Temporary satisfaction

i'm sure everyone at one point in their peon-like existence has, in one way or another felt the euphoric pleasure of accomplishing a terrabyte like task. it's like atlas finally being relieved of the world off his shoulders, a titanic task being concluded.

before throwing out the confetti, lighting up the fireworks and bringing out the booze, better make sure the celebration isn't premature. i remember that phrase we excessively used back in high school, "you rejoiced to soon". just when you think that your problems are over, another one surfaces out of nowhere, it appears out of thin air, as if it's illegal for one to be happy even in the shortest of time. well? somebody out there must really hate me since it's happening to me regularly whheeee! the fates must be against me in, maybe in the next full moon, it'll all change.

ok enough with the garble, the gibberish and the nonsense. i find it frustrating at times, just when you're about to relish the victory, in comes another skirmish. ever had that feeling just when you're about to lick the sweet icing off a mouth watering pastry, it falls off your hand? makes one want to spurt out all kinds of happy words with funny characters when keyed in text like f#$k or whatever, kick the living heck out of a industrial size frying pan or much worse, a rice cooking pot hahaha.

ahh the ironies of life! there's this saying "what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger" right? allow me to rephrase in my own p.o.v.: "what doesn't kill us, makes us go insane". "welcome to the loony farm child, would you like your straight jacket to be neon green or with polka dots"? this'll make me a perfect candidate for patient number 12182001 at the local psych ward, and it comes with a cool 6'x6'x6' cell without windows, a bed and a toilet whee! open space to roll around drooling and wall space to bang my head, maybe that will put some sanity back.

these trials in our lives, well, mine specifically, are here to test my faith, strength and my sanity(i think this one failed miserably). with these hurdles, there's no run-around, backdoor or underhanded trick to pass by them. i think i'll just run them down instead, slap them in the face with a big ass "i will not quit". i got a rad quote from a movie i saw a few months ago, and it was "we fall down so we could learn to pick ourselves up". i think we should have this thought nailed to the back of our heads (ouch!).

PERSEVERANCE! this will get you through the jedi trials, welcome to the rank of jedi knight, padawan! i'm might be slighty overdoing the star wars thing a bit, it's nearly sunday and the empire strikes back will be on tv yippeeee!

my time does fly by, it's nearly the weekend and it's time for writing up my programmer's report for this week. i must say it's been four weeks since i've started working on my com project for the payroll software, and i'm ecstatic that we're finally dry running that component and ironing out the bugs. whew, time to get some well deserved rest. i know from sad experience that some people, seeing what you've done for them, don't really appreciate your work. you've made their job easier and what do they do in return, make more demands for this and that feature! yearrggggggg! a developer's life is not that simple. it takes time and a lot of burned brain cells, so please spare me the pressure. whoops! do i sense griping in this one?

it all adds up to this, i finished my task, i could've made a backflip but then my boss would permanently label me crazy. yipppeee! this accomplishment could and would lead to another task, so bring in on. i'll just sing " it's a bittersweet, symphony this life..." while tackling the next problem.

carpe noctem and don't let the bad bugs bite! kill the bugs!