Encore une Fois

Have you ever been to a place and wondered how you got there? I remember distinctly when I was a kid of around 4 or 5 years old back at our old house, seated on my favorite yellow chair, how I'd kinda mark that certain point in time and place in my memory and thought that one day when I'm all grown up, I'd always look back and remember this little kid, seated on this little yellow chair at that exact moment.  I dunno how I came up with that idea, but it  seems like it became a certain time portal for me to always go back to. 

And oh yes I did, I still do.  At certain stages of my life, I've always had that flashback, somehow connecting to that little Don Miguel, seated on that little yellow chair at that point in time.

Sometimes, I wonder how I got here, but then again, life is a complex interconnection of countless crossroads.  Everytime you are at a crossroad you decide which path to take, it's just interesting how it all works  out (or not) and brings you to where you are now.

It's like those "Choose your own Adventure" books back when I was in grade school, (that I and my childhood pals, my friends for life to this day, were crazy for back in the day)  Every decision you took at a page where choices had to be made meant a different ending for the character in the story you are reading.  

"If you say, yes take me to Captain Fish Eye"  go to page 23

"If you try to break loose from the pirates' clutches"  go to page 42

"if you try to pretend to be from another country and speak gibberish" go to page 24

The only difference though is that life has no rewinds, not like those books which, we used to mark with all ten fingers, just to go back to that page where you can choose a different path, and hopefully come to a better, or a more adventurous ending.

So if you've gone this far, and you figure out that "Hey, you're okay today, after all"  you must have been doing the right thing all along.  There are about a dozen right things, and no one thing is the only right choice. Otherwise, you should be in deep shit right now.

So, If you were at  a crossroads of your life, one boring evening, and decided to read this blog entry.  Try to track back quickly, because you really should be doing something else besides reading a bored dude's rumblings.

A LESSON IN TIME (Don Miguel Time)

Forest, Brussels Medieval Market 2008

Incomplete

Whoo
Ooh
Oh yeah yeah
Listen

Bright lights
Fancy restaurants
Everything in this world that a man could want
Got a bank account bigger than the law should allow
Still I'm lonely now

Pretty faces from the covers of the magazines
From their covers to my covers wanna lay with me
Fame and fortune still can't find
Just a grown man runnin out of time

[CHORUS]
Even though it seems I have everything
I don't wanna be a lonely fool
All of the women
All the expensive cars
All of the money don't amount to you
I can make believe I have everything
But I can't pretend that I don't see
That without you girl my life is incomplete

Said without you girl ahh
Listen

Your perfume
Your sexy lingerie
Girl I remember it just like it was on yesterday
A Thursday you told me you had fallen in love
I wasn't sure that I was

It's been a year
Winter summer spring and fall
But bein without you just ain't livin ain't nothing at all
If I could travel back in time
I'd relive the days you were mine

[CHORUS]

Oh yeah that without you girl ahh

I just can't help lovin you
But I loved you much too late
I'd give anything
And everything
To hear you say
That you'll stay

[CHORUS (2x)]

Without ya girl
Wiuthout ya girl my life
Without you girl
My life my life is incomplete
Without you girl
My life is incomplete
Oh yeah
My life is incomplete
Oh yeah yeah
Whoo

Mobwars Help!

Help!  This guy has been attacking me for 9 consecutive times in mobwars!!! aarrrrgh. he stopped when I won the last fight, but left me super wounded.

http://apps.new.facebook.com/mobwars/profile/?user_id=609887324

Dream Last Night

I dreamt of going back to my old high school.  My classmates were still there, they stayed over for college and for some reason they're still there, including my classmate Joey who died when we were in college and a younger kid last named Tumlus.

I asked them why they were still there after all these years and why they never bothered to say Hi to us who went off to college somewhere else.

My dreams just before this part and the one that came right after were so much more to my liking hehe.

Pancit Bihon in Brussels

My colleague and neighbor Marivic and her hubby invited me over for merienda and served okoy and pancit bihon last Sunday.  Yuummmm!

Something was amiss with the bihon though, however perfectly cooked it was.  Calamansi! walang calamansi dito waaaaaaah.

Dreams

I haven't been dreaming for a long time, maybe for years.  But recently, my dormant mind suddenly became creative and I've been having all these dreams every night.  

I should start putting a notebook on my side table and scribble them as soon as I wake up. 

They tend to vanish from memory soon after.  

Magic

Medieval Market at Forest, Brussels

It was National Carless Day in Belgium today, Sunday so I decided to check out Forest's Medieval Market. Got Squishedn in a Busload of People but hey, I survived to tell the tale

No se sabe

No se sabe porque 

ni como

pasaba 

lo que ha pasado

No se sabe porque 

ni por eso

nos dejan estar 

aparte y alejado

No se sabe

hasta cuando

pueden hacer lo mismo

Porque con migo

Ni Mar ni Cielo

Ni nadie

me impide

estar contigo

- Don Miguel, il Signorino

Amazing Chavacano: One of the World's Two Remaining Authentic Spanish Creole Languages

I always knew about Chavacano of Zamboanga  and how it uses Spanish words, but I never really realized how close it was to the Spanish language because I never really heard it spoken nor have I read anything in this language.   As a spanish speaker and a Filipino, I was shocked to view this youtube clip of a TV News Program in Chavacano and understand mostly what they were saying even if I have never been exposed to Chavacano all my life.   (We filipinos speak 127 dialects, and about 7 major languages, depending on our regions.   It is very much alive and well with 600,000 native speakers using it for everyday life.  From what I can tell, it is a language using 80% or more of the spanish vocabulary, but using filipino-based grammar.  Hence, the lack of spanish tenses which are instead expressed in  infinitives or with suffixes and prefixes with the spanish verb, much like how we filipinos, in our other languages and dialects, use our verbs. )

Here is the TV Patrol Zamboanga TV Program. If you are a Spanish speaker, listen to it and see if you can make out what they are reporting about. Chances are you will understand 75% of it.And just for the record, Chavacano is definitely not the Spanish language, just something very very close. 

And yet another weird British Reality TV Show

I was flipping through the Channels of the telly and i caught a wierd bunch of overweight people dressed in 18-19th century innergarmets marching around the estate of a huge English Manor, arms a flapping like penguins and I said WTF??!!!!!!!!!!!

You really have to hand it to the brits to come up with weird shows like these.  I mean really haha.

The Diets That Time Forgot

If you think diets are a recent invention, think again. In this unique historic experiment, nine volunteers spend 24 days testing the weight loss diets and fitness regimes that were popular in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods and the 'roaring' Twenties. 

This six-part series examines which plan works best. Is it the Banting diet, first published in 1863, the 'chew chew' diet of the early 1900s, or the first calorie counting Lulu diet, one of the best selling non-fiction publications of the 1920s?

Series guide Preview episodes from the series

Diets from the past The first diets in history?

Dieters' profiles Get to know the volunteer slimmers

Weird Dream

I was dreaming last night, and i'm struggling to remember all the bits and pieces.   

There was a convention in Luxembourg and I supposedly drove all the way there by my lonesome.  This is kinda conflicting though, because I remember driving all the way there, but I also remember having taken the plane and feeling relieved because I was only travelling for about thirty minutes and the rest of the people had to take the train for 3 hours or so.   There were many other people in the convention and we were all in dark suits.   

And then, a virus started attacking us.  A mind-altering virus that controls the minds of people it affects into something like communal consciousness.   (I think I saw this in a movie before) The virus was transmitted via bodily fluids, a sneeze there, a saliva tainted handshake here, a kiss there, a spit elsewhere.

And then, I remember being trapped in the convention hall.   With everyone, affected people and the still normal people.   The people who were affected still know who they were and we were still able to converse, but we have to watch out for our glasses, handshakes and body contact because they could easily infect us,   Despite their seemingly normal consciousness, they were also being mind-controlled by the virus, and they had some sort of a Global-domination goal in life.  "Spread the Virus, Spread the virus!"   

We the normal ones would talk to them, trick them into letting us out of doors and leaving us alone, but more and more of them came to the scene.   Finally, it was weird because I remember running away from the convention center with my sister.  And I asked her to wash her face on a fountain, just to be sure the guy who almost buzzed her on the cheek wasn't infected.  

Then we had something like a general assembly, wherewe had to negotiate a truce with the virus-infected mob.   I was part of the negotiating team, and I was seated beside a virus infected mild-mannered family man.  The leaders were made to sit on a looooonng table facing everyone -normal and infected.

I think this dream ended in a happy ending, because someone came in with a cure.  Something like an antidote.  

Then I woke up.

Yun lang, sorry for bothering you with such a stupid dream hahaha

I had to let it out. 

My Fortune thanks to an Internet Fortune Teller

Raped by a Donkey

This has been going around for ages in the internet, and I came across this video once again.This guy had to go, and was trying to poop in the open field having only the tall grass for cover. Mr. Macho Donkey smelled the pheromones perhaps and decided to charge, with a monstrous wood.hahah see for yourself, Caveat outdoor poopsterS!!!!!bwaahahahahah

Don Miguel's Celebrity Look Alikes

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

MyHeritage: Celebrity Collage - Family tree researcher - Family search

It's a Sunny Day

 . . . and I dunno what came over me 

but I stepped out and walked to the Church, 

in only a shirt

no jacket, no sweater

it must have felt like 15 degree outside

i forgot summer is over

geeez

welcome to the cold, once again, Don Miguel

MOOOooooooo!!! (Self Explanatory)

20,000 cows removed from Delhi streets -- city officials 

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 22:24:00 09/08/2008

NEW DELHI -- City authorities in Delhi have rounded up 20,000 free-roaming cattle in the past year to improve health and safety standards, officials said Monday.

"Last month alone we caught about 2,000 cows," an official from the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), which presented the annual figures to the Delhi High Court last week, told Agence France-Presse.

"We keep catching cows as they are constantly brought into the city," said the official, who declined to be named.

The court has repeatedly ordered Delhi authorities to clear the streets of the animals, which they say pose a threat to traffic as well as a health risk.

Many of the animals belong to dairy farmers who do not have space to house the cattle and thus let them wander at will.

"Our workers and vehicles have been attacked by dairy owners when they try to take the cows away," said the official.

The captured cows are sent to state-run shelters and then auctioned.

The MCD says it is in the process of relocating hundreds of dairies to a site earmarked for the purpose.

Animal welfare activists say the cows -- considered sacred by the Hindus -- live in terrible conditions.

"The courts keep issuing orders for the cows to be removed. But they do not address the problem of these dairies or how cows suffer when on the streets," said N.G Jayasimha, campaigns manager of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

The stray cows live off rubbish from open dumps, and often die after eating plastic bags.

"One post-mortem of a cow revealed 14 kilos (31 lbs) of plastic," Jayasimha said.

Cow slaughter is banned in most Indian states, but many captured animals are sent to states where the practice is allowed.

"The dairy, meat and leather industries exploit these animals," said Jayasimha.

The cars in my parking lot

Cars in My Office Parking Lot make my car look like a Hyundai. :D Porsche Carrera    Aston Martin DBS    The Aston Martin DBS    BMWs    Thorr, my lowly s60    Another Porsche Carrera    Audi Q7

The New Jaguar XF

I first saw the new Jaguar XF on the road a few days ago here in Brussels, and I was thinking it kinda lost the Jaguar look and feel.  But now it kinda grows on me . . . what do you think?  ganda no? 2009-jaguar-xf-front-right-splashingjpg.jpg    images.jpeg    jaguar2007xfsilber1bk2.jpg    jaguar-xf-13-11-07.jpg    jaguar-xf-new-car-toronto.jpg