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)!

oddest of ideas

as i was thinking this evening sa lawn, i can’t explain my feelings.  perhaps i’m more disillusioned, happy, sad, thankful and amazed of how things are just coming in connection.  i feel like i’m playing a level 21 game of tetris where all of my choices just fit in perfectly (with no logical time for thinking despite crushing pressure).  things are becoming second nature to me and im eye-popped, “how can this be statistically possible?”.

after four years of waiting, our satellite tv project is just unfolding to reality in slow motion of absolute joy!  despite the problems things just fit in perfectly.

1.  i came to know this very artistic internationally trained architect who has the highest CQs (creativity quotient) of all the persons i know in my appreciation.  his creativity transcends beyond visual arts, structural forms, interiors and some wild imaginations of concepts of lines and curves.  i enjoy having coffee with him (most of the time he pays even if its my pleasure..hehehe)!  specifically, i enjoy his imagination in taking worthless pieces of things to look like things of magnified real value.  his treatment of cement and marble, ordinary flush door with glass and a lot of other things.  things you wouldn’t think that only cost this much.  he is ingeniously creative which amazingly shifts my perceptions of value.

and should i say, he is designing our satellite tv shop and some drawing for the vendo?

“ecstatic me”,  i said!

2.  we have a long waiting project of fabricating water vendo machine (we have existing prototypes).  we are however afraid to move on even if we have the knowledge and technology because we dont have the money for it to run properly.  we need to get IPO (intellectual property office) documents for it that would need two years of court hearings on the special court for IPO (i guess we would spend 2M for all the IPO grants, patents, requirements and permits).  all of which are preoperating expenses (luckily pre operating expenses can be amortized)!

our solution?  once our satellite tv project (which could sell 4-6M a month) runs, i’ll risk it all without waiting for the 2-year registration process.  we will do it simultaneously and risk court suits (which i think is just a 40% probability since by deductive reasoning i know that they don’t have the IP).  risking will allow us to place vendos inside malls.  i think we could sell 2400 80z dispensed water per machine.  at 2 pesos per glass that’s 4,800 per machine.  maybe two in the foodourt, two on both back entryways for the stairs, 1 on each floor and 1 on the supermarket.  we’ll have 6 performing assets at 28,800 pieces of 1 peso coins per mall per day at 90% gross profit margin!  water can’t cost 1200 and operating expense wouldnt be over 1800 on a daily basis.  one peso coins?  imagine?  i don’t even plan to make my staff manually count it!  kilohon lang (prob is hindi magba-to ang bangko sang kilohay)!whahahahaha

additonally it is controlled by a PLC (process logic controller) that is connected to an SMS messenger output.  the PLC will interpret the sensors service requests (sensors like TDS meter, low level float swithes, height sensors, weight sensors..i can’t even imagine how was it possible to think of these)  and will send the interpretaion thru SMS (short messenging service or text as oftenly called).  service requests like 25% water level, full coin box, auto-off when someone purposely squeeze in a contaminant and other operational management application that is imaginable to the human mind!  also the machine can receive and interpret commands from sms syntaxes (feeling inventor na gd ang buang!  pati ah..assembly lang ni of readily available modules on the net)

i’m ecstatic on this nitrous spraying moments.  however i am also sad.  with these, i feel that i’m tempted to cross the darkside.  success will allow me to have disposable income of unimaginable proportions.  this could make me afford the best chics in town on a daily basis (i saw that a 10,000 peso chic is drop dead gorgeous, wavy haired, tall, sophistcated with words and sexy!  with no strings attached pa!), get all of the gadgets i need for beyond your comprehension things i so dreamed when i was young, make me more proud and not step on ground, it could allow me to shift opinions of right and wrong together with the opinions of those near me and a lot of other darkside things.

i hope that i can and will still do the right things despite of the tempts and odds.

i can compare the feeling with my early speed chess days where i am amazed that my hand-mind coordination is faster than my eye!  we can finish off in 10 seconds a 30-move 2-bishop ending!  i guess my mind moves my hands without my eye seeing!  ofcourse gnapajogging kami upod sang football team to have less flabby weight for faster hands, we are given the right vitamins and i’m allowed to see my crush without striking a conversation (to increase the killer instinct mindset)!hehehe

thinking like a child

our school system tends to prevent us from “thinking like a child”!  artists would often hold art workshops not only for the purpose of teaching kids the love for the arts but to be also amazed with kid’s artworks that is beyond societal inhibitions!  a great influence for an entirely different set of artworks for an art show.

same with business, our school system make us believe that a lot of concepts are impossible.  parang impossibility is the only possibility.  parang if you hear of specualative business concepts people will tend to shrug it off and line delineating words of non-acceptance.  if you make it they’ll buy a book from you!  ofcourse one of the favorite lines i read, “entrepreneurs write the experience in a book, while employee-types love to read the hard experiences and propagate the book without acting”.  perhaps its true.  perhaps we are so wired with impossibilities in our educational system that we have automatic-eject mechanisms when we hear of speculative things.  And will only flip acceptance if we see real results.  to think ideas are of the same value when it was just on “plant stage” and “reap stage”, however the “plant stage” is more exciting!

i’ll write some seemingly impossible things i did in the past 4 months and i will do in the following 4 months.

 1.  converting a 20-peso (5 for the sack and 15 for the scrapper) bag of thrash to a 180,000 – 350,000 worth artpiece (see accumosaic.com).  look at the photo of the entry st. anthony public art commission.

2.  have revenues of 4-6M per store per month (opening apr 15 2007) from satellite tv equipments and subscriptions sales, after-sales support, spareparts and people service with only 200,000 in capital!  any cpa would think that its 1:240 equity to sales ratio.  a very risky proposition if not impossible! (note: 4 years to process an approval for this business concept inside sm malls and good reputation from creditors)

3.  sell 20,000 peso worth of water a day with 95% gross profit ratio per sm mall!  how to do that?  10,000 8oz of water per sm mall at 2 pesos per glass!  4 vendos.  use sm’s glasses sa foodcourt para water and electricity lang ang cost.  (note: we are building this vendos ourselves!)

please share a lot of impossible things that you would flip into the realm of possibilities.