of friendship and love

today is the last day at work of my good friend A-san. i'm really sad that she's no longer working in my workplace. i will really miss her. we don't hang out together a lot but whenever there's opportunity to have chitchat at the office, we always do :D
A-san, i wish you all the best. thank you very much for your friendship. wherever you go, just always remember there's a Lucelle that will always be your friend. mata aimashou ne.

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V-day i received a card and a box of chocolates from my poetic and ever loving husband.
i always look forward to the cards that P makes for me because he has this gift in composing love letters/poems, naks! ;-)
here are some random verses from the poem:

i imagine us years and years from today
sharing a park bench, holding hands so quietly
winter companions waiting for the sunset...

our memories brushes the same years,
as we silently share the same fears
our waves of laughter drifting away tears

like a poem perfectly written
with verses spoken in rhythm
we're couplets in unblemished rhyme...

and so i thank God for you
for giving me the benefit of hearing you cry and smile
and inciting and inviting me into every shades of your life

you are my friend, my joy and my light
you are my heart and my heart is yours
for the rest of our lives...

the 2nd picture is the chocolate cream cheese cake I made for P. =)
we spent this day attending mass, then went on a walk in ryogoku and then we walked home and later that night we just shared home-made hamburger steak dinner with wine and this cake for dessert (while watching winter olympics hehe).

i think they should not be together

that is udon and fried sardines.

i'm one of those people who are not shy to to cook something that has no name.
if there's a lot of veggies that have accumulated in the fridge, i always saute them together - as long as they still look edible, you know what i mean :D my husband will always ask me what is the name of the dish that i cooked, and i will just invent names for my dishes... cooking food this way, from time to time, is exciting at the same time economical ( if the dish turned out fine haha).

lunch time today my tummy was calling out "hunger in here!".
last saturday i planned to cook kare udon but my husband craved for pizza, so udon was out of the picture. and today i planned to cook it again but i toyed with the idea of putting the fried sardines (in a can) instead and check if it will work out ok. well...i'd say not much.

it's not so disastrous but i now i know that the fried sardines is better be mixed with pasta, basil and olive oil. i think that will be more pleasant. or maybe the udon be mixed with minced pork or chicken, if you will add curry flavor. i love spicy and zingy food!

anyway, i still ate it and it was tolerable.

my ingredients: 1 can of fried sardines, 2 packs of udon noodles, curry powder (1 tsp), oil - olive oil is better, dried chili, garlic. i sauted the garlic and sardines in oil. then i washed the udon noodles before putting in. i add about 30ml of water.i added the curry powder and the shredded dried chili to taste. when on the plate, you might want to add a lemon flavor to eliminate strong flavor.
and tadaaaa!

i took this picture after i had a portion of it -- that's why there's that empty part of the pan. i'm not good with food presentation so i just took a shot of the cookware where i cooked it.

tonight, menu is spicy chicken drumettes and ampalaya with egg. i'm not sure if they are good combination :D i was supposed to cook kare kare but i didn't find the beef cut needed.

happy cooking! =)

asashoryu is leaving sumo

we've just learned this today.
this is really a bummer. i love watching Asashoryu in his bouts but his ritual before each bout is what i'll miss even more (the way he bites his lower lip and makes his small chinky eyes even smaller then he'd slap his right hand to his right side).
wooow, the fire and the character that he brings to the game is simply awesome. they say that he's a bad character out of the game but i think that should not be included when you're judging him as a sumo player. come on, why did he become a yokozuna after all. he's one of the greatest sumo fighters for me. hands down to you Asa!
well now, Hakuho is the only reigning yokuzuna. he's really good but he's vibe is just too goody-goody. it somehow bores me as a fan of the sport. thrown in some spunk dude cause you're really good. pondering on it, maybe technically and physically better than Asa.

anyway, here is Asa's farewell press conference:

probst effect

just realized that i dreamt of jeff probst last night and he gave me the most dimpled charming smile.woot!
and i slightly melted... :D

Picture taken from here

yey it's friday!

this week feels like a very long one! things are just crazy lately in the office with all the scrambling we need to do for a certain event.

anyway, it's now friday and tomorrow my boss will be leaving to go visit his country. so i guess the possibility of me going to barcelona for the mobile world congress is now 100% NO possibility :D
oh well... see you barcelona some other time... hopefully!

on another note, i'm reading materials about mobile technology and found this new smart phone project of Access and Emblaze. it's called ELSE mobile. check it out: http://www.elsemobile.com/#/Connect/OneBrainBase. though i noticed that the menu is somewhat similar to that of macbook's display when you hover on a minimized application with sub windows.

on tv series, last wednesday i was so excited to watch the first two episode of the new season of lost. now i know who/what the black smoke is! :D and one character really died... that's why she's staying in V (yep, i'm a spoiler). and another series, chuck. woohhhw, lara lang is now in chuck. hmm.. interesting.... so is smallville done already? another, the big bang theory. i loved the last episode. bazinga! watched it like 5 times :D
tv series are my alterworld =)

one of those light bulb moments

1st day of a new month! oh Time you fly so fast... who's chasing after you?

i remember i had this post few weeks ago about my chasing-changes-looking-for-something-unknown yakyak. now the month of january ended and i'm still not certain of what is really that something i was trying to achieve but you know what, i'm now less confused. a number of things have recently transpired and it made me realize that i'm an ungrateful, self-centered yakking *itch.

i'm blessed with a wonderful and loving husband. i have a steady source of income. i have good health. i still have my nanay. i can buy things that i want. i have many good friends. all my basic needs are being provided for and few luxuries are thrown in from time to time. i am doing really well. so what was i still craving for and blabbering about that i want (baby -- my conscience just whispered to me hihi).

a couple of weeks ago, my very good friend A-san received a letter stating that she's been let go. i was so surprised. she's really good at what she does and unfortunately there are just things that are beyond her control. i will miss her. i will truly miss her. ohh A-san. i wish you all the luck when you travel overseas again. i pray that you'll find that happiness and special someone who'd make you happy.

then i met again this another friend(T-san) who had asked my help about finding a part-time job here in tokyo. she said she's surprised that it's so hard to find job in tokyo now. if in two more months, she can't find one, she's no choice but to go back to her home country. she told me to not let go of my job yet.

then my friend in pinas, well she's almost my elder sister, is trying very hard to find a job overseas cause she wants to look for a greener pasture and better income. she wants to let her parents rest and stop doing the heavy jobs just to put something on the table.

and here i am, i have a relatively stable part-time job. working only 20 hours a week, taking home a somewhat meager salary but considering the amount of work required by my job--it's pretty reasonable, having the luxury of being at home by around 4PM everyday whilst watching the latest episodes of tv series and cooking dinner for my husband... i can go on and on but i know you know what i mean --- i can say i am so much blessed. thank you God for all the blessings and realization of all your blessed manifestation. thank you!

so the conclusion? for now (until my next down moment?), i will just be thankful for what i have. i will continue with my job until they fire me too or until i found another IT-related job. i will continue to hope that i will be pregnant this year. and will continue to strive to find happiness in everything and hopefully share happiness to other people =) ohh.. this last one can be that something that i really want to do. hmmm....