Simple lang!

My mom must have named me after Edgar Allan Poe. I really wanted to be a writer once, but in the late 60’s Journalism (MassComm hasn’t been coined at the time) was not yet offered in Davao City. You have to go to Cebu City at least for that, and back then that could even be considered a luxury for someone from Davao like me. So dreams shifted, and I enrolled in Political Science at the Ateneo.

But life has yet other plans, and I didn’t get to be a lawyer - some of my classmates did. Yet I never considered myself a failure. I maneuvered through life, more a product of the school of hard knocks. Looking back at it, I could sum it up that I had a good youth. I have seen and and done the things young men at the time do. I have enjoyed life; seen its beauty and its ugliness. I have sown my wild oats; and I have gone over the regrets those things have brought me. I am enriched by my experiences - from all my triumphs and failures. I licked my wounds and fought on, and came the better for it. I have healed and met life head on.

Fast forward to the eighties, and I met the woman of my life - my soul mate. I was already 33 when I got married and I am thankful I waited that long for that special person who would share my life as I would share hers. We had a daughter three years later. And though it turned out that she is the only one we could have, I could say that I am complete.

See? Don’t fret over your lost dreams because fulfillment is always out there. They may not be the things you planned or dreamed of, but you are not destined to grouch at life all through your existence because you don’t have all those fancy letters after your surname. You may lack the trappings this materialistic world considered important, but real happiness lies inside you. The trappings that should really matter are your strength, perseverance and faith in God.

Simple things. Simple lang!

The Great YugaTech Christmas Fun

YugaTech Philippines is a leading technology blog in the country with diverse followers. Techies and non-techies alike follow the daily posts of Mr. Abe Olandres, a.k.a Yuga, for the latest tech news and such, and to forward their comments thereon.

For this Christmas season, free items will be awarded to lucky participants. Just follow these simple instructions for your free entry:

Round 1: Our theme for this week will be Twitter. Here’s the mechanics:

1) Follow @abeolandres and @talk2globe on Twitter.
2) Post a tweet “Just entered to win a Modu Phone. Quick! Go follow @abeolandres and @talk2globe and retweet: http://bit.ly/6e2q7O #thanks2yugatech”

We’re giving away a Modu phone, 10 Globe Tattoo and 20 Php500 prepaid call cards randomly. That’s 31 winners in all for the Twitter giveaway.
If you don’t have a Twitter account but own a blog, here’s another way for you to join in this week’s giveaways:

1) Blog about the “YugaTech Great Gadget Giveaway”. Include the photo I posted here and link to this contest page.
2) Don’t forget to include in your post the mechanics for the Twitter contest above.
3) Leave a comment here with the URL of your entry.

For this one, we’ll give away another Modu phone, 10 Globe Tattoo and 10 prepaid load cards worth Php500 each. That’s 21 additional winners for a total of 52 winners this week.
Lastly, for our YugaTech readers who don’t Twitter or blog, here’s one for you:

1) Leave a comment on this contest page with the answer to this question — “If you’re stuck in an island with a phone and only have one call left, who would you call and why?“.

Ten most witty or creative answers will each win Php500 worth of prepaid load cards from Globe.
You can join in any of the 3 separate giveaways above but you can only win once for this round. If you win twice or on all 3, you get the bigger prize.
That’s a total of 62 lucky winners this week alone. This is just to warm you up for that grand prize. Go and start spreading the word!
Our giveaways won’t be this huge if not for our sponsors. Go thank Globe in your own little way.
Note: Anyone can join in the contests as many times since we’ll have more rounds in the coming weeks and months. Items will be shipped anywhere in the Philippines for free.
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Join now, guys! We have made our Christmas wish lists, and maybe this contest would bring those items straight under your Christmas Trees - and phone credits would be really useful to contact your loved ones and cheer them on Christmas!