Category: Skills
DENOUMENT FROM TRIPLE OVERTIME
When the events of the story conclude, tie up and make sense, you have Denoument. We make resolutions at various times throughout life and to say we’re short sighted would be grotesquely inadequate. Our resolutions are not action focused or developmental. We determine to reach these pinnacles and shock the world. And I watch USC …
BREAKIN’ UP 2.0
Technology has taken “Dear John” to a new level. I parted ways with my mobile carrier yesterday and fell into the arms of another. The beauty of the potentially cataclysmic event was that I didn’t even have to see my old carrier face-to-face. My ex-service provider had no leverage either. They couldn’t have retained my …
TETRIS LIFE
You know good and well Tetris life doesn’t work. Is there anybody 25-40 years old who didn’t play Tetris at some point, who didn’t wait for the long slender piece to get you 6 rows deleted? The piece sometimes appeared, relieving all fears just before those blocks stacked up but more often than not the …
INHALATION
It could be that we inhale far more than what we need to breathe. In 1999, I spent two weeks in Manila trying to land a job in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). I rode around town in “Jeepneys” – these undersized transporters that looked like the offspring of a city bus and psychedelic taxi. …
MISSED CALL
Pick up your mobile phone after having it on silent or vibrate all day. You see the words on the screen and are thrown into panic so you view the names and/or number(s) of the desperate people who have tried multiple times to contact you. They called and sent texts because you were taking too …