Month: September 2023

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What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?

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20230916-1704. My dad’s side of the family come from a town known for being the toughest fighters. We don’t give a damn about your hurt feelings and pride ourselves to liberating those who are repressed.

Without getting tattoos or using weapons, we have fought hard to win over the most brutal forces known – invaders. That’s correct! We don’t take kindly to invaders and have been known to kick out their asses.

Fast forward, many of us live abroad and have taken over lots of Catholic Churches – our territories and sanctuaries. Then there’s other areas of hospitality and healthcare that anchors our existence while stuck on this hellish planet, which still enslaves many third world countries, including America.

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What brands do you associate with?

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20230916-1658. I am NOT brand conscious and do NOT wish to fork over money to a bunch of wealthy millionaire and billionaire. Only the wealthy can afford to support their own kinds and their sell-outs over force labor markets.

The rest of us like me would prefer the off-brands, the small businesses, the local farmers and other alternative markets. I strive to hand over my dough to these new and emerging markets instead of making monstrous behemoth of polluters who only care about expanding instead of cleaning up their abandoned mess after everything have been achieve – all the more – over-bloated.

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What could you do more of?

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20230916-1653. I could do less social media addiction and more of actual work and human interaction. Alas, I’ve seen and heard enough and so while I could do more of what extroverts do, I ended up being an introvert and staying indoors is fine with me.

For example, the weather is sunny and the breeze is cool. I could go outdoors an enjoy the sun and breeze. But, no! I simply have my bedroom window cracked open to no more tan one-fifth of the way to allow some fresh air in.

Right now, I’m feeling sleepy due to fasting until sunset today at 1913pm. I do NOT feel the hunger pangs or the pain in my stomach. As a matter of fact, I feel like my body system is shifting to ketosis and that’s a good way to detoxify,

So that’s another thing: dieting. My best luck would be fasting frequently. But my elderly father would be upset that I cannot join him for meals. So I can’t go for more than missing breakfast and lunch and have to dine with him during late supper.

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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

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20230914-1957. Unfortunately, due to my anxiety and stress, I am a motor mouth and don’t know when to shut the fuck up. Yesterday, I raised my voice at someone over the phone to which I offered my apologies today.

His audio calls are limited to a few minutes due to his busy schedule and live shows. And receiving such calls are “proof” that he still thinks about me, I guess. I dunno know. Maybe.

Do I love him? Yup. Do others love him? Yup. Am I jealous? Nope. I have others that I love over the years but have NOT met in-person; and I must continue to minister to them to the VERY end, I guess. I dunno know. Maybe.

I noticed that when a person like me is too honest and rats out inadvertently on others – my words are taken outta context and misconstrued as facts when the listeners themselves are also gossipers. In this context, it’s best to say as little to nothing as much as possible.

That way, anyone who fishes for information from a targeted individual or is perceived as a threat – like me for example, she cannot and should NOT sabotage one’s reputation or assassinate one’s character, like the coo-coo NextDoor neighbor who got slapped with two restraining orders, because she couldn’t control her sub-delusion of jealousy. Get it?

But like I said, I mind my own business, sit alone in front of this computer, and do NOT talk much over audio calls due to my English is NOT good. My preferred mode of communication is through blogging, by the way. And I don’t follow anyone’s advice anyways.

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What things give you energy?

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20230914-1953. I could have said that energy drinks give me energy but I don’t drink soda. So all I could think of are people, my relatives, our parakeets and garden.

Seeing, Hugging and Talking my relatives after a long while feels good. Seeing emails and text messages from friends to strangers feel good. Taking time to connect with our parakeets with few taps on their backs or belly seems good. And every couple of weeks, dealing with the garden is okay.

So basically it’s the lifeforms itself that give me energy and the imagination that everything will be okay is good enough too.

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What’s your all-time favorite album?

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20230914-1949. The first image that came to my small mind was the cover album of Hysteria by Def Leppard. I saw the triangle smack dap in the middle. I know there are other heavy metal or hard rock or classic rock bands from the past. But this one seems rather descent enough. I forgot most of the song except now I could hear the refrain or main lyrics going over and over in my mind: Hysteria. Hehe.

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Which topics would you like to be more informed about?

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20230914-1943. I’d like to know first hand what is going on through a person’s mind, what makes them feel good or bad, and how is the progress on their ideas and projects. I really don’t care for politics or news as much as I used to five years ago: for I learned that the televised programmings are repetitive and scripted for whatever reason.

At my age, I prefer to connect with the relationship topic and getting to know the side of human and nature interconnectedness. I’m NOT that hard core on religion or science. However, I’d like to know what’s going on with people and their relationship with GOD and how that concept is working out for them. Hehe.

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What would your life be like without music?

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20230914-1936. I really don’t like to blog while listening to music. I really don’t like to listening to the dramatized audio with music in the background while listening to my KJV audio books. I would rather read the closed caption of videos without the sound.

However, if I’m watching certain adventure, action, dramatic or sci-fi movies, I would expect to have some music. Since I’m pretty much losing my hearing, having some partial hearing loss in higher frequencies, such as the rustling of dried leaves and the clicking of signal lights, I really don’t care if I have life without music.

I’m NOT moved by music if sitting alone in front of the computer or television. However, when I sit at a live performance, the music and its vibrations make me cry! I really do respond emotionally to singers belting out their poetic lyrics and musicians playing their instruments.

Yeah, so I guess life without music is something new but NOT necessary. I just need the text or close captioning to figure out what spoken words that I cannot hear or miss entirely.

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How do you celebrate holidays?

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20230914-1928. For the past five years, my elderly father and I have NOT been celebrating holidays. But we do force ourselves to get outta the house for a change and celebrate parties, if invited. We really don’t care for celebrating our birthdays, too. Because like that 82 year old fart from yesterday, she said: I’m too old for this (birthday cards/gifts).

I do NOT follow any calendar ( lunar or solar) feasts and do NOT really observe the Sabbaths. I’m just trying to mind my own business but learning how others live their lives, practice their belief systems and adhere strictly to their ongoing indoctrinations to various religious cults.

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Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.

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20230914-1920. I cannot recall exactly what happened but I was trying to cook something and heated extra virgin olive oil, which is supposed to be healthier than any of the other vegetable oils.

I was distracted in finding and preparing the ingredients, which is supposed to have been completed before firing up the stove for cooking. Lo and behold, I heard and saw huge licks of orange flames rising out from inside the tall stainless steel cookware!

I stood transfixed momentarily, watching the flames beating down its heat upon my face, and thinking quickly what to do next: I had an incoming thought that I should use a metal lid to snuff out the oxygen! (I barely recall from a YouTube video that this is the best method.)

So I opened the wooden cabinet and looked hurriedly for a metal like and thankfully found one and grab it to quickly place it on the growing flames that refuse to be snuffed out!

That’s one fail that I won’t forget. Other cooking fails would be putting too much ground black pepper in my dad’s soup that he coughed. Sometimes, I made his soup too salty and he also coughed. But adding spicy ingredients to his food is a no-no because NOT only did he cough but that gave him pain, like acid reflux.

Another fail would be a Pryex baking dish that exploded inside the oven. I cannot recall what recipe but I should NOT use that OLD glass bakeware for temperatures over 350ºF, for example. I believe it exploded at a higher temperature of 450ºF.

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Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.

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20230914-1857. I’ve learned that most strangers do NOT have my best interest. Most of the ones that I’ve encountered are spooky spooks and have taken more from me than my own kins. One particular stranger had brother who was in debt to a business entity. I helped bail out that brother and other brother who were stuck overseas. See?

Now, I’ve learned to treasure my own kins over those that I’ve NOT met in-person. For example, I received a thank-you text message from my cousin whose mother was happy to see my elderly father and me yesterday evening. We gifted the old fart $100 but there was no mention of that detail except treasuring our presence. See?

Then again it’s just safer to assume that most strangers are harmless unless provoked like the coo-coo NextDoor neighbor who, like I said, has sub-delusion of jealousy, like an Admin, for example.

I figured that as long as these strangers are on the dark side of the planet or far, far away, say, over 300 feet for active restraining orders, then I would have blessed relief.

For example, an EARO didn’t work under civil and escalated under “criminal” because the coo-coo NextDoor neighbor couldn’t control herself within a few months.

Even after two years of expiration in May 2022, she still couldn’t control herself. That’s when I noticed a more substantial relief after July 18, 2023.

Once a rather cordial yet personal relationship has been established, it’s almost always difficult to let bygones be bygones.

My relationships are now platonic, meaning I let my imagination get the better of me: that chit-chatting or simply talking to strangers is NOT half as bad as getting emotionally involved with their troubles in-person.

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What are your favorite types of foods?

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20230914-1849. Overall, my favorite types are usually salty and spice.

I use my favorite garlic salt while binging on ramen noodles at night. I save the seasoning packets of the ramen noodles for boiling my dads boneless and skinless chicken.

I then would portion out a couple of cups of this chicken soup, sometimes add noodles to make chicken noodle soup, and boil my dad’s favorite frozen mixed vegetables.

Whenever there are snacks, I’d choose spicy flavors, such as jalapeño. Sometimes, the combination would be salt and spicy.

I don’t use too much cayenne pepper or black ground pepper or either fancy or regular table salt either for cooking or my meals.