It was raining hard. I had around 20 steps back home but decided to continue on where I am going. The skies had cleared. A little. At these troubled times, I should have stayed at home and bored myself with notes about satellites and sensors. But I didn't. I rode a jeepney. And studied. Yep, in the jeepney.

I was about to doze off when a heavy thud brought me back to my senses. It rained so hard -- an instant storm. And I was about to get off. With only a handful of printed notes to cover me from the rain, I had to run across the wide mud-filled street and had to squirm myself out of the line of cars caught in the traffic. The first thing I saw is a shabby umbrella by a sidewalk vendor. I tried to keep myself dry with that small thing. Bad luck. The winds had settled when my next jeepney ride came.

Emergency meetings come with a purpose. And so it goes. Issues need to be tackled one by one. Ideas need to be collected, decisions made and whatsoever there is to do on meetings. I just realized that there's been so much going on now within our group. Conflict arises when we least expect them. And as a newbie I just don't know what to do, what to tell. So I listen.

Being in this group is practicing being a player in a diverse environment. There is so much diversity among ourselves that we tend to scrutinize rather than understand. There will be many happenings to follow and we just can't figure out what. For now, there is reason to weed out the bad grass and to sow the fruitful ones. Whatever that means.

I came home with my mind filled with eager thoughts and worried ones too. Thanks to the McDo chicken sandwich for filling me up as I go home.

Enjoy diversity, as Mr Cabral says.

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