As much as I had hoped to fill this blog aplenty this month, time has drifted by and quite rapidly too. The last time I wrote on these pages, it was at the news of the a new job on the horizon. Since then, yours trully has had to travel across international borders 2 times to sign the job contract and to commence the processing of the paper work.
As I sit here today, my days on my present job are indeed numbered. So I am thinking I should write my memoirs, the experience of the last 15 months and my reflections on them from a "looking-back" position. The nature of my job is essentailly based on universal principles but the cultural perspective of living where I am presently is much varied from my own distant "roots". I am not promising myself but I'd see what I can do about blogging my memoirs; even if I have to punch the keyboard from the "other side".
It's been an eventful month and I am looking forward to better days ahead.
Global Filter
I wrote as a status update on my Facebook page a day after President Obama signed his much-praised healthcare reform bill: "I don't have a job, hence I am hungry. I have healthcare insurance though. I am an American! (Whatever happened to Maslow's hierachy of needs?)".
This was me being cynical for the sake of it. What Obama has done and the way in which he achieved it is a true landmark. We should keep the greater goal of our promises, even if there are pressing concerns of the moment; more so when there are structures on ground to eventually address those concerns.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
JUST LIKE THAT?!
Today has been quick and eventful. It’s one of the days I really want to fill my blog, but my mind has been active with a flurry of “what’s-next” thoughts. So I am going to try and hold on until all the final implications of today’s events are laid out.
How do we want to do certain things but the thoughts of doing the thing keeps us from doing it? I am in that position right now. But since it’s about good things, I care less. Yes, I’m in poise after all. Pretty soon, I am going to be busy with my own things. I hope I’d still be able to see the goings on around me and would not have missed much after my things are sorted out.
By the way, the title of this post came from my Face Book profile. For after the phone calls, text messages, emails and all the other conversations, I opened my Face Book profile and wrote as my status update “just like that?!”
How do we want to do certain things but the thoughts of doing the thing keeps us from doing it? I am in that position right now. But since it’s about good things, I care less. Yes, I’m in poise after all. Pretty soon, I am going to be busy with my own things. I hope I’d still be able to see the goings on around me and would not have missed much after my things are sorted out.
By the way, the title of this post came from my Face Book profile. For after the phone calls, text messages, emails and all the other conversations, I opened my Face Book profile and wrote as my status update “just like that?!”
Monday, March 1, 2010
A NEW DAY
There is certainly something about the rising of the sun. Whether it’s the dawn of a new year, the 1st day of the month or a Monday morning (as Sunday is considered a part of the weekend), there is freshness in the mind and haste in the one’s steps. It’s like charting a new territory, the uncertainty of which comes with a thrill akin to an adventure.
Today was no exception. I woke up feeling a lofty psyche, my mind in a buoyant flair. And surely, I got on the road to work unwilling to be bothered with the way my Mondays go...and bang! Starting from the problems with my work place computer network to the frightened 2-year old that would only wave his byes to me when he was outside the glass door; my day was fast and laborious. O yea, I did have that unusual lunch.
At home now and after my evening jog, I reflect at the sheer joy of life when the next event is not an event. Quite simply, unknown (although in this case, I didn’t care to think of what lay ahead of me). The spontaneity of life is one of the things that make it interesting.
I feel I am at the brink of something really profound in my life. I have surely put ink to paper on a few things I wouldn’t want to miss out on, but I have also left a lot that my life so far should be able to face head on without much pre-meditation. What was that quote my Professor said when he welcomed my class to a new phase in my undergraduate years? Yes, he wished us all the luck that our prep would have brought us.
It is twilight now but I could also say “let tomorrow come”.
I don’t want to tamper with natural ignorance; it’s the key to happiness- Anonymous.
Today was no exception. I woke up feeling a lofty psyche, my mind in a buoyant flair. And surely, I got on the road to work unwilling to be bothered with the way my Mondays go...and bang! Starting from the problems with my work place computer network to the frightened 2-year old that would only wave his byes to me when he was outside the glass door; my day was fast and laborious. O yea, I did have that unusual lunch.
At home now and after my evening jog, I reflect at the sheer joy of life when the next event is not an event. Quite simply, unknown (although in this case, I didn’t care to think of what lay ahead of me). The spontaneity of life is one of the things that make it interesting.
I feel I am at the brink of something really profound in my life. I have surely put ink to paper on a few things I wouldn’t want to miss out on, but I have also left a lot that my life so far should be able to face head on without much pre-meditation. What was that quote my Professor said when he welcomed my class to a new phase in my undergraduate years? Yes, he wished us all the luck that our prep would have brought us.
It is twilight now but I could also say “let tomorrow come”.
I don’t want to tamper with natural ignorance; it’s the key to happiness- Anonymous.
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