Hippie Colors

I just talked to Pia Nazareno, the new OSA Director, and she was telling me that people were advising her not to take the job. I can sympathize with her position because I remember when I took the post more than 10 years ago, people expressed disappointment because I was moving away from the academic track, because they said it was a thankless job, and that it was a dead-end job.

Honestly, I still don’t understand why people were and are negative about the position (except maybe that academics have a particular set of values I don’t necessarily share). Yes, it was a distraction from further studies and yes, it was a dead-end but it was surely worth it.

The opportunity to get things done and put things into place, the opportunity to enable, the opportunity to meet people who until today are my good friends.

I’m glad Pia’s there and knowing her, I’m sure she’ll do a good job. I hope she enjoys herself in her new position.

I was fiddling around with my cell phone and realized that there was a way for me to store a total of 250 contacts each in 3 phonebooks instead of squeezing in 250 contacts in one phonebook. I’m always at 250 so every once in a while I’ve had to delete names and record them in my written directory. Imagine, the phone has been with me for years and it’s only now that I discover that it was more potent than I had realized.

I remember when the 128 sim came out, I was excited and went to the Globe center to have my sim changed, only to find out after it had already been changed that I had a 128 sim card all along. The people at Globe were not nice enough (or nice enough) to tell me that I was wasting money.

This is par for the course for me. Sablay talaga.

Anyway, those who know how ancient my phone is will be happy to know that I am changing to something less ancient, now that Globe has this promo where they give away cellphones to loyal subscribers. I know nothing of the new phone except that it has a radio and a camera but I figured it will be more advanced than the dinosaur I have now.