Jump to content
  • Recently Browsing

    • No registered users viewing this page.

The Mail Box


Recommended Posts

Never forget this word of advice when you're either in a party or some social gathering:

 

"Never put your drink down, whether it's soda or alcohol. And if you do, you get a fresh one yourself, and you make sure you see that it comes from a closed bottle."

 

So many people have landed in problematic situations by failing to observe this rule. Ignore it at your own risk.

Link to comment

gee...

 

not because i am back here i will be stupid and a bad girl again...

i'll prove you wrong...

because with or without mtc...

if a person chooses to be bad or not...

they will...

though this maybe a way...

but still...

that's why we have our own free will to decide and make our own decisions...

don't blame me for going back here...

nor don't be mad...

if you me being here would make you furious again...

then, you really are not giving me any chance to change and stand on my own...

 

burn

Link to comment

I truly envy your job, my friend. The people you get to meet, the places you get to see, and the stories you get to write all fascinate me. You always remind me of one of my life's regrets. I could have been very good at it. But like a number of your peers, I could be dead too by now. In a way, I just have to settle on living that dream through you.

 

I'm glad you were able to turn a personal idea into one of your TV show's episodes a couple of months ago. Glad to be of help. I wish you always the best.

Edited by sklardrog
Link to comment

3 Sept,

 

If we strip away all the add-ons and all the clutter added to the basic logistical architecture over the decades, we slowly realise there lies an underlying organic pattern. Take a close look at the aerial shot of the 180 hectare site - then mentally remove all the facilities slowly accreted in bits and pieces over the decades. Notice how the original logistics designer actually built the central core using a "modular" concept, way before that buzzword was invented? We, whose main task is, in layman's terms, to expand the logistics capacity by a factor of 3 but given only the remaining 20% vacant space, will best accomplish this feat by simple logical extrapolation of the outlines and endpoints of his original design, and not by stubbornly attempting to shoehorn a completely new and independently patterned design awkwardly onto the remaining spaces.

 

Not only does the "extrapolated design" concept suddenly achieve the necessary compaction, we are also able to retain so much of the old facilities, and demolish only the recent add-ons put on by less comprehending later generation engineers. And by doing so, we also cut down capital costs by about 35% - such dear thoughts to a die-hard Ilocano. The hundreds of millions of moolah we save, some we will spend on Class I equipment and designs so new and so fresh, on inlet diffusers and schopentoeters and such like not yet used anywhere else in the world - we will be the first to have these.

 

We will build something beautiful.

 

The mind of the original designer reaches out across four decades and seven years, and perhaps from beyond his grave, and briefly touches mine. I have a powerful urge to send for the original crumbly paper blueprints, and run my fingers on his own scrawled signature on the design block. And to seek what other masterpieces he had built.

 

LC

Link to comment

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...