J.D. Salinger: Goodbye, thanks and god bless you!
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Let me get one thing out before we continue on. I posted a fitting answer to FB’s What’s on your mind? question through a J.D. Salinger quote on my Facebook status last January 26, 2010.
Would you like to know what I honestly think? Would you? – Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
I’m still halfway in finishing his short story “Franny and Zooey.”
Be it coincidence or whatever, finding out about his death (last January 27, 2010) today weirded out the order of things.
Moving on.
Jerome David “J. D.” Salinger lived a long life at 91. He is the author of the only novel that I read numerous times – “Catcher in the Rye.” And I also owned several copies of it – three(3) to be exact. If you go see my profile in Facebook, Myspace and Friendster, you’ll see that it’s always been there as my favorite book.
My utmost gratitude to you for authoring the only book that inspired me in millions fold and I’m still trying to ingest the philosophical and religious musing of “Franny and Zooey.”
Goodbye, thanks and god bless you, JD!
Voting guide for the automated 2010 Presidential Elections
1 comment Pilipinas, Tutorials
Before you head out with your classy shoes and outfit to your designated polling precinct, it’s helpful to know what to bring. So, I’m listing things to remember or bring during the 2010 Presidential Elections day.
- Voter’s ID or any valid national ID.
- Your list, kodigo, of who you’re voting for. Why? Because there’s only one ballot for each voter.
Note: Do not overvote. Meaning voting for extra number of candidates as it will invalidate your vote for that political seat. See guide below:
- One(1) President
- One(1) Vice President
- Twelve(12) Senators
- One(1) Congressman
- One(1) Governor
- One(1) Mayor
- Bringing your own pen or marker is not necessary. That will be provided as you vote. And you have to return it.
See, there’s not much to bring! Just in case no one’s giving out snacks, remember to have something to munch on if ever you get hungry as you vote but not those messy ones, please, because any unnecessary marking on your ballot might might invalidate it. Steps after the jump! (Continued…)
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis
Comments MusicIf there’s one new music that I’m so excited about this year it is “Option Paralysis” by The Dillinger Escape Plan. After a not at all disappointing Ire Works, the band once again is set to break fingers and whatever else to with this new one!
Album: Option Paralysis
Release Date: March 23rd 2010
Producer: Steve Evetts.
Track Listing:
1. Farewell, Mona Lisa – 5:23
2. Good Neighbor – 2:30
3. Gold Teeth on a Bum – 5:22
4. Crystal Morning – 2:02
5. Endless Endings – 2:32
6. Widower – 6:23
7. A Room Full of Eyes – 4:15
8. Chinese Whispers – 4:06
9. I Wouldn’t If You Didn’t – 4:14
10. Parasitic Twins – 4:41
Low quality, but good enough, preview of the tracks could be found here.
STREAM: Resistance to Change
2 comments UncategorizedAs always, as how we always were told, the actuality of things, there’s nothing permanent but change. And Change only kept two friends with him: Good and Bad. The names equate to how they are defined in books.
As an employee of eTelecare for two years now, yes, January 21, 2010, I think I have the right to say that it’s been downhill for us employees since the announcement of the merger between eTelecare and Stream, both globally competent companies. All switches of enthusiasm were put off by the artillery of internal communications that never favored us employees. Some of it may even be against the books – of law.
Many decided to leave but most stayed, we stayed, with the mantra that the company needed us.
But everything’s been wishful thinking!
More facts and similar sentiments by an anonymous author, a colleague, after the jump. (Continued…)
A blog for my son
Comments Fatherhood, Promote
I started a new public blog to record the growth of my son, Bjorn Carlos. Point your browser to bjorncarlos.blogspot.com. Excited to fill its pages with photos, videos and everything that I and my wife could come up with in celebrating the life with our first born.
If you are as excited as we are then become a follower of the blog through Google Friend Connect that’s on the sidebar of the blog.
In facing the new decade
Comments Short On IdeasLooking back at it, the previous decade defined what I am today. Easily, it’s when I left the comfort of having my parents decide which track to tread on. I graduated secondary school just months after the 21st century started. I took and failed the information technology curriculum. I opted for the punk way of things outside the confines of any academic dictates. Life would have been different but I’m all good. I treasure everyone and everything that I have now.
Goodbye, Oh Nine. Hello, Twenty Ten!
And as the new decade of the 21st century opens, and much like the movie, that the poster appears above, I will be direct in my approach on things. Spell success and failure the way they should be. Less focus on the brilliance of implementing things but simply carrying out what is needed.
Bjorn Carlos smiles!
Comments VideographyThis is a video of my son that I captured on the forth day since his birth last December 27, 2009. And a fitting quote – from someone I didn’t have the chance to know – for this video:
A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
Sinulog 2010 schedule of events
Comments Events
See complete listing of Sinulog 2010 schedule of events and parade route map after the jump or click the poster. (Continued…)
Bjorn Carlos in photos #1
8 comments Fatherhood, PhotographyHere’s the batch that I took while my son, Bjorn Carlos Cabuhay-Dael, was still in Silliman University Medical Center’s nursery.
It’s true that words are short in explaining the level of happiness when I first saw my son.
Welcome to the world, Bjorn Carlos!
Comments FatherhoodI received the best Christmas gift two days earlier.
A son.
Thanks to my wife’s enduring the challenges of childbirth without me on her side. I was a minute short upon arrival as she’s already moved to the delivery room – and having a friend inside did not even hinted a chance of getting in – so I have to wait. I’m waiting with my two aunts and mother-in-law. I don’t know if it was instinct or a powerful invisible language between a father and a son told me to walk over to the nursery to see my son being transported from the delivery to the nursery room. The feeling was nothing that I could ever explain before it happened. It is happiness at its best!
I was given full authority by my wife for the name and I loved her more for that!
The name is Bjorn Carlos. Bjorn has been the name that I wanted to be my own. It stands for bear. A strong and lovable symbol. Carlos is a tribute to my grandfather.
Welcome to the world, Bjorn Carlos!
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