i have only been 33 for over a week now and i have been neither under pressure nor under the impression that i should be making any profound statements about growing a year older. i had already done that when i hit 30, and also tried it a year later (check my birthday series), and maybe the next slew of realizations would take place when i'm closer ( Read more... )

i just realized that august really is an auspicious month for me, not only because i was born in august, but because a few significant things in my life also celebrate their anniversaries during this month ( Read more... )

it's august and i turn 32 in 30 days. i wonder whether i should submit myself to the exercise of writing 32 random thoughts on 32 random things as i did before i turned 30, and which i wasn't able to complete before i turned 31. many things are taking place and i can't quite find focus. we shall see. for now, i'm just curious as to how all these ( Read more... )

20th thing: birthday greetingsi subjected myself to this exercise in the last three years that this blog has been alive, and while i have been rather scarce lately, i owe it to my good friend jay (who is the director of pilipinas sierra's BMC) to post this. besides, my phone, despite its large memory, is aching to be relieved of far too many stored ( Read more... )

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it seems pretty clear, with just two days to go before the big three-one, that there is very little chance i will ever get this list to reach 31, unless i come up with some quick, short entries on a few trivial things -- which is not to say that the past few ones have been anything but trivial insofar as many people are concerned. to rush the ( Read more... )

a lot of people who do not know much about my past might be surprised when i talk about how i have lived a life of little luxury, and how my poverty has driven me to seek financial success. in a way, my history has influenced me in different ways: on the one side, i want to do something about the current state of humanity, to do something for the ( Read more... )

i've already said in the last previous entry that i would like to learn to drive at least a few months before i get my first car. i haven't received any offers yet from friends who might be willing to teach me the basics, but i can always ask my brothers. other than driving, there are many other things i'd like to learn, and hopefully, i'd want to ( Read more... )

i find it almost amazing that i have managed to be at the office before 8.15am these past two days, when, on both occasions, i had gone home at past 3am with beer in my bloodstream; while that might not sound impressive to some, consider that i still had to endure 2-hour commutes. this job must be really worth the great sacrifices -- i would have ( Read more... )

once again i am thrust into a situation, familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. last year, i began counting the last 30 days to my turning 30. i do the same exercise today, but only, i count the last 30 days before i turn 31 (alas! were it only possible to grow younger). i do not know whether it is prudent to repeat my random ruminations last ( Read more... )