THE NEXT ACT

We have shifted houses at last.   Who loves doing what we have done?   However, finally we’ve done it with many loose ends.   That’s okay, as long as we have moved.   One by one sorting junks will be the daily routine.   It will take a couple of days, maybe over a week.   The big eye opener is the reality that we ought to throw away things we don’t need.   Clothes, toys, old receipts, papers, empty perfume bottles and all sorts that we still brought in to the new dwelling.   Now that they are here in the new dwelling and exposed as a bit of nuisance, they are sorted with things to be disposed soon.   Nuisance: rude as it may sound, but they become as such to the things we ought to devote our attention with.   They have been in their good used before but it’s time to retire in order for us to move on.   I am sentimental guy and that is why I can’t give up that easy on things right away.   I still keep the two old faded cordu...

In my last blog, I mentioned about a dead snake behind my office computer.   It happens to be that I have so many cables around it.   I thought of figuring out how I arrived with this messy predicament.   I have two dongles for two delicate software I am using and once in a while I am plugging them in and out at the back of the computer the endeavour which is too tedious consisting of leaning, squeezing and back aching thus arriving in a strategy of installing two long cables plugged at the back serving as the insertions of the two dongles that is reachable in front. I got two external hard drives which incidentally need cables: one serving as back up and working area for the modelling programme and the other is my personal where I keep my music that I listen to while working: we were told by the head of IT that I we should not use the our personal network drive for keeping mp3s – so there.   Right now, I am listening to the Christmas songs by Christina Perri. ...

Sorting out electronic files may be daunting.   But when you get the ball rolling I am coming in to a sort of amusement of rearranging, folder creating, renaming, removing, replacing and assigning.   It’s a matter of prompting a quick start I would find myself enjoying the undertaking. It’s different with the physical cleaning which is not my best area of expertise but maybe I am just not doing my best effort.   Or the effort could not be enough in the light that there are things I don’t see that some skilful cleaners can see.   It’s like I am living in a parallel universe where some objects are just ghosts to me.   The socks on floor seem not there all the time or onion skins and sachets clatter unnoticeably while cooking for instance.   Anyhow, what can I say?   My office desk: Wires and cables lie like dead snakes all around the computer; files on shelves are yet to be sorted from what are needed and what ain’t; I got too many jugs and mugs ...

There are times that I have exhausted my reasoning on how to arrive in a decision.  I have put out all the cards of options on the table and rate them according to how we want it to be basing on our needs and a bit of our whims.  I may arrive with a decision out of our scrutiny and yet our confidence is not enough to say “this is it.”  Our own knowing falls short to give our thumbs up.  Opinions of others are sought and may give bearing but it may be yet not sufficient.  Is this good?  Am I being paranoid?  I believe that I am just being God Fearing that I consider that the last say would be the One above as I pray.  May he guide me to the right decision.  He completes the process.  Sometimes I may not receive an answer in the light that I should make a decision right away.  That’s an instance when I would get into relying on my own reasoning to choose yet praying that He would bless my last say.  I believe sometimes He want ...