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#08 Eight Hours:

“One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours—all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.”
—William Faulkner, interview in Writers at Work, 1958

#05 Slaves:

“I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables—slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war . . . our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
—Fight Club, 1999

#01 Cubicle:

“We don’t have a lot of time on this earth! We weren’t meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.”
—Office Space, 1999

(Via)

From Owen:

I just reached my limit last weekend, and decided to take action against the abusive MMDA enforcers. I basically called up the MMDA head office and inquired from the Personnel Officer, Antonio Pagulayan, to clarify their policies. Here is what I got.

If any of these abuses seem familiar to you, Mr. Pagulayan has asked that you call either the MMDA hotline (136) or call the METRO BASE at 0920 9389861 or 0920 9389875 and ask for an Inspectorate. They will send inspectors to the place where these MMDA officers are extorting, even while you are arguing out of your apprehension.

1.MMDA officers are not allowed to group together in order to apprehend. They are not even allowed to stand together in groups of 2 or more. The only time they are allowed to work together is for special operations (probably when they apprehend groups of buses for smoke belching)

2. Swerving IS NOT a traffic violation. Moving one lane to the left or right is not swerving, no matter where on the road you do it. And it is even less of a violation when you do it with a signal. Swerving is defined as shifting 2 or more lanes very quickly. So you can argue your way out of this, and call the Metro Base for help.

3. Sadly, using the yellow lane is a traffic violation and will get you a ticket. However, buses are really not allowed to go out of the yellow lane, so if you see selective apprehension of private cars only, you may complain.

4. MMDA has confirmed that your license MAY NOT BE CONFISCATED at a traffic apprehension. The only time they can do so is if you are part of an accident, or it is your third violation and you have not settled your fines yet. They are only allowed to give you a ticket, which you can contest. He recommends actually receiving the ticket in some instances, so that you can report the officer who did it.

5. Also, you are free to ask any of these officers for their “mission order”, which is written by their supervisor. If they apprehend you for a violation that is not in their mission order for the day, you can report them and they will receive disciplinary action.

So go out and fight for your rights if and when the occasion arises!

TIP: Print and keep a copy of this email in your car for future reference

iGoogle/Tarot.com:

It’s up to you to find new ways to do the same old things now that the Moon is in your 6th House of Familiar Routine. Your habits have become a bit stale, so it’s certainly time to spice them up. Although you may be rather cautious now, don’t be afraid to try something different. Paradoxically, you can make your life more enjoyable and more stable by breaking up the stuck patterns.

My Yahoo!:

In the morning, you may have trouble discerning whether events you remember happened just yesterday or in your oddly realistic dreams. Take this as a sign you need more relaxing sleep, and laugh off any errors.

FemaleNetwork.com:

Happy Birthday! The Sun alights on your sign today and you are ready to spring into action. It seems as though all the energy and action is immediate and in your face. Think you have a good idea of who you are? Wonderful! Let everyone know. Today you can present yourself favorably to any opposition towards your opinions, gaining admiration at the same time. Assert yourself anew!

From Mia, which I can totally relate to:

And I found I couldn’t stand the company of people with whom I used to have fun. They were young, brave, uncaring, light and wild with all the cruelty of youth. Watching them used to amuse me. Then I changed and it began to hurt, all those shallow emotions and superficial ties that are forgotten even before they’re cut. I couldn’t be with them anymore because I saw too much, and it was petty and mean and like acid against my soul.

I don’t know if it was the same thing I’m thinking of, considering we’ve spent much of our childhood together, in the same neighborhood.