…+ 1 GAST + 1 DMMSCI01.

December 23, 2009 reunion dinner at Momo Cafe, Eastwood.

It’s official. This is the most tiring Christmas season for me in like, ever. Three words: company Christmas party.

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Dealing with so-called adults is more difficult than dealing with kids.

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No more IM for us. Unless you want to use the company IM client which records every word you send.

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Why is it that there’s always time to attend reunion dinners with friends and family but  there’s never time to workout?

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Avatar in 3D rules! Must watch in 2D to compare.

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Jaime: If you’re reading this, dinner with ERP05 is at Momo Cafe in Eastwood, 7PM. If there’s still coding that day I’ll leave the apartment by 7 and get there by 930PM. If I’m lucky.

Sometimes it’s better to stick to the original.

The past two Mondays for me have been about pain. Last week it was about recovering from the NB 10k run; this week it was about recovering from Sunday’s rescue class. Let’s recap my adventures of the past two weeks:

New Balance Power Run

I was going to post this last week but I got buried in Christmas party preparations. I really don’t know how I get suckered into organizing these things. Anyway, better late than never.

So how did I do? Pretty well, thank you very much. My goal was to finish between 1:17 & 1:20 but I actually finished in 1:12:41. As expected, the route was much, much harder than the KOTR one. It felt like 90% of the route was an uphill run.

Interesting side story. Since Paolo absolutely hated looking for parking, we arrived an hour early at BHS. Plenty of time to check out the booths, warm up, stretch, and go to the loo. Well after dilly-dallying about, I was late for the 10k starting gun. How I managed to get to the venue 1-hr early and still be late for the race is beyond me.

NAUI ASRD

I’ve been wanting to join the rapelling/rock climbing portion of the rescue class ever since Paolo told me about it last year. You see, unbeknownst to most of my friends I’m actually a big wimp. The only thing that pushes me to try new things, like scuba diving, is pride. Heehee! The one thing I didn’t want to do was to chicken out in the middle of the rapelling or climbing part. That and falling flat on my face and breaking every bone in my body of course. I’m very happy to report that I made it! I think deep inside Paolo and I both had doubts whether I’d be able to finish the exercises but like I said, pride is an excellent motivator. I’ll post pictures as soon as I get my hands on some. Sensei Dencio took some crazy shots of everyone.

Update: Photos here!

I don’t know which is more surprising: Tiger Woods’s admission of guilt, or the fact that it has revealed the embarrassing fact that people are getting dumber.

In the apology posted on Woods’s website, he wrote:

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

This has caused the word ‘transgression’ to be one of the top searches on Google trends. Read the report on Huff Post.

This reminded me of a scene from one of my favorite movies, Waking Life:

“When you come to think of it, almost all human behavior and activity is not essentially any different from animal behavior. The most advanced technologies and craftsmanship bring us, at best, up to the super-chimpanzee level. Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human. The realm of the real spirit, the true artist, the saint, the philosopher, is rarely achieved.

Why so few? Why is world history and evolution not stories of progress but rather this endless and futile addition of zeroes. No greater values have developed. Hell, the Greeks 3,000 years ago were just as advanced as we are. So what are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question, and that’s this: Which is the most universal human characteristic – fear or laziness?”

Makes you wonder whether we’re evolving or devolving, right?