When love falls out of the window…

Could you really be meant for one person for the rest of your life?

I ask this now as an impartial bystander who has to contend with impatient complaints from my friends about their marriages, how routine the sex life has become (if it ever exists at all), how tempting the idea of an illicit affair is, or how earth-shaking it is, if it’s in full steam already.
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Brokeback May As Well Have Been Breakheart

Watched Brokeback Mountain last Sunday and Crash scored an Academy Award upset since. I have not watched the latter yet butI remember the former for its memorable line “I wish I knew how to quit you.” Hmmm, how many times have we said this to our most tempting vices, ranging from coffee, to cigarets to casinos or simply that beguiling lover who rocked our world?
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Bread, vacations & Brokeback

According to my Control Panel, this is my 25oth post since starting a blog in the third quarter of 2004. Yay! It feels like such a long time and only 250 posts?? Blogging is fun but it is definitely also hard work

As for other things that happened to me this week:
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An encounter with The Shoe Legend

Sorry, I simply had to post this since it’s not everyday that I get to be in the same room with Imelda Marcos, the great poker legend Jack Binion (third from right) Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino president Tim Poster (second from left) plus some other Las Vegas moguls I can’t identify for now. Taken at my present homebase Hyatt Manila during a recent company gathering.
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Thanks for all the link lovin’

For all the bloggers who have linked me unconditionally in the past month, thank you so much. You make my day and I will return the favor once I get to update my links page. Ajay’s Writings is proud to be in the Top 12 of Technorati’s Philippine Top 100 Blogs, as compiled by Yuga. Your visits strengthen my resolve to post everyday as I found that blogging can be a good substiute for shopping and a ho-hum love/social life, LOL.
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Being an 80s child & why today’s youth never had it so good (updated)

Ten years from now, my kids will be teenagers and I do wonder what kind of future awaits them in terms of technology and the opportunities to succeed in this world. Today’s gizmos will surely be obsolete, video calls will be the standard means of communication, and Man will have lived on the moon or landed on another planet.
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My dream job and why Google must be good

I’ve gotten my hands into the Feb. 20 issue of Time featuring young Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin with CEO Eric Schmidt on the cover. Haven’t yet read the article in full but I figure that it must be good to be employed in a company that is not only merit-oriented but casual in approach and free-spirited.
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