Swiss Miss at 3 in the morning

I slept early. It was around just past 9 pm last night that I went to sleep. I was out with blogger friends and had 2 bottles of SanMig Lights. I was glad that for almost a week now, I was sleeping and waking up early. Unfortunately today, I woke up earlier than usual. I woke up at exactly 1 am. This happend after a deep sleep and I was dreaming. It was a very restful sleep though. Now after 2 hours of officially being awake, im having Swiss Miss hot choco. My pomeranian beside me and a hot choco. . Ahhh. . love it.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Still can't get over Steve Jobs death.

He was an Icon. A Maverick. A Rebel. A Visionary. A Tech Guru. An Innovator.

Here is one of his famous and very inspiring speech during the 2005 commencement exercise at Stanford.

Although I have heard this speech before. I kept on listening to this 15 minute speech now and it is truly inspiring.

Steve Jobs Dies at 56

It is a sad day for the tech world.

Steve Jobs dies at the age of 56.

Apple's founder will be remembered thru the tech that he created.

I always admire Steve for his charismatic personality and his visionary thinking.

My Ipad, Ipod, and Macbook Pro will forever remind me of him.

Thank you for everything Steve! You will be missed.

Today is teachers day. In my family there are a lot of teachers. My wife was a teacher for several years. My older brother is a teacher in the bible school. His wife is also a teacher in a public school. My paternal aunts and uncles were teachers. Even my aunt and younger brother were teachers (Clinical Instructors) in nursing schools.

Well, today I wish you all the best and may you be more inspired to teach others.

Happy teachers day to all of you.

I want to Run!

I wanted to run, to jog or simply walk. Not just for fun but also for my health. I have been a couch potato for so long. I used to go to the gym. I used to go biking. I used to walk for hours. Now, I just see them all in my TV. My biggest exercise is a right click and a left click. Bummer. :) Well, I hope to go back to my active lifestyle again. . . soon.

If I die Young

I love this song.

It's a very powerful song.

The chorus goes:

"If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a, bed of roses
Sink me in the river, at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song"

Hmmm. . What would be my chorus?

I Scream for Ice Cream

I love ice cream.

I just had a cup of Selecta Hershey's Chocolate with Almonds.

I almost never run out of ice cream in my freezer.

I don't care if its cold outside, I just want to eat ice cream.

In every place I go, I always try out their ice cream.

I don't care what brand it is or what flavor it is...as long as it is ice cream, I'll gobble it up like it was my time to eat one. :P

I just love ice cream!

Oh Uh!

My Goodness, its been more than a month already since my last Random Thought. My Bad.

Well, lately I have been inspired by my friends to go into blogging. I didn't realized that there are actually friends who read my blogs.

I wish I could go back to the mode of blogging at least one Random Thought per day. Wish me luck.

I need a haircut, again

I need a haircut again.

Ever since I decided to grow my hair, I now go to the barber shop every two weeks.

I used to have a "skinhead" for the past 15 years or more. That is why my visit to the barbershop then was like once a month.

I don't want to style my hair.

I never had a comb. I never had a gel or anything to put on my hair except shampoo.

I want to wake up not caring what my hair looks like.

Those are the reasons why I love my skinhead.

But, its almost a year now since I let my hair grow.

I don't know how long I can hold on. Hahaha.

Tomorrow, I will let the barber decide what kind of haircut I am going to get.

I just hope he does his job well.

LSS: BREAKEVEN - The Script

It's more than a month now since this song became my favorite.

Have you read the lyrics of this song?

It's a sad song. :(

Ah, but its the best tune for all the heartbroken people out there. (Ipod repeat mode on)

The tune is catchy specially the "I'm falling to pieces" part.

This song is now the most played song in my Ipod.

The Script is actually coming to Manila for a concert on April 16, 2011.

I would love to go to their concert but we are scheduled to go to Camiguin for a wedding on that day.

I will just have to be contented with You Tube and my Ipod for now.

Rain

I love the rain.

It's raining outside now.

It makes me want to go out and take a shower in the rain.

When I was younger, I love to bathe in the rain.

I remember my brother and I would stand under the downspout and enjoy the cold rain rushing down too cool our bodies.

We would splash, run, jump, and have fun under the rain. We really had a great time when we were kids.

I remember our hair would be as soft as silk after each shower and that our fingers would crinkle while we dress up and drink hot Milo.

I would want to go out and do the things I did back then. But now, when it rains, I would just sit inside my room and look out the window while listening to my favorite music in my Ipod.

I still love the rain. I do, and one of these days, I would go out to splash, run, jump and have fun in the shower of the rain.

Wish: A new Cellphone

I'm planning to buy a new cellphone.

By next month, my current primary phone will be one year old.

I don't usually change cellphones that often but I have been irritated with my current phone, a Samsung Omnia Pro.

It has Windows Mobile 6.5, a great camera,wifi,qwerty keyboards,big screen and everything about it is almost perfect.

The problem is that, it freezes(hangs) on my daily use. Sometimes it hangs up to 4 times a day. This is really annoying me.

I think the problem is that Samsung decided to install their own UI to "enhance" WM6.5. This resulted in slowing down and the freezing of the device. Worst of all is that there is no way of disabling it unless you flash the rom with a new one.

I am a Windows Mobile user ever since it came out. I like the windows interface in my phone.

I had an Iphone, A Palm and a Symbian before but I keep coming back to a WM phone.

This time around I want to try an Android phone.

I am choosing between the HTC Wildfire and the SE Xperia X10 Mini Pro

I like the HTC because of its big screen and its UI. But I want a keyboard on my phone. Not a virtual one but an actually qwerty that I can feel with my thumb.

I like the Xperia because it is small and has the keyboard that I wanted. But I think it is pricey.

Hmmm. . choices choices. .

I can't decide now but I'm bent on changing my phone before the end of the week.

I'll keep you posted.

I Wonder: Why my Internet Connection is so slow!

I don't know if it is just my connection or is the internet really slow since the earthquake in Japan happened?

I saw some Plurks about it.

I also Plurked about it.

Ria told me that it was due to the earthquake and that some cables where cut.

I don't know what happened but it surely is annoying.

I could not even connect to speedtest.net to verify the speed of my connection.

This reminds me of the pre DSL connections. . .when I was still in dial up to connect to the internet.

Oh well, I guess this is better than nothing.

Am I thankful by the way that this slowing of my internet connection is the only consequence that I have to deal with after the Japan earthquake.

Still very thankful that the tsunami did not hit our country.

Thoughts and prayers are still for the Japanese who lost a lot in the tsunami.

Tsunami Hits Japan Today

It's a tragic news.

Tsunami Slams Northern Japan After Massive 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Coast

I didn't even know about it until my cellphone received several sms of a tsunami warning.

I watched on the evening news how the waters arrived and washed away the cars, buildings and other things that got in the way.

Very tragic indeed. I'm pretty sure tomorrow we will have an actual assessment on how much damage was made.

Never mind the buildings and cars, human lives are far more valuable than the former.

It's another sad day for all of us.

I won't write much about the NEWS because i'm sure there will be a lot of sources for this.

I'm just bothered by what is happening to the world lately.

As I have said in my post yesterday. CARPE DIEM. Let's live everyday as if it were our last.

Live. . Pray. .Love.

Carpe Diem!

SEIZE THE DAY!

That's what it means.

The movie Dead Poet's Society popularized this phrase.

I read somewhere that it came from a line in Horace in his Odes.

If you really think of it, we should live life as if there is no tomorrow for tomorrow is always uncertain.

We should capture each opportunity that comes along, for some of them only comes once.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop. Let's be productive.

Seize the day with your love one's, your family and your friends.

Enjoy life to the fullest. Don't waste time.

By Horace:

"Dum loquimur, fugerit invida
Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero"

it means:

While we are talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future.

CARPE DIEM MY FRIEND, CARPE DIEM!!

Missed: My Insomnia

I have always had Insomnia.

I don't know why.

Maybe I was programmed with the sleeping chip missing in my motherboard.

However lately, I'm not having problems sleeping at all.

This is a good thing right? Well I guess so.

It used to be that I don't sleep in the afternoon because that would mean a 2am sleep that night.

It used to be that I don't drink iced tea, which is a favorite of mine, because it makes me awake at night.

It used to be that 12 midnight is like 7 in the evening for me, it's just too early to sleep yet.

Well, I hope this will be for the better. . . but sometimes I do kinda like it when I don't sleep.

I find serenity when I am the only person awake in the middle of the night.

I love to just stay awake doing nothing until the morning comes.

It used to be that I can talk with a friend and only stop because the sun is up and it's time to go to sleep.

It used to be that the only sound I hear is that of a friend affirming that I was being listened to.

I love the quietness and the tranquility of the night.

I'm beginning to miss my Insomnia. . .

Spotted: Facebook Shout Outs

I just read a Facebook shout out:

Congratulation to my son/daughter/sister/whoever for passing/completing/topping/whatever. .

Like do I care? and then worst of all the poster LIKED his own post. . WTF?

Would you like me to call CNN to announce it there too? Geeze. . .

It's not that you should not be proud of whatever it was that was achieved. . .

but do you really have to LIKE your own post?

My Goodness!

Hola

¿cómo está usted?

So how are you today?

It's a gloomy day.

Not so inspiring day to start a new blog but hey, I just started one.

The sun is hiding behind an unending span of white clouds which is actually a welcome sight.

WELCOME to my new Blog!
While writing this, Adele is looping on my Ipod with her song "Someone Like You" from her latest album "21".

What a great song to go with this weather.

Here she is singing at her home:



Great voice, Great Song.