res ipsa loquitur

May
15th

Thu

You must choose between pain or drudgery.

— Douglas Coupland

May
14th

Wed

Cawi and Enoy reunited after 7 years—in Hollywood! So surreal…

I loved Chicago! Wasn’t crazy about the weather (spring is still too cold for me) but I thought the city was beautiful. More photos here.

Tutuo pala ang jetlag

Spent most of last week re-synching my body clock with this side of the international dateline’s 24hour cycle. Kept waking up at 3am—and finding myself at work by 7. Horrors! Finally clicked back to UTC+8 over the weekend. Now I’m finally, 100% back!

May
4th

Sun

I'm back! This is how I'm celebrating my homecoming

Apr
13th

Sun

But if she was herself only at lunch, who was she the rest of the time? Was she someone else? Were those, the majority of hours, nothing? Or were they the truth?

— Aurelie Sheehan in The Anxiety of Everyday Objects. This sounds eerily similar to what went on inside my head when I worked at xxx. I kept telling myself it’s only a day job, what you do doesn’t define who you are. A job is for paying the bills, right? Fun is for after five! So I did my best to do the responsible thing—that is, until I finally decided life’s too short for this shit. But anyway (sorry for the rant ;) all I meant to say was, I loved this book! Am keeping on the lookout for more of her stuff.

Apr
8th

Tue

Innovation is super fragile. It’s very easy to kill. We need a stubborn, rebellious attitude.

— Douglas Merrill, Google CIO (quoted in last month’s Fast Company)

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

— Stephen King

Apr
6th

Sun

Pogue’s Posts on NYT Blog: Can Blogger-Bashers Predict the Success of a Product? Unlikely. “…when your laptop has the thickness and feel of a legal pad and starts up with the speed of a PalmPilot, it ceases to be a traditional laptop. It becomes something you whip open and shut for quick lookups, something you check while you’re standing in line or at the airline counter, something you can use in places where hauling open a regular laptop (and waiting for it) would just be too much hassle. It’s the same lesson I learned when I reviewed the Flip “camcorder” a couple weeks ago: if you change the shape and concept of something enough, it ceases to be that thing. It becomes a new thing, or a descendant of that earlier thing. But it’s no longer the original thing, and you can’t judge it on the same yardstick.”

Apr
3rd

Thu

MLQ3: The destruction of the presidency “The few friendly discussions I’ve had with supporters of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo usually revolve around their assertion that the President has actually strengthened the institution of the presidency. My counter-assertion is that she has accomplished the opposite. She has embarked on destroying the effectiveness of the presidency, institutionally, not for herself but for her successors…”

CDQ on PDI today: Dark, darker, darkest “The dark cloud is that we are being led out of our deepest misfortune by the one person most responsible for it.”

Mar
25th

Tue

Carlos Celdran: Nobody is "high society" -- anybody can be "high society" “There is NO such thing as “high society” in a country that was built by the money of glorified farmers (hacienderos) and merchants (the Ilustrados). Period. The stark reality here is that the Philippines has NOT had royalty in over 3 centuries, so the concept of being “elite” in the Philippines is totally manufactured. Jeez, even the Zobels and Sys and Gokongweis had their beginnings as simple shopkeepers. So having said that, ANYBODY can be “High Society”. In a good way, everything becomes quite democratic, the field is level when it comes to choosing who should be our society’s “icons”. But sadly, instead of choosing Filipinos of merit/morals to be our role models in defining the modern Philippine lifestyle, it seems that the mainstream media has chosen to glorify pretentiousness and choose posers as the ones the masses should emulate.” — HEAR HEAR!