Some mistakes are forgivable...

Tell me, am I justified to hate this administration? I do commit some mistakes like everyone else (except Jack Bauer who never really made a single mistake in his life -- not even that relationship with Nina Myers). Someone once asked me how to produce a nuclear reactor. I made a diagram but I think I messed up some part of the schematics. Had it been some simple atv winches only, I'm sure I could have perfected the work.  BUT I AM NOT A PHYSICIST! (And don't ask why anyone would even ask me to do such reactor!)

But if I am paying you through my taxes to work as a communications specialist, and you are communicating about promoting the National Flag Day, then, please, this kind of mistake is a NO-NO!

And then after this was committed, please don't give me this explanation:

Ako na lang ang magte-take ng responsibility kasi ayoko rin naman na maapektuhan masyado ‘yung employee concerned ‘di ba? Bata pa yung empleyado. Kailangan din naman ma-encourage pa rin. -- Herminio Coloma Jr.

Sheesh! Napilitan pang mag-take ng responsibility!

May 21, 2011:The End of the World?

You probably have heard the news spreading around that May 21, 2011 (next week!) will be the end of the world. Well, I can only say one thing: They. Are. All. Wrong! Why? Because according to this web site, May 21, 2011 is just the Judgment Day! And on Judgment Day, May 21st, 2011, there is going to be a "5-month period of horrible torment... for all the inhabitants of the Earth." The real End of the World is going to be on October 21, 2011!

Are we there yet?

Now, personally, I have a little problem with that. You see, I still plan to go to three places in the near future: Brazil, Japan, and of course, Boston, US of A. How can I complete that before next week? I'm assuming governments will ground all flights, suspend or travel permits, etc when this tribulation happens. Or assuming they don't, how can I save for my travel? It's just not going to work.

If the above predictions are correct, then we'd better hurry to fix everything. If that happens, arthritis pain relief, for example, is just one of the few of the things you need not to worry about.

So, Mr. Harold Camping, please, please... back off a little bit.

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i'm not really sure if this was not just quoted by the writers from somewhere else.
sounds very familiar. :-) anyway, here you go:

don't wait around for your life to happen to you.
find something that makes you happy, and do it.
because everything else is all just background noise.

george mason
24 season 2

Manny Pacquiao facts: a congratulatory post

I thought of honoring Manny Pacquiao for his recent win against Mosley (I didn't watch the fight – I know the result as early as the fight was first announced months ago) by sharing these facts* about him. Hehehehe. Katuwaan lang naman.

• Manny Pacquiao can talk about Fight Club.
• Manny Pacquiao can divide by zero.
• Manny Pacquiao doesn't cut his grass -- he stares at it and dares it to grow.
• When Manny Pacquiao goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.
• When Manny Pacquiao is peeing against the wind, the wind gets wet.
• If you ever tried to tell Manny Pacquiao to go to hell, the Devil would silence you before you finished the sentence.
• Manny Pacquiao doesn't have nightmares. Nightmares have Manny Pacquiaos.
• When Manny Pacquiao cuts onions, the onions cry.
• Manny Pacquiao can un-scramble an egg.
• Popeye eats spinach and throws the can away. Manny Pacquiao throws the spinach away and eats the can.
• When Manny Pacquiao does push-ups, he isn't pushing himself up....he's pushing the world down.
• Manny Pacquiao doesn't drink honey, he chews bees.
• The Boogieman checks his closet for Manny Pacquiao.
• If Manny Pacquiao was Spartan in the movie "300", the movie would be called "1".

And finally…

• Manny Pacquiao sleeps with a night light because the dark is afraid of Manny Pacquiao.

The dinosaurs once laughed at Manny.... :-)

*Thanks to http://www.jackbauerfacts.com/.

Multiple choice

Suppose you have a report due tomorrow. Everything is already in your mind. In fact, you can type it continuously without thinking anymore. Hell, you can even write it on paper and you are sure you won't get a line wrong. Then, in the morning, you wake up and find out there's a power outage.

You tell yourself, "Naah, this won't last long. The power will be back by the time I get to my desk later at the office."

You eat your breakfast, take a bath, and go to work. Smiling. And then, you're in your office now. But electricity is still out. So, you use your laptop, but it only lasts an hour or so. You still needed a few more hours to type some assessment, draw some graphs, and check your numbers -- just to be safe, of course.

Then, you go home, and again, tell yourself, "By lunchtime, electricity will be back. I am sure of that. Maybe."

At the table, while you are eating your lunch, you are still looking at your electric fan -- waiting for it to make you smile. Nothing happens. Then, you decide you cannot wait any longer. You hurry and go to the mall. You look for that now-very-invaluable Starbucks. And wait somewhere inside for the next table close to the power outlet to be vacated.

10 minutes.
20 minutes.
30 minutes.
1 hour.
2 hours.

Jackpot! A group of yuppies leaves their table. You see that a power outlet is near their table. Of course, you sit immediately. You open your laptop, you go online, and order a cup of cappuccino. You are now a few minutes close to your deadline. 45 minutes closer to your deadline. Thing is, in your estimate, you need at least a couple of hours to complete the report. Maybe 3 hours, at most. What will you do?

A. You email your client and say you apologize you cannot submit the report due to the unexpected power outage. But you can't do that 45 minutes before the deadline?! That's just plain irresponsible!

B. You e-mail your client the next day, and apologize for your failure to submit the report because you were caught in a road accident and 9 cars piled up where one of them has a pregnant woman, and you risked your life saving her from possible explosion (the explosion happened but you were able to save the woman). Also, after you saved the pregnant woman, you brought her to the hospital and waited until she safely delivered her baby. And you cannot leave just yet, because the mother requested your presence after giving birth. She even named her baby after you. Sweet. But the client might not believe you. :-D

C. Wait for a miracle.... which usually happens during the last minute.

D. Others. (And by others, I mean everything from consulting a Bronx medical malpractice lawyer to basically saving the world.)

Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.

Do you have what it takes to win a writing/blogging contest?

I'm thinking of having a contest but I fear people will take it as very self-serving competition. But let me give you the pitch of the contest, and you tell me if I'm being selfish or not.

It's going to be a writing contest. And there will be two topics to choose from.

1. Write a blog post describing how awesome my blog is. You may build up your post around this: Eks's blog is awesome because.... There.

2. Exlpain Einstein's theory of relativity. Make sure to explain what E=MC(squared) is, how Eisntein arrived at this equation, and the usual components of a scientific paper -- hypothesis, experimentation, analysis of data, and conclusion.

For #2, you need to include a discussion on hgh human growth hormone, neutrinos, pulsars and quasars, etc.

You are free to choose between the two topics. I am not pressuring you to choose one over the other. And note: choosing topic #1 (just because it is about my blog) will not give you extra points. So, feel free to choose the topic you really want. OK?

This is still in the planning stage. Any suggestions, guys?

Pancit canton will do

In a reent post, I told KG that men by nature are simple and less complicated than what women try to think of us. I mentioned that when you are having a hard time finding gifts for men, it's not really the men that make the situation complicated and that we can accept and be very appreciative of whatever gifts we'd receive. It's the women who think we are complicated that makes the situation complicated, i.e., women would still think of this and that, whether we'd like the gift or not, whether we'd use it or not, when all we want is the gesture itself.

If anyone would ask me what I want this Christmas, I'd probably say, world peace or Solenn Heussaff. While the latter sounds straight-forward, it appears that this wishlist is complicated. But no, the truth is, I only said those because I don't want to say that I don't really care what I receive this Christmas, but anything (really) will do -- a RC helicopter, a pair of jeans, a (fake) Swiss knife, an iPad, a newspaper subscription. Really, anything will do. I'd even smile and thank you with all my heart if you did not buy me anything and just wrote a poem for me. The most important thing is... you remembered.

There are more than 6 billion people in the planet. More than half of the people we know probably works 9 to 10 hours or more a day, 5 or 6 days a week. These people we know are not loners (hehehe) and they probably know some other people in addition to us. Most if not all of them interact with other people every minute or at the very least, every hour. When someone remembers us, someone thinks of us, someone bothers to look for a gift for us, isn't that more than enoough? or close to more than just enough? For me it is.

For this coming Mothers Day flowers free delivery is probably what I'll be searching on the net. Because again, for me, it all boils down to remembering the event, the person.

After I re-read this post, I realized: oh my... I am so simple-minded. I should start re-reading some novels and books that will reactivate my creativity and imagination. Hehehe.