The Da Vinci Code is the reason why am not eating pasta in seven years.Personal biases aside,I think the book is sooo overrated, a product of Doubleday's media hoopla, so to speak. Surely, the well-read among us have browsed through better stuff in our lifetime. While going through it, I had to actually peek through the succeeding pages to see when the insanity would end. My high school chum Lei, who maintains her own reading club at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center hit the nail on the head when she said: "It's like a watered-down Eco. Written for Hollywood, ... Continue Reading...
London Postscript
Reading Da Vinci did bring me back to the time when I visited London with Maria L. in the spring of '96. The pic shows me outside Westminster Abbey whose grand structure was unfortunately not captured by our amateur cams. In the words of Dan Brown, the Abbey is "neither cathedral nor parish church." It is here where the remains of kings, statesmen, scientists, poets and musicians are entombed, including Elizabeth I. It has also witnessed the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, the canonization of Edward the Confessor, the marriage of Andrew and Fergie as well ... Continue Reading...
Life without the net
Just when am getting the hang of this blogging thing, I am deprived of access to the internet.The IT experts in my company says it will be a month (!) till they set up the LAN in our new headquarters. For somebody who relies on the net for writing, researching and other purposes, that is quite a long time. Have I become a slave to new technology? Probably yes. For some of us, the net has become indispensable in our daily lives and living without it is like walking with one arm or one leg.It just doesn't make sense.In the meantime, I'll miss my yahoo, ... Continue Reading...
You afraid, Me Scorpion?
Though I don’t know much about ruling planets and the sun signs, I do believe in the things that astrologists say about Scorpions as they relate to me. As a Scorpio born in October, I am energetic, independent, passionate, determined, creative, imaginative, powerful, perceptive and intuitive. It’s funny how people relate my zodiac sign to sexuality but it’s true. According to my astrological chart, your ruling planet is Mars, the planet of energy, aggressiveness and sexual drive. You are fascinated by sex and death, and can quite become a monster of ... Continue Reading...
Songs on My Radio
Today, I feel like a refugee in no-man's land. We've transferred offices and it's a terrible feeling going to work on the first day of the week without your table and computer. It' a swell excuse for not being productive and I've been moving from one department to another while they put the finishing touches to our new "locale" which my unit calls "the gas chamber." Thankfully, our boss sympathizes: he has been working from his car.Devoid of any rational thoughts, let me share the songs that's now playing on my car CD:Here's To Love by Roberta Flackwith music by Sadao ... Continue Reading...
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