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I heard this song on the radio driving in to work and it’s stuck in my head since then. Good thing it’s a beautiful tune which reminds me of the days back in Main Convent during our Ethics classes.   I remember playing it on the piano, too, at home, not at school!

It’s hump day, middle of the week and I’m bored out of my mind right now.  So did a lot of surfing and found some videos on animals.  The first one I saw was about a bear and the next one about a dog and the dolphin.  They are so heart warming.  Watching these two videos moved me, almost brought me to tears.   This website has really darn good videos.  If you are bored, go and check the site out.

I’m now waiting to watch the lift off of NASA’s last space shuttle launch to space, Atlantis.  It’s really cool listening to the communication between the shuttle crew and mission control. 

(Pictures snagged from MSNBC video)

Final launch and the end of space exploration of US history!  A lot of folks are saying it’s the dumbest thing to do to get rid of space exploration…..that’s where all the newest science invention started from.

I watched the Royal Wedding on April 29th.  Set my alarm clock at 3 am CST, turn the TV on and the pre-wedding stuff was on, had super “kau” coffee, took the boys out, came back and sat in front of the pc with FB on whilst flipping channels.  All national stations i.e. CBS, ABC and NBC were airing live but all have commercials in between which was annoying.  So I flipped to BBC America….so so much better and it was nice to listen to the British accent again!

Now, I have to say the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton was fine and dandy but there are really things that stuck out like a sore thumb.  Ok, here is a few that struck me right on the head, and they are remain my opinion, only.

1. The dresses worn by the guests were nice.  The pair of shoes worn by Beckham’s wife, Victoria are kinda out of place in a church wedding…guess I’m old fashion in that way.
2. Of course the hats…..majority of them are not too bad but I know by know everyone has been talking about the two princesses (Beatrice and Eugenie) bizarre hats.  Reminds me of Fruit of the Loomlogo.  I have to add, Vic Beckham’s hat that sits on her forehead, WTF!!!  I like the PM’s wife’s dress, simple yet so elegant and she came without a hat!  I think she was the only one without a hat which probably made some news since the dress code was hats for the women.
3. The wedding dress is sweet and simple, it’s nice but something about the bodice that is not sitting right on the bride.  It makes her boobies so sharp, reminds me of Madonna’s outfit she wore in her Blondie Concert (I think that’s the name of it).  Same goes with the evening dress.  What’s up with the designers?  I love the maid of honor’s dresses, wedding and reception and how the she carries them.  I think they would be lovely to see Kate on them.
4. The bride looks anorexic, reminds me of Kate Moss.  The hip bones were sticking out.  Looks like she starved herself just for the wedding.  Sorry to say the full form front view of her makes her look like a bamboo shoot.  Her side profile just her face is very very pretty, especially with the veil and tiara.
5. When the couple exchanged their vows, they said “I will” instead of “I do”.  I assume that’s the British way?
6. How the newly wed couple held their hands walking out the abbey seems so stiff, so fake, so unnatural.  Even during the official pictures taken after the wedding in the palace especially with just them two.

Ok, that’s all I’m going to list….I bet whoever stumbles on this post will say I’m a sour puss!  Say all you want but the above remains as my opinion and sense of humor.

I saw this when I was out with Chase last month when the snow piles were still 10 stories high (kidding) and temperatures were between 5 and -10F degrees.  Promised, I didn’t alter anything before and the only thing I changed after was just cropped it made it brighter. See below for the original.

Looks kinda spooky.  Each time I drive up to our house, the “face” will be looking at me.  But since these past week, the temperature climbed up to the 40′s which is so warm in the sun, this “face” is now gone and the white snow is now all dirty white, gray and don’t know what else on it.

My friend, the S, and I are thinking of going somewhere this weekend.  It’s a holiday on Monday for us, President’s Day.  We initially thought of cooking a bunch of food and binge, but she suddenly came up with a crazy idea of a weekend getaway to Chicago!  It’s about 6 plus to 7 hours drive from where she lives.  Not bad of an idea at all since I have not been to the Windy City.  I mentioned it to the man, think he is not too fond of that idea but just too bad for him.  Will talk to him tonight after bible study class about this all girls weekend getaway!

Super Bowl XLV (25) is done with. It was yesterday evening between Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers. I so wanted Steelers to win but too bad, the Peckers won…oppp…wrong spelling, Packers!

Ok another reason I purporsely sit in front of the TV for Super Bowl (SB) are the commercials. This year’s SB commercials were so lame….so lame that I couldn’t wait for each commercial to end. They were pathetic. Usually the commercials during the SB are always good, not all, but a lot of them are worth the watch. This year the best amongst so many of them, I like this, Baby Darth Vader. The kid is too cute in the Darth Vader suit.

I’m really hooked to this game.   Of course the above picture is not a snapshot of Cityville.  This picture was taken right in front of my office window.  It just got done snowing a little, enough snow to cause a nuisance on the freeways.  My Cityville has more buildings but it’s snow covered.  In real, there’s more snow on the grass in this picture, however the company has its Facilities’ folks haul them snow to an empty lot by the walking paths.  I come in at 6 am which is early enough to see the few trucks hauling snow from the parking lots, and side walks so the employees can park their vehicles easily.

It’s already the second day of 2011.  I still remember last year’s first week of January.  This year definitely went by fast but then I mentioned the same thing last year.  It’s just that when I get older, everything is so routined that I the days are just swifting pass in a hurry, although I always find that the time at work is v.e.r.y. s.l.o.w..

What did I do for the last day of 2010?  Frigging eh play games, and more games and watch movies after another.  Tomorrow would be the first time I am dying to get back to work.  I was off the day before Christmas eve till today and is more than enough to kill me.   Can’t believe I am saying this: I miss my routines.  During these off days, I can say I definitely caught up with my FB games.  Initially I wasn’t that interested in this particular game, Cityville.  My friend invited me as her neighbor, requested me as crew, wants me to send stuff to her, however, before I can accept the “coins” and “goods”, I needed to be “actually” playing.  Frick!  So I did, and the rest I don’t have to say anything.

This year I have no resolutions.  They are pointless at this time of my live.  I live one day at a time.  I don’t even know what an hour will bring let alone tomorrow or next week.  I’m anal about that now.   Of course I have ideas and thoughts of this and that but I scrapped them off except for one or two.  It’s hard to be positive but, hell, I am sure working hard on it  and keeping my head above the waters.

All the best to y’all in 2011.

My friend Stef brews her kei-chi (wolfberries) drink every day when she is in the office. She said it helps with her poor eyesight. Another one of my friend, Samm, does the same thing but she adds dates to the mix. So for me, since I am staring at the monitor for 8 hours at work and another 4-5 more hours at home, I thought I better do something with my weakening eyesight. 

Excuse me for this poor picture….taken with my crappy cellphone. 

Since I don’t brew this drink at home because I forget or am lazy, I have them at work. I have  packs of empty tea bags, I made use of them for this purpose.  I put in kei-chi and dates (red and black), no sugar added as the dates have such “sweet” taste to them, throw the bag in the water jug, add hot water, brew it for for about 20 mintues.  At times if I feel like it, I will add in some ginseng into the bag too.  Drinking water is never better.  DB will look at the bag of mixture I put together and shakes his head.  Told him the Chinese concoction drink for good health!