Monday Meetings

Conference call services is the saving grace when it comes to days like these. We do a lot of conference calls and stand-up meetings on Mondays and Tuesdays. These conference call services are essential to this kind of task in the office because it’s saves the company tons of money. Plus it also helps employees to be more efficient every time because they’re always just a call away to any of our big bosses.

Daryl Hall & Chromeo’s ‘I Can’t Go For That’

 

This is the song that I have been playing the whole day today. I love Hall & Oates and this version made me love this song more. The video is from the Live From Daryl’s House series on YouTube.  I love these kinds of performances. The laid back ones. No flashy lights. No complicated music effects. Just plain pure talent.

Blue Saturday

Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Advantage is on my Inbox today.  The description said I should write some 500-word essay on how this health plan offering can be great for their future clients.  I thought this assignment will also be useful for me and my family. We have been dealing with a huge health concern for the past year and we really need to get hold of all the help we can get.

 

Now on to my research. Will share whatever I find out about this service soon.

Check

Having a decent job is essential. Finding the perfect career that one can be both happy and content is one ambitious thing to pursue. Lucky are those who earn a living doing what they want and what they love to do. Not everyone have that privilege. On most cases, people just take the job’s that within their reach and learn to cope.

Still up

I better think of the best acne solution if I am going to stay this late everyday. It’s 12:18 AM and I haven’t had a nap since yesterday.  My skin sort of act up whenever I stay up really late. I’d got tons to do. First, I need to finish eight articles for different clients. Everything is due today. I need to pass them during different submission schedule all through out the day. Hectic, I know, but that’s one of the things I need to really keep up and update. My clients have been super nice and very generous when it comes to deadline considerations so I better do my best to satisfy them.

 

Better get on the first post then. See you in a bit.

Makati

For five years, it has been my home. I spend more time in Makati than in Binangonan where I am from. The metal buildings are a far cry of simplicity from I have been used to. Most people won't even shrug their shoulders when they found out where I am from. It's an unknown place where everyone knows everybody. Where news travel as fast at the wind and most troubles were caused by gossip mongers.

Art

I reblogged this story on Tumblr last week while researching for under water metal detectors. I do not know the exact reason but I always find myself re-reading the contents of this post and ponder what I would've done if I was on that subway.

THE SITUATION - In Washington , DC , at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
After about 3 minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried on to meet his schedule.

About 4 minutes later:
The violinist received his first dollar. A woman threw money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

At 6 minutes:
A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

At 10 minutes:
A 3-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time. This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent - without exception - forced their children to move on quickly.

At 45 minutes: The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while.
About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.

After 1 hour:
He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed and no one applauded. There was no recognition at all.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100 each to sit and listen to him play the same music.


This is a true story. Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. Metro Station, was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities.

This experiment raised several questions:
*In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?
*If so, do we stop to appreciate it?
*Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made …
How many other things are we missing as we rush through life?

Nano

The ipod nano was the very first gadget I've ever purchased.

 The music buff that I was started to getting tired of bringing along my bulky portable CD player (and of course, CDs to play) that I said I'd buy a nano the minute it went out of the market. The picture above wasn't the nano I purchased then. It was the first batch of the coveted portable player. It wasn't touch screen then, but I was in love at how handy it was. I bought the 2G version where you can put a maximum of 500 songs and photos.

First

Starting the year writing about managed hosting is somewhat a good sign. It’s the first among the not-so-many tasks I received in the first few days of the year. These kinds of keywords only indicate that the clients who views this blog are into IT-related stuff, which only means I need to write something about information technology and gadgets on this blog. That would be interesting – this blog having a concrete direction for a change :)