About Coffee & Weekend's Highs

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old University lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said:"If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups." "Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change." "Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.

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I'm learning to appreciate that cup of coffee in various forms and shapes like this dinner date with Lanye, Mel and his gf. The Fort was a re-discovery with displays of dinasaurs and an intimate line of restaurants. We settled down at Pier One and caught up with lots of stuffs. As I chatted with my friends, I have a feeling that slowly, they're also re-discovering the simple joys of life and the responsibilities that we face in this world. Oh, by the way, thanks Mel for letting me stay in your place for the night.

Weekend's Highs:

1. Safely landing back to Tokyo after a couple of incoveniences at the PH immigration office.
2. Visit with T to the new house.
3. Beautiful orange sunset view over the horizon, over T's windows. The best things in life indeed are free!
4. Physical exercise - basketball (T's friends are gentlemen) & badminton (training for T)