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Thursday, June 30, 2005


THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FOREGO YOUR MORNING COFFEE

BUZZ!!!
bluefur1975: oist!
bluefur1975: wazzup?
kargily: can u pass by joey's later before coming to ua&p?
bluefur1975: What for? I'll have to ask for his address again kasi I forgot na where he lives...
kargily: we're borrowing his bass amp eh.
kargily: pero baka malate ako ng dating kasi ppnta pa ko kela sarkie to get the keyboard amp.
bluefur1975: hm, okay
bluefur1975: if you're going to Malate, can you pass by Orosa and pick up a guy for me?
kargily: im not going to MALATE! ill be LATE!!! maleLATE!!!
kargily: maLATE!!!
kargily: t@ngin@.
bluefur1975: ohhhhhhhhhhhh
bluefur1975: sorry
bluefur1975: kailangan ko muna ng kape
bluefur1975: havent had my cup yet
kargily: whatever.

Hee. Anyone could have made that mistake.

Well, not ANYone....


INTRODUCING...

Chong. He's brand spanking *whappak!* new to the world of blogging, partly at my insistence. Please check him out and give him a holler :)

Wednesday, June 29, 2005


WHY SCOTT KURTZ RULES

from pvponline.com:

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005


MAKING HOMOPHOBIA WORK FOR YOU

My bandmates have been coming to practice late recently, so I decide to take it upon myself to be the one to gently remind them when we have practices via text. I also slyly try to take advantage of the situation and get a little action through the following text:

"Don't forget guys! Silentsanct ensayo this monday at 9pm! Bawal ang late! Anyone late gets a BESO from me!"

So I figure, if they're late, I still get something out of it, right?

When I get to the studio ten minutes early the way I always do, I see that they're ALL there, including our bassist, who lives all the way in Paranaque.

Hmpf.

Friday, June 17, 2005


THAT'S HOT. THAT'S REALLY, REALLY HOT.

Which is the hotter commercial? Click on the links and decide for yourselves:

- Paris Hilton's controversial Carl's Jr commerical

- Alternate version

Personally, I like the second one WAY better.

Thursday, June 16, 2005


YOU'VE GOT TO FIND WHAT YOU LOVE

I got this from Myles. This speech said things that I've always believed in and felt for a long time, but never was articulated as beautifully as it has here. I want to reprint it here in its' entirety.

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.


Tuesday, June 14, 2005


FETE DE LA MUSIQUE!!

Yeba! Check out today's edition of Philippine Daily Inquirer (june 15, 2005) for the feature on the 2005 Fete Dela Musique! on page H2, on top of the page (for those of you who keep track of those kinds of things) you will see a picture featuring 4/7ths of Silent Sanctuary making pa-model model poses!! Yahooo!

We're under the rock section, check us out! And please watch our set this saturday at the Fete, where we play at 5pm. Woooohoooooo!!

Wednesday, June 08, 2005


FUCKIN' HYSTERICAL

Tom Cruise's Medical Forum


Thursday, June 02, 2005


NOT THE DOCTOR
Alanis Morissette


I don’t want to be the filler if the void is solely yours
I don’t want to be your glass of single malt whiskey
Hidden in the bottom drawer
I don’t want to be the bandage if the wound is not mine
Lend me some fresh air
I don’t want to be adored for what I merely represent to you
I don’t want to be to be your babysitter
You’re a very big boy now
I don’t want to be you mother
I didn’t carry you in my womb for nine months
Show me the back door

[Chorus]
Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up at half past six
Well I already know that you’d find some way to sneak me in and oh
Mind the empty bottle with the holes along the bottom
You see it’s too much to ask for and I’m not the doctor

I don’t want to be the sweeper of the eggshells that you walk upon
I don’t want to be your other half I believe that 1 and 1 make 2
I don’t want to be your food or the light from the fridge
On your face at midnight
Hey what are you hungry for
I don’t want to be the glue that holds your pieces together
I don’t want to be your idol
See this pedestal is high and I’m afraid of heights
I don’t want to be lived through
A vicarious occasion
Please open the window

I don’t want to live on someday when my motto is last week
I don’t want to be responsible for your fractured heart
And it’s wounded beat
I don’t want to be a substitute for the smoke you’ve been inhaling
What do you thank me

What do you thank me for?


Life is too fucking short to spend it with people who wallow in negativity and let it twist them into lesser, SOUR versions of themselves instead of displaying some freaking adaptability. Someone like that, who takes every. Single. Opportunity. To complain about how life isn't worth it and how it would be nice if it just ended and how they just want to die because that would mean the end of their troubles and oh my GOD would you just PLEEEEEAAAAASE give it a rest!!!

I consider myself a generally optimistic sort by nature, and I'm all for cheering up and comforting my friends when they get into that kind of mood, as we all do sometimes. But some people... I dunno. They almost seem to relish living in that space. Like that's their default setting. You try to raise their spirits by being encouraging and reassuring, and they seem to take it like some sort of challenge and just bitch even MORE.

It feels like shovelling sand into an ever-deepening pit that never gets filled. You try, and you try, and you fucking TRY, and if you're lucky, it eventually dawns on you that your efforts are futile and NOTHING will cheer this person up, as they are simply having too much fun wallowing in their misery. And let me tell you now, as someone who had a relationship with one of those types of people for almost two years, (as you can see, I was UNlucky) it gets EXHAUSTING. their shit, no matter how much you try otherwise, eventually eats away at you. And soon enough you're just as sour as they are.

Which may or may not be their purpose. Misery, after all, loves company. Well, they can do it without ME. I've already worn that shade of blue, and it doesn't suit me. Thanks but no thanks.

I'm DONE being someone's therapist.

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