Author: PJ

  • Turning Back Time

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    Have you ever dreamed of being able to go back through time and be able to relive your life while still retaining whatever knowledge or memories you have of the present? Think of it, if this is a possibility, then you could live your life and rearrange it so that you won’t commit the same…

  • Home sweet home – Independence at last

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    For those who don’t own their own houses yet, do you already have a dream house in mind? I already have a rough design of my dream house etched into my mind ever since I was in high school. This was conjured up during one of my technical drafting classes, where we had to design…

  • April 26, 2007 – Thought for the Day

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    “So often in life, we think that because we have done things in a certain way, certain results would follow. But life is like the ocean. Sometimes we get caught in squalls & storms & things don’t go the way we think they should, even when we think we have done right. But God can…

  • Today’s good news and bad news

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    The Bad News: I wasn’t able to come to work today. With a lot of ongoing projects that I need to juggle, I could barely afford to miss a day’s worth of work. The Good News: I was able to spend the entire day with CJ! 🙂

  • A T-rex blast from the past

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    I was driving home this afternoon, along Manila’s Skyway, when I happened to pass by a familiar-looking van. You see, I used to own a green model ’98 Hyundai Starex minivan (the first vehicle that I ever owned, hence the sentimentality) which we affectionately called “T-Rex”, a play on the word Starex. It was sold…

  • On parenting: Baby’s mouth blisters

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    Daddy’s new word for today: Herpangina – mouth blisters, usually common in children. Today started off differently. We woke up at 4AM to the sound of CJ’s crying. This usually indicates feeding time, and so I did my now well-versed ‘rouse-myself-out-of-bed’ and ‘fix-up-a-bottle-of-milk-while-half-asleep’ routine. I was halfway through the motion when Conne, sounding rather alarmed…

  • TeraServe, inc.

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    I will finally be realizing my long-term career dream of heading a company of my own. My partners and I have pooled all of our resources over the past couple of months to incorporate/found an upstart, Philippine IT company – TeraServe, Inc. (TSI) – with yours truly serving as its President and CEO. We won’t…

  • I’m coming home

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    Whew! Finally! The past couple months have been extremely challenging and difficult for me and I’m glad that after doing some soul searching and a little affirmative action, I can finally get some decent sleep. I officially tendered my resignation last week, the 21st of March. The event was quite liberating especially since the coming…

  • On affirmative action

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    It has been a while since my last post mainly because I’ve been kept busy with work. The past couple of weeks have also been spent doing some serious thinking, personal assessment and life planning. I’ve been getting into a lot of extremely stressful and depressing situations lately and it apparently has caused undesirable effects…

  • On grandstanding vs the Ethic of Reciprocity (aka the Golden Rule)

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    Don’t you just hate it when people “grandstand” at your, or other people’s expense? Have you ever seen people giving crude, offhand, unfair, let-the-public-know remarks against another person without thinking of the consequences? It’s sad, especially when the remarks given turn out to be blatant lies because the “grandstander” ought to have gotten their facts…