Archive for October, 2006

A friend and I were talking yesterday about names. Do you become your name or does your name become you?
Premise: Mary, in Jewish, means bitter.
Premise: Mary wasn’t a bitter person. She was, in fact, a better person than all of us.
Conclusion: The person who invented the name was bisaya.
I looked up the real meaning of […]

The Hunt is on …

A few my batchmates for a master’s degree have switched jobs either to accomodate their new schedule or to move to greener pastures. I have recently come across a list of jobs that are proposed to have more open positions in the next few years. IT still tops it 6 of 10 jobs, healthcare at […]

Black book (plural black books) noun
Definition: book of phone numbers — a book in which somebody keeps the names and telephone numbers of private friends.
 
Today, we all hold a black book — otherwise known as a mobile phone. This gadget, which many admit is a necessity, has taken over our lives. We store […]