Leaves Over Water

It’s fun to clackity-clack away on one’s keyboard especially if it’s new — like what I’m doing now just hacking away on the computer without rhyme or
reason. Actually there are full of reasons, but somehow I’m not up to it. Just
have too many thoughts crowded inside my cranium they need to be sorted out
properly to be let out… well, properly too.

My personal website is like a dimly-lit star floating in the
backend of the universe of the world wide web, very seldom noticed or visited.
Which is appropriate because, hey, it’s intended to be a private journal after all, right? But why do I seem to feel envious
lately of my friends and relations in multiply, mySpace, and other supposedly
livelier sites? I’ve even commissioned a friend to revive my long dormant and
nearly forgotten multiply account. I know it would be fun to be read and to
communicate and receive comments and all that, but somehow I still can’t bring
myself to transfer my freewebs content to it. As I said to my other friends
before, I’m quite content with my friendster and yeah, my freewebs accounts. (or
else I’m just lazy, yeah). Maybe if I find the time (actually time is not the
problem – it’s the motivation), I’d really sit down and start tinkering with my
multiply.

I’m just rambling, yada yada, because I know I’ve been
forsaking my journal site for quite some time. Somehow I’ve lost it and begun
to ask myself: “What’s the point?” I used to do update it every week. Now I’m
down to one entry a month, if at all. I’ve never been one to put in entries on
a day by day basis like what some people do (Today… work sucks, I made a few
phone calls, squeezed one out, and called it a day…). I love the essay type of
entries. No one will read it anyway except me.

But I’m getting back to the hang of it again. The PR, Web,
and Accounting group of our company will be transferring to a new office on the
third floor by April, and I’m looking forward to enjoying the privacy of my
cubicle very much. I’ll be able to tinker with my computer (and blog away,
yeah), without being conscious of some passerby (it could be my boss, you know)
who may happen to glance and get curious of what I’m doing.

My off-office work lately started to pick up again and I’m
thankful of the little blessings that I get on the side. At the very least,
I’ll be able to contribute regularly to my paluwagan
in the office (which will be going to a more noble obligation someday). I’ll
also be able to do some more work on the farm that I’m trying to put together
in Quezon.

Lately I’ve slacked off again in my badminton game. From
twice a week in February I’m down again to playing just once a week. My last
game was last Saturday March 15 and the heat inside the court around 2-3 pm was
incredibly energy-sapping. Only towards the end of the day, around 5 pm, did
the temperature cooled down somewhat (and the games heated up!). I had a great
last game in which the advantage in scores played back and forth between our
opponents and my partner and I, but after a grueling third round we won. I went
home immediately after, with a little bit of sun remaining, knowing that I had
taken the best game of the day already. I knew I won’t be able to play again
until after Holy Week, so at least I have that high point to look back to and build on again when i return to court.

Well, I’ve managed to put in enough content here to start
several other topics. It’s now Maundy Thursday and very early tomorrow I intend
to go to Mauban (more than four hours’ drive) for that big family reunion with
Tita Panching and her cousins and for me to talk to the workers we’ll hire to
erect the fences around one property.

Rambling over.

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