Archive for March, 2007
I came across the following riddles… can you correctly guess the answers? ^-^#1:“The beginning of eternityThe end of time and spaceThe beginning of every end,And the end of every place.”#2:“I never was, am always to be,No one ever saw me, nor ever willAnd yet I am the confidence of allTo live and breathe on this [...]
How does one rise up after being buried in a pithe unconsciously created himself? How does a control freak take over his life again when he foundout a bit late that his life is already messed up? How does a weakling show his weaknesses when he has noother choice but to be the source of [...]
As usual, I was the first one to rush inside the train to get hold of the vacant seat. I was about to sit down when I noticed an elderly woman trailing behind and gave the seat to her. When she reached her stop, she turned to me, gave me the sincerest “arigatou” I’ve ever [...]
“Hello… are you from Indonesia?” For a number of times, I was approached and was asked this question. And, of course, those who approached me looked like Filipinos! At times, I am also mistaken as a Malaysian or a Thai. Well, I guess I am one of the living testimonies of the amazing resemblance between [...]
Idel and I have been given the privilege (^-^) of “task-hopping” since we entered this company. Yes, we have to do whatever task our team leader feels like giving us. We do this part for a couple of weeks, then with little or no opportunity to deeply understand what we were doing, another completely different [...]
These past few days, I have been constantly glued to youtube. Yes, as soon as I enter my room from work, I immediately check for new uploads on Pinoy Big Brother Season 2 (PBB2) in youtube. (PBB2 started last February 25) When PBB Season 1 started, I was not that interested in the show. But [...]
14th of March, a month after Valentine’s day, is White Day! To those not familiar with Japanese practices, this doesn’t ring a bell. Anyways, according to my good office companion, Wikipedia, this festival was created as a marketing effort in Japan. On White Day, the boys/men give the girls/women something as a return to the [...]
For 27 years, I have only worn 4 hair styles: long hair with bangs, short hair with bangs, short hair without bangs, and long hair without bangs. I have worn bangs since I was around 3 years old and got rid of it when I started college. My sole purpose for wearing bangs was to [...]
I’m ashamed to admit that I had never tried cooking shrimp tempura before. This is my first attempt but I never thought of looking up the internet for the recipe! So, I just poured flour, egg and a pinch of salt onto a pan. Obviously, the proportions of the ingredients are not correct so I [...]
If Mindanao was appointed as “The Land of Promise“, Lanao del Norte was named “The Land of Beauty and Bounty“. I just discovered this today. I looked it up after a Japanese acquaintance asked me about my hometown. I grew up in Linamon, Lanao del Norte and this is still the place that I could [...]
