Birthday message to self

One week in advance.




“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.” 
― Neil Gaiman

The Quiet World

-Jeffrey McDaniel

In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.

When she doesn’t respond,
I know she’s used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.

Goong (Gung)

I have just finished the whole "Goong" series (or "Princess Hours") and I have to say I didn't quite like the ending.

What the heck did BingungMama see in Shin?!? Fine, she's Shin's lawfully wedded wife and, yes, a divorce is so not doable for members of the Royal Family, but COME ON! If after 2.5million years, all of them gets to walk on earth again, she'd still like Shin? Is she blind? Retarded? A masochist?

Okay. So I favor Yul's character. There.

But what's there to like about Shin? Bullies might appeal to a lot of girls out there but, COME ON! A rock who likes a pretentious so-so ballerina against a sensitive man who knows how to treat his lady right? A fashionably-challenged phlegmatic-choleric man who wears pedal pushers with a coat versus a fun, independent ex-Prince who wears a Tiffany&Co. feather loop necklace - never mind if it's a bit feminine - and who has such a good voice (fine, so singing wasn't part of his role but he DOES have a great voice! p.s. was he the one who sang the theme song?). Isn't the better choice supposed to be obvious?

It's an old series, I know. But I discovered it only this week and I was hook for days. Now that I've finished the series, I don't have anything to do anymore (other than study). Oh, drat.

Off to find another addiction.