Yet another dream..

Track: Here Comes The Sun by George Harrison

Dare follow your dream,
Take flight and capture the scene.
Moments are fleeting and so are chances,
So seize this moment and dare follow your dream.
Lead the way and dictate the pace,
Take that step and start the chase.
Go and see, you are meant for bigger things,
So open up your heart, dare follow your dream.
Bring with you courage and strength,
Pay no heed to the journey's length.
Yet, forget not that aside from these, you need one more:
Remember Love, and only Love opens the door.

Title: Dare Follow Your Dream
Date: c 2001-02

The above poem was written for John David (Jhed) Manlises. He's dead. 5 years now. He was a young man when he left us. And that poem was written months before his demise. It was inspired by him. In fact, I remember telling him that I was so grateful for him. Because without him, I wouldn't have been able to bring myself out from a dry spell. You see, before this poem, it was a struggle for me to come up with verses and I was unemployed at that time. So it had been months since I had a decent article or verses strewn together to come up with a, well, poem.

It's but fitting that I find this poem as the intro for this post. I was rummaging through my old verses when I found this poem. I was intending to write about a recent development in the office that led me to dream once more, so I picked it for today's introduction, together with George Harrison's "Here Comes The Sun." At the same time, I was having a YM chat with Elmer, Jhed's best friend (who after the burial had lived with Jhed's family since then), and were talking about prurient things (not ours, by the way) when I simply had to ask Jhed's death anniversary. He said, July 14. 

So now, the poem above has two significance for today's blog. Jhed and the, yet again, the nth time, never-say-die try for a promotion. A new section was created, the Transaction Monitoring Team. 12 Evaluators (TME), all promotion for mainbank's agents, and the Supervisor (TMS) position was opened last week. My teammates in Cyberesponse applied for the TME, I applied for TMS. 

It was weird as an email to my present supervisor said I lacked the necessary requirements. The Transaction Monitoring Coordinator said I failed a Quality Evaluation just last April (which means I'm not qualified). Yet 20 minutes after my supervisor received these emails, a got a text message from recruitment saying my interview was for the next day. And it was for an interview for TME. Then 20 minutes after that, an email came to my supervisor again, this time from another recruitment officer, saying I was lined up for TMS. Weird!

So then my interview came, I was asked by the Head of the Transaction Monitoring for our program, "Why apply for the Supervisor when there are slots for the Evaluators?'

My answer was calculated, I said: "I've been asked that many times. And my answer has always been the same: Why not?"

Whether he liked my Ms. U-type of answer or not, we'll know in two weeks. I'll keep you posted.