Whistling for Moonbeams

one eavesdrops on and it is of course a good kind of eavesdropping, though one could always choose to exert effort and pretend to be discree...

Mostly, I just stare, then blink, and realize there's nothing to write about. Scenes from my day, or my week, flash briefly across some ...

with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.   -Patrick Young

by Rainer Maria Rilke Swing of the heart. O firmly hung, fastened on what invisible branch. Who, who gave you the push, that you swung...

must already have been in my mind and gone away and I never had one chance to really mull them over. Well, maybe a chance, or two, but the d...

is never where there is and I am made to make do with what is in it: the two shoe boxes under the shoe cabinet, the coffee mug on top of it,...

by Margaret Atwood Men with the heads of eagles no longer interest me or pig-men, or those who can fly with the aid of wax and feathers...

Walking in the rain (and I don't mean a drizzle) on a gray morning (and this is not some drama shit, I had simply forgotten to bring an ...

could be contained by mere words, you throw two into the air, carelessly because you were asked too soon for, well, something someone could ...

"Tonight, I'll show you how dreams are prepared. People think it's a very simple and easy process but it's a bit more compl...

I am so not a beer drinker. Never did learn to like the taste. During nights out, 2 bottles are usually more than enough for me. I'd rat...

Oh, oh, oh! Another film to watch out for!

Watanabe and Naoko have come out on film! Unbelievable. I just hope Tran Anh Hung did justice to this lovely Murakami book. And Radiohead...

I am such a sucker for tiny, girly dresses and I so love this one! I couldn't stop staring at it as it reminded me so much of my rustic ...

The moon was a shining, round plate last Friday, and it was a shame that I couldn't linger outside long enough to admire it. Three minut...

Because I like starting my sentences with "because", I let it go at that. Even if the clock shows 8:19 a.m. and the bottle of my f...

The discovery that you like cherries comes with the discovery of Tequila Rose and the lateness of both introductions hits you the way milk i...

What I'm reading right now: "...the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our love for our love for thin...

"So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about ...

Facebook status for the day: "why is the moon so slight,/ And why does it seem that as soon/ As I locate myself, I move/ Away again/...

to Friday and now, technically,  it's already Saturday and I am still awake. We-ell, there was a nap of an hour and a half in between, b...

I generally do not like Japanese food, but last Monday's free dinner (care of our AVP) at Red Kimono kinda changed that. I regret not ...

Another butterfly sat on my shoulder. Not yellow, but still, a butterfly. Am still adjusting to my new schedule. Daylight is not the frie...

We are behind you every step of the way.

What I'm reading right now: "There's nothing that could convince someone  who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is...

My team in the office has an on-going love affair with weight-loss. I've already lost track of how many bets they've had on criteria...

is an entirety in itself. Mere specks that we are in the vastness of the now as we know it, how to make it in the spaciousness is to loosen ...

What's earth-stopping is the howl of a train expressly on its way to not here. It moans a phantom hunger all the more terrible becaus...

Yeah, life is good.

came in three hours ahead of my shift, attended a colleague's farewell party, had coffee with Sheila, ran a calibration meeting, gr...

It's almost the end of the week and I feel like I barely had time to blink. When there are things to do, places to go and friends to go ...

with dear, old Joni

Last night, I fell asleep to the soundtrack of "Amelie". Watching "An Education" has definitely put me into a spin of ev...

"The life I want, there is no shortcut."

Watching “You’ve Got Mail” for the nth time reminded me of the yellow butterflies that have seemed to be innocuously intruding into my days,...

At some point or another, one reaches the age --biological, or otherwise--where the heart (as how they call it) allows itself to be at the c...

wafting in one's peripheral vision blown softly by some wind magnified then blurred by the night turn out to be tendrils of stray hair ...

then maybe it could talk some sense into us. What with its being privy to all the time we waste brooding and sulking and thinking and starin...

Because a moonbeam falls on the unlikeliest places. Because a myth is a myth is a myth. Because it takes time for sand to find itself. Be...

the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. -Jean Houston

     the rain is brightening now. -Elizabeth Bishop, "Rain Towards Morning"- The wind takes something with it when it passes...

Gotta schedule a trip to McDonald's for their latest Happy Meal toys. Oohh, these babies are precious! =) photo via the baghag

Traversing the city's roads, the mind's eye conjures safety, blocking out the images that pinpoint pain, threshing out the familiar ...

for C-- and L-- I have come to the conclusion (after much deliberation with myself, days after that Monday afternoon at Pergola) that w...

--one of the most comforting lines anyone has ever given this crybaby.

something to look forward to. =)

It completely slipped my mind. This blog turned 3 a week ago.