led by the HR associate to their HR room and given this list of requirements for pre-employment. Of course the already staple physical exam was ever present. My tale is that when I got my PE I was with sister troiks as we were getting our salary from our project work… Well we got to the place after being adventurers about its direction and I went through the whole process…urine and etc…hahahah! Anyway, just my luck that the lady doctor was not present because she was on leave so the only doctor available to do a physical was a male one…uh uh! He was a good old kindly doctor who explained to me that he needed to do a breast examination himself because the female doctor was not around. I was quite taken at first but I just put aside all feelings and forced myself to be clinical like the doctor was. He asked me if it was ok and told me that he will have a nurse inside with us to be quite formal about the whole thing. Was I relieved! I have had a dozen PE’s from before and always it was a female doctor who did a breast examination and this was the first time ever that a male doctor will do it. He told me to take off my shirt and bra and just cover it with the blanket that they provided. After doing them, I took a deep breath and prepared for the examination. When he came back in the room with a nurse I was trying to distract myself by talking to him and he seemed to be cooperating. His bedside manner was quite professional and clinical that I did not feel that mortified. He did the examination in a very good way. I didn’t feel at all bad about the whole thing even though it was quite new for me.
So, ladies have you had your breast examined already? This is very important for all women out there because breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death for women. Have your breasts checked out regularly… We all owe it to ourselves!
Filed under: Health , family news, Health
Hello dear readers, I am sure that you have missed me… I am sorry to have not been able to update recently here because I have been quite busy with new things. As of March 31st of this year my job as executive consultant ended and the 2 weeks before it did I already had an inkling that I was coming to my end in that industry. I wasn’t really looking around but a friend texted me that he needed Operations Managers and Team Leaders for his australian telco account and so I replied that I was interested. He asked for my resume and so I sent it to him via email. After 2 days, I got a text message saying that I was scheduled for an exam and interview on the Monday of the last week of March. Eagerly I took the day off and went to the venue of the interview and exam. I haven’t been through job processes as of late because I normally just go at them one at a time. So, I got there just in the nick of time and then began the process. They started first with an IQ exam. Gosh, I was thinking to myself that what if I didn’t pass. It would be so bad of me. I haven’t taken an IQ exam since like 2-3 years ago. Well, I did pass it after 30 minutes of slaving over the answers to that exam. Then came an English exam wherein you had to continue the phrase to make it into a passable sentence and the one phrase that struck out was “ Your sex life is ___________________”. Talk about funny phrases. I laughingly finished the whole test and was asked to wait for the interview. I got interviewed after like 3 hours or so. Me and some other girl were the last to be interviewed. As I got ready for my turn, my hands were sweating cold buckets…I was kind of scared and excited about the interview. Normally though I do well on interviews but still I could not get over my fear and anticipation of them especially if the one interviewing you is a complete stranger. My interviewer was a guy who had spectacles on and the funniest part of it all is the fact that I was wearing shades because my eye was swelling because of an insect bite. I had to keep myself from laughing as I was explaining to him why I could not take my glasses of because I was worried that he might be distracted by my swollen eye. I breezed through it and was asked to wait for a text from them the very next week. Monday came and they invited me the next day for the final interview at one of their offices and I got interviewed by an operations manager and then after we finished the interview an HR associate was asked to “take good care of me”. After that I was led to an office where I was asked to complete my requirements and therein I got the job. I haven’t started yet but I am excited for a new change once again.
Filed under: My Family News , milestones, random musings, scared
