The little house on Owl Meadow

God, bless this child with gentle kindness,
Guide this child with Tender Love.

Show this child the way of brightness.

Fill this little heart with Love

In the natural world - oxygen breathing living organisms generate waste in the form of ammonia (NH3)
In large quantities, ammonia is extremely toxic and exposure to large quantities of ammonia ultimately leads to death.

However, the natural order of our reality is balanced by Nitrosomonas, a relatively unknown bacteria in which we owe our existence to. This bacteria converts ammonia to nitrite (NO2). Nitrite in large quantities is again toxic to living organism, luckily a second bacteria comes into the picture, Nitrobacter. Nitrobacter converts nitrite to Nitrate.

Nitrate in turns becomes food for plants and organism relying on photosyntesis to convert CO2 to glucose for food and Oxygen as waste product.

Such is the order of the natural world we have lived in for millions of years.

In a small enclosed, man-made and artifical biological systemlike an aquarium, this natural cycle must be duplicated and reproduced. Hobbyist have long term this as "cycling your aquarium".

A new tank must be 'seeded' with sufficient quantities of cheap and hardy fish such as White Cloud Mountain Minnows or Zebra Danios. These fish will produce waste and ammonia to an extremely toxic level, at a threshold level of ammonia, Nitrosomonas will begin to thrive.

Once Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter has sufficiently colonize your aquarium.
You can proceed to populate your aquarium with your prized Parrot, Koi or Goldfish. These fishes have been inter-bred through many generations and are genetically inferior to withstand the harsh and polluted environment of a tank that is being cycled. Ammonia and nitrite will kill these fishes instantly.

During this period some of your Zebra Minnows may bleed to death as their organs are saturated with ammonia, but that is not your concern.

Now you can either keep your remaining Zebra Minnows or throw then away.

In an enclosed articifial, man-made biological system called an organization such natural order must be reproduced. Organizations are populated by hunch-down human beings, nicely packaged into square cubicles. Any change or introduction of change in the form of SAP, SCM, ERP .NET will ultimately lead to the demise of the organization as these hunch-down human beings suffocate at the poisonous and intoxicating deluge of information and change.


To begin cycling of the tank, Organizations introduce a hardy, strong and preferably dispensable breed of humans called Consultants. These Consultants will be faced head-on with the tide of change, pounded with long hours of sleepless nights until a new bacteria called a System is fully introduced into the Organization.
During this period, some Consultants will die and suffer irrepairable spiritual damage, but this is not the concern of Organizations.


In the end, these genetically inferior hunch-down humans will inherit the System and fully thrive in the System. Consultants can then be kept or thrown away.

Inspired from http://2bfair.blogspot.com/2006/07/standing-guards.html



Which is why the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence or rather the Pacific or the Indian Ocean

Seize the Day, especially a beautiful one !

Plan it well and you should be fine.



For the past months, this blog has survived with minimal texts. I truly believe a picture paints a thousand words and a clear depiction, presented very specifically will certainly cut through all barriers a written language presents. To me, the written Language presents too many issues of semantics and differing intepretation.

It was a hot Sunday afternoon when I attempted to replace 6 spark plugs of my German-made Volkswagen. Like everything German, it had to be functional, elegant, yet performing, most of all expensive, when you need work done on. How different is it with everything German, has SAP been different ?

To cut a short story short, it was a success, the pictures above attest to the fact. As I fiddled long and hard with the engine, cutting and nicking my fingers along the way. My thoughts struggled through the entire process. In the end, one word came into light. "Resources"

"Resources at your disposal"

I had "resources" in the form of a good DIY guide, cheap auto tools from good ol' Sam Walton and most of all, time on my hands on a hot Sunday summer afternoon.

It would have been impossible if either one of them were lacking.

Such tasks were almost impossible, as I remember my father tinkering with his 20 year old Mitsubishi, trial and error. There were no Internet and PDF documents in 1984.

It would not have been possible to even suspect that Cancer that killed my father may have been prevented through vitamin B17, Chickpeas, Apple Seed, Apricot and Olive Oil. I had not yet been ordained into the Internet in 1996.

What are your resources ? Have you exhausted all of them ?

Different times and a different era, presents itself with differing problems, all because our control of available resources are constantly changing.

Keep it up, 3.25 year-old.