My mind. Enhanced.

My sister gave birth to handsome baby boy today. She named him Joshua. It's Hebrew for salvation. Very appropriate. The first half Chinese born Hidalgo. The first of my father's grandchildren. The first born of a new generation who will continue our legacy and usher in a new era of grace and prosperity. So much promise. So much potential. Our salvation is born.

Its father's day. After some deliberation I decided to open the shed and look for some of dad's tools. I found some electronic testing equipment, some diodes, transistors, and other electrical components. So, I'm embracing my electrical engineering genes and realizing there is much I've inherited. Much knowledge to bring out, and much to further develop to the next phase of my individual evolution.

We are often called to find reason for phenomena that happen in our everyday lives. Events that occur are just events. We leave it up to our brain to process those events and find a logical explanation to them. There is a reason for everything. For direction in academics, change in career or choice in significant others. It is reason that leads us, it is reason that keeps us committed. Commitment (to an idea) is nothing more than a devotion to right reasoning. Falling out of commitment is not necessarily lack of devotion to that idea but perhaps a change in reasoning to pursue another type of commitment. Whatever that may be.

We all make choices in life; sometimes they are good choices and sometimes they are bad. But what if there wasn't a good or bad choice. What if it was just a choice made based on the current knowledge and logic known at the time. And what if it was something natural that happened that we had no control over.  Which leads me to question whether we have choice at all or is everything we do part of a larger predetermined plan working towards a goal for the greater good of all mankind?

This post is meant to portray a snapshot in my life, because I'm about to embark on new territory, a new life story and this entry will capture how I am thinking now so I can look back it in the future and remind myself why I made the decision back then, which is now. That being said, let's begin. It's a sunny afternoon and I spent the better part of my day in my bed napping and self-reflecting. I'm at a point in my life where I need to make some decisions, some pretty important ones, and they need to be calculated precisely for more desirable positive results. Or not. I've come to appreciate my brain for its good traits and bad traits. Good traits, being able to recognize patterns quickly and develop out of the box ideas that are cohesive and logical. Bad traits, like short term memory thinking. Forgetting where I put my keys, small errands, etc.  Appreciating my strengths and weaknesses helps me stay calm even if my plan isn't going according to way I origin...

An Aesop Fable once told the story of a crow... ... perishing with thirst, saw a pitcher, and, hoping to find water, flew to it with great delight. When he reached it, he discovered to his grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get at it. He tried everything he could think of to reach the water, but all his efforts were in vain. At last he collected as many stones as he could carry and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher, until he brought the water within his reach, and thus saved his life. The moral of the fable notes that necessity is the mother of invention . At work today, I wasn't content with my keyboard and the repetitive nature of copy pasting stuff for filing tickets. So, I downloaded AutoHotKey and scripted about 20% of my routine tasks, ie creating a ticket, copy pasting body of email, etc. The effort paid off, I haven't run any tests to quantify how much time I'm saving, but I am delighted everytime I use a hotk...

It was a sunny afternoon, dad and I were driving to the airport to pick Raymond up. I cant remember how we got into the conversation but dad reflected on some of the things he achieved during and after college. He told me about his dream once to complete his masters in robotics, he talked about some of his inventions, and his business ideas, and stuff he'd accomplished pre-Canada. The conversation was brief but it was enough for me to stick yet another fork in the road. And so, here I am now at the fork, aware of my purpose and my responsibilities being the first born son of my father.