<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14822752</id><updated>2011-04-21T20:10:37.552-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tranquility Amidst The Raging Storm...</title><subtitle type='html'>Tyring to maintain balance and focus even when the whole world is spinning out of control...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pooteek.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14822752/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pooteek.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>pooteek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14477133378031445653</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14822752.post-112666720295349157</id><published>2005-09-13T19:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-09-13T20:16:43.496-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thinking Of You...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/1600/dcarmela31.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccffff;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/200/dcarmela3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccffff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STAY - CUESHE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I believe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;We shouldnt let the moment pass us by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Life's too short &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;We shouldnt wait for the water to run dry &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Think about it &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Cause we only have one shot at destiny &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;All im asking Could it possibly be you and me? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;So if you'd still go, i'll understand &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Would you give me something just to hold on to? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;And if you'll stay, ill hold your hand &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Cause im truly, madly, crazily in love with you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Time has come &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;For us to go our separate ways &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;God forbid But my mind is going crazy today &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I feel so cold &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Feel so numb &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Im having nightmares but im awake &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Help me lord &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Fight this loneliness &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Take this pain away &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;So if you'd still go, i'll understand &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Would you give me something just to hold on to? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;And if you'll stay, ill hold your hand &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Cause im truly, madly, crazily in love with you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Now that you're gone, im all alone &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Im still hoping that you would come back home &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Dont care how long, but im willing to wait &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccffff;"&gt;Cause im truly, madly, crazily in love with you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14822752-112666720295349157?l=pooteek.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pooteek.blogspot.com/feeds/112666720295349157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14822752&amp;postID=112666720295349157' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14822752/posts/default/112666720295349157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14822752/posts/default/112666720295349157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pooteek.blogspot.com/2005/09/thinking-of-you.html' title='Thinking Of You...'/><author><name>pooteek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14477133378031445653</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14822752.post-112403396180345333</id><published>2005-08-14T08:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-09-13T20:17:31.570-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Light At The End Of The Tunnel...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/1600/dmirror.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/200/dmirror.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/1600/me3.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccffff;"&gt;I'm writing the second part of my post. After that depressing week, I tried to breeze through another hell week. We were bogged down by countless meetings and on top of that we thought we were in limbo because of QA POC "left" us. Well, we ended the week with a new "sup/boss" and a trip to the beach for a well deserved RnR. During that beach trip I thought, "Finally! I can let it all go and be relaxed", wrong! I enjoyed the trip, what with friends and all, but the pictures says it all... (Thanks a bunch Mike, Haze, Sha... Palawan?)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/1600/me2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/200/me2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/1600/me1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/200/me1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/1600/me4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/200/me4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/1600/me31.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/200/me31.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14822752-112403396180345333?l=pooteek.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pooteek.blogspot.com/feeds/112403396180345333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14822752&amp;postID=112403396180345333' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14822752/posts/default/112403396180345333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14822752/posts/default/112403396180345333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pooteek.blogspot.com/2005/08/light-at-end-of-tunnel.html' title='Light At The End Of The Tunnel...'/><author><name>pooteek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14477133378031445653</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14822752.post-112401868251502555</id><published>2005-08-14T04:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-08-14T04:33:46.210-07:00</updated><title type='text'>If Only...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/1600/dbad31.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccffff;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/200/dbad31.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccffff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Finally! I was able to snatch some precious minutes to update this thing. Well... it was a horrible 2 weeks to say the least. Sometimes I really hate this job... why? Because other people get hurt when we do our jobs to the fullest (No, I'm not an assassin, hehehe). While we were doing our QA stuff I was asked by the agent concerned to provide feedback on why she was having low scores. She was really affected and frustrated, she said that no matter how hard she tried it always comes up short. I feel so helpless because there's only so much we can do...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14822752-112401868251502555?l=pooteek.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pooteek.blogspot.com/feeds/112401868251502555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14822752&amp;postID=112401868251502555' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14822752/posts/default/112401868251502555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14822752/posts/default/112401868251502555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pooteek.blogspot.com/2005/08/if-only.html' title='If Only...'/><author><name>pooteek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14477133378031445653</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14822752.post-112258236838624555</id><published>2005-07-29T16:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-07-28T13:29:14.760-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Crammer Time...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/1600/vhd35.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/200/vhd35.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Another day, another heart stopper (hehe). We had our weekly QA meeting and we were tasked to create a new set of templates to be used by everybody in the account and it was to be finished ASAP (again!). We're really loaded and now this? We attended the NACS meeting and it was fun (really!), lots of newbies and everyone was in high spirits. Right now I'm excited about our planned RnR in Batangas, particularly in La Luz where we held our Account outing a few years back.&lt;/span&gt; Hopefully my VL will be approved so we can really enjoy this much needed break from work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14822752-112258236838624555?l=pooteek.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pooteek.blogspot.com/feeds/112258236838624555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14822752&amp;postID=112258236838624555' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14822752/posts/default/112258236838624555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14822752/posts/default/112258236838624555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pooteek.blogspot.com/2005/07/crammer-time.html' title='Crammer Time...'/><author><name>pooteek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14477133378031445653</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14822752.post-112236024894942900</id><published>2005-07-26T20:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-07-26T05:00:12.286-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Doing Nothing...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/1600/vhd05_8001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/855/1354/200/vhd05_800.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccffff;"&gt;Feeling a little bit sore, for not doing anything the whole day. We're actually loaded with tons of work for Week 31, but we're kind of procrastinating (*sigh*). A co-worker suggested I create this blog spot to write whatever I have in mind. The reason for such is that I told her "It is all in my head". Well... it kind of made sense to put it in writing instead of letting it cloud my already clouded judgment (ha!) by bringing back all those archived ideas and feelings. Here goes and I do hope it helps me in becoming a better person by retrospecting.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14822752-112236024894942900?l=pooteek.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pooteek.blogspot.com/feeds/112236024894942900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14822752&amp;postID=112236024894942900' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14822752/posts/default/112236024894942900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14822752/posts/default/112236024894942900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pooteek.blogspot.com/2005/07/doing-nothing.html' title='Doing Nothing...'/><author><name>pooteek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14477133378031445653</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
