Just My Luck

Don't get me wrong. I am not going to write a review on a movie with the same title, but shall I say, I haven't been feeling any luckier lately as well. For some reason, God has removed me from the list of the "lucky ones" and cut-pasted my name into an entirely different table, that table under the heading, "the UNlucky ones".

My third week at work hasn't been all glam and glitter. I've had my own share of booboo's which have been quite depressing when pondered upon. For one, I realized my "ignorance" on Microsoft Excel and my Powerpoint skills won't bring me anywhere with this kind of work. Having only a cent's worth of knowledge on Excel made work much worse. I only found out about "insert", "delete cells", "drag", "=!B13", and, "book1..." last week. It felt like I was in school all over again, learning more acronyms and shortcuts more than ever!

And as the cherry on top of my "melting" ice cream (melting due to misfortune), I screwed up on my first task under documentations. I was making a draft on this crucial document which, when found with at least one error (misspelled word or even just a difference in the punctuation marks), we will be fined $40.00. I ended up revising it four times because of my stupidity. For one, I never dared to ask questions to my co-workers that might've avoided me from committing this mistake. Also, since all the encoding had to be done on excel, it made matters worse. The never-ending mistakes caused me to have a one-on-one tutorial sessions with a more experienced "docs specialist" (as I would like to call it), and a little bit of sermon from her as well. Although the $40.00 fee was waived (despite having it revised thrice!), it still felt so uneasy to commit a mistake such as this one. Lesson learned: be super detailed and DOUBLE-CHECK!!!!

On the brighter side, I found a new place where I could feast on salads and pastas near work. There's an ala-Oliver's Sandwiches cafe in Orient Square named Plaid, and having lunch there made the day a bit better. I ordered the Lechon Kawali-silog, which was the bomb (only for 95 bucks, which was actually a good buy)! Definitely, I will be back to try their Caesar's Salad. Oh, how I miss eating nothing but salads and bread! But that's another story. =)

I need to get my good luck charms back!!!!