Quality Goals For 2010
Dec 31st
Okay that sounded very much Project Management-ish or Software Engineering-ish but all I meant to say is that I have created a list, sort of a New Year’s Resolutions list. I avoided THIS since Christmas and then hours before 2010 I made one. I told myself never to create a resolutions list because they all tend to be left behind and forgotten (for me haha). But now I have one. Anyways, it doesn’t matter. Let me call them quality goals instead.
1. Get fit, be healthy – I plan to start running next year, prolly on January’s 2nd week. Will have to check if the sports complex is okay. I’m really ‘unfit’ though the scale tells my height-weight ratio is absolutely on the healthy level. But I don’t look healthy. Tss my tummy’s bulging haha. As a computer science student I am entitled to an unhealthy lifestyle — sitting all day long in front of the laptop. It’s time to use these God-given legs. Run, Bryan, run! (I think I share a similar goal with John Carl?)
2. Project 365 – I’m going to do this before it becomes a cliche! A project undertaken by Kimmy Chau from USA and Helgaholic from the Philippines and several other cool guys around the world. It’s a take-a-photo-of-yourself-for-365-days project and I think I’d love to do this for 2010. Cool huh. Wait for my own set on Flickr, uh-huh?
My 2009 Is Amazing, 2010 Should Be Better
Dec 30th
I write this post before the new year comes to remember the good and bad things that I have done and that has happened to me this year 2009.
On a general note, 2009 is an amazing year for me. While I hear a lot whining about how terrible their 2009 is, I sit here smiling inside of how good my year came to be. A little recall: 2008 is one of the really terrible years for me. I had enemies, fall backs, insecurities and I forgot the other ones. I promised myself to fix my life come 2009. I guess I did. And that’s how I came to love 2009. Because it made me the person that left 2008 a better, stronger and wiser one.
1. February 21, 2009 is the day I officially became a member of Cebu Bloggers Society. It was in Enovlink, Jones. Mark Monta persuaded me to attend the meeting so I could officially become a member. I braced myself up and went to their meeting. At first I was reluctant to join the group as I was a very shy kid. But good thing I decided to. CBS makes up much of the reasons why I love my 2009. It’s not the events and the freebies. It’s the people that’s important to me now. They absolutely changed me for the better. Thank you CBS.
Swimming Pool Ad For Regional Environmental Awareness
Dec 30th
Global warming has gotten into us, right? But not all of us are concerned. I’ve seen several who don’t mind. But I do. And with that, let me share this unique environmental awareness advertisement.
The advertisement was placed in a swimming pool to give a metaphorical sense to one of the effects of global warming — water levels rising. Let’s compare it to our skylines submerged in water. Are we ever going to let that happen?
“Don’t let this be our future. Save our rainforest, stop global warming.”
Got this beautiful photo from Creative Criminals. Let’s all together save our planet. Please.
Avatar Movie Review (2009)
Dec 25th
While everyone hits their butts off watching A Christmas Carol or a rerun of Home Alone, my friends and I (and possibly thousands of others worldwide) chose to watch the critically-acclaimed sci-fi movie we call Avatar. Months ago I mistook Avatar for The Last Airbender. Now there’s one huge difference.
Avatar is a film written and directed by Titanic’s James Cameron and stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang.
Worthington plays the crippled marine, named Jake, who took his brother’s place in the Avatar project and Saldaña plays the na’vi princess Neytiri. I won’t talk about the plot too much. Avatar is all about humans trying to “steal” away the ecosystem of the na’vi’s because of some precious mineral underneath their terrain. In an effort to reach their goal (more like Machiavellian strategy?) they ended up destroying forcefully the na’vi’s environment. The film ended with Jake siding with the na’vi’s and forcing the humans to return to Earth. (If you don’t understand the terms and want to get some spoiler, head here). Read the rest of this entry »
Eden Revives The Real Pinoy Christmas Spirit
Dec 25th
Christmastime is a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus. It is also the time to spread happiness. But what is Christmas without some good food and bonding time with family? That is what we Filipinos are known for. Merrymaking at its best combined with the sweetest dishes on our table — it’s what defines a perfect Christmas for us. But just recently, we have been troubled by some very strong rains and flood. Our tropical country was lashed by typhoons just too recently. I heard some parts of the country hit by the typhoons are having a hard time lifting their spirits up for Christmas. Some people are not as lucky as ourselves. But that doesn’t end there. We could be our very own fellowman’s heroes.
Christmas in the Philippines always includes the traditional Misa de Gallo. After such would be the perfect time for families to munch on native treats — that’s based on my childhood experience. We usually have puto and sikwate (hot chocholate) after the mass. But is this custom still being celebrated nowadays? Or do people go to church, go home and continue their own busy lives like any other day? To revive the real Pinoy Christmas Spirit, Kraft Eden Cheese made possible the event called Keso de Gallo, 9 days of reviving the goodness and enjoyment of our very own native delicacies.
