The Stars

The stars.

In whatever form I maybe,

In wherever stage I have been,

they're always there,

constantly looking,

at the me,

who have already grown,

who have already changed.

In my fall,

In my coup,

I will always look at you.

Me and the World

When you open your eyes
Widely
And expose yourself to the world
You'll realize how small you are.
All those trivial stuffs you keep minding
What you wear.
What haircut to choose.
All those selfish desires that you thought would satisfy you,
would disappear like bubbles.
When you start engaging yourself to this world,
When you start exploring its allure,
you'll see those simple stuffs,
a beam,
a sun,
a tear.

All those simple emotions would make sense.
Sooner, you'll realize that through sharing yourself to this
world.
Whether leaving a part of yourself to a friend.
To a loved one.
Or to a stranger.
Would be what you call life.

The Dripping Water

Way back during my last year in college, I was taking a course about management. Lectures here consist of management theories and concepts. One concept that resided into my mind up until now is about problem solving and whenever I encounter a problem whether in life, work, or a computer science-related problem, this pops to my mind.

My professor has this scenario:

There was dripping water from the rooftop. What will you do?

As explained by her, one easy solution to this problem is placing a bucket where the water directly drips. But does this really solves the problem? No. It is just temporary. For the permanent fix, you have first to investigate the root cause. Why there is dripping? Where does it come from? and so on. After such investigation, the real solution would be fixing the hole in the roof and the hassle of changing buckets whenever it is already full will be eliminated.

In real life, do you apply permanent fixes to your problem? Or you manage to live repeatedly with cumbersome problems because you have only applied temporary solutions? Think.

Country is to Jeepney

During the weekdays, en route to work, I always ride the jeepney from Magallanes going to Mall of Asia. Here's the thing, jeepneys have the choice of lining up in the inner parking or outer parking where passengers go and ride. As I do this routine daily, I have made an observation wherein people would always go to what they think is the most filled jeepney and yes, I understand that they were in a rush and it is a logical reason. But in the back of my mind, I think that if the passengers will flock and go to the more spacious jeepney, in minimal time, it will be full but what they do is that they ignore it and the consequence, the jeepney gains no passengers.

I compare this scenario to our country. I do not intend to offend anyone, but this is more of a personal opinion. Filipinos would always go the more developed country, to the more flourished country and leave the nation. Similar to the jeepney, how can our nation develop if we will leave it behind? If we do not give it a chance to flourish? If its children, most of all the professionals, who we believe is our hope, will neglect it? If we only devote ourselves to our nation, invest our time and skills to it, in no time, we can achieve what "abroad" countries have.