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September 12th 2010 08:34
I hate this.
I wake up with no "to-do" list in mind. I wanted a weekend. Before the week ended though, I did tell myself I'd do some work done. Yes, I know - never bring work home. I just needed to do a few things that I know I might not be able to get to as the work week unfolds because of newer things coming in.
I slept in which is great, right?
I started with a light breakfast of Bruschetta with pesto and coffee. lots of it. Then I thought of what to make for lunch - opened the fridge and realized that hey, i should organize meals for the week. Fine, that was lodged in my "to-do" list in my head. I saw some veggies I thought should be rinsed and transferred on a different container - pinned on the to-do list.
After breakfast, I remembered the "must-do-over-the-weekend" work I planned - pinned!
Oh but the dining table and breakfast nook has so much stuff that could be organized further to make them look neater. - pinned!
While I set up my work station on the dining table after I organized some stuff - I was also cooking lunch.
Boot up my laptop and put on my '90's playlist which I have just downloaded - check facebook, twitter, emails... oh no.
What was I supposed to do again? Ah, right, the work thing.
Now where did I put that again? ah, my external hard drive - or no, the thumbdrive. - better get both of them to be sure.
Ah, hey look old files! oh and she said what on twitter?!
Great.
Now I'm on wordpress typing this with the actual work 5% done.
FAIL.
September 12th 2010 08:33
I was home. In a chatroom - chatting with online friends as well as with my then boyfriend who was in California.
It was night time in Manila and people in the US were starting their day. People I was chatting with were mostly Filipinos -both in the Philippines and in the US.
When the news started coming about the Twin Towers, people in the US, particularly those in New York started to freak out, calling relatives all over the US who might be in the towers, on the planes or anywhere that could be related to the tragedy.
One of them, a high school student in Queens was saying she's at the 4th floor of their school building and she has plain view of the towers from where she was sitting. I can just imagine the horror in her and her classmates as they watch the towers billowing black smoke and as the 2nd plane hit the north tower.
To us who were in the Philippines, it was like watching a high-budget movie -- but having these people who were geographically nearer and may have friends and family where it's happening made everything real to us.
The hairs in my arms and the back of my neck stood as I remember us actually standing at Ground Zero a year before this happened. It was Memorial Day so we weren't able to go up the towers, but I remember how massive and majestic those towers were. I even had a picture on a ferry going to Lady Liberty with those towers as my background. That was just a year ago! What if we went there 2001 instead of 2000? What if it happened on 2000? Sends chills down my spine.
It rattles you as a human being to see something so devastating broadcasted live and you know you can't do anything. Even the people at ground zero couldn't do much but help those who managed to get out of the building. But as the towers crumbled... nobody could do anything.
I wonder. If this kind of tragedy happened TODAY - only 9 years later, would there have been other ways to help and save more lives?
I've been wanting to write something for a while.
While sitting down in a cafe, I think of something I want to write and say to myself -- I'll blog this when I get home.
Watching a movie by myself, I usually have insights I want to share or simply write down -- but, Facebook & Twitter happens instead.
I miss writing. I miss reading as well... but for the life of me, I just don't feel like it when I find the time.
Thoughts are floating on my mind so eloquently... but with my laptop in front of me - I draw a blank.
I'm watching You've Got Mail at the moment and this is my all-time-feel-good movie. This movie made me realize writing into the void can make you feel better. This movie made me love the internet.
Nowadays, I go online with the intention of writing something -- to relieve stress, anger, rant or rave -- but I end up on Facebook or Twitter. I sort of hate the internet now. It shows you way too much. The "what you don't know won't hurt you" is a little difficult to come by. We can barely concentrate on one thing at a time - first there's multi-tasking doing different stuff with your computer while being online -- now you can even be online looking at several different sites in one browser!
Whatever happened to plain blogging? Emailing collective stories to each other? Snail mail's gone more obsolete than ever now that Email's also become old-fashioned. Who still email people? not much. Most of the time, I use email for work or business related correspondence - customer service, membership queries, etc. Gone were the days when I would write "Dear Blah...."
People were more eloquent when emails were still constructed more formally. Even at work, email writing's become so informal and a little too straight forward. No need for introductions, pleasantries, etc - what you want, who you are and what their options are - that's about it.
You've got mail reminded me how exciting it was to meet strangers online - innocently. No malice, no "date-rape" scenarios in your head, no fear of stalking or crazy people - just plainly meeting strangers and connecting with people who truly have similarities with you.
I digress. I thought, said I was drawing a blank. Now I just babbled.
It's been so long since I wrote anything here.
Things have turned around, upside down and inside out for me and my son. It's been one BIG challenge to me as a parent. A challenge I almost gave up on at one point last year
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Oh wow. It's been ummm 2 years, at least since I last posted anything... and dear me, things have changed around here.
Looks nice, the frontpage/homepage. I'm still about to see what else has changed and try and resurrect my other blogs
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Just watched Twilight the movie about 8 hours ago.
I wasn't all thrilled but not too disappointed either (..ok maybe a little
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The "results" are IN.
OBAMA's the 44th President of the United States of America... Which also means, the whole world zooms in on him for the next few years -- or so
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I have NEVER ever been interested in politics. Not in my home country and definitely not in any other countries.
Enter: US 2008 Elections
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September 20th 2008 03:08
Every night before we go to bed, my son and I would have a little chat, pray and say our Thank You's for the day and kiss each other goodnight.
It's a routine we've established since our Dada well... left. It's a very calming and assuring routine for both of us as our prayers both have something for Dada
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Comment by Hazel Castillo
on Me and Orson Welles (8/10)
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Parent Adventures
OK - back to your post. Zac Efron's really moving up! I think this guy's gotten a lot of break and he's playing his parts well. He's a pretty face alright, but he can also act. Exposing him to more complicated and sensitive roles is honing him much more as an actor.
I'm glad he's not just a pretty face who will soon fade out when he starts looking old to be a "teen".
Seeing Clare Danes on film again is also a big big Yay! She's a good actress but "underutilized" i think.