Wonder Years

I've downloaded Wonder Years seasons 1-6 to my laptop. It's 14.7GB of data and it took a week for me to download. But it was all worth it. This was the TV series that I watched during my childhood days. I think I grew up with Kevin (the main character) and it's one of those series that really teaches you about family and life.

I could never forget the intro music...and I thought Winny was the most beautiful girl, and that Kevin was lucky to be her boyfriend. They were the first love team I knew, and I was so "kilig" during those times.

Now watching it again, I saw how cute Kevin was when he was younger. And I found out that this was my bf's super favorite series when he was a kid too! And so we will be watching this together and relive those days when we were innocent and when we thought the world revolved around us... truly those were "wonderful" years... =)

Rise Above Retaliation

Sometimes, we really can't help ourselves...it's like this bubble inside us that's on the verge of bursting.
Yeah, we sometimes, think about ways to do it and we get satisfaction from imagining those things. But, when it comes to actually doing it, you'll realize, it's not the same...

There's no satisfaction, there's just more hate, and you'll ask yourself, "Is this the person I want to be?"

Oh, what am I talking about, you might ask... it's the human tendency to seek retaliation.

I will remember the Golden Rule, "Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you."

Karmic.

Reviews, Reviews...

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Watched "Angels & Demons" yesterday to know what the hype was all about. I read this Dan Brown's novel before, forgot some of the details though. Even in the Da Vinci code, I really didn't picture Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. I figured it would be Harrison Ford.
The movie was ok, of course Robert had a lot of dialogues had to explain a lot of things. Maybe that's why also a lot of things were left out from the book, they'd rather keep it simple for the audience. I thought Ewan Mcgregor somehow stole the spotlight there (although his hairstyle reminded me of Moulin Rouge, and I thought he would sing something). =D

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On John Maxwell's "Winning with People", I thought it was a great and practical book. Already tried to applied some principles with my team, and it helped a little. Bottomline on the book is that in order to win people, you should be more interested in them than talk about yourself all the time.

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I don't know why but I seemed to be hooked with BGT 2009 rather than with AI. Anyways, I know for sure Susan Boyle will make it. Diversity is great, it's just that their performances seemed short and needs to have a longer and more cohesive theme. I have nothing against Natalie Okri, but I think she lacks the confidence, dancing skills and facial expressions when doing her song and dance routine.

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Short but sweet reviews. I'll try to do this more often. =)

Just Joined Twittermania

Oh well, what the heck!

That's what I thought when I joined Twitter. =) I don't usually join the bandwagon until all the hype has died down. Probably, it's just me, I don't one to be a part of the majority. But, oh, well, what the heck!

The more, the merrier!

My First Company Award

I was actually nominated for an award by my company. The awards were given by the big bosses. They recognized my performance for leading my team and consistently being top in Customer Satisfaction for the past 4 months.

I was really flattered. I believe though that great leadership should produce great performance.

I thought I had to make a speech. As it turns out, no speech needed. Whew!

But if I had to make one, here's my Oscar-winning speech:

"Leading a team is really a challenge. There's really no step-by-step manual that comes with it. You have to be creative and imaginative like an artist, at the same time you have to have the discipline of a military leader.
Also, in our field of technical support, customer satisfaction is what fuels this industry. Without customer satisfaction, there would be no business for anyone. With the growing consciousness of consumer rights and competition among businesses, interactions should be smooth and effortless.

With that being said, I would like to thank my team for believing in me. I'm only as good as the least of my agent. I'd like to thank my bosses, too, for teaching me a lot on how to handle people. They are my mentors.

I still have a lot to learn and a lot to prove to myself. I hope though that a lot of people learned from me too, since I'm more than willing to share what I've learned to other people.

Thank you, I'm truly humbled. "

Hehehehe.. seriously!

Past is Past

A man of many experiences told me to "avoid reopening the past and just concentrate on what you have now, because you will just destroy lives, yours, your current relationship and those involved in the past. "

I remember the movie "Mr. Woodcock" about Farly (played by Seann Willam Scott) who wrote the book "Letting Go". It's a light comedy that also makes you think if letting go is really easy.

I'm a pacifist, who wants harmonious relationships, values peace of mind and always thinks about the past, since they bring back happy memories. So, to let go of ALL the past is really impossible for me. I still keep memorabilia, pictures, notes, cards even from people whom I haven't seen or spoken to in years.

But, I see the point of the man of many experiences. It's opening the can of worms, Pandora's box from the past that could open a lot of emotions too.


In the end, the man of many experiences told me..."it's really up to you."

The 80/20 Rule

I read about this 80/20 rule in a relationship...

"In most cases, especially in relationships, you will only get 80% of what you NEED and you will hardly get the other 20% that you WANT in your relationship. There is always another person (man or woman) that you will meet and that will offer you the other 20% which is lacking in your relationship that you WANT. And believe me, 20% looks really good when you are not getting it at all in your current relationship."

This got me thinking...Can we ever get the 100%?
Why does it have to be 80 and 20? Can't it be 90 and 10?
But I guess they're just using the Pareto principle.

I guess it's really hard to give up that 80% for just 20%. You will end up losing a lot.
For now, I guess it's true, just make most of what you have in the relationship to make it work.
Sometimes, happiness can be found in the smallest of things.

And I intend to keep it that way. =)