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I guess we can all agree that this song is far from being brilliant, but hey, it does echo my sentiments when I was still in the call center industry. I don’t know about other call center agents (representatives, specialists, whatever), but I saw a call center job as a temporary thing. An oasis in the job hunting desert of the Philippines. An oasis I gladly left approximately one year ago.

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My stupid “just woke up” face with stupid braces still on. A couple of hours later, no more stupid braces. Face is still stupid, though.

After 3 years and 5 months of wearing orthodontic braces, I finally had them removed. The relief I’m feeling right now is heavenly. It’s like I’ve just shit a ton after holding it for 3 hours or something. But even though I’m happy that I no longer have to put up with metal thingamajigs, I somehow miss wearing them braces.

Three and a half years ago, while I was visiting my dentist, I asked her about braces. How much will it cost? Do I need it? How much pain will I be in if I decide to go through with it? She told me the cost, she said I needed it, and she never mentioned anything about the pain. After a couple of minutes, I told her my decision. After 1 week, I was back in her clinic, enduring the tremendous pain inherent in having braces installed. I did it because I’ve always been bothered by the gaps between my teeth, not to mention my subtle overbite. But I did it mainly because I thought it would be cute. Yeah, dumb idea.

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Friday morning while at work, I started preparing my new account at Page.ph for the eventual yupielbi.com migration. Since the connection at the office was like a snail on downers, backing up all yupielbi.com files was a whole day affair. Backing up the database was also a pain. But I managed to finish everything before the end of the workday. Yay!

At home, I did another backup of the files and the database. I’m OC like that. Thankfully, the connection was pretty okay so I got the chance to dick around the web a lot while doing the backups. Around midnight, I started the whole migration thing. It took me almost 10 hours to set up yupielbi.com, now yupielbi.org, at the new host. Complete with updating all relevant links on several sites and services, including Friendster, Feedburner, Google Analytics, Technorati, etc. It was all worth it. I needed to get away from Philhosting.net as soon as possible. The frequent downtimes were simply unacceptable.

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After 3 days of The MASStig Ilocos Adventure Team being on the road, dicking around at the beach, and violating songs via videoke over a river, we spent our 4th and last day appreciating Philippine history, Chavit’s Baluarte, and kalesa rides in Vigan. And of course, there was the road trip back to Manila. Like all great road trips, the journey back home always seems the shortest. But it was still fun, though. Anyway, here’s the last batch of photos chronicling the soon-to-be legendary Ilocos adventure of UPLB MASS. Ladies and gentlefreaks, Baddie & UPLB MASS’ Invasion of The North - Day 4:

This is me in front of the oldest McDonald’s in the whole world! Seriously.

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After Day 2, 6 of us left Ilocos to go back to Manila. And then there were 11. But that didn’t stop the remaining members of The MASStig Ilocos Adventure Team from having some more fun. For Day 3, we went to a nearby river, which we affectionately call “Ang Ilog na Malupet”, that had cottages on top of it. But those cottages didn’t make the river “malupet”. Inside those cottages were videoke machines! I mean, videoke machines! Inside cottages! Elevated by bamboo foundations over a freakin’ river! And after that, we visited the 414-year old (more or less) Paoay Church and then we ate exotic Ilocos dishes. And to end the day, like the first 2 days, we let alcohol put us to sleep. Now, in photo-speak, let me show you Baddie & UPLB MASS’ Invasion of The North - Day 3:

This is the M.I.A. Team heading towards our cottage over “Ang Ilog na Malupet”.

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