Recent Developments

I've been having a blast the last few weeks, so blogging was one of the activities I've decided to defer. Some of my regular blog-viewers and fellow bloggers started asking if I'm still alive or am just in some remote location without a mobile phone signal.

To satisfy everyone's curiosity (which can kill you), I...

1) ... found out that I and some of my colleagues have been branded by our younger colleagues as "The Cool Kids". Really now? Whoever thought of that label for us must have been thinking that he/she/they are the equivalents of grade 3 students who either look up to or want to belong to the crowd of the grade 4s and 5s.

Personally, I'm not flattered by the label. I'm even concerned a little bit about it.

2) ... am one-month old on my new assignment. Is the assignment appropriate for my skills? Yes. Is the assignment challenging? Yes. Are you happy with your assignment? No.

3) ... was paid a surprise visit by my parents a couple of weeks ago (and stayed with me for one week!). Hahaha... anyway, they prepared a lot of dishes for me and my housemates.

4) ... have upgraded my Rockband Drum skills to EXPERT. Yeah! I even have a couple of songs where I'm in the top 10 of the high scorers in the whole Playstation Network.

5) ... went swimming, beach, swimming, sleep, swimming, sleep during weekends. Except for two weekends wherein I was on business travel.

6) ... kidnapped some unsuspecting colleagues for one-or-twos-and-more for two nights in a row and everyone had a "GOOD" time. p.s. happy birthday, jayw hahaha.

7) ... attended my college buddy's birthday party at an upswing club in Makati, where the crowd was really "friendly" and made me realize that I haven't been to THOSE kind of parties in the last 5 years or so.

When summer is over, I'll need to write about the following:
a) The Cool Kids Label
b) Stip's Theory of the Bachelor Group's Group Dynamics
c) Summer Rain

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postscripts:
Happy birthday to my mom (Apr 21) and to Ricky (Apr 23). Thanks to all those who greeted them as well.