April 2010

I am a hermit crab

April 15, 2010

… for here is Felipe’s traveling gift, his superpower, the secret weapon that renders him peerless: He can create a familiar habitat of reassuringly boring everyday practices for himself anyplace, if you just let him stay in one spot. – Elizabeth Gilbert, of her Brazilian lover Felipe, from ‘Committed’ After months of endless travel, I’ve […]






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On passion

April 14, 2010

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders.  Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince Seth Godin often talks about the importance and significance of tribes.  Macheads are a tribe.  Twitter […]






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Being your own boss

April 13, 2010

In addition to the Spanish classes, cooking practice and blog writing, I’ve also been busy experimenting with online commerce and working on a start-up with a few friends.  And wow, it has been a lot of work (both the e-business and the start-up). As a former corporate employee, I had no concept of what it’s […]






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The beauty of language learning

April 11, 2010

Learning a new language is like stumbling through darkness to a destination not yet charted.  I know I’m going to get there at some point but where and how I’ll know, I have no idea.  Learning Spanish has been like a shot in the dark.  There’s a goal but I’m not quite sure exactly when […]






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To market

April 9, 2010

Life is good.  Seriously.  To wake up in the morning and worry about nothing more than buying ingredients for the day’s lunch is just … heaven.  And no, I didn’t win the lottery, nor did I strike it rich with stock, and no I don’t come from old money.  A few months of simple, care […]






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Spanish: lesson 2

April 8, 2010

A few more of my favourite words: pesadilla (peh-sah-dee-shaa) Nightmare.  Really?!  What a beautiful word for nightmare. llover (show-vehr) This is the verb for rain.  Rain is a verb! yo lluevo. I rain. vos lloves. You rain. el llueve. It rains. nosotros llovemos. We rain. ellos lloven. They rain. cuchillo (cooch-eee-shoh) Knife.  This is very […]






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While I was sleeping

April 8, 2010

I’m a night owl.  He’s an early bird.  I can sleep in till noon if left to my own devices.  He’s up prowling the apartment like a cat at 7.30 AM.  Sometimes he takes pictures of sunrises.  Like this morning.  I think I’ve only ever seen one, maybe two, sunrises in my life.  Once in […]






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Everything in its place

April 7, 2010

A few nights ago, I decided to honour my place as a woman and my mother’s origins from the food capital of the Philippines (Pampanga) by cooking dinner.  Specifically, I decided to cook a staple Philippine chicken dish called adobo.  Yes, I said it. I volunteered to cook something different from scrambled eggs and toast. […]






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