Great Song!
But, if you know me... you know why I'm posting this.
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Georgia On My Mind
Artist: Ray Charles
Album: Georgia On My Mind
Georgia, Georgia,
The whole day through
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind
I'm say Georgia
Georgia
A song of you
Comes as sweet and clear
As moonlight through the pines
Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you
I said Georgia,
Ooh Georgia, no peace I find
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind
Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you
Georgia,
Georgia,
No peace, no peace I find
Just this old, sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind
I said just an old sweet song,
Keeps Georgia on my mind
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Whe story behind the song from wikipedia
1.13.2008
1.10.2008
SkyCable Screwed my Daily Viewing Habit
Last Sunday when I woke-up, around 10AM, I went down, picked-up the remote, turned-on the TV and the SkyCable box. I browsed through the channels to check which channel shows the better NBA game. I checked for ESPN, not good. Solar, none! BasketballTV, none! WTH, can't find them! I mean, they're not amongst the channel selections anymore; completely gone!
I asked wifey to call Skycable and verify why those two channels were not in the selections. Boy, my blood pressure shots-up when I heard the reply: Skycable is not carrying Solar any longer as they are having a problem with the commercials aired on that channel. WTF!!! I don't give a shit about commercials! I subscribed for cable because most of the times I hate commercials! What do they think they're doing?
MotherFather, the one thing that I hated with Singapore is the twice a week NBA games aired by ESPN and Star Sports. While here, I get to have my daily dose of NBA games on TV. Dang, that's now history.
I didn't ask for the BasketballTV anymore as after the call wifey, holding a piece of paper, was enumerating to me the schedules of NBA games on different channels. (She also said that JackTV is also off the selections, and my son goes; what, no more wrestling for me? hehehe)
DAMN YOU, SkyCable!!!
I asked wifey to call Skycable and verify why those two channels were not in the selections. Boy, my blood pressure shots-up when I heard the reply: Skycable is not carrying Solar any longer as they are having a problem with the commercials aired on that channel. WTF!!! I don't give a shit about commercials! I subscribed for cable because most of the times I hate commercials! What do they think they're doing?
MotherFather, the one thing that I hated with Singapore is the twice a week NBA games aired by ESPN and Star Sports. While here, I get to have my daily dose of NBA games on TV. Dang, that's now history.
I didn't ask for the BasketballTV anymore as after the call wifey, holding a piece of paper, was enumerating to me the schedules of NBA games on different channels. (She also said that JackTV is also off the selections, and my son goes; what, no more wrestling for me? hehehe)
DAMN YOU, SkyCable!!!
1.09.2008
Back in Pinas
I came back from Singapore last Saturday, 5th Jan, via Singapore Airlines. I was able to redeem from mileage points, thanks to all the business trips I had last year. I just paid for the taxes.
This is probably my last on SQ, so I tried to enjoy it. Breakfast was served. Like the usual, I asked for additional wheat bread and a red wine to go with my eggs, then, I had coffee. After a couple of minutes, I asked for my favourite SQ drink: the Singapore Sling; I also asked for some nuts. I only had two this time because there was a session Friday night with the YPI gang that lasted 'till 4AM the following day. So, not wanting to be wasted, I didn't go for the usual 3.
The in flight movies were not good, I read my Bourne book instead. It's kinda weird though: reading while drinking.
Aah, SQ! When will I get to ride you again?
This is probably my last on SQ, so I tried to enjoy it. Breakfast was served. Like the usual, I asked for additional wheat bread and a red wine to go with my eggs, then, I had coffee. After a couple of minutes, I asked for my favourite SQ drink: the Singapore Sling; I also asked for some nuts. I only had two this time because there was a session Friday night with the YPI gang that lasted 'till 4AM the following day. So, not wanting to be wasted, I didn't go for the usual 3.
The in flight movies were not good, I read my Bourne book instead. It's kinda weird though: reading while drinking.
Aah, SQ! When will I get to ride you again?
1.03.2008
Happy New Year
I'm not clearing punch list today, instead I'm doing the rounds of different departments for my clearance. Yay!
It's my last day. I will be flying to my 4th job on the 3rd week of this month. Kinda giddy as it's a whole new environment. Though I've worked in both JAP and AM company, I've never been out of Asia.
I'll treat this as a new experience, even though there's "Instrumentation and Control" written all over the new job and the fact that I've worked there before albeit on a different environment and on an entirely different timezone. Yes, I had wished to travel outside Asia. I'm supposed to feel outrageously excited, instead I'm giving a lot of justifications/excuses/craps/BSs with this new development in my life.
This will be my first time to be travelling outside Asia and it's not on project assignment. How should I really feel? I don't know. I'm not even that excited like I think I should, wifey is.
Should it be enough that I feel more contended this time, having this job?
Check the facts: it is still a supervisory level post, I'll be earning more, some friends, with their family, are already there--meaning we'll have a lot of support during the transition period, there's a relocation program which covers my family and not just me, and the best part is that what I've wanted for a half decade to be able to be with my Family---not just to spend quality time with them on my home leaves, quality + quantity, is granted.
The only thing negative is going back to the Philippines will be extremely expensive!
Now, we'll see to it the kids will have their own room. Now, wifey and I will be alone on our own room. Now, we will not have the usual help with the house chores in which we were accustomed since I can remember. Now, I'm going to know if wifey really cooks, she sucks when we're starting--I can still remember that adobo which tasted more like paksiw. Now, no relatives to ask help to. It's a different ballgame. I'm positive that we'll do good, we'll survive. Yet, I still feel weird.
Don't get me wrong. I do acknowledge that I'm lucky, I'm blessed. I just can't shake-off being apprehensive.
Aah, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. Don't I freaking forget those lines!
Bye Singapore! I'm going to miss you, terribly!
It's my last day. I will be flying to my 4th job on the 3rd week of this month. Kinda giddy as it's a whole new environment. Though I've worked in both JAP and AM company, I've never been out of Asia.
I'll treat this as a new experience, even though there's "Instrumentation and Control" written all over the new job and the fact that I've worked there before albeit on a different environment and on an entirely different timezone. Yes, I had wished to travel outside Asia. I'm supposed to feel outrageously excited, instead I'm giving a lot of justifications/excuses/craps/BSs with this new development in my life.
This will be my first time to be travelling outside Asia and it's not on project assignment. How should I really feel? I don't know. I'm not even that excited like I think I should, wifey is.
Should it be enough that I feel more contended this time, having this job?
Check the facts: it is still a supervisory level post, I'll be earning more, some friends, with their family, are already there--meaning we'll have a lot of support during the transition period, there's a relocation program which covers my family and not just me, and the best part is that what I've wanted for a half decade to be able to be with my Family---not just to spend quality time with them on my home leaves, quality + quantity, is granted.
The only thing negative is going back to the Philippines will be extremely expensive!
Now, we'll see to it the kids will have their own room. Now, wifey and I will be alone on our own room. Now, we will not have the usual help with the house chores in which we were accustomed since I can remember. Now, I'm going to know if wifey really cooks, she sucks when we're starting--I can still remember that adobo which tasted more like paksiw. Now, no relatives to ask help to. It's a different ballgame. I'm positive that we'll do good, we'll survive. Yet, I still feel weird.
Don't get me wrong. I do acknowledge that I'm lucky, I'm blessed. I just can't shake-off being apprehensive.
Aah, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. Don't I freaking forget those lines!
Bye Singapore! I'm going to miss you, terribly!
1.02.2008
Santa Claus didn't Drop-by
I went back to the Philippines for a 10 days holiday. Although it is my last month in the soon-to-be-ex job, I was still able to secure a vacation leave because of the scheduled company shutdown. No worries though as I was able to do a task-hand-over of all my projects. Nevertheless, I'm still kinda guilty of leaving my first project unfinished. I know I already did more than what was expected off me and I can say that my superiors acknowledges that, but I still feel burdened by the fact that I'm leaving it on it's crucial stage: the site works--start-up and commissioning. Arrgh, enuff of this EMO crap.
Anyway, I went back last December 24 via Jetstar. Yeah, it's a budget airlines. A budget Airlines that charged me SGD900+ for the flight!!! And, yeah I complain of these scheming airlines and yet I still patronize it, you say? Can't help it, it's Christmas, t'was the time we OFW's return home. But, they can! They can put a ceiling on their charging fees on the holiday seasons and not end up like extortionist SOBs!
The flight was boring as expected! I brought with me my Bourne Supremacy but I didn't have the energy to read it. I opened up my printed Sudokus, started answering it. Still, No Energy. I slept.
When we reached the Philippines, I went straight to the DFS as always for that pre-packed bag of chocolates. I asked for a bag of KitKat, none. So, I grabbed the usual alternative, second choice of my daughter, cadbury. My last salary and my AWS is on-hold, I got nothing to buy more. I actually just swipe-swipe(used my credit card), instead of the usual cash payment. Anyhoo, by the time the wifey finds this one out, the salary on-hold should have been released.
The queue in the Immigration as I expected was leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenthy. After clearing the immigration, I saw again those depressing carts. Yay! Welcome to a third World Country.
Outside, upon seeing that the there’s too many waiting for an airport cab, I asked an airport personnel for the nearest exit to get a taxi ride. He pointed me the way. As I was heading out it started to drizzle. I went back in, the airport guy gestured to me to head up, to the departure. I went up; the security guard looks at me with a grin, hehehe. So, I got a taxi, metered. The taxi driver asked me if I missed my flight, I answered yes.
My taxi ride: PHP 200. Plus, I was able to leave the airport in less than 10 minutes.
Belated Merry Christmas Everyone!
Happy Holidays to my free thinker friends!
Anyway, I went back last December 24 via Jetstar. Yeah, it's a budget airlines. A budget Airlines that charged me SGD900+ for the flight!!! And, yeah I complain of these scheming airlines and yet I still patronize it, you say? Can't help it, it's Christmas, t'was the time we OFW's return home. But, they can! They can put a ceiling on their charging fees on the holiday seasons and not end up like extortionist SOBs!
The flight was boring as expected! I brought with me my Bourne Supremacy but I didn't have the energy to read it. I opened up my printed Sudokus, started answering it. Still, No Energy. I slept.
When we reached the Philippines, I went straight to the DFS as always for that pre-packed bag of chocolates. I asked for a bag of KitKat, none. So, I grabbed the usual alternative, second choice of my daughter, cadbury. My last salary and my AWS is on-hold, I got nothing to buy more. I actually just swipe-swipe(used my credit card), instead of the usual cash payment. Anyhoo, by the time the wifey finds this one out, the salary on-hold should have been released.
The queue in the Immigration as I expected was leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenthy. After clearing the immigration, I saw again those depressing carts. Yay! Welcome to a third World Country.
Outside, upon seeing that the there’s too many waiting for an airport cab, I asked an airport personnel for the nearest exit to get a taxi ride. He pointed me the way. As I was heading out it started to drizzle. I went back in, the airport guy gestured to me to head up, to the departure. I went up; the security guard looks at me with a grin, hehehe. So, I got a taxi, metered. The taxi driver asked me if I missed my flight, I answered yes.
My taxi ride: PHP 200. Plus, I was able to leave the airport in less than 10 minutes.
Belated Merry Christmas Everyone!
Happy Holidays to my free thinker friends!
12.21.2007
INVICTUS
When I resigned from my previous job, I used this poem to say goodbye to my colleagues.
I'm moving again and I consider this great as I'll be able to get my family with me this time. The kids will surely be affected the most as they'll have to adjust to a new environment. Though it's not their first time to be in another country, it will be a whole new experience for them. We will be living there now, they will be studying there.
I'm almost always out of the country anyway--away from them. So, when this opportunity presented itself, I grabbed it.
I'm positive that it will not be that huge of an adjustment for us. I got friends who are already there, with their family. Their presence will reduce our anxiety of living in a new place; the transition will not be that painful, hopefully.
Wish us the best of luck, peeps!
Here's the poem:
Invictus
by William Ernest Henley; 1849-1903
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
I'm moving again and I consider this great as I'll be able to get my family with me this time. The kids will surely be affected the most as they'll have to adjust to a new environment. Though it's not their first time to be in another country, it will be a whole new experience for them. We will be living there now, they will be studying there.
I'm almost always out of the country anyway--away from them. So, when this opportunity presented itself, I grabbed it.
I'm positive that it will not be that huge of an adjustment for us. I got friends who are already there, with their family. Their presence will reduce our anxiety of living in a new place; the transition will not be that painful, hopefully.
Wish us the best of luck, peeps!
Here's the poem:
Invictus
by William Ernest Henley; 1849-1903
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
11.18.2007
Bote's New Room
I moved to a new place. It's only a few blocks away from where I previously stay. The place is neat, it's an old but newly renovated HDB . I'm staying here with an uncle who, per him and I found it to be true, is working permanently on night shift, 7 times a week. I only get to see him every Saturdays and Sunday as I'm not working on weekends. He's living alone, probably the reason why am here; he needs someone to take care of the house when he's out for work at night. Clever Uncle!
Take a peak in my room. It's pretty neat, and I mean that literally! If you're wondering why? 'Coz I'm positive that in a months time, neat will not be the word I'll use to describe it.
That's all for now, folks. See my room in a month.
Take a peak in my room. It's pretty neat, and I mean that literally! If you're wondering why? 'Coz I'm positive that in a months time, neat will not be the word I'll use to describe it.
I'm occupying the master's bedroom. I have my own comfort room, with hot showers--quite specific with that one: I'm old, I need it.
I also have a very spacious cabinet and was provided a table to work on, plus it has an A/C.
I'm not allowed to cook, which is absolutely not a problem with me. Uncle doesn't cook anyway and I'm lazy. No problemo!
I don't plan on trashing the place, in case somebody thinks I intend to that, but it will definitely look so much different after a month. Oh, I also got a bike inside my room now. So, it's gotten a bit crowded. Edwinsan asked if I want to take it with me for a while (for me that will be for a month, now that I found out that biking is fun, hehe). I don't want to place the bike in the kitchen 'coz I don't want uncle to make an issue off it. Not that I'm certain that he'll make an issue out of it, but in cases like this, taking the safe side is always best.
Since I can't cook, I buy everything. Last night, I felt a need for coffee--
that's 12 MN. I went down to the hawker station and ordered for coffee-no sugar-with condense milk-take away. They don't have a styro-cup, just the plastic plus straw. I don't have a choice because that time they are the only place open, I bought it, of course--better than no coffee at all. Sipping a hot coffee through a straw, cool! Apparently, Singaporeans are used to it.
No complains though, it still tastes like coffee.
That's all for now, folks. See my room in a month.
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