PJ Bacolod – Tales of a Tech Shark

Category: Personal Stories & Reflections

  • White Hot Heat

    Congratulations to the Miami Heat, 2006 NBA Champions! 🏀🔥 Honestly, with both teams being among my favorites (along with Phoenix), I couldn’t lose either way. But I did lean Miami’s way. I wanted to see veterans like Payton, Mourning, Williams, Walker, and Anderson finally get their rings. They deserved it, and truthfully, they should have…

  • Budgeting the Cost of Fuel

    I find myself constantly reaching for a calculator to crunch the numbers on how much it actually costs to drive to work and back. Weekends, I’m in Manila with my family; weekdays, I’m up in Clark, a good hundred-plus kilometers away. Right now, with gas prices and tolls where they are, the commute runs me about…

  • Remembering Bulldog 252

    March 16, 1983: I remember that evening with striking clarity. My mom pulled up in our Mustang, the engine roaring louder than usual, as if the car itself carried the weight of the news. She was crying uncontrollably while trying to say the words: My dad, a fighter pilot, had been declared missing in action.…

  • Top Management

    Top Management

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    I had my baptism of fire. Today was my first day as part of senior management, and it started with a bang.  That being said, the Spidey fan in me affirms my childhood hero’s bitter pill: “With great power comes great responsibility..”

  • Heartbeat

    They beat to circulate blood. The rhythmic beating tells us that we’re alive. It beats faster when you’re in love, and it stops when you’re in despair.  I heard hearts beat yesterday afternoon. I heard three hearts to be exact. I heard a mother’s, and her child’s, and the third one? It was beating a…