The strange case of the fish dish that came out so tasty without having a proper recipe for it, a culinary mystery…

I didn’t plan this meal
I was just hungry and looked what I had in the refrigerator

I had some
- frozen fish
- a bag of sweet mini bell peppers (red, orange, and yellow)
- some small on-the-vine tomatoes

so, I thought, baked fish with vegetables, right?

I taw the fish, added about 3 cloves of garlic (yes! When it comes to garlic, the motto is the more, the better)
And 1 teaspoon of olive oil
And… right before putting in the oven
I remembered my fresh basil plant that I have outside…


I carefully cut about 10 little leaves and placed them on top of the uncooked dish
Ah& of course some fresh grounded pepper

About 12 minutes in the oven at 350 degrees, or was it 15?


The drink on the side
Geinmacha Japan green tea


Not a recipe, not a plan
But indeed the basil, was the hint that gave the dish that little spice…
what made it special
and wll the in-trance-shopped garlic, hmm, ja!

I realized how I enjoy sometimes to prepare my own meals
While chopping 3 cloves of garlic I abandoned myself
Like in a mild meditation, no music, no thoughts,
Just chopping garlic, for a meal
What a timeless & basic activity
The one of cooking

I do like melting into my little kitchen routines…
Times softens, thus the smells, so my eyes
In colors, and wonderful organic shapes…
And at the end
They all taste…

heute...

ist ein guter Tag!



. ah! very nice masculine voice
by midday...

.. run

... on TV now
The Picture of Dorian Gray
the original from 1945!
ah! oscar wilde...

kukicha tea, m&m's
for
Guten Abend, gute Nacht

"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

the chase of the peach window

early this summer
i had the chance to hang-out
with a very talented photographer
in an amazing city
i remember many photography-related episodes
they come & go from my head
happily
as if projecting old polaroids
on the wall of my soul
they appear in the least expected moments
when i am at at work meeting
but also they leave easily!
just like dreams
memories of the loved ones cannot be trapped
they come and go freely
yet
but one particular photographic episode
came to my mind just a few days ago...

i saw this window while walking by an alley
it was late and i just didn't feel comfortable getting out the camera on a dark alley...

the next night i drove by and remembered, ah the peach curtain!
hope the light is on again!, then 2 cars were parked there grrrr... but this time the window was a little open... ah!!!
it was nice after all
so i took the picture

and i remembered
the episode of him chasing a photo
the chase of the yellow umbrella
ah so lovely
if it would be for that episode
and the fun i had while seeing him
chasing his photo
probably i wouldn't have chase
these peach windows and rear view mirrors
a couple of nights ago

so comforting to find
such a natural like-minded
and easy going feeling
with somebody sharing the same
little idle passion...
so this one for you!
who has inspired on me
the photo-chasing
danke.

heat-heiß-hot

Es ist heiß!



they speculate
if today was the hottest
day of the year 2007
so far in San Diego

it sure felt like that
excruciating
sandwiched between
fan & fan
it was
still hot enough
to through you out of home

i wonder
the ikea aisles
no product search
but AC oxygen

near to the 100°C's
and tops
unmerciful sun!

the beach is the refugee for this weather
but in Labor Day weekend
the places are taken as early as 7am!
the beach is overflowing with people...

tomorrow, a bookstore
or downtown's library
or my friends perro's place
it sucks to have a day off
and have to runaway from home

Es ist heiß!

up to a late viewing
finally of this film
on dvd
Babel
since it is too hot
to sleep

more grasshopper babies

whoooa!
today i found
another baby grasshopper
i think
mr. & mrs. grasshopper
should get a TV
they are making too many babies

Born to multiply, born to gaze into night skies,
All you want’s one more Saturday...

another hot-humid day in san diego
remedy for this heat dullness
are the shins
from album wincing the night away

australia
'cause...

[sing it, read it / song & lyrics are great]
[cute little video too]

Time to put the earphones on…
No!



Born to multiply, born to gaze into night skies,
All you want’s one more Saturday.
But look here, until then
They’re gonna buy your nice time
So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters
To the day.
You come in doing cartwheels
We all go out by ourselves
And your shape on the dance floor
Will have me thinking such filth and gauge my eyes.

You’d be damned to be one of us girl
Faced with a dodo’s conundrum
Ah, I felt like I could just fly
But nothing’ll happen every time I try.

A dual tone under wall
Selfish fool and hoped you’d save us all
Never dreamt of such sterile hands,
You keep them folded in your lap,
And raise them up to beg for scraps,
You know, he's holding you down,
With the tips of his fingers just the same,
You'll be pulled from the ocean,
But just a minute too late,
Or changed by a potion,
We’ll find a handsome young mate,
For you to love.

You'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes,
You know you'll change your life for any ordinary Joe,
And though your night will go on,
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold.

Been in love since you were twenty-one,
You haven't laughed since January,
You try and make this up this is so much fun,
But we know it to be quite contrary.

Dare to be one of us, girl,
Facing the Andrum's conundrum,
Ah, I feel like I should just cry,
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin,
You’re humoring your cote,
You don't know how long I've been,
Watching the lantern dim,
Starved of oxygen,
So give me your hand,
And let's jump out the window.

Leary: the Buddhist thought of the day

in my personalized google page
i've included a gadget to get
The Buddhist Thought of the day
interesting that today's thought was by Timothy Leary

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove!
- Timothy Leary...

funny, & so right on!

Willkommen in Deutsch 101!

Wie geht's?
today i had my 1st german class
it is a great satisfaction to go back to a college level class

an empty classroom in Mesa College - from tonight

today i learned that:

- Mein Name ist Berenice
- der Professor Name ist Doris Herwig oder Frau Herwig

she seems like a very nice lady
from the south of Germany
a little town 45 minutes from München
named Augsburg
also, she said that cows wear a bell in the south of Germany
but not in the North, i wonder if that is true
and that

DAS - is the neutral article
DIE - is the feminine one
DER - is the masculine

and Das Alphabet sounds
the letter ß
and the infamous use of the Umlaut

also, unlike in Spanish
there is NO way to know which nouns go with which article
so there is a lot of memorization to do!
no wonder germans are so crazy, heh heh

we had also little conversations among students
where we asked:
a: Wie geht's dir?
b: Sehr gut, danke. Und dir?
a: Prima, danke.

it was fun!
me mexican and the american kids
we were all the same a little confused

anyway, i am exhausted but i feel refreshed
to put some german knowledge
and for that matter any sort of knowledge
inside this hard head of mine!

my new books here (a little pricey)
Neue Horizonte
a freaking $117.00 book, ouch!
I feel the most expensive part of education in the USA
is the books
but at least this one includes the lessons
for another 2 semesters, for German 102, and 103
so... i still have to get the Laboratory book
another $50 dollars, and a good dictionary
still never best money invested than in education
i just hope i really can learn
a hard language, 5 credits for the class

it is sort of strange to sometimes still think in Spanish
specially while i am too tired
so today my little head had to translate a couple of times
from Spanish to English (the lessons are in English of course)
to German... hmmm? rather interesting how this brain thing works

luna llena

and again
here she comes
with her bewitchment light & fullness
to haunt our little lives down

one day, we'll be together
during a full moon

simple

"Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life." - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo Da Vinci

genius, philosophers, and others, all seem to agree
yet
it seems so a big challenge
to just "keep it simple"...

life smiles at me these days
even if i am sick & tired
because of your presence
but i miss you
this distance seems to never end