Archive for January, 2010

As I delve deeper in to the wonders of social and environmental sustainability, thanks to the high influences of my co-workers in our department, another aspect of environmental sustainability actually got my attention. That, of course, is industrial ecology and biomimicry.

What the heck are those two things. Well, it’s a concept (or concepts) in which we create our own new systems by copying or being inspired by the natural processes of living creatures in the world around us. Since the human race throughout history just don’t really know (or don’t really care) how on earth we use the resources provided to us by mother nature herself. As of this moment, slowly and gradually, the earth is dying because of… well… us.

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• Mood: Rushed

As of late, I have been undergoing through thorough training along with the rest of our department regarding the very popular and important concept of environmental sustainability. First module from last week we learned about the world as of today, its conditions, and all the problems that caused all the pollution and the signs that the earth would be dying out of its resources. For next week we’ll be covering industrial ecology and biomimicry.

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• Current Location: Work (Levi Strauss & Co.)
• Currently Eating: Sobe Lifewater Cherimoya (Atis) Punch
• Currently Listening: Pandora Radio Doo-Wop Channel
• Mood: Sleepy

I’ve only read a few passages, but I’ve been enjoying the book from the beginning. This ancient Japanese literary piece, known as The Pillow Book was written by an imperial court gentlewoman named Sei Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting serving the empress sometime in the 10th-11th Century Heian Period in Japan. During this period, it was the era of cultural flourishing all over Japan. Sort of like the Renaissance Period in Europe where artists of various forms as well as scholars and philosophers promote a brand-new culture in their everyday life through the visual arts to the literary arts. Japan held the record of having one of the very earliest, if not the earliest novel ever written in history, starting with Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) written by another imperial court lady-in-waiting, Murasaki Shikibu.

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• Mood: Hungry

Dang, just as I was still working on re-organizing the sections in this blog, I’ve got a request from three dudes in the same house to build a joint “friends blog” hosted in one of my domains. Most likely Akaliane. Well, might as well get to it.

They did allow me to invite a few of my friends (some online, some real-life) just so they would know that they’ve got a following of readers. Originally it was going to be private with just a bunch of their friends in their college and outside college, however they did invite me to join with them and OK to invite some friends as long as they don’t do anything that would ruin their “privacy.” Well, what can you do about it? I do intend to invite the friends I really trust, so…

Somehow, this new project made me feel happy again after the somewhat of a heartbreak of closing down AMNOS.net (Arashi fansite function) for good. When this “friends blog” is done, would you read and follow them? ^^;

As you can probably see now, I just uploaded a sample theme. Well, not quite “sample” theme, but a preview of how the theme currently looks like in progress. I’m still doing some more tweaks with the help of the awesome theme generator Artisteer and some good ol’ manual tweaking. Despite that I’m using a simple-to-use Wordpress generator to build my themes due to my lack of fluency with the WP templating system, I’m still working hard, studying hard, watching all these How to make WP themes videos and reading Wordpress for Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson.

Overlooking the current layout (before I added this new one) I noticed so many things that I’ve went overboard with. Once after I’m satisfied with the final look of the theme, I’m gonna start re-organizing the sections and my overflowing sidebar.

And that’s all I have to report. Adri signing off now!

• Current Location: Home
• Currently Eating: Japanese Rice Crackers
• Currently Listening: Doo-Wop Channel @ Pandora Radio
• Currently Drinking: Cherry Pomegranate Juice (sugar-free)
• Currently Reading: 2009 Best American Mystery Stories

1. Woke up in high noon.
2. Watched a movie with family – Sherlock Holmes.
3. Baked Puto (Filipino fluffy white pastry) using Bisquick all-purpose baking mix instead of rice flour.
4. Finished The Lost Symbol in 3 days instead of my usual 2 weeks of reading.
5. Came up with a new plot for an original fiction project. FSM will have to be put on hold. I remind myself not to make a “grand” website ever again if I’m not even going to dedicate myself to maintain.
6. Anticipated upcoming winter season J-dramas and here they are as follows:
   • Bloody Monday (Season) 2
   • The Wallflower (Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge)
   • Left-Eyed Detective (Hidarime Tantei Eye)
   • Shinsengumi PEACE MAKER
7. Wrote this blog entry, though it’s already the 2nd day of 2010.

Because this is a hodgepodge entry, there’s nothing much “exciting” that you can see in this entry. One of my personal resolutions is to write more in this blog, and another thing, they don’t have to be novel-length entries. Would I change much of my ways? Probably not. But I will change some of my ways for the better, not for the worse.

Am I going to stop writing about (J-idol) fangirls and their everyday practices whether if they’re just general commentary or am I poking fun of them? Probably not.

• Currently Drinking: AriZona Iced Pomegranate Green Tea
• Currently Eating: Hambone Soup
• Currently Listening: My Doo-Wop Station @ Pandora
• Currently Reading: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
• Mood: Contemplative