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Demitri™

I know it's too late to talk about Easter today... but what the heck... this is my blog anyways...

Warning... I can't promise to check political correctness throughout this blog entry... so walk away now if you're one of those political corretness police...

Also, another warning... this may be a long babble post that might bore you to death... so walk away now if you have anything more important to attend to.  Or hopefully you get bored mid-way and stop reading even before you get to the juicy parts.

Did you know that Easter was originally a pagan celebration that means spring is coming... the name itself was derived from Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring.

The Germanic name for spring's goddess means "movement towards the rising sun." Ostara was celebrated in the fourth month of the year, April, according to the British scribe Bede the Venerable, writing in the seventh century CE.

Over a thousand years later, the Grimm brothers found that she was still honored in Germanic lands, where her name was used for the month she ruled. In Anglo-Saxon, her name became Estre or Eastre, which survives today in the festival of rebirth, Easter, and in the mood encouraged by springtime, estrus. She was honored among the Germanic people with painted eggs, a tradition that survives today.

I haven't really mentioned how the Christians robbed/adapted the Easter pagan Sabbath and made it their own religious holiday because as we all know, this is a very taboo topic... It's the same with Christmas day... it was originally a Roman religious holiday dated even before Christianity started... Yule was a very special holiday for the Romans where everyone was out in the streets merry making... the Christians probably saw this as a great opportunity to adapt the date so that every Romans out on the street that day would be in a way celebrating Christmas.

Last Good Friday, I had lunch with my better half... I mentioned that I noticed that the number of people talking about spiritual cleansing, as dictated by the culture of a majorly catholic country, has come down to none... It was also mentioned that the holy week, specially Easter Sunday, has lost its meaning...

I wasn't actually surprised... even when I was back in high-school [which is about the same time i explored all sects of the Christian faith: catholic, born again, protestant, Jehovah’s witness etc], I already foresaw the fall of the catholic church...  or lost of the meaning of all the major religious groups in the world... and I wasn't wrong at all... by the time I went to college, neo-paganism, new-age spirituality and other eclectic spiritual paths started to flourish... I started exploring some of these new trends and sought a spiritual path that was right for me...

Back to the Good Friday lunch... our conversation revolved around the spirit of the death-and-rebirth of Christ... and about how the catholic church is slowly losing its grip on the people... suddenly I remembered a line in Paolo Coelho's "The Zahir", where he mentioned that organized religion, or what I call Theist Religion, is no longer applicable in today's culture... he also mentioned that a new age is beginning to dawn with these massive birth of new-age Zen spiritualities

I was about to mention this, when I was suddenly shushed to silence because according to her, these topics shouldn't be talked about in public.

If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents..... LET IT GO! - Jepoy

Cogito ergo sum. 

Demitri™

I need a month long vacation... I want to spend a whole 4 weeks thinking about nothing but myself...

I'd stop thinking about other people's problems for once... and start thinking about what I like... what I want... and what makes me happy

I want to be spontaneous... I want to live each day as if it's my last...

I want to wake up very late in the morning... grab an apple... and wade in a cool secluded lake...

I want to lounge in a quiet patio... read a book and sip coffee in cool summer breeze...

I want to have angel hair in Bolognese and meatballs topped with lots of Parmesan... blueberry cheesecakes... and more coffee...

I want to do nothing but bum in front of a tube with stacks of DVDs... or play my fave computer game until my eyes get bloodshot and all teary...

I want to do these again and again...

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But gawd... I need to finish this QM report...

Demitri™

It's 05:15... suppose to still be sleeping... but I awoke with a start... panting and thirsty... funny, but I don't find any reason why I should be startled and jolted like that... tried to drift back to the dream world...

After much tossing and turning... It's 07:30,
I again woke up 2 hrs earlier than my alarm.  Ugh!!!  I attempted to stretch away the nauseating kind of nostalgia... all in vain... so I went back to sleep... tried to...

It was 12 agonizing hours of restlessness... I awoke for the nth time at around 4pm... I attempted to adjust my vision to the light that is prying my eyes like a serrated hot butter knife... I feel more tired than rested... even sleepier than before I hit the sack...

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At around 10:30pm I started chopping garlic and onions for a marinara sauce... no olive oil... sooo a simple cooking oil should do for now... I had no parsley but fortunately I have enough basil...

After about an hours' worth of cooking... everthing was perfect... the sauce was just right... slightly sweet, thick and tasty... The squid and giant prawns were tender and tasty as well... The Angel Hair pasta was perfectly al dente... the garlic toasts were warm and fresh... The sparkling grape juice chilled just right...

Everthing perfetamente... except for one thing... my target x-mas eve revellers were not very fond of seafood...

Lesson: When preparing dinner... always always ask for the guests preferences...

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It was a struggle to prepare a meal for a large when you're feeling extremely tired... and I think I forgot to take my stresstabs...

I went back to bed after that... and tried to sleep away everything...

::snore::

Demitri™