as fate would have it

The Idea!ists: seated on the floor is Dan a.k.a. Pink Five; standing (L-R) Rhea a.k.a. Red One, Berns a.k.a. Blue Three, Dang a.k.a. Green Two and Yelle a.k.a. Yellow Four

How interesting. I started this blog in September of last year. I also invited as team members of this blog, a few friends with whom I shared some crazy dreams as well as bits and pieces of quarterlife angst. I figured it would be nice to have some forum to exchange hopes and dreams and to help each other out with advice and encouragement. For some reason though, they never got my invitations, and this blog never really took off.

But now we're all in the same project together--one of the crazy dreams is coming to reality. With quite a bit of hard work-- tears, white hairs popping out, zits erupting and us crazy kids randomly jumping off cliffs, we've managed to survive working collectively via the virtual world and over meetings at starbucks (with the free wifi). Soon, thanks to the masterful painting skills of Dang and Dan, we'll be able to move into the Idea!s office this week! We should also be picking up the office furniture Gay left us before she moved to Thailand this week as well. I just can't wait to move all the resource material and doodads I've collected to the office. Dan's also prepared a layout! We're scheduled for a mini-windfall in a couple of weeks for some of the projects we've been doing for a certain big development organization in Ortigas. When that comes, it'll be time for a new monster machine.

I'm so excited. Once we're all settled, things will really fly.

It's amazing though how things fall into place, how things seemingly unfold as they have these past few months.

Rhea's off to a planning this week for Children's Hour, and Berns' is off to Greece! For the meantime, Dan, Dang and I will hold fort--we've got a couple of meetings with some organizations next week. Coincidentally, they're both organizations whose activities deal with the deaf. Wish us luck.