WALL•E, Cookie & Life

So I'm sitting at Old Union instead of going back to work despite the 3 projects awaiting my attention. There's a few good reasons of course. So I better list them out before people start to think I'm a slacker.

1. Need to collect E145 exam paper at 5 pm PDT
2. Need to throw ball at 6 pm
3. Need to do Bizbuzz later at 9 pm, NOC Office

So there! 3 reasons and all good ones! And instead of working on my business case or reading up on Struts 2, I'm writing my blog. Heh. I guess this is a good time as any.

It has been a trying week and half. OAP submission, Facebook project, the finance monitoring and that whole database stuff. Not to mention a ruined Yosemite trip because some jackass thought that towing my car was appropriate. And of course, the flat battery. I'm still quite jumpy about my car, I tell you.

But this week is also a culmination of an entire quarter of a new life. A new world. A new school. New workplace. A new life. New friends and just a guy in a big city. And despite the ups and the downs(more downs), it has been crazy. I love my lessons in E145, with inspirational speakers, my team with Brad, Paul, Kirk and Huiling. I love the crazy NOC people, each with their own weird quirks and uniqueness. I even love my work though it's pretty crappy at times. As a self-proclaimed student of people, it has been a truly fascinating journey to see the interactions. And it has been a journey personally as well. Letting it loose a bit and understanding how a new society works and can be so different and yet familiar at the same time. Looking at the world differently. A world of hope and promise. Of dreams.

I was talking about my dream to visit Australia and see the stars once again. And along comes two things. My fortune cookie at yesterday's lunch says "Visit a faraway land that has been in your thoughts." and the story of a little robot called WALL•E.

Him and a million other little robots were put to clean up Earth after everyone left Earth covered in trash in the future and make it habitable again. But the cleanup failed with the exception of this little robot and he's left on Earth doing his duty all alone. But he has a glitch in his programming. He has feelings.

But it's not a story about science fiction. It's a love story, because, you see, WALL·E falls in love with EVE, a robot from a probe that comes down to check on Earth, and she's left there to check on and see how things are going and he absolutely falls in love with her.

So in the end, it’s gonna be WALL-E’s pursuit to win EVE’s heart, and his unique appreciation of life to become mankind’s last hope to rediscover its roots. In short, it’s going to take a robot's love to help make the world go round.

Maybe, we have lost sight of the world, passion and dreams and we just need something to remind us of it again.

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