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Menu for Friday, 2/19/10

Breakfast: Cold cereal (non-fat milk and Honey Bunches of Oats cereal) and hot Kombucha Green Tea (lightly sweetened w/ Stevia sweetener)

Lunch: Mom’s Tuna Sandwich on multi-grain loaf bread and hot Honeybush milk tea (w/ vanilla soy milk and lightly-sweetened with orange blossom honey)

Dinner: Fried Daing na Bangus (marinated milkfish), Sinigang Bangus (milkfish soup (stew?)), white rice (Mom still refuses to have brown rice, which is healthier for diabetic people), and fresh cold water.

After Dinner: hot double rooibos red milk tea and popcorn (while watching the Olympics on TV. I still don’t understand why we can’t watch it live when we’re on the exact same time zone as Vancouver, Canada… )

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• Current Location: Work
• Currently Drinking: Ocean Spray (sugar-free) White Cranberry Peach (on-the-go)
• Currently Eating: Black Bean Chili Tortilla Chips
• Currently Reading: The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon, The Business of Sustainability (article) by MIT's Sloan School of Management
• Currently Playing: Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney Investigations (DS)
• Mood: bored

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