and the day came and went

we celebrated my birthday last night with the family. andaming kids, andaming pagkain. for a moment there i felt like i was 6. :)

the law has come a long way

"... knowing for certaine, that the law is unknowne to him that knoweth not the reason thereof, and that the known certaintie of the law is the safetie of all."

-Sir Edward Coke, circa 1823
The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England
Section 395a.

i miss my manang.

truly

You are Ocean Blue

You're both warm and practical. You're very driven, but you're also very well rounded. You tend to see both sides to every issue, and people consider you a natural diplomat.

What Color Blue Are You?

renski you're contagious.

Your Hair Should Be Orange

Expressive, deep, and one of a kind. You pull off "weird" well - hardly anyone notices.

What's Your Funky Inner Hair Color?

question

is it too early to have birthday blues?

all is right in the world

sabi ko na nga ba may sayad ako

nung isang araw, panay ang dikit sa kin nung inaanak kong si imogen. pero masungit siya sa ibang tao. at nung aalis na ko, iyak ang bata.

kaibigan ko: talaga naman. walang paltos. panay ang dikit sa yo ng mga bata.

ako: oo nga eh. siguro, nung past life ko, isa akong dede.

yun lang. sayad.

nyeta

daming kimchi sa pilipinas. syet.

...

one of the most relaxing things for me is driving. when i'm depressed, angry, or even when i'm deliriously happy.

like cooking, it's something i know how to do, and do well. so it doesn't really need much thinking on my part. i just go into driving mode and head out. i always feel better after the drive ('cept maybe if i got stuck in traffic), specially with kojak. he and i are in sync.

i look at the road stretched out ahead of me and i actully feel my head clear and the farther i go, the better i feel. at the end of the drive i can face the world again.

but you know what? sometimes there just isn't enough road.

dahil araw araw kang bumibisita dito....

HI JO!

and counting

happy 46th wedding anniversary mommy and daddy.

i look at you and i believe that forever is possible. no matter what.

drag vinci code

after all the hype and the months of waiting, i finally watched da vinci code.

my friends and i caught the last full show at gateway. the cinemas were packed (although there were about 6 cinemas showing the movie) and we got sucky seats (row Q1-Q4) because we reserved late.

i watched the trailers eagerly, in anticipation of the movie that caused so much uproar.

alas. despite two cups of coffee (this amount is usually enough to keep me awake the whole night, and i have to kill the insomnia with alcohol), i fell asleep soon after they turned away from the us embassy, woke up after they left the vault, fell asleep while they were in teabing's house, woke up in london... by this time the power naps i had gotten were taking effect. i was wide awake. well at least i think i was. i finished the movie.

i'm disappointed. the pace was slow and the acting left much to be desired. all in all, a drag. perhaps if i hadn't read the book first i would have seen it through. but i did read the book and the movie sucked.

but then again i was asleep half the time. so i suppose i'm going to have to watch it again (courtesy of our friendly neighborhood pirates) then i'll get back to you. maybe it will be better then.

in the meantime i lie in wait for x-men III. hugh jackman is there. in my book that's enough to make a movie interesting.

mga munting bata sa munting buhangin

joined the production team. team building thingie (hehe). we cooked up a storm.


swept the house.








wreaked havoc in the water.
left the following day.








it was a lot of fun and for a moment there we were all little kids again. mga munting bata sa munting buhangin. :P o sige na nga, mga malalaking bata sa munting buhangin.

sigh

after all this time, you can still stop my heart with a stare...