Thursday, January 19, 2012

To Stay Hungry and Foolish

On the day of his death [10.05.2011], Apple's homepage have had just one display.


I never (and will never) met this man but a month ago (while of course still alive), we were taking about his life in our class discussion in the Graduate School. Time spent was worthy.

 Mr. Jobs was born out of wedlock. His biological mother put him up for adoption, lived a modest life and dropped out of college. 
A college drop-out, he started his company in a garage, and later he became the most creative and daring CEO. His colleagues described him a a brilliant visionary but an ego-centric bully. We all know that he is one of the wealthiest American. 


With being wealthy, he battled pancreatic cancer, died and left so much legacies and changed the world.

 If Steve Jobs' life would be a human behavior, it is called bi-polar disorder aka manic-depressive disorder, in which a person's mood go back and forth between periods. Either very good or irritable and then get depressed. In other words,you get too happy or too sad. Extremities.
Steve Jobs I think is one of nature's messenger that no man is perfect. For once in our lives, we make stupid things and we hurt other people. At times, we become assholes, but we can always go up and mend what we bang up. Life, as we choose to live.






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Unconditional Christmas

Jovan is a 5-year old Aeta boy from the mountains of Capas,Tarlac. His father seated to my left, told me that they speak Zamal, (Zamal) if my memory doesn't fail me.

I was humbled by this boy because he talked to me in Tagalog. I realized that he knows more what I do not know which made me think that a person may be good in some things, but absolutely not in all things. He respected our language barrier and told many stories about their life in the mountain. He could have run away from me and went to his mother. He made me think of simplicity, being thankful and giving without expecting in return. 



            
I realized that if this little guy had formal education and had an encounter with psychologist Jean Piaget, an advocate of children's education will be delighted. My undergraduate thesis is about level of intelligence among rural high school students which made me admire Piaget for his theories in Psychology of Learning and Cognitive Development

 Jovan was very energetic. According to his father he is popular among his playmates. He was very curious and very excited to hold our cameras. The next thing I know he was taking pictures and posing in front of both still and video cameras. He quickly learn instructions, speak confidently and as far as my alter ego is concerned, he has high comprehension skills. 

 As we know it, Christmas is about giving. But to share some blessings to a boy like Jovan is really something worth remembering and Christmas more meaningful. :)


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New Moon

My 13 year old nephew Nate gave this book to me last Sunday [01.15.2012] maybe as a late Christmas gift. I have read 1/3 of the book since I started reading last Monday. 

I know it's the 2nd installment of the Twilight series (which is already on the 4th,Breaking Dawn). But I was curious about Stephenie Meyer's writing style. I was not disappointed because Ms. Meyer express her characters like you are actually in the situation, as if you are talking to Bella.  I like her writing. For her age, she is an achiever. 

I am no big fan of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen but I have seen the complete Twilight  series in big screen. Ang labo ko! Not really a fan but watched the film completely, and now reading the book. If Sigmund Freud calls me for a psychotherapy session, I will be diagnosed for having defense mechanism of denial. It's the best known defense mechanism which describe situations in which people seem unable to face reality or admit an obvious truth. 

Seriously, Jacob Black looks better than Edward.  




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