Silent Foreign Hero

I cannot fully divulge the details about the topic I’ll blog today due to the complexity of the nature and the thought that the case is under process.   But nonetheless, I couldn’t find any reason at all not to share it. 

“I dunno how it is in your country, but here in the States, the law prevails.  No one is above the law.”

This is what the Hispanic lawyer told my friend when they’ve initially discussed the reason why they resulted to securing a legal help for employment-related issue.  In a land, where you think no one cares and dares to help and racial discrimination had always been a burden for overseas Filipino workers, and life has always been at a fast-paced dragging sense of compassion out of the picture, there exists silent heroes.

It’s the personal and reassuring approach that makes this lawyer different from the other lawyers I used to know.  He/she has all the time to take advantage of that desperate situation and overly bothered clients but he/she managed to fulfill his job with a heart full of compassion.  As I hear my friend’s story, the lawyer has just made a very smart and brilliant counter-defense.  I was touched when the lawyer reassured them that his/her goal is for his/her client not to pay any of the “assumed and hidden penalty” because they haven’t violated any of the listed items in the employment contract.  It’s the comfort and reassuring factor that alleviate my friend’s fear.  It takes guts and good will to defend a stranger of another race against the lawyer’s fellow.

God is so good that He made their paths crossed.  Good souls still exist.  And elsewhere, they are united to counter-defend the enemies…

Thanks a lot, lawyer… Take care of my friends… they’re equally astig [tough] and smart, too… it’s just that… it’s not evident most of the time… hehehehe

Work to Excel

Work has just resumed.  It’s as if my long hours of sleep was just my defense to just a day of awful stress.  What’s good about it is that, as I’ve come to think of it, everyone’s sharing the same dilemma.  Everybody contributes to this project in their own relevant ways. 

I’m tasked to do a plan for the quality assurance.  I’ve been thinking of this for almost a month now.  Information overload, time-pressured and other stress-causing tasks assigned from time to time… all piling up in our list of “To Dos”.   At the end of the day, I am asking myself, are all my efforts qualified to be considered “an excellent work” or is it just belonging to “beat-the-deadline-type of output”.

I do that all the time especially when I’m over-exhausted.  And when I reassured myself that “yes… I did it well…”, I always felt that such personal scoreboard will be my rejuvenating energy cells for the next working days…

It’s fun and challenging to be one with this project.  I am just too proud that I was given this task.  Though I considered myself a pro in this area, it’s the “stress” and the “need-to-do-this-excellent” motivations are the things that keep me goin’.  It wasn’t easy… but it’s the fulfillment of this very difficult work that makes it a lot more rewarding.