Mar
11

Helping others

“Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.”
-Horace

Beatriz, who by the way has the same middle name as my Mom Eugenia, was kind enough to post a link to my site and another Colombian blogger. I went and visited Fabian Rodriguez’s site, and found a very interesting post. He talks about how we sometimes help others but they take it for granted. That made me look online for famous quotes about helping others.

Horace in his quote says something that seems extreme, but it is very true. We need to learn that in relationships with other people helping is actually complicated. Help for the most part is provided when someone asks for it, or at least it should be that way. But sometimes people just try to help others even when those people did not even as. This is often misconstruted into a negative thing… or maybe not even misconstruted but it is really a negative thing. I have been a victim of that giving plenty of unwanted advice, and trying to “help” others when they did not even ask.

I guess it is all a matter of growing as a person and realizing that people if they need help, they will ask for it. No matter how compelled I feel to help someone now, I now wait until they actually want my help.

Now back to the post by Fabian. He pointed towards an article that is in Spanish but in a very humorous way pokes fun at the pitfall that many of us computer geeks fall into. Helping a friend or family member buy a computer… which instantly makes us their primary tech support. I have now solved must of that problem by pointing them to Dell… they have the Dell dude and their own tech support.

Feb
27

Not eating Los Cuatro Amigos anymore

Well, my fav Mexican restaurant around here just got closed by the health department(was closed for a period of time, but it was not related to their food). I still need to investigate the reasons and such, but I am both pissed of and bumbed. The way I found about it is kind of funny though.

Ok where to begin, just recently they opened up a Los Cuatro Amigos really close to my place of employement, the restaurant is a branch of one in Bay City (one of the towns in the TriCity area where I live). The one that got closed is the one on Bay City. (It has since been reopened and a new location in Midland is also serving tasty food.)

Yesterday I am about to head out to lunch with Esther and Mike when I get a voicemail. I was like that is odd… did not recognize the number so I decided to check it later. We go to eat at Los Cuatro Amigos for lunch. When I got back from lunch I remembered the message I had, so I check it… is was friend letting me know not to eat at that restuarant because they closed the one in Bay City. I had no choice but to crack up and let Mike listen to the message.

So now I am Mexicanfoodless again. (or so I thought, full update here)

Feb
24

Pissed at JK Rowling

I used to love the Harry Potter series, that is until I read book 5. Not only did she kill my favorite character, but she is also in my opinion making the kids grow up by taking away their sense of humor.

I have gone through some rough times in my life like I am sure many of you have, but humor is what gets me through those rought spots. I am a positive person and the glass is always half full for me. One of the biggest reasons I like the Harry Potter series was because it captured childhood in such a way that I felt like a kid all over again when reading the books.

I am not even that excited about the next couple of books, and I am even more dissapointed that I tried to get people into reading the books. Maybe I am just pissed off at my favorite character being gone among other things(don’t want to spoil the book for people) that they did to the character. Maybe there is a method to her madness and the next book will get me hooked again.

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Feb
19

Insight into Human nature?

People in general do not like things to be handed to them. For example advice, junk mail, information in general are things people do not like to receive, but instead if they find it on their own, that same information seems useful. The perception is totally changed depending on how that information is obtained.

Take job searching as an example. If any of you has gone thru this painful ordeal you will know what I am talking about. You send your resume to numerous places, post it online, and even drop it off in person. In the end, what really works is having someone feel like they “found” you. Most of the time when I have actually gotten a job, it has been because of someone actually finding my resume on my personal website. It happened for my last 2 jobs. That shows that a supervisor or a director of a department seeking a candidate feels a lot better about finding the right person using google, than by looking at the stack of resumes dropped off by HR.

Another example is what we consider junk snail mail, the old fashion kind. Plenty of people are annoyed by it, I am somewhat neutral in some cases… but those same people will walk into a store and pick up the flyer. That same piece of paper is discarded if it came unsolicited.

When you find information using your own means, it makes you feel empowered in some way. Maybe it is the new involvement that I have in marketing in my company, or maybe is just my crazy mind, but I think I might be onto something.

Jan
25

Sanctity of Marriage

I have to admit that I do like reality TV. I started watching since the days of the real world. I am starting to get seriously annoyed with the whole marriage fabrication crap. I think marriage is a beautiful thing, and even TV producers should take it seriously. Now we have this TV people, thinking is funny to mortify the family of a girl by hiring an actor to play an extremely annoying fiancé. Give me a break. The most amusing thing about the whole thing is the girl. She is trying to appear wholesome, and a good girl, but the only reason she is doing this is for a million dollars. The school that the lady teaches at, a Catholic school is giving her lip over the show. I do agree with them, because marriage is not a game, is a commitment with its up and downs, but a sacred thing in my eyes. Lets hope they find a better subject to trash, because the whole marriage theme is just not cool.

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