A World Of Its Own

I just finished Terry Pratchett’s during my vacation leave.
I must say, I’m getting hooked on his works.  It all started with
, which Ces lent me after …
Hm.  Come to think of it, it started with which was a collaboration between Terry and another author I’m taking well note of, Neil Gaiman.  Yeah.  I was actually into Gaiman then when someone (Ces, I would think), recommended to read Good Omens.  It was very very funny.  You can see that the storyline, characters were Gaiman-like.  The Pratchett semblances was limited to the dialogue, and of course, the hilarious footnotes.  Yep. 
The footnotes got to me, so I checked out his other works.  I chanced upon, and bought
, and that’s when Ces lent me Wee Free Men and
.  Anyway, for the long and short of it, I have read, aside from the previous titles,

,
and Making Money.  I must say that I am very very fascinated with Discworld.

Discworld is setting for the Pratchett books I’ve read.  The world is contained in a flat disc nesting on the shoulders of four gigantic elephants who stand on top of a giant space turtle, Atuna.  If that’s not a wild imagination, I don’t know what is.  There are several parallelisms between Discworld and Earth, which makes it all the more funny.  I’m starting to consider putting Lord Havelock Vetinari as one of my favorite fictional characters, alongside Darth Vader.  He’s the current Patrician of the city of Ankh-Morpork.  He has cool lines, especially when he’s looming on the sarcasm-veiled-threats side.  I wish I could have my own city I could rule with tyranny.  For now I’ll have to settle with my team, I guess.  It would really be nice if I could create a fictional world like this before I die, and from here, I guess the story can go on and on, limited only by my own imagination.  To come up with one original idea.  Hm.  That could be part of my “bucket list”.

* pictures taken from www.terrypratchettbooks.com

No Rest For The Working Man

I’m still tired.  I already went on a two-day vacation last Monday and Tuesday but I still feel used up.  Of course, the rest period without any contact from the office did some good.  I was able to organize my room, went to watch a movie, and most importantly, I got to sleep long.  Yep.  A few more hours of sleep can do wonders for me nowadays.  I can’t seem to get enough of it.  There’s no such thing as too much sleep, or too much vacation for me.

All of this I attribute to improper planning.  “Improper planning” here means I kinda advised my team members to file holiday vacation leaves early, resulting to me not being able to schedule mine, as my back-ups spread out at different days, so I need to be in the office so the team’s still fully-covered.  I got the usual public holidays.  And from then on until my scheduled leave last week, I was in the office.  I really can’t remember well, but I think this is the first time since I started working that I didn’t take advantage of the long holiday option, either before or after Christmas.  It’s not so bad, but due to the fact that I really am not that young anymore, I guess all the stress and effort is catching up on me.  Oh well.  It makes me think if I really should be working this hard to earn THAT much money, and if there really is no easier way to earn a decent upscale lifestyle.  Anyway, enough of that rant.  I don’t need to be reminded of THOSE especially now that my to-do lists can’t fit into one day of my Starbucks planner.  This year, I’m filing my holiday vacation early.  I wonder how much it would cost for me to relax in Bohol….