Soluziona Adventure

I did the final interview in Soluziona. Getting there was weird, first of all, I rode a jeep from the side of Robinson's and told the driver to drop me off at Meralco building, he didn't say anything, he didn't even move so I didn't know if he heard me. But I was quite sure my voice was audible. Anyways, I asked the lady beside me to inform me when we get to Meralco building, this time, she said ok. About thirty seconds after the jeep left the "terminal", the driver shouted, "O, Meralco!" He did hear me after all. When I stepped off the vehicle, I realized that I should have just walked, I wasted Php 7.50. I'm feeling really kuripot nowadays because I spent a lot in cab rides for interviews in Eastwood.

There was a guard at the gate of the Meralco compound and I immediately told him that I have a Soluziona interview scheduled. I wrote some stuff in the log book and before I could leave, he wished me luck. That was weird. But things got even weirder. When I entered the building, there was a circular panel in the lobby where the guards are stationed. One of the guards asked me where I was going and I said in Soluziona. He asked me, "Start ka na ngayon?" I replied, "Hindi po, interview pa lang." He asked for my ID and gave me a visitor's ID and another sheet of paper, then he said, "Good luck ha." Aaanong meron sa inyo?!!

I went straight to the fourth floor, there was a guard there again. I logged and he pointed to a door where I should enter. I was waiting for him to wish me luck. He didn't. Hay salamat. Normal na ang lahat. I waited in that room until this project manager, Mr. Jimpy, called and asked me to proceed to the eleventh floor. I had a hard time figuring out the elevators so I decided to just go back to the ground floor before going back up. It took a long while, actually, so long that when I got to the eleventh floor and logged in the log book, Mr. Jimpy was already waiting outside the door of their office. One of the chitchatting guards pointed to him and wished me luck. Ganto ba talaga sila? SOP ba to? Even the other guards started wishing me luck. Syempre nagpasalamat na lang ako.

Ok...so Mr. Jimpy led me to the "interview room" and I was shocked to find five people there. But he explained that it's not really a panel interview, they just want to save time interviewing applicants. One more weird thing, when the interview began, I wasn't nervous. Could it be because I went through four already? Or maybe because I know that even if I don't get this, I already got ADTX? When Mr. Jimpy asked me what kind of job I wanted, I immediately said web applications developer, then one of the other project managers started asking a whole LOT about my experience in creating web applications. After that long chitchat, Mr. Jimpy asked me if I'm willing to work with other programming languages, and leave object-oriented programming behind. I wanted to scream no. I'm in love with OOP! But I lied, I said it was ok as long as there will be a training for it. Then they started asking what kind of training I was expecting. I wanted to say something like ADTX but I didn't. Then Mr. Jimpy said that it might be useless to undergo training for the language called Natural, which was the "other" programming language he was talking about, because it's easily understandable. From that point on, they continued babbling about the Natural language. At first I was curious and was listening attentively. Mr. Jimpy had huge eyes that was somehow forcing me to widen my eyes also because I feel that if I don't , he wouldn't fit in my view screen. Haha! I think he a very meticulous person, he tries to explain everyting overly well that I it takes too long and I get bored and sleepy. Anyways, when the interview was over, I had a bad feeling that they're considering me for the Natural programmer position.

When I left Meralco compound, I decided to just walk from there to EDSA. Wrong move. Ang layo pala! Bat nung nasa jeep ako parang ang bilis lang? As I was walking, there was this dirty man walking beside me who seemed to be murmuring something. He's not exaclty a taong grasa but he's really dirty. I thought he was talking to me but I refused to look at him. I know it's discrimination but people like him really scare me. I walked slower so he'll pass me, then he waved his hand in front of me, forcing me to look at him. Anong oras na?, he asked. Haha! Yun lang pala. Anyways, I walked a really long distance. When I got to EDSA, I had to walk to the MRT station just to get to the other side, I mean, the south bound lane, before the flyover, because buses travelling to Laguna take the flyover.

Haay...it was a long day.