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Can I be a brat and sulk and pretend to be mad 'cause you haven't called me for two weeks now?

Oh geez.

I'm just asking permission. You can say no.

Ahm. Is it like if you don't, you're gonna be like this pressure cooker?

Nah. I don't think so. I just want a wee bit of your attention. It's been a horrible week.

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Have I been that quiet?

Contemplate this.

I've been reporting to our Cubao office for a week now.

One good point is that the transition has been okay, so far. The thing that sucks right now, though, is the travel time. I use C-5 to and fro. That gives me normal driving time (one-way) of 1.5 hours sans rush hour traffic. Driving back to Sucat is only 1 hour.

Makes you think where the extra 30 minutes went considering it's the same road. The factor must be car volume + the time I go home.

Believe me, the road trip is so tiring that I end up grouchy at times.

Wala naman akong sinisigawan sa bahay pero nakakunot na noo ko. When anyone starts to talk to me, I just grunt or nod. I don't think I even remember what the convo is all about. Di na nga obvious that I'm glad to be home.

So yesterday, I finally folded and told Mang Leo to take charge of the wheel.

We've already organized a plan. Since I won't need him to wait for me at work, he will drop me off and come back to pick me up at the end of my day.

Although, I tell him to be in the parking area by 6, he won't expect me to come out until... well, let's say that I'm confident to go. I don't pack up and leave work right away at the blow of the whistle. I have to check out IM messages, sms, emails, the stuff on my table and sometimes the people who lounge after work before leaving. That way I avoid taking home my work.

Now I can't wait to have my weekend. I hope I've conserved some weekend energy to enjoy it.

The next priority in my list is to find a place in QC.

So if time will be my friend, I wish it'll let me scout around and check out prospects soonest. I don't want to be a grouch five days a week.

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Hoot is home. And then again he is not.

He arrived from WI last Sunday. But yesterday he took a flight to Bacolod to participate in a conference.

One of the first things he did was to sit down on the dining table, take out his laptop and show pics of his new house. He also bragged the two new cars in his garage - the BMW AUV and a Mini Cooper.

I should quickly make a sked to enjoy dinner with him as soon as he gets back from Bacolod.

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kids should know that...

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects comes from 20% of the causes. Business management thinker Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy went to 20% of the population. It is a common rule of thumb in business; e.g., "80% of your sales comes from 20% of your clients." (wikipedia)