25 Friday Mar 2011
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What do you call food eaten between lunch and dinner?
Last weekend I looked for a place to read a book in peace and 9th Cafe @ Siam Paragon was a yummy find. Chocolate swirl cheese cake! I did not regret choosing this.
Sprite. A drink I have not had in awhile.
18 Friday Mar 2011
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“A time to look over our week, recall blessings great and small and pick our five favorites to share”
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Loved ones are safe. After watching a clip that showed Japan like it was 2012, I avoided everything that has anything to do with the destruction there until an aunt in North Carolina nudged me about a cousin in Chibaken. That’s when I went asking how they were. She and her husband, a fellow mommy blogger, and a former gradschool classmate are all ok. It’s good to release all the breaths I held while waiting for news about them.
J not getting sent out to Japan anymore. When the quake hit J was automatically among a team of scientists on standby, Fukushima-bound. Worry wart me prayed he won’t be flown out. Jet-setting halfway around the world to lend expertise and then aboard Chinooks to work on those reactors may sound glamorous but the danger is so not glamorous at all. I cheered when J told me it looked like he was staying after all.
Brunch at Robin Hood. Calamari yummy; margarita rosita. Chips, football and British accent felt like brunching in front of Windsor Castle again.
Attending a screening at the FCCT (Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand). Living with the Tiger is a documentary about HIV-infected orphans. Q & A with the filmmaker and the director of the Business Coalition on AIDS explored possibilities of influencing policies for better handling of the AIDS issue in Thailand and beyond.
Violin recital at TCC (Thailand Cultural Center). Great Artists of the World 2011 and Bangkok Symphony Orchestra presented Cho-liang Lin. He played Mozart and Tchaikovsky on guess what – a 1715 Stradivarius! Ah some of life’s most beautiful moments; later something to daydream over tea in a rickety rocking chair.
18 Friday Mar 2011
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This is not a sudden interest in Japan. Japanese cuisine has always been my preference for weekend brunch since I acquired a weekend life. And the beef steak set at Fuji is my usual order even though they always give me rare no matter how much I emphasize that I want well-done:
The set includes choices for either coffee or tea, hot or iced. I always have the hot tea with milk.
The meal is concluded by a trio of papaya, pineapple and watermelon slices.
Rarely do I pick something else on the menu. This set is what I order almost every weekend. Here’s hoping it’s not a weekend eating abnormality. I’m going out in a few minutes to have this brunch again.
17 Thursday Mar 2011
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I’m having japanese genmai green leaf tea. Warmed, not chilled.
My mug is one of those little gifts that piled up on my desk over Christmas 2010. I picked it at random from among many mugs and cups in the faculty office today.
I’m feeling cold but grateful to be indoors. We haven’t had the AC on since this morning but when I went outside for a quick break, it was still cold. I actually heard the wind howling. Hang on I’ll check…
It’s 26 degrees C according to wunderground. Tonight it will even drop to 18. I know it’s not cold at all for you ladies in the western hemisphere, but for some southeast asian bloods, that’s noticeably cold already.
On my mind are things in my to-do list: freelance editing and a volunteer job for the UN. They keep me from being bored to death. And one motivation is this –
Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.
11 Friday Mar 2011
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10 Thursday Mar 2011
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At Tea Talk we briefly share how we are feeling and what we are thinking. Visit Ruth @ Celebrate Friendship for more
I’m having 
iced milk tea I picked from the food court as I navigated my way around three departments at work today. It’s been two hours past lunchtime and it looks like I’m just going to ignore a rambling stomach for now. Things are in a dither over a couple of glitches and I am keeping myself alert to prevent further mistakes.
This thin plastic glass is disposable obviously but it amuses me. It is adorned with Christmas socks and miniature wreaths, and there is in fact a Happy Christmas greeting on the other side of it. Well, I don’t mind having Christmas in my tea on a warm March afternoon.
I’m feeling abruptly awake after discovering a major memory malfunction on my folder in our local computer network. Thanks to savvy academic machinery I just have to encode a few commands and the problem is sorted.
On my mind are speed and quality. Technology may hasten things but it is still the human brain that determines qualitative accuracy when the day is done. I reflect on …
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? – Karl Kraus
There is more to life than just increasing its speed. – Mahatma Gandhi
04 Friday Mar 2011
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“A time to look over our week, recall blessings great and small and pick our five favorites to share”
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People face issues in different ways. This is how I tried to make a lemonade out of my recent lemons –
CJ’s psychologist. Communicating with her was cracking a bit of the iceberg. She’s good. It’s a relief to know what’s going on and to learn about this whole new world I am in.
Eagles concert. It was fantastic going down memory lane and getting back ten years younger.
Wilding golf. The place is state of the art, the finest in the city. It wasn’t so bad revisiting a perk of that once-married life.
Los Cabos. I fancied Mexican cuisine; missed eating beans and avocado. It’s fun not to be disappointed. I went twice with friends.
Antiques. Browsing time is always a high for me. It takes my mind off troubles. I am coping.
It’s been a busy week sorting out things. I am finding it difficult to say much right now. However, I want to let my Friday’s Fave Five lady friends know I am very grateful for your positive responses and kind thoughts the past week, and for saying I am in your prayers.
Aze 
