am listening

Learning to trust your intuition is key if you're going to realise your personal power. Too often, you let others tell you what you should be feeling and thinking. By isolating yourself from the crowd for just an hour each day, you will begin to tune into your subconscious and understand who you really are. Some radical changes will result from your newfound independence. Break free of restrictive relationships and situations.

Interesting week

and to think it's only Tuesday.

First time
It was my first time to be in a mobilization dispersed with teargas. Yes, strange but true (but knowing me, maybe not at all strange). ... On occasions that involve or potentially involve violence, men always seem more "trigger-happy" if you get my drift. Many of them will provoke violence, heedlessly, un-mindful of the consequences. Mothers will want to stay safe, always thinking of the safety and security of their children, knowing that there is more at stake than what is immediately visible in a heated moment.

I wish more men would think of their children.

Questions
(ah basta ah :D ... questions...emailed to the universe)

Can you feel the wind blowing?

at this moment

Oooops, not my house. Next, please :-). (Dahon, this reminds me of Claire and Henry house-hunting and Henry running to the back window to look at the view.)

HB, Thanks for the support :D.
Rudie, Thanks for sharing :D. Enjoy _____! (Well you do, but I just want to say it, haha!)
Roomie, You're madaldal but I love you anyway :-D.
and you, I miss you ;-) (MWEHEHEHEHE!).

Talking to myself and feelin'... Hanging around, some kind of happy clown, rainy days and Tuesdays ...make me happy!

Yum Things To Come

As I complained to my friend who won't show me his pics of his new apartment in-the-works, it's the journey not the destination :D. And I've got the entire New Age-psych-spiritual-gobbledygook universe backing me up on that one, so there! :D

I, myself, am excited. Currently anticipating many things yum.

We hope to move into a new house sometime soon, and it's taking all my willpower not to start packing my bags, and labeling boxes and bags (i.e. third floor, second floor, third floor). I have almost written down the guest list for the housewarming party, and plan to ask for flowers, plants, and good wishes (*GRIN*). I am ready to get a tape measure and see where my favorite blue bookshelf is going to go.

Also. I am letting loose a journal into the world, in honor of Rudie's birthday. Came across a copy of the journal version of Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much and want to share it with those who can feel it ;-). Told the Priestess I couldn't possibly keep it, since there is no way that I am a "woman who does too much!" Hehehe!

Was going to give it to you Rudie, but am still giving it to you too, in a way. It's such a huge book and am sure you'll be happier to have everyone involved in it anyway, share-share-love-love person that you are :D.

Ok folks, have just the kind of week that you need ;-) (no pressure for it to have to be happy!). Let's anticipate together the coming full moon in Capricorn. It's on Friday, and we're on! ;-)

Gone walking ;-)

One my truly serious reasons for not wanting to move into a condo a few kilometers from my own present personal galaxy is because it would deprive me of the pleasure of walking to the corner store (ang tindahan sa kanto), our own "personal" 24-hour convenience store that happens to sell my favorite choclit for quick comfort, ehehehe (one of these days you might think I need to be on those Oprah episodes on emotional eaters).

Particularly on rainy stop dry stop rainy stop cool Saturdays like today. Am off walking and will take a raincheck on writing about this Sunday Saturday.*

*I'll leave you with that assignment :-P. When does a Saturday become a Sunday? :D

And happy birthday today, Rudie Mae Brown. Found you another birthday gift. Dang, but I already got you one before this one. I hate it when this happens! Hehehe, Capricorns!

Just bloomin' ;-)

Hihihihi. Am such a! Such a distracted pansy ! Such a head in the clouds woman! If you need me, or need me to do something for you, you better trip me so I can glance up, and go, "huh? oh yes! you wanted the ..." And I bet, I'd be happy to do it for you :D, and hopefully, I don't lose the strand of ... doing ... it.

Oh, I'm a happy Viola ... for the most part. ... Oh, ok, I admit it. I AM a happy Viola. Grin. There's just no explanation. Well, there is ... but it's not really THE explanation ... am really just happy... Like an internet addict floating from link to link, getting mesmerized (word of the month), oohing, ahhing, soaking it all in, and going my way merrily again, with no direction in mind ... But yes, I am an internet addict. Hehehe!

After a refreshing trip last week, I had some TRULY BORNOT days, where I am so glad for you if you did not cross my path at all (hehehe!). It was so bad it reminded me of when I was young and Capricorn, instead of 30++ and Capricorn :-D.

Then I started the week with a list of Things To Do, all very good intentions. But then, there came Another List of Things To Do, not of my doing, but that's just the way it is. So now I end the week with my Original List of Things To Do, having had to do The Other List of Things To Do. But what the heck, I don't really care. What I mean is, I don't really mind it :D. There is still the weekend to do some doing.

In the meantime, I surf and blog, and I am happppppy.

When a period is not punctuation.
The Priestess has this thing when she hears/ feels something "pop" (oh, it's not for me to really explain about this "pop" ;-)) each month, and it feels some kind of alay, an achy feeling that's not painful but is uncomfortable, as if a part of you is tired and just wants to crawl under the sheets in a cool airconditioned room (but then again we can't really have parts of ourselves going off to sleep, can we, leaving other parts behind??? Unless we were manananggals or something?).

So about two weeks ago, I felt this "alay" feeling somewhere in my abdominal area, and the Priestess and I guessed that this must mean that in two weeks, I was getting my period. I mean I've certainly felt this feeling before, but am only noticing it now, what with the Priestess and her "poppings" (hehehe!).

Yesterday, I got my period. And today, I woke up to a cellphone reminder, saying simply, "Period." A reminder I set two weeks ago when I felt that feeling.

Wala lang :-D. The wonders of being in touch with one's body.

Jolly Meal
Like this afternoon, I got REALLY hungry. Hehehe! But we were in the middle of a mob (a rally, if you will... a protest-action... a traffic hazard... or an expression of one's politics... or standing up to the subversion of the will of the people! so there! hahaha ;-)) so it wasn't the thing to disappear in the middle of the noise barrage, and pop (:-D) into the nearest Jollibee, the one at the corner of the spot on which we were so mobilized.

But anyway, after the mob, we did go into the Jollibee, and once again I was a happy Viola with my jolly hotdog and chocolate ice cream shake, and a regular glass of diet coke. Hahaha! (and a table full of jolly officemates ;-) too)

Life is often such pure wonder ;-)!

And a diary, too.
Oh, and after all this blogging, got this urge some days ago to dig out my green journal from someone from years ago and start scrawling away... you know, with ink and all, the old-fashioned way ;-).

A Lazy View

This is what the beach on Samal facing Davao City, looks like when you're a lazy pansy, who opted to put her feet up on a chair to read the Da Vinci Code instead of running straight into the sea :-D. (Swam later :-D).

Image236 Originally uploaded by Pansy.

Refreshed

Davao was good for me.

It was a happy Viola that flew in from Davao, late on Saturday night. Dressed as me in the most-est -- low-rise camel shorts, light green top, and sandals -- PLUS a splendid red-orange sarong printed with fishes in gold (originally a present for someone, but obviously I've claimed it, hehe!) – I felt, REFRESHED. Unlike other trips that would leave me bereft, lonely, tired or disconnected, this time around, I felt FULL. How so very different from the sniffling, tired, and harassed me that flew off at break of dawn on Wednesday.

Aside from the obvious benefits of being refreshed, this feeling is noteworthy because my rune reading mentioned it -- that I would take a trip and that this trip would be good. I didn’t expect it as it seemed like it was going to be nondescript travel. But I was wrong.

Scorpio Boss
It was my first time to work closely with the Scorpio boss. I kept feeling my way thru it, not sure if the Capricorn staff was supposed to take care of the Scorpio boss or not. I was at my diplomatic friendly best, all supportive and helpful. And Scorpio boss was fun to be with -- boy, was I glad she was in a good mood! Her passionate self spent four hours talking, and gamely singing and partying with the other chapter folks that night.

It was good for us both to get to know each other, and work together.

Through the overhead projector, dimly.

The Davao Activity
My main purpose was as one-person reference manual on all things pertaining to our national office. I am happy to say I was of help, and that it was a good thing that I was there to clarify some things, and to give relevant information.

I was also happy to be there. It was a fruitful exercise in organizational diagnosis and strengthening, and I think only good things can come from the Davao people undergoing such a process. The facilitators were very good. They know and appreciate the importance of our organization; they are steeped in the movement, and had organizational tools and tricks at their fingertips. And none of the protective pride and arrogance that may come with having too much of a stake in the process and the outcome. Plus, they were quite funny.

I also enjoyed the rare novelty of listening to Cebuano/ Bisaya. It has peculiarities and humor all its own.

Post Planning
I contemplated long and hard on de-virginizing my taste buds and tasting durian fruit for the first time (also at the vehement urging of Scorpio boss, a durian fanatic). I was almost going to with the Davao chapter people, but I was overtaken by events.

I met up with Pisces Girl and her Davao friends. Or more accurately, met up with her friends and then some four hours later, with Pisces girl and more friends. The four hours in between involved meeting up with nice friendly strangers and taking an exciting ride in a nice car through kilometers of bananas. The exciting part was this: we were almost running on empty (read: gas indicator blinking red) in a deserted part of the highway near the Davao Penal Colony (read: heinous crime prisoners said to walk “freely” thru the banana fields) unfamiliar to all three of us in the car, and with no cellphone coverage. Think __________________(insert title of horror movie here). Hehe!

The next day, we trooped to the nearby beach on Samal Island, part of the magic that is Davao – beach five minutes away, and mountains fifteen minutes away.

Thank Goddess for the fish sister and her friends, I was able to experience a little bit more on this trip. And hence, at the end, was refreshed.

Hope to get back there sometime, for a longer look-see, with more natives to share the beauty of their home city with me.

Thank you to everyone who took care of the goat girl -- from friends back home and in Germany who kept me company thru lonely moments at the convent, to the accommodating Davao chapter people especially its tireless Sec-Gen, and to Pisces girl (and her friends) with whom I share many things divine.

Postscript


My Stash. Obviously, I went amok for sarongs, brilliant aquas, oranges, soft pinks, royal blues! Aaaaaaaah!!!!!!!! Heaven is a confusing place. Made it back in time for the afternoon session, shaking from hunger, blinded by sarong nirvana (hehehe!). Disclaimer: People asked me to buy for them, so it wasn’t all mine, let me make it clear ;-).

As if from a novel. L said that the durian season in Davao is also a season of death. Apparently, the ecstatic pleasure of eating durian – the overpowering aroma, the unique taste, the heat that suffuses one’s body – comes with the risk of ostentatiously upping one’s blood pressure, leading to many an untimely death of a durian-loving denizen.

Short Notes from Last Sunday

Psychic-ese, part 2
(Part 1 has yet to be written because life has to be lived :D)

Some sisters and I (not nuns :-D) were talking about psychics and readings, and how the best psychic is the one who is grounded in the person’s reality/ persona/ energy, and the best readings are often those that are interactive because the psychic is able to fine-tune and adjust their “radars”/ third-eye/ images to you. (Skeptics will recommend that you give no clues to test if the psychics can really read but this is often counter-productive. Hehe! A bit like karma, you get what you put out!)

a prelude to a friend’s post on why she interrupts
I thought about this after having a conversation with a dear friend, wherein I was verbalizing my 25 cents worth (oh, and they’re often worth quite more than that, hehe) on some of her very personal issues. And I thought how helpful it is when she jumps right in and says a quick reaction or two to whatever it is that I am saying whenever we are having one of these conversations. Because then I need not cover half of the universe of possibilities, formulate an entire theory, or gallop away on my high horse. Instead, we are grounded, real, non-judgmental and supportive, and are able to more quickly offer our fine-tuned kindness and support, and our different perspectives.

For quite often we need our friends to see the forest when we only see the trees or to see the trees when we are mesmerized by the forest. Or when we think hurt, and forget to think love. Or think love, without thinking anger.

Shoe stories
Now you know that I am not really so very deep :-P after all

I just love it when after trying so hard to wear a pair of shoes, and not succeeding for one reason or the other – just not my mood this year, too bright, too dull, too whatever – I come back to it after a year or so (it could take years, believe me), and suddenly that old half-forgotten pair of shoes is my new best friend.

This has happened to my brown sneakers that I bought in Amsterdam in 1998, that was my best friend last year. This last week or so, it’s the red pair. :-P

Break even
Have a cold. So went to the grocery store for emergency supplies: tissues, box of premium orange juice, calamansi, oatmeal, nonfat milk, vitamin C and iron supplements (for my memory hehe), wheat bread.

And a chocolate bar. Hehe. Chocolate for comfort and calamansi for nutrition. Perfect combination, affirmed the Priestess.

Right. Am not supposed to drink coffee as this sucks out the body’s Vitamin C that I sorely need right now. But I can’t stand not drinking coffee. So I figured, with all my vitamin C replenishments, and the coffee, I’d just about break even. What? I won’t get well? :-P

Single, hard-headed and partially up to no good.

Davao, Wed June 16

Eyes crossing in and out for sleepiness!

Bad Day for Blogs

Am sick again! I have too much fun.

Hehehe! I think am enjoying this bad day concept too much such that it can't be a bad day anymore. SIGH.

Nurse, add more calamansi to the IV please.

P.S. That btw is my gmail. Anyone else want gmail?

The Late and the Divine

An excerpt from my horoscope for today wants to talk to all of those who color my world:

Have patience and compassion for those that have problems being on time. Some folks may not be there on the dot, but they provide the world with other things besides punctuality.

HEHEHE! How self-serving.

The Obligatory Harry Potter 3 Post

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

1. I agree with samurai girl's fervent feelings about Daniel Radcliffe. Didn’t that scene where he was in bed, reading under the covers just make you want to slip into the bed with him?! … And those lips! (smirk, dirty old woman alert :D)

2. Remember that scene when Harry was on scary bird (sorry didn’t catch his name :-D, I’m a simpleton), flying low over this wonderful lake by Hogwarts? Remember he was holding on tight? Well it was because the Egyptian Temple Priestess screamed out, “Pangapyot!” to him, just at that moment. (And if you had a time tunnel, you could go back and catch that moment when the Egyptian Temple Priestess advised Harry.) But the thing is, this is the first time I’ve learned that Harry can understand Ilonggo. Hihihi… wizards!

3. Also, I ruminate on that stone, that stone that Hermione threw at herself thru the window. Just imagine! If it hadn’t looked like the stone that someone had thrown at her thru the window, then she might never have thought to throw it! Nice thoughtfully recognizable stone :D

4. This time tunneling thing. I love it. It’s so Time Traveler’s Wife. Thank you for lending it to me Dahon via the legal book-smuggling efforts of the aforementioned Priestess :D.

5. You know when you scream at the scary parts? It’s the best! It makes every peso of your P65 peso worth it. Even if it makes the people in front of you look over their shoulders with alarming frequency. Hihihihi. Besides, it wasn’t just me. It was also (mostly?) the Egyptian Temple Priestess! And I bet she would blame the Dementors for it!! Scary!!!

Oh what fun :D. Especially after having cleaned out a 16-page document the whole afternoon.

P.S. I haven’t read the book yet. What an illiterate person I am.

My Elements

Thanks bestfriend witch for the quiz. hehe! I agree that I am the least fire than anything else. Am I really more air than water? What do you think sisters?

Find out your elements!. Take the Ivillage quiz!

Am I Right for Him?
(What kind of question is that?! Eeeewww! Rather, is he right for me? And just who is he??? LOL!)

Whatever your Sun Sign may be, you most likely display a mixture of energies based on how the four astrological Elements configure themselves in your chart. Most people feel primarily one or two Elements' influence in their lives; finding out which ones rule you can indicate what types of mate you attract and how you match up with them! Just remember -- whatever your Sun Signs or ruling Elements are, there's nothing that a little love and a whole lot of understanding can't smooth over!

My Results
You scored 40% Earth
You approach life in an Earthy way -- you're grounded, sensual, practical and reliable. Perhaps you have some Earth Signs in your birth chart. If your Mr. Perfect is an Earth Sign -- a Taurus, a Virgo or a Capricorn -- he's probably attracted to you for your dependability and loyalty, not to mention your utter sensuality. The Water Signs -- Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces -- also make great matches for Earth Signs; if your man is a Water Sign, he's a bit of an emotional dreamer who appreciates you for the way you provide him with a firm, steady base. If he's a Fire or an Air Sign, yours might be a case of "opposites attract"! If he's an Aries, a Leo or a Sagittarius, he might find your relaxed, sensual nature a bit too, well, relaxed; if he's a Gemini, a Libra or an Aquarius, he might be interested in something other than your witty repartee.


You scored 30% Air
You've got the markings of an Air Sign -- a Gemini, a Libra or an Aquarius. You may have some Air in your birth chart, since you tend to approach things from an intellectual point of view and can't sustain an attraction to someone who doesn't stimulate you mentally, first and foremost. For that reason, your Mr. Right might be an Air Sign as well, as yours would truly be a meeting of the minds (and wits). If he's a Fire Sign -- an Aries, a Leo or a Sagittarius -- he might not be as into art and literature as you are, but he's still likely to appreciate your scintillating wit and fun, social nature! If he's an Earth or a Water Sign, you two might be meeting on some other level. If he's a Taurus, a Virgo or a Capricorn, he loves your mind but might wish it were a bit more focused or dedicated; if he's a Cancer, a Scorpio or a Pisces, he might try to get you to spend more time at home with him, emoting.


You scored 20% Water
You may feel Water's influence in your birth chart, since you certainly feel it in your daily life -- you're sensitive, emotional and deep, possessed of a poetic and romantic nature. If your man is a Water Sign as well -- a Cancer, a Scorpio or a Pisces -- you're probably a great match, since you share an intuitive connection and you both have compassionate, understanding natures! If he's an Earth Sign -- a Taurus, a Virgo or a Capricorn -- he loves you for your deeply emotional nature, and loves to provide you with the grounding influence you need. If he's a Fire or an Air Sign, yours may not have been the most natural or immediate of connections -- which isn't to say it can't work between you. If he's an Aries, a Leo or a Sagittarius, he might find you a bit too clingy and sensitive for his tastes; if he's a Gemini, a Libra or an Aquarius, he might be a bit put off or intimidated by the emotional way in which you approach the world.


You scored 10% Fire
You've got lots of Fire energy motivating your actions and desires; you may have some Fire in your birth chart. If the man of your dreams is a Fire Sign -- an Aries, a Leo or a Sagittarius -- your connection will be truly hot and a lot of fun. However, your relationship might just be combustible, so watch out that you don't burn one another alive! If your Mr. Right is an Air Sign -- a Gemini, a Libra or an Aquarius -- it's also a good match; Air fuels Fire and helps it spread, and Fire Signs always keep Air Signs interested and guessing! If your man is an Earth or a Water Sign, yours might be a bit less than a perfectly smooth and flowing relationship. If he's a Taurus, a Virgo or a Capricorn, your heady energy and risky behavior might put him on edge; if he's a Cancer, a Scorpio or a Pisces, you might be a bit too insensitive for him -- though he's so sensitive himself, he probably won't say anything about it.

And that's my fun for today :-D.

P.S. Champorado or choco donut?

Why I love OPM, part 1

(It may really only be part one, but who cares?)

Sixteen years (as in exactly!) after moving into the metro as a young provincial lass (not exactly, but kinda), I have never and will never (not that I really want to) metamorphose into the sophisticated worldly urbanite.

For one, I will always have a soft, often gleefully enthusiastic spot for OPM! And will always do “tangkilikin ang pelikulang Pilipino!”*

Because don't you just feel that it is in OPM that one can find the sweet Pinoy soul? Our gentle and loving essence? As in! You know.

It’s like this old Rey Valera song, that goes:

Tandaan mo na lang ang sasabihin ko sa 'yo
Ang pag-ibig kong ito’y di magbabago
Kahit malayo ka sa piling ko
Umula’t bumagyo ayos lang
Wag kang mangangamba ayos lang
Kumusta ka mahal ko ayos ba
Sana’y di pa rin nagbabago…

______
*As of this moment, my goal though is "tangkilikin ang pelikulang French," even just one or two!

P.S. Kumusta ka mahal ko, ayos ba? ;-)

See you later, girl

Last night, had that traditional-landline-to-landline-giggle-giggle-complain-about-everything-because-I'm-happy-anyway* phone conversation with the-one-who-got- married-on-my-birthday-and-who-lives-right-across-the-globe** girlfriend.

Thank you for calling. And follow the links! Hehe! (still your usual bossy Capricorn friend :-P)

*Because if you were really unhappy you probably wouldn't be complaining, you'd just be in silent despair.

**If you stick a very very long stick from Panay Island, Philippines and push with all your might, it'll come out at her Germany hehe!

Long locks

(to the tune of Francis M: Cold Summer Nights, round and round it goes, but isn’t that Spandau Ballet?)

I have long hair. It’s official. And I am the official saying so (hehe!). It goes past my very short neck (hehe) and bobs about somewhere on my shoulders.

I keep noticing it because with the onset of the monsoon season, I no longer feel the need for the refreshing ponytail (oh but I love ponytails too!). Especially because when I rush out of the house in the morning, my hair is still some kind of damp. And after lunch, especially when there’s a typhoon, it’s still damp. Caramba!

Feminist that I am (oh yes :D ), I have always been open to suggestions made by male SO’s about my hair. I don’t own it as much as I own my shoes so I kinda go ahead and try what they are fantasizing about (ehehe). A few years ago, I had it cut barber-short. I liked it too. In fact, it suits me better than long.

But now’s the time to grow it long. I like the feel of it when am in spaghetti’s. Or spaghettini’s. I wish I could say, I have long hair, in the sense of “girl, ang haba ng hair mo, abot hanggang floooor.” (expression used to mean a girl is getting attention that she wanted, or that she likes?). But, that is not yet true. One of these days, though, it shall happen ;-), you betcha.

Am an optimist, and I admit it ;-)! It hurts less and feels better. I highly recommend it :-D.

But in the meantime, am shampooing and brushing, and “it follows” (sumusunod sa galaw mo, sumusunod ;-))!

P.S. Sorry roomie but your energizing shampoo doesn’t do it for me :D. Still, I believe you, for you. Happy birthday tomorrow!

Follow Your Bliss

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.

Gazillions

Gazillions to do!!!!!
Pansy, pay attention!!!!

House-hunting, maybe

As intutive reader Bong said (this is all my own words so please excuse him if I get it all wrong), imagine what it is that you want (in this case he was referring to work), and how you would feel doing what you want, and feel that feeling. The opportunity will manifest itself. The universe listens.

Walked around in the rain yesterday afternoon, looking at townhouses. (I love walking around in the rain even if it's so tiring! Hehe!). It made me remember all the reasons why roomie and I chose this apartment, three years ago, over the others that we looked at.
1. The bedroom windows take up one whole wall.... airy!!!!
2. There is air and light from both sides of downstairs.
3. The bedrooms were bigger than most of the usual apartments.
4. The kitchen counters were longer than most of the usual apartments.
5. Being part of a compound adds to a feeling of safety, that there are others around you. It's not immediately the street!

There are really only two things that could be better where I live right now. Closet space and the cats!!!!!

But here's my working townhouse.
Airy, with large windows. Has a porch, has only two floors, but three large bedrooms. Has an airy area at back for doing the laundry. My clothes must get their amount of sun :-)! Kitchen too that gets some air, to dissipate all the cooking smells. Huge closet space and some space that can be made into a work area. Does not need to be air-conditioned (ahhh, the cost of electricity!).

In two words: airy and bright!

See you, house of momma ;-)

Saturday

One myth shatters.
The memories shift.

Still,
many matters are clarified.

in the stones

Here's some of what my rune reading on the 21st of May had to say.

That this is a period to learn to be self-reliant. To try not to give and receive help, to not reach out, to not be abused. To keep to myself for a while. This was the theme, and the runes say that this is important.

(So if anyone notices that I've been keeping out of your hair lately, this is it. Not a bad thing. Just my For Now.)

Paradoxically, the runes also said that I should be alone in crowds, and not by myself in my room. I write this up because one of my most peaceful, happiest moments lately was lying in the hammock -- a most splendid comfy duyan -- at Terra Rikka, reading Josephine B., and listening to my colleagues drink, sing and carouse (laughing by myself at their jokes! hihihi) at the next table. To be in company and yet not be company!

Also, I have noticed that I tend to be happier at home when roomie is around somewhere. Or if I know that am going to go out and breathe different air with a friend at some point in the day, rather than have the whole day to myself (even though I need to sit down and write a gazillion documents, and for this I need to be alone for long stretches :-D. Or get a laptop and work at a coffee shop, and get mugged on the way home. Hehehe!).

Other stuff that came up, noted down here in a rush of words: lovelife (what you sow you reap, so you sow good, reap good in a year), female authority figures are good (follow what your boss has to say), yes there is enough resources in the family on the matter of houses, there's going to be strange communication from someone from your past (hmmm, did that just happen yesterday. maybe?), partnership with someone but not about love will be fab.

Corrections and additions might come care of the owner of the lost and found green notebook :D

TMaTD Friday

The Divine

Had a date this am ;-).

With one of the only two (or four?) people in the world who can summon me across Metro Manila on a Friday morning (not on time though, hehe!). Daddy-O.

GRIN. Spent a few hours on updates on the Towers of the Philippines and their various antics -- the comic, the tragic, and the heartwarming. As anyone from a large, extended family knows, it's always a bit Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits-like, very magic realism.

[aside: and having just recently emerged, blinking, from the years of the French Revolution via part one of the fictionalized version of Josephine Bonaparte's diaries, life is always a bit the same through the centuries!]


The Mundane

1. Do I eat oatmeal before a party? Am sooo hungry, and I love milky oatmeal on a cold rainy day. But dinner-party's starting in an hour!!!

2.
TMaTD: hmmm this is not healthy behavior ... (talking about TMaTD clicking activities :-P)
TMaTD: fax who cares ... (gives up on self-judgment, indulges anyway)
thevelvetd: there's no such thing as snooping on the internet ... (supportive)
This is how stalkers are created.

3. Oh, and my copy of the Da Vinci Code is lying desolate in the postal office. I just got the notice today. It awaits me! (thanks to the kind Capricorn soul who sent it :-) ). Your rewards will reverberate from this lifetime to the next ;-).

P.S. hehe!

Dancing behind closed doors

One of the frills of being alone in an office room is dancing to Michael Jackson (that alleged perv hehehe!) to your heart's content, without anyone knowing!

We are the world, we are the future .... HUH?!? Hahahaha.

Dogged Evening

For the third time in the month of May, Ive found myself having to announce (declare? explain? ASSERT!) to the next door neighbors askal dog that I live here. And therefore could he please quit barking and move away from my gate so I could get in?

To Whom It May Concern

:-P :D :-) teee heee heee

An important matter on names:
I'm on a baptizing spree, and have named myself different names for different people (just this moment and maybe only until 12 midnight). I am Maria Eula to the Lioness because we are new non-Catholic fans of Mary. I am fat eula sings with the eqyptian priestess because I also must have a name only for her blog, and if you will visit her blog, you'll know why (no there isn't a fat picture of me there, but there's a poem and it's not about me :D hehe! but i can relate with it, but more widely ;-) ).

Ahh, but I am sweetheart to myself. Hehehehe! And will always be HB to HB (unless I forget and remember our real names! :-D).

Sightings

My friends have been in the company of my ex-bfs in this past week. What a happy thought!!!! There's Proof! These men - well, 2 -- exist! I once had a lovelife!

Hehehehehe! [pansy chuckling, poking fun at self].

122 years ago

Maybe it's the way a pansy in the fields looks up at the sky, that celestial events are so fascinating. Here's what astrologer Kelli says about next week.

Rare Transit of Venus: June 8, 2004
Get ready for an extremely special, very rare astronomical event: On Tuesday, June 8, the silhouette of Venus will cross the disc of the Sun. It's like an extraordinary kind of eclipse -- the last time it happened was in 1882. This won't happen again until 2012, and after that not until 2117.

Astrologically speaking, this rarity has some amazing implications. The life-giving Sun represents consciousness, while Venus symbolizes the feminine -- the power of love, relating and consensus; the principles of diplomacy and protocol; artistic endeavors; and (last but not least!) money or value. With Venus so tightly aligned with the Sun, these ideas are likely to be very much in the zeitgeist. Look for women of power (Condoleezza Rice, Martha Stewart or Hillary Clinton, perhaps) to be in the news -- or issues of women's power. Important partnerships may be announced in the financial world, or a milestone in world currency, or news about conduct or propriety. Venus is a lover, not a fighter, so this transit could also be promising in terms of a worldwide peace movement.

On a personal level, relationships may be profoundly influenced, so be mindful about matters of the heart -- be sure to balance the give-and-take. Bear in mind, too, that Venus is retrograde during this period, so things may be going on beneath the surface in the love and relating department. This may not be the best time to make permanent decisions about partnerships (though you may be tempted to!). For best results, keep the lines of communication -- and your heart -- wide open.

'Tis June

Get into the habit of believing. - egroups horoscope. I LIKE that. [full smile]

As for my lovelife, "there may be competition you're not aware of. If you don't make a bold move soon, someone could steal your beloved away." - Russell Grant horoscope. I DON'T LIKE that. [ominous toothy grin]