"I have loved you for five thousand years."With that last line, Frank Herbert left me again -- this time with finality. Cheers to Brian Herbert and co-author Kevin J. Anderson for closing the original Dune series. I can finally move on.
I will forever marvel at the awesomeness of Herbert's works. Without a doubt, he and many others have made my stay in this world so imaginatively wonderful.
Indeed, great works live on.
And while I have yet to own any of his products, I'm sure Steve Jobs will be the stuff of legends in many years to come.
Such a wonderful time and age we live in. Thanks to visionaries like Jobs, the world is closer to the future as I dream it would be.
We're almost there. If life be kind, I still want to see flying cars, infinite, environment-friendly power source, thinking machines, biomechs, inter-galactic travel, solution to poverty and war, and maybe the cure to common cold.
I can only imagine how thrilling the times are to our parents' generation -- they who started out with typewriters and telegrams.
Awesome times, indeed.
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Speaking of parents, last September my mother celebrated her 65th birthday, and her retirement from the teaching profession after 44 years in service.
She is awesome -- always has been, and always will be.
It was a great weekend, and we are so proud of you, Mamidir!
2 comments:
Belated happy birthday to your mom! (akala mo naman kilala ako 'no?)
Haha thanks Cez. Makakarating. ^^ She would probably remember you (and Yodz) as the friends who called from overseas on my wedding day hee hee.
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