MOVING ON

[I must have listened at least 3 times to this speech that it has got me into a lot of pondering on what will happen next; I'm reproducing it here for the sake of posterity. The speaker remains a powerful and emblematic symbol of what's wonderful, fantastic about changes, the variety that most of us would prefer to have, given tendencies of humans to think and work along the safe coasts of habits. The speaker has so far hurdled a way of thinking that most persons who performed the same role as that of him in his current position have failed to seize as the next critical step to more progressive directions of human development (at least to set as good examples for others to emulate and improve on). But we are always reminded that there are changes that are always difficult to endure. Set against the context of change as an inevitable part of life cycles, what the speaker emphasizes in this speech becomes more fascinating. It does not say much about what happened in the very ...

This is the complete video showing all three parts posted somewhere here, for those who may want to watch the whole recorded historical event from one material.

I was doing my tasks as Personal Assistant, (a part-time gig) when Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the US. The weather was in the higher 20s in NYC, but I noticed that it could have been colder in DC that day. I could have opted to join and be among the crowds in DC. A friend lives and works in DC, and she has her apartment but she was flying early morning the next day after the inauguration. It would have been far from convenient, so I chose to stay home and do my gigs as a freelancer. That day, I was asked to search for a website at the start of work, so that we could watch the proceedings in Washington,DC, which I found easily through the sites of ABC and CNN. However, when everyone in the house went downstairs to gather for the event towards noontime, the streaming down from internet was failing. We soon were in near panic, as we wanted to be there, be in the very moment while all these proceedings were taking place. But we could not view much from the small...