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Daddy to Bella the Explora 🐕

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Bella seems to think it’s still Halloween 👻 🎃 🐶

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@PasigInfo

Bakit bawal ang mga matatangkad sa walkway bridge sa C5 near Arcovia / Converge?

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@fopminui @PicturesFoIder Answer- it was a cat-apult

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@ANCALERTS @lcmlaw_ph Exactly!

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@MMDA Can you issue a memorandum that all vehicles involved in minor accidents should be cleared from the road within 5 minutes? There shouldn’t be a need for MMDA or police to file an official report. Insurance companies shouldn’t require it. It causes massive jams

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@HumansNoContext That kid grew up to be Mr. Bean

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@crazyclipsonly After quitting Home Depot, he lightens up and is now known as Weird Al

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@ricci_richy @George022222 Free exposure daw. No need to spend on ad campaign 😛

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

JAMIE LEE CURTIS explaining why she skipped the Oscar nominees dinner.

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@cnnphilippines Love the Philippines. Hate the slogan

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@ANCALERTS However you choose to seed it, whether from state owned banks, dividends from state owned corporations, or proceeds from sale of state assets, it is the same. You are taking the people’s money and speculating with it. That is not your mandate.

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@unionbankph your app is offline since yesterday… No public advisory? no email to customers?

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@ZackBornstein @thatbilloakley The next course of your meal is served after a week of waiting…

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@franciscaigaa_ @paulcatiang @QCGov Buti pa ang @QCGov nakikinig
si @PasigInfo hindi. We have to endure daily barrage of honking cars coz they refuse to place a right turn traffic light on Lanuza corner C5

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@MikeSington That belt buckle is a dangerous weapon. It looks like it’s about to snap and could kill on impact.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1997, at the age of 27, Matt Damon won his first Academy Award for Best Screenplay ("Good Will Hunting").

After Damon won the Oscar, he went home, sat down on his sofa, & looked at the award.

As he looked at it, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a heartbreaking thought.

"Imagine chasing that, and not getting it, and getting it finally in your 80s or your 90s with all of life behind you and realizing what an unbelievable waste of your life...It can't fill you up. If that's a hole that you have, that won't fill it."

"My heart broke," Damon said. "I imagined another one of me [not getting that award until I was] an old man, and going like, 'oh my god. where did my life go? What have I done?' And then it's over."

Takeaway 1:

Many successful, rich, famous, etc. people talk about chasing success, money, fame, etc., getting it, and realizing that it didn't feel like they thought it would. That it didn't, as Damon said, fill the hole they had.

One of my favorite analogies for this pattern comes from Sam Hinkie.

Hinkie was asked about what he's learned from reading Robert Caro's books—about some very successful, rich, famous, etc. people.

"I think of it like the Pacific Salmon," Hinkie said. "They spend their whole life making this journey upstream to spawn in this one spot. And as soon as they do, they die. That's largely what Caro shows you."

Takeaway 2:

Before he was a big-time comedian, Hasan Minhaj was asked if he thought he was going to become a big-time comedian.

“I don’t like that question,” he said. “I fundamentally don’t like that question.”

Because that question implies that he is only doing comedy as a means to some end (success, money, fame, etc.).

“No, no, no,” he said, “The set I get to do tonight at 7:20 PM is the win. I get to do comedy—I won. It being predicated on doing X or being bigger than Y—no, no, no. To me, it’s always just been about the work."

"The work is the win," as Ryan Holiday once told me.

- - -

"It's such a gift to be able to [do] something and to love it for the sake of it...I see people with talent, with all those things. But the one thing they don't have is just that love for doing it for the sake of it...So if there's anything, just find joy in what you do for the sake of it." — Rodney Mullen

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@lilyoftheveil17 I wanna feel what love is. I know you can show me.

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@OTerrifying Hoping I’ll wake up asap from the nightmare 😱

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@inquirerdotnet If they can’t get away from tradition, then there is no choice but to dissolve and ban the fraternity. He is essentially saying it will happen again and again

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@tonyocruz it’s not an ambush, it’s a massacre 😱

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

If you're having a bad day, here's Charlie Brown meeting Snoopy for the first time, 1950