Papa Ratzi visits Auschwitz

another earthquake in indonesia.

Most funny thing. This job. I knew I was getting over my head when I took on this new role. I'm feeling almost like poor Mr. Gecko. An innocent, terrorized lizard with nowhere to run. Its probably just as well that we don't see our resident baby lizard anymore. It seems to me that he's wiser than I am. Shipping out with no one the wiser. And one day, people would just wonder, "Hey, didn't G use to work here?"
Wish. Wish hard. Pray for what you want. How does the saying go again? "Try or die trying"? "Sink or swim"? or is it "Shape up or ship out"? Frankly these are what my friends would say. Any friend. If I still have any, after 5 years of this.
Seriously, right now I've a mind to just "Get the hell out."

It is a most irritating thing. This VoiceOver. I can't turn it off! Command-F5 doesn't work. So does fn. I ended up turning the volume down while I work. So much for wishing that at least Sarah M would be up all night to be with me.

Need to post this pic for my profile.

Lotsa crazy drivers out here in Makati. Did not realize until now, when I got the opportunity to get out of the office earlier than usual.

Crazy.

this is a test.

There is a man drought in New Zealand, according to a KPMG survey. Wanted Kiwis :)

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ~Pope Paul VI

on the way back from the company outing. its like throwing a giant out-of-town party for your officemates. didnt pay for it, but i sure as hell felt like i was the host.

getting there made me miss boracay in october. i know, its a poor comparison. it means it was a really nice venue, by nlp standards of course.

i have never been the host type. in a ship thats what they'd call the captain. its the driver of the car, the teacher in the class, the editor in chief of a newspaper.

i have cultured for years the courage it takes to brave the streets of manila. the time to test if i learned anything to deserve that flcd diplomat has yet to present itself. as being a boss, i am an ojt.

on the other hand, my motoring career has been one scary, decade-long outing.

batangas? it fired off well enough with pekwa and 123 pass, ended with leftovers and lots of cancer for dinner. and that dog that looked like she really digged me haha.

my ojt days will formally end less than a month from now. i have hired the neurotic (quite a character), the heartbroken romantic, and the seriously studious (aka the studiously serious) and they've proved apt for the job, but im losing a trustworthy employee. ive made the deadlines more beatable but at an earthshaking cost. i gained an exciting new edition but lost a truly great one. the five-day workweek is taking ages to implement.

no, the outing did not end well. it just reminded me how so much more needs to get done with so little time left.

david gates is nice to revisit once in awhile, but twice in as many days is asking for - what kermin would say - "jombag."

and for those who actually messaged to tell me to write naman na with your blog again, this is dedicated to you :)

30, Flirty and Thriving

Ok, so I'm not Jennifer Garner in "13 Going on 30," but I did turn 30 last week. I was pressured to do something out of whack on Friday but nothing happened, promise.

"Sic transit Gloria mundi." (All things, even glorious, must pass.)

You scored as Postmodernist. Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and even the language you use to describe things should be subject to analysis. Cultural Creative 75% Postmodernist 75% Idealist 69% Romanticist 50% Fundamentalist 44% Existentialist 44% Modernist 38% Materialist 0% What is Your World View? (updated) created with QuizFarm.com

Saw a singsing uod while I was walking to work today. Brought back childhood memories of cutting it to pieces. Chris and I used to play with them. Funny. Wasn't squeamish back then.

Interesting reading on Hotlinking here.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. ~Baltasar Gracian

It is hard work to make daily work schedules for people. It is not like they are inanimate and won't complain and grow tired.

Can anybody recommend an electronic drawlots app that can be downloaded from the Net for free?

Figured it would be better to just cast decision-making to the "powers that be" than screw up one's brain for the perfect lineup.

Wonder if they'd make a study on the effects on brain power this job gives. Read two news stories this past week, one in Japan, on the wonders cooking on a regular basis can do for the grey cells.

Oh. Just realized. I haven't orchestrated a meal since I moved into my new apartment last December.

A woman in Louisville died in a fire trying to save her cat. How awful!

Would you do the same for your pet?

Rowling killed the professor!

Main Entry: 1rant
Pronunciation: 'rant
Function: verb
Etymology: obsolete Dutch ranten, randen
intransitive senses
1 : to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
2 : to scold vehemently
transitive senses : to utter in a bombastic declamatory fashion
- rant·er noun
- rant·ing·ly /'ran-ti[ng]-lE/ adverb