Thank God for the Internet, you can now research almost about anything in an instant. That is what I did when I received a text message from someone I didn’t know. This person is asking for my help to come here in Manila because apparently she/he has a job offer in San Miguel. I didn’t reply to him/her because I’m sure she/he won’t stop texting back and pleading for help. I knew right away that it was a scam. So I typed marie 21yo bacolod on Google’s search bar and found a lot of forums/blog posts about this text scam.

I’d like to share his/her text message:

Pued po b akong humingi ng 2long sa inyo? I’m marie, 21yo freshgrad po from Bacolod City. Ggawin ko po ang lahat ng kpalit na gusto nio, ma2lungan nyo lng po akong mkpunta sa mynila. My job hiring na po kc sna ako jan sa san mig-ortigas, syang po kc kung madissolve lng… im willing to take the risks ng kpalit na hhngin nio. Un nlng tlga pgasa ko na mkluwas kgd pra mhbol deadline ko po… my pic & supporting docs po ako sa http://www.mariebacolod.tk
-marie (+639276135127)

I visited her/his site and saw the “diploma” she/he posted. She/He graduated cum laude from University of St. La Salle. Wow! I don’t think a cum laude will be this desperate? Another thing, the blog/forum posts I found dated back to last year but this person who texted me today is still 21 years old and a fresh grad! *LOL*

How can people do things like this? Why don’t they do something useful from their time and not trying to scam other people. Why don’t she/he just look for an actual job instead of using her/his time in scamming others? I just hope no one falls for these kind of scams anymore, like what they always say “Walang manloloko kung walang magpapaloko.”

I have blogged about this before, and I just thought I’d blog it again since this is how I always feel.

“Sometimes you just can’t tell someone how you feel. Not because you don’t trust them & not because they will think that you’re weird. But because you can never really find the right words to make them understand. It makes you frustrated. People take things 100 different ways, & that’s why it’s so hard.”

That’s exactly why I prefer to express myself through writing/blogging. I couldn’t care less on what people will think of me this way. People who know me may see me as this “mababaw” person. And sometimes certain people think they got me all analysed- that they actually “know” me. I try so hard to change the way they think of me, I try so hard to show them that “Hey, you’re wrong about me!” I don’t know if I’m at fault for giving them the impression they have of me or they’re wrong for assuming. Honestly, I do not know their impression of me. I can just feel that I have to prove something to them. Or maybe… I’m just paranoid.

Realization: When you have to start justifying, you are basically admitting that you are wrong.

Weird title ‘no? But that’s what happened today.

Frustration
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So my boyfriend and I planned to go to Asian Hospital at the Maxicare Representative clinic to have our respective check ups. We’ve been planning this since last December. I even called up the Maxicare hotline and even the Maxicare at Asian Hospital to confirm if they are open during weekends, Saturday to be specific. And both confirmed they’re open on Saturdays. Even the person I talked to at Asian Hospital told me that they’re open as early as 8:30AM and that we should arrive earlier because there’s a lot of people/patients during Saturdays. So when we got there it was already 9AM and guess what? At the front door it says that their office hours is at 10AM!!! But they we’re telling the truth when they said that there’s a lot of patients already waiting. So we waited until 9:30AM and the clinic was open but not by the Maxicare representative… it was for another clinic/doctor that has nothing to do with Maxicare. You see, Maxicare is just sharing a room with other doctors. The assistant of one of the doctors we’re calling and coordinating with Maxicare. And from what I heard the representative is on leave and Maxicare could not tell who will be reporting at Asian Hospital. A lot of patients we’re already waiting… I cannot breath because of the crowd in the clinic So my boyfriend and I just decided to leave. We will just try our luck at the Megamall branch next time

Shopping
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To vent out all of my frustrations, I went shopping. *lol* What an excuse huh? How I wish I could hit the jackpot at any internet casino website so I can just buy everything I see and like. So for my recent purchases, I bought a new black pants it was at 10% off. I also bought an orange t-shirt for 250Php, it’s very seldom that I get to buy a t-shirt for that cheap considering my size. And I also bought an office bag for just 290Php!! Original price was 899.75Php at Robinson’s Department store but apparently they’re on sale. I really couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the price because it was so cheap. I had to ask the saleslady if that’s the correct amount. *lol* And the finale of my purchase, is a new Creative ZEN. I was really looking forward to buy the 3rd generation iPod Nano. But all the stores we have checked out only carries the iPod Nanochromatic, so I ended up buying the Zen instead. What I like about it is that it has a card slot, so the memory is expandable I now need to search for a screen protector and a case for my new gadget.