...

A threatening, hostile environment often makes it impossible for me to pursue my plans, or even forces me into outcomes I will hate and regret; but this unfortunate consequence of my finitude and limitations does not cancel the fact that I, too, am a party in the transaction, an ACTING party, a party with a will of its own. If worst comes to worst, and the environment becomes too hostile and threatening, I can always retreat to myself, refuse to impose my power over fortune and external things, and rest content with maintaining my independence of judgment. Nobody but I can take that away from me; even the sweeping passions that occasionally win me over would not have their way if I did not let them, that is, if I did not- perhaps half-mindedly, perhaps discontentedly – decide to let them. The world is not my own, but I most certainly am.

A Break...

I just realized, unlike most people, I havent had a real break since 2009. Sometimes, I do go home, but I still do work, and ahhh, the fatigue is taking (or has taken) its toll. I want to run away from it all. I want to hide from everything. I want to go somewhere, attempt to reinvent myself, and come back refreshed.

Losing A Laptop

I did not go for vacation like everyone else during the Holy Week. Aside from the fact that I find nothing holy this week, I do not subscribe to this Catholic commemoration anymore.

I lost my laptop. I was inside my client's clinic when it happened. I left my laptop inside the conference room. To get into the conference room, you have to pass by the front desk. My laptop was last seen at 12.45nn, and 1pm.

All my data. Lost.

People work hard for a living, and people just steal the stuff of these working people, I sometimes feel it might be the easier thing to do, just steal everyone else's stuff.

But I won't stoop to that level.

Of Changes and