Reminder to self:

Your job is not your life.

You have a job so that you can earn, to sustain the quality of life that you want.

Don´t make your life revolve around your job.

Jobs come and go.  Don´t worry too much about it.

Focus yourself more on having fun living your life.  :D

I found this on facebook.

I posted it here primarily so that I would be able to go back to it once in a while to re-read it so that I won´t forget the lesson, and secondly to share it, so that it would be able to inspire others as well.

"A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles roll

ed into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.. The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand.The students laughed..

'Now,' said the professor as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things---your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.. The sand is everything else---the small stuff.

'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued, 'there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.

Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and mow the lawn.

Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented. The professor smiled and said, 'I'm glad you asked.' The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of Beers with a friend."

I spent the first hour of my birthday (based on philippine time)  on board an airplane.   I believe that this is a sign that my 32nd year on earth will be filled with lots of travel.  Love love love travelling :)

I believe that dreaming is a way for our minds to process subconsciously those issues that are too much for our conscious mind to handle, acting as a safety mechanism preventing us from snapping and becoming crazy.

The gauge that I use to see what current issues I need to sort out in my life is what are the contents of my dreams and nightmares.

Thank God for lucid dreams.

I have always had the ability to know when I am dreaming during my dream and remembering them a few hours afters of waking up.

Because of this, I am able to decipher what my subconscious mind is trying to impart gently on my conscious mind, thus making the harshness of those concepts softer, making it easier for my conscious mind to process.

I know I sound crazy when I talk about these stuff, but I guess me knowing that these sound crazy proves the point that I am far for being crazy.

I´m just happy that I am lucky enough to have a mind that wanders way way way outside the box.

Wise words

I was raised in a culture that values hard work and perseverance.  That is why I always try to work hard to the point where I sometimes forget about my personal well being.

I kinda stumbled upon this twitter post the other day and it´s an eye opener for me.

Working hard is good, but I realized that I should always remember that at the end of the day, it is only a job and I should value my personal well being first.

Jobs come and go and are easily replaced, but your health is something that once it´s gone, is hard to bring back.

PRIORITIES :)

Music is a very big part of my daily life.

Whenever I leave the house, I never forget my trusty Ipod touch to provide what I jokingly call "the soundtrack of my life."

I don´t know but there´s something about music that makes me get lost into it while walking.  There´s something zen about it.  I just find myself transported in my inner world of thoughts which make me ponder about what are the current topics that pull weight in my life.

It helps me sort out the issues that I have to deal with.

It helps me think.

here are the current songs that I kinda listen to:

I´ve been constantly re-watching this video the past few weeks and it still makes me laugh out loud everytime.  This is just a feel good video.

LOL

I have always gravitated towards all things quirky.

Ideas that are out of the ordinary but make perfect sense.

And this falls in that category

I found these at http://www.inewidea.com/2010/03/01/22865.html

I just looooove this.

Planning on doing this one of these days :)

Words to live by

These captions are posted on the desktop of my mac so that I would see them everyday.

These are constant reminders of what I want to say to myself whenever I face challenges in my life.

Whenever I read these words, I find the strength to face what cards life deals, both good and bad.

Just wanted to share them out :)

Hello blog you´ve been a stranger.....

Last year numbed whatever whimsy I had in my system.

Being too busy adapting to a new environment and being focused on the more practical aspects of life, mainly work, work and more work made my imagination dull.

I´ve been a drone.

I stopped writing.

I stopped photography and graphic art.

I stopped customizing toys.

I stopped buying chuck taylors and painting them.

I miss doing creative stuff.

I miss letting loose the crazy monster in my head that ponders about how holes can have logical existence by being defined as the absence of something which basically has no actually existence, positing the question: "If it can be grasped by the mind i.e. making it exist logically, then do holes really exist given the fact that it is the absence of something?"

So now, I dedicate this whole blog to anything and everything crazy about how I think.

This shall be hence an ode to crazy.

And this video kinda shows a visual of what I feel :)

I think I really need to be crazy to remain sane.