Home…

It always breaks my heart to leave on official business. And leaving last week was probably the most heart wrenching experiaence for me so far.

Matt was awake when I had to leave for the airport and he cried when both Nina and I told him i had to go to ‘work’. The young kid is bright and I know he’d expect me to be home again soon. But when I leave for another country, that just doesn’t happen.

Nina has had to bear the sad news of a son of a fellow scrapbooker who just passed away. And I know it scared us both. The little angel is about Matt’s age. It just brought us to think of how life is so fragile and that if it’s time to go back to the Father, it’s time. Now, it’s been magnified since I’m going on a week-long trip and she’ll be left alone doing all the house chores AND taking care of Matt.

For me, I don’t think I was prepared to leave. Not after the fun times us three had when we last visited SM Mall of Asia and discovered teh TimeZone at the back. Matt had a fun time playing bowling and basketball. And I’m going to miss that when I’m away.

Of course, it didn’t help when Michael Buble’s song played on the in-flight radio….

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“Home”

Another summer day
Has come and gone away
In Paris and Rome
But I wanna go home Mmmmmmmm

Maybe surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you
Each one a line or two
“I’m fine baby, how are you?”
Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that Another aeroplane
Another sunny place
I’m lucky I know
But I wanna go home
Mmmm, I’ve got to go home

Let me go home
I’m just too far from where you are
I wanna come home

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life
It’s like I just stepped outside
When everything was going right
And I know just why you could not
Come along with me
‘Cause this was not your dream
But you always believed in me

Another winter day has come
And gone away
In even Paris and Rome
And I wanna go home
Let me go home

And I’m surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
Oh, let me go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

Let me go home
I’ve had my run
Baby, I’m done
I gotta go home
Let me go home
It will all be all right
I’ll be home tonight
I’m coming back home

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WAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

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You know what’s sweet? Nina managed to make me a “Travelling Kit” – a small tin box filled with stuff that she made – pictures of us as a family, quotes, her thoughts on how she loves me and how much they will miss me when I’m out there. She made it for me about a day before I left and it has brought me comfort on those lonely nights when I think about them, how they’re doing, and if they ever miss me that much.

In essence, it’s Love – boxed up and ready for viewing and remembering whenever I need it. Thank you so much, Hon.

Back from Nowhere, Happy Thoughts, and more on ‘Gizmo’

Back from Nowhere

Whew! made it back in time for a Special Occasion…

My company sent me to attend a meeting somwhere-out-there. It’s jsut a 2-day meeting but since I’m on an interline ticket, I’m the last priority on every airline I have a ticket on. So, I had to leave way early just to be sure I’m at the site during the days I need to be there. So I left Sunday on a Dutch airline, connecting via Amsterdam to Frankfurt.

In Frankfurt, I learned that my pick-up was not there and so I had to spend a night at a hotel there where I wasn’t booked. The travel to Nowhere began the day after. And from then on, I can’t wait to be home. It’s hard on Nina everytime I leave since she takes care of young Matt all by herself…

Happy Thoughts

I should’ve posted this earlier, but hecic preparations for my trip didn’t give me much time to blog.

CONGRATULATIONS, HON! My wife’s scrapbook layout got entered into a US gallery Basic Grey. Basic Grey is a line of papers and other scrapbooking stuff that my wife loves to use and is in line with her style – a combination of bold, intricate patterns and subdued color tones that bring emphsis to the picture and theme of the layout.

Here it is:

Here’s the link to her page on the Basic Grey gallery. You’ll love the journaling as well.

‘Gizmo’

Here’s a PR for ‘Gizmo’ at hardwarezone.com.ph. You’ll also find a link to this article at BLUE’s website. I have people having interest on the BLUE Radon W310 based on my blog entry and my post at TipidPC.com. I don’t know if that’s a good thing. I know of at least 2 people who have bought the same machine – an officemate and a brother from TtipidPC.com. Hope they don’t kill me if this machine has other problems I haven’t yet discovered…

It’s 4 months of worry-free ‘Gizmo’ usage and counting.

Yes, i know, the review… (I’ve run the 3dMark05 on it though… AND have the results already…)

Expensive Lights; Downloads, Downloads; and New Pages!

Light Expo 2007 

Remember my post last Chinese New Year? Well, we did plan to visit and enter the 2007 Light Expo… But we were a bit disappointed at the price. To enter the light exhibit, you’ve gotta shellout P300.00 per adult and P200.00 per child! And what do you get inside? Just the exhibit – no rides or anything. No wonder there aren’t that much visitors to the event. For your average Filipino, P300 can go a long way. I wish it was cheaper… but Nina and I thought that they do have to pay for the electricity.

If you have extra cash, you may want to visit. But I hope they lower the entrance fee to a more ‘acceptable’ level.

Downloading…

Nina and I haven’t unleashed the full potential of having a DSL yet, but now, I’m trying to do more than just browse and tinker with my blog…. I’m actually downloading stuff! No illegal stuff, just some programs to test. Here are some of my (ongoing) downloads:

• 3dMark06 (basic, limited), 579 MB - for my review of Gizmo (check out my last post)
• Europa Universalis 3 Game Demo, 126 MB – a game where you get to tinker with history from the Age of Discovery to the Early Modern Era (Yes, I’m a history freak!)

My average download speed now is at 50 kbps for both runiing parallel. I know that’s a bit slow. But, it’s way way better than dial-up!

New Pages

Wow! This is what I like about WordPress – you get to create pages! I’ve recently formed the backbone of some of the pages I plan to populate with my stuff.

Checkout the NavBar just below the header (the Buster Eagle Zoids picture) or “Coherent Visions” in the sidebar to the right.

Oh, and I changed themes too.

This is not just a blog now, it’s my Webpage! Now i wonder what else I can do with it…