My schedule has been toxic to say the least. I remember telling a friend that my right side of the brain just cannot compete with the hectic pace of my left brain. Too much ideas that i can blog but just not enough creative juices going.. know what i mean..?

My family, friends and Mr. C manage to keep me .. well.. sane.

Music ahh music is a source of comfort.. those special songs that sooth and calm.

I have heard her more famous song which went mainstream. And recently, I got hold of the entire album.
Corrinne May who sang “On the side of me”, has churned out so much more inspiring songs. Currently playing repeatedly in my ear are the songs “Safe in a Crazy World” and “Angel in Disguise”.
Her entire album is a worthy investment. Never mind that my officemate and tukayo Gino ripped the entire album for me, I will buy her album.

Powerful songs are made of these… a clear voice that sends out simple yet profound lyrics and the piano and violin to accompany.

** Corrinne May also has a Christmas album. I remember one day in December when i was in Fully Booked, her familiar voice was filling the entire place as she sings The first Noel. I just have to buy that one too..

To be in the moment yet not really be there. To grasp an image that remains vague. To hear words that could well be riddles.

To wish for understanding when you keep the mystery.
To wish for connection when the lines are crossed.
To hope for clarity when the words are barely a whisper. .

To long for an audience that you don’t seek
To want the puzzle solved when you hide a few pieces.
To get what you hope for when your mind cannot be read.

Someday soon –
What with finite minds, distracted views, poor hearing and limited vision
You realize that except for One, everyone and everything else
Will disappoint.

Maybe too, you realise that all this time
What you show is just a mirage..
and what you say…
a mere echo.

Baby dont fill up your head with he said, she said.
It seems like you just dont know..
‘Cause everybody knows that nobody really knows
How to make it work and or how to ease the hurt
We’ve heard it all before

I have heard it a few times but this morning, i was able to listen to a few lines of its lyrics.

I am loving John Legend’s heartbreak song, Everybody knows. Lovely lovely voice this man has.

Which got me into thinking…right.. There is no formula for a successful relationship.
I for one, hold a strong belief that complementary lifestyles mean a greater possibility for a successful relationship.

We can share the principles that worked in our own lives or in the lives of the people around us. We can have the nice sounding, generic guidelines, the how-to’s culled from self help books — which are helpful, dont get me wrong.

We have our own ideals about relationships but as John Legend puts it.. EVERYBODY Knows that no one really knows.

There is no one sure way.
Except maybe one..
Faith.
Faith in the One that brought you together.
And faith in each other.
Apart from that, it is pretty much…to each his own.

1.Someone who is not into reading books does not mean he is shallow. A bookworm cannot be automatically tagged as a person of substance.

2.If you keep a scorecard of your friends’ ‘performance’ in the arena of friendship, you are missing the point.

3.When you find yourself explaining too much for every choice you make, ask yourself… why?

4.A person who has a lot of acquaintances is different from one with many friends.
For every ten ‘friends’ that you have, figure out how many are deep and lasting ones.

5.You usually refrain from asking questions that you don’t want people asking you.
One person’s casual inquiry is another’s intrusion of privacy.

6.Why do you desire to let people know that the latest trend was your initial idea? Why would you let people know after almost everyone has joined the bandwagon? If you were proud of that idea that you said was yours, then you should have been brave enough to make it known long before it became acceptable.

7.Lessons are usually learned from hindsight. History will determine if yours was a genuine motive or a good decision.

8.There is absolutely no way that one person can give answers and assurances to all crossroads that you will take. You hesitate probably because you don’t have enough faith in that person.

9.Why do we want to win the approval of someone we don’t even like, whose principles we don’t agree with? It is such a waste of time.

10.We ‘punish’ mistakes but ignore successes. We don’t pay attention until something goes wrong.

11.From the movie Curious Case of Benjamin Button. “We are defined by our opportunities, even those we miss.”

My seventh year in this company. Can you believe it?! Can I believe it?
To think, I have attempted many many times to move to other companies. Apparently, God has other plans and I must say much much better plans.

Ironically, yesterday was exhausting because of some irritating emails. The firefighting at work still comes every so often. I arrive today with another email that had the potential to ruin yet another day.

Until…. two dozens of lovely white and orange roses were delivered to my desk.

Awww.. I could have received a whole lot more nasty emails on my anniversary day and it wouldn’t matter. My day was made.

Thanks Mr C.

If my father were alive and watching the movie that I recently watched, he would say “Kid stuff..” If my father were alive, he would liken the lead protagonist to the late Filipino action star FPJ who never seem to get shot while killing all his enemies.

I know this because those were the exact same thoughts in my head as I watched the movie “Taken”. For someone who grew up watching primetime English television shows or old FPJ movies with her father, I know.

The movie Taken was pure Hollywood. Ergo, unrealistic, pro American. He creates a mess in France and managed to leave the country scot-free. I read somewhere that it went number one in the box office on the week that it premiered in the US. I think I know why. Two words.

Liam Neeson.

I am not too keen on watching violent, noisy action movies. Those movies were the kind I loved to watch maybe ten years ago. But not in recent years. I agreed with Mr C when he suggested the movie because I am one of those silent fans of the great actor that is Liam Neeson. I agreed to watch the movie because, well if Mr C can stand two hours of “He’s Not Just That Into You”, I thought I’d return the favour. But let me dare say that my chick movie is a whole lot more realistic than Taken! Don’t you think?!

But see, I am a fan of this Oscar winning actor. He is known as a dramatic actor so seeing him portray a role that carries a gun and kills anyone that gets in the way was worth my time and money. (unless there he has other movie where he did carry a gun…that i didnt watch) But I guess that is why it was a hit.

And he was a convincing retired government secret agent. He is commanding, menacing and ala-FPJ invincible. And of course that voice.. that deep sounding voice makes him scarier. And his relentless devotion to his daughter—he nailed that character. His acting skills came through for him.

And after saying all these, the movie’s realism (or the lack thereof) is something I am choosing to ignore.

Broken strings by James Morrison. I like the sound of this guy’s voice. I have his other CD to prove it. I preferred that he sang this song solo but it is actually a duet with Nelly Furtado. Still, a good song.