December 2006
13 posts
Happy New Year!
I hope everyone has a glorious new year, brimming with happy discoveries, profound epiphanies, and new vistas to explore. I hope your new years will always be filled with love, hope, and dreams. May we all find our places in the world. May the world find its place in us. And may we rise to meet every occasion - tragic, festive, and otherwise - with all the best we have. Cheers! Ad astra!
did you click on the pull tab yet?
It’s on the upper right side. Yep, that’s the one. Nifty, ain’t it? So anyway. I was originally all ready to move to wordpress, but then realized that wordpress can’t handle javascripting. Also, it isn’t readily customizable. Kathwump. So I went back to blogger, saw the “we’re out of beta” newsflash, experienced a wave of joy at thinking that...
Changes are a-coming
Also, there is a new searchbox. If you’ve ever wanted to give me a book, but wasn’t sure if I had it already, here’s your answer. Just type in the book/author’s name/ISBN in the search field under Wanda’s Books and, voila! You’ll have the results from my database faster than you can blink. It holds a complete catalog of all the books I have in this country to...
Merry Christmas!
Reflection
Sometimes, I amaze myself. (Or Time to Pat Myself on The Back) When I was a sophomore in high school, my then best friend and I thought we would like to watch a PBA game. I don’t remember why. I think it had to do with her having a crush on Vince Hizon or something like that. If I’m not mistaken, the game was between Ginebra and Purefoods, at the time, two premier teams. Tickets...
Merry Christmas!
I will be on blog leave during the holiday season. Dear Santa Claus, I haven’t written you in a long time. I’m sorry. Some people have been spreading very nasty things things about you and for awhile I actually believed them. I’m so sorry Santa, but it was so hard not to! What did they say about you? Well, for starters, they kept on telling me that you weren’t real....
The Year-ender
What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before? A bunch of stuff, actually. Go to Hawaii, go to Taiwan, drive cross-country, move to Vegas. I also drove from Southern California to our nice apartment here in Nevada. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Ermmm, only #’s 5 and 6. Did anyone close to you give birth? No. Did anyone...
Wow
All I can say is wow: http://www.newsday.com/news/yahoo/ny-licash1217,0,2600559.story
To all the Assumptionistas...
… because you’re probably the only ones who’ll care: My sister just told me that according to a text brigade that supposedly originated from Sr. Marjo herself, MME is now a certified saint. If you pray, might be kinda cool to pray to the foundress of your school, right? Well, anyway, woohoo.
Oh yeah
Quark Henares’ new movie, super noypi, is coming out on December 25. You guys might want to check it out. Here’s the full-length trailer: \
New York Weekend
Let’s get this out of the way, shall we… It was great being back in New York for the weekend. The weather was brutal, the people were a little less friendly, and traffic was hell…. I absolutely LOVED it. It still feels like my second home… which is a lot more than I can say about Vegas. Hah. I remember when I moved to NY, I felt at home after the first week. I felt...
New York Tomorrow
We shall be leaving for NY tomorrow to attend a 2-day wedding. Yey. New York, my New York. I just wish I could squeeze in a visit to The Strand! *** Ten-Two-One Folks will probably say I’m too old for this crap but I don’t care. A part of me will NEVER EVER grow up. The only rule: TRY TO BE SPECIFIC. Name ten things you like to eat: tapa, a good steak, buttery lobster, sushi,...
Barako
Apparently, barako’s on its way to becoming extinct. Yes, you read right. EXTINCT. Kaput. Gone forever. They need to plant something like 100,000 trees in the next five years just to keep the species alive. Who would’ve thunk??? But let me backtrack a bit. What the hell is barako and what am I talking about? For those of you who have never had a cup of joe in Batangas or...
November 2006
11 posts
So you think the desert's gonna toast your ass?
Think again. It is fricking FREEZING in these parts. I mean that LITERALLY. The temperature at night has dipped into the high 20’s. Lordy, that’s BELOW freezing! Hah. And I thought I could safely put the dangers of hypothermia out of my mind. Anyway, it’s cold. It’s MIGHTY cold. So so so cold. And we don’t even have nice, powdery, snow-white christmases to show...