Coredump

Resting in my hotel room right now, after the year-end global planning and report conference for our company.

Things are peaking up. One thing I must say about this company: it’s visionary. It’s willing to change even when the changes would mean disruption and sometimes pain. This kind of out-of-the-box thinking is what makes this company tick.

I was looking at my colleagues, some 500 or so packed in the hotel’s grand ballroom, and I can sense the electricity traveling across each engineer as the CEO laid out the company’s vision for the next five years. I think to myself, “What is it they see that I don’t?” They all seem so happy, despite all the setbacks.

Maybe it’s what turns this people on: the ability to transition seamlessly, to constantly move out of the comfort zone. Am I going to miss this? Hell, yes. But like them, I’d be moving out of my comfort zone, and explore other possibilities. This company was the proving ground for my readiness.

Hello, world. Bring it on.

Sort of.

I’m posting from my ninth-floor room here at the Century Park Hotel. When I checked in earlier, I read the promo poster at reception that WiFi is available in the rooms for Php150 per hour. Man, that’s 50% more expensive than Airborne Access.

But, but, but… as I was messing around with my lappy, it detected three (!) unsecured APs. I tried one, and after a few tweaking with the IP settings, I was online.

Before I checked in, I was ready to use dialup instead. I even got to borrow a friend’s dialup access code to Infocom (free from 12 midnight to 8 am). Good thing I can ditch that now — city calls here are available for a “minimal” fee. The cheapskate in me just won’t subscribe to that.

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