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Call me insane or ungrateful, but I so want to quit my job now. *ugh!
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006
VAMPIRIC TUTOR
In the next few weeks till the New Year, I will slowly transform into LeStat......'s protege. Care to ask why? Well, I'm supposed to be in Bluegrass County now for a business trip. Call it ill-timed, anyone would think it's very odd to be traveling AWAY from home at this time of the year when everyone's taking flights TO where home is. The thought of experiencing my would-be second winter is dreadful enough to make me hesitate from accepting the offer, but that actually wasn't heavy enough to tip the scale. The big ball 'n chain is the idea of spending Christmas away from home. Spending Christmas alone is sad and lonely enough (Had a bRRRRrrrry White Christmas last year!). If you enjoy the sight of snow falling outside the window with everything else frosty (just like in Chirstmas movies), I tell you snow amuses the ignorant for just 2 days.
And so I shall fly a few days after 2007 gets ushered in. In the meantime, my refusal to fly ASAP has compelled the project's schedule to push me to live the call center life. This way, I get to work at a schedule that overlaps with the US' working hours. Hope this interim solution works... or else I would need to pull off my own version of "The Transported Man" First Act (The Pledge): I'll be the only person in the entire 12th floor. Creepy? I don't believe in moo moos.
In the next few weeks till the New Year, I will slowly transform into LeStat......'s protege. Care to ask why? Well, I'm supposed to be in Bluegrass County now for a business trip. Call it ill-timed, anyone would think it's very odd to be traveling AWAY from home at this time of the year when everyone's taking flights TO where home is. The thought of experiencing my would-be second winter is dreadful enough to make me hesitate from accepting the offer, but that actually wasn't heavy enough to tip the scale. The big ball 'n chain is the idea of spending Christmas away from home. Spending Christmas alone is sad and lonely enough (Had a bRRRRrrrry White Christmas last year!). If you enjoy the sight of snow falling outside the window with everything else frosty (just like in Chirstmas movies), I tell you snow amuses the ignorant for just 2 days.
And so I shall fly a few days after 2007 gets ushered in. In the meantime, my refusal to fly ASAP has compelled the project's schedule to push me to live the call center life. This way, I get to work at a schedule that overlaps with the US' working hours. Hope this interim solution works... or else I would need to pull off my own version of "The Transported Man" First Act (The Pledge): I'll be the only person in the entire 12th floor. Creepy? I don't believe in moo moos.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
ANONYMITY
No one wants to be a nobody. It's 3 freakn o clock AM here and what have I got to say this time. I just came from a game of DotA (I can't believe I got myself fixated to this) and I was about to hit the sack when I decided to check my mailbox. As if I don't have enough email in my office mailbox, I had to read those that come to my personal online pigeon hole. Life is indeed one big wheel. You see the contrasts of how people are living their lives. Up and down, round and round it goes. I've realized that most, if not all, that we do is to be somebody. Whether to be somebody means being somebody else or being our own ideal image. The fact remains that we all live our daily lives to be uniquely defined of some sort according to what we perceive ourselves ought to be.
This mundane existence so to speak is nothing more but a reflection of Achilles' quest - a name to echo for a thousand years. You realize that each one has quest to follow. One cannot say for sure that the weallthy are blissful, nor can you say that the smiles before you are true as they are. Neither can you say that the poor are dumb (Someone said that it takes a lot of intelligence to survive with nothing. I totally agree!), nor can you say that the weeping are doomed to cry oceans. No one stays there for long, because we all do something to change the state we are in. With each rise and fall, we learn something and that serves as another pebble to the castle that is our destiny. Everybody wants to be somebody or at least wish to be.
No one wants to be a nobody. It's 3 freakn o clock AM here and what have I got to say this time. I just came from a game of DotA (I can't believe I got myself fixated to this) and I was about to hit the sack when I decided to check my mailbox. As if I don't have enough email in my office mailbox, I had to read those that come to my personal online pigeon hole. Life is indeed one big wheel. You see the contrasts of how people are living their lives. Up and down, round and round it goes. I've realized that most, if not all, that we do is to be somebody. Whether to be somebody means being somebody else or being our own ideal image. The fact remains that we all live our daily lives to be uniquely defined of some sort according to what we perceive ourselves ought to be.
This mundane existence so to speak is nothing more but a reflection of Achilles' quest - a name to echo for a thousand years. You realize that each one has quest to follow. One cannot say for sure that the weallthy are blissful, nor can you say that the smiles before you are true as they are. Neither can you say that the poor are dumb (Someone said that it takes a lot of intelligence to survive with nothing. I totally agree!), nor can you say that the weeping are doomed to cry oceans. No one stays there for long, because we all do something to change the state we are in. With each rise and fall, we learn something and that serves as another pebble to the castle that is our destiny. Everybody wants to be somebody or at least wish to be.
Friday, November 10, 2006
THE CRUSADE OF OUR TIMES
"There is a lot of intelligence in being able to survive with nothing."
- spoken by a comedic European sponsor of Gawad Kalinga in an assembly to promote GK777
This statement was made by one sponsor who humored a crowd to solicit funds for GK777. I really had to process the depth of that statement to extract the underlying truth behind the humor. Today I watched a video clip shown by the company as part of how we give back to the communities we live in. It was an inspirational video of how GK777 has silently given light to those in the dark. The term was derived Gawad Kalinga's plan to build 700,000 homes in 7,000 communities in 7 years.
And here's the icing to the cake:
"As a friend of mine helped me drive a nail deep into the coco lumber into the cement block. It took us 15 minutes to get that nail in. All sweaty, I realized that we were building a house for someone else. What about my own house? (Audience laughs) But then I thought to myself, They have nothing and I have given them a house. But I still have my best asset, my education (points to his head)"
- spoken by a co-employee as he recounts his experience as a voluteer for GK777
Would that merit an applause from you? Would you perhaps have the same realizations? It's all about perspective and how we define what is "valuable" to us.
"There is a lot of intelligence in being able to survive with nothing."
- spoken by a comedic European sponsor of Gawad Kalinga in an assembly to promote GK777
This statement was made by one sponsor who humored a crowd to solicit funds for GK777. I really had to process the depth of that statement to extract the underlying truth behind the humor. Today I watched a video clip shown by the company as part of how we give back to the communities we live in. It was an inspirational video of how GK777 has silently given light to those in the dark. The term was derived Gawad Kalinga's plan to build 700,000 homes in 7,000 communities in 7 years.
And here's the icing to the cake:
"As a friend of mine helped me drive a nail deep into the coco lumber into the cement block. It took us 15 minutes to get that nail in. All sweaty, I realized that we were building a house for someone else. What about my own house? (Audience laughs) But then I thought to myself, They have nothing and I have given them a house. But I still have my best asset, my education (points to his head)"
- spoken by a co-employee as he recounts his experience as a voluteer for GK777
Would that merit an applause from you? Would you perhaps have the same realizations? It's all about perspective and how we define what is "valuable" to us.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
MOVIE LINES
"A king may move a man, a father may claim a son. But remember that, even when those who move you be kings or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God you cannot say, 'But I was told by others to do thus' or that 'Virtue was not convenient at the time'. This will not suffice. Remember that."
- King Baldwin IV, Kingdom of Heaven
"A king may move a man, a father may claim a son. But remember that, even when those who move you be kings or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God you cannot say, 'But I was told by others to do thus' or that 'Virtue was not convenient at the time'. This will not suffice. Remember that."
- King Baldwin IV, Kingdom of Heaven