excuses excuses

for someone who is so eager to minimize my carbon footprint,
i waste so much water and electricity when taking a hot shower.

it is the one vice i indulge myself in:
it soothes a tired soul and it relieves headaches.
i know i should be getting that 4-minute shower timer.
i can finish in less than that actually, but
there's always the extra 5-minute indulgence of just standing in the shower.

thankful i can compensate though:
i don't use a heater much in these cold days:
i put on warm clothes and recently got myself wheatbags from ebay.

difficulme

sinagang pork ribs for dinner.
thankful for ate josie,
who introduced me to tamarind paste in a jar.

what's the difference between a long soup and a short soup anyway?

solutions

i still cook rice the non-rice-cooker way:
finger measurements, changing heat requirements and all.
in a technology-driven time,
i realized this while lowering the heat and
enjoying the scent of boiling rice.

thankful for old ways.
i don't think i'll be getting a rice cooker anytime soon.

kronos

with 3 consecutive weekends of hosting meals behind us,
i marvel at how liberating a washing machine is.

thankful for friends who take the time to share their lives with us.

catalogue shopping

australia is very print-media oriented.
i think so, given i work in a web-to-print software business.

i compensate my shying away from books with reading ads.
today, i had a good laugh:
"Personal Trainer... My place has a gym. Other fertilities include an outdoor pool, sana..."

bic runga

i sat across 3 reading ladies on my way to work.
one just started with her book,
the younger one was in the middle of hers
and the other lady was almost finished.

tightly pressed lips. deep concentration.
a different world. entirely their own.
and i was in theirs,
constantly going back to mine
musing when would i bring a book...

then the train stopped.
they were replaced by a man
with an aqua-blue ds lite console.
i think i'd like one too.

buttons

train rides can beat apples in waking me up in the morning.
today, an 80ish man, who was carrying a bagpack,
excused himself to be seated in between 2 strangers in the seat in front of me.
i'd say that's unusual.

5 minutes into the ride, he took out an ipod nano,
unlocked the switch, put on his earphones, selected a playlist,
switched the lock back on, leaned back and had fun.

i knew he was having fun as i spent the rest of the ride
staring at the back of his dancing head.
nobody's too old for an orange gadget.

go figure

since march, i have been picking up dropped coins.
most of them are 5-cent ones.
however, one time i got a 2-dollar coin
and a 50-cent recently.
i now have a total of $4.60. i keep them in a jar.

today, i swam 25 meters straight.
when i double that distance, i can start to learn how to surf.