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Our Weekend Memoirs: Yellow Please scroll down for Sunday Stealing The VP passed by, waving, "Mae, I got a meeting on the 12th floor..." shifting my reverie from Bonito chocolate cake to the realization that most of those I voted for in the latest national election are now in office. The convenience of absentee voting. A hanging similarity zooming into a daydreamer's line of vision. The Thai monarch and the new Philippine president have the same identity color. Visit Our Weekend Memoirs ***************************************** Sunday Stealing: Meme of Many Odd Questions, Part Two Please scroll up for Our Weekend Memoirs Today we ripped this meme off a blogger named Kuda Girl of the blog named Kuda Girl's Journal . Kuda Girl explains that she ripped it from two bloggers Slay Me Softly and Dragon Fly Lady. But, it was probably stolen there as well. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. It has 65 questi

I'm riding along Mommy Moments this week; my first post in months. I miss this meme, the kids' photos and the mommy chats. Alrighty here's CJ eyeing the next ride... This was some space capsule if I remembered it right - Everytime I fasten CJ on a helicopter, I daydream of my very first experience with aircrafts. I was his age. A helicopter with a bride on board flew low over our neighborhood dropping us bunches of red bougainvillas. To this day that beautiful spectacle remains alluringly fresh in my mind. For CJ I like to think this ride symbolizes a limitless sky he could soar into. I love the sensation of holding and releasing my breath watching him take off, and hoping he will be just fine. Check out more kids' rides at The Mommy Journey .

Write From Karen Yahoo Business listed books as some of the things you shouldn't buy brand new. I don't recall ever buying a second-hand book; thought I'd explore a used book shop down Sukhumvit this weekend. It's been awhile since I read any biography and these titles piqued my interest: 1. Samuel Beckett by Deirdre Blair 2. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Lee Laurie 3. For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond by Ben MacIntyre 4. J.K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter by Marc Shapiro 5. Jane Austen and Leisure by David Selwyn 6. His Eye is on the Sparrow by Ethel Waters 7. Into my own: the English Years of Robert Frost by John E. Walsh 8. Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche 9. All God's Dangers by Theodore Rosengarten 10. Karl Marx: a life by Francis Wheen 11. Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel 12. Leonardo da Vinci: heights of the mind by Charles Nicholl 13. Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize by Peter Doherty ( It do

Our Weekend Memoirs: Little Boy White Please scroll down for Sunday Stealing Night fell fast. We hurried out of the office. As we got off the lift and into a garden, my kiddo stalled. It was the dark. I started shooting still figures in the water. A few clicks later, he urged, "one more, Mom." It was my first time to come up close to this part of the garden in twelve years. Fear was of use to me that night. We walked home. Visit Our Weekend Memoirs ***************************************** Sunday Stealing: Meme of Many Odd Questions, Part One Please scroll up for Our Weekend Memoirs Today we ripped this meme off a blogger named Kuda Girl of the blog named Kuda Girl's Journal . Kuda Girl explains that she ripped it from two bloggers Slay Me Softly and Dragon Fly Lady. But, it was probably stolen there as well. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. It has 65 questions, so we'll do it in parts. Link back

A few not-so-routine stuff and a rare one in the offing, out come my week's faves: 1. "You're blooming... are you dating?" someone at work suddenly asked me that. I laughed hard and coughed out, "what? of course I'm not!" He walked away looking pleased and determined at his own conclusion, "I knew it...you're dating." Now if it were true... but well, I loved the laughter. 2. String-tying ceremony ( I forgot my cam but here's an idea ) the charm of the tradition unfailingly upholds cultural identity 3. Walking on soft earth a refreshing break from tick-tocking on concrete all the time 4. Outdoor warmth an assignment requires me to be out of the office for four hours every Friday this term. The warm morning breeze works better on me than freezing AC's. Bye-bye, shrinking skin. 5. Hard but exciting choices a weekend with colleagues in Beijing or a few days in Bangkok with someone I haven't seen in two decades? There's only o

When I feel like passing out attacking terrene everyday-ness, I turn to classical music. These things dance in my mind as the first strain goes off: 1. film scores 2. those childhood piano lessons 3. Europe 4. killer essay exams 5. pregnancy and babies 6. orchestra 7. Math and Science 8. relaxation 9. plenary halls 10. qualitative research analysis 11. humming to self 12. appealing quaintness 13. being at peace with the world What are your associations with classical music? ~ header from Samulli / click here for more T13 ~

This Friday is just great! I had a few irritants up my back and didn't count on coming up with a set of faves, but although life sometimes looks so dim, it also has pleasant surprises so here I am -- Possibilities I'm working on publishing a couple of academic articles and found a feasible place for them. Facebook thrill It's been 22 years since high school graduation, and so wonderful to reconnect and reminisce with former classmates and teen crushes. Another sentence, clear and straight! There's something I'm fixing nowadays. It's why I was absent from the blogosphere for some time (wrote a page about it). CJ is making significant progress and I'm on cloud nine. Although he uttered "I'm the winner, you're the loser" to his friend, I'm okay with that. I mean CJ sounds like he got some of his Dad's cold and hard, competitive stock market spirit; but as long as there is improvement or anything better than the present clinical impres