You’ve got to find what you love
Make sure you have a full uninterrupted 15 minutes when you watch this. The video is only 14min and 33 seconds long, but you need the remaining 27 seconds to wipe the tears from your eyes.
This is the commencement address given by Steve Jobs at Standford University on June 12, 2005. It’s a year old, yes, but Jobs’ words are timeless, and so are the 3 stories he tells the graduates. It was a year after he was diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas. How his stories turn out is probably better for you to find out, by watching this video, or by reading the full text of the speech here.
Here are some lines from Steve Job’s speech.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on…
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
You gotta watch this.
The House Recommends Hopping
My own irreverent Visita Iglesia this hopping through the list under The House Recommends, showing one and all why the house recommends them 
Pugad Baboy Station lovingly and painstakingly maintained by Juan Tapulan. For PB Fans like me who have had the rotten luck of not having been able to complete the collection of Pugad Baboy publications (for financial reasons or just plain bad timing), The PB Station is heaven-sent. Not least on the PB-mania feed are WikiPugad, which has almost everything you’d want to know about the strip, its characters and its conception. Best of all there is Pol Medina’s site itself, Pugad Baboy, my favorite pages of which are the ones about Pol himself.
I first came across Jonas Diego’s The Blurb when I was still in Iligan. This artist blew my socks off with his powerpacked creativity. When I visited his spot today I even unearthed a little jewel: the McGyver Mastercard commercial. Yes, Jonas, I am a Mac fan too.
Neither Monster Norman is the (forgotten?) other blog of graphics artist guru Norman Nimer, a friend and former colleague from Cebu. Another famous friend from Cebu is writer/poet/family man Myke Obenieta. Lensman Bobby Timonera takes us to the most photogenic spots in Mindanao: The Land of Promise. Bobby’s photograph of Lake Sebu graces the cover of my eBook “Other Endings”.
GPRIME is a must for internet video addicts. From videos to flash games and other online miscellany, this site is definitely bookmarkable. The downside is the videos only play in Windows Media Player. Is there a media player plugin for firefox? Apparently there is, but you have to instal the latest Windows Media Player (v10 if you’re on XP and v9 if you’re on anything lower). Albino Blacksheep is Gprime on steroids, Rogin-E and just about every enhancement you can think of. In short, ABS rocks!
eHow.com - Clear Instructions on How To Do (just about) Everything, is just that. Tips galore on how to do just about anything to install license plates on your car to how to use a phone on an airplane. On a tab behind the eHow page is wikiHow, The How to Manual that anyone can write or edit. Lots of priceless tips here as well.
Best Blogs in Asia is another of a growing number of blog directories. BBA focuses on Asia and is sponsored by Rice Bowl Journals.
The WordPress plugin directory is probably one of the greatest bookmarks for a WordPress blog tinkerer. Up right along with it is Emily Robbins of How to Blog. You get power tips, templates, and plugins to last you years and years of happy WP blogging. Coldforged.org is where I got the image headlines plugin, as well as the fascination for the gravatars plugin, those nice little icons that show when you comment, and displays your gravatar if you have one.
If you’re a kid doing research on the stuff your parents talk about every now and then, you know, stuff you just can’t relate to? Nostalgia Central is the place to go for entertainment trivia. You might even want to tell your parents that it houses The #1 A to Z of the 60, 70s & 80s. I’m sure they’ll love you all the more for it.
Whose Mountain is it Anyway?
I didn’t take this picture (although I wish I did). One of the engineers at Amilongan did three years ago. I just think it’s one of the coolest pics I’ve ever seen.
The Sea in Our Home
It started with a foray into Cartimar searching for the ideal Christmas project, which Sam wrote about in his blog. What started as a dream just last weekend is now a reality. We now have a miniature coral reef and its inhabitants right in our living room.
Coffee on the reef
An investigative walk twice around the aquarium fish section of Cartimar led us to Edna’s Pet Shop on the far edge, where the displays aren’t as flashy as the ones in the middle lanes, and where the owners themselves man the stores (as opposed to the middle lane shops with watchers who don’t know the difference between a 10-gallon tank and a 20 gallon tank). This is where we met Lonie, who gave us our first lesson in putting up a sea water aquarium.
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