The Joy of Simple Pleasures

I love the good life. A good movie, excellent food, pleasure trips, dazzling music, brilliant books, company of exceptional people. But then again, who doesn’t?

I had watched the Carl Sagan DVD several times that I had to re read Einstein and Hawking books again. I had read Anne Rice novels for quite a bit too much that I am not ready to read another from a different genre yet.

I guess watching those planetary documentaries and star formations makes my mind wander a bit, off to faraway galaxies that are yet to be discovered. I guess reading those poetic but dark and vampiric literary novels calms and settles down my nerves into a state of self-induced euphoria of sorts.

Living in a big city does that. It was so blazing fast that every time you get a chance to slow down, you will slow down. Or maybe I was just preternaturally inclined to these kinds of stuff.

Life itself was so fast I personally find it hard to catch up. Workloads, schedules, kids growing up, me getting old. I think the latter is what made my mind always wander off. Like I’ve said before, after my 30th birthday, I just stopped counting.

One time, I had a chance to visit Neil and Grace who were then staying in Laguna Hills. It was a bit far from where I am but I don’t mind the drive. They were my buddies since our college days. That day they we drove into a park with lots of birds I thought I was in a movie set.

They were wise enough to bring lots of breads and crumbs of cookies to feed these lovely fowls. It was so damn relaxing. I felt like a child feeding a whole pack of newborns, all of them wanting, waiting for me to feed them.


I even toss a bunch of pieces of morsels in the air. Some would fly to the sky and catch it in mid-air which, for me, was totally awesome. It was like playing a video game. It was pretty much watching star wars or something. We were like kids in a swan lake just playing around.


Ahhh.. The joy of simple pleasures.

Blogger in Review: The Evil Chick with Woobies

Continuing my review of blogger friends I met online, here is Evilwoobie, a busy mom who manages her job (luckily) at home.

She first noted some comments on my other blog where one visitor commented in French to which I replied in kind. She has had formal education on the language and was eager to have somebody to talk to. Not somebody to talk to, but somebody to talk with using French.

Like they said, when you don't use it, you get rusty a bit.

I, of course, visited her site and what initially caught my attention was her gothic webpage lay-out. Her website is Evilwoobie.com. I did found out that she was also a political activist back in her college days in UP, so we both found some common grounds. I never thought that the woman with the good looks would turn out to have an even better intellect.

But I am not just traversing on the personality of the author of successful sites like Evilwoobie and Mom by Choice, I am also really impressed by the way she writes. Not only is she a prolific writer, she is obviously good at it too. If you go check out her sites, you would find some, if not all, information that are very relevant.

From astrology to gaming, from parenting to dating and relationships. She is an expert. Talk about Dr. Margie Holmes and Dr. Phil combined. I guess that was why both of us clicked. We both had been there, done that.

I now jokingly tout her to be my very own PR manager. With her regular comments on major sites advertising my blogs and thus creating added traffic to my blog sites, I am thus lucky to have her as an online buddy.

Living On The Edge

Living in a big city is like living on the edge everyday.

You program yourself accordingly. You set up your life around work, not the other way around it. You sleep according to what is left of your day. If you don’t go according to as planned, you will lose whatever sleep you can be able to afford. That means, going back to work without sleep, with literally a hazy view of things.

By the time you are able to sleep, you’ll wake up feeling not refreshed, but more tired. You will still feel you needed more. But then again, you have to go back to work. And that means another cycle of what you’ve just been through.

You do this pre-programmed routine and you’ll end up just like me. A mumbling zombie. A walking timebomb waiting to blow his lid off. Just one tick, and about ready to explode.

The driving is worse. Once you enter the freeways, you’ll probably think you chanced upon a living maze, a challenging puzzle. It reminds me of the Atari games I used to play with my rich playmate back home when nobody had personal computers yet. We always play Asteriods. Now all I need is to think about it, dodging cars and patrol cars instead of space rocks.

By the end of my 20-minute drive, I had no choice but light another cigar to calm my stressed belly, which unfortunately would give me more stress by clogging up my lungs and airways.

I can’t wait to get out of the city. Now if I could get a view of my moon now, please?

Blogging For Everyone

This new craze had been hitting the cyberspace for quite some time now. There is no end in sight. With over 3 million blogsites up and running, and hundreds of thousands new ones cropping up each day, peoples from every part of the globe are still joining this internet bandwagon.

Technical know-how is not an issue anymore as different sites offer not only free hosting, but also user-friendly software that even a nine year old or even a senior citizen who is not technically-savvy can easily understand.

In this new world which is getting smaller everyday, interconnectivity is always the key to spending your time with your loved ones. But we all don’t want to spend our fortunes on phone charges that we pay giant telecommunications companies. The internet is here. With all the free sites and internet software that are being set up everyday, now we can really say, talk is cheap.

We can create our own online journal, upload and organize family photos, videos and share it with friends, family, and the whole world. We can share opinions and provide alternative suggestions and recommendations to unlimited topics, from consumer information to politics.

What started as online journals years ago have evolved into an alternative source of information for people from all walks of life. Most blogs now are even sources of news for mass media consumption. Blogging, really have come a long way. Now it has its own genre on our pop culture. So if you currently don’t have one, why not Create Blog ?

Most active bloggers have several active sites up and running. I myself have several, each blog with a different theme and format, I love trying different sites with different platforms, trying to compare which host is more user-friendly.

I am not a web design expert nor a computer geek, so I find it easier to set up blogs when the free web hosting site offers huge amounts of free storage and user-friendly control panels. Extra services that bloggers need but actually haven’t figured out the first time they set up their site are the hosting of pictures, videos, and music that they’re going to need for their site.

Oftentimes, we rely on other sites (other than the bloghosting site) to host downloadable pictures, videos, podcast, and mp3s. After we download each of them on such site, we then add them to our blogs in the form of widgets and whatever new technical term the programmers decides to cal them. This I personally find to be time-consuming and it unfortunately takes our precious little time away from what really matters most, writing stuff.

Consequently, I found this new bloghosting site, http://www.thoughts.com/which answers all those blogging concerns.

At Thoughts.com you can create a blog, upload pictures, videos, podcasts, music, and organize it in just one site. No need to go to another site for your free blog hosting needs. It’s a one stop shop for bloggers.

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