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@ignorethispotato
What would make you happy?
One of the heads of the company asked me on what would make happy. If you've been following my previous posts, I guess we know the answer to that... I'm so stressed right now, I'm on the edge of resigning from my job. I need a sabbatical. Dear Tumblr world, how did you handle it? Did you just continue moving forward?
Mom: Holding Hands
Lately, my mom and I have been sleeping in the same bed. Because of the metastasis in her pelvic area, she's not as mobile. She needs someone who she can wake up in the middle of the night to help her go to the restroom. At night before going to sleep, she would just hold my hand while the other, holding her prayer beads, and it would just stay that way until she goes to sleep or decides to change sides. I can't help but think how much I'm going to miss holding her hands some day. I know one way or the other that time will come, but I hope it won't come too soon.
Mom 2
Everything is so surreal. Although our primary doctor has already informed us about hospice care, and the extent of the metastases. Somehow, it feels like that hasn’t fully sinked in... like everything is still normal. Although I have been praying a lot, is this a sign that everything’s going to be ok? Or since this battle has been going to for almost a year now that we are starting to be numb until the ultimate result hits us? Or on the other hand, is because we are not yet giving up?
I know the doctor has already informed us about hospice care, but miracles do happen. As the temple master mentioned in one of her dharma talks, “there are things that we don’t see.” A supernatural/mystical force... with that, WE ARE STILL FIGHTING THIS. Tomorrow we’re going to another doctor to look for second opinion, and we are hoping for good and actionable steps. I just hope she stays optimistic and whatever force may that be, guide us to the right path.
Mom
I don't know where to begin... my mom's been diagnosed with stage 3 endometrial clear cell adenocarcinoma last year. Now, we're done with radiotherapy, done with brachytherapy, and done with chemo. On her last chemo session, the doctor ordered us to do a PET-CT scan. Results show it has spread to her pelvic, spine, skull, liver, lung, and brain. At the moment our primary oncologist has already brought in the topic of hospice care, and that only means we should start thinking of the worse. I don't know what to say or do, everyday just moves by so fast. I wish the won't pass by so fast. The wounds are still fresh from the day she was diagnosed with the disease, with the treatments, and now we should start thinking of hospice. I didn't even go to remission...
Brilliant.Org
I found this amazing website which contains lots of crowd-sourced math problems. It even has a wiki page containing clues on how to solve the problem. Just though I should share it just in case you guys might be interested. They have an iOS and Android app just in case you might also want to do them in your mobile device.
I’ve never been good at math, but it has always fascinated me when people are able to solve math problems. I intend to be one of those some day in hopes that I’ll be able to fascinate myself too. =)
Of Greener Pastures?
It all happened so far, so fast that in a matter of weeks, everything has already been settled. What used to 3 months, took only less than a month in my case - technical interview, personality interview - the works; and that was my employment process for this company that I've applied to.
Yup, I have decided to give up my teaching position in the university versus a higher paying job and to satisfy my craving/curiosity on how to apply the things I've learned in my academic life. After 20+ years of academic life, it's finally nearing its end. It's time for me to now face the so-called real world and deal with whatever monster it's going to throw at me. As I am about to embark on this new chapter, I can't help but reflect and wonder...
Am I giving up on a good thing?
Did I not liking teaching?
Am I really entering a very hostile environment (as how my sister has advised me)?
Is there really no future (financially) in teaching?
Is money/salary really the measure of success?
etc. etc...
But one thing's for sure that finally led me to decide into resigning. It was my mom's constant advice to me and my siblings to sometimes take a leap of faith and dive into the unknown to make the unknown, known.
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Now, in the department, the only one that I've told to regarding this matter was my immediate head and I can't help but notice tears running from her eyes when I told her about my resignation. I hope someday to make to her tears worthwhile because she's a great person and I know what those tears meant.
Complacent
Complacent is a word I've heard before, but I've never got the chance to look it up in a dictionary... until now. My colleague used this word on me and told me that he is feeling "complacent". And according to Merriam-Webster, complacent means:
1: marked by self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies : marked by complacency : self-satisfied <a complacent smile>
I've always been complacent with the fact that I've rarely read story books my entire life and for some reason, I've always been drawn to reading textbooks (Most probably because of school work and other activities). So, in lieu of this, I've decided to start reading books.
For this year's target, I'll attempt to read 3 books. Would you care to suggest a title for a newbie like me?
Hello World
It's been a while since I've written something on the web. So here goes nothing!
In the past I have created deleted created and deleted blogs and one of the main reasons for this is that I've always let myself known. This consequently prevented me from REALLY voicing out my thoughts - scared that I might say something unpleasant and may one day become a victim of cyber bullying.
So anyway I guess the proper (formal) entry would be to give a proper background of myself.
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Hello,
I'm ignorethispotato and I've just recently obtained my MS degree. I've been teaching Computer Science subjects in a university for the past X years (where X > 3). But despite all that, I'm still young and still got big dreams that I want to pursue.
I've decided to create this blog so that I could communicate/gather/share ideas to the world. So if you happen to see this post, please do say Hi/Hello... or not, but if you've made it to this part of this post, thank you!