Two superbeings with unalienable rights

So it appears that the boss and I are two super-beings whose unalienable rights has been passively recognised by those super-power beings who lord over us.

These super-power beings had decided that, quite unfortunately, they do not have enough prowess to save the earth. Those of them, feeling just that tiny tinge of doubt in this judgement, are unfortunately not quite sure whether it is actually their job to save the earth. After all, their real jobs are to save their asses.

Since nobody is quite sure of anything except the fact that their collective asses are indispensible, it has been unanimiously decided that the task of saving the world can be left to those beings with indisputable unalienable rights. Henceforth, in the face of any threats to earth, the two super-beings shall be notified immediately with the trust that they can save the earth by exercising their unalienable rights..or be destroyed together with the earth if they failed to react. It was also noted by all the super-power beings that it is actually mission impossible lah.

I can so feel the clouds of sympathy oozing from them.

My heart goes out to boss who looked gob-smacked. I wanted to say something comforting and amusing so that we can laugh it off but could not quite find the words. I walked back to my desk and realised that I am quite tired too.

P.S. I finally met up with M in her full pregnancy glory! I was feeling so derived by proper conversations that I talked and talked and talked NON STOP. I probably tired out both the baby and her, just from listening to me.

Just the quotes

I have always wanted to read Freya Stark travel writings but yet to grab hold of a copy. She sounds like such a fascinating and colourful character.

Meanwhile, reading her quotes definitely whet my appetite for more of her writings.

“Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.”

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

“Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.”

“If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.”

“One is so apt to think of people’s affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving se with the tide always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.”

“This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.”

“The most ominous of fallacies – the belief that things can be kept static by inaction”

Speaking of quotes, I also like this one liner from the movie, Young Victoria, “A man who does not have any work to do becomes ridiculous!” Images of various personnels immediately came to mind:)

“Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly towards the solution that is certain to come.”
Og Mandino

You are so distanced.

I just need to say it somewhere

If we are so ungracious to clients when times are bad, why would clients do business with us when times are good? Given the option, no business wants to do work with companies that let them down in bad times and then come knocking at their door when times are good.