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Loss
I’ve been thinking about loss. My friends have been dealing with losing their parents. A mother, a father. My parents have lost two of their closest friends. Lately it seems like too many wakes, too many funerals. Phone calls are scary, as they bring news of another loved one passing away. And the timing is surreal. One week after the other, and this weekend, the whole country will mourn their losses again. All Soul’s Day is at hand to pay respect to people we’ve lost. Sometimes old wounds are reopened as the pain feels new and fresh, with their graves the only thing staring back at you when you call…
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Joys>problems
Today, on a work day Friday, I encountered a bunch of things at work that have, as they have been doing so all week, made my head spin. I had to stand up, get a drink of water, refreshed my face with a splash from the faucet to reboot my perspective as I was getting overwhelmed with all the bad things pouring in, and issues I could not seem to keep from happening that I thought I already had a handle on. But I had to stop. I think, for us, dwelling too much on a problem, or discussing it in detail, can be as toxic as the problem itself.…
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Be brave.
Life will hit you with all it’s got. It’s going to be devastating. People will tell you that your troubles don’t compare to those who are starving in the streets, who are going through civil war. Ignore them. Your pain is yours that is why it’s important. Don’t let anybody tell you what matters. It matters to you, it matters. Don’t let anyone give you a timeline of what you should be doing at your age, comparing you to others. Do things at your own time. Fall in love at 20, 30, or 60. Do not shortchange yourself to a life that means fitting in, becoming what they need you…
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And now, for a moment of Dirty Dancing cheese
I remember Patrick Swayze as the guy from “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar”. I’m a 90s kid, and this was what he was famous for at the time. A month ago, as our company had an 80s themed Christmas party (we like early parties as we’re busy in December), I was introduced belatedly to the hotness of Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing. The movie was okay, the dancing great, the outfits questionable, but the Swayze was super hot. I think this is one of the most objectified I’ve seen a guy was in those days. He was always in a tight shirt, or no shirt, pants that…
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I think you should watch Texas’s In Demand music video today
Alan Rickman. I know he is most remembered by this generation as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter movies, but for me, he is still one of the sexiest men on screen. That voice. That sultry stare. Whew. This is perfectly captured in the music video for Texas’s In Demand found here. He didn’t speak at all, but he simply sizzles in this video,. That dance sequence, the way she melts into him during the highway ride in his convertible. When she’s sleeping and he glances over, and tucks her into his chin (3:10). We should all be so lucky. And not to have Alan Rickman, to have someone who will…
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Mitsuyado Sei-Men’s Double Cheese Ramen: Yay for cheese (but not for traditionalists)
When my sister and I found ourselves in Makati last month, we knew we had to try the cheese tsukemen (a variety of ramen in which the noodles arrive separately, cold or at room temperature, along a bowl of intense broth into which the noodles are meant to be dipped) in a place famous for it in Jupiter street. So we headed to Mitsuyado Sei-Men for this: The double cheese tsukemen (Large, P380), which comes sprinkled with parmesan cheese that you pour cheese sauce over before you dip it in broth. Being as it was already 3 pm and we weren’t really hungry at that point, we decided to split and have a…
