Guess where I had lunch last Sunday? My cousin called and said they'd pick me up by the Queensboro Bridge on the Manhattan side. So on a hunch I decided to drop by Serendipity 3 just in case they had any tables. It's very popular with the tourists and the wait is usually two hours. But this time I got a table in the blink of an eye. By the kitchen, sure, but I did enjoy my bleu burger and their famous frozen hot chocolate. Peace out.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Staying alive
Happy new year to one and all!
Goodbye 2007. You were great, but 2008 will be better.
For me, 2007 was all about making things happen. I made a lot of decisions. I'm usually complacent about things and I tend to operate on autopilot, but last year I actually got off my butt.
I decided to learn how to drive. After living in NY for six years, I finally got a learner's permit and actually signed up for lessons. Yes, I did fail my road test twice, but that's besides the point. Now I know how to drive, I just have to convince the DMV that I do.
I also decided to finally consider going back to school seriously. I scheduled for the TOEFL, stressed over the speaking and listening part (I have a selective hearing problem), grew my first strand of white hair practically overnight, and later found out that I didn't have to take it after all. Kebs. Those GMAT books that I bought 3 years ago? I cracked them open again. Of course, I had to buy new reviewers, too, so that I ended up having too much study material and not enough study time. Now that I think about it though, I miss the long hours spent in Starbucks nursing my drink and solving math problems. I'm sure there'll be plenty of that as I'll be starting at Baruch this spring. Ah, fruit of my pseudo efforts.
I decided to break up with the best boyfriend in the world to be with somebody else. It really is awful and it made me sick to think I could do something like that, but I think I dealt with it quite well, and didn't hurt people's feelings more than necessary. I still get flak from people who don't know any better, but hey, I also decided I'm going to quit apologizing for being myself. And I don't regret it because my boyfriend is quite the bomb diggity. Yay!
Just before the year ended, I decided to leave my comfort zone/s and if all goes well and according to God's plans, I might be blogging about some big changes soon.
This year I want to have a better relationship with my main man up there. I want to do good in school, at work, and in my relationship. And I want to get a better handle of my finances. Oh, and I want a driver's license, please God.
Happy 2008!
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The origin of love
or my annual tribute to Hedwig and the Angry Inch
When the earth was still flat,
And the clouds made of fire,
And mountains stretched up to the sky,
Sometimes higher,
Folks roamed the earth
Like big rolling kegs.
They had two sets of arms.
They had two sets of legs.
They had two faces peering
Out of one giant head
So they could watch all around them
As they talked; while they read.
And they never knew nothing of love.
It was before the origin of love.
The origin of love
And there were three sexes then,
One that looked like two men
Glued up back to back,
Called the children of the sun.
And similar in shape and girth
Were the children of the earth.
They looked like two girls
Rolled up in one.
And the children of the moon
Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.
They were part sun, part earth
Part daughter, part son.
The origin of love
Now the gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance
And Thor said,
"I'm gonna kill them all
With my hammer,
Like I killed the giants."
And Zeus said, "No,
You better let me
Use my lightning, like scissors,
Like I cut the legs off the whales
And dinosaurs into lizards."
Then he grabbed up some bolts
And he let out a laugh,
Said, "I'll split them right down the middle.
Gonna cut them right up in half."
And then storm clouds gathered above
Into great balls of fire
And then fire shot down
From the sky in bolts
Like shining blades
Of a knife.
And it ripped
Right through the flesh
Of the children of the sun
And the moon
And the earth.
And some Indian god
Sewed the wound up into a hole,
Pulled it round to our belly
To remind us of the price we pay.
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
Gathered up a big storm
To blow a hurricane,
To scatter us away,
In a flood of wind and rain,
And a sea of tidal waves,
To wash us all away,
And if we don't behave
They'll cut us down again
And we'll be hopping round on one foot
And looking through one eye.
Last time I saw you
We had just split in two.
You were looking at me.
I was looking at you.
You had a way so familiar,
But I could not recognize,
Cause you had blood on your face;
I had blood in my eyes.
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same as the one down in mine.
That's the pain,
Cuts a straight line
Down through the heart;
We called it love.
So we wrapped our arms around each other,
Trying to shove ourselves back together.
We were making love,
Making love.
It was a cold dark evening,
Such a long time ago,
When by the mighty hand of Jove,
It was the sad story
How we became
Lonely two-legged creatures,
It's the story of
The origin of love.
That's the origin of love.
or my annual tribute to Hedwig and the Angry Inch
When the earth was still flat,
And the clouds made of fire,
And mountains stretched up to the sky,
Sometimes higher,
Folks roamed the earth
Like big rolling kegs.
They had two sets of arms.
They had two sets of legs.
They had two faces peering
Out of one giant head
So they could watch all around them
As they talked; while they read.
And they never knew nothing of love.
It was before the origin of love.
The origin of love
And there were three sexes then,
One that looked like two men
Glued up back to back,
Called the children of the sun.
And similar in shape and girth
Were the children of the earth.
They looked like two girls
Rolled up in one.
And the children of the moon
Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.
They were part sun, part earth
Part daughter, part son.
The origin of love
Now the gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance
And Thor said,
"I'm gonna kill them all
With my hammer,
Like I killed the giants."
And Zeus said, "No,
You better let me
Use my lightning, like scissors,
Like I cut the legs off the whales
And dinosaurs into lizards."
Then he grabbed up some bolts
And he let out a laugh,
Said, "I'll split them right down the middle.
Gonna cut them right up in half."
And then storm clouds gathered above
Into great balls of fire
And then fire shot down
From the sky in bolts
Like shining blades
Of a knife.
And it ripped
Right through the flesh
Of the children of the sun
And the moon
And the earth.
And some Indian god
Sewed the wound up into a hole,
Pulled it round to our belly
To remind us of the price we pay.
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
Gathered up a big storm
To blow a hurricane,
To scatter us away,
In a flood of wind and rain,
And a sea of tidal waves,
To wash us all away,
And if we don't behave
They'll cut us down again
And we'll be hopping round on one foot
And looking through one eye.
Last time I saw you
We had just split in two.
You were looking at me.
I was looking at you.
You had a way so familiar,
But I could not recognize,
Cause you had blood on your face;
I had blood in my eyes.
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same as the one down in mine.
That's the pain,
Cuts a straight line
Down through the heart;
We called it love.
So we wrapped our arms around each other,
Trying to shove ourselves back together.
We were making love,
Making love.
It was a cold dark evening,
Such a long time ago,
When by the mighty hand of Jove,
It was the sad story
How we became
Lonely two-legged creatures,
It's the story of
The origin of love.
That's the origin of love.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
You remind me of a firework, boy
You touch the ceiling, you touch the floor
You sparkle and burn but you take your time
And i bet i could carry you across state lines
I'd tell you why, but i don't know
It's simple and so complicated
I could walk all day on the railroad track
But there's much more to it than that
You know all of my secret ideas
The ones i'm giving up on and the ones i'll keep
And everybody sees a funny look in our eyes
'Cause we know that we already won the sweepstakes prize
I'd tell you why, but i don't know
It's simple and so complicated
I could walk all day on the railroad track
But there's much more to it than that
I ask you if you ever think that maybe
It's what's inside of us that drives us crazy
Fingers feeling underneath your skin
There's blood and bones and some rivers to fall in
I'd tell you why, but i don't know
It's simple and so complicated
I could walk all day on the railroad track
But there's much more to it than that
I'm so lucky because i asked you once
"What are you doing? Do you wanna come up
For a cup of tea? Come visit with me
We'll play guitars and i'll give you my number"
I'd tell you why, but i don't know
It's simple and so complicated
I could walk all day on the railroad track
But there's much more to it than that
I'd tell you why, but i don't know
It's simple and so complicated
I could walk all day on the railroad track
But there's much more to it than that
-from Mirah's brilliantly titled You Think It's Like This, But Really It's Like This, one of my all-time favorites
You touch the ceiling, you touch the floor
You sparkle and burn but you take your time
And i bet i could carry you across state lines
I'd tell you why, but i don't know
It's simple and so complicated
I could walk all day on the railroad track
But there's much more to it than that
You know all of my secret ideas
The ones i'm giving up on and the ones i'll keep
And everybody sees a funny look in our eyes
'Cause we know that we already won the sweepstakes prize
I'd tell you why, but i don't know
It's simple and so complicated
I could walk all day on the railroad track
But there's much more to it than that
I ask you if you ever think that maybe
It's what's inside of us that drives us crazy
Fingers feeling underneath your skin
There's blood and bones and some rivers to fall in
I'd tell you why, but i don't know
It's simple and so complicated
I could walk all day on the railroad track
But there's much more to it than that
I'm so lucky because i asked you once
"What are you doing? Do you wanna come up
For a cup of tea? Come visit with me
We'll play guitars and i'll give you my number"
I'd tell you why, but i don't know
It's simple and so complicated
I could walk all day on the railroad track
But there's much more to it than that
I'd tell you why, but i don't know
It's simple and so complicated
I could walk all day on the railroad track
But there's much more to it than that
-from Mirah's brilliantly titled You Think It's Like This, But Really It's Like This, one of my all-time favorites
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Hoy!
I am in beautiful Bacolod. Will be in Iloilo this Friday, Nov. 16. Boracay - Saturday, Nov. 17 until maybe, Nov. 19. Manila on Nov. 23 - 25. Flying out on Nov. 25. My mobile: zero nine one six four two one six nine zero eight. I don't have a lot of contact numbers on me, so text me if you want to meet up! Woohoo! See you soon!
I am in beautiful Bacolod. Will be in Iloilo this Friday, Nov. 16. Boracay - Saturday, Nov. 17 until maybe, Nov. 19. Manila on Nov. 23 - 25. Flying out on Nov. 25. My mobile: zero nine one six four two one six nine zero eight. I don't have a lot of contact numbers on me, so text me if you want to meet up! Woohoo! See you soon!
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Blogging from Korea
I am in Incheon. It's about 6.15 am in the morning. I have two minutes left on my 500-won 10-minute accesss. Flight was okay. Watched 3.75 movies! That's a record for me. I didn't feel like sleeping. Had a nasty ham n cheese samwich. The server was nasty, too. Um, I don't understand anything on this browser. I am crazy. Why even blog? Ugh. Gotta remember to wipe my tracks. Don't want some Korean kid hacking into my blog... Aight, peace out.
Oh gosh, horror of horrors. Ran out of time and had to get more coins from the currency exchange desk. Logged back in and this thing was still up. Thank goodness I got the right machine. Imagine how scary that would have been if the next user logs on and my blog pops up. Ugh! Anyways, I have about 30 minutes worth of coins now.
And an hour and half before my flight to Manila. And then a five-hour or so wait at the airport and then an hour-long flight to Bacolod. I guess it gets bearable over time. They should really put massage chairs in this airport, though.
I saw Knocked Up, The Perfect Man (this one was an Italian movie), Once (about a Czech immigrant and a songwriter she meets on the street) and about 3/4 of A Mighty Heart. I think I might watch the rest of A Mighty Heart if they have it on the Korea-Manila flight.
Check back later. Oh wait, this is cool: ㅗ디ㅣㅐ 재깅. 해ㅐ유ㅛㄷ 재깅
I am in Incheon. It's about 6.15 am in the morning. I have two minutes left on my 500-won 10-minute accesss. Flight was okay. Watched 3.75 movies! That's a record for me. I didn't feel like sleeping. Had a nasty ham n cheese samwich. The server was nasty, too. Um, I don't understand anything on this browser. I am crazy. Why even blog? Ugh. Gotta remember to wipe my tracks. Don't want some Korean kid hacking into my blog... Aight, peace out.
Oh gosh, horror of horrors. Ran out of time and had to get more coins from the currency exchange desk. Logged back in and this thing was still up. Thank goodness I got the right machine. Imagine how scary that would have been if the next user logs on and my blog pops up. Ugh! Anyways, I have about 30 minutes worth of coins now.
And an hour and half before my flight to Manila. And then a five-hour or so wait at the airport and then an hour-long flight to Bacolod. I guess it gets bearable over time. They should really put massage chairs in this airport, though.
I saw Knocked Up, The Perfect Man (this one was an Italian movie), Once (about a Czech immigrant and a songwriter she meets on the street) and about 3/4 of A Mighty Heart. I think I might watch the rest of A Mighty Heart if they have it on the Korea-Manila flight.
Check back later. Oh wait, this is cool: ㅗ디ㅣㅐ 재깅. 해ㅐ유ㅛㄷ 재깅
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