kite season

it’s summer on an april fool’s yesterday!

a season for playing, enjoying and bein carefree like crazy.  playing with kites reminiscing my childhood days inside the training camp in silang cavite (formerly pc tracom) was a heartwarming thought.  it is so nice to watch a thing you labored and designed intricately with visuals and specially sound (i forgot the humming thing nene screetched off on the bamboo strips on the rear of the kite to force a humming sound on the gliding wind) fly high that you could hardly see the intricacy!

one of our team member, lorenzo “nene” juarez is a master craftsman of competition kites.  it’s not a competition for aesthetics but a competition for kite wars!  cut off the competiting kite’s lines with your line and the power of a 1-2 meter wide kite handled by two adult people atleast.  he is popular on this and people come to their home to be built one.

i was reflecting that i should also change seasons now.  i should be a kite!  i should learn to fly.  i should learn to stop crafting the aesthetics of my laurels by flying high and let go so  that it could be hardly seen.  by flying high, instead of observer’s seeing me i see the vast emptiness of the lord’s plan for me.  vast emptiness for growth.  for seeing beyond my fields and shores.  for seeing life in a brand new light, from a kite’s eye view!  for never worrying that my life will be cutted of by wind pressure the more i fly high!  the more i let go, the more i’ll lose control but i’ll be more near the sky as most of the intricately designed kites wants too.

im complicating my life as iva said.  im adding more designs to the kite that adds weight for flying since i still feel that i can but common sense dictates to fly light with only the necessary things.  i have a light and strong line for control that im so lucky to have as she said that i don’t know it (perhaps what she meant was appreciate.hehehe)!

attacked on both flanks

excitement is getting into my nerves!

i am being attacked by two different competitors on my accuplay internet cafe and accuclear water processing at the same time.  when im attacked at separate times in one business segment, i can usually fend off compet1t1on with more flexibilities.  flexibilities coming from the cash flows of my other businesses that are not attacked to support a sudden shift on my attacked business.  i have the luxury of time to watch their moves and counter-attack with so much force even to a point where they will eat all their moves back.  “play with their minds not on the board”, my chess mentor always say.  i’ll admit that they are getting into my mind since they made a business stance that is based from mine.  on the left flank of my internet cafe, the owner is a good client of ours who i sometimes talk about the strategies that i have in mind.  things like cash cycle, costing, shock marketing, differentiation and a lot of other things.  i guess she tempts my key staff to be in their boat.  on the right flank of my water processing biz, the owner got the consultancy sevices of one of the key people i also share ideas regaring stategy on water.  ofcourse this is the greatest complement a biz person can get, being copied simultaneously on two different fields!whahahahah

its like im playing with myself at a simultaneous game attack from two different camps.  i am forced to think of strategies which could defeat my own!hehehe its ok.  its what i want in life.  excitement!  “kid kicking people’s ass”, my mind says!  sige, i’ll use my chess learnings again.

in chess, when you are attacked at both corners.  it is not advisable to defend both.  it is also not advisable to defend on one side because it might only be a diversionary tactic.  the key here is to control the “center”.  battling fire with fire!  the only difference is in chess, i play with a single person who might “over extend” his capacity on both flanks.  in this case i’m playing with two separate companies that has different stashes of resources.  i wished that my accudish satellite tv was not delayed.  it could have been in perfect timing.  i could price them below the belt for 2 solid years getting all of the funds to support it from my satellite tv business.  that could have been the “center push” that i need!  its rescheduled at april 15 and maybe just in time where my new competitors would start.  i would have wished a 1-2 month ahead time for these.

readers, please recommend a strategy to handle these exciting threats.

thank you!