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Went shopping for holiday stuff yesterday and took some pics along the way.
Carnaby Street has gone retro with its Christmas decorations this year. Not really doing it for me personally.

I'm conflicted about Winter Solstice. This year I'd love to have some nice things. We're supposed to be making lists for each other. I mostly want things that aren't really gifts: clothing and boots, a work bag, money for travel and a new home.

We really should just save the money. But it just doesn't seem like the holiday without that tradition of presents. Sigh. We go on our annual trip to New York City to see the Christmas tree, shop in the Village and eat chocolate crepes at this amazing cafe.

 

I'm even having a hard time deciding which charity I want to give to this year. There's so many great ones. I found some amazing small charities like the Carnivore Trust and the Mangrove Action Project.  It sure would be nice if people could buy each other simplicity, or reduced clutter. Maybe the soul of a Yogi. But those things aren't purchaseable. They have to be earned.

Update: I'm asking someone to adopt a red panda named Pinju for me!

Adoptpinju

Pinju: Male. I love to curl around the branches of oak trees and eat sorbus fruits. I hope you can come an visit me in Nepal soon.

Red Panda Network

 

• 20:52 @sjc_home4tea It's described as about a group of women working at Ford Dagenham in the 1960's and in style of Calendar Girls and Full Monty #
• 20:55 @sjc_home4tea Just googled it's Nigel Cole film and (was?) called Dagenham Girls. Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins and Rosamund Pike #
• 21:20 #xfactor What is up with Louis tonight. He's being particularly obnoxious #
• 21:25 #xfactor I'm coming round to Joe. Which is worrying. #
• 21:33 #xfactor Am I the only one who doesn't 'get' Stacey. Simon just nailed it when he said she always sounds the same #
• 08:25 @sjc_home4tea Bloody hell. The cast is promising if nothing else. Thanks for that. #
• 08:31 Sorry @1yare but I'm really not enjoying the music you are playing this morning. #
• 08:46 @1yare That's a lot better! #
• 09:02 Right better go and get ready for yoga. Fingers crossed it rains during the class not while I'm walking there or back. #
• 18:34 Saw Glorious 39 this afternoon. Not Poliakoff's finest. All a bit too melodramatic. #

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I'm just venting today. There's a fairly trivial matter that's driving me nuts. I can't think of a name for our new strays.  I'm drawing a total blank on names for them since they showed up 2 months ago. Background story for those who don't know: Basically, our jerkbrain neighbors dumped 12 cats. Yes, 5 kittens and 7 adults. Locked them outside the apartment and left them to starve. 

 

 

 

Our neighbor, a single grade school teacher, who can hardly afford to take in a stray animal, alerted me to the cats who had been abandoned and were starving. She was able to take 1 cat and we took 2 into our small shelter. The Little Girl is very gentle, but she doesn't like being touched. She follows her "brother" around everywhere. She's also tiny but growing since we actually **ahem** feed her.

 

 

The landlord couldn't take them and the "owners" didn't bother to do anything until they saw the notice on the door alerting them that they were being investigated for animal cruelty, at which point all the rest of the cats disappeared, maybe they dumped them into the river. Who knows.

 

 

 

The Little Boy is really intelligent. He was terrified when he first got here but now he's friendly, gentle and catching on fast. He takes good care of his "sister". He's also one of the most muscular cats I've ever seen. A real macho kitty. But he doesn't spray and he's a wonderful cat. Did I mention we desperately need homes for them?

 

 

Anyway, I can't think of names for them. We generally name our cats after authors (Poe), composers (Hugo and **Charles** Ives) or famous characters (Watson). For the little girl I was thinking of: Rosie (Jetsons) or Fossey (Dian). I was calling the boy Newton. Rosie and Newton. Ugh, I hope those names don't stick. Suggestions would be welcomed.I especially like sci fi and I'm jealous of my friend Bones who named her ferrets after Star Trek characters.  I wish I had thought of that.

i think i went through the entire spectrum of emotions yesterday.

started the morning with a quest to find the right printer for our invitations. we had about 5 printers shortlisted, but only one of them was open on weekends.

after searching for them for quite a while in makati cinema square (frustration), we located them, but we were told that they will not be able to print back-to-back with the machines they have  (disappointment). the graphic artist was nice enough to refer us to their other branch, which was just 5 minutes away (hope).

and yay! alfred, that branch's graphic artist, was able to print our invites out on nice paper, with good quality prints at a pretty affordable price (happiness). he just made a huge boo-boo when he asked me if that was indeed my picture on the invite (surprise bordering on sadness).

minutes later, i was crying my eyes out in the car, repeating, "i look ugly in my wedding invitation!" (self-pity and despair) in between sobs. susie couldn't deal with the sudden emotional swing (anger), but at least he was still able to drive all the way to the airport.

by the time we got on the flyover, i was calming down (meh), and when we pulled into the parking space in front of carmelino's, i had gotten over my bout of self-pity (even telling myself, "so what if you're ugly in it? it's not like you're drop-dead gorgeous or anything, hija") (contentment), and was ready to wait in line to book our tickets to cebu (excitement and fear).

we waited about 30 minutes (pretty good for cebu pacific, considering there were 10 people ahead of me in line), and got our tickets for our day trip to cebu (relief and excitement).

now, let me explain. these tickets i'm using came free from a stint i did for cebu pacific a few months back. they're due to expire in january, and they won't be valid after the wedding anymore. and since susie and i don't really have that much free time on our hands, we can't afford to be gone on entire weekends.

and since the tickets came free, we thought we'd do a crazy day trip to cebu, something we've always wanted to do, but never got around to doing because we'd always feel that paying for plane tickets for such a short trip is a waste of moolah.

so now that we have booked our tickets, i can tell you that our trip to cebu is pushing through (anticipation)! the plan is to go and take advantage of shangri-la mactan's day package: for P2,000, you gain access to the beach, and even get buffet lunch at tides. a pretty sweet deal, since all we really want to do is relax and forget about responsibility, even for just a day (contentment).

we got a return flight for 1115pm the same day, so we have about 4 hours tambay time in cebu. maybe we can take on larshan or another cebuano institution. i'm pretty excited to just be out of manila and be on the beach again!

after we got those errands out of the way, we finally arrived at susie's cousin's birthday party in alabang, where we feasted on steak, downed a lot of booze (the waiters were so attentive, we were never without an empty bottle!), and sang a few songs accompanied by gifted musicians (cheerfulness). 

You can start developing with Android Mobile OS and Android Mobile Apps by using Eclipse or Eclipse Pulsar (Eclipse for MobileDev) together with  the Android Development Tools (ADT).

And here are some tutorials to help you get started:

• http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html#installation_eclipse
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-os-eclipse-android.html
  

Even though Chrome OS was only released a few weeks ago you can already build or download pre-built Chrome OS Virtual Machines for VirtualBox and VMware !

Just found this lovely interview Newsweek did with actor friends Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. It was just before their film Rudo y Cursi came out. Diego reveals why the put-him-in-your-pocket-sized Gael always wears a hat these days.

Love Skunk Anansie. Alongside Muse they are probably my favourite band so I was well chuffed when I heard they

were getting back together again, all former differences apparently set aside. (Coughs: need the money).
They are brilliant live. Skin has an amazingly powerful voice that is note perfect. She really goes for it and also has a penchant for jumping into the audience which, naturally, goes down a storm.
Thursday night was not only the final gig on their European tour but also, it being Brixton, Skin's home turf so it held a lot of promise.
And there was nothing to disappoint. Skin was on top form, dancing around with her usual verve in a gold sequined one-piece and jumping into the audience for a bit of crowd surfing, all the time maintaining a note perfect performance.
She was a chatty mood too and during the first encore persuaded security to let about six or seven people up on the stage to jump around with her. At the end of the song she climbed onto the drum stack beckoned the on stage audience to gather in close in front of her and then staged-dived into their arms.
Fab welcome back gig playing the best of their three albums and a handful of new tracks that appear on their new greatest hits album. They also play an as yet unrecorded track which Skin described as being about "f*cking". Indeed the f-word featured quite heavily in the lyrics in typical Skunk Anansie style.
Lets just see how long they can get on with each other this time.
Oh and the support band, which we caught the last few songs of were quite good to. Most unlike the usual supports. They were called The Chemists, see if you can spot their pic in the bunch below. Pics were taken by Melanie as I, in a rare moment of restraint, decided to leave my camera at home.