Beauty Salons and Barbershops Unite!  With the oil spill problem in Guimaras, I think these establishments that can easily accumulate huge amounts of human hair can help out in this environmental crisis we're facing.

Swimming with Whale Sharks.   One of the best experiences I've had in this lifetime (apart from trekking a dormant volcano).  These are absolutely beautiful creatures and if you're lucky enough to spot them, swim with them and even touch them, you'll know why. 

Weddings. Two of my cousins got married this year.  And for someone who hates weddings and dressing up, I found myself getting teary-eyed during the reception.  Will wonders never cease?

Cutting my losses and moving on.  After much ado, I think I'm starting to learn to roll with the punches; to cut my losses and move on...personally and professionally speaking.  I'd like to think I will learn from my mistakes and never repeat them.  But knowing what a glutton for punishment I am, probably not.

Getting older and wiser.  You can never trust a person who says "Trust me" and you never should.

Envy and a wake-up call.  As I got older, I started to feel like life was passing me by.  I'm now 29, one year shy before I'm booted out of the 20's window and yet I've done nothing of significance.  And then I look at people I know who seem happy with their careers, with their personal lives and I wonder what it is that they have or are doing that makes them the way they are and why can't I be more like them?  BAM!  Suddenly I realized I was being utterly stupid.  I was luckier than most of them.  I have everything and everyone I could ever want in my life; I've just been too blind and too happy sitting on my pity pot to appreciate and enjoy them.  Life wasn't passing me by;  I was letting life pass me by.

Hong Kong.  It amazes me how Hong Kong women are so energetic and slim. Is it from all those bottled tea drinks they guzzle up by the bucket?  or is it the tons of noodles they fork into their mouths?  I wonder.  Spending time there, just soaking the sights and sounds after all these years, has made me realize that it must be their genes. 

Still on Hong Kong.  The most tsk-tsk thing I've observed though is that their food comes in one serving only. JUMBO.  And what's annoying is that they're so wasteful!  When I was having lunch at this diner a week ago, I sat next to a table with so many leftovers that for a while there I thought the owner of the food just stood up to get something.  It was practically untouched!  And then this old man passes by and sees the food.  He mutters while rubbing his tummy about how wasteful people are when others are going hungry.  It's a sad picture.

Why I will never survive living in Hong Kong.  Food is expensive; Almost all their meals have noodles (ugh);  most importantly, books there are three times the price in the Philippines!  It's like they're discouraging the people there to be literate. But I did find tons of great finds there.  Books that would most likely not be sold in my home country.  (e.g.  101 things to do before you're old and boring)

Pets.  My sister got a new kitten some weeks ago.  Pure white with startling blue eyes.  We call him Timothy or Timtim for short.  So that makes 3 dogs and 5 cats in all.

Gardening.  Taking a sabbatical from the drudgery of working life has made me realize how much I missed gardening.  Actually, the day I left home for the big city was the day I left gardening behind.  It's kinda difficult to grow something in a tiny apartment that barely provided enough oxygen for one person to breathe much less plants.  So while I was home on vacation, I planted ginger, tomatoes, chives and peanuts.  So far they're all still growing beautifully.  The peanuts should be up for harvesting by September if the chickens don't get to them first.  So here I am now, giving a pathetic but wholehearted attempt to plant something at my new place.  Luckily this time there's enough ventilation for that.

Dan Brown vs Steve Berry.  For readers out there, you've probably heard of these authors by now.  It appals me how some could compare Dan Brown (author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons) to Steve Berry (author of The Romanov Prophecy and The Third Secret).  They're incomparable!  Steve Berry is by far, in my humble personal opinion, a superior storyteller.  His characterization is superb, his story is interesting and what's even better is that when you're reading his book, you don't feel like you've opened up an encyclopedia.  There's none of the formal, schoolbookish feel in it. 

Nicholas II and the Romanov Family.   One of the greatest mysteries of all times.  I've always loved the stories that abound this royal family, WWII and even stories on Lenin.  I'm no history buff but somehow this has caught my interest way back when I was a kid.  Personally I'd like to think that Alexei and Anastasia did escape the masaccre.  The ending of the book The Romanov Prophecy is a fitting one I would say.

A useful and irrelevant tidbit.  Did you know that dried flowers particularly dried eucalyptus makes a great house decor instead of real flowers?  Apart from not needing to change the water every other day, it repels mosquitos too.

and so it ends here.  I have to go out and follow my own advice.  what?  why, buy dried eucalyptus of course. 

 

 

I don't know about you but to me Steve Berry is a Dan Brown wannabe. Not only that his story "The Templar Legacy" is a rip-off of the movie 'National Treasure'. He even admits and I quote "Dan Brown gives people like me a chance". Look at the plot, they both involve God, a conspiracy, a secret organisation and a dark secret bout Jesus.

But Steve I would think is a better researcher and a somewhat better writer but comparably to Brown his action at times lack substance.

And don't be so hard on Brown, read Angels and Demons. I consider it more creative, better written, more well-thought and superior to DVC.

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