10 things 2day

10 things I wish for today:

1. 1.5 liter ng Yakult

2. 1 kilo pack ng Nissin Spicy Chicken Yakisoba

3. Yakult-sized coca cola. Pang alis lang ng craving.

4. Powerpoint program installed sa office PC ko.

5. Matutong mag english yung parati kong naririnig na trying hard mag english {"ya, rayt!" ang tigas ng dila pero ayaw paawat!}

6. Magising sa katotohanan si --- na hindi sya ang bida sa mundong ginagalawan namin. Lord, Please lang!!!

7. Matapos ko na ang Level 3 sa 7 Wonders.

8. Extreme and absolute patience.

9. Wag umulan. Wala akong payong.

10. Sana nag absent na lang ako

Quick lessons

The office has instituted a new policy of no overtime. Well, you can render overtime, nobody's going to stop you. But the office silently suggests that you do not file for overtime pay. Times are tough. Cut costs where it can be cut. Be productive, but be not expensive.

The pastor at church was telling of how he was given an iPod and he felt blessed until somebody told him of the iPhone. There is never satisfaction with what we have. There is always going to be something out there better and bigger. Be content.

Learning to Multiply

Well yeah. Late bloomer ako pag dating sa social networking chuvaness. I just discovered multiply. Actually, I had the account for quite some time na, but I used to use it to download music only. So I never bothered to Multiply again. Until last Saturday when I had nothing to do while Gail was taking her nap.

So Multiply I did.

Looks cool. Better than blogspot, maybe.

I still am trying to figure out the features, like how to re-arrange blog postings. (anyone who knows, drop me a note)

But I probably will switch my blogging here.

Let's wait and see...

May kakilala ka bang ganito?

Ang Lead Star - mahilig bumangka ng kwento. nagtatago sa pretense na nais lamang makapagbahagi ng kaalaman, pero actually gusto lang ibroadcast na meron syang bagong gadget o "bagong" discoveries. Mga "bago" para sa kanya, pero hindi naman talaga bago para sa iba.

Ang Echo - para sya yung commercial ng lucky me na nasa bundok sila tapos may sumasagot na echo sa kanila. ang siste nga lang, siya rin ang echo ng sarili nya.

Ang Opinionated - mahilig magumpisa ng malalim na diskusyon, pero walang maibabahaging sariling opinyon. Pagkatapos ng balitaktakan, uulitin ang kwentuhan sa iba, pero lahat ng opinyon ng unang nakausap nya, opinyon na nya.

Ang Superhero - parating bida. parating pakiramdam nya sya ang takbuhan ng naapi. iba kay lead star na mahilig lamang magkwento. si superhero, lilipunin lahat ng mga narinig na kwentuhan at idudulog sa baranggay. bidang bida.

Ang Sumbungera - pinsan ni superhero. yun nga lang, si sumbungera, ang kanyang prime motivation is ipahamak ang iba, sa likod ng pagkukuwaring wala naman syang masamang intensyon sa pagkwekwento ng mga naririnig nya.

Ang Humble - madalas "nahihiya" magkwento o magbahagi ng opinyon, pero mga limang segundo lang ang hiya. makalipas iyon, hindi na titigil sa pag litanya ng mga magagandang bagay na ginagawa nya.

Ang Concerned - parating nagtatanong kung kamusta ka na, anong ginagawa mo, anong mga trabaho ang ginagawa mo. mukhang concerned, pero in reality, sinusukat nya kung gaano na sya naka ungos sa iyo.

Ang Masaya - lahat ng jokes mo patok sa kanya. walang hindi bumenta. pag nakatalikod ka, sinisiraan ka.

Ang Secret - nag uumpisa ng bulong bulungan. pero unang unang pipiyok at maglalabas ng sikreto sa ibang tao.

May kakilala ka bang ganito?

Ako wala.

Kwento

Got home past 6pm.

After a quick dinner, Gail and I started to do her schoolwork.

Around 8-ish, while Gail was busy answering her homework....

Me : "I love you, Gail "

Gail: (smiling) "Bakit ngayon mo lang sinabi yan, eh kanina ka pa nandito?"

Ayan. Nakagalitan pa ako.

Busy Bee

For weeks now I have been making Gail kulit to find her boxes of Magneato.

Me : "Gail, pwede pakihanap na yung Magneato mo? "

Gail : "Mommyyyy.... wala nga akong time. Ang dami kong ginagawa, naglunch ako tapos natulog tapos naglaro. Next time na lang"

Sana ganito din ako ka-busy.

More Schoolwork

True or False:

"God made everything"

Gail's answer:

"False"

When asked why - her reply: " Eh di ba ang building di naman si God ang gumawa?"

... and yet another day

Today. July 3, 2008. Thursday

Inbox total 61
Read receipts 92

This means over the course of my 10-hour day yesterday, I sent emails to 92 recipients.
That's 9 emails per hour, average of 6.6 minutes to compose each one.

Does not really sound much. But when you break it down, in order to get one draft message into a "worthy to send" message you need to squeeze information out of several people, dig thru piles of paperwork and dissect each tidbit of information for lapses and inconsistency.

So today, 61 emails will mean...

122 return emails to send out ( average ratio is 1 incoming : 2 outgoing)
I am working a 4-hour day in the office {as I will be visiting a vendor in the afternoon leaving me with no email access -- hooray??}

I have to churn out 30 emails per hour, 2 minutes per email.

That's 4.6 minutes chopped off my average messaging time.

Not that I am complaining {yeah right}.

I have devised a plan to get through my days.

Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del repeatedly and this pseudo-computer shuts down.

Whatever was not replied will have to wait.

{Sidenote: I can shut it down the normal Start + Shutdown way, but it's less dramatic}

Tired

Got home last last night. Had a conference call with the Polo Ralph Lauren people which lasted an hour. It was a long 14-hour working day for me.

When I got home, had to check Gail's homework pa.

I am dead tired.

I am starting to wonder if there is more to daily life than what it is.

Thoughts of leaving this semi-comfortable life and going full time into a more "giving" life are actually floating around my head. Scary thought. Really. Scary. Thought.

I wonder if everybody goes through this "empty-feeling" stage.

It's like you have everything that you need and you are doing things that you enjoy, but there's still a void that you just don't know how to fill.

Empty. Empty. Empty.