tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65091786982284709072024-09-08T23:45:46.629+09:00carpe diem and nightUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509178698228470907.post-14963757340871203972010-03-13T01:39:00.028+09:002010-04-30T20:47:36.958+09:00japan's white day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">in japan, it's the women who give chocolates to men <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">n valentine's day. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">go figure. add this to their list of uniqueness...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">after i got past the absurdity of giving instead of receiving on V day, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">i decided to give away chocolates to some of my officemates. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">something new for me, very japanesey </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">and i thought it was a nice gesture</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">little did i know that after one month, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">they have a funny custom called "white day", </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">the men who got presents on st. valentine's day </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">must give something back to the women!</span></div><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">so here i am having a very happy white day</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">enjoying my sweet karma candies</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</i></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509178698228470907.post-80484954804990192032010-02-14T00:55:00.004+09:002010-03-13T00:59:56.884+09:00wow world wide web<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6DE15x2tKrXKVvfpOTJPZop7NBP6GIErJJtAxEIjUL5u9DKjxgxhHCCF6IKNEshcTkV0ngkfJrxXhrqE-3tLFmxIDQe1_BpX44bRKUMRiRziHm64BtLe-1vQWnNaGDMScHNtiO_zFNZ6c/s1600-h/IMG_0085.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6DE15x2tKrXKVvfpOTJPZop7NBP6GIErJJtAxEIjUL5u9DKjxgxhHCCF6IKNEshcTkV0ngkfJrxXhrqE-3tLFmxIDQe1_BpX44bRKUMRiRziHm64BtLe-1vQWnNaGDMScHNtiO_zFNZ6c/s320/IMG_0085.jpg" /></a><br />
thanks to b who gave me an <a href="http://www.apple.com/imac/">imac</a> for valentine's day i have re-discovered the virtual world. i would be very sad to go on a vacation right now away from this new baby. when i got it, the first thing i did was settings, right? oh of course b opened the box to set it up, that's his thing. them men and gadget boxes... its like love at first sight with b carefully undressing, touching parts lovingly, putting it all together and finally plugging it in & turning it on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">before today i thought i was living the digital life. i was <i>overloaded</i> with information from my habit of browsing <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">facebook</a>-<a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">yahoo</a>-<a href="http://www.google.com/">google</a> and news every night after work. what a loser, imagine these sites filling only about 1/8 of my bookmarks bar. me and my very, very limited world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">because of the wider screen, i had a longer bookmarks bar to fill. i added all the sites i frequently browse, googled top sites and finally laid out my favorites nicely in the bar, in order of my new digital journey... </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<ul><li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.inquirer.net/">Inquirer</a> news from home</li>
<li><a href="http://www.newsonjapan.com/">News on Japan</a> news from our current home</li>
<li><a href="http://www.time.com/time/">Time</a> news from the world</li>
<li><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/">Huffington Post</a> editorials </li>
<li><a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/">National Geographic</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://fora.tv/">Fora</a> enlightened men & women</li>
<li><a href="http://springwise.com/">Springwise</a> entrepreneural ideas</li>
<li><a href="http://www.japantrends.com/">Japan Trends</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://delicious.com/">Delicious</a> more nerd stuff... very practical ones</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/">You Tube</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.watch-movies.net.in/">Movies</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.surfthechannel.com/">TV Shows</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/">Seth's Blog</a> modern marketing expert</li>
<li><a href="http://flowerdust.net/">Flower Dust</a> soul food</li>
<li><a href="http://www.seriouseats.com/">Serious Eats</a> good food</li>
<li><a href="http://zenhabits.net/">Zen Habits</a> my new fave blog</li>
<li>and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Blogger</a></li>
</ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509178698228470907.post-87360285622813625832010-02-07T19:35:00.009+09:002010-11-03T18:18:16.993+09:00thank god for weekends<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">was feeling out of sorts lately. it's that time of the month when you miss home so much, you just want to quit your job, have a baby and save the world. now.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">luckily, friday came and i was saved by the weekend.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">woke up early on a saturday morn, said a little prayer and greeted the world outside our window. which from the 27th floor means, tall earthquake-proof buildings, some apartments and tiny cars in the highway sandwiched by the mountains up north and the water down south. so good morning to you concrete, glass, steel!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">jumped out of bed to cook pancakes and bacon while listening to the beatles. fantastic combination! john, paul and ringo make pancakes fluffier and the bacon crispier. funny, i read a story somewhere about some mom or dad listening to the beatles with their kid and she goes "the songs are nice but were they really sung by insects?!" hahaha! 2 words, generation. gap.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">shared a sit-down breakfast with b, a luxury for us. normally we gulp down 3 spoonfulls of yoghurt while standing up in front of the kitchen counter, down our supplements with water and out the door we go. hi-ho, hi-ho! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">went around the house to fix and clean up a bit... puttering. to make this cocoon a more beautiful and comfortable place to live in. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">late in the afternoon we settled down to watch <a href="http://www.intothewild.com/">into the WILD</a>. it's a movie about alexander supertramp, he hates </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">things</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and society so he burned all his money and set off into the wilderness to find freedom and simple beauty. great movie, you should watch it. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sunday is almost up which was spent in the same spirit... cocooning. we rest, heal our wounds, re-fuel, take a deep breath and prepare for the chaos of the week ahead. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">hi-ho, hi-ho it's off to work we go...</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509178698228470907.post-7303491539527469992010-02-03T01:45:00.012+09:002010-02-09T01:48:38.817+09:00art happens<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">was born an artist</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">have the talent, insight</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and creativity</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">surely must because</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i have the temperament </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of a chef, painter </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">plus ballerina </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">except! i haven't found this </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">medium, my outlet</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with butterfly feet</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">i </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">f l o a t</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">,</span> with all this pent-up </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">beauty! imagine -</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the vivid <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">colors</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the endless pirouettes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">words to make you laugh, cry</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">they live, only in my dreams</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509178698228470907.post-15629677141588738272010-01-31T19:09:00.001+09:002010-01-31T19:09:25.906+09:00my life is an offering<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/bVC7F0Hechk' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/bVC7F0Hechk'/></object></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509178698228470907.post-70127893530853912602010-01-25T23:06:00.001+09:002010-01-25T23:06:33.277+09:00today is the beginning of my new life...<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/phL0RLKL8bc' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/phL0RLKL8bc'/></object></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0