Sand Castles: 04/01/2005

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Current Concern

Kind of ironic.

You work hard to get something you THINK you want.

And when you get it, it seems you don't want it anymore.

Is that how I'm feeling now?

To be truthful, I think I'm in the neighborhood.

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Fishing Village

went to Quezon one weekend.

Caught on ISO 100 film. Not too bad, if I do say so myself.

Monday, April 25, 2005

Cold Feet

Our first major project. And I'll be heading it.

Feet are getting numb by the minute.

At this rate, it'll reach my brain by Wed.

Not a good sign.

Monday, April 18, 2005

Analog

For all the benefits of digital technology, I think I'm still an analog kind of person.

Not that I would boycott hi-tech stuff. I have no intentions of locking myself away in some remote mountain away from "civilization" (or what passes for it nowadays).

But neither would I jump at the opportunity to trade in my paper-based planner for a PDA.

It just doesn't feel the same way...

To be able to write things down with a pen- instead of just typing it.

To be able to scratch an agenda item out with varying degrees of frustration or satisfaction - instead of just tapping the "done" button.

To be able to look a person in the eye - instead of peering into a computer screen.

To be able to touch, crumple, tear to shreds sheets of paper - instead of hitting the "delete" button.

To be able to run your hands through a picture's film negative - instead of just storing bits and bytes on a CD.

Yeah, analog has it's impracticalities. Almost everyone's going on breakneck speed. To go at your own pace may mean professional and social alienation.

perhaps only the truly iconoclastic - or sociopathic - may actually go through with such a choice.

As for yours truly, I may have to settle for waxing nostaligic for the "good ol' days"...

...whilst I sit here in a coffee shop surrounded by folks and their fancy notebooks.

Just so you know, I do have a notebook as well.

Of the paper and board variety, that is...

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

That Certain Kind of Feeling # 2

Nothing of the premonition kind.

Just that the suspense is killing me and I am going NUTS over it.

I know it shouldn't be a big thing. It's just business.

But when you've put in as much effort into this deal as much as we have (and that our financial stability relies heavily on it), one can't help but feel...

... so much emotion over something that shouldn't evoke as much.

But then you remember Psalm 46:10
"Be still and know that I am God..."

Yes, folks. He's the Big Boss,
the CEO
and Ultimate Director for Life
of Pitik Bulag Productions, Incorporated.

Any direction we take, any project we win or lose, is all His leading.

And so, I take comfort in that.

And that's all.

Saturday, April 09, 2005

dabble # 2

again, my kids.

just can't get enough of them...

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Recent Disposition

been doing a lot of this lately....

and to quote the egregious Homer Simpson... "DOH!"

Saturday, April 02, 2005

Mucho Macho Man

yesterday, I accidentally surfed into MTV Classic and for some reason or another opted to stay and watch the video for the Village People's Macho Man.

and the experience was rather...

...disconcerting...

imagine subjecting yourself to watching a bunch of (and I may get some backlash here...) gay men in silly costumes talking about their muscles and touching their body... and the fact that these guys are gyrating shamelessly on camera does not help.

of course, one always had the choice of taking the remote and changing the channel. Now I know I should have.

But why I didn't, I probably will never know.

Needless to say, I may be scarred for life.

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