Search for Tahini

I've started strictly following an eating plan (Eat to Live). It is rather strict, very little fat -- and mostly all vegetables and fruits. I've had 4 meals of it so far. . .and I already feel different. I made hummus for the first time today as well.

Things can change with relatively little effort. Momentum changes. Streaks build, for better or worse. Just watch a UAAP basketball game. What we have to be interested in, is what causes streaks to end, what causes slides, and how they can be turned around so progress once more is sustained.

I believe what arrests slides is vigilance. Is someone/something spotting it right away, and nipping it in the bud -- a zero tolerance for allowing such things to happen. This is why accountability, responsibility and a team that takes no BS from its members are quite powerful.

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Spent several hours today in the u92.3 fm studio this afternoon. Joined Kage, Mayn, and of course Sib in the show. It was pretty fun, and would be more so. . .if people actually interacted more with us. It felt like a total of 3 people were listening at any given time. (the number though based on the streaming access would have to be at least 25 ;P)

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Ateneo beat NU today. :)

US Open starts on August 30.

White Cow

I noticed that in some of my blog entries, I use the words, "I hope. . ." or "hopefully" so and so will happen. Some things we cannot predict, right? Some things we do not know if it will happen. Even things that we know should happen: a friend showing up, an exam passed. . .we know how the world works. I think that if I even deign to put it into words -- the world will conspire against it happening. So don't count your chickens. . .don't say what will be, coz things have a way of just not being.

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On that happy note, I will share the events of today. I didn't go to work for the morning because of an emergency of having to bring my sister to the hospital for hyper-acidity. The MMDA cop stopped us on the way there, for a ridiculous traffic violation I will not get into. I merely got a verbal warning because my sister (deliberately?) cried in the front seat. That was my opening to say: sir, we have a medical emergency in our hands.

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There's this milkshake place called White Cow in Southgate Mall and my Quiz Night friends are converging there in an hour so we can drink milkshake. It's a stone's throw away from our regular haunt -- 121 Allegro Bar. It's quiz night tonight.

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In other things to be thankful for, my flat mate told me that if getting someone in by August is going to be a bitch, then he wouldn't mind flying out a little later. Paying for the August is not a big deal, much. Thank you thank you.

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apartment

My current flatmate is leaving for the US in August, and I have to find someone to replace him by then. I had two prospective replacements, but just today both of them fell out. Now I also face the unappealing prospect of having to leave this apartment and find something somewhere else.

A friend of mine actually suggests a four-share at a fairly large place in Pasong Tamo. Problem is. . .it's Pasong Tamo. NOT a terrible area, but I've grown fond of walking to work, and being able to go home at short notice. PT floods and walking from there to work would mean pollution.

I figure this will all sort itself out -- as I had managed to do some 15 months ago.

If I had the resources I would just take this place for myself.