April 7th, 2006

It's nine in the morning. Ha! My most early update. I felt bad for not updating because I normally would update earlier but something held me back. Like two days ago, I had to meet up with the infamous Ms. Goh (the one that lost her wallet - refer to Friday, March 24th article) so I didn't have time to write my blog. I was keeping the item to write later. Then there was yesterday, yesterday was bad because I had to meet with another friend that has something to give me right after work and so again, I delayed my blog.

Okay, since it is early in the morning and I had my cup of coffee, I will now write my blog. First things first. In a rush for work today, I forgotten to take my wallet. Yikes. I mean, yes I was late for work and so I rushed and left my wallet. Then I was caught in the jam. I almost had to fight tooth and nail and every inch of the way. When I was about to reached my parking spot, I was caught in another jam, some organization was having a marathon run and so I was blocked. So I had to sit in my car, listening to Wierd Al Yankovic's number "Eat It", while waiting for the person to let me pass. Then I parked after a good five minutes later. As I walked, I found my stride to be smooth and so I was wondering about that then I realised that my FAT wallet isn't with me. Hmmm. My FAT wallet is due to all the receipts (yes I'm one of them) and so I had to go back to my place during lunch hour to get to my wallet. Otherwise, I'll be eating grass and further more I got a movie to catch, "Ice Age 2".

Anyway that's my morning thus far, back to my posts.

The meeting with Ms. Goh was pleasant. Nice lady of independent mind set and pretty outspoken. Had a couple of drinks with her and she and I talked for a good two hours. Nothing much, just a normal chat and I think that I made a good "first impression" on her and so she won't get threatened by a stranger. After all, I don't know her besides her name and her age, etc. Funny on how I think of it now, I got to know her personal stuff without getting to know her personally yet. What else about her? She camp outdoors too, she works as a transciptor/translator, she's living in with her boyfriend, etc. Not bad for the first two hours of "getting to know you". I'd really enjoyed the conversation with her and I hope it's vice versa. She's also looking for a job as a Personal Assistant at the moment, a full time job while doing translation as a part-time job.

What else? I watched the show, Lucky Number Selvin, good plot. Very good plot. Didn't really enjoyed it because in my country they do a fair bit of censoring and since it was censored at certain areas, the movie wasn't played smoothly and was definitely disjointed. Other than that, it was a good movie.

Okay, I'd better go now, my boss's presence is around and so I must continue to do my stuff. Till next time.

Oh yeah, Desby, if you're reading this, Happy B'day. You're what? 99 years old now right?

April 4th, 2006

I stumbled onto a nice blog site. Nice blog site meaning this is what a blog should be not some ramblings of whatever comes to mind but everyday stuff that's been happening and what you tell them and show to the world that you live in.

I stumbled onto this site by seaching for the word "hack". Being a computer person, I'm interested if there is a life of a hacker out there and sharing his/her hacking life. I don't have that much time to search or did I find a blog about my interest BUT I did find a site that is just filled with life and how much this person shares to the world/readers.

Try this site New York Hack.

I find it very amusing, interesting, etc.

Besides that, what I did today? Nothing much, just having a "Train-the-trainers" session where I have two rookies to train them up to be at least presentable trainers and so I need to have a session with them. Tricks of the trade of presenting, etc. First topic to use as the training base, TCP/IP. I am so thrilled with this topic (*big sarcasm here*). Well, they survived the first day. I'm monitoring them and I'm giving pressure by giving an exam (two exams actually) to test their knowledge. Since they are under me, might as well push them and let them learn something right?

To err is human

Okay folks. Today I'm feeling a bit philosophic. I was reading my previous blog and I noticed that use the words "common mistake". That's the thing, it's a common mistake. We've all done it. That's why is it known as a common mistake. That's what being human is all about. We know this, we also know we are not perfect. We know this too but the problem is we never SEE that we are imperfect. Sigh.

The phrase "To err is human, to forgive devine", should be written as "To err is human, oh how we think we are devine". We see other people's mistake but we don't see ourselves. We see mistakes in other people's children but we believe our own children are angels. Believe me, your children are angels if and only if the parents know that their children are not perfect and need guidence and sometimes punishment. Anyway, coming back to this topic, because everyone else thinks that he/she is perfect, then there is really no way to know the truth. The truth is warped and we "defines" the truth. Meaning, since we are perfect, it is up to us to know whether this is the truth or not. Strictly speaking, it's only your opinion on whether or not it is truth. It doesn't even justify truth if 10 million people says 'yes' and only one says 'no'. Remember Copernicus? The world is ROUND. So says the ONE man. So this only gets to proof that even a single man can be right in a room of a million.

So then? How do you see your own imperfection? The answer is, you can't. That's the problem. So how to overcome this weakness? Accepting criticisms. The second problem coupled with the problem of "seeing ourselves as perfect" is "thinking that everyone else is wrong". If we see ourselves as perfect BUT can see that someone else is right, I believe that we could change for the better. Problem is, we NEVER see that someone else is right. Herein lies the problem, by seeing other people right, we see ourselves LOWER than they and so our ego can't take it. My question is, what's wrong about seeing ourselves wrong and they right? How do you judge that if they are right then how they could be HIGHER than you? The perfect God came down what more can we say to that?

So by keeping a check on our ego, I believe that it does create better people. It does makes us more humble, knowing that we are not perfect and knowing that the ones that are correct does not make them higher or any better. They are just correct in their judgement in their field. Learning to accept ones mistake is the first step, learning to accept other people's correction is the next step. Here ends my short article (didn't want to bore you too much you see).