Meeting, hanging-out and hurt

Our store meeting today was great. Even though there are some concerns brought up like low ratings on snapshots, cost cutting on maintenance and some areas of improvement, it was ok. I guess those problems were common in stores. Also for entertainment, I sang a song of one of my Alma Mater’s popular song. They were amused and laughed their hearts on that song.

I had a pep talk on Glecy, one of our MOD (Manager on Duty) about an unpleasant incident when she was still new in Katipunan. According to her, a customer bought 5 flavor locks of each of our beans. The customer wants to pay it in his credit card. But the credit card is suspicious because the credit card is from some foreign bank abroad that wasn’t known. She called Equitable-PCI bank to confirm the card while she asked a partner to have chitchat with him as a stalling tactics and to dampen his suspicions. But an hour later, because Equitable-PCI was hard to reach, the customer suddenly entered the backroom area of our store (it is off limits to public) and suddenly snatched his driver’s license and sped off with his van. Glecy’s suspicion on the customer was right: he is a syndicate who possesses a fake credit card to purchase a lot of products but only to find out that credit card cannot transact at all thus the purchase will be void. Luckily, she was able to keep the credit card and alert all banks and other stores of the perpetrator. Unfortunately, our Libis counterparts weren’t lucky because they fall for it.

After the meeting, we pigged out at Jerry’s Grill just behind our Support Center. We took up all night to socialize and have some UBE (Ultimate Bonding Experience). I had at least 5 bottles of San Mig lights and good thing I didn’t puke nor got drunk.

As I right this blog, I got a feeling that I was kick in to my guts none other by a good friend of mine! I comment on the movie “The Great Raid”, a movie about WW II stuff here in the Philippines. As a historian, I find it historically wrong and I know the dark side of the story. I commented to my friend that it was a mediocre and he got “sick” of me debating on such things. Although he has a point that I critique a movie even if I haven’t watch it, I find it hard to accept that he can’t bear my side of the story.

Jasp, have the big US of A eaten your bits of your Filipino mark to the brink of your own destruction and insanity? Had they blinded you that US is really a friend of our country? Dude, I’m a nationalist and I’m proud of our country. It’s just not right to always make our country’s history from the point of the conqueror. It wasn’t right at all.

Jasp, I know your mad at me but please have some dignity on respecting other’s opinion on the other side of the issue. Truth hurts man. It really is and hard to swallow. Please stop blinding yourself of such sanctimonious lies of our conquerors. Please, do it for me as a friend. That’s all I’m asking.