The Pebble Blog

The LORD is my ultimate refuge
He humiliates me when i'm proud
He automatic punishment for my haughty spirit
Even before i know it
He reads the deepest thoughts
Thoughts i am not even aware of yet
God judges fairly
He rewards the humble
and humbles the boaster.

God is the best government
He moves people's hearts
He directs committees
He softens hearts
He hardens hearts too.

He closes doors,
He opens doors,
depending on the condition
of your very heart

God is the judge
God rules

If you are appreciated you appreciate others.
If you are elated you make others happy.
If you are criticized you criticise others too.
If you are loved you love others too.

Whatever emotion you have you give to others.

If you continiously learn you are not insecure of running out of things to teach.
If your money inflow is good, you are not worried of outflow.
When you receive a lot, you give a lot too.
If you are successful, you want to make others successful too.

Be it emotion, fate, impression, or what, you only give what you have extra.

Amos 3:3 says "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?"

Agreement is the basis of Unity

Some people ask for unity but forget that
people have their own minds.
That they are capable of thinking of better things,
of thinking of righter things.

To solicit Unity one has to make sure there is agreement.

I like it when Sabbath comes.
No worries, no schedules,
You can forget all things that press on you

The community is extra quiet
The weather is distinctively sunny
The birds are more present and noticable
Their chirps make the Sabbath's silence more pleasurable

To me, Sabbath is when novel ideas come
it's when enlightening analysis surface

It's when you have all 24 hours to refill
refill your work attitude by doing something entirely different
refill your intellect by studying the Word
and also refill from your sleep-debt

The Sabbath is a blessing
it is a pleasure
it is an opportunity, and right
it's the 4th Law!

:)

If you had a service that could serve 1,000,000 people you'd be rich.
The more people you serve the more money you get.
The more people you can make happy, the more your customers.
The better your service the more ready your clients are to pay.

People who don't want to serve others are selfish, near-sighted, and unwise.
Great investors know how to give, know how to serve, know how to invest in services that people will pay back.

People want to know more than others, so they go to school, learn by themselves, and try to get an educational advantage.

There is a tendency for some people to be insecure about other people knowing more than they do. This is because it translates to other people having more advantage than they do. Therefore people try to keep themselves at an advantage by either 1) learning more than they teach, or 2) teaching less than they learn.

People who learn a hundred things a day are not worried to tell you half of them. People who learn only 5 things a day sometimes want to keep all of it to themselves.

The security of teaching a lot of ideas to other people comes from learning a lot more ideas than you release. Therefore generally teachers who learn a lot, teach a lot too.

Favor is a computation
Beauty is a computation
Intelligence is a computation
Speed is a computation

Talent is a computation
Quality is a computation
Color is a computation
Tune is a computation

Energy is a computation
Emotion is a computation
Mood is a computation
Radiation is a computation

Aura is a computation
Convincing power is a computation
Success is a computation
Even nothingness is a computation

Doctor
Mr. Bean
Preacher
Teacher
Lawyer
Scientist
Singer
Pilot (helicopter)
President
Businessman
Philantrophist
Electronics and Communications Engineer
Physicist
Philospher
Best father
Best husband
Working student
Cook
Janitor
Farmer
Environmentalist/Ecologist
Economist
Mechnical Engineer
Best boyfriend
Tindero
Race Driver (bmx, mbike, bike, car, cart)

Education installs common sense, practice amplifies it

The Lord is my employer, i shall not want.
I asked for a lot of work, He gave me more than I could do.
I asked for a job, He gave me more than I could accept.
I asked to be the most productive in my area and He made it true.
I asked for understanding and He showed me things unseen.
I asked to see Him in people, and He was there.
I asked to see Him in my occupation, and He was there.
I asked to see Him in the organization, and He was there.
I asked to see Him in nature, and He was there.
I asked for money, He gave me many opportunities to make much.
I asked for power, He put me in the front.
I asked for humility, He kept me in the back.
I asked for wisdom and foresight, He showed me how things would be.
I asked for me to be good, and He prevented me from doing bad.
I asked for a goodwilled heart, and He softened my heart.
I asked for forgiveness, and He already had forgiven me.
I asked for another chance, and He gave me another chance.
I asked for another chance, and He gave me another chance.
I asked for another chance, and He gave me another chance.
I asked for another chance, and He gave me another chance.
I asked for another chance, and He gave me another chance.
...

Life itself, I wasn't there to ask for, but He gave to me anyway.
Therefore God is my Boss forever and ever and ever...

I dedicate all the ergs of life, all atoms of my existence to His service.
There is not greater role, no greater goal, than to be His servant.

God is my Great Dad,
He is my Greatest Teacher,
He is my Best of Bests Friend,
He is my Lifetime Employer and Real Boss,
He is my God.

The Essence of Education is not how much one knows, but how much one is changed by what he has learned.

Educational efficiency is the ratio between how much is learned and how much change the learning has affected in a person.

It's amusing how God gives things that we ask. I asked for accelerated experience, for good friends, for a lot of work, for maximum usefullnes in His work. And here is my life this semester:

• Thesis writing (masters)
• 18 units teaching Computer Science major subjects
• Project Leader & Chief Engineer of AUP Accounting System Recomputerization Project
• System Admin of aolis
• providing "presence" and driving support to many of my friends dreams, ambitions, needs, and enjoyment

With this crazy schedule the deal is if God enables me to do all these then i will be able to do it. Simple.

[Dec 20, 2004 Update: the above is a very optimistic schedule. It will need more time to finish. Another slid schedule.]

When we were young [20-22] we used to be programmers, designers, testers, etc. of the Adventist University Online Information System.  The project aimed to computerize the enrollment processes of, at least, college students.

It was a bootcamp project.  In the most intense days we would work from 7am to 5am (22 hours).  We averaged working about 15 hours a day for about two of the eleven months in the project.  The project motivated us, it was in our hearts, and our hearts were on the project.  It was our project.

The essence of work is to be occupied.
To be occupied is not to be idle.
Because an idle mind is the workhouse of the Devil.

The essence of work in education is to make people better than who they currently are.

The essence of technical work is to make things easier to do, saving time, saving effort.

If you can continously innovate you will never run out of work.

Improve! Make things better!

Which is more difficult to pass? The test of poverty or the test of wealth?

Life is composed of many strings. Strings that are supposed to be pulled on from time to time. These strings pull away from us when we don't tug on them frequently and powerfully enough.

Some people have few strings, and they get to master how to pull those strings. Other people maintain many strings but don't master any of them. Some can master a bunch full, others can master none, others can master some, and others can master all.

Our Father in Heaven

Help me

to be as honest as Joseph
to be as faithful as Abraham
to be as loyal as Jonathan
to be as wise as Solomon

to be as near to your heart as David
to walk with you like Enoch did
to defend your message like Paul
to be as thankful as Mary Magdalene

Our Father in Heaven

Thank you for life
Thank you for having parents
Thank you for giving them even though i couldn't exist to ask for them yet
Thank you for making it so i landed on a big pillow from the second deck bed at 3 months old while asleep
Thank you for sending lady (who was cutting classes) to rescue me from drowning in the 6-foot fishpond when i was 3

Thank you
for the opportunity to grow
for the opportunity to let others grow
for the opportunity to teach
for the opportunity to be taught

for the chance to love
and the chanee to be loved
for the chance to eat
and the chance be feed others

for being able to laugh
and for being able to make others laugh
for being able to see
and for being able to show others

for being able to talk
and for the opportunity to be heard
for being able to help
and for the opportunity to help others

for being able to correct
and for being corrected by others
for the chance to sing
and the change to listen to singing

for being able to feel
and for letting others feel
for all the opportunities you have given
and for being able to give others opportunities

Thank you for everything. You are Everything and everything comes from You.

When lighting strikes 1 kilometer away, thunder is heard about 3 seconds after. That's because the speed of sound at sea level is 340.29 m/s. The sound is late. The sound is already history. To hear what was said a year ago you have to be 10,415,324 kilometers away from the place of conversation given the sound is not absorbed nor weakened by distance.

Light (and other nearby oscillations unobservable by the human eye) travels at 299,792,458 meters / second. If you have a very powerful telescope (like Hubble) you would be able to see light years away. Where light year is one year's worth of travel at the speed of light. So if you were looking at a star one lightyear away, you're looking at how it was one year ago. If you could see 6000 light years far, you would almost see creation of the universe!

Therefore all unhidden optical information of the universe are archived and continuously traveling outward in space. You could retrieve them by traveling faster than light back and forth the optical archive looking back thru the history of a star or planet.

Emotion is Latent Logic

We feel what we have thought of. Things of the past dictate how new ideas impress upon us.

We accept things because of either logic or emotion, or both.

Emotion is of the heart. Logic is of the intelligence. Both are from the mind. One is learned, the other is current.

Which is more powerful? Emotion or Logic? Emotion is more intense. But emotion is just a mountain of previous logic(s). Logic, logic, and more logic will overthrow an emotional position given "enough time". Where "enough time" depends on the difference of the new position and the previous position.