so you think you can dance australia

so demi (the only filipina finalist in so you think you can dance australia) didn't make it. it was such a disappointment and i am so prejudiced that i was prepared to think that she didn't win because she wasn't aussie.

not that the winner didn't deserve it. he did.

but yeah, i'm partial to my fellow country(wo)men.

anyway, just wanted to share what i reckon is the most fantastically breathtaking routine in the entire competition. enjoy.

haruki murakami - blind willow, sleeping woman

i have just finished reading this

and once again, murakami blew my mind away. blind willow, sleeping woman is the third haruki murakami book in my collection; and although i can't say it is my favorite, it still is good.

if only i can master and grasp his writing style, i'd probably stop being a corporate slave and start seriously sitting down and writing my own book. but then again, i think i have yet to find a style that i am comfortable in, and until then, i would have to keep on jotting down my little book ideas in shredded pieces of paper or in mental post-it notes. until then.

baby steps: the journey to yummyhood. entry #2

thank God and thank God for doctors.

i thought this morning all-day sickness was gonna be the death of me. since friday last week up until yesterday, i haven't eaten anything substantial. i couldn't even keep water down. that's how bad it was. but my doctor is great, and gave me something to keep the nausea and vomiting under control. i have started eating yesterday, and i just had spam for brekky. i know, i know it's not really healthy, but i'm craving for it. so shoot me.

the little bub is 7 weeks and 3 days today, and it won't be until the 15th of may that i'd get to see the little bean and hear her heartbeat. (note the deliberate use of the word HER)

i can't wait.

idolizing david cook

after ramiele malubay and michael johns were voted out of american idol, i thought it wouldn't be worth watching anymore. but when i saw this:

oh-em-gee *tremble tremble* david cook! i am starting to heart you!!!

of transparency and hygiene

tristan and i were having a discussion the night before last.

i asked, "if you were a paying customer in a restaurant, do you have the right to demand to see their kitchen?"

he said no.

"but," i argued, "you always have the prerogative to see the conditions where your food is being prepared! you put it in your body, after all."

"i don't think it's being done, love." was his reply.

"if, however..." i stubbornly continued, "... you were denied entry to the kitchen, would you be suspicious?"

he laughed.

baby steps: the journey to yummyhood. entry #1

the usual symptoms indicative of pregnancy --- the frequent need to pee, the dizzy spells, all-day sickness, food cravings and scent aversions --- i embrace them all as part of the little miracle growing within my body.

but nobody, nobody has ever told me about exhaustion!

i've no desire to do anything whatsoever, except make deep indentation marks of my body on the bed, or the couch. i can barely keep my eyes open, and i am usually in bed at 9.30pm. i constantly feel like i have taken medication that suspends me in that moment between daze and wakefulness, that state that makes it dangerous for one to operate heavy machinery (not that i would).

and i can't have coffee.

the cause larger than myself

test #1

03 april 2008, 12:oo noon, AEDST
brand: Clearblue Easy Digital Home Pregnancy Kit
claim: over 99% accurate on day of missed period
--oOo--

test 2

03 april 2008, 2:00pm, AEDST
brand: Confirm
claim: greater than 99% accuracy, test anytime of the day
--oOo--

test 3

03 april 2008, 8:00pm AEDST
brand: Confirm
claim: greater than 99% accuracy, test anytime of the day
--oOo--

test 4

04 april 2008, 8:00am, AEDST
brand: Clearblue Easy Digital Home Pregnancy Kit
claim: over 99% accurate on day of missed period

--oOo--

04 april 2008, 12:15pm AEDST
i was sitting in the waiting room of my obgyn's clinic, anxious.

1:30pm AEDST
i was in dorevich pathology laboratory having blood drawn out of my left arm
was assured that test results will be coming in before 5pm.

4:30pm AEDST
lianne from my doctor's clinic called to tell us that results will be in first thing monday morning

--oOo--

test 5

06 april 2008, 8:00pm AEST
brand: ForeLife Ultra Plus Early Pregnancy Test
claim: has a sensitivity level as low as 10mIU/ml
--oOo--

test 6

07 april 2008, 7:00am AEST
brand: ForeLife Ultra Plus Early Pregnancy Test
claim: has a sensitivity level as low as 10mIU/ml
--oOo--

07 april 2008, 9:28am AEST
spoke to lianne
confirmed positive.