10 Years from Now

Posted on February 3, 2008 at 6:41 pm | 16 Comments
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Today is the third anniversary of the blog that you are currently viewing. Yes, Asteeg.Net is three years old. I renewed my site last month through bank deposit1. As of now, I’m not thinking if I would migrate to a new domain. And I guess, I would not dare to leave this site again2. This site has been my home in the Internet for three years and it has been a part of my life. So why buy a new one?

I was in the church this afternoon to hear mass when a question suddenly popped in my head… What would become of us in the next ten years? I almost laughed hard in public when I thought of that. I was glad that I didn’t. Just imagine what will the people in the church would think about me. As you all know, I’m a Harry Potter fan and one of the things that I realized in reading the series about death is that the unknown is what we fear, and not death itself. But in this case, the unknown makes me excited.

I can’t help but imagine that some of us would be married by 2018, and maybe, we would have our own children at that time. And for those who have already their own children, they would be old enough to have their own blogs. I can’t wait to see Neil to be successful in life. Would the Filipinos dominate the blogosphere? Would Yohan, the son of Ms. Rachel will have his own blog? Is there going to be a new term for blogs? When would I be able to join the TriNoma Blogger Food Tour? Lol! Would I be able to meet those bloggers that I admire? When would I be able to use my real name here again? Would we know the real identity of Dan Hellbound? When would my effing style in writing change? Would Asteeg.Net still exist 10 years from now? And the seven million jackpot question… Would we still be updating our blogs by that time?

These questions are currently boggling me. I want to know the answers to these questions, but of course, we would not be able to know them until the right time would come. I’m sure, even Ma*Damn Tusha3 and her electronic tarot cards would not be able to predict what is in store for us in the coming years. And besides, if we would know them at this point, the future will be spoiled and the element of excitement would not be there.

Of course, the future can wait. What we have to do now is to enjoy the present and let our past lead us to the future.

Abangan na lang natin ang mga susunod na kabanata (Let’s just wait for the next chapters.).

*Raises glass for Asteeg.Net*

PS: I’m still thinking if I would have my own contest and give the winner a domain as a prize. I’ll just keep you all updated!

  1. I was wearing my school uniform on that day and the teller could not believe that I am a second year college student. She thought that I was only a high school student. Actually she asked me about three times if I’m a college student. [↩]
  2. I almost lost this site last year. I moved to a new domain but I was enlightened that this domain is where I should stay. [↩]
  3. She’s a fictional character that I and some of my friends have created back in our high school days. [↩]

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Of Time and Hostage Drama

Posted on March 28, 2007 at 8:22 pm | 9 Comments
Filed under News Central • Random Realities

NOTE: Around 40% of this post is written in Tagalog.

Last week, when I had my oral defense in Philosophy, I was asked what my philosophy in life is. I remembered what my teacher said, “You can summarize your philosophy in a quote.” So I quickly said that time is very important (instead of time is gold).

My blockmates laughed when I said that. I suppose they laughed because they know that I’m very strict with the time. If it was set that we’ll have a meeting at 10 o’clock, expect me to be in the meeting place thirty minutes before ten. And I end up, most of the time, waiting for around 1.5 hours in the meeting place just so the people that I have to meet to arrive. I’m not the one whom you’ll wait for. In the contrary, I’m the one who waits. But I don’t say that I’m always on time, there are times that I’m late for an event or whatsoever, especially if there are factors that are way beyond my control.

For somebody like me, I can’t afford to lose time. Time is more precious than gold to me. Twenty-four hours is not enough.

I’m just so glad that it’s already our vacation. I’m glad that I have plenty of time to do things that I want to do. I have so many plans for this website, now that I have 1.5 GB of space.

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Have you seen the news about the hostage drama here in the Philippines? What a shocker! Thirty-one Twenty-six children and four teachers were held as hostages for almost ten hours! And would you believe that the alleged leader of this hostage drama, Jun Sucat, is the owner of the daycare center where these 31 26 children have been enrolled for a year? It’s very ironic isn’t it? What’s more, his motive for doing this hostage crisis was only that he wanted his students to have support for their education of at and housing for them and their families. To make it more ironic, he said, “I love these kids.”

What I can say is that what he did was wrong. There are so many other ways how he can get what he wants. But making this kids as collateral? That’s way too stupid. Pero siguro, hindi mo rin siya masisisi kase sobrang bulok na ng gobyerno natin. Wala na siya sigurong makitang paraan para makuha ang atensyon ng gobyero/media/tao kung hindi mag-hostage.

Kaso, grabe, nakakahiya talaga ang nangyaring ‘to, lalo na sa international community. Kaninang pinapanood ko sa CNN ito, nanliit ako. Sobra.

Isa pang masama, pati ba naman ito nahaluan ng politics? Siguro yung kay Revilla, okay pa. Magkumpare naman sila e. Kaso, Chavit? Bakit siya nandoon?

It was not clear however what SingsonÂ’s connection was with Ducat.

PDI

I’m just glad that this hostage crisis is over — after almost ten hours and no one was badly hurt.

If you want to know more about this breaking news, you may want to go to INQ.net, or even CNN.com, but mind you, the local media, in this case, is more comprehensive.

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Off-topic, back in February, I bought a Sun sim. Feel free to ask my number in your comments, and I’ll give you my number via email. I’ve decided to tweak the layout. Photo credit.

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