I would like to thank my fraternal twin for hosting this blog for almost 3 years.  Our mother is simply the best and I wish for her to never run out of panty liners happy days.

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Charliepot, UP Casaa with the Papayas, Amsterdam Cruise with Sofie and Donna, with Sha and Donna, Buckingham Palace with Tekya, breakfast with the coyote sisterhood(Bath UK), Rhein River cruise with Sofie, Gillian and teLomi da’byutipul.

“The rule is very simple. Just copy the following entire list of questions and change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then tag and pass it along to other blogging friends. Let’s see how well we can get to know one another!”

1. What is your occupation?  boss ng mafia

2. What color are your socks right now? black

3. What are you listening to right now? carly simon’s ‘like a river’

4. What was the last thing that you ate? gummy bears cheetos and potato chips all at the same time hehehehe

5. Can you drive a stick shift? yes!

6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? pastel green

7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Kuya B lamenting about his gay son again ooops !

8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? si telay at si tekla? - oo ah!

9. Favorite drink? martini, brandy, kapeng barako, gilbey’s gin na inispaykan ng oj 

10. What is your favorite sport to watch? tennis

11. Have you ever dyed your hair? non! pero pag nagkauban ako dadayin ko

12. Pets? an imaginary calico cat and an imaginary owl

13. Favorite food? grilled salmon head and olives

14. Last movie you watched? biloxie blues

15. Favorite Day of the year? favorite ko lahat

16. What do you do to vent anger? dancing the flamenco, riding my bike, talking to trees

17. What was your favorite toy as a child? a strawberry blond doll na mukang basahan na walang pilikmata dahil binubunot ko araw-araw

18. What is your favorite, fall or spring? SPRING sana kaya lang allergic ako sa pollen kaya AUTUMN  na lang

19. Hugs or kisses? hugs pero pag nagbrushyurteeth ok lang na kisses

20. What kind of pie? salmon empanada na gawa ni emily

21. Do you want your friends to email you back? hindi naman kung di importante

22. Who is most likely to respond? mukang walang interesado eh

23. Who is least likely to respond? my imaginary friends, imaginary nga lang kasi!

24. Living arrangements? kanya-kanya sa araw, magkasama pagsapit ng dilim

25. When was the last time you cried? kanikanina lang, naiyak ako sa katatawa sa sarili ko

26. What is on the floor of your closet? packets of desiccant, hats in boxes, love letters in boxes, my kaleidoscope collection

27. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending this to? si krung-krung, kring-kring at krang-krang

28. The friend you have known the shortest amount of time that you are sending this to?  wala 

29. Favorite smell? the scent of trees,  pages of an old book and new book, my kili-kili

30. What inspires you? the purity and innocence of a child, a dignified elderly, humor, socrates, poetry, at kung anu-anong marami pa

31. What are you afraid of? a painful and lingering illness of a loved one, losing my head

32. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? just cheese without the hamburger

33. Favorite car? 1968 mustang

34. Favorite cat breed? i’m unconditional but maybe the alley cats because they’re marginalized and always judged

35. Number of keys on your key ring? 2

36. How many years at your current job? 10

37. Favorite day of the week? Monday

38. How many provinces have you lived in? wala eh, always city

39. How many countries have you been to? 23

I’m tagging Krung, Kring, and Krang

And the man who has the spirit of harmony will be most
in love with the loveliest; but he will not love him
who is of an inharmonious soul?

That is true, he replied, if the deficiency be in his
soul; but if there be any merely bodily defect in
another he will be patient of it, and will love
all the same.

I perceive, I said, that you have or have had
experiences of this sort, and I agree. But let me ask
you another question: Has excess of pleasure any
affinity to temperance?

How can that be? he replied; pleasure deprives a man
of the use of his faculties quite as much as pain.

Or any affinity to virtue in general?

None whatever.

Any affinity to wantonness and intemperance?

Yes, the greatest.

And is there any greater or keener pleasure than that
of sensual love?

No, nor a madder.

Whereas true love is a love of beauty and
order–temperate and harmonious?

Quite true, he said.

Then no intemperance or madness should be allowed to
approach true love?

Certainly not.

Then mad or intemperate pleasure must never be allowed
to come near the lover and his beloved; neither of
them can have any part in it if their
love is of the right sort?

No, indeed, Socrates, it must never come near them.

*lifted from elbf

*love between 2 men

tina-tag ko naman si krung-krung at si kring-kring.

zengarden;drunkenmaster;nawawalang bata;pinkpigsiopao;gluttonia;tonkatsudon;pained;daking

A Buddhist Monk performing a chant while pounding on a wooden drum, which is a part of a traditional Buddhist funeral rite. I have commited an act of blasphemy for taking this photo of him -a stolen shot of course- doing this sacred ceremony, but I just couldn’t resist because I wanted to show this to my dad. I also videotaped this and will post it on my other blog as soon as I get it sorted out.

We finally buried him last Sunday, and by that I mean putting his bones and ashes in their family tomb. He is now at peace and happy, I suppose, being together now with the one woman he truly loved - his wife, who passed away nearly twenty years ago. L is an orphan now, but at least he got me.  

And now I can be back to blogging again; I have also ended my wallowing in sadness and self-inflicted depression.

at 55 yrs. old, coaching young olympic skiers

  August 24, 1929 - December 22, 2007

see you again.

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I will be back after the holidays.

good health and peace to all !