bluebacon

Last week somebody dear to my family passed away again. Rather suddenly. She was one of my mom's best friends, my brother's godmother and was a professor in my department in college. Fair to say that she's practically family and for the last couple of years ever since she got an iPad, became really active on Facebook and I felt like I got to know her much better. She would always like things I posted and would post comments as well. She loved writing poetry and would post them on FB. Lately she started posting old photos from when she was younger, there was even one of her and my mom in Spain. I remember people always thinking of her as a bit eccentric but now I'm understanding that she's just always been progressive with her thinking and didn't conform to society, which is big for someone who grew up in her generation in the Philippines. She had just celebrated her birthday a week before and two days before she passed away, she was still commenting on my post...

View from Mt. Seymour Provincial Park Mt. Seymour, the mountain behind my sister-in-law's fiancee's house. So this is my "something new" for January. First of all we went on a spontaneous trip to Vancouver on New Year's Day to partake in a group of Filipinos' potluck event at my future brother-in-law's churrch ward, where he reenacted his marriage proposal. Then the follownt morning, we went up to the ski resort behind his house. I left out a ton of details really, but I have no intentions of reliving the amount of rushing we did going and coming home from this super unplanned trip. So yeah, a ski resort. It's the kids' first time anywhere that had that much snow and they were beyond ecstatic. Granted that I've only been to a ski resort once so I should've endeavoured more to take the kids sooner for the sake of experience but when you've spent enough years of your life dealing with this white shit, no resorty anything would m...

Ok, so far so good. I finished one book within a month and this is book #2 and I finished it within two weeks. It's a shorter book and pretty engaging so I would've finished sooner if only I had a window of free time during the holidays in between getting sick and partying. But hey, I'll take all the free time that I can get! So Infiltration. My friend wrote this book. I've been meaning to read it ever since he published his first book, but well you know why I had not been reading over the last few years. But anyway... From the first page of this book, all I could think of was how proud I was of my friend. When we worked together, I knew he had a lot of late nights working on his very first book and it took him a while to get it done and published. But it seems like he just needed to get over that hump because he has published many others after this one and in less time that it took him to publish this first one. I had fun reading this book. Here's part of ...