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December 2011
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Updates (Quick ones)
So the past couple of weeks has been spent talking to my interior designer, checking out the renovations at the new place, and basically a lot of waiting for people to get back to me on things, finalizing details (didn’t I already say what I wanted clearly??), checking, reconfirming the details (were you even listening??) and praying everyone who is a stakeholder in the “creative...
November 2011
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Thought of the Day.
There comes a point in your life when all things suddenly seem to be working out right. You can do one of the following: (1) acknowledge it is all happening, relish in it and seize the opportunity; or (2) you can just wonder if it’s all real, and then watch the opportunity pass you by.
I choose (1). Sure, there will be risks involved, you will have your doubts, but I believe with...
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“There’s three ways to do things, the right way, the wrong way and the way...”
– Robert De Niro, Casino.
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“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”
– Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay)
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Blog-a-delic.
One of the silliest things I’d ever heard (read, actually, because it was on the papers) goes something like this
Blogging is my life…if I lose my blog, I have nothing.
That, coming from a certain local Gen-Yer “blogebrity” a couple of years ago after someone hacked into her blog (the one everybody is reading about, apparently. Funny how “everybody” excluded...
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A meditation on patience.
…because I find that, increasingly, the limits of my patience at work is being tested and pushed to the extremes. Like today, for instance, when I really felt like venting all my frustration, checked only by timely realizations that losing my cool isn’t going to help anything—or anyone for that matter— at all; not especially since I’m expected to captain of a ship I...
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“Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I’m not perfect, and I...”
– Bob Marley
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (1828 - 1910)
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A perfect storm.
Dear Guys-at-Work:
Can we at least agree that the next time you decide to have a clash of egos during meetings, you could at least have the decency to keep things between yourselves (hereinafter referred to as “the interest parties”) and take your arguments offline so that the rest of us (“the non-combatants”) would not be caught in between and start wondering if we are...
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“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1901)
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Just a thought...
Call it ignorance of youth, misinformed innocence, or just plain arrogant stupidity— but I find myself getting irritated when I come across youths who are seemingly on a downward spiral towards a life of crime, or highly anti-social behavior.
Occupational hazard or not, I worry because, by golly, if these dumb fucks emo youths are supposed to be our future leaders, then I may as well move...
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August 2011
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“Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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"An idea can...change the world"
“We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I’ve witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I’ve seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them… but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it… ideas do not...
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“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason, and the real...”
– J.P. Morgan
Warren Buffett and the Rating Downgrade: Buffett -... →
I’m sorry, Mr Buffett, but it seems like you’re basing your opinion more on vested interests and personal pride, than your logic talking.
World Poorly Placed to Meet New Economic Crisis -... →
Is it too soon to say, “Oh boy, here we go again”?
And I did tell you guys before…
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If I Could Predict the Future...
My response on Plinky.Com
Day 034/365 - Tarot of the Bohemians
I wouldn’t really want to know what happens in the future — what fun would there be if you were able to pre-empt everything that happens?
I tend to think it’s the ups and downs in life that makes it all interesting, and if everything was too plain-sailing, the lack of challenge would soon turn you into an...
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“All of the problems we’re facing with debt are manmade problems. We...”
– Michele Bachmann
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July 2011
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“Only two things are infinite: the universe, and human stupidity. And I’m...”
– Albert Einstein
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My idea of a housewarming gift.
Ok, so if ever you do get invited to a housewarming party by me, here’s what I’d like as a gift:
And yes, I’m talking about the Nespresso machine, not that old git (sorry George)— although I’m thinking right about now, friends who read this would go, “Ooookay, I hope that guy doesn’t get a new house, and if he does, please don’t invite me to his...
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The Social (Farce) Network.
First up: I don’t give a shit if Mark Zuckerberg is a freaking gazillionaire by now, but I think the world’s probably a helluva lot of a better place before Facebook arrived.
I mean, come on, admit it already - there was a time when you probably felt friendships and relationships were a lot more meaningful and sincere when you actually went out and met people instead of just adding...
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“The sad thing about people is that too many of us keep asking “why”;...”
– ~R.P.
April 2011
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“I HAVE a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring...”
– Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
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“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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