Inertia
The vis insita, or innate force of matter is a power of resisting, by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavors to preserve in its present state, whether it be of rest, or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line. Isaac Newton

...stone wishes eternally to be stone, and tiger, to be tiger. JLB ( Read more... )

It's been a week since you've made resolutions to do things differently ( Read more... )

A short excerpt from my weekend to-do list:
1. wash my infinite pile of dirty laundry, or,
2. send my dirty clothes to a laundry shop
3. clean my apartment
4. clean and organize all of my shoes ( Read more... )

So I woke up really earlythis morning, around 5:15am, which is REALLY EARLY for me. I like waking up at past 8am, eat breakfast, watch some tv, read a book...but there you go, I'm daydreaming again ( Read more... )

I had to do a lot of kowtowing in the office just to be able to go on vacation this week, and look at how I squander my precious time: creating a Facebook account ( Read more... )

... you've started using your office security badge to get inside your apartment instead of using your keys.
<-- I've probably done this around three times already -- que horror!

... you don't get to finish reading a single book within a month.
<-- Worse than this, I haven't been able to visit a single bookstore since Christmas last year... after ( Read more... )

because, I just found out that Sting made a lot more music than I knew of before, and "discovering" them is just amazing ( Read more... )

Obviously, it's been a horrible week - I had to work with lots of mean people, I ended up getting pressured about something that wasn't really my responsibility anyway, I took a useless and boring 4-hour training, and my sister kept bugging me about her ex-impending trip (which became a confirmed trip, as she's supposed to have landed in Bangladesh ( Read more... )

1. Because you can actually force a small, insignificant typhoon to create a "catastrophe" in your jurisdiction, and get away with faking relief goods receipts for more than a decade. The best thing about it is that even when you are found guilty of corruption, you are suspended from your office for only three months, and the national government ( Read more... )

Everything is just so rush rush rush these days, even the midst of the summer heat.

What I'd give for a stint in the province, lying in a hammock by the shade, reading books, and eating gallons of mango.