Galaxy 4

I must admit I love when 169 pops up in random places, I especially liked seeing it on my blog counter last night. It's funny how the simplest things can make you smile.

 

See I told you it was there =)

The Myth Makers

I just felt compelled to write out a list of the people (other than family) who I consider myself to be closest to at this point in time, the people that I am most thankful for. If you find that you're not on this list, don't worry it doesn't mean I don't care about you, it just means that I don't think we're all that close. Most people are on this list for different reasons and have all had different impacts on my life. They are in no particular order whatsoever (so don't get mad if you're below X ). It's just whatever order I happen to type them in (well some may be grouped with others I met at the same time, but other than that there's no order)

Paula Sitek

Blake DeCarvalho

Angela Platchkov

Rayn Phillips

Ivan Moutinho

Gladson Thomas

Clara Wong

Gah Tang

Ricky Zhao

Olga Voronenko

Tasveer Khawaja

Gurinder Singh

Charis Trinidad

Vincent Nguyen

Philip Chen

Amy Chau

Min Zheng
Sandra Trinh

Eugene Olkhov

Josh Belitsky

Michael Krolikowski

Brad Jacobson

Tammy Sloan

Richard Wendler-Hass

Richard Devlin

Ciril Abraham

Eliot Shtruzberg

Kristi Vojniku

Sheharyar Sohail

Fawzi Habib

Kris Rielly

Jimmy Lam

Samantha Joy

The funny thing is no matter how absolutely off-beat the people on this list are, I love them all the more for it.

I hope that I can keep all of these people in my life, I know that if this list had been written last year, it would have included quite a few additional names. Names of people who I've simply lost contact with and I hate that I have, but maybe its all for some reason, only time will tell.
But while this list may have lost names from one that might have been written last year, it also includes more people that I have become closer to within the past year, and I think that is simply fantastic.

Terminus

New Rule: From this point on I will only be bothering with the people who care to have me in their lives. The people who actually bother to get in touch with me every so often. So I may loose a few "friends". Odds are if I haven't talked to you in the last 3 months, your not that great of a friend anymore anyway. You're now an acquaintance, want that to change make an effort. I'm tired of fighting this one sided battle. It's unbelievable how much college is able to change some people. So you're life has changed a bit, get over it, all of our lives have changed, that's what college does, it's no reason to just write off everyone from your past. So if at the end of the day I have less friends than so be it, I'd much rather have a few friends who actually bother to keep me in their lives than many friends who couldn't give less of a shit about me.
The winds are changing, time to set sail in a new direction.

Vengeance on Varos

Okay, you've done it now, I'm pissed. This has been going on for far too long. I keep setting aside days for you and you don't even have the decency to call and say that its not going to work for you tonight. But you have the gall to expect me to drop everything that is going on in my life the second you want the work done. Well guess what I'm not going to be bending over backwards to help you with your piddly little problems from now on, figure things out on your own. My loyalty is no longer with you. Frankly it was never that good of a job anyway, I don't care how hard up for money I become, I'm tired of putting the people who actually care about me on hold because you might call with a job. I'm done.

Silence in the Library

It seems to me that the biggest problems that we have today can be boiled down to one thing: communication. Whether it be two people who each think that one will call the other only to result in neither being called or two pieces of technology that simply won't match up the way you want them to communications problems loom everywhere.
In business communication problems cost time and money, neither of which is easy to recover.
In life communication problems can cost even more important things, friendships, relationships, or even life.
The point is we must be careful in how we communicate with others, we must listen to what others say, question that which we do not understand. And we must learn to be clear when communicating to others. The problems that arise from ill-conceived communications are simply not worth it.

Revelation of the Daleks

I hate those moments where I'm giving someone advice and I come across the revelation that I should be following the advice myself. On the one hand it makes me realize just how hard it can be to follow my advice and makes me realize how much stronger the people who do follow my advice are than me. On the other hand I feel a bit hypocritical that I am not following through on the idea myself.
Perhaps this is how I was meant to come to these conclusions all along, and by helping others, I am in turn helping myself. I know that whenever I feel down, helping someone through their problems always brightens my day, sometimes to the point that I feel like I am living my life through helping others with theirs. But I think that this is a good thing, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I just wish I could find the solutions to my problems along with the solutions to other peoples problems every so often.

The Ribos Operation

I can not wait until the day that I can become a real psychologist and stop doing all these odd jobs for the odd bit of money. These bit jobs just aren't who I am. If I have to tell one more person that I've become a carpet cleaner for the summer I think I might go mad...well madder than I already am. I suppose for right now I can only take life one day at a time.