A Shipful of Gems from Jevie

Hi Mon,

Thanks for inviting me to join the blog.I was just busy starting an exploration project here in Indonesia after a day off in the Philippines. It is a real hectic schedule that I have to attend to. After completing the biggest 3D oil exploration project in Vietnam as a Consultant, I have to go back home to have a glimpse on my kids and my wife and here I go again on another job. But this time, it is a short job. I had to accept this job to fit my schedule for Christmas holidays and to enjoy a qaulity time with my kids and my wife on Christmas - hoping there will be no more emergency job which I could not refuse comes Christmas season. So hectic.

I just read the news headline yesterday stating "RP Inflation hits 12.5% in August". Oh no not another bad news. I might be lucky that I am steering my own ship very well on top of these inflations but I still have to worry on how others will steer their ships. I need to worry that other ships might bump on me and will destroy my ship or will I heed for the SOS call of my neighbouring sinking ships? I know I can steer my own ship but I know that I also have the social responsibility to rescue the other sinking ships. I know I can but I'd rather teach them how to build a better ships rather than getting them all aboard my ship for my ship might sink if overloaded. I believe in social reponsibility and I am a firm believer of education is a way out of poverty.

It is very apalling why the time I felt secured then that's time I start to be concerned on the economic woes of other people. Is it because of my belief that "No Man Is An Island" ? That regardless of how you are blessed we still need others to live and to share the resources that this world can offer?

When we were kids, I did no't have to worry much about my own small ship. Little knowledge, little worry and little concern and life was so simple. I am just satisfied of who I was and how poor I was as long as I survive the hardships. But despite the hard life, I was just so lucky and blessed to have friends and classmates who shared their blessings. I still remember when I was short of paper for a quiz and somebody just gave me what I needed. Yes, I remember the names who shared me writing pads. it was Grace and Marites - good Samaritans. If you do not remember me saying Thanks then let me say Thank you again. Those are very little things that until now I still do remember how blessed I was to have classmates like them. The sharing of bikes I mentioned before and the friendship regardless of our status. I am so lucky to have classmates like that. Thanks to their parents who taught them the morals of genorosity.

Those good deeds are still all inside of me that I learn how to give back to others the good deeds that was shown to me by my good classmates. It is not only reminiscing but it was also a learning experience from the past. I always believe that it is our past that made us who we are today.

So keep sharing .....

Cheers,
Jevie