Not so recently, I and my college girlfriends had an overnight get together. Of course, living in the other side of the metro, Gracey and I were early at Aimz’s abode. When we arrived, she was still very busy preparing our feast which included penne carbonara, chicken roll, cheese sticks and crema de fruta. While she was busy in the kitchen, the television was playing Beauty and the Beast for the kiddos of her stay-out helper. And as she was cooking, she sang the songs from the movie.

That struck me.

I realized that Alex only knows the names of the princesses but she has not seen the movies, except for Tangled. What a shame!

So you already know what happened next right? I looked for a compilation of the princess movies and it is what I put on the player when Alex is in the mood for watching. Alex’s summer vacation will be about knowing and seeing the princesses! As for us, adults, it is a time to rekindle the stories we loved since then.

Maybe TECHIE is not the appropriate term as I am not the geeky-techie type. How would you say “someone who understands some techie stuff” in a term?

Remembering my college years, my friend, Teejay, would always tease me to shift courses from Business/IT to purely IT. He says my brain can be put to better use if I take up purely IT. But I was too chicken and the thought of having so many Math subjects scares me. (I did not know I will encounter worse in my Business/IT course as we were given five Accounting subjects!)

After college, my techie-know-how was slightly pushed on the side as I applied for a Technical Writer position in the same team where I had my internship. Gone are the days when I created use cases and rationalized databases. But I learned what computer viruses are, how to manually remove them, manually update an anti-virus protection and the likes. I gained technical-know-how for a certain brand. But now that I am no longer connected with that brand, I have nowhere to use that knowledge.

Which makes me think of studying again. Maybe I should start learning WordPress, which is the main tool I have been using for almost two years now. Maybe I should re-learn database and apply for a work-at-home position online. Maybe there are also companies outsourcing citrix monitoring to home-based people like me and that it is another area I can learn. Or maybe, I can do SEO, which is one of the most in demand work online.

Now that I have written those, the possibilities is vast. Maybe I should internalize first what I really want to do. Then act on it little by little. Pray for me that I will not be chicken anymore to take on these techie challenges as these are the things that make me happy.