WooHoo!!

Weekends are here again! After a whole week at work, I'm now ready for some R&R (smile).

I'm glad that things are beginning to go back to normal after the typhoon. Still, the electricity at home is still yet to be restored, I know that there are still a lot of areas around the metropolis that has yet to have their power reconnected.

Among other things...

Two more days and it's the weekends again. I'm already thinking how I'm gonna spend my weekends. Have a couple'o things on my mind but let's just see (smile). Right now, typing from my company's training room along with a couple of other guys. Had to undergo "re-training" for my new job description. With it comes new application/software to learn. It's gonna be tough, but I'm good with all the coming challenges. Sometimes I do need to be stretched a bit in order for me to get outta my temporary rut. Schedule wise, it's a little bit like going back to a normal job since it's a Mon-Fri kinda of thing.

This past month has been good in many ways, I've learned that there are good people out there who are willing to listen and spend time with you, even to the point of boring them to death with the same rants over and over again. It's time for me to go back to being "normal", excuse me for that term. I know I've been quite "abnormal" for the past three months or so. It's still hard in many ways, but I'm on my way.

2:30 Work. Starting to go back to the basics. Going back to where I started. Changing, evolving, learning. Thankful, grateful for the lessons learned. Understanding that when everything comes full circle, everything boils down to one thing...purpose. Without it, life losses it's meaning, without it, life is without soul. Find your purpose, pursue it with all your might.

Displacement, giving up something in order to be able to recieve something better, much more precious. Difficult, but neccesary. Most of the time, we think what we have is the best so we cling to it like our very life depended on it. But sooner or later we realize (often the hard way) that what we're holding on to is trash in comparison to what we will be recieving, so like a kid holding on to a stupid lolli, we kick and try to tantrum our way out, but as always God, in his loving kindness and patience, who in his wisdom knows whats best, would often times have to take what we believe is best in order for us to recieve the excellent.

Foo Fighters - Best Of You
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Weekend review

Last Wednesday, guys night-out. Bar hopping with friends at Timog. Chilled for awhile at Starbucks, it was still too early to start the party so off we go to Quattro. Then it's Formula and Decades the rest of the night. A word of advice from the wise, never, never, ever bring a friend who's thrice more good looking than you are. Why? He gets ALL the girl's attention! Am I riiight Arvin?? (laughing)

Work update: New job description, now working with the Business Development group. Bye Macmall, hello to the challenges of corporate profilling.

A lesson learned or relearned

It's not about the destination, its about the journey. I know this is somewhat a cliche already but that is exactly what I learned from my recent trip to Galera with some friends. For some reason, it became a lesson in life rather than just a mere trip to the beach. The beach was great and all, and as to be expected I had enjoyed my time there, mostly sleeping inside our airconditioned room, eating huge amounts of horrendously priced food, babe watching, writing on my journal, eating and more eating. Thinking about it I slept a lot during my stay there, to the point that it irritated two of our friends (lol). But it really wasn't our arrival at Galera that made me excited to go on this particular trip, it was the journey, the travelling that made it more special. To go on a bus, to ride on a boat to the island. Meeting new faces, seeing different places, it was something that I really missed doing. It reminded me of a poem that started as an introduction to a book entitled "The Zahir" by Paulo Coelho. The poem was entitled "Ithaca". A reminder that in this journey called life, it's really not about thedestination, its about the journey, the in-betweens.


Ithaca
When setting out upon your way to Ithaca,
wish always that your journey be long,
full of adventure, full of lore.
Of the Laestrygones and of the Cyclopes,
of an irate Poseidon never be afraid;
such things along your way you will not find,
if lofty is your thinking, if fine sentiment
in spirit and in body touches you.
Neither Laestrygones nor Cyclopes,
nor wild Poseidon will you ever meet,
unless you bear them in your soul,
unless your soul has raised them up in front of you.

Wish always that your journey be long;
that many there be of summer morns
when with such pleasure, such great joy,
you enter ports now for the first time seen;
that you may stop at some Phoenician marts,
to purchase there the best of wares,
mother-of-pearl and coral, amber, ebony,
hedonic perfumes of all sorts--
as many such hedonic perfumes as you can;
that you may go to various Egyptian towns
to learn, and learn from those schooled there.

Your mind should ever be on Ithaca.
Your reaching there is your prime goal.
But do not rush your journey anywise.
Better that it should last for many years,
and that, now old, you moor at Ithaca at last,
a man enriched by all you gained upon the way,
and not expecting Ithaca to give you further wealth.

For Ithaca has given you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set your course.
There is no more that she can give.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca will not have deceived you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithacas mean.

Konstantinos P. Kavafis