Cyn's Rabbit Hole
Random Thoughts by CokeyCyn
I once heard a story
about a city dude who went to the beach, and saw a lazy bloke just sitting on the beach.
Day after day while city dude was there, the lazy bloke just sat on the beach, occasionally went swimming, and fished to get fish for dinner. He was a good fisherman, but he just fished for a few minutes at a time.
So the city dude talked to the lazy bloke and tried to convince him to take out a bank loan, put up a business fishing and distributing the fresh fish everywhere. After a few years of investing hard work, day in day out, working at his fishing business, he might be able to make it successful.
So lazy dude asked... why would I want a successful fishing business?
To make money of course!
And what would I do with a lot of money?
Well, reinvest in the business, so you can make even more money!
And what after that?
Keep working and reinvesting until you have more money than you can possibly need!
And then, after I have that much money, what then?
Then you can buy anything that you want! And you can retire and relax!
Where would I retire and relax?
With all that money, anywhere you want!
Well, city dude (said lazy bloke), I want to relax while sitting on a beach. Day in day out, fishing while the air is cool and watching the sun go down.
hmmph.
Day after day while city dude was there, the lazy bloke just sat on the beach, occasionally went swimming, and fished to get fish for dinner. He was a good fisherman, but he just fished for a few minutes at a time.
So the city dude talked to the lazy bloke and tried to convince him to take out a bank loan, put up a business fishing and distributing the fresh fish everywhere. After a few years of investing hard work, day in day out, working at his fishing business, he might be able to make it successful.
So lazy dude asked... why would I want a successful fishing business?
To make money of course!
And what would I do with a lot of money?
Well, reinvest in the business, so you can make even more money!
And what after that?
Keep working and reinvesting until you have more money than you can possibly need!
And then, after I have that much money, what then?
Then you can buy anything that you want! And you can retire and relax!
Where would I retire and relax?
With all that money, anywhere you want!
Well, city dude (said lazy bloke), I want to relax while sitting on a beach. Day in day out, fishing while the air is cool and watching the sun go down.
hmmph.
Forced on a boat at 6 am...
looks like this.
:-) wala lang, just wanted to share my arte shot for the morning. The rest of the morning was the dagat-dagat-dagat-dagat-dolphin day. hehe
:-) wala lang, just wanted to share my arte shot for the morning. The rest of the morning was the dagat-dagat-dagat-dagat-dolphin day. hehe
A feeble attempt
at a "subtle" hint to the hubby ...
Just kidding vic!! :-)
Just kidding vic!! :-)
Wala lang...
Got this from Vinci... :-)
My favorite is # 19.
1. Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards: NAIVE
2. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
3. OK... so if the Jacksonville Jaguars are known as the "Jags" and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are known as the "Bucs," what does that make the Tennessee Titans?
4. If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea...does that mean that one enjoys it?
5. There are three religious truths:
a. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
b. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith.
c. Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters.
6. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
7. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
8. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
9. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren't they just stale bread to begin with?
10. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racecar is not called a racist?
11. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?
12. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
13. If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
14. Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
15. What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
16. I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me ... they're cramming for their final exam.
17. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?
18. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?
19. If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
20. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
21. Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
22. If a cow laughed, would milk come out of her nose?
My favorite is # 19.
1. Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards: NAIVE
2. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
3. OK... so if the Jacksonville Jaguars are known as the "Jags" and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are known as the "Bucs," what does that make the Tennessee Titans?
4. If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea...does that mean that one enjoys it?
5. There are three religious truths:
a. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
b. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith.
c. Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters.
6. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
7. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
8. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
9. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren't they just stale bread to begin with?
10. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racecar is not called a racist?
11. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?
12. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
13. If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
14. Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
15. What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
16. I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me ... they're cramming for their final exam.
17. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?
18. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?
19. If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
20. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
21. Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
22. If a cow laughed, would milk come out of her nose?
Last Week, I Swam with the Fishes
The entire marketing department of MJN went down to Bohol for a much-needed offsite. This year's objective was appropriately to rest, relax, and recharge.
In case anyone has any doubts as to whether or not we were working, I would like to put those doubts to rest right now:
view the gallery here
It was a lot of fun.
Bohol is probably the best kept secret of beautiful places to stay. I mean, honestly, there is nothing modern about it. No e-mail, no wifi, no internet, no cellphone signal, no restaurants open past 10pm, no bars (that I could see), no loud music, no smokers hanging out near the bar, no star movies, no star world, no espn ... nothing. There was also no traffic, no pollution, no crowds, no dirt on the beach, no fear of muggers, no stress from work, no pushy people, no noisy ditsy girls complaining about the weather. No complaints here. :-)
Seriously, we arrived in Bohol Beach Club on Sunday afternoon, and it was like we OWNED the place! We had little cottages that opened up to the beach -- a very long expanse of white sand, not as fine as Boracay, but a lot more beach to work with. The beach itself was "littered" with tall coconut trees, evenly spaced and decorated with hammocks here and there.
The beach itself is very clean, and, for about thirty feet in the water, from the beach outwards, there's nothing but white sand and star fish. Thousands of starfish! After that, it gets a little scary, with sea urchins here and there. Then there's coral and sea weed.
We took out a glass bottom boat to see what was down there. It was so cool! (More) star fish, blue, white, orange, brown, yellow. Hundreds of fish in schools and houses and sea cucumbers and corals and ... it basically felt like you fell into the set of Finding Nemo. hehe. The most amazing thing was that you could see straight down to the bottom of the sea, even though it was about 15 feet deep.
We promptly got on our snorkeling gear and waded around for twenty minutes. The ClownFish (orange, large) were watching their homes very closely and kept darting up at me and swimming back into their houses, like they really resented that I was threatening their property. And like they could really do anything if I decided to invade it! The sea urchins were really far down, and really scary. They were gigantic!! But then again, there was no way I could have hit one if I even tried.
One early morning, we all took a boat and went around and around and around, in the middle of nowhere, miles from the island. We were attempting to find dolphins. After about an hour or so of going around in futile circles, a small bangka called us over: they had found the dolphins! They rushed the boats over, and we chased the dolphins around. At one point, we were almost surrounded by dolphins. We didn't get to swim with them, but they got pretty close -- a pair got as close as twenty feet off the starboard side. They're really friendly -- a few of the smaller, younger upstart dolphins were even putting on a show, with somersaults and backflips and stuff. Super cool.
The only frustrating thing from the entire weekend is taking a glance at your camera and realizing that you forgot to advance a roll of film that you had previously mid-roll-rewound. Grrr... I did have one (count it: one) consolation, and that is that I got one good picture while we were dolphin-watching. Now, first realize that taking pictures during a dolphin watching session makes your roll look like this: dagat, dagat, dagat, dagat, dagat, dagat, dagat, dagat, fin, dagat, dagat, dagat, frothing sea water, dagat, dagat, dagat, dagat, and then you get one picture like this:
One Happy happy joy joy picture. And it's not even as clear as I would have loved. Sigh. But still. I got. it. :-) !
In case anyone has any doubts as to whether or not we were working, I would like to put those doubts to rest right now:
view the gallery here
It was a lot of fun.
Bohol is probably the best kept secret of beautiful places to stay. I mean, honestly, there is nothing modern about it. No e-mail, no wifi, no internet, no cellphone signal, no restaurants open past 10pm, no bars (that I could see), no loud music, no smokers hanging out near the bar, no star movies, no star world, no espn ... nothing. There was also no traffic, no pollution, no crowds, no dirt on the beach, no fear of muggers, no stress from work, no pushy people, no noisy ditsy girls complaining about the weather. No complaints here. :-)
Seriously, we arrived in Bohol Beach Club on Sunday afternoon, and it was like we OWNED the place! We had little cottages that opened up to the beach -- a very long expanse of white sand, not as fine as Boracay, but a lot more beach to work with. The beach itself was "littered" with tall coconut trees, evenly spaced and decorated with hammocks here and there.
The beach itself is very clean, and, for about thirty feet in the water, from the beach outwards, there's nothing but white sand and star fish. Thousands of starfish! After that, it gets a little scary, with sea urchins here and there. Then there's coral and sea weed.
We took out a glass bottom boat to see what was down there. It was so cool! (More) star fish, blue, white, orange, brown, yellow. Hundreds of fish in schools and houses and sea cucumbers and corals and ... it basically felt like you fell into the set of Finding Nemo. hehe. The most amazing thing was that you could see straight down to the bottom of the sea, even though it was about 15 feet deep.
We promptly got on our snorkeling gear and waded around for twenty minutes. The ClownFish (orange, large) were watching their homes very closely and kept darting up at me and swimming back into their houses, like they really resented that I was threatening their property. And like they could really do anything if I decided to invade it! The sea urchins were really far down, and really scary. They were gigantic!! But then again, there was no way I could have hit one if I even tried.
One early morning, we all took a boat and went around and around and around, in the middle of nowhere, miles from the island. We were attempting to find dolphins. After about an hour or so of going around in futile circles, a small bangka called us over: they had found the dolphins! They rushed the boats over, and we chased the dolphins around. At one point, we were almost surrounded by dolphins. We didn't get to swim with them, but they got pretty close -- a pair got as close as twenty feet off the starboard side. They're really friendly -- a few of the smaller, younger upstart dolphins were even putting on a show, with somersaults and backflips and stuff. Super cool.
The only frustrating thing from the entire weekend is taking a glance at your camera and realizing that you forgot to advance a roll of film that you had previously mid-roll-rewound. Grrr... I did have one (count it: one) consolation, and that is that I got one good picture while we were dolphin-watching. Now, first realize that taking pictures during a dolphin watching session makes your roll look like this: dagat, dagat, dagat, dagat, dagat, dagat, dagat, dagat, fin, dagat, dagat, dagat, frothing sea water, dagat, dagat, dagat, dagat, and then you get one picture like this:
One Happy happy joy joy picture. And it's not even as clear as I would have loved. Sigh. But still. I got. it. :-) !
