It’s Just A Matter of Time

It’s 2:30 PM and I was still lying on my bed. I would be meeting up by High School classmates in Glorietta at 3:00 PM to treat out one of our classmates who just arrived here in Manila. I had to traverse the roads of Metro Manila from Fairview to Makati in 30 minutes. I know, it’s impossible so I texted Linda that I would be late. I took an FX from Mindanao Avenue, Fairview to Quezon Ave and took an MRT directly to Ayala. At around 4:10 pm I was already with Ronald, Linda and Bench.

We had some coffee in McCafe Glorietta while waiting for Mike to arrive. After that we headed to Greenbelt Cinema to watch Hancock. It was a great movie. Funny, inspiring and a little thought provoking (because I am dying to know their origin). I enjoyed watching it with my HS classmates, just like 10 years ago.

After the movie, we went to Gerry’s Grill Glorietta to munch some dinner. We had two plates of sisig, one bowl of nilagang bulalo, one plate of chop suey, and a good cup of garlic rice. Of course I ate with a good cup of coffee.

Then with full stomach we walked from Glorietta to Gil Puyat Ave via Ayala Ave. It was a good walk for me. I have this tingling joy inside of me while walking with Mike, Ron, Linda and Bench. A lot of High School memories were brought back and it made me to punch a contented smile in the air of Makati. “It’s been a long time and we are still friends. Just 10-14 years ago we were just little kids full of craziness of high school life and now here we are walking through length of Ayala Avenue, sharing memories, sharing dreams, and sharing experiences as adults. We will stay as friends forever and we will always be the Kineticists I’ve known since 10 years ago,” I said to myself. They are indeed the young people to whom I have shared my craziness, my youthful dreams and my inner self. They know me inside out.

Each one of them took a cab to go home and I was left alone in People Support. So I decided to walk home also (technically not home but to the house of my aunt here in Makati).

Now, I am here in front of the PC, dancing through imagination again.

(But before that, here are some photos with Bench, Ron, Linda and Mike)

Speaking of my imagination, actually it is not about the fantasy land I created in my mind. It’s about the random thoughts I am having everytime I am online. Jumping from one site to another site, getting some insightful ideas or tidbits of information. Reading my journal. Writing an entry. And pouring out my craziness in a Boolean sheet.

My thoughts are in action again and I started thinking about my scholastic life, I mean my value of existence. When I say value, I mean my technical value in this real world, my diploma, the degree I obtained. By now, I obtained nothing yet because I have been jumping from one course to course, from one school to another and from one decision to another. I realized that I have not focused myself in giving value to my worth. Maybe it’s time for me to give worth to my self. I know I have been writing about this in my blog but I cannot be pacified not until I obtain it and this is the only way I can express what I feel and thought.

I am planning to take BA Mathematics from CAP College through their distance learning approach. In this way, I guess I won’t have any hard time in going to the classroom every day. All I need to do is take the modules, submit them and take the final exam to finish up the course. The good thing about this is that you can finish the whole thing according to your phase. Maybe I can speed up things this way. After that, I might be getting an MBA from any Business School. Why MBA? Well, it is one of the most value-giving courses. Maybe through this I can stabilize my financial status and eradicate my only insecurity in life.

Once I obtained my MBA, then maybe that’s the time I can go back to the mathematical and theoretical side of me. I might proceed on getting my second course which is BS Physics from UP and proceed to my scholastic career. All I need now is focus and discipline.

It means I have to drop the thought of Love, the thought of Sex and the thought of Happy-Go-Lucky life. I am getting older now and I must not waste my time on some youthful desires.

Another thing that I must think of is my unit (condominium unit). I need to take care of my money and finances so that I won’t encounter any problem in the future. I have to pay this place at maximum for 20 years and I need to have a job earning not lower than 15-20k/month during that timeframe. For me to do that, I need to have a diploma as soon as possible and I need to enrich my skills as a manager every year.

So many things to think. But at the end of the day, my heart desires to work with my fellow physicists, mathematicians and natural theorists. I am longing to work on the mystery of our universe.

But I guess things will just fall to their right places. And it is just a matter of time.

Enough of this self-contemplation, here are my web finds for this week:

Carl Zimmer

When I have nothing much to do, I usually check some of the websites I bookmarked. Most of them are science, math and physics related websites. One of these is Carl Zimmer’s website and I visited this page today. Carl Zimmer is a popular science essayist and now a blogger. He’s known for his essays on evolution. I usually check his site for some interesting articles related to evolution. Ever since high school, I have this undying interest in knowing the tree of life and the mechanism behind the emergence of our existence, the emergence of life.

Today, I read about the cons of getting smarter, of how it could be dangerous to the survival of some species. Also, there is one article about a scientist who has not been tired by collecting of some bizarre species and mapping, compiling and doing comparative genetics to the complete genes of 77 species. From this they were able to pinpoint that fact that Insects are closer to nematodes and not to vertebrates.

Also, from Carl Zimmer’s page, I stumbled upon the Encyclopedia of Life website.

Encyclopedia of Life

It’s a fascinating website. Fascinating in the sense that it is gearing to compile all relevant information of all species on planet earth. (Now my mind is thinking of the species of the entire Universe… he he he he). Anyway, it’s a simple website but very educational. I believe that this can go long in its way. Someday, somehow most biological and genetics researcher will refer to this website. Just like the Tree of Life Web Project.

The good thing about this website, it shows the geological distribution of the species around the world.

Well, I am already a member of this site and I guess I will be constantly visiting this website.