My New Bicycle Basket
Posted on June 2, 2010 by Ching under Life.
I love my new bike basket! We’re ready to go for tomorrow. Hurrah!
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Now I’ve Seen Everything
Posted on June 1, 2010 by Ching under Life.
I wonder if Molly would like one? Maybe for Christmas. =P
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Our Garage
Posted on May 31, 2010 by Ching under Projects, Things to Do.
Brian and I decided it was time to reorganize the garage so that we’d have more room for our bicycles. We got a couple of wire shelves from Target (they’re a lot like these, but ours only cost about $17 each at the store) to keep our stuff off the ground.
After moving most of our stuff to the racks and on this side of the garage, it gave us more room for our bikes.
Now we don’t have to move the car out in order to take our bikes out of the garage. Hurrah! We do have a couple more projects that we have yet to complete: replace Brian’s bicycle seat and get a basket for my bike. I hope we get both done in time for the free outdoor concert at Bradley Fair on Thursday.
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Tagalog Word of the Week: Bulaklak
Posted on May 31, 2010 by Ching under Life, Tagalog.
I thought I’d start something new on the blog because frankly the blog is starting to get a little boring. I woke up this morning and had this idea of sharing a new Tagalog word each week. Brian and I have been into planting and flowers lately so I thought I’d teach you all the Tagalog word for flower: bulaklak.
The funny thing is that when I busted out the Tagalog-English English-Tagalog dictionary that I’d bought Brian several years ago, I thought that it was messed up because when I was looking for bulaklak I could not find it. I was thinking that L would follow K. The word I was looking for was not where I expected it to appear. I was confused until it dawned on me that K is followed by D in the Tagalog alphabet because it replaces the letter C. Therefore, the word buhok (hair) comes after buko (young coconut) and before bulaklak. I thought the L was missing, but I just didn’t continue looking for the word far enough.
I’ve got flowers on the brain because Brian and I have gotten into planting stuff lately. Nothing elaborate or on the ground, just potted plants. Brian and I decided to buy some more this weekend.
We normally steer clear of live plants because we just wind up killing them. It might not be right away, but they all eventually die. However, we got a couple of geraniums from the apartment complex over a month ago and they’re still thriving. Even after we replanted them in nicer ceramic pots that we bought at Dillons, they survived. I thought they’d surely die from the manhandling. The blooms look really pretty so I thought we should get some more plants to put on our patio. We figured since the geraniums haven’t died, maybe we can take care of real plants after all.
Yesterday we stopped by Nature’s Way and got a ceramic pot that is larger than the pots that the geraniums were in. We moved the geraniums and planted them together in the larger pot. We got a couple of celosia plants to put in place of the geraniums in the original pots. They actually look great.
Today we picked up a hibiscus plant at Home Depot, a ceramic pot to put it in and some aqua globes. The hibiscus was actually an impulse buy. We intended to get only the aqua globes. We went to Walgreens, but they didn’t have any. So we ended up at Home Depot. That’s where we found the hibiscus plant. It reminds me of the Philippines where hibiscus plants are everywhere. Except we called them gumamela. I couldn’t leave the store without it. Brian fell in love with it too. We carried the hibiscus plant around with us while we looked for the stuff that we actually came for. LOL.
Check out our hibiscus plant, Chi-Chi.
We named it after John Leguizamo’s character in To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar
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The Next Presidential Election
Posted on May 29, 2010 by Brian under Life.
I told someone the other day. “I think they would get more voters if the Presidential elections were done like American Idol.” We all had a laugh and I didn’t think much of it until today. My dad made a joke about running for office and it sparked that memory.
Think abut it! How would the Presidential elections be if we ran them like American Idol? We would have the “Contestants” all come in for a Season. It would be televised. We could have previous Presidents be judges and Political Analysts, Advisers or Advocates would be Mentors during specific sessions. Then the United States gets to vote through their cellphone just like on Idol and the person with the most votes wins the Presidency. Think of the ratings. Think of the advertising. Think of the sponsorships! All of these companies clamoring to sponsor the next President of the United States. Well, that’s not much different than right now; but this would be more public.
I think the biggest problem with the elections right now are that they are boring. No one understands what the hell they are talking about half the time. Other times they just drag things on so much that no one really cares. We could get John Maher to host the show. I think that if it was thrown out to the people in an entertaining platform like that, you would see more interest, more voters. People would pay more attention and in the end, you might get a better President.
Or, it could change nothing.
“Dim the lights!”
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