Reflections

I've been in a constant mode of reflection that last few days. There's an opening for a promotion. I'm not sure I really want it. Pay increase isn't much and the work requires a lot of effort, but its considered a stepping stone to the next position up the ladder.

My knee-jerk reaction was to apply for it. Upon further reflection, I came to doubt the intentions of my decision. Did I really want it? Or do I want it because that's what's expected of everyone? You know. Everybody wants to move up the food chain so everyone should want to get a promotion. It's the rational mindset to have.

Aristotle once suggested that everything that we do, everything we deem important enough to spend time doing, is for the greater good. He gave that greater good a name -- happiness. Come to think of it, he's right. All that we do is in the pursuit of happiness. There is a catch, though. What's called the hedonistic paradox. Happiness eludes the person who pursues it. The only way to achieve happiness, Aristotle furthers, is to fulfill, realize and develop all of one's talents and potentialities.

So the question arises, will I be happy if I go for the promotion? The position does afford me an opportunity to develop myself further. But it will take away a chunk my personal time. I will have less time and energy to spend with my family. And I might not even hack it. Management gives successful applicants 6 months to prove their worth. Otherwise, they will be relegated back to their old positions.

I must reflect some more... I think it was Sun-Tzu who said, "the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought." I need more introspective moments...

New Blog

In the last few days I have been exchanging emails with JP. He left a comment on one of my entries. He offfered to host my blog for free. I was skeptical at first until I went to the site and asked a few questions through email. I eventually signed up and he made arrangements to make my account free. Now, I have a new blog being hosted by www.i.ph.

I've been looking for a way to append ".ph" to my blog to tell the world I'm a Pinoy blogger. But the only way was to pay for a domain, something that I've refused to do so far. So a blog at www.i.ph is pretty close to getting my own domain. I'm still busy setting everything up, but you can take a peek at www.daysleeper.i.ph while the sawdust is still clearing.

I will still keep this blogger blog, though i will be blogging more frequently on www.i.ph. I will also be removing the free domain service on this one so if you're accessing this blog through the url's www.daysleeper.ph.tc and www.daysleeper.net.tc, please update your bookmarks and your links to reflect http://daysleepered.blogspot.com (the original address).

I hope you support me in this new blog of mine. Cheers :-))

Trip

Wala lang... Naisip ko lang baka maging interesado kayong windows users kung mag-post ako ng screnshot ng linux desktop ko. Kanya heto ang isa, habang nagpapatugtog ako sa xmms multimedia player, gamit ang KDE desktop:





Here's another one running the game Super Tux under the Gnome desktop. This game plays a lot like the Super Mario Bros. of the old Nintendos.





And yet another one while running Azureus (its a Bit Torrent client) and the Firestarter firewall under Gnome.