“What’s seems to be the problem officer?” Well, son you’re speeding. You’re taking life too busy and you need to stop and take a quick break.

No kidding. I think I must have been too into work and other things that I haven’t had a good break for myself. I haven’t updated my site or my blog. I miss that May, the month of my birthday. And look, June is already over. It seems like it was just couple of weeks ago when we celebrated new year. For crying out loud, we are already in the middle of the year.

The STOP sign here is telling me to stop, not just to slow down. There are tons of things to do not just for career, school, and goals; there’s also the family, loved ones, and life.

I’ve been traveling a lot. Going to California and back. I have been immersed into work and other things in life. In the next few weeks I will be going back again to California and who knows how many trips in just these coming two months. I’m tired, but I am not complaining. I’m just taking a deep breath and exhaling all my whining.

Cheer up, I have few updates and more interesting blogs coming soon. I’m also going to start sharing cool pictures I’ve been wanting to share. So, see you soon!

It’s Wednesday and it is that day again where I have so many meetings. I woke up early as my meeting is 7 AM Pacific (9 AM my time, of course). I managed to get in the office around 8:30 AM. I went over my agenda for my meeting at 9 and at 11. All looked good. Meeting was on. Took longer than expected, but overall, it went pretty well.

I finished two, I have to sit with one my colleague from India between 12 - 1 PM. I have a meeting at 1 PM but I have to eat my lunch first. So I told him I would meet you after my 1PM meeting. So now that I am preparing for the next meeting, my colleague from California sent me an email. Here it what it contained:

Nice, ain’t it? I smiled and said, yeah that’s not really me, though, but hmm on the second thought, maybe?

For real, I have been busy and if I can skip these meetings, I would love to. I can’t now as I preside them. When I won’t be, I will skip all. Shhhh, don’t tell my boss…

Well, I gotta go, I have another meeting in fifteen minutes.

More than a year ago, I was in our house in Sacramento. While parking my car to the garage, this one sole rose is in the middle of all the the buds and leaves. Very captivating. One single pink flower in the middle of green bushes. So I was like, I should pick it and give it to my mom, since it was her birthday. I didn’t have the courage to do so. Yeah right. It is not ours. It is our neighbor’s. Although, occasionally, I know my mom would go there and sneak out to pick some. Uhmm, like I didn’t know.

I took a picture instead. I told my mom, “Happy Birthday” and that I will give her fresh one next time. Well, time flies so fast. It was again her birthday over the weekend. I’m half way across the nation so I just had to buy her flowers online. I still have the picture of the rose from last year. But she got way better than it this time around. And I’m glad she loved it.

I know, many times I always say that it is not the gift that matters. It is the thought. And for me that still holds true. To my mom, I may not tell you this everyday, but I think of it all the time - YOU ARE THE BEST.

Read also: ALL - poem inspired by my mom ten years ago.

I’ve been watching Science and Discovery channels lately and I like those shows like Invention Nation, Beyond Tomorrow, and even the How it’s made. During the course of time watching these shows, I began to really care “more” of our environment’s health and worried about what are its cause. It’s amazing how advanced our technology is going forward, yet as a consequence, our environment suffers.

Back in college I remember my Contemporary Arts class where we were asked to take one picture and discuss it in class. I had this picture of a Paradise and beside it, is a picture of a smog sky, high-rise buildings, and polluted creeks. My teacher gave us at least five minutes to talk about our chosen illustrations. Well, it took me just five seconds to talk about it. I just threw this one question, and everyone, including my professor, was impressed:

Why do men destroy what nature has built?

Ah, today we celebrate the Earth Day. We all should be participating in one way or another to celebrate Earth day by doing or contributing something to help the earth. Anything.

Last week, I got this email from our Facilities about “Dump the Pump, Ride the Bus”. So I told my boss that I am doing “Dump the Pump, Work from Home” today. It’s really environmental friendly I am convinced. By working from home today, I will be able to minimize combustible gas emissions, save gasoline, minimize use of electricity, and more. Hmm, of course, I still took shower this morning but decided it to be fairly short. And yep, my A/C is off, even though I live here in Texas. I have my windows and doors slightly open and I am using my traditional old fan - my hand with a card board. Wow, what a contribution. Believe me, I want to do it.

One of the things I have been wanting to do is to use the Green Bag when going out for grocery. So this weekend when I had my grocery at HEB, I got me at least three of those green bags. I love those. From this point on, I will be using those whenever I go for a grocery, anywhere.

According to the Facts about that bag, this bag is made of non-woven polypropylene, which is tough, strong, water resistant, and recyclable. It is the same type of material typically used for yogurt containers, syrup bottles, straws and medicine bottles.

And one more thing about that green bag, it is water and stain resistant. And yeah, I still have my groceries inside those as you can see them bulky.

Anyway, so today is Earth day, I hope that you also had done something for today. Have you?

I was serious. My eyes are fixed focused to my computer. My fingers are tapping my laptop’s keyboard. My brain’s mechanics and dynamics are busy burning energy in generating answers to the never-ending questions of the IT Security world. Someone came in the office but I didn’t pay much attention. He was talking to the other folks inside and then I heard him behind asking:

“How’s the new guy? Dexter!”

I stood up, shook his hand and in disagreement, I proclaimed; “Rex!”.

Embarrassed for a bit, he accepted, “Oh yeah, I was just talking to the new guy on the hallway and thought of Dexter..”

It was nice of him coming to check on me, I still appreciated it. So when he left, one of our network engineer was explaining something and he needed someone to concur with him, so he yelled, “Right, Dexter?”. Everybody laughed. Ha, I got a new name? Dexter?!

I told them, “I love blood” - trailing the TV show “Dexter” shown in ShowTime. Jokingly, they then asked me if I was gonna kill them, too. So I said, “Nah, not yet.”

Dexter, is drama TV series about a Miami-based serial killer who works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a blood pattern analyst. I watched it before when I had free ShowTime but didn’t finish it when my 3-month free expired.

So Dexter? Hmm, the name is cool, but I think I’ll stick with Zarex for now. I love my name.