Ice Carvings

i know the Church encourages us to maintain a unified front to combat the growing evil in the world, but tell me why the heck do they keep churning out different versions on how to sing "Our Father?" --- On a relatively different note, if you have time to visit this godforsaken blog, i guess you have the time to visit http://www.transparencyreporting.net/ . If, like me, you feel that your taxes are going nowhere (same as the rest of your paycheck), you at least owe it to yourself to check out this site to learn a bit about where your money is being spent. To counterbalance, the site also gives valuable info on where the money should be spent and how we John Dela Cruzes can do our share in ensuring better representation. I wouldn't bet on better government, though, as USAID helped sponsor the site... I'm just saying. After visiting the site and knowing more, you could now just be like me, all frothing at the mouth but too cute to care...

It's been a glorious weekend apart from the anticlimactic boxing match that brought the world to a standstill. I managed to leave work for two whole days and resumed my normal, predictable, and didactic life. So what does one do to spend two days of freedom? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Nothing in the sense that everything you do will have trivial consequences at the most. First, the hair had to go. It's been a fun ride sporting the 'do that made no sense. Long, wild and wispy. While I enjoyed it, it wasn't really practical to keep putting my bangs behind my ears during meetings with tenured managers and distinguished stakeholders, not to mention my mom. Plus, in this weather? The sessions with dinosaur jr are getting great as well. At 2 months, I think we have a pretty good understanding of each other, much to the chagrin of his mother. He now smiles at me whenever i glance at him. I guess we now communicate by eye contact a la Clever Hans. Next, axe grinding. This has