again on the jellyfish

I love under water deep sea-exploration and the beauty of mother nature. And by beauty I mean watching-giant-pulsing-undulating-electrical-jellyfish-spewing-glowing-
light-rays-being-eaten-by-bloblike-sharks-are-so-awesome.



Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
-Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Oh so true.

Sadie, white coat.

When i search through the catalogue of my memories I feel incredibly amazingly happy to have them filled with a full summer's worth of time spent with Jon. No stolen moments of the unabashed kissing in cafe's of New York, no brief weekends amidst piles of schoolwork, just 2 months of getting to hang out with him. Last night he asked me what my favorite moments of the summer were and surprisingly I couldn't name any. As I was scanning through my head, I could only point mundane moments really.
Nights spent huddled over our little stove burner waiting for water to boil, or for the rice to get done, Saturday mornings spent drinking tea and watching him play Final fantasy tactics and bike rides back to work and reality on weekday mornings.
Yesterday was our last bike ride together. Once more through the streets of Greer we began our noble quest. We took "our route" through Loma Verde and Bryant because the lights always switch for bikers through Oregon and then Embarcadero. Once again through the beautiful suburban houses of the successful Palo Altans, while I look at Jon work out his preference of running over the speed bumps in the road "look Jai I'm getting all 30 of them" he'd say, I realized I would miss this terribly.

And all that I've got
and all that I need
I tie in a knot
that I lay at your feet.

Mingaw ko nimo

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The southwestern barbeque salad in safeway is the best thing on earth. Well its the best thing on earth during my lunch time at least.

I've been listening to Dan Brown's Angels and Demons on audio tape with the guy I carpool with. It was exciting for the first few chapters. It reads very much like a suspense novel. But after a while the stupid formulaic plot just got really annoying and one can only take too much bad dialogue in one sitting. I've never heard so much about the Catholic church (albeit in Brown's fictionalized although adamantly claimed to be authentic world) since high school.

"Seraphim!, of course, literally the fiery one" . Anyone who takes Dan Brown seriously has got to be a douche bag, or should I say a douche brain? Seraphim is just the plural form of seraphs!

Sculptors i've decided, (the classical type i.e. Rodin , old masters) are super cool! It'd be so awesome to be able to carve something really great in marble! I wonder if a four axis CNC machine could carve out the pieta. That would be an interesting undertaking. We can get an Xray scanner created a 3d solid object from it. Load it up on Gibbs cam and fire it away.

Oh the wonders of technology.