Post 0003: Ryojoku no Ame

The official entry for November 09, Thursday, and November 10, Friday.

- Thursday was a very dark day, at least in terms of my office life. I believe that there has always been a rain of insults (thus the title of this entry) following me and my teammates for the past few days, considering that we are now at the mercy of a fickle invisible chain of command here in the office. We don't know exactly which rules to follow, but at least our backs are covered by Alan, our Korean boss. But for how long, that we cannot answer. We are hoping for better days. Almost everyone in the team's getting into all sorts of unimaginable trouble; sometimes our fault, and sometimes, believe it or not, we get framed – that's exactly what happened to me. I was innocently using the PC that Chris used to use since mine was broken and there were no other PCs available. Around that afternoon, someone sat beside me. I kind of noticed her from a couple of days back and remembered she always does her job there. Little did I know that something was afoot. A couple of moments after that, she approached Alan. Geo told me that she heard them talk about me using the PC. Logically, I think anyone in my position would've done the same, but for that woman, I was already doing an offense. Hello? At least you could've directly told me that was a no-no and I would've gladly left that seat in respect of the rules. I was not aware. But you DID NOT. That was one heavy rain of insult you hurled my way. So after the second time I sat on that computer and tried to do my work there, she finally talked to me and said that Alan already told me that it was off-limits for non-supervisors (so I quickly assumed that she was – good for her). Startled, I asked, “So, what am I supposed to use then?” In the most poilte manner possible. Turned out it was an insult for her, so after she told me to contact the IT staff, she called the HR and her fellow she-males got pissed off. When I got back, she told me that someone down the HR wanted to talk to me so off I went. I was cornered in a room and confronted directly with crimes I was not guilty of. Still being in a reasonable state of thinking, I decided not to prolong the bullshit that started upstairs by denying the accusations but apologizing for the misunderstanding nonetheless, but it seems these amazons are really looking for blood in their doorsteps. “I just hope you're telling the truth”, she said. “Ma'am, I KNOW I am telling the truth,” I replied. After that I went upstairs again, and despite the hatred I harbored for the cunt I decided to let it go for now. Someday, she will pay for her offenses dearly. A bloody rain of insults will storm her cloudy future, I know. As for the entire situation in general, we have figured out that to beat the opposition, we have to play by their rules and eventually make them tap out soon as soon as we blindside them. The objective is to genuinely befriend those we think are worthy of the camaraderie and trust, build a strong relationship with them, try not to fuckup in any manner, and make them our cash cows, until we find the need to ditch them. As I am writing this, things are considerably looking up for the account. I just hope that my perception is not fooling me.

- Lighter side of things na uli. Medyo ayoko nang pag-usapan eh. Hehe. For the past few days, I've been hooked on Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. Ever since I got the other GBA emulator titles from Dan, I decided that I will finish them all para madagdagan na ang knowledge ko sa story and gameplay ng Castlevania. It is heavily similar to Symphony of the Night, but in my opinion twice as hard. If you get crushed underneath a big opponent, you don't seem to gain temporary invincibility (you get hurled away and gain a second's worth of invulnerablitity in most of the games in the series) well of course it works with the non-boss enemies, that is, if they're not the kind that will follow you while they're tossing you around, causing a significant chunk of your life meter to drop. This really becomes a problem in the early parts of the game. I didn't read any FAQs for this because I didn't want any sort of spoiler, but I looked up for the map so I know how big the castle is. Another similarity to SotN is you get to walk around a second castle as well. For the most part you could say this was like the SotN's son.

- So why the Dir En Grey title, by the way? Good question. If you've known me since day one, you know that DeG is one of my favorite bands. But a recent discovery just made them cooler in my list. Thanks to the ever-helpful Wikipedia, I was able to extract a couple of interesting facts about the Osaka-based quintet. Read all about it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dir_en_grey.

- All for now I guess. I hope you guys will enjoy the weekend as much as I will (dalawang araw na walang pasok! Woooooooot~). Class dismissed.~