It is said that we Filipinos are not Asians from the eyes of our fellow Asians. The West, Americans and Europeans, also agrees with it. :)
There is a current notion that this is a sad predicament. A race without an identity. Without a soul. It may carry significant weight today but in future someone, a celebrated and much respected anthropologist, maybe :) , will write that this very thing is the very source and reason why the Filipinos succeeded and became great :)
"... why think like mere men?"
Monday
Friday
closer
I have journeyed far but the more important thing is I am closer to my real home. My true destination.
Sometimes I forget that and I allow sadness to have an audience with me. The lies that has been whispered relentlessly into one's ear. It can be tiring at times but should one expect something different?
We are at war. In the middle of a battle for a good life and the best life :)
Christmas has always been "packaged" as a happy and joyful time, which it is, but the other half of the truth is that it was a start of a rescue operation. Why is it only heard in whispers and nowhere to be found in the malls? :)
I am glad I wrote this.
Merry Christmas!
"... why think like mere men?"
Sometimes I forget that and I allow sadness to have an audience with me. The lies that has been whispered relentlessly into one's ear. It can be tiring at times but should one expect something different?
We are at war. In the middle of a battle for a good life and the best life :)
Christmas has always been "packaged" as a happy and joyful time, which it is, but the other half of the truth is that it was a start of a rescue operation. Why is it only heard in whispers and nowhere to be found in the malls? :)
I am glad I wrote this.
Merry Christmas!
"... why think like mere men?"
hopeful shout out
They will come a time in the future when someone will write a positive piece about the emergence of a new Filipino. And someone will write back, a retort, and will say that it is not a new Filipino but the emergence of the real Filipino. The Filipino that the history books of the past 400 years tried to suppressed and eradicate from the mainstream awareness.
That day will come... :)
That day will come... :)
Tuesday
a thought on November 2nd
I am addicted to management and the beautiful and ugly execution of it :)
In chronological order: Got and read close to 200 books (and still counting) that discusses it for the past 15 years since college. Went to school to earn a graduate degree about it. I was given the opportunities to be in those roles when I was in my 20s. And now, humbled and privileged to be given the chance to run a small adventure :)
Though I put on my manager's hat every other day, on the every other day of the every other day, I am managed by someone else. I have a boss. I collaborate with him. And it is in these interactions and non-interactions with present and past bosses where the most powerful insights and lessons on how to execute management happens. The epiphanies between the interaction of "what could be" and "what is" is one of the potent sources I draw upon every time some one taps me to help them as a consultant or a simple spring board of ideas :)
And life has taught me this simple and elegant fact when one manages to get past the anger and the frustration phase: We can use the experiences during the angry and frustrated years for one's profit :)
How?
Well, you get angry and frustrated over things you love doing. And you can only have this type of anger and frustration on things you know can be done. And maybe the reason you know it can be done is because you already saw it get done. And what may further aggravate this anger and this frustration could be the fact that you were a part of the team that got it done. Worse, maybe, you got it done by yourself :)
Without this "I have walked the path!" experience, one could only be a mumbling critic. Almost good for nothing :)
Note to the HR Specialist for Recruitment, try asking the applicant situations in his/her life (or work) where he/she met the greatest frustration and ask why he/ she has frustration over it. Do not forget to ask what he/she has done about it and what was the result. This "frustration question" magnifies and gives you a measure on his passions and on the level of his bias for actions and his courage in making decisions :)
Now back to the anger and to the frustration and their existence :)Its existence in your life only means that you know a better way of doing things. So, if your present job does not allow you to improve on things, do not fret. Get a Moleskin, or put up a blog :), and write a note about it.
Take it as an investment for your next role in life. That way, you turn all conceivable wrongs and unfairness done to you by opaquely inspired management execution into jewels and treasures in life :)
"In everything, give thanks..." ~ The Holy Bible
"... why think like mere men?"
In chronological order: Got and read close to 200 books (and still counting) that discusses it for the past 15 years since college. Went to school to earn a graduate degree about it. I was given the opportunities to be in those roles when I was in my 20s. And now, humbled and privileged to be given the chance to run a small adventure :)
Though I put on my manager's hat every other day, on the every other day of the every other day, I am managed by someone else. I have a boss. I collaborate with him. And it is in these interactions and non-interactions with present and past bosses where the most powerful insights and lessons on how to execute management happens. The epiphanies between the interaction of "what could be" and "what is" is one of the potent sources I draw upon every time some one taps me to help them as a consultant or a simple spring board of ideas :)
And life has taught me this simple and elegant fact when one manages to get past the anger and the frustration phase: We can use the experiences during the angry and frustrated years for one's profit :)
How?
Well, you get angry and frustrated over things you love doing. And you can only have this type of anger and frustration on things you know can be done. And maybe the reason you know it can be done is because you already saw it get done. And what may further aggravate this anger and this frustration could be the fact that you were a part of the team that got it done. Worse, maybe, you got it done by yourself :)
Without this "I have walked the path!" experience, one could only be a mumbling critic. Almost good for nothing :)
Note to the HR Specialist for Recruitment, try asking the applicant situations in his/her life (or work) where he/she met the greatest frustration and ask why he/ she has frustration over it. Do not forget to ask what he/she has done about it and what was the result. This "frustration question" magnifies and gives you a measure on his passions and on the level of his bias for actions and his courage in making decisions :)
Now back to the anger and to the frustration and their existence :)Its existence in your life only means that you know a better way of doing things. So, if your present job does not allow you to improve on things, do not fret. Get a Moleskin, or put up a blog :), and write a note about it.
Take it as an investment for your next role in life. That way, you turn all conceivable wrongs and unfairness done to you by opaquely inspired management execution into jewels and treasures in life :)
"In everything, give thanks..." ~ The Holy Bible
"... why think like mere men?"
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