Discontent

No power again. Good thing I still have the laptop with about an hour’s worth of battery. I’ve been hoping my siblings in Manila are ok. Two are stuck in the 2nd floor of their homes. One has gone safely back to his apartment after being stranded on a mall for several hours. And my nephew is safe and sound in his dorm despite the flood in front of it. So I’m sitting still waiting for power to come back on because I need to work on a vector project for a client. And I just started this morning when the power went out. It hasn’t returned since. Bummer.

I’ve had a pretty busy but I think it's been a very productive two weeks. My co-workers and I were exposed to the IBM culture which in itself is impressive and very … mind-numbing. But I guess it’s only because we were not used to it. We will be adapting their best practices and hopefully can have it implemented at the whole agency when the right time comes. I’m banking on this. I want change and I don’t want to be complaining about the same things 10 years from now. I am totally, positively hopeful that we can make this work, And I really wish that despite the politics at the office, administration will see how big this could be for all of us.

So thanks to Keven Cheng and Shefali Bansal for all the help and advise and the patience to see us through. We have become attached to them over the past week and it was really difficult to say goodbye. You get attached quickly. But good things to come. Good thongs to come.




The thing about meeting other people from another country, it opens your eyes wider to see how small you are in the universe and how vast the possibilities are out there. And meeting people like them just shows that anything can happen. After meeting them I am no longer CONTENT – Hahaha. I REALLY HATE THAT! It’s a bad thing really but it’s also a good thing. I want to be able to push myself to the challenge. You be the change you want to see in the world they keep saying. Amen to that. BE THE CHANGE. Remember the post secret postcard I posted a year ago? This one? I want people to say that about me. No matter how small that change maybe, I want to be able to contribute something to the world. I want to be significant! I don’t think it is ever too late.