Inspired Ideas/ nuggets from Haruki Murakami’s Dance, Dance, Dance

Mediocrity’s like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off. (P. 310)
As a rule, life is unfair (p. 311)
There’s no justice. No one cares. People do whatever they have to do to survive. Shoveling snow.  (p. 200)
You leave things to an interior designer and it ends up looking like this. Something you want to photograph, [...]

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Punta Fuego

In a post about a year ago, I wrote of how PF was so nice and I wanted to go there for a night. So a few weeks ago, as soon as I knew when my son’s last day of exams was, I scheduled a trip to PF, reserving a casita and seeking a friend [...]

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Natasha Richardson, R.I.P

A few days ago we watched The Partner and was, as usual, impressed with Liam Neeson.
Yesterday, I saw in Yahoo News that Natasha Richardson had met a skiing accident. I found out she was Liam Neeson’s wife. I didn’t know anything about her, or so I thought, and read on. Then I saw she had [...]

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Getting a PHilippine Passport circa March 2009

As the day draws nearer for a relative to go abroad, I’ve been asking about getting PHilippine passports via 7371000. I’ve also been surfing the Net. I also received an email from a sister on the requirements.
A few days ago, I called 7371111 to ask what the hotline was for passports. I thought I didn’t [...]

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TV watching: random comments

All about Eve – I was in front of the computer when my husband and son reacted to something on TV, I peeked and I saw Sunshine. Oh, All about Eve was on. So I more or less watched and noted how different it was from the Korean version. But instead of commenting, I listened [...]

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Sis, briefly

Was watching Sis briefly this morning and it did a mini-version of “Sa Pula, Sa Puti” of Eat Bulaga. The Pula team consisted of Star Struck survivors while the Puti team had PInoy Idol winners/survivors. It was fun watching them, especially LJ Reyes who excitedly removed her sandals when the challenge that came her way [...]

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Gloriamaris and Mongkok Shang

Hahaha. I felt so stupid last week. See, husband was craving for sweet and sour pour. He asked “is there a Chinese resto in Shang?” I said confidently “Gloriamaris”. So we went to Shang, parked in the annex to the mall (attached to St. Francis condo) and went down to the ground floor. We exited [...]

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Kimpura in Greenhills

Kimpura – my first memory of it was its branch in Makati. It was there where Papa celebrated his birthday in 1978, the last time Mama was present at. I don’t think I ever ate there afterwards. But Kimpura in Greenhills is a different story. It holds only happy memories. A number of the waiters [...]

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Odds and Ends

I’m between tasks now, just submitted work this morning and am waiting for feedback on it and two more. that means I’m free to blog! Perhaps, my asthma will depart too, at least until reactions to my work come.
This post will contain a mish-mash of what I should have blogged about weeks ago and a [...]

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Beef Teriyaki at Pepper Lunch and a truly bad cold

Last Saturday, met up with my high school best friend in Shang. She was over from Bacolod. Thought I’d give her the chance to try Pepper Lunch, or make that lunch at Pepper Lunch (Thanks for the wet ones, M!) . She ordered chicken teriyaki while I chose Beef Teriyaki. We also ordered miso soup [...]

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