just another year

the year 2007 is about to say bye-bye, can i say it's just another year

among the many gone by? what has 2007 to brag about to the other

years? is it a better year? or it's worse than most of the times and days

i have encountered in this lonely planet? some say, we make the most

of our days. we decide what kind of life we want. cuz what you put

into the cookie jar is what you will get unless someone else beats you

to the goodies placed inside. who was the guy who said life is a box

of chocolates? was it Forrest Gump? i can't remember. anyways,

here's what i can call my achievement for this year:
i was able to be both father and mother to my kids while my wife is

away working in saudi arabia; i am teaching humanities once again, a

subject which was taken from me in 2005 by sir pagaduan and called

it as his own in the fine arts; i can now use hi-tech gadgets in my class

instruction; my wife thought it best to install an air conditioning unit

in our bedroom which is a very wise choice indeed (although sawing

the window grills took a bit of my well-reserved energies) ; my

friendster account has accumulated more than five hundred friends

and i really know them all (i have two accounts by the way, the other

one has nearly 200 friends as of the last count); i'm now a moderator

in one of the popular sites on the internet, zebo; i've still maintained

being one of the most sought after teachers in the university---i can

brag about this cuz there's proof: my classes get closed at the first day

of enrollment!; i'm almost free from the university research editorial

writing cuz i have one more write-up to submit; we were able to send

our son to thailand for a one-week pathfinder camping, not

bad,---although my son lost his nokia cellphone in the process!; i can

now have free access to the internet via wifi, well, i still do pay P300

monthly but that's a different connection, so i have two choices for

connectivity giving me a kind of backup in case one bogs down;

because my wife insisted i buy a smart sim for my cellphone, i now

have two cps, one for globe and one for smart---just a little bit of

hassle lugging the phones in my pockets!;