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Found some time to blog. Now I'm working 50 hours a week. Maintain a gant-like reporting issue chart using google spreadsheet. A lot of reporting and a lot of actions and following up. So much things to do, that I'm working from 10am-12pm (2 hours), 3pm to 12mn (9 hours). (not counting travel times). Today, 10:30am-12pm. 3:30pm-on going right now. Probably end by 1-2am. Fucking Eh! I don't have any time and burning out. I'm now dragging myself to work, a bit. Add to that the baby wakes up at 5am to 7am, cutting my sleep to 5 hours. I get 8 hours sometimes. At least I have lunch with my brother and wife. Gaspar is working with me now, and we are both learning on the Job. Freethinking and the RHB science debate helped make me more metrics driven. When I became exposed to the amount of metrics at work, It was not too overwhelming. Strategy games, my style of RPGaming and my economics lectures also helped immensely. Looking at it like a Gamer, trying to find a way to min-...

I've become really too busy for play... Except my airsoft because i can throw money at the pro el. Gaming and game prep is very time consuming. Because it is an arcane way of enjoying myself I have to be the one to do everything. So I've collected a ton of reading material. Other than the aspects of business that relates to my hobby, I've now hit business expertise that are very distant and a less related. Right now I am brushing up on the history Business Process Outsourcing. At work I'm learning more about IT, it's structure and processes as well a bit of HR. I'm taking a crash course in processes as well as negotiation. Also I'm learning to be able to phrase or frame all my actions in a report. Everything has to have s report. That's the skill and mindset that was alien to our company but infused by our new COO. As a skeptic and a pragmatist, I fully see the value if this. Actually almost all my cognitive studies support this kind of cold rationale wh...

I'm sure it's been said that a crisis makes a family stronger. It is in this time of crisis, I was able to thrive and help my family. It was an opportunity to act in our shared best interests and become adept in the things we needed to be to survive and later thrive. Where are my other siblings in this time of need? I guess this exposure to these problems and giving us, the children, the chance to deal with it or, at least, be there in it's resolution helps remind us to respect each other and cultivate our strengths. It was in these situations where I learned what I needed to be, what practical skills I needed to have to help out. I get to wondering about my younger brother and sister. It's true that you remember the people you need, when you need them. Being short handed with people to trust and to execute the family's self interests, I think about them more. Since they are not there, I talked to my most trusted friends. I can talk to them about the crisis but I ca...

I want more... sadly there are major financial and physical limitations and considerations for such. I get why people would want such a big family. Growing up with 4 other sibs, i kinda miss it but 2 really would be the most sustainable given how hard it is to make a living these days.

Again another wishful thinking post. CDR-king, the largest electronics and computer accessory store in the Philippines is cornering the market because they are acquiring generic electronics and computer accessories from China. These are goods that have their production life ended and have been sold off, or found a way to keep producing sans the IP overheads. So these generic brands produced at 1/3 to 1/10 the cost of their former, branded selves. CDR-king is now importing cheap quality (crappy quality) office furniture. I saw them selling cubicle pannels at $90 a corner. If you add it all up, the cheap quality station costs about $250. A complete workstation costs about $340 each after buying around 200 worth of stations. But just comparing the $250 CDRking furniture to the cheap and old Cubicle units you can find in any office, the quality is a very far gap. Maybe I would use the CDR-king offices to furnish a public school... but given that our Clients throw their old furniture at us ...

I've gotten to buying my own clothes. at 32 i still let my mom buy me clothes. It makes her happy and most of the stuff she gets me is for works, like barongs. For casual wear, I've come to like wearing military fatigues. The khaki fatigues, which is great for the dry climate of the playing fields these days, is perfect for basic casual wear. I love it that it is so durable that I can be rough with it. It has extra ass-padding, for the times I have to crawl on my butt. Also, Lito, our military gear supplier, has a lot of cheap and simple cotton OD, Tan and Cammo shirts. I spend 600php on pants which look just as good as the branded types but much more durable. Khaki work pants are worth 800-1200php in some place like BENCH. I already have 2 military styled overcoats for work. Olive drab, Khaki or Tan, Greys and Blacks are pretty much how I want my wardrobe to look like. Simple, clean and practical. Able to withstand rough play.

I hate Itunes. It is the most miserable part of my tablet computer experience. I cannot just dump my PDFs (mostly stuff from Wikipedia I converted to PDF, my gaming magazine subscription I converted to PDFs, and my Gaming Books) There is all these syncing that annoys me. I'm too cheap to buy from the Itunes store. All I am ok with are the free stuff. I want to migrate to Android, especially since I'm a Google and Ubuntu guy. Oh yeah, and Itunes is NOT compatible with my Ubuntu. its like Mac: "If you use Ubuntu, you are too poor to afford an IPAD anyway". Well fuck you Mac and your Ishit. Thanks for getting the ball rolling for the Iphone and Ipad, but we Open standards will take it from here. Fuck you and your restrictive, productivity SUCKING barriers.