Organized Clutter

“A cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind”

Yes, I cropped the image. What you see is the tidy side of the clutter… The keyboard and the monitor (the cam’s just new) are witnesses of how the seemingly tidy table became an ocean of diverse issues, good and bad alike.

Many say that the table is a reflection of its user… “A cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind”, is it? I don’t think so, my desk is cluttered, but my mind isn’t. I have goals and I am focused in reaching them. Step by step, one at a time… and the keyboard, the monitor, and probably the cam, will be witnesses to it.

Everyday in every way, am getting better and better…

Late Reflection

"Cabin crew, please take your landing positions"

"Ladies and gentlemen, the captain has switched on the seat belt sign, please remain in your seats..."

In a commercial flight, we hear the first announcement usually before the initial approach to landing... The second announcement, well, we hear them from time to time... during unstable air pressure outside the plane...

But hearing them in mid-flight, at an altitude of 32,000 ft. way above the Visayan Sea, you've gotta think about an impending death sentence... Those are also the words I heard from the Cabin Crew Head during my flight from Cebu to Manila last Sunday... Anyway, thanks to the pilot, a certain Capt. Gorospe who made the flight an exciting, albeit, a fearsome one.

We left Cebu under sunny skies but it seems we encountered turbulence in mid-flight. I felt calm during the entire flight and just listened to the music I had in my player. Metallica at that... I think I was listening to "Unforgiven" when the hardest, rockiest turbulence I've ever experienced in the entire flight hit the plane... and no, I did not plan the "coincidence" of the song and the situation... My music player's set at random-select songs.

We landed in Ninoy Aquino International Airport after a take two in landing... It was raining hard that time and we had, what the Captain called a "mis-approach due to the weather". Don't know what it really meant... either he made a miscalculation or the strip was so slippery. What I know is, when I looked out my window, the airstrip was perpendicular to the plane...

The next day, I recounted the story to my officemates and one of them asked me "Natakot ka, kuya?" (Were you afraid, big brother?) I simply said "No, why would I?" then smiled it off...

But the question lingered in my head... Was I really afraid? I realized after a while that if things would have gotten worse, you would not be reading this blog... I would have gone anywhere. My double-X large body would have been a feed to the fishes in the Visayan Sea... worse, a speck of ash floating in the air... And I was not ready... I was not prepared to meet the Creator just yet...

But God gave me a chance to live, to continue with life... He has a purpose why I am still here, tapping away with this keyboard... Telling a story, a testimony of how good and great He is to me, to you, and to all of us...

Rush of Life

This is my desktop wallpaper. I got this from the Oakley site eons ago, but now it's gone. But I still keep the image because I love to see the rush of the water splashing down on the ocean floor. It gives me the drive to continue and go on with life. The madness of the rush of the waves and crashing down on the shore...

After all, life is a vast ocean of ups and downs, a basin of bad weathers and yet mirrors of sunny and blue skies... Because of all these, I strive to go on at whatever state I am in... Because by living, I could make a mistake and yet I learn from these mistakes... And when I fall down, I will rise again...