Huggybear's Stories
October 4-10 Edition
July 19, 2014
Saturday
Nature can be a metaphor for the heart. The breeze of change is like the aroma of sea
as you stand on the shore.
The sun has found paradise in the
heavens, but he is set to go away again. Madrigals are soon to be sung in this
advent of spring. But will the night be the same again for the stars?
Deep inside the planet, molten rock
yearns to find release, to express the mounting pressure from the tectonic
shifts within. The mounting heat at the core is steadily melting the surface,
weakening the force that keeps it inside.
Clouds that serenely pass by like ghostly ancient galleons on a quest for fabled treasure in a
mysterious island beyond the uncharted seas at the edge of the world.
Swift flight is how the bird learns
the higher meaning of life. Now his wings are ready to fly without him. He has
tasted the sweetness of the sky. Will he be the same as he returns to the
ground, standing over the dust from which he came?
July 24, 2014
Thursday
There are more complicated things happening outside my own
little world.
Broadcasting live this morning is
the Senate hearing on the Disbursement Acceleration Program, the government's
budget transfer scheme ruled by the Supreme Court last week as
unconstitutional. Philippine President Noynoy Aquino, who will deliver his
State of the Nation Address next week, spoke on national TV live last week and
I like the way he elegantly defended the DAP and defied the High Court without
sparking a constitutional crisis between two co-equal branches of government.
A Malaysian airline has been shot
down in Ukraine last week; the families of the victims are afraid to go to
there to identify the bodies because they might be killed too. Death can happen
in a blink of an eye, like when another passenger airline crashed in Taiwan a
few days ago.
I've never been afraid of death and
I would rather be blown away than spend my last days suffering from some stupid
disease. This made me think just how people fervently cling to life, unable to
bear even the mere thought of losing it or what might possibly happen when they
do.
There is another Malaysian Airline
plane that hit the news in recent months: it just vanished from the radar
screens as if pulled into the vortex of a different dimension.
I've just received another
"Outstanding" award last week at the company where I work. But at the
same time, I've been feeling burnt out from the night shift, the pressures from
the work itself and the recent series of stupid rules and downright dumb spiels
those bureaucratic morons in management keep coming out with. No matter how
qualified they are, some people just don't deserve their rank. Those in
positions of authority who make things harder for other people to do their work
effectively simply don't deserve to be where they are.
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"If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication." ~ Ian Anderson
"The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long." ~ Steve Jobs
Photos courtesy of lagalog.com, nzbirdsonline.org.nz, koreanewsonline.blogspot.com, canadianinquirer.net, rt.com, thecelestialconvergence.blogspot.com
Today I posted my September 2014 photo album on our Huggybear Page.
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." ~ Peter Drucker
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