Help?

I try to help people. Trust me, I do. All the time. Everyday, every hour and every minute for as long as I could.

I help in every way possible. When I say possible, possible to me. I help in every way that my time, my effort, all my other resources and my entire being would allow.

Another thing that I would let you in on is that I help people who want help and are willing to help themselves. Otherwise... No.

August 14 2009

Exactly 2 years ago, I closed my first ever sale of a real estate property. I never thought that I'd be able to pull it off in this profession. I never actually thought I'd be in this line of work.

I guess life's just really crazy in the sense that you sometimes catch yourself standing in a place where you swore you'll never be caught dead in.

Although no matter how crazy the stuff that life throws at us can be, there will always be Someone up there to guide us and eventually reveal why everything had to happen the way they did.

Postscript: I just composed an entry to diss someone and now I'm writing this to.. I dunno, try to inspire? Crazy, isn't it?

...

Love should never make people feel bad. I know that there should be sacrifices and all that but generally, love should make people feel secure and safe and well... Loved. Anything other than that is not real love I guess.

Friday Fun Day

Busy day today. Not busy enough to not be able to blog though.

10:30-12:00 pm - meeting with a client for a long term lease
1:00-3:00 pm - meeting with a client for an acquisition
3:15 pm - back to the office to send emails if necessary
4:00 pm - read Harry Potter book 1 (Denise Quintos suggested that I read it and now I'm hooked. Well, sort of.)
6:00 pm (more or less) - leave the office to go home
7:30 pm - dinner (either at home or around BF)
8:15 pm - out for the night

I blogged ahead. The day's not done yet, hasn't even started but I am looking forward to go through it.

Later!

Contentment vs. Complacency

contentment-

–noun

1. the state of being contented; satisfaction; ease of mind.

2. Archaic . the act of making contentedly satisfied.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/contentment

complacency-

–noun, plural -cies.

1. a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.

2. Archaic .

a. friendly civility; inclination to please; complaisance.

b. a civil act.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/complacency

Is it just me or is there a thin line between contentment and complacency? In anything, especially in my line of work, there is no room for complacency. Ideally, I'd close a deal and then move on to the next. There's not supposed to be any room to be complacent.

The thing is, I think it's my nature to just sit still sometimes. I am not really the intense type of person to just keep going and going and going. I think it doesn't take much for me to be contented.

Like every time, I don't have a point to show. It's just that it's difficult for me to push myself hard after I close a huge deal and I can't really pinpoint if it's complacency or contentment that I'm feeling.

Oh well, I dunno. I'll figure it out eventually.

Timeless

With the help of my old iPod and the "Most Played List", here are more songs that I've listened to back in college:

The Scientist - Coldplay
Echo - Incubus
Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap
Stolen - Dashboard Confessional
I Did Everything for You - Sufjan Stevens
Where Does the Good Go - Tegan and Sara
Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson
Champagne Supernova - Oasis
Forever Young - Alphaville
High - Lighthouse Family
Jumper - Third Eye Blind
Lost in Space - Lighthouse Family
Out of My League - Stephen Speaks
The Resolution - Jack's Mannequin
Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
With or Without You - U2
Wonderwall - Oasis
More Than Anyone - Gavin DeGraw

These songs are still in my new playlists now. Never gets old.

Playlist Today

Since I decided to take note of everything I could take note of, I wanna share my playlist today. Usually, my playlists are made up of the same songs for many, many years. I still listen to songs that I listen to since college, even high school. I think everyone does that, I'm not sure.

I currently listen to these:

Good Life - OneRepublic
Beautiful People - Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi
Up - Justin Bieber feat. Chris Brown
Next 2 You - Chris Brown feat. Justin Bieber
Promises, Promises - Incubus
We'll Be A Dream - We The Kings feat. Demi Lovato

These songs I've been listening to for years and years and years:

Beached - Angelo Badalamenti & Orbital
Porcelain - Moby
Destiny - Zero 7
If I Ever Feel Better - Phoenix
Beautiful - Mandalay
Saltwater - Chicane
Beautiful Things - Tiesto
In The Dark - Tiesto
Just Be - Tiesto
Summer Jam - Tiesto
Forgiveness - Wamdue Project

These are the stuff I remember now. I'll add some more soon.

Let's see how much longer I will be listening to these songs.

Later.

Write to Remember

I have been reading through my blog archives beginning March 2008. I would say that there might have been a lot of things that happened to me but I am still the same person from a little over 3 years ago.

It is amusing that it seems like I am speaking with myself from months or even years back as I read.

I am more enthusiastic about taking note of as much emotions and events and whatnots. A few years from now, I'd read through my archives again and see this post together with the other things that I choose to take note of and maybe feel the same grade of awe that I am feeling now. I will probably be amused at how fast time flies and how many events can happen in my life in such a short span of time and that despite everything I manage to still be the same person, more or less.

I am grateful to have been given the chance to write about the things that matter enough for me to actually find the time to write them. I am grateful that I have these archives to read through when I feel like looking back for whatever reason I may have.

Sweet Disposition

"A moment, a love, a dream, aloud

A kiss, a cry, our rights, our wrongs"

-Temper Trap

Pakpak.

Got wings?

LOA

I am currently on Leave of Absence (LOA) from graduate school during this term.

Reasons being.. I do not really have a reason. It's like this:

I took the written comprehensive exam last term (T3, AY 2010-2011). Out of 4 parts, I passed 3 and failed 1. The ideal arrangement after failing 1 was for me to re-take the part I failed this term (T1, AY 2011-2012) and then do my thesis next term (T2, AY 2011-2012).

But you see, it did not happen that way. I enrolled for residency online and then, being the professional procrastinator that I am, kept delaying my visit to school to claim my enrollment assessment form and actually pay my tuition. Imagine, I had 2 whole months (May & June) to go to school an enroll but I never did. When I finally called DLSU to ask how to go about enrolling late, they told me that my account was cancelled and I was on forced-LOA.

Hassle.

Everything was moved, I'll re-take that 1 part next term and get a shot at thesis next year (T3, AY 2011-2012).

January 2012: I will be taking my broker's licensure examination
January 2012: start of my thesis term

Sooo. There.

Moral of the story?

RHB

I read a tweet today:






I know this is not the best thing to say but I'll say it anyway:

RH BILL!

Alright, that's it.

Do you know?

I am currently living my life in simplicity and as far as I know, I am liking it and I am happy.

But how will I know if I will regret this when I'm old and gray and lying on my deathbed? How will I know that this is the best life I could live? How do I know if I hit the standard already?

Maybe nobody was meant to know. I dunno.