November 2010
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Getting back our rings later tonight. We had the shop etch something on it post-wedding. Thought hard what words to put around our fingers. Should it be our names? A promise? Something that’s got to do with love and marriage? We didn’t want to risk cliché. It’s a life-long thing, and for sure the white gold will stay on beyond us. We decided on our wedding date as our best choice: 10242010. Such a...
October 2010
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May 2010
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April 2010
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After a long while, I just cleaned my bedroom: wiping out layers of dust from my bedside cabinet, reshuffling books, and getting rid of such junk as dried-out pens, expired batteries, old receipts. If life is judged by the material stuff we’ve accumulated, then so far I certainly won’t have much on the line but books and lecture photocopies.
Looking at all those crumpled papers on my...
October 2009
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Girlfriend and I had a meltdown over my job discontent. In our last couple of Skypes, my trivial complaints ended up with us fighting. But last night, she said she’s just too tired and drained out with my whining about work, coworkers, commuting, and the littlest shit. Of course this made me angry, especially when she cited her challenges overseas. She pointed out how awful of a crybaby/kill...
August 2009
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Girlfriend called me a cyborg because of my single-minded focus on work-related stuff these past few days. It soon erupted into a full-blown fight over Skype. We’ve since made up, and next time I’d be more aware whenever business matters intrude into my private, intimate realm. Sure she might be hormonal but I realized that girlfriend time is girlfriend time, period.
The four-day...
July 2009
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My duffel bag is already packed: I’m catching a morning flight tomorrow to Taiwan. I’m excited to spend the weekend with my girlfriend. She’s currently marinating chicken for our Adobo lunch tomorrow. We’ve planned to visit Taipei 101 and that huge ferris wheel. And possibly buy leather shoes too because today I signed a contract with the Bank. As soon as I return to Manila...
Slow work day, as usual. As I surfed the web on company time, I’ve came upon Project Mojave’s manifesto called Liberation Revolution. An agreeing smile on my face as I read each page. My favorite line: “No amount of stuff can make up for purpose.” We equate job security and money with happiness, denying ourselves meaningful, creative work. Project Mojave calls for us to...
Had to register for a Wired account just to comment on this snarky article. What I said (hey I do outsourced content projects): I’m a twenty-something Southeast Asian, and you know what? Even before the advent of YouTube, American media have fed our TVs daily with Sesame Street, MTV, and the Tonight Show. Our cinemas show mostly Hollywood films: my first movie as a kid was Robocop. And...
Halogen’s got a repeat client! Woot! Although they offered a lower rate than quoted, we resettled to a more acceptable price. Good thing that the project looks to be a long-term one. I’ve told Red that we go for quality as benchmark: effective content is not cheap. Next step for me is to distribute the workload among the team and ensure that milestones are met. In other news, I had a...
Met with my thesis advisor over the weekend. She suggested that I consolidate into a single data analysis matrix the triangulated qualitative methods I’ve proposed to use. Whew! After school, I went to the mall to pay JJ her fee for the Halogen project she helped with. JJ is without a regular job since our newspaper days from five years ago. She is now Nursing student - after having...
I have runny nose. Co-workers have also been sneezing, coughing, taking sick leaves. The office temperature makes it worse for us. It’s really chilly here so that the lab servers don’t conk out. Mmmm. Should I even ask. Employees or multi-million peso machines? It’s been raining since yesterday. Bed weather. Deadlines are such a drag! Update: Head colds, called in sick Friday.