I’d like to share what the boys did the other day. Meet Fakundo (not his real name), the latest recruit of the Cullens. His talent? X-Ray vision.
Now, the serious stuff.
What Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo wrote in their book “He’s Just Not That Into You” were the same things your grandmother from the Titanic era would have told you about boys. Nothing really new. In fact, you might be in for a little surprise. Those small rational voices in your head apparently talk sense, if you only know how to listen.
Here’s basically what the book is trying to tell women whose minds were muddled by mixed emotions and endless guy interpretations. If the guy does not do anything to declare his affection, stop obsessing about him. He’s just simply into himself, and not so into you. If a guy thinks you are the one, nothing can stop him from moving the universe to make sure you both end up together. Unless, of course, you respond in his favor, or not. You have the power to decide who stays in your life, and who to annihilate.
Men are never hard to decipher, if only women exercise the use of their brains and avoid getting swept away by tides of emotions. However, I do not advise jumping into the bed with a guy to run a compatibility test. That leaves you in a more vulnerable situation. The bed should never be an option to settle relational issues.
Now you get the idea what the whole book hype is all about. If you’re still single, don’t lose heart. I don’t. I believe in a greater calling. What I mean is the men we are bound to end with are simply out there busy with a lot of things. When the time comes you meet him, that could only mean one thing: He’s ready.
I was casually clicking through my Friendster and Facebook pages when I decided to run random email checks to search my cousin’s account. And I was not disappointed. I spotted her page in Friendster, all photos published in public.
These are my nieces Clara and Bianca. In the span of 4 months since I left London in December 2007, they have grown up pretty fast. The last time we were together, Clara was still learning how to walk after she mastered climbing the stairs. Bianca was still a four-year-old kid who I regularly walk to school rain or shine. (Mostly rain.)
I miss the things we did together. Like watching Johnny and the Sprites at six in the morning, Mickey Mouse Playhouse at seven and Doodlebops at eight. I remember those bright cold sunny days when played at the lawn hoping for more sun than rains. (That was weird coming from someone who abhors any form of sunlight back in Manila. Ha ha.) It was totally a 180-degree turnaround from my too independent Manila lifestyle that made me realize something. Motherhood does not come in the form of a membership card even if you sign up for one. It is a gift not all us women can have.
While the black swan is swimming, there are also golden parachutes flying.
A colleague told me during a coffee break how the US federal funds were supposed to be distributed among the world’s most ailing banks. I have not read the news for weeks. So I was surprised to hear that while Americans worry about job security, these bank executives were trying to reserve their slots on the $900Bn something bailout fund. Imagine just one person enjoying an enormous compensation package that can already feed hundreds of their employees and could still afford them Vegas vacations:
Bank of America: Kenneth D. Lewis (Chairman and CEO) – $24.8 million
Bank of America: Joe L. Price (Chief Financial Officer) – $6.5 million
Bank of America: Amy Woods Brinkley (Global Risk Executive) – $9.3 million
Bank of America: Barbara J. Desoer (Global Technology and Operations Executive) – $10.5 million
Bank of America: Liam E. McGee (President Global Consumer and Small Business Banking) – $12.2 million
Bank of America: Brian T. Moynihan (President of Global Corporate and Investment Banking) – $10.1 million
Bank of America: R. Eugene Taylor (Former Vice Chairman and Former President, Global Corporate and Investment Banking) – $3.3 million
Citigroup: Sir Winfried Bischoff (Chairman) – $6.1 million
Citigroup: Vikram Pandit (CEO) – $573,813
Citigroup: Gary Crittenden (Chief Financial Officer) – $19.4 million
Citigroup: Sallie Krawcheck (Chair and CEO—GWM) - $7.1 million
Citigroup: Lewis Kaden (Vice Chairman) – $6.8 million
Citigroup: Michael Klein (CEO- Global Banking) - $7.9 million
Citigroup: Stephen Volk (Vice Chairman) – $7.6 million
Citigroup: Charles Prince (Former Chairman and CEO) – $15.1 million
Goldman Sachs: Lloyd C. Blankfein (Chairman and CEO) – $70.3 million
Goldman Sachs: Gary D. Cohn (President and Chief Operating Officer) – $72.5 million
Goldman Sachs: Jon Winkelried (President and Chief Operating Officer) – $71.5 million
Goldman Sachs: David A. Viniar (Chief Financial Officer) – $58.5 million
Goldman Sachs: Edward C. Forst (Chief Administrative Officer) – $49.1 million
Source: Company proxy statements for 2007.
They have messed up the world’s economy. Why should they be rewarded with taxpayers money? Let go of those creeps.
