Thursday, December 22, 2005

Past Midnight

Past midnight
Past all the cares of the previous day
Too late to worry about them now
And too early to think about the morning

Past midnight
It's a crack in time
Where thoughts enter from nowhere
Or maybe they were there all along
Waiting for this opening

Past midnight
When your body is tired but your mind is not
What point of one's life is
Past midnight?

Saturday, December 10, 2005

An Hour at Bo's

In the middle of Glorietta mall in Makati is a small coffee shop called "Bo's Coffee Club." This is where I dragged myself to recover some energy while doing some Christmas shopping. I ended up staying an hour, catching a catnap, sipping iced choco -- and watching people (not a usual pastime).
To my surprise I noticed that women seem to be getting... err... "rounder." I mean, why am I not seeing skinny anorexic models on a ramp? Was the reason staring me in the face? - across Bo's is a popular fastfood (burger) store. Okay, it's not really scientific, I'm concluding from a sample of women who walked in front of Bo's between 2:30 and 3:30 pm.
Don't get me wrong, the men were "round" too, but that's old news!
I always thought the women were "ideal" ...
Maybe I never looked, except at beauty product endorsers on TV.
A quick hour -- back to shopping, for something that will make me look, um, less round?