Lessons learned...

The past two weeks have been very hectic. With two servers suddenly acting up, it's finally become a system administrator/operator job for me. Granted that solutions have been done quite rapidly and the effect of losing an important service was not as crippling, it was still a bit hard. It was a bitter pill to swallow but I believe that many lessons were learned in that ordeal.
The first lesson learned was that you can't always get what you want. Things can't always be hokey-dorey. Something, sometime will go wrong. It is how we act when they do that will define us and test our mettle. I hate losing and I don't like quitting but I think that I was prepared to face these challenges even before I came across them. This would allow me to figure things out on the fly and just make things better.
The second lesson learned was that you can't please everyone. Try as you might to get things up and running and to get things towards a more promising and more stable thing, there will always be someone who will want more. I suppose that is just human nature. Still, it doesn't really help in the stress-relief department.
The third lesson learned was that rice is the future of the Philippines. If the Philippines would invest more in the development of rice, I believe that they would become very prosperous. Why? I gave some suman and some bibingka to my co-workers and they loved it. It was all because of the presentation and the rice. So, all that was needed was some hard work and some rice and that would lead to a brighter tomorrow. Hell, it might even lead to independence from oil if we work at it.
I was talking to my younger brother and telling him how tired I was because I would come home and do chores for my family and for my grandparents. Occassionally, I would e-mail or write something for a friend. He said I had to cut someone out. I thought that to be ridiculous. I often find myself more surprised about my weaknesses than my strengths. I think that it doesn't matter if I tire myself out. That only means I sleep more soundly at night.