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Whew! After a period of seeing things in sickening blur, my eyes regain clarity once more.

This afternoon I found myself alone and craving to go out for a walk and a stick of cigar. The room just felt sad and heavy and I needed to breath. An hour later I was in Greenbelt using my Music One gift card for Mariah’s The Adventures Mimi DVD. Keith promised that he’d give me a copy of it but I never heard from him again since so I immediately thought of Mimi DVD when I received the gift card last week. I was almost tempted to buy more DVD’s but my procrastination prevailed – I went out with just one item in the bag.

While walking in Glorietta, I passed by The Optical Shop and remembered how I badly needed a new pair of contact lenses. This bad eyesight has already cost me too much trouble: I quit SQL training two weeks ago because I could not read the projection screen and felt like I would just be wasting time there pretending I understand when I could hardly see anything; I almost always unintentionally ignore my boss when I pass by him in front of our building because I can’t properly see people’s faces – he was the one who’d always call my attention. Nakakahiya tuloy. My glasses broke when I accidentally sat on it many months ago so since then, I’d been living a blurry life.

Ewan ko ba why I never felt the pressure to buy lenses. Weird. It might be that I was okay living in a blurry world? Or I just got so used to it that it felt normal already? Or was I just thrilled by the difference? Hehe. Anyway, it’s so much better now but my grade went up though. And the optometrist even scared me that it’d become worse as I age. Well… By then I will have drawn enough courage to undergo eye laser surgery.

The first familiar faces that I saw were Liezel’s and Myles’. Luckily they were in Fuzion so I went there to attend to my initial craving. We went home early because I did not really plan to stay out all night – got a lot to do later. I better sleep now.

This is quite overdue. Last Saturday we gave Ate Celle our long-awaited promised treat in Red Box. Fun night that I appreciate so much because it’s not very often that we officemates get to go out on a weekend party. Especially us in our team because we straddle three different shifts on weekdays so we don’t really have many moments to have fun outside the office. Well, I played the enduring diva that night and I screamed my singing frustrations away just to prove my point – that I could sing! Hahaha! Anyway… It’s way past my bedtime now. Here’s just a peak. I’ll post more pictures/stories later.

Two years ago. At around this same time, 130AM, I was probably sleeping with a mixed feeling of excitement and fear because I was about to start working again after a month-long break. My previous job was an airline reservation agent for US Airways where the world was fast, scattered and constrained by so many limits in many aspects. I can no longer remember what I did that whole day but I’m sure fell asleep that night praying and asking God to guide me in my challenges the following day because I did not know what to expect and I had a lot of worries about people’s expectations of me. All I had then was determination to vindicate myself for my past failure, wrong choices and spiralling lifestyle. I said to myself: “things will start to change here.”

Now. I just arrived home from work after a swift and easy day – not much deadlines, just a few checklists that I had to prepare for the week’s main task. Quite exhausted because I woke up late so I was rushing my way to the office to catch an 11AM telecon/demo with our Australian consultant (I arrived 20minutes late. Darn!) and then went out of the office after lunch to workout (I prefer to hit the gym around that time because it’s usually not very crowded unlike after office-hours) and came back three hours later. Considerably a productive day at work.

Looking back, A LOT has changed during my two-year stay in DTC and I admit that I’ve learned to love and value my job and the company. This is where I learned to aspire for greater things because I considered being surrounded by people smarter than me a challenge to myself. Two years may not be much but I’m proud of myself I stayed this long here. And I’m happy that I’m going along with my officemates well, I have a cool team, I have a challenging job and I learned a lot since my first day.

So to me… Happy 2nd Birthday in DTC!

This is so sad. Another story of campus killing – a senseless act that nullifies innocent people’s dreams and everything they’ve worked for just like that. Even if it’s half-way around the world, it still bothers me that there are people, no matter how troubled they are, who can do such horrible thing. School is where you’re supposed mold your dreams and yet in this case, all of it crumbled down here. Northern Illinois University is the latest victim of campus massacre. It’s just last year when Virginia Tech. had the same incident in the hands of an angry student.

Up to now, nobody knows why the gunman did it. Thinking about it, I can feel how scary it was for those who survived to remember the scene. A classic horror movie came to life – from behind the curtains of the stage, a hooded man just open-fired. I pray for that guy’s soul. He might have been troubled or it might have been the result of his medication but this is just unfair. I still can’t find an excuse to absolve him.

I never liked violence. It would take a lot to provoke me into a brawl. And for killings to happen where you’re supposed to be safe learning the things you need to know is just scary. This has to stop. Never again should such incident happen anywhere. The guy apparently sneaked that shot-gun in a guitar case. Argh! I don’t know what to say. I just feel bad that this happened again. I pray for them. This is a challenge that nobody deserves.

You know I’m a fan of Mariah Carey’s music. Hours ago she debuted her first single, Touch My Body, from her upcoming album E=MC² in radio stations in the US. I managed to get a copy of it so everybody can listen. Well… It sounds nice and catchy – I like it – but I agree with a review by Todd Martens from LA Times: “She pulls back when the song picks up the pace, and Carey keeps it simple here, playing with tempos rather than range.” But in general, the entire review was positive as with all other reviews that have surfaced so far. A great expectation is up for this song to hit #1.

SPMF. It was nine years ago when we officially called ourselves “friends” and had this name tagged on our group. We were high school students at uso ang barkadahan na may pangalan back then. Don’t ask what it stands for because we can’t really give you a consistent answer – all we know is we’ve been known as that and it sounds good. Hehe.

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Okay so it’s past 3AM and I’m still here in the office. SPMF party’s tonight at my house but I surely won’t be able to start preparing until past lunchtime today (Saturday). An hour-and-a-half ago I was preparing to leave when I received an email from my boss with an urgent instruction to retest our software against Oracle 10g database engine because apparently, our consultant in the UK tried installing it but it wouldn’t recognize the Oracle 10g client in the application server. This was certified way back in early December 2007 and I don’t understand why this issue’s happening because we had three release candidates for this version – we even demanded patches for RC3′s bug fixes before we gave a go signal for its final release - but we never encountered this error.

I’m on “lunch” right now.  Thank God it’s Friday so there’s Banchetto Bazaar along Emerald Avenue tonight and I had lot of meal options (but I still went for my favorite pasta and chocolate cake) so the sight and smell of that “early morning street fiesta” was quite refreshing. I’ve been having problems eating again due to my poor time management so I promise to go to work earlier next week. Three weeks ago I was granted a flexi schedule so I can go to work anytime I want. And this is supposed to work to my advantage but I think I was too overwhelmed that I lost control of it. Now it’s getting the best of my health and I lost a noticeable amount of weight. Argh!

Discipline, Borgy. Discipline. Anyway, it was a breath of fresh air to stop for a while and eat. I have to go back to work now and hope to get to the bottom of this issue. Think of tonight, Borgy: party, friends, food, music, wine…

Opera is not my type of music but my officemate showed me this clip of Paul Potts’ first audition in Britain’s Got Talent. I just find him absolutely amazing. It really is nice to see unassuming people who has great talent vindicate themselves onstage totally erasing random presumptions. If you look at him, he’s like someone who’s an easy target of bored bullies’ games and as if one of those American Idol joke auditionists. And then he does that singing that just sends shockwaves of goosebumps throughout the entire clip. Like I said, I am not a fan of opera but it’ll be interesting to watch him perform. Lesson here: do not judge a book by its cover. Classic.

Here’s Paul Pott’s first audition clip:

Paul Potts went on to win Britain’s Got Talent last June 17, 2007 making his audition piece his winning piece as well. His debut album “One Chance” claimed the #1 spot in the UK and has sold 2 million copies.