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Hope and Faith

Hope is wishing things are better than as is. Faith is like trust, but trust with less to go on. Faith is an intellectual vice. Faith is believing in something because you want it to be true. Anyone can wish for something at the cost of their life, wealth, and survival... But hat effect would that have on their well being or their loved ones. Hope is the wishful thinking that allows a person to work towards a greater good. Hope requires a positive outlook, on that has several psychological benefits. I dare say one can be extremely rational yet have hope. Faith and Reason - there are a lot of atheist quotes about the vice and sins of faith. What's scary about faith is that it has no corrective process. Intelligence has a corrective process, because of science but Faith has cognitive traits that remind me of gambling with rising stakes. Reason is a virtue if faith is a vice... But to me reason is the default in a reflecting mind. Strangely faith requires a leap while reason req...

Spoiled gravy

Niko was swimming in spoiled gravy. Chat and I were busy and Niko decided to open the fridge and play with some liquid. It was a month old jolibee gravy, which smelled spoiled when we finally caught him swimming in it. He was playfully smothering it on the floor with both hands, legs and crotch. After stopping, and chat was cleaning up I set him up for a bath. Only for him to start putting my shirt in the toilet to soak. I'm lucky I flushed when I came to discover he was laying with the gravy.

Nico nov 19-23

Niko condition nov 19-23 I brought nico to the doctor because of a fever Monday. The fever has been almost continuous since going to the doctor. He has refused the drinks with tempra in them. He has been sleepy and cranky. Anyway hope it's not an infection, if it is, hope we got at it early enough to be good but not so early we wasted a trip.

Corruption

Since this is my private and secure blog I can put out information that would be sensitive. It's fucking screwed up that so many people are in the take. Everyone gets a commission fee that it seems there is no genuine innovation or real work. I got to talking to the brokers, and one of them has the wrong idea of commission. Making a deal go down takes work, you can't just make connections. You actually have to do the hard parts like feasibility studies, experiments and due diligence, and what is really hard they think it's easy. But the rule is you don't burn bridges and you don't close doors. They can be incredibly short sighted and a terrible work ethic, but the world is made up of all sorts of people and the doors they open may have a price, but I intend to just take a look around. Honestly it's all so risky and illegal, it may come back to haunt me. My dad has already paid off some guys, bought their favors. I will be making the same deals while the...

Looking more like my dad

I'm averaging 182lbs, I gained 10lbs of weight when I began doing a higher level weigh training than I'm used to. My belly is now 39.5''. I can only lose weight if I control my urges and watch what I eat. One cup of rice, smaller meals, but more frequent. Anyway I really need to move around more. My goal is to reduce inches in my thighs and belly, and not necessarily lose weight. My current suck in belly is 34.5'' so I need to reach a suck in size of 30''. 4 inches off would be great. Juggling so many goals suck. There is mandarin and python studies. I should stop surfing, and instead habitually read up on python or mandarin. I need to have the strength to evolve to this level if I want to survive.

Speed biz plans, proposals and agreements

I Am productive but very easily distracted. I basically made a planning method call fast biz plan, it's an exercise to list all the assumptions, challenges, opportunities and costs. The technique emphasized getting it out there, then editing after when new data formalizes the idea. It's hard making plans by yourself, because there is no one challenging you. I guess that's my experience with being a GM, I can plan all I want but if it is not fun or there is no buy in from others it will not work. So I get it all down, and in one furious and concentrated 45 mins I have one and a quarter page biz plan. Reading it keeps us all in the same page... And allows others to examine every idea and critique it. We changed the way we do agreements for less and less I rethinking and left other details to be annexed and discussed. Simplifying the contract means having to have our list of assumptions and practices. I mostly updated that. A guard stole about 54 monitors and 120 ram ch...

Panic at the Ranks Again

So my mom really panicked and bit my head off. After this negotiation, the other side called her and told her to offer the subsidy we used to offer. Ok, now as i've said before, I go with accounting as to where to draw the line of cost. Its up to us to negotiate for the best price... We have never gotten any favors from these guys, we were the ones giving favors. They owed up to Php8.3M and they only paid now because THEY escalted the negotiation to their boss and we told them about their outstanding dues. So now prices have increased, its been 6 months. I don't need to explain so much, because Finance backs me up on this, and one assumes Finance knows what they are doing. My decision making is based on my experience with this company, TM. Their malice and difficulty to deal with. They are very very difficult and Its never been a two way street with them. How can we be a partner when there really is no long term goal and good for us. It is a purely economic relationship,...