I am so glad I found this website where I could watch Man Utd skim past Barcelona with a 1-0 win at Old Trafford. It was not exciting but it was definitely nail-bitting! God held Man Utd's post and I feel sorry for Deco, Messi and Henry! They had the ball possession, but we when away with the win now for a hearty all-England finals, first in history! cheers, mates!!!
Btw, thx Heineken and all sponsors... It is time for a Manchester United championship.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
just in another day's work...
ok, so full-of-joys i read your blog today again. your latest post and momo recollection of chew what-a-joke it was funny, i was sitting in the library and i just started laughing at the laptop. hahaha... anyway, it was really good communicating thru msn and i can't wait to come back and play sotong ball... i mean netball... watch man utd and go soccer crazy. talk about making fun of teachers and just having some fun. well, i say yss was stupid for not making u relief teacher, cause you and we were a vital part of history... we made history...well i miss the fact that communicating is so rare just because of every complication its lousy and frustrating... anyway, i hope to come back soon!!
today, was a really cold day. but because of that i spend a good time studying and watching letters of iwo jima. the movie was effective not just because of the goriness but the emotions communicated in the midst of all that blood and death; just left me at the edge of my seat. i could feel with almost every character, how war traps the individual on both sides of the field. and i think that it also makes me consider the enemy. the image of the enemy is so different when you look as them as people just like ordinary people.
well i am going to work hard and then i am going for a week break in florida and then back to work... God help me enjoy life to the best!!!
today, was a really cold day. but because of that i spend a good time studying and watching letters of iwo jima. the movie was effective not just because of the goriness but the emotions communicated in the midst of all that blood and death; just left me at the edge of my seat. i could feel with almost every character, how war traps the individual on both sides of the field. and i think that it also makes me consider the enemy. the image of the enemy is so different when you look as them as people just like ordinary people.
well i am going to work hard and then i am going for a week break in florida and then back to work... God help me enjoy life to the best!!!
Saturday, April 26, 2008
I am now LICENSED
I felt really good yesterday. Probably the ultimate high of the week. On Wednessday I was feeling really cocky. But yesterday's feeling had a reason behind them. And the reason is...
I thought I was going to fail. This time it seem almost a clear failure path. Not because I thought I was nervous or that I would make mistakes. Instead, it was quite clear that I did not have one part of the test down to a science. That scare me. I though to myself that maybe I should not even try until I got it down. I knew that if ever I passed it would be nothing short of a miracle.
I had four hours of instruction with this certified instructor, a grumpy old man named Bee. He was as discouraging as could be. He would call his other students, do his stocks, even once forgot to bring the cones for practice. When we met him for half an hour before the test, it was clear he wanted to leave and he was both rude and sarcastic. It was clear, he thought I was going to fail.
By then I was tired, maybe the only energy I had was from stress. And sometimes, the only resort for dismal situations, the only hope, is prayer...
BUT, yes, I passed my test, didn't hit a cone and though I almost skip a traffic light and saw a man opposite getting arrested at a junction, I am now a license driver. Quite miraculously!!!
So we had a good dinner consisting of alaskan crabs and clams along with white wine..
Came back and drank a beer...
Thank God!! must also thank my father, unc abraham ad jere for fomenting the vision in such a short space of time. i must say it is always nice to beat the odds and defy the expectations. not just because its more fulfilling, but because it gives faith that miracles do happen when everything is out of your control!
I thought I was going to fail. This time it seem almost a clear failure path. Not because I thought I was nervous or that I would make mistakes. Instead, it was quite clear that I did not have one part of the test down to a science. That scare me. I though to myself that maybe I should not even try until I got it down. I knew that if ever I passed it would be nothing short of a miracle.
I had four hours of instruction with this certified instructor, a grumpy old man named Bee. He was as discouraging as could be. He would call his other students, do his stocks, even once forgot to bring the cones for practice. When we met him for half an hour before the test, it was clear he wanted to leave and he was both rude and sarcastic. It was clear, he thought I was going to fail.
By then I was tired, maybe the only energy I had was from stress. And sometimes, the only resort for dismal situations, the only hope, is prayer...
BUT, yes, I passed my test, didn't hit a cone and though I almost skip a traffic light and saw a man opposite getting arrested at a junction, I am now a license driver. Quite miraculously!!!
So we had a good dinner consisting of alaskan crabs and clams along with white wine..
Came back and drank a beer...
Thank God!! must also thank my father, unc abraham ad jere for fomenting the vision in such a short space of time. i must say it is always nice to beat the odds and defy the expectations. not just because its more fulfilling, but because it gives faith that miracles do happen when everything is out of your control!
Friday, April 25, 2008
The world is moving on. But where to...
I haven't been blogging for a while, but finally I am back. While I have been away, things have changed. Not just with me personally, but more so with the world I live in. In a way it has not changed but rather the light has shifted on what it is really like outside there in thw worth we call earth, we call home.
The Olympics, one of the things I look forward to is coming up this summer 2008. It is taking place in China. China and the Olympics? The irony must strike you. The embodiment of the human spirit and the emblem of the destroyer thereof. There are all sorts of arguments and issues being raised. As the Olympic torch has taken its journey, riots have been sparked in some of the major cities. It may seem like one of those activist movements, struggles; you know the usually crazy passionate freaks who riot for what they may not even know alot about. But there is alot at stake here. This arguments have not to do with if heads of states should attend. If China should have been given the right to hold the Olympics, or is it if Tibet really belongs to China. There is a principle to it. The principle of liberty and doing what is honest and proper. Some people say there is no absolute truth. But there is and we are cowards to hide from it. Why are leaders so afraid do something? Because of money? This problem of choosing liberty usually stayed down in countries where democracy was a far cry but now it has come to the doorsteps of the champions of the political ideology itself. And they are hesitating...
China has abused its own people. In Tianeman Square, one of the worst pictures when tanks of soldiers ran amok and ran down students their comrades... And the Chinese cannot even feel sad for their own people, they support their government but worse, its ideology, its repression and they blame the western media. It is not about the western media which is bias, admittedly, it is about priniciples which are very obvious form an objective perspective. But people have not just be stupefiied, but pacified with material contentment and material satisfaction of filthy lucre they would sell their souls.
Another thing that has taken of highlight mode, is the rising prices of food necessities. Daily staples such as rice, bread, milk and eggs have increase all over the world. No one is spared; neither rich nor poor, neither industrial countries nor agricultural sectors; neither young nor old. Of course, though the poor and defenceless are the ones that suffer the most from this events. But nobody really knows why this is happening? Nobody, no eocnomist dare even predict why this is happeing. That is why I think this is serious. Because it is baffling. I don't know I smell Malthus and then I smell something fishy... somebody is playing games...
The Olympics, one of the things I look forward to is coming up this summer 2008. It is taking place in China. China and the Olympics? The irony must strike you. The embodiment of the human spirit and the emblem of the destroyer thereof. There are all sorts of arguments and issues being raised. As the Olympic torch has taken its journey, riots have been sparked in some of the major cities. It may seem like one of those activist movements, struggles; you know the usually crazy passionate freaks who riot for what they may not even know alot about. But there is alot at stake here. This arguments have not to do with if heads of states should attend. If China should have been given the right to hold the Olympics, or is it if Tibet really belongs to China. There is a principle to it. The principle of liberty and doing what is honest and proper. Some people say there is no absolute truth. But there is and we are cowards to hide from it. Why are leaders so afraid do something? Because of money? This problem of choosing liberty usually stayed down in countries where democracy was a far cry but now it has come to the doorsteps of the champions of the political ideology itself. And they are hesitating...
China has abused its own people. In Tianeman Square, one of the worst pictures when tanks of soldiers ran amok and ran down students their comrades... And the Chinese cannot even feel sad for their own people, they support their government but worse, its ideology, its repression and they blame the western media. It is not about the western media which is bias, admittedly, it is about priniciples which are very obvious form an objective perspective. But people have not just be stupefiied, but pacified with material contentment and material satisfaction of filthy lucre they would sell their souls.
Another thing that has taken of highlight mode, is the rising prices of food necessities. Daily staples such as rice, bread, milk and eggs have increase all over the world. No one is spared; neither rich nor poor, neither industrial countries nor agricultural sectors; neither young nor old. Of course, though the poor and defenceless are the ones that suffer the most from this events. But nobody really knows why this is happening? Nobody, no eocnomist dare even predict why this is happeing. That is why I think this is serious. Because it is baffling. I don't know I smell Malthus and then I smell something fishy... somebody is playing games...
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