If life accommodated my internal clock, it would let me to go to bed past midnight and wake up after 9AM. This week was a bit sleep-deprived but totally worth it.
This past weekend I was in Toronto for a bachelorette party. Loved the city! Stayed downtown and the weather was fantastic - I was in a fabulous hot concrete jungle. It was an interesting change chatting with folks who work in industries not so directly affected by oil prices. And out of all the people I met, only one lightheartedly made fun of me for being from "Deadmonton," so not too much of that stereotypical Centre-of-the-Universe snottiness at all!
Shortly after I came back, my sister and I started playing the very last Dreamfall Chapters game, which pretty much ruined any chance of recovering more sleep when combined with work and kettlebells/dance/climbing/calisthenics/Hachi. It took us a few nights to finish and felt bittersweet when we finally got to the end ... we so love the story and didn't want it to stop. Ragnar Tornquist did such a great job with the storylines - I would love to pick his brain one day regarding globalism, feminism, technology, corporations, culture and all that good stuff. Both my sis and I are actually going through a bit of withdrawal! I guess when a video game spans over a decade, the loss hits kinda hard. Ok, no more gamer talk.
I watched Metro Manila on Netflix and loved it. It definitely doesn't sugar coat corruption and poverty in Manila but still manages to capture how loving a Filipino family can be. One of the main actors, Althea Vega, is breathtakingly beautiful and makes me think of what Filipinos must've looked like to their first Spaniard visitors - a ton of inky black hair, cat eyes and smooth brown skin.
Check out Althea Vega in this movie still:
Check out this photo of a Filipina from the 1800's:
Similar, right?
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