TAN TAN TA NA NAN... NEW YORK, NEW YOOOOORK!
Ok, so I know Thanksgiving is still a couple of months away, but vacations always need to be planned. (Even if they're always subject to change, but that's besides the point..)
Anyways, I'll be taking a weeklong break... I'm going to New York! Yey! Really, I'm so excited. My friends and I might also stop by some other cities in the eastern corridor (Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia?).. I've bought my plane ticket but still need to make hotel reservations (which we haven't finalized because we have to close on our itinerary). For sure we'll do the touristy stuff in NY. And watch a musical or two (Les Miz and/or Beauty and the Beast). But the rest we have to figure out. Any suggestions on the lodging and places/things to check out?
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Forwarded email: 30 Signs that you're working too hard (yeah, i can so relate... even if di halata sa blog ko! ;))
1. You ask the waiter what the restaurant's core competencies are.
2. You decide to re-org your family into a "team-based organization."
3. You refer to dating as test marketing.
4. You can spell "paradigm."
5. You actually know what a paradigm is.
6. You understand your airline's fare structure.
7. You write executive summaries on your love letters.
8. Your Valentine's Day cards have bullet points.
9. You think that it's actually efficient to write a ten page presentation with six other people you don't know.
10. You celebrate your wedding anniversary by conducting a performance review.
11. You believe you never have any problems in your life, just "issues" and "improvement opportunities."
12. You calculate your own personal cost of capital.
13. You explain to your bank manager you prefer to think of yourself as "highly leveraged" as opposed to "in debt."
14. You end every argument by saying "let's talk about this offline".
15. You can explain to somebody the difference between "re-engineering, "down-sizing," "right-sizing," and "firing people's asses."
16. You actually believe your explanation in Number 15.
17. You talk to the waiter about process flow when dinner arrives late.
18. You talk to department store personnel about improving their turnaround time.
19. You refer to your previous life as "my sunk cost."
20. You refer to your significant other as "my co-CEO."
21. You like both types of sandwiches: ham and turkey.
22. You start to feel sorry for Dilbert's boss.
23. You believe the best tables and graphs take an hour to comprehend.
24. You account for your tuition as a capital expenditure instead of an expense.
25. You insist that you do some more market research before you and your spouse produce another child.
26. At your last family reunion, you wanted to have an emergency meeting about their brand equity.
27. Your "deliverable" for Sunday evening is clean laundry and paid bills.
28. You use the term "value-added" without falling down laughing.
29. You ask the car salesman if the car comes with a whiteboard and Internet connection.
30. You give constructive feedback to your dog.