I first heard this song in Criminal Minds.  It was one of the sadest episode of the series and this song summed up the emotion of Prentiss in the Demonology episode of Criminal Minds.  This song was written and sang by Hodges.  This is one of the good songs that I’ve heard but I don’t recommend listening to it when you’re depressed though…

Late post…

Just like any trip that I will go to, food will always be a vital part of my trip.  One of the reasons why I go to different places is to try out their specialties.  Bacolod is known for its Inasal (in English, grilled food) so I tried to have grilled food in every meal that I have in Bacolod (but I didn’t have that much grilled food so there is nothing to worry about taking too much cancer causing agents during that trip).  So day 1, I had grilled spare ribs of Chicken House which is one of the best tasting spare ribs that I’ve ever had, which I mentioned in Bacolod Day 1 on October 16th.  In the evening we went to a Pala-pala, it’s like a small wet market with a lot of small restaurants that you can go to and have the food that you bought cooked the way that you want it cooked.  Day 2, we had breakfast at the Sunset Beach Resort, ate fresh Lumpia at Bongbongs, a delicacy store in Bacolod and had a take out at a local chinese restaurant for Dinner.  Day 3, we had breakfast at one of the stalls in Mambukal, I had Chicken Inasal (which was a bit weird for I can taste the ginger but it wasn’t that bad for the chicken was juicy and was cooked just right) and had chicken inasal again from a stall named Carmel’s in Gaisano Mall in San Carlos City.

In all that we had in Bacolod, I’d say yes to the Chicken House’s Spare Ribs, the fresh chinese lumpia in Bongbong’s, the Grilled Pork in Mambukal and the food that was cooked in Tulahan ni Leah (the dinner that we had in the Pala-pala).  For the rest, let’s just say it was all charged to experience. 

Business cards if I may say is one of the important factors for a business to succeed.  This small piece of paper could say a lot of things about your business.  Through business cards, clients could tell what kind of team or person that they’re dealing with.  It can show how committed you are in your business too.  Sad thing though, business cards is one of the things that most businessmen take for granted.  With what is happening in the economy nowadays, businesses would either settle for low quality business cards to save costs or worse, they wouldn’t have any business cards and would rely on their current clients to tell other people about their business.  Although people would normally rely on the recommendation of the people that they know when it comes to choosing certain products or services, it’s always good to have business cards available for it will be easier for new clients to contact you.  Getting business cards is pretty easy nowadays with all the printing shops that are sprouting here and there, so there isn’t really an excuse for us to not have a business card.  However, if you feel like they are not good enough, then try ordering business cards online.  You can either choose among the available designs or make your own designs for less.  With a few clicks here and there, you will have high quality business cards delivered to your doorsteps within 24 hours.

This is a late post…

At around 5PM, October 16, 2009, we checked-in in a resort in Silay, Negros Occidental.  We couldn’t find any available accomodation that is within our budget in Bacolod City so we were forced to check out the resorts in Silay which is a town 30 minutes away from Bacolod.  Sunset Beach Resort is a nice choice if you are a group travelling in a tight budget.  You can get a room for Php 1,250, for four people, with 4 single beds.  However, don’t expect too much on the facilities and commodities that goes along with the accomodation though.  The water in the shower room tasted and smelled like rust, the towels are not as white and as new as the towels in five star hotels or the hotels in big cities.  So if I were to rate the resort, I’d give it half a star if I will compare it with the other resorts that I’ve gone to like the Alegre Beach Resort.  But I’d give it 3 stars, if it will be based on the budget.  I mean, where else can you get an airconditioned room with 4 beds, a cabled TV and a swimming pool for PHP1,250 per night?

Searching for information can be pretty easy nowadays with all the technology that we have. But don’t you just wish that we have a search engine where we can just put a scanned picture and that search engine will find the name of the person that we are searching for or the place that we want to go to? Hmmm, wouldn’t that make stalking a lot easier? But kidding aside, have you tried searching for PDF files on the web? Don’t you just wish for a PDF search engine that will only index books, textbooks, documents, manuals and guides in PDF formats? I mean not everyone can have word processing software like word right? What if you only have Adobe reader in your PC? Wouldn’t this kind of engine be more helpful to you?

I have this site that I go to every now and then for I can relate to some of the entries that this guy puts up in his site.  I like his posts for he would normally put a qoute in the end which makes me stop and think for a while.  These past few days have been challenging for me for first, a friend had betrayed me (or so I and some of friends thought) and secondly I felt that I am not effective and effecient enough at work and so I felt like quitting (not to mention my bad ass colds that did nothing but try to make me stay in bed).  So today, I went to dropped by his site and saw this qoute:

“The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes…otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.”
- Peter Druker

I realized when I read this qoute that I shouldn’t be too worried about making mistakes after all, in life or in my career, for what I should worry about is what should I be learning from the experience for me to prevent the same mistake to happen in the future.  For mistakes are there to teach us about the consequences of the actions that we make not to remind us how ineffecient we are as a person.  It is there to help mold us and in time make us the best person that we can be.

12 minutes after midnight. So that means my birthday is officially over. Nothing special happened today. Actually, it felt like it was one of those ordinary days aside from the fact that I was on leave. Anyhow, just like before, nobody seemed to remember my birthday. Sad, sad story. There were those who remembered though, but there were a lot who forgot (you know who you are… hehehe) Anyhow, am glad that I got to live another year and now, I have a new year to fill up. Lessons to lear, people to meet and the likes. I hope I get to travel more this time and see more places and festivities, which reminds me, I need a camera to document my travels. Hmmm…

These past few days 2 of my friends (who do not know each other), at two different occasions, came up to me to warn me about someone who is close to me. They told me to be careful of that person for she is talking ill about me when my back is turned. Knowing this made my heart ache a lot for I’ve always thought we’re friends. That she doesn’t just see me as someone in the management team in a prestigious company but because we’re friends and she had the same level of respect and trust that I have for her. Have you remembered anyone saying that betrayal hurts a lot when it was the people whom you trust who betray you?  Just imagine a character in a movie where they found out that someone has betrayed them. It was as if the heavens have fallen unto their shoulders.  That’s exactly how I felt.  See, I’ve always thought that if the time will come that I need someone to defend me, she would be one of those people but I was wrong .  

I am a person who seldom talk about my feelings but last night, I really couldn’t help myself (guess, that’s the effect when you’re birthday is a few hours away), I became emotional that I had to talk to someone.  Because aside from the fact that someone had betrayed me, I also know that there are 2 reasons why people would talk ill behind your back.  One is either they envy you because you’re good at what you do that you threaten them as a person or that you really sucked.  I know people are talking behind my back all this time but that didn’t mean much for those were just my specualtions.  Having a confirmation is another thing but I would just usually brush it off and try to do better but right now, isn’t really my best times.  With all the stuff going on at work, let us say that my confidence is really low right now.  So, this thing really affected me.  For I am not just questioning myself about how good of a friend I am but I am also questioning my competency as a leader.

So as I was closing the old chapter in my life with a sad note, a friend who was kind enough to spend the last few hours before the new chapter in my life began, he told me to think of it as a starting point to reinvent myself.  Make a new version of me, just like a software.  He said that events happen in our lives to make us into the person that we are so one should learn from them to innovate themselves.  Then he said, maybe now is the time that you make Michy version 25.2.

I had a prayer once and I said to the Lord, that if I will see him, that means we were meant to be if not, then that means I will have to let him go and move on with my life.  Last week, my prayers has been answered.  I saw him walk passed me and I was just there staring at him.  I had the feeling that he would be there but I never expected to see him.  For I have given up on the hope of ever seeing him.  But finally seeing him after all this time, I am left wondering if seeing him was truly a sign that we are meant to be or was it a game that fate had once again played on me?  Was it my only opportunity to meet him and fate’s role was to just put us in one place and I was supposed to do or say something to him?  I guess this is what I often hear some people say, it is better to regret for doing something rather that regret for not doing anything.  And so yes, I guess I am regretting the fact that I didn’t do anything.  I just looked at him as he stopped in front of my very eyes and watch him leave.  *sigh*  

Now my question is, should I  continue waiting for him?  If I do, how long should I wait again?