The footsteps of piggy 2007 are slowly fading in the portal of the hub of ratty 2008. It is necessary to track down its footsteps and restore them since they might be helpful in dealing with the aggressive rodent’s year.
My 2007 table calendar was being sarcastic, showing all those marked projects that supposed to be done on their allotted time yet were never started on and much more, almost forgotten if not hastily salvaged with a red pentel pen.
Indeed, 2007 was such a lazy pig for me. My sideline jobs had not stayed longer than a month or two. Commitment and punctuality were the issue here. My attendance was an alternating present-absent all through and through. And if present, well, more or less, twenty-minute late. To put salt on my wounded and already tattered Freudian ego, my employer oftentimes reprimanded me and talked to her daughter in a very indistinguishable language named Hangul and I could tell, they ridiculed my behavior towards work since Koreans are too mindful with time.
And at school, I sucked at academics. I was always busy with my own thoughts and never listened to my professors especially they were not audible enough for my wandering head. They were feeding literature which at times I forgot to gnaw but just devoured with the absence of elegance. The outcome—my grades suffered from indigestion.
I was branded as bugoy and badlungon nga babaye (and hopefully not anymore), much to my dismay.
And now, my 2007 table calendar has been replaced by 2008, and my sis’ hubby handed me a planner. And the red pentel pen, again, will be used in planning, informing, waking myself that there are a lot of things to do.
The faults I made from the pages of 2007 should be corrected now. Calendars and planners are just my weak front guards in correcting them. The guards within me should be maximized to attend to the necessary responsibilities and obligations based from commitment, discipline and well, punctuality will follow.
I should not feed the pig within me, and stir the tiger (born on its year) and let it work on the yard owned by the rat.