Stardust

Neil Gaiman has enchanted me again.

I was sooo caught up with his book I was able to finish it in less than a week's time.
Hehe, quite slower than the average reader but if you'd seen me with a book, you would agree with me that this time, im fast.

It was like i myself am under a spell, with the way he wrought his fairy tale. Just a warning though. Albeit the book wasn't graphic, I was near belching my stomach out on some scenes,hehe

But it-is-a-good-book. =)

"It will happen; if you just believe. You might just be the first star who have fallen who made it back to the sky".

Chopsuey con Afritada..hehe

...our experiment for the night..=D
it tastes like chopsuey really. just that the shrimp juice made it somewhat orangy; making it look like afritada..hehehe...
in fairness, the veggies were cooked just about right. =)

The First Time

Weeeeeeeee!!!!

Class 95 has just played Robin Beck's "The First Time"...

Aaaahhhhhhh! After more than 2 years (those oh-so-good-ol' days), I heard it again. I've almost forgotten how passssssionate Robin Beck interpreted this song. It feels like she has just had her first kiss herself and was oh-so ecstatic with it you could almost imagine she was singing the song on the clouds and not just on Cloud 9.

Perhaps, that was the missing element with my SI. I am yet to have my first time so i wasn't passionate enough, wehehehehe..

Looking Young

It felt like a compliment way back then, when people comment on how young I look. But frankly, it is a bother for me now...

On my first few days at Site, those "adults" either call me young lady or girl. It was all I could do to stop myself from wailing with indignance. For sure no one there considers me a "grown-up woman" (categorizing myself as a woman is another issue though, hehe).

Come HAZOP for FRCCS, it was worse. On our first day (we were having the afternoon snacks then...just ample time for people to gage one another and have their first impressions of one another), a colleague thought I was a student trainee attached to their company for a time. Another one uttered that famous Jap "Ehhh??!!" when he knew I've already been working a number of years and that he should call me his sempai. He said by my looks he thought I was younger than him (he was by the way, 2 years younger than me).

Then yesterday, we had our LPG changed (boy, how we waited for that "coming!" and "on their way already" for us to cook our marinated porkchop. Good thing there was Wheel of Time and Initial D). The delivery guy chitchatted with us a bit. He assumed we were students here. And he was talking to me.

Surely im not that naive-looking. Am I?

Pinakbet....minus the bagoong..

tsadan! Our masterpiece for the night..=D

we sure could use some bagoong for a tastier pinakbet though...hehe..

Anyways, i posted the pictures using Picasa. It's soooo much easier than what ive previously been doing! thanks Flounder for sharing this..=)

Both Sides Now

I was again reminded of how nice this song is when I heard it over the radio in the bus on my way to work yesterday. Feeling like humming the song myself, I searched for the lyrics this evening. I came upon this site which gave the lyrics of the song with some comments from enthusiasts. This post from Aseem Kaul just hit the right spots...

"...But most of all, this is a song that even read aloud has a voice all its own. It's the voice of a generation that grew up too quickly, the voice of cynicism, the voice of tiredness. But it is also the voice of hope - of the spirit's struggle to reclaim lost wonder, of an acceptance of one's own limitations that is both humility and joy. It is at once the voice of our defeat and the voice of our renewal."

Both Sides Now

Rows and flows of angel's hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feathered canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and they snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way.

I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, but still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all.

Moon and Junes and Ferris wheels
That dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way.

But now it's just another show
You leave them laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away.

I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, but still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all.

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day.

I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose, but still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all.
-- Joni Mitchell