Ang "j-spot" ni Garma

Also this time last week, I, together with around 10 other people, were working our butts off along the “seems-to-be-ever-ending” St. Peter Street in Maricaban, Pasay. This is in lieu of our volunteer work for Procter & Gamble, although it wasn’t really “volunteer since we were paid P300/day. It was Jenny Tan (an alumni & ex-VP of JPIA), through Allen (also an alumni &ex-VP of JPIA) and Rach (our Chair in PEPCom), who was looking for 10 workers that would help the Sales d Promotions Department of P&G. Our work description was simply to paint several sari-sari stores lined along St. Peter Street and to put “hangerd” P&G products (i.e. Ariel, Tide, Pantene, etc) on strategic places in those retail establishments. We worked this job for two days, which, by he way, are supposed to be rest days since May 1 was Labor Day fell on a Sunday and the next day was declared to be a non-working holiday. Though working when I wasn’t supposed to, it was definitely a worthwhile experience being able to participate in the operations of among the top manufacturers in the country. (Jenny, are you reading this post? This is free advertising! Maybe you would want to send me some x-deals? Haha! Just kidding! Ü)

Here are some other things that happened and I experienced/noticed/learned during my 2-day work:

-> believe it or not, I almost developed an allergy for food, specially for Kenny Roger’s roasted chicken. Why? The small air-conditioned room of P&G warehouse where we ate lunch, was teeming with Kenny delights! I believe that there were only 12 of us in the room but Jenny bought lunch for 20++ people! 2-3 people shared a whole chicken and each of us had more than 3 cups of rice (except for Ange, who was punishing herself with a no-rice diet), a big serving of side dish, a glass of iced tea and a bottle of water. There were so many left-overs that we had to put them in containers, label them with our names and put it in a box for either future consumption or pasalubong for inay and itay.

-> to my estimate, there were more than 200 sari-sari stores lined up along St. Peter Street. And I can’t help but ask myself: who buys what from who?

-> if you happen to pass by Jollibee-Merville (along SLEX), and notice a “almost-fully-depreciated FX-turned-van” parked in front of their glass door, it is most probably still our service vehicle. But what happened, you ask? Well, blame either blame P&G for not putting a key-chain on he car key or Allen for having a slippery right hand. We had a hard time opening the back door of our vehicle so Allen was forcing his key into the whole and shook it as hard as he can (peace Allen! nothing green here. Ü) when the key slipped from his hands, fell on the cemented pavement and bounced into the imburnal below us. And so we bid goodbye to our service, which could’ve gotten us all home, and we had no choice but to hail for some taxi to brig us home.

-> all of Pantene’s ingredients are also in Rejoice except only for three substances: Panthenol and…I forgot! Just check out for the label. =)

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