According to the astrology reading for my sign, Venus is in Top form on but Mars is in retrograde.

What this means is that your appeal will be very high, but your judgment may be off.

The retrograde (Mercury Retrograde) is dead-on - remember my electricity bill?!?

Goodluck to me.  My planets are like gremlins this month lol

A few hours before the start of yet another long weekend, I find myself in the office.  In my immediate area, there are just a couple of people with me.

Spend some time outside.  Nature has a way like no other to bring new life to our city-weary minds and bodies.

Most everyone must have started their weekends already.  Lucky them.

Breathing in the fresh air heals and rejuvenates us.

For the few of us we’ll just have to endure the next 8 hours.

All our senses are calmed by seeing the sheer majesty of a sunset or deep blue hue of the ocean.

It doesn’t help that the weather outside is dank, damp and sleepy.  The perfect bedweather.

Find simple joy in feeling the naked grass under your feet or feeling the rugged texture of a tree.

I can’t wait for the relaxation to begin.  Have a truely blessed long weekend everyone!!!

This is very funny but some are true - decoding the Human Resources Code by Joke of the Day

COMPETITIVE SALARY
Most of our competitors don’t pay much either.

“JOIN OUR FAST-PACED COMPANY”
We have no time to train you.

“CASUAL WORK ATMOSPHERE”
You’ll be here very late, very often — might as well be comfortable.

“MUST BE DEADLINE-ORIENTED”
Your first four projects are already way overdue.

“SOME OVERTIME REQUIRED”
Did we mention that you’ll be here very late, very often? And most weekends.

“DUTIES WILL VARY”
Anyone in the office can boss you around.

“MUST HAVE AN EYE FOR DETAIL”
We have no quality control.

“CAREER-MINDED”
Female applicants must be childless.

“APPLY IN PERSON”
If you’re old, fat or ugly, that position has already been filled.

“NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE”
This job listing is just a legal formality. The position was filled by some executive’s nephew.

“SEEKING CANDIDATES WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIENCE”
Due to consolidation, you’ll be replacing three people.

“PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS A MUST”
This company is a total mess.

“REQUIRES TEAM LEADERSHIP SKILLS”
You’ll have all the responsibilities of upper management, without the pay, title or respect.

“GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS”
Listen to management, figure out what they want, don’t ask too many questions and get the sh*t done.

Officemates, what do you think?!?

Choose joy!  Smile and feel your face grow brighter and lighter.  Do this often specially when you don’t feel like doing it.  You can’t give what you don’t have so dispel any thoughts that bring you down and collect thoughts that make you happy.  Share this joy with others along the way.

I honestly didn’t feel like being joyful when the day started.  Maybe it’s chemical, I feel like it’s almost that.  Or maybe it’s the slow days on end.  I’ve been feeling like I should be doing a lot more.

But of course, as the law of attraction states, I should feel the contentment and joy inorder to attract things and circumstances that will bring me just that.  So I’m doing my best effort here

I hope my caring meter moves up soon

I am still in shock over our electric bill that Meralco has sent to us for this month.  It’s so high that it being more than 10x than my officemate’s electric consumption is not funny anymore.

We plan to get an electrician today to check if our line has been spliced by a neighbor or what not.  That’s just not fair, you know.  On the off chance that someone is splicing free power on our account, that lucky winner will surely receive an electricution of words from yours truly.

Haays… real-world problems…

You might have seen this when you surfed google today

Yes, I was wondering too.  Then I turned on Wikipedia and discovered this

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, and the creator of a single wire telegraph system.

Kaya pala.  He’s the inventor of the you-know-what code, if you didn’t know already hehe.  Happy birthday Mr. Morse

Or maybe I should say

…. .- .–. .–. -.–   -… .. .-. - …. -.. .- -.–   … .- — ..- . .-..   — — .-. … .

(checkout technick.net to convert)

Update:

We’ve ended up using the tool from technick.net.  My friends received this mail containing this

– .- –. .- -. -.. .- -. –.   .- .-. .- .–   … .-   .. -. -.– — -. –.   .-.. .- …. .- -

And Steph replied

– .- –. .- -. -.. .- -. –.   .- .-. .- .–   -.. .. -.   … .-   .. -.– —   .— .-

This is fun… and we’ll tire of this in a bit hehehe

Got this from Joke of the Day.  This is SO funny

Two church members were going door to door, and knocked on the door of a woman who was not happy to see them. She told them in no uncertain terms that she did not want to hear their message and slammed the door in their faces. To her surprise, however, the door did not close and, in fact, bounced back open. She tried again, really put her back into it, and slammed the door again with the same result-the door bounced back open.

Convinced these rude young people were sticking their foot in the door, she reared back to give it a slam that would teach them a lesson, when one of them said, “Ma’am, before you do that again, you need to move your cat.”

Have a great week ahead everyone!!!

What Not to Say to a Policeman - from Joke of the Day

• I can’t reach my license unless you hold my beer.
• Sorry, Officer, I didn’t realize I was driving.
• Wow, you must’ve been doing about 125 mph to keep up with me!
• I was going to be a cop, but I decided to finish high school instead.
• You’re not gonna check the trunk, are you?
• You look just like my girlfriend’s deadbeat ex-husband.
• The question is — do YOU know why you pulled me over?
• I was trying to keep up with traffic, and it’s miles ahead of me.
• If you have to ask if I’ve been drinking, I’m not going to tell you, dude.
• It wasn’t my fault — when I reached down to roll this joint, my gun fell off my lap and got lodged under the brake pedal.
• That’s a sweet 9mm. You want to hold my .44 magnum?
• If I’d known I was getting a full body cavity search, I would have waxed!

One reaction from me - lmao!!!

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.  Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.  - John Muir

Despite the unexpected weather this time of year, we can still find joy over the cool breeze that we’ll all experience on a rainy day like this.

Have a great weekend everyone

I just discovered this site today:  Joke of the Day

This is funny

A police officer pulls over a driver and informs him that he has just won $5,000 in a safety competition, all because he is wearing his seat belt.

“What are you going to do with the prize money?” the officer asks.

The man responds, “I guess I’ll go to driving school and get my license.”

His wife says, “Officer, don’t listen to him. He’s a smart aleck when he’s drunk.”

The guy in the back seat pops up out from under the blanket and says, “I knew we wouldn’t get far in this stolen car.”

Just then a knock comes from the trunk and a voice calls out, “Are we over the border yet?”

And this too

Three old ladies sit in a diner, discussing their health.

One lady says, “You know, I’m getting really forgetful. This morning, I was standing at the top of the stairs, and I couldn’t remember whether I had just come up or was about to go down.”

The second lady says, “You think that’s bad? The other day, I was sitting on the edge of my bed, and I couldn’t remember whether I was going to sleep or had just woken up!”

The third lady smiles smugly. “Well, my memory is just as good as it’s always been, knock on wood,” she says as she raps on the table. Then with a startled look on her face, she asks, “Who’s there?”

The site promises to make you laugh at least once a day.  Better than vitamins for a stressful day (Which I forgot if I did take today hehe), no?!

On other news, is this really President GMA’s Twitter?  Parang ang legit e!!!

April 22 is Earth Day

You can go to earthday.net to sign up and become an Earth Day Network Activist.

I went to the site to measure my carbon footprint with their Footprint Calculator - a tool that helps you find out how many planets it takes to support one’s lifestyle.  But it’s currently not working in my browser here at the office.  Will update you guys later about it.

Here are some tips I got from the mail today, thought I would share this with you guys

1. Turn off your light: When you don’t need it, it only makes sense to turn off your light bulb.
2. Running faucet: Turn off the running faucet when you brush your teeth. Believe it or not, if you leave the water running for two minutes, you waste gallons of water.
3. Carry cloth shopping bags: Cloth shopping bags are better than plastic shopping bags for the environment.
4. Recycle: Recycle newspapers, plastic, cans, or glass. Learn about your local recycling facilities. Recycle whenever you can.
5. Ride a bike.  Within a 4 km radius (sometimes more), it’s faster getting from point A to B to ride a bike than drive a car.
6. Plant a tree.  Join tree planting activities.  Or plant in a pot if you’re in a building.
7. Segregate waste.   I helps the planet more than you think.
8. Dry your hands using handkerchiefs.  A tree approximately produces 1,000 tissue rolls, same trees that gives us Oxygen.
9. Use public transport.  A little inconvenience is cheaper in the long run.

For item 5, I’ve been planning to buy a bike for weeks now.  That way I can use it when going around our village.  Maybe in a week’s time.  This morning I went to work early, so I did #9.

I hope everyone does his/her part to save our planet, even in everyone’s own little ways.  We only have one Earth, after all.

Yes we used to call it that.  Or I used to call it that, with a pop-culture reference to My BestFriend’s Wedding, if you didn’t know yet.  But that hasn’t been the case for a long time.  I’ve loved and lost…  Been loved…  Secretly loved…  Not necessarily in that order.  Yes, I’ve been busy in the love department

Anyway, I got this from Twitter

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

- Kate Hepburn

I’ve always thought that a love unrequited was the most noble of loves… but honestly, nowadays I don’t think I have the heart, nor a dumb enough brain, to give such a kind

I think, with the law of attraction, you can always ask to love and be loved.  And trust that it will come.  Or has come

Have a great Tuesday everyone!!!

Saw this news on Twitter.  Can you believe this?!?

THE poverty-stricken father of Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubina Ali plans to become a millionaire himself-by SELLING his nine-year-old daughter.

Read the full article through this link.

Reading further into the article, this broke my heart

[about the movie] …it depicts starkly true scenes of poverty and child cruelty, where young orphans are blinded and crippled by Fagin-like thugs and forced to beg on the streets. And with a staggering 11 million children abandoned in India every year, there is no shortage of young prey.

Oh God, there is so much suffering in this world.

It turns out that they are being given help by the producers and city officials - with a luxury apartment to boot… Sleazy dad…

Thank you(!!!) Google People for finally creating this gadget for iGoogle.  Now I can finally see all my google stuff on one page

And see, I did my Reader Homework, I have no unread items.  Don’t you hate it when you don’t get to surf Google reader for a few days only to find that you have 500++ unread items when you finally check it?

For those not yet in the know, Google Reader is a tool by the same company to read blogs using rss, and iGoogle is a more personal way to use Google utilizing widgets or gadgets.

Anyhoo, I’m wishing that everyone is enjoying their weekend

We were having brunch at home yesterday amidst the smoldering heat, when I thought aloud, “Wouldn’t it be great to have a pool - inside the house?” Pointing at the big space in the living room, “over there…”

My brother and nephew nodded in unison.  We all laughed about it but also animatedly got excited at the idea.  A few minutes later I was handing Aki a loaded debit card to do the deed.

That afternoon, Aki and Jude (my nephew) headed out to SM.  RJ (our neighbor and village clique-mate) saw them and asked where they were going.  Aki answered, “We’re gonna go to SM to buy a pool…”  It took a moment for our neighbor to figure out what he said.

A few hours later, the gang was texting Das, “Kuya, get yourself to our house,” they added, “We’re gonna go swimming.”  To which Das asked, “where to?” and RJ replied “Dito lang sa malapit, pumunta ka na!” (Just nearby, get here quick!)

By the time Das arrived, the guys were already filling up the biggest pool they could find in SM with water.  They placed it right outside our door since it couldn’t fit in the spare space in the living room.  Anyhow, our original crazier plan was not that practical

When I arrived at the house from work, this was the scene that ensued

Pool party!!!