Weary Travelling

January 17, 2009 at 7:50 am · Filed under Uncategorized

I have been on several trips these couple of weeks. Just last week, I was in Legaspi and Naga to carry out several audits as part of my job. I was up already early dawn and driving to Terminal 3 of Ninoy Aquino International Airport. However, even with an early arrival, I ended up taking a later flight to Legaspi. As a usual habit, I slept on the plane until my plane landed at the airport near the Mayon Volcano in Albay. I was already running late that morning, and–interestingly–taking a glimpse of Mayon did not occur to me: My job is eating me.

After a whole day of audit, a colleague offered a drive to Naga, a town 2-hour-drive away from Legaspi [the drive is at a speed of 80 kilometers an hour; the drive is a journey]. After that long drive, seeing Naga night scene was a consolation. The hangouts improved. Restaurants multiplied and nightlife was like Timog Avenue’s. Driving along Naga’s Magsaysay Avenue was a relief to a wearied sojourner. Yet for a tired somebody like me, only the hotel gave the best relief of all: Rest.

This week will be another round of visits. I will ride a ferry from Batangas Port to Mindoro to do another round of audit at the start of the week. I only hope that the waves would be less furious since trips had been cancelled just recently due to the wild wind and waves. The following day will be another trip to Naga. After that, the coming week will offer reprieve only because of an event for my Business Unit followed by a two-day sales rally here in Metro Manila. Then a week after that will be a travel to Palawan.

Sigh! I am stressed out with all these travel. I lack sleep at times, and my eyes show it. My back aches already. My car is full of sets of clothes and bags that I grab as I go to another destination and has been parked at the airport since a couple of weeks ago. I need rest. Please give me a massage.

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Health and Wealth

January 4, 2009 at 11:30 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

I have done new year resolutions for the past years but have never kept them tracked, worse succeeded in attaining them. At any rate, I kept the so many resolutions into 2 main endeavors that I want and need to achieve this year: Health and Wealth.

HEALTH

Health compose of feeling and looking better. My consciousness to be healthy has never been so active until this year. I have begun counting Calories in food and Calorie burn on the treadmill. I have started asking McDonald crew to prepare my McBurger without the dressing [which has a lot of mayonnaise] and started requesting Jollibee to separate the spaghetti noodles from its sauce [which has a lot of oil; hopefully not lard]. I also have enlisted myself to Slimmer’s World and Fitness First after seeing fats cover my abdomen.

I have a simple goal to achieve this: Gym should be visited at least twice a week to lose an inch from my waist on or before the end of the year.

WEALTH

Wealth encompasses my career and business. I think it is doubly important to ensure savings. Thus, I will assess profitability of working here in the country vis-a-vis working abroad. People say that I am young and a big future is ahead of me. Strike while the iron is hot.

My small Net cafe business is very profitable now and better profitability is the direction for 2009. More computer units to buy this year,I guess. Never has it been this good.

A toast for 2009! For Health! For Wealth!

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Stellar Simplicity

January 3, 2009 at 6:51 am · Filed under Uncategorized

I saw stars again after a long time.  I was walking the other night from my parents’ house to our small Net cafe in sub-urban Meycauayan when I unexpectedly saw the vast dark sky dotted with many stars. The last time I stood in awe with this kind of spectacle was almost a decade back in Bataan.

My University club had an overnight at a beach in Bataan one summer years back. A group of around 50 surely would not fit in a small hut the group rented. Thus, the girls stayed there to sleep, while the boys had to sleep on the shore amidst the sand, waves, and wind. Several of the boys slept near the shrubs and grasses several meters away from the hut. It was a bad idea to sleep there. Mosquitoes feasted over them until dawn.

Org-mates Orland and Abel spread a blanket the sand a little farther than the other boys chose. I stuck with them and got a comfy bath towel to cover myself through the night [I easily get cold and cannot sleep well without a blanket]. I slept well, but Abel slept better [He woke up with sand on his lips and chin. Drooling while sleeping was evident].

There we lay face to face with the white and whiter spottedness of the dark sky. There was no light but a incandescent bulb from the hut where the girls stayed. That revealed more stars with finer glint. Such numerous stars lay scattered on the sky. They were reflections of the sand on the beach. I slept overwhelmed with awe.

That was too long ago that I was strongly struck by magnificence–back to that time of simple living. I miss that moment–that for an instance I drifted like a star on the night shore.

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