Busy Busy Busy!

WOOHOO!! I am SO glad its saturday!

Its been such a hectic week. Weekends are nice and relaxing but once monday hits, the week passes in a caffeine fueled haze.

Okay...so just to give you an idea of what my week is like, heres my 2 day routine...
Day One

• 5:00 am - Groggily get up out of bed, wipe the lawai from my cheek and prep myself for the day
  
• 6:00 am - Rushing to put on my socks as Tito Doming waits outside to drive us to Boeing.
  
• 6:30 am - Arrive at Boeing. Time flies by as I sit there with a stopwatch and time employees every move and count their every step for the sake of improving company efficiency. *snore* Boring task, but if it gets me into the greatest company ever, then its all worth it!! Watching the clock..suddenly I realize its...
  
• 3:00 pm - !! and Tito Doming and I make our way back to Chateau Francisco where I get a short 20 minutes to play with Jaimalyn and spend time with Marlyn.
  
• 3:50 pm - the the whole team leaves to drop me off to work.
  
• 4:00 pm - Kiss my loving wife and daughter goodbye and sit down for 8 straight hours of telephone operating... Its like having the same conversation five hundred to 800 times with different people for 8 hrs straight. Boy am I glad I'm getting out of there.
  
• 2:00 am - Exhausted, I climb into my cab and make my way home..
  
• 12:15 am - Although exhausted, to keep myself sane, I stay up for the next 45 mins to spend time with the family.
  
• 1:00 am - Literally falling apart by now, I collapse on my bed for a little while, only to wake up again at....
  
• 6:00 am - to repeat the cycle again, only instead of Boeing, I'm off to school...

Yuck! Guess what? While I sit here typing, I'm eating french fries. I really thought that that thing sticking out from between the keyboard keys was a fallen french fry... *cough cough*

Smart of Stupid?

So I'm reading this book right now called "The Pig That Wants to be Eaten" (book review to come! Stay tuned!) Anyhoo this book is basically a compilation of situations thought up by philosophers over the centuries, which are designed solely for the purpose of making you think. The book refers to these situations as "thought experiments".

After reading a few of them, I felt somewhat inspired and while on a caffeine high (i dont usually drink coffee by the way, but its been a grueling week) I came up with one of my own.

Here goes:

Smartness. The concept of being smart. A smart person is considered smart because there are other people to compare that person against. If this person knows more than the people around them, they are smarter. If they know less then they are considered stupider (for lack of a better term). Right? But since this concept is based on comparison, consider the following.
Suppose that since the beginning of time, there only ever existed one person.

Without anyone to compare this person against, would this person be considered smart or stupid?

1st day at the new job!

Started at Boeing today!! Well, not a paid position just yet. Just a 6 week work experience for my education. But hey, I got my foot in the door to the greatest company ever. Word to the wise, WORK AT BOEING!! The benefits are crazy! 100% everything! dental, ortho, optical, you name it, its covered! PLUS they have an on site recreation centre / gym. They also have a cafeteria that serves premium quality food at dirt cheap prices. AND to top it all off when you are employed at Boeing, if ever you feel the need to get higher education related to the company, THEY WILL PAY 100% OF YOUR TUITION!!! Like say you wanted to take Engineering at the U of M to become an aerospace engineer... Normally it would cost you what? 10,000 bucks? Not as a Boeing employee! They pay all of it! ALL OF IT!!! And all you need to work there is that AMMOP program at Tec Voc. A 1 year program that is FREE! So if you think about it, altogether its a free ride to an Engineering degree!! *hyperventilating* hehe sorry I just had to get that out of my system. I really REALLY hope this work experience thing leads to an actual job there.. if I get in, I'm set FOR LIFE... =)

Jaimalyn

by James Francisco

The quiet calm of evening.
The stillness of this moment,
Room dimly lit.
My daughter sleeps in my arms.
Her breathing is calming,
Rhythmic and soothing
Like the waves on a shore.
For this, so simple,
Is life worth while.

If I were a painting...

I came across this song while watching "So you think you can dance" As I listened to the song, the artist in me got sucked in by the lyrics. After googling the lyrics, I was shocked to learn that this song is actually by Kenny Rogers. KENNY ROGERS?! Country?! I got sucked in by COUNTRY?! I consider myself to be open minded when it comes to music, but for the longest time, country, with its twangy guitars and that southern accent, was the one genre I would avoid at all costs. Its odd to think that the song that spoke to me most is from the genre I like least. Looks like country is worth looking into after all =) *puts on cowboy hat, nods, and rides off into the sunset*

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If I were a painting

If I were a painting
Captured on canvas
Alone in the portriat I would stand
And brush strokes bold

Yet soft as a whisper
The work of a feminine hand
Caught in a still life
Surrounded by shadows
And lost in a background of blue

If I were a painting
My price would be pain
And the artist would have to be you
I imagine the colors
Would all run together
If you ever allowed me to cry

So don't paint the tears
Just let me remember me
Without you in my LIFE
It's only the frame
That holds me together
Or else I would be falling apart

If I were a painting
I wouldn't feel
And you wouldnt be breaking my heart

Heroes: After thoughts of the first episode, Genesis

This show impressed me so much, I had to bLog about it in addition to writing a review about it! My God people, you HAVE TO watch this show. If you haven't heard about it yet, its a show about a group of ordinary people around the world who begin to discover that they aren't so ordinary after all. Slowly they discover that they are each blessed with certain abilities. Certain abilities that will enable them to somehow save the world from some cataclysmic disaster that is yet to happen.

Sounds like you're standard mutants-who-gotta-save-the-world type show right? WRONG! Its much deeper than that. And how so? Well... its a bit hard to describe in writing, and thats exactly why you MUST watch it. I've gotta say this though... I was absolutely blown away at the intricacy of the story so far. I'm loving this one. 5 stars!

Lucky

Today, I went about my mundane tasks at work feeling bored and grumpy. As usual the customers on the phones were pissing me off snarling "WHERES MY CAB?! WHERES MY CAB?!" Then they start swearing at you, and at first it doesn't affect you... but after 8 hours straight of being bitched at, it gets to you. The bitterness seeps into you and consumes you until finally your spirit breaks and you feel like absolute crap. You look around and you think to yourself how your life sucks.

Well after work, I came home to an apartment full of people. Ryze had come over to celebrate various events such as all of Team MJ's birthdays, Graces 6 year anniversary of being in canada, Vals birthday, and the birth of my daughter, Jai.

Dax sat in the the corner and strummed the guitar as Cris and Nomer were singing along. Grace was holding Jai as she talked to everyone else. Everyone was just hanging out and having a good time sharing laughs and enjoying each others company. It was nice to come home to such a positive atmosphere. I was rejuvenated.

As I looked around and saw everyone, I realized just how lucky I am to have everything I need, and want...to be in such a great family, to have an awesome wife like marlyn, and to be surrounded by so many great friends like Ryze, and the choir. I definitely feel blessed to have the life I have where virtually every day is filled with laughter and music.

As I write this I'm sitting here chuckling to myself, feeling like I won the lottery or something.. even my past has been rectified... everything is as it should be... man.... life doesn't suck after all. In fact, it kind of... well....rocks. =)