What Difference A day Makes

It could be no difference, small or huge... it could be positive, better :) or negative, worse :( or just so-so! The most expected difference is positively significant against substantially negative. But I noted a difference that could not or difficult to objectively measure from those +100 to -100 scale. This is not about mathematics, but subjective feeling...

Being apart of those we love. I said before that connecting people is only a few click or tap away. I realized that it is not the same between having contact and being around.

Flying for miles, staying in a 5* room here, enjoying good food... but alone (at night). I am loosing something in this heart. A same heart actually, but lack of smiles, tears, touches, kisses... or any others that cannot be conventionally or digitally transferred into the wire or the air over the magic of the internet high way. And this does not mean entirely 'negative' in any way, but only 'unfulfilled'. This lacking is not permanent... hopefully for a few days or whatever it could take.

Family... there are billion of individuals, but none could possibly replace the one we possess. Hundred million of houses, but none like home. My home, the one we are living in, is the center of this universe, not this beautiful hotel, not those expensive places...

So, I would say that a day or days could make a 'mathematical' difference and a different difference.

JW Marriot, Sby

After office hours

It is Monday... do I like it? I would say so so. Sitting in the same old chair to clear up my desks. Meeting with counterparts to find solutions or the ways mutual to the involving parties. Now, I need to pause from the business activities... just a few minutes before I conclude today's agenda.

Well what I have done today... do I contribute to make this world better? to make my family happier? to make things easier to anybody else? what I ve done to myself? I don't think I've made the best of my time today. But I settled some issues, making progress of pending matters... and learned somethings from the meeting. May not be useful today, but in the future perhaps.

Monday, did God start creating the world on Monday, or it was Sunday? The "Book" mentioned that God took a rest on Saturday... So, it should has been Sunday then the first day. Regardless, I would not think that it was the 24 hrs day. One day of 'heaven' could mean a thousand years of our reckoning. The universe was created about 15 billion years ago, and the world was 4.5 billion years ago. So, why do I care about one day, about Monday... which seems nothing compared to the age of universe. But I should and I do... because I don't have such along time to inhibite this world. And I could not predict when the time of mine would end. So, I would say that every day, every hour, every minute and every second is meaningful. Because we have a limited time and we don't have time machine to ravel back in the past...

What I have done today, I could not change it. But I would still have Tuesday (hopefully) to make correction, adjustment, improvement... whatever it called... and I should not be falling on the same mistake!

Monday, I could wait till Tuesday If I make up my mind ... said Sting.

From Nothingness

My bro just asked me if I had a blog already as his... he is now in the other part of this earth, 13 hours in distance, but only a few click away to call. Thanks to Skype that enables us to talk with a person in Houston at a real time and a real FREE! And I read in the PCWorld yesterday that Skype 2.0 beta is now realeased. A software and a tool that allow us to see the face (or any part, anything that the person wish to show us) over the screen... video calls! I think I need to get a new web cam sometime (to replace the no longer usable old one).

So I created this blog right after the communication ended. It took only a minute to be a blogger, alot easier than what I thought. But don't have anything in my mind to write down at this moment. OK, let me just type what are here by my side. A 17" LCD in front of me, my fingers are dancing... hitting the buttons what my brain is instructing, a world map in the wall (courtesy of National Geographic), books & magazines on the desk, also a glass of water, wearing t-shirt and short...

I think that's enough as a start!