This is My Life

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my sponsors, este yung mga sumalubong at malugod akong tinanggap at inaruga sa mga unang araw ko sa Florida. Hindi ko na kayo iisa-isahin, baka magkaroon pa kayo ng career. Kilala nyo naman ang mga sarili ninyo kaya maggi ng ipagkalandakan pa. Alam ko ang iniisip mo, tinatanong mo kung bakit sinulat sulat ko pa ito at mega bati pa ako eh hindi ko naman pala sila papangalanan? Eh bakit marunong ka pa sa akin? Hehe.

Nawa ay pagpalain kayo ni Emre.

“The air is filled with deafening noise and sumptuous smells.” This is how a BBC correspondent described

New Delhi

. I really love the British way with words. It’s as if every one of them is a diplomat in training.

I am piqued at how the West, read as US and

Britain

in particular, put a blind eye to what

Israel

is doing in

Lebanon

. I am no anti-Semitic and I am certainly no advocate of terrorism. I also believe in the concept of the right to defend one self but I don’t see the right of anyone to go into their neighbor’s house without a search warrant because they believe it’s the neighbor’s son who is stealing all the cookies in the neighborhood. Wag sana sila ma-karma.

I’m stuck here at

Detroit

Airport

doing nothing for 7 hours waiting for my flight. I’m a day early than schedule to

Florida

because apparently everybody in

Manila

are going out of the country, this must be the diaspora that young, younger than me that is, student from UP talked about in her speech. All flights are booked until mid August. I tried all airlines, every possible route, via

Hong Kong

,

Singapore

,

Kuala Lumpur

,

Bangkok

, even

Taipei

to no avail! As fate would have it, I got confirmed for July 28 flight on July 27, not morning but afternoon! With my “to-do” list almost two-page long, I had to prioritize. It’s simply an impossibility to do everything in less than 12 hours what I would normally plan out for at least a week. So without sleep, I boarded a Northwest flight bound to

Tokyo

, then to

Detroit

, and later to

Florida

, my final destination. Haggardness to the nth power.

Kayo ba ay nalolongkot at walang makaosap? Tawagan ako sa 954-441-8378, country code 1.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting. – Don’t you know that whining is therapeutic? I’m in therapy.

We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are. – That explains why I see beauty in everything!

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. – Ano raw?!

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you. – Care to argue with that?

So long as you rob Peter to pay Paul, you’ll have Paul’s support. – Our politicians do better, Peter has no idea he’s being robbed and he ends up supporting the politician!

Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies. – I like that.

I am in shape. Round is a shape. – So are square, oval, rectangle, and triangle.

Brain cells come and brains cells go, but fat cells live forever. – Is this true?

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. – And to think I thought I was never good at art!

To have a successful relationship I must learn to make it look like I’m giving as much as I’m getting. – Wins, Pat, Jude, Nina, Consi, and Ninie can you confirm this? I know what your answer will be but I just want to hear it from you guys. J

Love is blind and so are we but only God can make a tree.

Top 5 Reasons why I watch the World Cup.

1.

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5.

How can I not love the sport?!

My sizing is now close to a million dollars, more than twice our initial estimate. I doubt I’ll get this funded. The good news is, the project will be canned and I don’t have to deal with a possibly chaotic testing and implementation. The bad news is, I’m not going anywhere for the rest of the year.

Being the positive, proactive, pa-bibbo kid that I am, below is my action plan:

1. Haircut – Check!
2. Shop for new clothes – Check!
3. Finalize my resume by next week – In Progress
4. Create a list of possible career opportunities outside ACN by next week – In Progress
5. Apply! Apply! Apply! – Not Started
6. Contingency: Demand for roll off by December this year – To Be Completed by first week of August
7. Contingency: Mobilize ACN Network to look for next project – Start Date is August 7

Being the procrastinate-incarnate that I am, this is not going to be easy. Kakailanganin kong samuin ang buong lakas ng aking brilyante. This will surely put to test my beauty queen training. Pagpalain nawa ako ni Emre.

I’m looking for a copy of ‘Boy from

New York City

’ by Manhattan Transfer. Let me know if you have it. Better still, send it. J