“Your conscience is a nuisance. A conscience is like a child. If you pet it and play with it and let it have everything that it wants, it becomes spoiled and intrudes on all your amusements and most of your griefs. Threat your conscience as you would anything else. When it is rebellious, spank it – be severe with it, argue with it, prevent it from coming to play with you at all hours, and you will secure a good conscience; that is to say, a properly trained one. A spoiled one is simply destroys all the pleasure in life. I think I have reduced mine to order. At least, I haven’t heard from it for some time. Perhaps I have killed it from over-severity.”

— Mark Twain

Expecting… Preparing… Old Friend… Cooking… More Friends… Chocolate Chip Cookies… Scottish Oban… Ravioli… Like a Virgin… Pizza… Frozen… Movements… Chocolates… Sleepless… Cleaning… Fresh Coffee… Baguette… Sweetness… Distillery… Friends… Contact… Lavender… Laughter… Excitement… The Visitor… Earl Grey Tea… Goodbyes… My Blueberry Nights… Missed Calls… Camera Shots… Darkness… Spicy Tuna Rolls… Phone Calls… Loveliness… Dreaming… Café Fauchon… More Baguettes… Training… Couscous… Flow… Meditation… Streetcar… New Friends… Contact again… Walking… More Contact… Hunger… Pizza Marinara… Fabulous Blueberry Pie… Rain… Cat Power… Chilling… Almonds… Carrie B. and her ladies… Zzz…

Gratefulness…

S

OK, I’m back safe and sound after an amazingly fabulous trip to ‘Frisco, work- and fun-wise… It was a *magic*! Seriously, everything was just great and the city and its people once again gave me the best vibe ever… Like before, I won’t ruin the experience with only a few lines here… Here’s thanking the lovely ones who shared their time and made it such an enjoyable trip for me…

Now I’m back, more energized than ever… I have a few hard and busy months of work ahead of me, but I’m darn ready for the challenge… yes!

S

Here I am again in lovely San Francisco… After an *amazingly* exciting week at the Corporate, I am indeed ready for some rock and roll in the Golden Gate city… I’ll be off for few days until I get this blog up and running again…

Have yourselves a fabulous weekend…

S

It’s 5ish post meridiem and I’m blogging from the sunny Saint Joseph (!)…Yes!

After a relatively bumpy flight I finally arrived a few hours ago and everything is bright and pleasant now… As for me, I’m delighted and more grateful than ever while suffering from a lack of ZzzZzz!

I’ll be back with more posts soon… In the meantime, I’m sending you my biggest smiles… Catch them if you can 🙂

S

aujourd’hui… on my VeNtI mild:

“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stumped by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, “hi.” They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.”

— Augusten Burroughs

This is dedicated to you…

I, I am tired of another door slamming in my face;
in my restless night and days…
You, you are tired of the line between fact and farce;
that broken thin line in your lies…
She, she is tired of letting fate take its course;
her written fate makes him mourn…
He, he is tired of looking for the obvious discoveries;
beyond her dishonest stories…
We, we are all tired of their judgmental gaze;
those bastard heartbreakers…
You, you are all tired of hiding your feelings;
that will fuel your desire to love-fallings…
They, they are all tired of this wicked world;
the emptiness and nothingness of this cruel world…
I, I am waiting for that light;
for the ride that sparks us up in the moonlight…

S

… And I’m trying to write down my thoughts:

In the lightness that is not light,
sweep your way to the land of sleep.
In the desert far from desert,
dream a life you always dreamed.

Sole in your unfelt soul,
make magic with her presence.
While remaining anonymous,
let her celebrate your existence.

S

“There is a paradox in pride: It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Day, Night… Odd, Even… Rich, Poor… Heaven, Hell… One, Many… Calm, Anger… Long, Short… Up, Down… Masculine, Feminine… Optimist, Pessimist… Right, Left… God, Devil… Speed, Slowness… Happy, Sad… Winner, Loser… Rest, Motion… Strong, Weak… North, South… Straight, Crooked… Light, Darkness… White, Black… Love, Hate… Sun, Moon… Good, Evil… Square, Oblong… Yin, Yang…

You, Me…

S