The hiding RAM, the lying moon, and the unfiring of pluses and minuses

damn PC at home is on the fritz again. was trying to repair my cd-rw drive when i chanced upon my RAM and decided to wipe it clean. now i have two 128MBs but only 128MB is showing in my system. when will i learn by heart the adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

anyway, i think i'll be getting some neat upgrades for christmas. we're looking at 512MB RAM, a new DVD drive, and some kick ass speakers. ho ho ho and a bottle of rum...

---We interrupt this blog for an important reply---

I told the starry sky to wait for you
I told the wind to sigh like lovers do
I even told the night you were true
And you would be here soon
And now I'm lying to the moon
- Trisha Yearwood

this time though, the moon is lying to me.

again.

by definition, truce is a cessation from all hostilities.
i haven't been hostile for over a month. what do i need a truce for?
that was then. this is now.

and
i still can't,
and i won't
trust again
...especially when you ask me for a truce but sing songs for someone else. kinda taxes my intelligence.

not that i care though.

i hope this answers any future inquiries. i'm sick of unnannounced visitors to my planet.

---end of reply---ever---

now where was i?

surprise, surprise... i didn't get fired but felt actually appreciated during my fateful meeting earlier. and sigh! on the very same day a new prospective employer called and asked about my monthly wages...and no, i didn't lie about my gross income for once.

by adding and subtracting, i would say it's been a very solid year for yours truly. I managed to hold on to a job i don't really relish even if i broke countless rules and clashed with the idealogy. Sirius Black must've been proud of me.

let's list down the pluses and minuses of this job:

PLUSES:
  • Travel - i get lots, plus i get to drive north and south for hundreds of kilometers a time.
  • Car - not a bad way to go
  • moolah - not much, but i ain't complaining of poverty
  • a nice new office of my own - haven't moved in yet, but my Sacramento Kings memorabilia is ready and waiting.
  • non-sales job in a sales environment - im the ghost in the machine, what better way to celebrate my love for anonymity?
  • presentations once a month - i live for this and i get appreciated
MINUSES
  • work sucks
  • ego everywhere
  • non sales are 2nd class citizens - should they be?
  • expensive lifestyle - wearing a tie has its drawbacks
  • killer hours - really, it's like working for the CIA as the security detail
  • lots of time wastage due to horse-trading, foot-dragging, and blame-gaming
  • phony ideals and misplaced idiosyncrasies
  • too many rules, not enough monitors
  • dress codes - i can be twice as effective in black shirt and jeans.
  • elevators from hell - im not exaggerating. it cuts your lunch time by 30 minutes
  • money culture - i want my money here with me not spent

i don't really mind the stress, as i live for it. what i hate is the thinking part. sadly, my brain gets in the way most of the time.

i'll take care of that next year.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Crisis of confidence

Image
prologue: I hedged against writing this entry but i guess transparency won over everything else. If i continued writing about just the good things, it wouldn't make much sense 10 years from now, as any offspring might see this and conclude that was a cheery person my entire life. --- We lost a game we should have won last night by 3 points. Led the entire game except the last 2 minutes. And what's worse, i spent the whole game chained to the bench. I do realize i may not be as good as the rest of the players, but i try to do my share whenever asked. I really felt bad knowing i could have helped one way or the other, but i guess the coach was afraid i'd do more harm than good. So despite being the earliest to arrive for the game, my jersey hardly worked up a sweat, and it was so bad that my water bottle got home untouched. I even forgot to bring home my shoes. A teammate took it home with him and joked later that it was lucky it didnt fit him. If it did, i would have given ...
Read more

Here's to a thousand hits

Image
i wanted to write a couple of entries, but somehow the spirit is willing but the fingers are fat and tired. must be from doing all that weboggle. it's seriously addicting, and trying to reach the top 10 is somewhat of an unending challenge. try it yourself by visiting here . anyway, the celebration of the 1000th hit to my blog is too good to pass up so here i am at 1 in the morning writing an entry. I know it's not much compared to hits from google or yahoo, but having my blog viewed a thousand times is more than an achievement for me. it's been a crazy week at work with all the activities going on that i surprise myself for not being burned out yet. i do admit i'm having too much fun to derive some sense of fatigue out of it. Muziklaban is over finally, and it was a blast for yours truly to have attended his first concert with a special all-access ID around his neck. That means i can eat all the food i want and go to all the restricted areas without some bouncer handl...
Read more

Topics we can explore

Here are some proposed topics to give justification to the disk space used: 1. Music and my state of mind 2. If you love your job, why do you insist being paid every 15 days? 3. Jobs you would rather have than this. 4. The virtue of selfishness 5. Do writers have to be great readers? 6. All-time fantasy travel itinerary
Read more