Saturday, January 23, 2010

THIS IS IT! Goodbye AC Corporation!

I've said a lot of goodbyes since the year started — goodbye to friends leaving the country, to balikbayan friends who'll leave the country again, to a lot of stuff which I had to dispose, to this to that to this to that... BUT it's only today when I'll start saying bigger, and more serious goodbyes. (Hence, expect a lot of goodbye posts after this one. Yes there will be more!)

Yeah, this time, goodbye AC Corporation! As what I told my colleague once: this won't be like that time I left my first job, when I held back tears as I bid goodbye to my colleagues-slash-new-friends. Now, it's totally different: I just want to end things, fervently. The stay was more than 2 years, but there's no social life to leave — No attachments, no girlfriends, just a very few fond memories (is that good or bad? hehe), which I won't cry over, but yeah, okay... I'll miss somehow. hehe.


my most memorable task: one-week J2EE Training in BIR,
my first real teaching experience!


my most memorable non-work trip: calatagan outing!


As I say "goodbye AC", I also mean goodbye Alabang. Not that I won't step on this place again, ever. Of course I'll still be an Alabang girl every weekend! It's just that I'm leaving a lifestyle which I loved 100x than that in Makati. I had a not-so-urban-life here — not so tall buildings, trees, grassy empty lots, less pollution, less people and windy afternoons. you know what I mean?

A friend joked once that I was "probinsicated" here — I can't forget that time when I stayed here for 2 or 3 weeks straight, then I passed by SLEX again for the first time, realizing that it's been a loooong time since I last saw the latest, coolest billboards in SLEX. gee! I looked up with awe, almost the whole travel time. no kidding! HAHAHA!

Before leaving, I went to the roof deck to take some pix, from 5:30 pm to sunset. There I realized, I should have visited the spot on late afternoons, in those times I wanted to clear my mind. It was so windy, the place was just so... serene. Too bad it was my last day! Oh well. I'll definitely miss these:

Goodbye Alabang
ATC, Madrigal Ave. and Gold's Gym Alabang!!!

Goodbye Alabang
Northgate and Westgate: no, there's nothing much to miss,
but I'll miss this view (minus the dirty laguna bay)!!!

South Center Tower
roofdeck: the bench where we used to hangout
for 20-30 mins after a quick lunch (when boss is around)!

South Center Tower
roofdeck: the yosi spot for the boys

Goodbye Alabang
the sunset. the pretty pretty sunset!

Goodbye South Center Tower
...and South Center Tower (taken from outside, CCF area)


Oh, btw, I'll never forget the most important thing I had in AC — one thing I wasn't able to let go until the last minute. I loved it so much that I had to take a pic (hehe):

Goodbye vaio
hehe. yes, my white vaio, and my pink mouse!


ANYWAY, I don't want to be so dramatic now. So I'm going to end this: To everyone I worked with, Thank you!

I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank the clients I worked with (you know who you are), who never heard up till now that I'm leaving. Sorry I wasn't allowed to say goodbye the way I wanted to, sooooo I'll say it here even if it may seem improper (better informal than never!): Thank you, and goodbye!

THIS IS IT! - not the end, but a wonderful start. So... see you around, au revoir!
 

1 comment:

bianca said...

"...there's no social life to leave"-- hmmm... hindi ka ba naging close sa officemates mo like sa CAI-STA?

uy Vaio CR series! Pink yung sa kin. Mukhang bago yung vaio mo ah and to think it's white. Yung sa kin kasi madumi. hahaha!