taking note

Do you ever have an "aha!" moment while doing some of the most ordinary things? Well, today I received several emails that did that for me. I mean, these are not monumental discoveries, but sometimes it's just nice to be reminded.

So I decided to list 5 the things that caught my attention today:

1. "Write down thoughts and inspirations." --hence this post:)

2. "Remind yourself that you are not the general manager of the universe"

3."Do something for the Kid in You everyday."

4. "Slow down."

5. "More often than not, the greatest difficulty you must overcome is convincing yourself to get started."

And some that made me laugh:

1. Myths disspelled

2. Commercial Success by Bianca Consunji

3. Jo Koy :) Watch this...he's hilarious!

4. An email from Kuya Gerald entitled..."You grew up in Baguio if..." Too bad there is no link to it. Reading it got me smiling...home sick too...but it's all good:) There were more than 100 on the list, but here's some I like:)

• you remember there was a real tree in the rotunda fronting what is now SM Baguio and the post office (which was cut down to give way to the fountain of tiyanaks and eventually to the concrete pine tree)
• you ate the best fried chicken at Mother's
• you ate imported ice cream on cones with square ends in John Hay
• you had a sayotehan in the backyard --we still do!!! hahaha
• you tried ghost hunting (or as they now call it spirit questing) at Diplomat Hotel or Loakan
• you once planted a pine tree sapling for the a regreening movement effort
• you had FEN courtesy of those special antennas and therefore enjoyed to the max all the hit Western TV shows (that's why you were so angry when the bases were pulled out!)
• you always were afraid of that pine tree in the middle of the road on the way to the Loakan airport (it has been cut down)
• you distinctly remember that there was a small public library near the Athletic Bowl and the tennis courts in Burnham
• you enjoyed the bump car rides at the basement of Maharlika (back when it was not yet a food court)
• you would always go to Tesoro's to buy cinammon cake when you would have visitors because they had "then" the best cinammon cake in Baguio --or you bought chiffon birthday cakes there with the white jelly stripethingamajig...
  
• you went to Gold Mine Disco at Hyatt Terraces for afternoon disco...(sometime later Spirits became the "in" place)
• you thought that the best Chinese restaurants in town were Rosebowl and Star Cafe -- I still do! Every time I go home, I make sure that I go there...add O'Mai Khan to the list, too!
  
• the only grocery store you remember is Sunshine Grocery (the small one at the market)
• you ate toasted siopao from Handaan when it was the craze --hey, it was really good:)
• you enjoyed eating pizza at the old Shakey's located at the basement of Skyworld (now the haven of ukay ukay)
• you bought imported goods either at John Hay commissary (for those who had the privilege), the PX goods stores in the market or at GP arcade (for the rubber shoes--remember when Tretorn was the IN thing? hahahaha)

Ang dami dami pa. sigh...I miss Baguio!!!