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Best Read::Beyond Ownership

from here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2009/05/05/beyond-ownership/

The work of life is doing, not having. Even if having is what you’re doing, it’s the doing that matters. Life is process, not product. That process is one of contribution, I think. We want to leave the world with more than it had when we entered it. And with goods that are beyond measure or price. Goods which, like time, we can only give.
With the Net we have invented an excellent place to do that.
Let’s just say that the way the world is going/working right now is not really making me happy. Stuff doesn’t make me happy. Hope I find that something , that seems to be missing.

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rePost::Get a Life, Holden Caulfield – NYTimes.com

But Holden won over the young, especially the 1960s generation who saw themselves in the disaffected preppy, according to the cultural critic Morris Dickstein. “The skepticism, the belief in the purity of the soul against the tawdry, trashy culture plays very well in the counterculture and post-counterculture generation,” said Mr. Dickstein, who teaches at the Graduate Center of the University of the City of New York. Today, “I wouldn’t say we have a more gullible youth culture, but it may be more of a joining or togetherness culture.”
The culture is also more competitive. These days, teenagers seem more interested in getting into Harvard than in flunking out of Pencey Prep. Young people, with their compulsive text-messaging and hyperactive pop culture metabolism, are more enchanted by wide-eyed, quidditch-playing Harry Potter of Hogwarts than by the smirking manager of Pencey’s fencing team (who was lame enough to lose the team’s equipment on the subway, after all). Today’s pop culture heroes, it seems, are the nerds who conquer the world — like Harry — not the beautiful losers who reject it.
via Get a Life, Holden Caulfield – NYTimes.com.

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Best Read::Nicanor Perlas and the Dreams of an Ordinary Citizen | Filipino Voices

Millions share his vision because they see, and feel it. Perlas is someone crying out in the wilderness and asking people to come to him and share his vision for the Nation. Perlas wants to unite people and fight against poverty. Perlas wants to eradicate graft and corruption. Perlas will exercise strong political will to fight the forces that weaken the Motherland. And Perlas will see to it that those who have committed grave injustices against the People are put behind bars.There is something terribly wrong when people like Nicanor Perlas who once lived peacefully in their rich hamlets are suddenly seen in the streets, preaching the Gospel of Salvation from poverty and wants. When people who hate politics are suddenly going around town, preaching of “New Politics”, that’s surely a sign that things have turned for the worst.It just means that the exploitation, the degradation, the immorality, the amorality, the misery of the human condition, has seeped into the comfort zones of those who are not of the hungred kind.And I laud Blogwatch.ph and the Vibal Foundation for allowing me to partake of Nicanor Perlas’ vision even for an hour. Meeting him just makes me realize that the end is definitely not near, because there are still a few good men left who will sacrifice everything, just so that others may live better lives.
via Nicanor Perlas and the Dreams of an Ordinary Citizen | Filipino Voices.

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rePost::Red Squirrel's Nuts – 50% Time

The problem is really to work an extra 20 hours per week on self improvements means you have enough energy to to expend in self improvement. This is why I am limiting myself to jobs within 30 minutes from my house optimistically and within 1.5 hours with traffic. If the commute is too long I’m too tired to study/self improve. Life is too short to waste on a commute.

At the time I was finishing Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers, a book that digs deep into the stories and counter-cultural explanations of successful people. Having someone so close to my context tweeting about a topic related to the book I was reading helped me see something I hadn’t noticed before. I’ve spent years trying to make sense of how a person evolves from a novice programmer to an accomplished software developer. And up until now I haven’t paid enough attention to the raw number of hours spent deliberately working to improve oneself. Uncle Bob calls us to work a sustainable pace in our day jobs (40 hours), so we have time (20 hours) to improve ourselves in the off-hours. Most people don’t do that, though. It’s not considered normal. People who spend time doing more of what appears to be their job in the off-hours are seen as obsessed or workaholics. Maybe we are, there is some grey area there, and I know I’ve taken it too far before. One of the ingredients to being an outlier, though, is an opportunity to work hard. Sure, many outliers have had some good breaks, like being born in the right decade (American entrepreneurs in the 1830’s) or even the right month (Canadian junior hockey players in January), but that luck only provided them with an opportunity to work hard at something that they wanted to do.
via Red Squirrel’s Nuts – 50% Time.

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rePost::OAP: "Rent is Back in Manila!" | OUR AWESOME PLANET

Haven’t been to the theater for a long time (college was probably the last time I watched a play/musical). Hope I can schedule going to this, I haven’t seen Rent before.

Feb 6, 2010 (Saturday) – OAP Show
8PM/ C.P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza
Reserve Now! (check out the Seat Plan)
Email: amillionmiracles@gmail.com
Mobile Number: +63917 8676332 (Minnie Fong)
(Tell them that you are an OAP reader.
Also, please say hi when you see us in the show)
Ticket Prices:
P800 – Balcony
P1,100 – Loge Sides
P1,400 – Loge Center
P1,600 – Orchestra Sides
P1,700 – Orchestra Center
See you there!
Live an Awesome Life,
via OAP: “Rent is Back in Manila!” | OUR AWESOME PLANET.

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rePost::OAP: "Dingdong Dantes on Food, Travel and Book Run" | OUR AWESOME PLANET

Book Run 2010 3/5/10K
January 31, 2010, Sunday
The Fort
RUN EVENT: 3/5/10K
REGISTRATION FEE
450 Php – all race event
400 Php – if you register with donations of books for Grade School and High School levels
Fee includes race bib, race map, singlet and RFIC timing tag.
10K finishers will receive a finisher's medal.
REGISTRATION AREAS:
ROX – at Bonifacio High Street
12nn – 8pm daily
January 15-29, 2010
Visit YesPinoy.Org for more details…
via OAP: “Dingdong Dantes on Food, Travel and Book Run” | OUR AWESOME PLANET.

Hmm may 3k , tempting.

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rePost::Samuel Dalembert, back from Haiti with a heavy heart – TrueHoop Blog – ESPN

This just tears your heart down to pieces. With a lot of us working in High Rise Buildings, and some are even living in very High Condominiums , I fear for how disastrous a very strong earthquake would be for us. Hope we can help Haiti.

He cries talking about what he found there. For instance children without parents, wandering in desperation.

“I’m doing my best,” he says. “I’ll take another trip with UNICEF. So we can try to get all those children out there … you know, we have parents who have been trying to adopt for two or three years.”
At this point, tears are streaming down Dalembert’s face. “You know and … that’s frustrating me … you’re asking people to help. And kids have parents over there who want to adopt them. I’ve got a hundred parents, and you have a bunch of guys sitting down with the freaking papers. All it takes is one hour to go over everything, you know what I’m saying?
“I saw somebody’s leg amputated in front of me. Surgeries performed on a kitchen table … I’m talking about a folding kitchen table … I have some disturbing pictures. And it hurts. … There was no surgery room … You heard him screaming. … Not enough alcohol. Things we take for granted, you know. They try to make one bottle of alcohol last.
“Problems just keep occurring. There’s no machinery to move things around. It’s taking a long time to locate the people. I know everybody is doing their best. … It’s crazy over there.
“One thing really touched my heart the most is all the children. A lot of homeless children.”
Dalembert says he and Medishare are in the process of negotiating to get tents for “a ton” of people in Haiti.
via Samuel Dalembert, back from Haiti with a heavy heart – TrueHoop Blog – ESPN.

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Musings 2010 01 20

I fear the low hanging fruits have been or would be picked within this year, what I mean is the places to go to/ food to eat / events to experiences that are within easy reach has been. This means that I’d have to earn more to enjoy newer experiences. Thought about this when I saw a post about Sundance, minor want would be to go to those film fest even once.Here’s to dreaming and trying to fulfill those dreams.
this was the post that prompted that thought, from  my favorite film blog /Film:
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/01/20/film-has-arrived-at-sundance-film-festival-2010/

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Quote::The Trials of Tony Judt – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education

In one moving essay, recently published in The New York Review, Judt addresses directly his life with ALS. “Helplessness,” he writes, “is humiliating even in a passing crisis—imagine or recall some occasion when you have fallen down or otherwise required physical assistance from strangers. Imagine the mind’s response to the knowledge that the peculiarly humiliating helplessness of ALS is a life sentence (we speak blithely of death sentences in this connection, but actually the latter would be a relief).”
via The Trials of Tony Judt – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education.