Blogworld Saturday

Bet you thought Blogworld Saturday wasn't coming back anymore. Well, it's back, so boo for you.

Seriously, I hope you enjoy the following posts/blogs that I did the past few weeks. You guys are so talented, it blows me away sometimes. There were so many that I enjoyed reading, here's just a sampling of them.

You just never know.... Marlayna finds several things she has in common with someone she met. It's uncanny sometimes how we relate to other people, share common experiences with them, when at first glance they seem to be inhabiting a universe different from our own.

Daydreaming at the car wash. Debo Blue's posts aren't the bells-and-whistles type. She writes straightforwardly, which draws me in. I identify with a lot of her posts. Like this one: making up stories in her mind about the people she sees. I wonder, though, if she gets the strange stares I get whenever I do that.

Duct tape, 9-11, and coffee kiosks. My friend Victor and I were talking earlier about things we missed about working in a regular workplace (since we both work from home), and I remembered Scott's post about some conversations he had with a colleague at work. Interactions like the one Scott has with the wigged guy sure can brighten one's day.

The Unintentional Question Effect. Stu's blog posts always make me laugh. This Englishman has been living in the Netherlands for a few years now, and I enjoy his witty descriptions of how he adapts to various aspects of life there -- like learning the language. I took a few foreign language courses many years ago; Spanish, Italian, and French were fun to learn, but I had trouble with German. And Dutch is similar to German, isn't it? Nevertheless, still a very interesting language to learn.

You shall tremble before the meme-wraith! Diesel doesn't like memes, so what did he do to deal with the memes that were extended to him? He chickened out from doing them himself, and hired Grundir, one of Tolkien's ring-wraiths, to do the dirty work for him. But....a ring-wraith who can tell a good knock-knock joke seems so hot somehow. I just hope Diesel doesn't forget to remind Grundir to take showers regularly.

Hot haiku redux. Naughty Turnbaby invited everyone to participate in her sizzling haiku experiment. A whole slew of bloggers rose to the challenge. One of Turnbaby's hot haiku offerings:

His finger slips in
Hot wet heat enveloping
A touch of heaven

Now how the hell can one top that??? It has to be five, seven, five syllables. So let's give her Hot Haiku experiment a go:

Uh, uh, uh, so deep
Oh, God. I'm coming honey!
Oh oh yes! Uh uh

I know, that sucked. But accurate, eh? ;-)

Sidney's Quiapo series. There are places in every city that are so full of character they pulsate any which way you look at them. Quiapo in Metro Manila is one such place. Sidney's photos of Quiapo are most enlightening: the fortune-tellers, the mystics, the religious processions. It's been quite some time since I've been to that place, but revisiting it through Sidney's site is a treat.

Something smells fishy. Christine is a gypsy soul, and she's been to almost everywhere and back. Her travel itinerary doesn't pass up these lovely islands of ours -- and the local culture. In this post, Christine talks about a delicacy beloved by many Filipinos: the dried fish known as daing or tuyo. It isn't the most pleasantly aromatic of dishes (the smell of it being cooked has been likened to that of unwashed pekpek (I'll leave it to you guys to figure out what that means) but eaten with garlic rice, a fresh tomato and perhaps a freshly-fried egg -- sunny side up! -- it's a culinary masterpiece in its simplicity.



Have a rockin' and rollin' weekend, everyone! See you all next week.