It's difficult to maintain more than one blog. Different audiences, sensibilities and purpose. I have started doing some writing and podcast recording for a blog called Urban Exchange. It's a different experience from the quiet that I experience here in Urban Fervor. For one thing, that blog is more heavily promoted. There are links on our Facebook walls. There are discussions about improving the site layout, and future topics of discussion for podcast. It is definitely fun and interesting. It doesn't lend itself though to much rambling or introspection. Perhaps just the short cut variety that is palatable to many others.
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It was my dad's birthday this weekend. He is 67. I couldn't help think that it's a fortunate thing that he is still up and kicking, since this past several weeks, 3 people I know lost their fathers. They died from various ailments. The history that is such in our family is that our men don't suffer lingering illness. They just keel over.
For birthdays and celebration, I use the occasion as an excuse to try out a new recipe. I tried to make Waldorf Salad. It didn't taste as good as I expected it to be. I believe it is a function of the recipe, which made it not too interesting. I was able to practice making mayonnaise however.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
fast start
Holidays are about over, and this suits me just fine. I'm looking forward to heading in work tomorrow, and seeing what kind of surprises await me in my inbox.
They say a new year is a new start. Definitely. And in these intervening days, conversations and circumstance have conspired for me to start planning towards a new direction towards the middle of the year. As with some of these important decisions, there is uncertainty -- I don't know the possibilities, I don't know the full risks. The biggest risk of all however, seems to be remaining still. As move further into the year, the picture should clear up more and more.
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From the 24th Dec to 2nd Jan, I was mostly in QC. Today I'm back in Makati. I've unloaded the largesse (?) of the holiday season into the apartment. A few new things to wear. Food items to sustain me. New books to read. My Bookshelf by the Door has new arrivals. They are stacked next to my notebook pile [ it is a little ridiculous, as I write things in notebooks that I will scarcely every look into again ].
I have some idea of the direction that I want to take this year. . .I figure that I will need to rest a lot, since in between, I plan to play hard.
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My gift to myself this holiday season is a Mark Bittman cookbook. Hardly any photos but loaded with information. The most intriguing book I received is a well-illustrated and sufficiently nerdy, "Business Model Generation". The best trip during the break was finally visiting Everybody's Cafe in San Fernando. Thank you PJ and NJ.
The biggest surprise of the holiday season was talking to someone from six months ago. I really shouldn't second guess my instincts. . .
They say a new year is a new start. Definitely. And in these intervening days, conversations and circumstance have conspired for me to start planning towards a new direction towards the middle of the year. As with some of these important decisions, there is uncertainty -- I don't know the possibilities, I don't know the full risks. The biggest risk of all however, seems to be remaining still. As move further into the year, the picture should clear up more and more.
* * *
From the 24th Dec to 2nd Jan, I was mostly in QC. Today I'm back in Makati. I've unloaded the largesse (?) of the holiday season into the apartment. A few new things to wear. Food items to sustain me. New books to read. My Bookshelf by the Door has new arrivals. They are stacked next to my notebook pile [ it is a little ridiculous, as I write things in notebooks that I will scarcely every look into again ].
I have some idea of the direction that I want to take this year. . .I figure that I will need to rest a lot, since in between, I plan to play hard.
* * *
My gift to myself this holiday season is a Mark Bittman cookbook. Hardly any photos but loaded with information. The most intriguing book I received is a well-illustrated and sufficiently nerdy, "Business Model Generation". The best trip during the break was finally visiting Everybody's Cafe in San Fernando. Thank you PJ and NJ.
The biggest surprise of the holiday season was talking to someone from six months ago. I really shouldn't second guess my instincts. . .
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