sábado, 21 de noviembre de 2015

Back at it...or something like it

Well...let's see...where do I begin...

Let's talk about today. Today is Saturday, November 21, 2015. A pretty bored but nice day at home, in the heat, but at home, I simply love Panama.

I had this awesome dream last night where my platonic love happened to be interested in me, and he said I was the most beautiful girl he had even seen -and met- so when I woke up this morning, I was pretty happy about that.

*Note that this guy and I have never passed the "hi how are you" conversation*

Anyways, its been a while since I was last on here, writing about, I don't knw what, but I've made a choice to come back and just share my day, ideas, thoughts, and journey to be.

It's nerve wrecking to think that life can and will and must change from one day to the other, but sometimes, that's probably just what me need, no planning (or at least not thaaaat much), no hesitations, no looking back, just you, thinking about yourself and what is best for you.

The journey I'm talking about is scaring the s* out of me, not gonna lie. But I have to do it. Some may not understand, they may never understand, but I'm done caring. I may hurt some people on the way, but it's truly not my intention to do so.

Either way, I must grow for myself because no one else is going to do it. And that's what we should all do, grow, for ourselves, because no one else is going to do it. BUT, just make sure you don't bash or hurt -intentionally. anybody on your rise, Lord knows I'm not trying to.

Nothing special about my "returning article" lol, but yea, I just remembered I had this space here to just write, and geez does typing on my laptop feel so good :) the "soft" keyboard, the cute little noise it makes...ahhhhhh (as in taking a breath of fresh air) LOL.

Just finished 7 episodes of Grey's Anatomy S12, dishes now and then Netflix. I may watch a Tyler Perry movie I have pending, who knows...

Gn :) Xo!

viernes, 8 de marzo de 2013

Casino Golden Lion en Panamá

Hace unos días fuí a comer alitas con unos amigos a este lugar llamado Golden Lion, es un casino con unas alitas que te harán chuparte los dedos. Nunca fallan conmigo.

He decidio escribir sobre esta visita en especial porque llegó a mi tope de paciencia y desagrado existente. Empecemos desde el principio.

Llegamos [mis amigos y yo] a eso de las 4:55 p.m. listos para comer alitas y pasar la tarde relajados y tranquilos - hace mucho que no hacíamos algo así. Nos sentamos en una mesa que está del lado de las mesas de jugar poker y el mesero nos indica que si podemos hacerle el favor de movernos al área del bar, pues sólo estaba atendiendo él. Nos movemos a la mesa y a las 5 y un par de minuticos después nos atienden y piden nuestra orden, no fue mucha la demora.

Comienza mi martirio.

Veo que van saliendo las órdenes de la cocina y que se pasean todo el lugar con ellas mas no llegan a mi mesa, veo que tres grupos que llegaron después de nosotros, fueron atendidos. Se deben imaginar como me estaba poniendo. Llega nuestra orden...POR FIN!!!

En eso que estamos comiendo, no llegan las bebidas, así que pido un vaso con agua y como a los 30 minutos me lo traen...30 MINUTOS mientras mi boca ardía intensamente!!!

No sólo se tardaban con las bebidas, sino que las cervezas que les trajeron a mis amigos estaban calientes. Mi amapola y la de mi amiga estaba en su punto de perfección, pero lo que hacían con la derecha, lo arruinaban con la izquierda.

Después de tan mal servicio pedimos la cuenta para ya podernos ir, yo estaba ansiosa por salir y no tener que verle la cara más al mesero. Llega la cuenta y antes de que cualquiera empiece a sacar dinero de sus bolsos me pongo a revisarla. Veo que las amapolas están en $5.00, cuando en un principio el mesero nos dijo que estaban en $3.50.

Mi amiga se para y va y habla con el, porque se que si yo me hubiese parado, su experiencia [la del mesero] tampoco hubiese sido agradable, en fin, mi amiga habla con el y tiene la osadía de decirnos que las bebidas cuestan eso y que con alcohol son $6.00

No me interesaba en lo más mínimo el precio real, si me haz dicho que están en $3.50, entonces cóbrame en ese precio y no me vengas con excusas ni explicaciones de China que nadie ha pedido - para terminar de rematar su estúpida escena sale con la famosa frase "tengo que hablar con el supervisor"

Luego habla de eliminar esto y eliminar lo otro, que elimine lo que tenga que eliminar pero no pretendía pagar un precio que no se me había informado previamente. Al final de la noche se hizo la deducción y a mi parecer pagamos lo que era en realidad, estaba tan enojada ya que todo me daba igual.

Luego de eso, otro amigo llego a comer. Se demoraron con su orden y su bebida, yo pedí un vaso de agua y hasta el momento no me lo han traído.

Considero que el casino/restaurante debe DARSE ABASTO con los empleados para cuando tienen días de promoción o días de juegos de fútbol que todos aquí en Panamá lo ven fuera de sus casas. GOLDEN LION DE EL DORADO debería mejorar el área de PERSONAL, SERVICIO AL CLIENTE y CONOCIMIENTO DE PRODUCTOS para que los meseros (as) no den precios que no son y se eviten a toda costa estos malos ratos y malos entendidos.

Golden Lion se unió a los demás lugares con PÉSIMO SERVICIO AL CLIENTE y todo por un mesero que lo quiso hacer todo cuando al final de la noche tenía compañía y suficientes manos para ayudarle. Mis referencias a ese mesero NO serán buenas de aquí en adelante y sé muy bien que no debo atenderme con él - no sé si fue el egoísmo de no pedir ayuda o qué, pero nuestra visita fue pésima y TODO gracias a él.

Golden Lion, mejora y capacita a tus empleados, date abasto en días de promoción y POR FAVOR INSTRUYE MUY pero MUY bien a tus empleados sobre los precios de tus productos. Muchas experiencias como la mía te pueden hacer daño - a lo mejor no a ti, pero a tu colaborador sí.

viernes, 10 de agosto de 2012

Never Give Up, Pray and Keep the Hope!

When I was 14, I thought I was old enough for "life" and that if I didn't have the things I wanted right there and then, my life would have been over.

I'd met this guy that I thought was the love of my life, he was everything to me, but not even a shadow of nothing to my peers. Almost five years later, after all the tears, sleepless nights waiting up for something that would never happened, everything changed radically.

On Dec, 2011 my family surprised me with a trip to my hometown Atlanta, GA. I was really excited just of the fact to travel again. I was going to spend my time there with my godparents, much more than usual and after a loooooong time. When I got there I was greeted with open arms and lots of love. A few days after I was there, 5 to be exact, I met a set of teens just like me, and from that day things just looked up to me. One of them was my age and the other two were younger. At first we didn't click right away, but as the night came, we managed to bond :)

The guy that is my age, as well as his brother and sister, we kept in touch through fb. Weeks past by and my prayers seemed to be getting answers. To make a long story short, we ended up liking each other. Family members on both sides begun to notice it and everyone was accepting it.

Days before I left, after my godparents wedding party, he asked me to be his girlfriend. When I came back, I told my close family members and best friend the story of how we met and stuff like that, everyone was happy for me and are even eager to meet him.

In comparison from my previous boyfriend, and this awesome guy who many say is my future husband and who I feel he will be and the man of my life, is that ex was nothing and everyone hated him - new guy is loved by everyone and everyone stands up for him when I start acting stupid. My family in Panama doesn't know him yet, but they accept him and have never given me a strange face when I talk about him. New guy is WAY better than ex in every single way.

I've named this post "Never Give Up, Pray and Keep the Hope", for you to read this short but powerful story and realize that after years of tears, low self esteem, and low confidence in myself, I made myself stronger during this trip, and by talking to others who didn't know the story, and with their opinion, realizing that I needed to leave this guy that was only doing negative in my life. I had made my choice to leave him and God sent me what I had prayed for every night.

I know for a fact that God answers prayers, God is real, and he never leaves his children. He sent me a guy that is polite, respectful, loving, caring, family oriented - name any good trait in a person and he has it. Distance is killing us, no lie - but when it's for you, it's for you. I know, he knows, we know - I feel, he feels, we feel that we are meant for each other and that we'll be together for ever.

Never give up, pray and keep the hope, is my formula for happiness and I'd like to share that with you.

XoXo
Ashley Bee