I Let my Mind Wander

I've been working on this case for almost a week and I'm pretty stumped. I hate it when there's a dearth of jurisprudence on the very case you're working on.

That's why I let my mind wander...



... and maybe it hasn't come back yet haha. Since it's been cold the past week, I found myself missing Japan and Korea. I don't miss Tagaytay because I rarely go there and I don't miss Baguio because for some reason, I don't like the place (must be fear of heights + extreme cold). I wore my "fall" knits which i sometimes regretted because it'd be too hot when I arrive at the office.

Anyway, the point of this post is that I have a new bag and I hate my case. :)

Pansit Chronicles

Cooking pansit has intimidated me because (1) it is one of hubby's fave food and (2) I've eaten so many great pansit versions that I'm sure what I cook will pale in comparison. But since hubby's new anti-gout diet requires more carbs, I eventually had to cook pansit.

The recipe is simple enough: brown the chicken pieces, saute garlic and onions, add chopped lettuce and julienned carrots and red bell pepper, take them out, pour chicken broth (or a chicken cube dissolved in hot water) in pan, add soy sauce and pepper, place the pansit noodles, toss, add the veggies and toss again.

The first time was a fail in portion control because I cooked the entire 250g package which looked not enough at first until I've dumped the noodles in the pan. It was also a bit dry, but still tasted like good enough pansit.



I tried cooking it again earlier and I adjusted the amount of noodles. At first I used a cup of dissolved chicken cube and it looked really soupy. So I scooped out about half a cup. Rookie mistake again, the noodles were a bit dry. But still, tasted and definitely looked like pansit haha.

Hope to nail it next time!

Dreams

I have the weirdest dreams ever. Some are the normal weird, like flying and crashing down then waking up. Last night, I dreamt that I was reading something on Twitter (I forget what) then I looked at the sky and saw clouds shaped like dogs. I think last week I dreamt that I looked at the night sky, saw the moon and stars fall to Earth, then the sun came out, and there was an earthquake and tsunami. Then there was time that a baby crocodile crawled its way out of a wall and chased me. 

But my weirdest dreams almost always involve the sky. I used to have recurring dreams of looking at the night sky and seeing all the planets. A friend commented, "Maybe you were an astronaut in your past life." Hmmm... Or maybe I was a priestess who worshiped the sky. Haha.

Journals

I've been feeling a bit down lately (partly due to hormones, argh). I feel like talking to someone, only that I can't think of anyone "proper" to talk to about what's going on in my head. I thought of starting a paper journal. I also thought that maybe it's another excuse to buy a pretty notebook when I've got plenty of blank ones lying around. However, I don't want anyone to read my paper journals, even after I'm gone. See, when I was younger, I kept journals and I poured everything into them. My mom was pretty snoopy and when she read some angsty entries, she went ballistic on me. Since then, I've refrained from over-sharing in my journals (totally defeating the point of keeping journals) and then eventually stopped writing.

Then I discovered blogging. I found it liberating that I can write and write, hiding under a nickname, and people "listened" and wrote back. However, one day, one of my room mates shared that she found it weird that a group of girls were talking about something that we ourselves talked about a couple of days before. It turned out that by some strange quirk of Google, she was searching for something totally unrelated to our conversation yet ended up on my blog. There is no hiding in the internet.

My point is, there are a lot of things I want to write down, just to get them out of my system I guess, but I am not prepared to be responsible for my thoughts. Maybe I should just write, then burn everything up afterwards.

NKOTBSB and iTunes

Just recently, I received an email from iTunes stating that Music and Movies (no TV shows?) are now available to its Philippine users. I'm a noob when it comes to torrents (I have rotten luck in finding links that work) so I got excited with the news - even if it meant I had to buy music.

So, the first album I bought from iTunes is (naturally, haha) the NKOTBSB album. I was actually planning to buy a CD last week but I held off for some reason. I know buying the album is a month too late, I should have bought it before watching the concert.

I listened to the album while dressing up this morning and I was amused with the random memories that came to mind with the BSB songs: stopping whatever I was doing whenever MTV played the video of Quit Playing Games With My Heart (Now I wonder how at 13, I believed I can relate when BSB sang: "Even in my heart/ I see/ That you're not being true to me"); remembering this group of boys from another school dancing to As Long As You Love Me, complete with white Monobloc stools as props, and the cutest leader of the group sporting the Nick Carter floppy haircut; remembering that I was in college when Larger than Life was released so I felt I was too "cool" for BSB already. 

I particularly liked the NKOTBSB Mash-up song in the end. It brings me back to the concert. iTunes purchase well worth it. :)