Transcom Rockfest Water-Proof: Wet and Wild Rock Party

What supposed to be a water-proof rockfest turned out to a wet and wild party! As blogged earlier, Transcom comes up with Rockfest 2012 in the roof deck of the building. This was a celebration of a true Filipino spirit looking back in the Habagat calamity. A thank you party for the employees boost with food and drinks, all for free. Registration started at 6pm in the roof deck entrance where everyone was allowed to bring 1 guest. Souveniers were also given out to the first 80 employees and its a choice of a black shirt printed with the party logo or a white umbrella. Yours truly, one of the lucky few grabbed the umbrella for my memoir of the party. Glow in the dark sticks were also given out to each employee and have it worn in the right wrist along with a hand gesture for "One, Transcom". The first part of the party was a raffle draw for 2 ipod nano and 1 iphone 4s. Unfortunately, its given out to the lucky person. I am left hoping for my name to be drawn and win even just a consolation prize. Better luck next time. I still can remember the videos played in the earlier part of the program. The videos were heart-warming, witty and funny in the sense that all was a surprise and unexpected. The main course of the show are the rock bands! Hosted by John Hendrix (former Campus Radio Jock) and Logie Basabas, they rolled out the playing bands. First group who performed was #SpongeCola. Yael Yuson spearheaded the gig. Its a more adlid Yael that I have saw tonight. Way back, he never does funny adlibs but I guess its a hit adding those in his gigs. For about 6 songs, Sponge cola ended their set and paved way for Paraluman. I havent got the chance to get the vocalist's name but she is a combination of beautiful, hot, sexy rock chick. As far as I can remember, they just played about 4 to 5 songs. 6 Cycle Mind invaded the stage next. Dammit! but I was really singing along with their song! I loved it! Toti, the vocalist was cooler than ever! The best thing about their set is the part when the rain started pouring and it made the crowd wilder! Sure that I was one of those who soaked not just from the rain but as well as the beer being intentionally thrown out to the crowd and it made the party wildest! After about 5 songs, its time for Mark Abaya's group, Kjwan! The rain pours but it did not stop the crowd from enjoying the band. It wasnt just the guys that has enjoyed the show but the ladies have their turn when Mark Abaya took off his shirt. Screams from the ladies of the 4 corners of the venue surpassed the guy's voices! Thats what you get from a crowd when you have a god's body! One message that I cant forget from Mark Abaya: "Bagyo ka lang, Pilipino Ako!" and thats the true spirit of the night. It turned out that the female host of the night is also playing a set. Logie and her band sang about 3 songs and the stage was being cleared to give way to the main attraction of the night, PAROKYA NI EDGAR! PNE has always been a crowds favorite because of their hits and wit. Chito Miranda knows how to please his crowd. Vinci is a serious clown. PNE is my favorite OPM band. They really rock and move you from where you stand. Halaga, Pangarap lang kita, buloy, Pizza Pie and The Yes Yes Show, though too old school for PNE's hit songs, these has made the crowd go wildest. PNE is really a darling of the crowd. The party ended around 12mn with everybody showing a satisfied and contented face. Might have been soaked from the rain but its still worth the fun! Transcom is a great satisfaction provider. They knew how to make their employees happy. And as a new day unfold, Transcom is opening their doors for a greater height. Considers a place to be called as home. Transcom, I'm home!

Music...Is My Life

If there is one thing that I love the most, it is music. I can’t just imagine a day when I am all but a loner in the corner. I could be a loner but whenever I have my ear piece plugged in and even doing nothing, I could make it through the day. Music seems to soothe my soul, calm my mind, relax my thoughts and bring me to a place too far to be reached. It is a world of mixed emotions and feelings. I can create my own world when the tunes are penetrating the inner me. Now Playing : Obvious – Westlife Well, ever since I was a kid, I am already inclined to music. All from my family loves music. My ancestors love music. Even the new generation from our clan can be seen with passion for music. Music is something that people can relate to. Now Playing: To You I Belong – B’Witched When asked once what my favourite song is, it is always a consistent answer that you will hear from me. “A Song for Mama” from Boyz 2 Men has always been my top most favourite song for all times. I don’t know why but every time I hear this song, my heart is captured and would take me to some place where I started like being with my parents and family. Wherever I am, it would always bring me to my family. It’s a song that would always remind be to be thankful for the life given to me by my parents. Now Playing: Bad Habit – Destiny’s Child I love listening to FM stations when I was still a kid. My day won’t be complete if I can’t have a time listening to music aired on the radio. I am fascinated by this technology and was so amazed how it’s being catered to the rural and urban areas through a media called radio. Now Playing: Girl on TV – LFO (Lyte Funky Ones) Music has different genres. It caters to variety of people. The diverse crowd can be divided with the type of music they are listening to. Punk, Rock, Alternative, Jazz, RnB, Soul, Contemporary, Pop et al. These are most of the types. I’d go with almost all genres depending on my mood. If I wanna feel like isolated, I can play along with Norah Jones, EBTG (Everything But The Girl), Sade, to name a few. It is with this type of music when I can read along with while listening to their songs. Now Playing: Marry your Daughter – Brian McKnight If I feel like I want to scream, I’d go with Punk and Rock music. Gothic themed music can also soothe me when I feel like I want to empty the world and have myself be alone for a noisy moment. There are always times that I love shouting and murmuring bad words and through this, I can express my anger and hatred to the world. Now Playing: Over It – Katharine McPhee When I wanna dance, Benny Bennasi music and the likes are most appropriate for my mode. Techno, Housemix and Club music are best when I feel like to party. I sometimes do head-banging and singing along with this upbeat music needless of where I am. Now Playing: Barenaked – Jennifer Love Hewitt It is always relaxing if you are listening to songs that would melt your heart. Music can convey what you feel towards an opposite sex. If you think you are not prepared to tell someone about your feeling, you can do it through a song. I have this experience when I feel awkward to say I what I feel so I grabbed the mic and sing in front of a crowd to a tune called “I’ll be over You by TOTO”. Well, that was pretty embarrassing and I feel like I don’t want to do it again so the next time I fall, I just hum along or share the song to someone I fall for. Have her listen to the song and try to see if she can read what i am trying to convey. Now Playing: Perfect Two – Auburn Well, too much for the cheesy moments. But, yeah, sometimes music can bring you to happiness. Now Playing – Lucky – Jason Mraz with Colbie Caillait I am lucky that I once was a part of the real music world. I was once a Disc Jockey of an FM station. Yes, I was. And that was the epic story that I would always remember for my entire life. Being one was such once in a lifetime experience that I can always share with pride. But things have to end. I quit. Now Playing: Torpe Song No. 5 – M.Y.M.P I just want to share as well that I sometimes use music to win someone’s heart. I really don’t know how to court. It’s either sending a love notes or serenading her with songs that would melt her heart are the best things that I can do. I really don’t believe in proper courtship. Sometimes, girls feel the same. It’s just how you win them in your own simple and unique way. And I prefer to have her listen to a song that would give her an idea that I fall for her. And maybe history can start by this simple way. As far as I can remember, the first song that has brought me a girl’s heart was Boyzone’s rendition of I Love The Way You Love Me. After the girl listened to the song, that was the start of everything. She hummed, had it on her playlist and our love story begun. Now Playing: I Am I Feel – Alisha’s Attic Anyways, music is my life and will always be one of my favourite stuff.

So goes the true spirit of the Filipinos. Whatever is hindering them from going to work or doing things, we can always find way to be on time and might not be on time but sure enough to make it to work. Transcom is throwing a thank you party for the employees who in one way had greatly help the company during the HABAGAT reign. That was almost a week of overtimes because of the climatic situation. We need to consider our brothers and sisters who were victims of the blood thus covering for them is the least that we could do. Transcom has always been greatful for their employees. They knew how hard-working and reliable their workers are and in this simple way of throwing a party, it is a pleasure to be complimented by the company. Transcom Rocks tomorrow, Saturday, 22nd of September at the roofdeck of the building along with the bands. Yes!

TRANSCOM: My Life as an Employee

Transcom has done a lot of good things for me. I love being here. My stay with Transcom started way back March 10, 2008. It is my second BPO Company after I exited Sykes Asia. It was never my plan to enter a call center biz. I hate night shifts and I don't like to mingle with various people. I treated my self by then as reserved and private. Well, mingling was then one way of socializing. Its a norm. And Transcom showed me how it is rewarding to open up and befriend all the people around you. It started with applying in an outsource company. I got recommendations for 4 BPO Companies. People Support, NCO, Sitel and Nucomm. Before it became Transcom, it was Nucomm when I applied. Since it was the recommended company by the Outsource, I journeyed my way to the vast Ortigas where towering buildings had almost got me gave up. I was wandering looking for Ortigas Bldg in which was situated a long ride from Crossing where I first started my journey. Though, all my tiresome experiences, from walking here and there, was paid when within that day I signed the job offer. Pretty much a lucky day for me. I was a part of those pioneering waves for a UK account. Along with my wavemates, we witnessed the flourishing changes as we went on with our stay with the company. There have been a lot of changes we saw and experienced. From company policies, personnel and managerial changes. All of these, yes, we saw it as Transcom flourished and boomed out to be one of the metro's BPO name to be considered. In my almort 5 years of stay, I already got 2 promotions. And I can say I am one of those lucky few to be offered by the company for a position. Looking back, I started as a frontline Customer Service and Billing agent dealing with English people. It was not new to me anymore coz I have been wanting to practice talking the universal language, thus, I enjoyed talking to people in the other side of the world. It was around September of 2009 when I started to see some slight hope of promotions. The Resource team loaned us for a week to play as back up schedulers. For me, I thought, that was one of those boring jobs coz you get to deal with numbers. The week passed and we are now back to being an agent. I thought I will never go back there especially that I started loving the Scheduling on my last 2 days as a back up. I feel like its worth to know more about how a scheduler works. Sigh! October of 2009 came and yes we were asked to do back ups. I thought its gonna be for the same task, but, No! Its for being an RTR-Real Time Analyst. It sounds new to me so I grabbed the opportunity. We are going to stay for a month as back up RTRs, a long time before we will be back as frontlines. I really thought that its a simple job. But no! It was a hell for me as I'd say. I really don't like numbers. I have been dealing with Mathematics since College. Its my major subject and part of my course. So goes the 1st, 2nd and 3rd week. On our fourth week, promotions and positions for RTR were up for grab. My 2 colleagues grabbed the chance but I didn't. I just don't feel like I'm prepared for the job. The Manager talked to me. But I don't want to give false hopes so I declined the offer. I thought that after October, I will be released back to Operations. But to my surprise, I was told to stay for another month. So I stayed and during my stay, the Manager kept on reminding me that the position is still open for me. I declined Because of the second thoughts that I might not deliver the task properly coz I was not prepared yet. November 23, 2009 when I finally decided to take the offer, thus, my first promotion. ..2 b continued

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