To Quote

"Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. Leadership is not a popularity contest. Trying to please everyone or trying not to offend anyone puts you on the road to mediocrity. Making people mad is part of being a leader."

Colin Powell

Looking Forward

There has been a lot I had to let sink in; realities I had to face, failures you have to live up with and chances you just missed. Those are probably one of the hardest stretches I had to live through. When I had a lot of doubt and fears on what lies ahead for me. I always tried to portray myself as strong willed, firm and unabashed. And I kept a straight face, well my eyebrows though oftentimes beg to disagree showing more emotions than a normal patch of solid hair can. Well anyway, the eyebrows should be another story, to add to my "to write list". For now I just want to look forward, I could already see clear skies on the horizon. I keep to myself a lot of cliches to keep up the spirit, and one sounds like this, It's not how fast you get there, its about pushing forward to your goal despite all that you had to undergo. I believe that makes me a better person, and I always believed.

The Best

I've always looked forward to another post-Christmas get together with my two friends - Ollie and EJ - as we surely enjoy and have a great time. This year we made it farther in our road trip and we have conquered more of the South, perhaps we're ripe for a deep South trip. Every year we have something new, this year we are with my girlfriend, after spending dinner with my family in Tagaytay.

To cut short, the best title pertains to what could be the best. Its when my other friends get back home and we could do it all together, Chris, Boom, (busy) Gino, Jojo M.D. and the rest, then we will be having the best reunion ever, as for now the three of us continue to get together and await the big day to have the best trip ever.

Christmas Bulge

Oh yeah! I got into that Christmas spirit of eating a lot. I just couldn't help myself to taste all the dishes on the table. Now I have a christmas bulge! It's not pretty but heck I enjoyed every bite. Now let's hope to

Publish Post

have the will to exercise.

nTH time

Well I guess at least I haven't resorted to deleting and remaking my blog, just change of templates, hopefully I could write again, ooops another thing to do, will write later.. :)

Smacked!

I was playing hard ball basketball and I got smacked in my right forearm. Smacked!!! I closed my eyes in pain, and walked blindly to midcourt trying to suppress the throbbing. I wasn't even sure who was the slapper, but guess that was for the good, I would've been after him the whole time after that.

The smack left a bloody mark on my forearm with an unusual letter I form in the middle, weird, must've been the spaces in the fingers that left the "I" mark, or maybe it's a sign! hahahah! or maybe it's an "H". hmmm...

(pic to be posted next time)

Carried-o Away

Darn! Just when I was enjoying public transportation another quirk happens. Apparently an establishment in Carriedo is on fire and I am not informed. So I blindly got into the LRT 2 to Recto station, reached D.Jose to transfer then was smacked of the news into my face.

So what does a rookie-manila-commutter do so as not to appear naive. I went with the flow, I observed the people as to what public transport they would turn to, I actually almost hailed a cab but I withstood by my urge to go cheap.

And I waited earnestly, trying to figure out how to get to Vito Cruz, when I Thought I was ready I hopped on the jeep, then got turned away as quickly as I gave my fare and my desired destination. So I jumped to another one, and was turned back again. I was surprised there were actually three different jeep routes plying the area, and I luckily picked the two which were not going my way. And to top it off, the one going my way is always full, with men "on sabit". I wasn't in the mood to up my adventure.

Then I went back to the shade to re-think of my plan, and decided to just ask the nearest friendly people. Luckily I picked the right people to ask, and I rode with them to a Jeep towards Lawton and form there switched to a Jeep going to Vito Cruz, I insisted on paying for their fare out-of-thanks, they relieved me of further stress and they were worthwhile companions along the way.

It was fun and I'll do it all over again. Me-likey-going-public.