a good month

Thursday, 31 January 2008 9:52 pm by noel
posted in cycling, mine, nothing, tech

january 2008 is ending and i think its been a good month. granted that there has been glitches here and there and i’m late on some of my workload (with good reason) but no one under my care has been hacked and work-related stuff are moving forward although at a slower pace than i [...]

bcc

Thursday, 31 January 2008 1:32 pm by noel
posted in people, tech

i get a lot of forwarded mails from friends containing jokes, quotes, stories and whatever. when i open the mail i see this longish list of people which forwarded the mail to their friends who forwarded to their friends, etc. until the list of recipients is nine times longer than the actual message at which [...]

up diliman ride

Saturday, 26 January 2008 11:34 pm by noel
posted in cycling, places

lito and i rode in up diliman. he said there was a group ride that goes on from 2pm to 4pm. all in all there were six people riding around. lito forgets sometimes. i forgot my water bottle.
but it was a beautiful afternoon. cloudy and the acacias sheltered us from the sun. the ride [...]

a silent zone

Thursday, 24 January 2008 10:40 pm by noel
posted in mine, nothing, people

a friend of mine once asked me, “you’re not comfortable with silence, are you?”
i was babbling on and on about something inconsequential i think. the question was more of a statement than a real question and it gave me pause.
“no. i’m not.”, came my reply. she just nodded.
that one question got me started on how [...]

people are leaving

Wednesday, 23 January 2008 7:11 pm by noel
posted in mine, people

i recently found out that a “lost” friend of mine has migrated to canada. she left last year.
half of my old friends have either left, will be leaving or are planning to leave for some other country.
i’m not angry. or mad. it just makes me sad. somehow i understand the reasons behind them packing up [...]