Dec 31 2009
Once in a blue moon. That’s how often I was blogging in 2009 (read RARELY)… and since a blue moon is ushering the New Year, I’m blogging tonight.
A blue moon… more than the song non-pianists learn to play four-hands on the piano… and more than myths that it’s linked to Satan or great love… is [...]
Oct 07 2009
So I made it. Here I am at the Hyatt Regency in Yogyakarta. Aaaaah, the sun. I haven’t seen the sun in a long time and it greeted me warmly when I arrived amidst the different bodily smells in the domestic airport of Yogyakarta (pronounced Jogjakarta, or simply Jogja). No typhoon cancelled my trip from [...]
Oct 02 2009
The government owes me four trips worth of reimbursements. That’s a lot of money. The problem with all these foreign trips, they give you hell worrying about hotel authorities, per diems, plane fares, etc.. Then, they’re so slow in approving and reimbursing and yet so quick in disallowing and suspending. Do they think that I’m [...]
Apr 01 2009
Yes, my blog is alive… no thanks to me! The first quarter of 2009 has been sooooo crazy I can’t believe it. I’ve been so swamped with work, meetings, paperwork, travels… add to that moving to our new home… that my only breaks are toilet breaks. But thanks to the intelligent, inspiring, smart-alecky, witty, exasperating, [...]
Jan 04 2009
Sheez… you can see by the title of this post that I’ve been attending way too many meetings. You see, during these meetings, when the direction of the discussions get out of the hand with heated debates and various digressions, someone raises a point of order to get everyone back on track. Perhaps, [...]
May 31 2008
“Now Toe,” you bloggers out there are probably thinking, “why would you want to scare us like that? What a horrible nightmare!” Nothing frightens a blogger to death more than the thought of his or her blog disappearing into oblivion. But disasters do happen. It’s not that bad, actually. In fact, [...]
Apr 21 2008
We, bloggers just don’t live our lives. We live our lives with blogging in mind. All the time, we’re observing, looking for things to photograph for our blogs, thinking of things to write, imagining if our readers would want to read about what we are currently experiencing. Ever since I’ve started blogging, [...]
Mar 28 2008
This has never been a controversial blog and I have always steered clear of political, religious, and other such topics. So it was quite exciting for me that although I didn’t realize it at first, my last post turned out to have some quite controversial points.The first was the pronunciation of the country Laos. [...]
Mar 16 2008
So I missed my second anniversary of blogging on February 24. We were in Bangkok then and I was thinking more in the line of shoes and bags rather than kurokuros and blogs. No biggie, it’s just as well as my second year of blogging has been notable perhaps only because of its [...]
Feb 19 2008
After feasting like a king on a colossal buffet, I would usually solemnly resolve to myself to diet the very next day. “I would never eat anything again for the rest of my life,” I would swear. The very next day, I would have pancakes with peanut butter for breakfast and gulp down [...]
"We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter."
Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones
