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Dress the Mistress Drink Recipe

• 2 parts Absolute Apeach
• 2 parts Lemonade
• A slice of Tomato
• Lime Wedge
• Grapes

Stir and and strain to a highball glass with ice cubes

recipe source: Absolut.com

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I’ve got moments that my self-esteem takes a nose dive down. The darn thing is like a chain reaction and suddenly I feel like I am unworthy of pretty much anything. Last night at the Swing Dance party I was keep losing the beats, sweating like crazy dancing with new follows ( ladies ), not having the guts to ask some of them to dance, or feeling horrible if my request was turned down. Which is silly, since in the swing community people are often so laid back that a request for dance rarely gets shut down.

I have been working on a set of copy writings for my new corporate website, and due to the lack of incubation time, I am having such a hard time putting words down. Time flies and I hate to write under the self appointed deadline I set few weeks ago.

I haven’t had the chance the chance to visit my family. I have talked to my mother few times. She called me just to see how I am doing, although I feel she is reaching out to talk to me about something. I miss her, I miss my dad, and my brother, and our cat Aristocrat who no longer recognizes me when I drop by.

I’ve realized that the self-esteem dive happens when I stretch myself thin over too many plans and projects. When I don’t spend enough quiet times re-charge my batteries and lose myself in thoughts. When I don’t pay enough attention to friends, and family members who love me, and proud of me.

I have a 9-5 job, I think I make one of the highest salaries for somebody in my field. I work most days of the week at home, and drive to Langley BC few days a week to attend meetings. Meetings are usually over things way too simple for someone in my field, but I get myself to be understanding and patience. I am a problem solver, a consultant, and love what I do.

But those long driving hours to Langley take sometime 4 hours a day specially on bad weather days. By the time I get home I am so exhausted that I fall sleep on the sofa with my clothes on, and by the way dinner is often served over the kitchen sink.

And one more thing, in the future ( I won’t be telling you when ) I will never ever want to work for a large corporation. Large corporations specially the sales and marketing oriented ones are the most unfriendly environment for software engineers, programmers, and analysts to work. All that stress, interruptions, and control, control, control, hierarchies of power, and more control. Protecting the status quo is a day-to-day operation in a large company. And interesting enough, being that big they don’t often deliver the best services and products! They just manage to take over the market using their large army of sales staff, and mind altering strategies developed by the Marketing department. It’s called Market Penetration, and in some nasty corporations i think it is consumer penetration. In a large company only the lack of adaptability to the rapid market trend changes can diminish their dominance.

NOTE: by this I am not criticizing my current full-time client they are very nice people actually, I am talking about the whole concept in general.

Anyhow, back to the self-esteem nose dive topic, I have noticed what works for me is to start working on small things that I am good at, and feel so proud with the results. Again it becomes a chain reaction but in a positive way.

Right now I am sitting in a cool coffee shop in commercial drive, people are dressed up in cool funky ways, I like the variety of looks and faces in this neighborhood. By the way, the coffee is really good. I am charging my batteries … both my laptop and myself. And looking at what this post has become, I think the writer in me, no matter how green and in-experienced, is finally coming out

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Joomla! Wins Again at UK LinuxWorld

I have recently joined the team of 25 developers who develop and debug Joomla! CMS. Working with the Joomla team has been great fun, and very educational I must say

You are so damn right that I feel so damn proud!

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Just heard on the AngryGeek podcast that initially there was a report that average age of people on MySpace are above 35. Then they slowly got suspicious that a lot of the kids that register to fake their information, specially their age.

I have often noticed that people on Flickr try to challenge the default registration interface, by either not using some of the fields, or enter wrong information in them. They actually put some right information about themselves inside the “Profile” text box where database cannot easily collect specific stats about people’s age, gender, or whether they are single or in a relationship. People know they are giving away information to big brother, or some large incorporation, so by producing NOISE in creative ways they challenge the integrity of the data they are providing.

I’ve always thought that one way to beat the RFID technology embedded in many of the future products, is that people create and spread lots of fake RFID tags which broadcast false information, in that way the correct information will be lost in the NOISE. It would be the matter of time and very easy for some tech savy people to start a cult of fake RFID producers, and I’m sure many will follow.

Do you think those kind of information have any value for the Marketing Agents who monitor and collect these kind of information on Social Networking website, or tagged products?

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I am getting rusty a bit. I promise once my new website rmd Studio Inc. is up, I’ll spend more time practicing.

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I have paid all my obligations to family, friends, Premier, and Joomla development team so far this week and now I am peacefully spending the time writing contents for my new website www.rmdStudio.com

Although I feel rusty a bit. At the moment writing for me is like when the blind and deaf Helen Keller was learning how to speak in several languages! But I’m sure the writer in me will come out soon. If I could teach myself to draw, photograph, program, and so many other things … I can learn to become a reasonably good writer too.

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Today is my Birthday. I am turning 32 today, or shall I say 20+12, or 25+7 … !

It’s been a great 32 years so far, and it will be a great next few hundred years as a result of what I will accomplish in this life.

I feel very happy

Rastin

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