Out of order?
Have you ever experienced some confusion or ambiguity re: communication or use of language? Especially when you are in another country?
I was reading the post, The Senate is “Out of Order” in the stressed in the city blog earlier tonight. I was reminded of a time many years ago when Key & I were in a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City. We were trying to order some food and a couple of items we wanted were not available.
Read more about it here …
Aerobics fun
It’s been more than a month now since the semester opened. Since then aerobics classes have also commenced. I have been quite good during the past weeks in attending it. We have classes three days a week, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 5 to 6 pm. I am trying not to miss any class as I really need the exercise. I find it fun despite the fact that most of the time I am one or two steps slower than the teacher 
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Have a chuckle by reading more about it here …
Bad dream experience
Last weekend early morning I woke up from a bad dream. It was bad in a way because in that dream I felt fear. The scene was in one of the bedrooms in the basement of our house in Antique. We were on the bed facing the window and I saw somebody through the glass.
Read more about it here …
Funny pinoy stuff
Sense of humor is important on a day to day basis. It’s been said of the Pinoys that we are pretty ingenuous when it comes to making light of things, not because we are escapists, but maybe because we are a “happy” people … as ordinary people we don’t resort to guns to solve our problems. We tend to see the lighter side of things. One display of a Pinoy’s sense of humor is in the play of words. Common words and familiar trademarks and expressions are re-invented to make it truly Pinoy sounding. Read more about this in the blog I wrote entitled, Time for some funny stuff …
Glad to be away
Guess where I was last week? I was sure glad I went there. Such a nice place, just being there was like a balm to my troubled soul. Naksss … akala mo naman ganyan kahirap ng buhay. Not really, but it has been getting quite stressful lately. Read more about it here.
Halili-Cruz Ballet School
It is probably one of the best dance and ballet schools in the Philippines. Their students performed very well during the 10th Asia-Pacific Dance Competition in Singapore last July. Many in the Philippines must have read about it in the papers there. I have a niece who joined them for the first time this year. So, along with her mom, my younger sis, they traveled to Singapore to join the team. When I was young (ehem) and in our place, ballet was not so popular as in the cities. Although at school, we had the basics for dancing in our PE classes. But it never went beyond that. Folkdance was much cheaper so we had to settle for it. It would have been nice for our posture and the way we hold ourselves if we had ballet as part of our regimen …
Read more about it here …
Bangkok’s transport system
The sky train and subway systems in Bangkok are recent additions to ease traffic congestion in the city. It helps some, I suppose. But the routes are limited to just within the city. It would be nice to have it extended towards major highways near the residential areas. Manila was way ahead with our LRT and MRT in the 80s. And more people are using the system there in Manila, it is indeed a real public transport. Here in Bangkok it is still quite limited to those who can afford. Anyway read more about my experience and thoughts about this here …
The Right Footwear
OK, yes, so we became well-known around the world as people, esp women who just love to have so many shoes! That’s why I had this problem when I did not bring the right kind of shoes to roam the wonderful streets of Singapore last July.
Papers … waste not!
We use lots of papers in the office…for printing documents and the like, as well as cc’ing to relevant people. Everytime I print pages and pages of paper and photocopy more of them, I can’t help thinking about all those trees that have been felled, and the effect on forests and the environment, in processing and disposing them.
How can we reduce the use of too much paper? Read more here …
Panic Attack?
Have you ever had a panic attack? What was it like? What was going on in your mind when it happened? What did you do? I felt something like it the other day but I wasn’t really sure if it was it.
I was walking the other day in Bangkok (Silom-Surawong area) under the mighty heat of the sun, when suddenly I felt something like a “panic attack”. I was not afraid or anything like that, it was just some kind of feeling which I could not control. You see, I have been walking for quite a distance looking for an address and, because I have not been in the area for a loooong time, I sort of underestimated the distance from the Chong Nonsi BTS station to the Mahesak-Surawong road.
