Thursday Thoughts

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What a lively welcome
I am a huge fan of The Amazing Race 5. In fact, I felt a weird sense of pride when the Philippines was chosen as one of the legs. It would’ve been so much fun to dress up the jeepneys, plow the fields with the neighborhood carabao and look for that giant duck landmark (which I didn’t know existed till AR5). I was extremely disappointed with the Pit Stop, however. Where was the “Mabuhay”? Where was the warm welcome? All we got was a flat “Welcome to Manila, the Philippines” from Luli Arroyo. I know she’s the President’s daughter, but surely we could give the AR Teams a better welcome than that! I keep telling my friends I would have preferred The Singing Cooks and Waiters to have welcomed the teams with a local song. It was a big downer.

Oh well, what’s done is done. I’m just looking forward to the season finale next week. I’ve already told my boss I’ll be watching TV from 9-11 am in one of our conference rooms. She said, “You better put it in your calendar then. Come to think of it, put it in my calendar too.” I just love her!

Food for the Soul
I’ve updated my blog links and have added a separate group for the food blogs. Feel free to browse through my recent finds, and do let me know if you are aware of a great food blog worth visiting! It’s a bad thing to read through those blogs in the morning though especially if you haven’t had breakfast. The pictures and recipes are usually very tempting they’ll leave you salivating on your keyboard. Not a pretty picture. Hence, I’ve made sure that my tummy isn’t empty when I read through this section of my blog.

“Look at the View”
My friends and I were driving down a country road yesterday when the sky caught our attention. It was a periwinkle blue hinted with white cotton puffs. Further into the distance, there was a beautiful blend of blue, purple and orange. It was as if an artist had mixed those colors on his palette and you didn’t know where the blue ended and the purple began. The blazing yellow orange of the sun was filtered by the many cumulus clouds, and so the sun’s rays weren’t piercing or sharp. A warm glow enveloped the horizon. One couldn’t help but gaze into the yellow orange cotton candy clouds in the distance. The golden afternoon’s sun rays peeped out of the soft whiteness and created a brightness in the heavens I have never witnessed before. I wanted to take my camera out but knew that any picture would do no justice to what I saw right before my eyes. With that beauty, by friend said, “How can there not be a God?” She’s right. There are Monets, Van Goghs, Da Vincis and Picassos. Nature is however the best art there ever is and God is the ultimate artist.

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