The two days before christmas post ...

It is Christmas.
Again.
Time passes so fast that sometimes I wonder if we ever really understand how fleeting our life is.

Been spending a lot of time swimming in work.
Auditing the company soft wares and hardware requirements.
Reports to support why we should be doing what we are doing now.
The year end review on why the staffs should not just quit and go achieve a higher pay grade somewhere else.
Making sure that the holiday is not going to be spent with just coals in the Christmas stockings.

It’s much better being the low side of the totem pole.
All you need to worry about is the plate in front of you.
For those who sit slightly higher, we need to care for the plates of those below them.

Less of these solemn words.
More of the cheerful kind.

It’s not all bad.
The holidays give me hope that it’s going to be a different year soon.
It allows me to relook into the past and find what I need to change for a better future.
And maybe find out what it means for us to be still in the living world.

So here is a little picture for you all.
A little something to remind you of the chance we were given when our lord cleanse us of our past sins.



Merry Christmas my friends.
And a happy 2010.

A pre-Christmas-post post ...

I know people.

I have been missing in action for some time.

I apologize for the lack of interaction but I was utterly taken up with work and some personal matters.

My boss has taken a 4 weeks leave to recharge his battery and has more or less left the company into the capable hands of my colleagues and me. The stress level is somewhat high because of this.

I promise I will be putting something up in sometime tomorrow.
Hope you will be patient with me some more.

Christmas is going to be a lot more hectic this year as well.
I have plenty of missing presents that has yet to materialized under that 6 foot tree.

I Can't Go On ... I'll Go On ...

That's the name of the band that is being featured in the movie "Bandslam".

Yes.
Its a teen movie.

Yes.
There is Venessa "High-school Musical" Hudgens in it.

Yes.
I like to listen to her sing.

But surprisingly in this movie she only sings twice and sings the same song.
"Everything I own" by David Gate's.

You of course might have heard the version from Boy George or if you actually watch "Happy Feet" its one of the songs sung within this incredibly cute movie about penguins.

Here is Venessa's rendition.



There is another singer in the show that was heavily promoted.
Her name is Aly Michalka.



Nice vocals and definite easy on the eye as well.

Her band is called "78violet" and has already multiple records out on the market.

Please bare in mind that "Bandslam" is an easy to watch show.
There has been quite a number of negative reviews on it and I though I would shed some positive light on it.

This movie is not going to be a threat in the Oscars nomination.

Its not meant to be a candidate for Cannes.

Its a movie where people like me, sits down from a hard days work to enjoy the simple things in life where its not complicated and touches all the right parts of my soul.

It is there to somehow remind us not to take life too seriously and laugh a little.

Its like the name of the band.
Its seems like we can't go on anymore ...
But we still somehow manage to go on.

Watch it.
Sing with it.
Laugh with it.
Life ain't all that shitty after all.

Dear Ed ....

I received this in a mail today.
I know its computer generated.
I know its gibberish.
But it manage to consume 1 minute of my life to read it.
And that itself is incredible act.

Dear Ed,
until mass is again daily said within these consecrated walls, and finally until San Carlos of Carmelo is again a worthier Carmel, "for the greater honor and glory of God" and the praises of His Virgin Mother once more are sung about this smiling valley where the Christian Indian children gathered the beautiful wild flowers of the blooming meadows to adorn the hallowed shrines, ere chimed the Angelus at evenings mellow glow.

Chapter IX
Reverend Raymond M. Mestres of Monterey Writes Historical Drama--"Fray Junipero" Beautiful among beautiful historical dramas is the mission play "Fray Junipero" written by Reverend Raymond Mestres, pastor of San Carlos Church (Capilla Real de San Carlos) of Monterey.

Many men and women have undertaken to write about mission times, but we may safely assert that this good priest so unassuming in what he does, is above all qualified to handle this subject, being first of all a religious, a native of Barcelona, the Metropolis of the Province of Catalonia, which can claim Junipero Serra and so many of the early Spanish missionaries, explorers and settlers, and being too an artist and scholar in every way acquainted with the history of the missions, having made it a special study during his twenty-seven years of residence (as a priest) in four mission towns of California, twenty-one of which have been spent in that chief of mission towns, Monterey.

Unbiased, careful of detail and true to history, while not wanting in artistic setting "Fray Junipero" carries the audience in Act I back to the College of Fernando, when Junipero Serra received his commission to come to California as Father Preast.

So the question comes to mind.
Why do this?
Whats the purpose of sending gibberish to people who mostly won't even read it.
But ultimately why clutter our mail box with these junks that does nothing more than eat up harddrive space?

Astounding.
Simply astounding.

Just in case you have not noticed.
I am getting better from my flu attack.
But I am still weak and spend majority time resting.

Knock out ...

It started on the 30th of November 2009.
The assailant came silently.
I was unprepared.
Or should I say, I never bothered to be careful.
So I became an easy mark.
To some I might just be collateral.

The first symptom was of course the stuffy nose.
Not uncommon during this time of year.
The weather is either too hot or too cold.
The body tries to compensate but most of the time the circuits just shorts itself.
Which was what happen to me.
The circuits went south, dragging me along for the ride.

The headache.
The pain behind the ear drums.
The running nose.
Then ultimately the weak knees.
Sounds severe, doesn't it.
Well if you were in my shoes, you wouldn't have cared by then.
The brain was so whacked up that nothing made sense.

6 days of bed and rest.
Total disability.
Could not even check my emails or text people with cohesively grammar.
Pumped up with enough Antibiotics and Flu medicine for an adult elephant.

So here I am.
Still feeling sickly but at least somewhat functional.
Don't think I will be visiting the PC Fair tomorrow.
No short mini skirts or loud people selling useless equipment to me.
Yeah.
Just gonna go to work and then come crawling back to that sweet soft bed.

Lets hope I don't fall flat on my face while I wait for the train to come.
God knows, my employer might just decide to permanently put me on leave if I got myself incapacitated due to stupidity.

Stupid Flu virus with its stupid super-powered sucker punch.