The Prince Charming Frog of my neighbor's mini pond has heralded
its return for this year's summer with its croakings tonight.
Hubby has instantly baptized the Prince as Frog Arthur...he has
finally returned or resurfaced from his deep winter sleep. I wonder
if this is the same charming frog which kept us wide awake
in the summery nights of the past year.
His croakings have reached now such an alarming crescendo keeping
me company until four in the morning while I shift my time between
surfing and blogging.
I think my book on Chinese Feng-shui suggests that I place
a figurine of frog in the balcony for good luck. What about a leaping
and croaking frog in the garden, a bringer of double luck?
Have to consult the book again to see if there are small
writings on the side effects of frog Feng-shui. Maybe,lucky but
puyat naman...lacking in sleep.
It's nearing five, and slowly I feel I am about to doze off but wait...
how about surfing for the recipe on how to make frog relleno?
Croak, croak, croak.
Pinay von Alemania
Saturday, 14 April 2007
Friday, 13 April 2007
The Word Lottery Prize
photo from: www.victorianweb.org
Fri, 13. April, 2007. 03:36
Re: CONGRATULATION...YOU HAVE WON!!!
Stamford Bridge London
The Word Lottery Prize Notification
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
annual final draws held on (13th March,2007) by Word Lottery in
conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion,
your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £250,000
each on the THE WORD LOTTERY PROMO.
However,the results were released on (13th April, 2007)
and your email was attached to ticket number (**********)
and ballot number (*************). The online draws (sic!)was
conducted by a random selection of email addresses from
an exclusive list of 29,031 Email addresses of individuals
and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random
computer search from the internet.
However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned
to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
The selection process was carried out through random selection
in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from
a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from all the
continents of the world.
This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also
Licensed by the (sic!)The International Association of Gaming
Regulators (IAGR). This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend
to sensitize the public. In other (sic!) to claim your £250,000
prize winning, which has been deposited in a designated Bank.
However,you will have to fill the form below and send it to
the Promotion manager of THE WORD LOTTERY PROMO for
verification and then you will be directed to the Locale
Bank Plc where you will Transfer your winning sum of £250,000
which has already been deposited in your favour.
FIRST NAME:.................
LAST NAME:..................
AGE:.......................
SEX:.......................
ADDRESS:...................
EMAIL:.....................
PHONE:.....................
OCCUPATION:................
COMPANY:...................
COUNTRY:...................
AMOUNT WON.................
Please you are adviced to complete the form and send it immediately
to our Promotion manager through email or fax for prompt
collection of your fund from the designated courier company.
(Contact Promotion Manager)
Name: Barrister John Mc Calat
Tel: 4470 etc, etc, etc
Email: barristeretc.etc.@yahoo.com
You are to keep all lotto information away from the general
public especially your ticket number and ballot number.
(This is important as a case of double claims will not be
entertained). Staff of Word Lottery and the British American
Tobacco Company are not to partake in this Lottery.
Accept my hearty congratulations once again!
Yours faithfully,
Management.
************************************************************
If you see me wearing all those devilish, reddish
Prada outfits looking like Mirinda Pepsi, then you know
I have collected my winning ticket from Barrister McCalat.
Monday, 9 April 2007
He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother
The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he, to bear
we'll get there
For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another
It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on our way to there
Why not share
And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.
Neil Diamond
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he, to bear
we'll get there
For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another
It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on our way to there
Why not share
And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.
Neil Diamond
Friday, 6 April 2007
SHAKIRA IN COLOGNE
Hola mga Amigas,After the fasting and saying
sorry for our sins,
and now I should say
Hips don't lie
Let's have some wholesome fun
and do some gyrating.
Who would like to join me
and see this wonderful girl
SHAKIRA
in our city
on 8th of April
in the evening.
See Koelnarena for further
information and shows.
Meditation on Holy Friday
The Kingdom of heaven is found in the place of your
compassion. It is found in the place of your loving.
It is found in the place of your generosity. It is found
in the place of your healing of yourself and others.
It is very easy to find the kingdom of heaven inside.
When we stop using the intellect of the mind
and come to the wisdom of the heart, we access the
door to Divinity, because out of that heart comes
the compassion and forgiveness.
J-Roger
compassion. It is found in the place of your loving.
It is found in the place of your generosity. It is found
in the place of your healing of yourself and others.
It is very easy to find the kingdom of heaven inside.
When we stop using the intellect of the mind
and come to the wisdom of the heart, we access the
door to Divinity, because out of that heart comes
the compassion and forgiveness.
J-Roger
Monday, 2 April 2007
Sunday, 1 April 2007
April Fools' Day...Favorite Jokes
Was asking around friends for their favorite jokes especially
original jokes but it seems that we have been pampered with
emailed jokes going around the internet... recycled, resent,
yes re-blogged a hundred times. And at times, you recognize
hey, this is my original joke, this really happened to me decades
ago and was sharing it to some friends.
I have jokes which never fail to amuse me whenever
I remember them.
And I have jokes which I really share only with some particular
friends, and we know that these jokes have a special bonding
among us like a secret code known only to the anointed in our clique.
Yesterday, my friend Bing forwarded me this email coming
from another hotmail add holder. I have tagged it following the
original title of the subject, Lost in Translation, and I added
jokes from bing.
If you have not received this forward, I would like to share them
with you as especial posting for today, April 1, April Fool's Day.
And if you know the original source of this collection, please do let me know.
Enjoy them! ( The jokes, I mean.)
In a hotel in Chiangmai:
Key Must Drop at Front Desk
Check out Time: 12:AM
In a Tokyo Hotel:
It is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person
to do such thing is please not to read notice.
In a Bucharest hotel lobby:
The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret
that you will be unbearable.
In a Leipzig elevator:
Do no enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.
In a Belgrade hotel elevator:
To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should
enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor.
Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.
In a Paris hotel elevator:
Please leave your values at the front desk.
In a hotel in Athens:
Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours
of 9 and 11. am daily.
In a Yugolavian hotel:
The flattening of undewear with pleasure is the job of the
chambermaid.
In a Japanese hotel:
You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.
In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian
Orthodox monastery:
You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet
composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except Thursday.
In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers:
Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose
in the boots of ascension.
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
On the menu of a Polish hotel:
Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy
dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef
rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.
Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:
Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
In a Bangkok dry cleaners:
Drop your trousers here for best results.
Outside a Paris dress shop:
Dresses for Street Walking.
In a Rhodes tailor shop:
Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will
execute customers in strict rotation.
A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest:
It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site
that people of different sex, for instance, men and women,
live together in one tent unless they are married with each
other for that purpose.
In a Zurich hotel:
Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the
opposite sex in the bedrooms, it is suggested that the lobby
be used for this purpose.
In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist:
Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.
In a Rome laundry:
Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon
having a good time.
In a Swiss mountain inn:
Special today - no ice cream.
In a Bangkok temple:
It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed
as a man.
In a Copenhagen air line ticket office:
We take your bags and send then in all directions.
On the door of a Moscow hotel room:
If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.
In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:
Ladies are not requested not to have children in the bar.
In a Budapest zoo:
Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food,
give it to the guard on duty.
In the office of a Roman doctor:
Specialist in women and other diseases.
In an Acapulco hotel:
The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
In a Tokyo shop:
Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find they are
best in the long run.
From a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel
air conditioner:
Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm
in your room, please control yourself.
From a broschure of a car rental firm in Tokyo:
When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn.
Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles
your passage then tootle him with vigor.
Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
English well talking. Here speeching American..."
Finally, in the Philippines...
"Don't English us...we're not schooling anymore...'
(Thanks to Bing and Akosiida)
original jokes but it seems that we have been pampered with
emailed jokes going around the internet... recycled, resent,
yes re-blogged a hundred times. And at times, you recognize
hey, this is my original joke, this really happened to me decades
ago and was sharing it to some friends.
I have jokes which never fail to amuse me whenever
I remember them.
And I have jokes which I really share only with some particular
friends, and we know that these jokes have a special bonding
among us like a secret code known only to the anointed in our clique.
Yesterday, my friend Bing forwarded me this email coming
from another hotmail add holder. I have tagged it following the
original title of the subject, Lost in Translation, and I added
jokes from bing.
If you have not received this forward, I would like to share them
with you as especial posting for today, April 1, April Fool's Day.
And if you know the original source of this collection, please do let me know.
Enjoy them! ( The jokes, I mean.)
In a hotel in Chiangmai:
Key Must Drop at Front Desk
Check out Time: 12:AM
In a Tokyo Hotel:
It is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person
to do such thing is please not to read notice.
In a Bucharest hotel lobby:
The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret
that you will be unbearable.
In a Leipzig elevator:
Do no enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.
In a Belgrade hotel elevator:
To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should
enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor.
Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.
In a Paris hotel elevator:
Please leave your values at the front desk.
In a hotel in Athens:
Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours
of 9 and 11. am daily.
In a Yugolavian hotel:
The flattening of undewear with pleasure is the job of the
chambermaid.
In a Japanese hotel:
You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.
In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian
Orthodox monastery:
You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet
composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except Thursday.
In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers:
Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose
in the boots of ascension.
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
On the menu of a Polish hotel:
Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy
dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef
rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.
Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:
Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
In a Bangkok dry cleaners:
Drop your trousers here for best results.
Outside a Paris dress shop:
Dresses for Street Walking.
In a Rhodes tailor shop:
Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will
execute customers in strict rotation.
A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest:
It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site
that people of different sex, for instance, men and women,
live together in one tent unless they are married with each
other for that purpose.
In a Zurich hotel:
Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the
opposite sex in the bedrooms, it is suggested that the lobby
be used for this purpose.
In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist:
Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.
In a Rome laundry:
Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon
having a good time.
In a Swiss mountain inn:
Special today - no ice cream.
In a Bangkok temple:
It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed
as a man.
In a Copenhagen air line ticket office:
We take your bags and send then in all directions.
On the door of a Moscow hotel room:
If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.
In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:
Ladies are not requested not to have children in the bar.
In a Budapest zoo:
Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food,
give it to the guard on duty.
In the office of a Roman doctor:
Specialist in women and other diseases.
In an Acapulco hotel:
The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
In a Tokyo shop:
Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find they are
best in the long run.
From a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel
air conditioner:
Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm
in your room, please control yourself.
From a broschure of a car rental firm in Tokyo:
When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn.
Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles
your passage then tootle him with vigor.
Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
English well talking. Here speeching American..."
Finally, in the Philippines...
"Don't English us...we're not schooling anymore...'
(Thanks to Bing and Akosiida)
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Your Mother is always with You
For a dear friend Marilou F.Our deep sympathy for the passing
away of her mother this early spring.
Your mother is always with you...
She is the whisper of the leaves
as you walk down the street.
She is the cool hand on your brow
when you're not well.
Your mother lives inside
your laughter. She's crystallized
in every tear drop.
She's the place you came from, your first home.
She's the map you
follow with every step that you take.
She's your first love and your first heart break...
and nothing on earth can separate you.
Not time, not space...
not even death...
will ever searate you
from your mother...
You carry her inside you...
(poem taken from: www.mothers.net)
Thursday, 15 March 2007
Pinays Celebrate International Women's Day
(photos by ML)
In keeping with their yearly celebration of the IWD
International Women's Day (March 8), Philippine Women's
Forum e.V. (Babaylan Germany) and Babaylanes Internationales
held an information evening with a film showing of
Lualhati Bautista's story "Bata, Bata Paano Ka Ginawa"
at the Internationaleszentrum Stolzestrasse in Cologne,
Germany on March 9, 2007.
The film Bata, Bata Paano Ka Ginawa, starring
Vilma Santos, Albert Martinez, Ariel Rivera, Raymond
Bagatsing, Carlo Aquino and Serena Dalrymple and
directed by Chino Rono, tells of the story of Lea, played
by Vilma Santos a Filipina torn between her belief in herself
as an individual who has her own right to her own decision
and the expectation and tradition of Philippine society
regarding women as mothers and partners.
'If I am were a person who has no own identity, I would
never be a good mother,' declared Lea to her ex-husband
as the two searched for the reason for their failed marriage.
At the end of the film, Lea while giving a talk during
a graduation ceremony, she concluded: "The question how
the children are made is not really difficult. The most difficult
question is for parents to know how they would raise
up their children as decent, just and humane beings. For if
the children are molded as such, then we could offer them
a decent, just and humane society. We should all reach
for the stars and make our collective dreams come true."
The women agreed to hold another gathering to talk
about the film and specifically on the topic of Filipino
women and their rights and obligations as well as
privileges as mothers, partners and above all as thinking
individuals.
Saturday, 10 March 2007
Thursday, 8 March 2007
MARCH 8 (IWD) INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
'Cause I've heard it all before
And I've been down there on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down again.
Oh yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to
I can do anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman.
You can bend but never break me
'Cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer
'Cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul.
Oh yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to
I can face anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman.
I am woman watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin' arms across the land
But I'm still an embryo
With a long, long way to go
Until I make my brother understand.
Oh yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to
I can face anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman.
Oh, I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman.
(Helen Reddy and Ray Burton)
Taken from: www.lyricstime.com
P.S.
Would like to send my best wishes to dear
friends who celebrated their birthdays.
March 7 to Jo. B.
March 8 to Beng
Wish you many returns of lovely years.
Thanks to the lovely smiles of Angela, Fatima,
Lara, Jiada, Nelly, Debbie, Malu, Belly and
Yolliebelle
A Meaningful International Women's Day!
Monday, 26 February 2007
What's Cooking? Recipe Sharing during Lent*
Golpe de Gulat na Ulam Pangpasta
After Fasting Days!
Ingredients (Serves 4)
For the
tomato sauce:
125 ml olive oil
4 shallots, peeled and finely chopped
4 garlic, peeled and finely chopped
400 g can chopped Italian tomatoes
3 tbsp basil leaves
2 tbsp. freshly chopped parsley
salt and freshly ground black pepper
700 g. bass, haddock or mullet fillets
450 g live mussels
4 pcs. squids
8 large raw prawns
2 tbsp. olive oil
3 tbsp. freshly chopped basil leaves
3 tbsp. dry white wine
lemon wedges to garnish
1. Preheat oven to 180C ten minutes before cooking.
Heat the olive oil and gently fry the garlic and shallots for
two minutes. Stir in the tomatoes and simmer for 10 minutes,
breaking the tomatoes down with the wooden spoon. Add the
parsley and basil, season to taste with salt and pepper and cook
for a further 2 minutes. Reserve and keep warm.
2. Lightly rinse the fish fillets and cut into four portions.
Scrub the mussels thoroughly, removing the beard and any
barnacles from the shells. Discard any mussels that are
open. Clean the squid and cut into rings. Peel the prawns and
remove the thin black intestinal vein that runs down the back.
3. Cut four large pieces of tinfoil, then place them on a large
baking sheet and brush with olive oil. Place one piece portion in the
centre of each piece of tinfoil. Close the tinfoil to form parcels, and
bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes, then remove.
4. Carefully open up the parcels and add the mussels, squid and
prawns. Pour in the wine and spoon over a little of the tomato
sauce. Sprinkle with the basil leaves and return to the oven and
bake for 5 minutes, or until cooked thoroughly. Discard any
unopened mussels, then garnish with lemon wedges and serve
with the extra tomato sauce.
*The 40 days before Easter when some Christians eat less
food or stop doing something that they enjoy.
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
It 's all over on Ash Wednesday
It was a sequence of celebrations, since the start of February
this year: Valentine's Day, Weiberfastnacht, Chinese New
Year, Rosenmontag and the series of birthday parties
of all the February born women of the Eat and Meet
Club. For the birthday parties, much food, less booze.
Pssst, no comment on this tradition, I mean on Fasching
or Carnival. It is sacred to many Germans who are natives
of this Carnival stronghold.
"Hic, hic, hic, that is a joke,
all together now, Tata, tata. Wir lieben das Leben,
und wir haben immer Durst! Viva Colognia!"
One thing I like about this tradition is that one could be away
for years and yet, one does not feel that one has missed
something. Same procedure as every year.
And starting on Ash Wednesday, thank God, we will see again
the familiar seriousness of our seasonal clowns and Jeckens until
November 11 at 11 am.
Wednesday, 14 February 2007
Amor Vincit Omnia! Chocolate Conquers All
I have perfumed my bed
with myrrh, aloes,
and cinnamon.
Come, let us take our
fill of love
until the morning;
let us solace ourselves
with loves.
Proverbs 7:17-18
Happy Valentine's Day!
So they say the way through a man's heart is through
his stomach.
I say, one of those ways is having a host of friends
who can cook and bake
and prepare love potions.
The cake is lovingly baked by Charito and if
you wish to have a piece of it or the whole
'orgasmic' package, let me know and we
could arrange orders and delivery
plus a lecture on how to have your
love cake and eat it too!
Loving you is easy 'coz your beautiful
Making love with you
Is all I wanna do!
Lalalalala
Lalalalala
La la la la la la la la
Dobbie dobbie duduuu
Aaahhhhhhhhhh!
Sunday, 11 February 2007
Break Fast
After 8 days of Heilfasten, I decided to break it yesterday.
My weight: 57,900 on that last fasting day, still heavy for me but
I need to start eating due to planned dinning out with non-fasting
friends.
Weight: 1st 'Build-up'Day: 57,100
To break my fast and start a slow return to my eating
pattern, I consumed the ff:
a) Herbal tea for breakfast
b) One piece of steamed apple, this is my usual fasting breaker,
the first solid food after each fasting program. I took slowly spoonful
by spoonful the soft apple pieces while really enjoying its taste.
c) One pack of instant potato soup with a piece of crispbread for
a late lunch.
Later in the afternoon, I rested with a hot-water bag placed
alternately on my abdomen and buttocks.
Then I took another cup of herbal tea in the evening.
As I was not feeling hungry, I skipped this dinner of potato soup
and just took water instead. I forgot also to drink buttermilk with
linseeds. I soaked two pieces of prunes overnight for breakfast.
Sunday, 2nd 'Build-up' Day
Weight: 57,300
For Breakfast: One small glass of sauerkraut juice or whey, soaked prunes
Mineral Water
For Lunch: Three pieces of boiled potato with green salad dressed in
lime juice, sunflower oil, salt and pepper with chives.
Mineral Water
For Dinner: One glass of butter milk with linseeds and one piece of
crispbread.
It was a bit raining today and I did not feel like taking that long
walk but did some light gymnastics. Was feeling very stable except
for the slight heaviness in my stomach. Spent the afternoon
reading books on Heilfasten and reviewed and noted what I need
for the 3rd 'build-up' day.
For Breakfast: Herbal Tea and muesli (cereals with yoghurt, apples
nuts, soaked raisins, honey and a squeeze of lemon juice)
In between meals: Fruits
Lunch: Fresh vegetable salad, red beets with horseradish and one
piece of boiled potato
In the afternoon: 1 apple and 12 pcs. of wallnuts or hazelnuts
Dinner: Fresh salad of one's choice
After three or five build-up or transition days, one could go back
to normal eating with a renewed promise not to indulge on
honey- roasted nuts and dunkin'doughnuts. May the power be
with me!
Now, partying can start again before Ash Wednesday.
My weight: 57,900 on that last fasting day, still heavy for me but
I need to start eating due to planned dinning out with non-fasting
friends.
Weight: 1st 'Build-up'Day: 57,100
To break my fast and start a slow return to my eating
pattern, I consumed the ff:
a) Herbal tea for breakfast
b) One piece of steamed apple, this is my usual fasting breaker,
the first solid food after each fasting program. I took slowly spoonful
by spoonful the soft apple pieces while really enjoying its taste.
c) One pack of instant potato soup with a piece of crispbread for
a late lunch.
Later in the afternoon, I rested with a hot-water bag placed
alternately on my abdomen and buttocks.
Then I took another cup of herbal tea in the evening.
As I was not feeling hungry, I skipped this dinner of potato soup
and just took water instead. I forgot also to drink buttermilk with
linseeds. I soaked two pieces of prunes overnight for breakfast.
Sunday, 2nd 'Build-up' Day
Weight: 57,300
For Breakfast: One small glass of sauerkraut juice or whey, soaked prunes
Mineral Water
For Lunch: Three pieces of boiled potato with green salad dressed in
lime juice, sunflower oil, salt and pepper with chives.
Mineral Water
For Dinner: One glass of butter milk with linseeds and one piece of
crispbread.
It was a bit raining today and I did not feel like taking that long
walk but did some light gymnastics. Was feeling very stable except
for the slight heaviness in my stomach. Spent the afternoon
reading books on Heilfasten and reviewed and noted what I need
for the 3rd 'build-up' day.
For Breakfast: Herbal Tea and muesli (cereals with yoghurt, apples
nuts, soaked raisins, honey and a squeeze of lemon juice)
In between meals: Fruits
Lunch: Fresh vegetable salad, red beets with horseradish and one
piece of boiled potato
In the afternoon: 1 apple and 12 pcs. of wallnuts or hazelnuts
Dinner: Fresh salad of one's choice
After three or five build-up or transition days, one could go back
to normal eating with a renewed promise not to indulge on
honey- roasted nuts and dunkin'doughnuts. May the power be
with me!
Now, partying can start again before Ash Wednesday.
Monday, 5 February 2007
In Bavaria, to be thin is to be unCatholic
I got this email from someone from South Germany.
An Madamme: Fasten is sehr ungesund. Als Bayer kann mich nicht
genug davor warnen. Auf bayerischen Dulten (Jahrmärkten) ist
immer wieder die greussliche Moritat von einer Dame zu hören,
die so sehr gefastet hat, dass sie durch das Abflussrohr ihrer
Badewanne gesaugt wurde. Ich habe noch den
Refrain im Ohr. "...ja so dinn war die Leoboldin..."
Im Bayern gilt Dünn-sein als unkatholisch, zwar gibt es zwischen
Faschingu nd Karfreitag eine Fastenzeit, aber da muss man
besonders fette Mehlspeisen wie Dampfnudeln, Buchtin,
Germknödin, aus'zogne Grapfn und natürlich Apfelstrudl,
Kaiserschmarm und Powidldatschgerin unserer
böhmish-österreichischen Nachbarn in großen Mengen verzehren
und dazu das nahrhafte Fastenbier trinken, nur eines darf man beim
Fasten nie: dünn werden!
Damit wünsche ich auch Madamme einen guten Appetit!
Now roughly translated: Fasting is very unhealthy. As a Bavarian,
I should really warn you. In Bavarian Dulten (fair) one hears
about a woman who fasted so radically that she was swallowed
by the drainpipe of her bathtub. I can still hear the refrain: ...
" ja, so thin was Leoboiden.."
In Bavaria, to be thin is to be unCatholic. Indeed, there is
a fasting time between Fasching and Holy Friday and
during this time one must devour especial fatty
farinaceous food like Dampfnudeln, Buchtin, Germknödin, Grapfn
and of course, applestrudel, Kaiserschmarm und Powidldatschgerin
from our Bohemian-Austrian neighbor and drink nutritious fasting beer.
Only one thing is not allowed by fasting: to get thin!
B.
Personal Fasting Note:
4th Fasting Day
Weight: 58,300
Feeling a bit hungry, had enema, did some stretching, but could
not finish even a liter water.
More later.
An Madamme: Fasten is sehr ungesund. Als Bayer kann mich nicht
genug davor warnen. Auf bayerischen Dulten (Jahrmärkten) ist
immer wieder die greussliche Moritat von einer Dame zu hören,
die so sehr gefastet hat, dass sie durch das Abflussrohr ihrer
Badewanne gesaugt wurde. Ich habe noch den
Refrain im Ohr. "...ja so dinn war die Leoboldin..."
Im Bayern gilt Dünn-sein als unkatholisch, zwar gibt es zwischen
Faschingu nd Karfreitag eine Fastenzeit, aber da muss man
besonders fette Mehlspeisen wie Dampfnudeln, Buchtin,
Germknödin, aus'zogne Grapfn und natürlich Apfelstrudl,
Kaiserschmarm und Powidldatschgerin unserer
böhmish-österreichischen Nachbarn in großen Mengen verzehren
und dazu das nahrhafte Fastenbier trinken, nur eines darf man beim
Fasten nie: dünn werden!
Damit wünsche ich auch Madamme einen guten Appetit!
Now roughly translated: Fasting is very unhealthy. As a Bavarian,
I should really warn you. In Bavarian Dulten (fair) one hears
about a woman who fasted so radically that she was swallowed
by the drainpipe of her bathtub. I can still hear the refrain: ...
" ja, so thin was Leoboiden.."
In Bavaria, to be thin is to be unCatholic. Indeed, there is
a fasting time between Fasching and Holy Friday and
during this time one must devour especial fatty
farinaceous food like Dampfnudeln, Buchtin, Germknödin, Grapfn
and of course, applestrudel, Kaiserschmarm und Powidldatschgerin
from our Bohemian-Austrian neighbor and drink nutritious fasting beer.
Only one thing is not allowed by fasting: to get thin!
B.
Personal Fasting Note:
4th Fasting Day
Weight: 58,300
Feeling a bit hungry, had enema, did some stretching, but could
not finish even a liter water.
More later.
Sunday, 4 February 2007
Personal Tips for Heilfasten or Fasting
I am sharing this fasting tips based on my personal fasting experience which I have been
doing since a decade now. Once or twice a year, normally in February, yes after those Christmas indulgences and jeans won't fit any longer, I plan a five-day Heilfasten which I normally extend up to seven days depending on my mood and invitations to birthday parties.
For beginners, I suggest that you do Heilfasten
when you are not so loaded with heavy work, on weekends or when you really decide to
slow down your socializing life a bit and enjoy some few days of meditative mood, walks, reading, sorting out papers and pure leisure time alone with yourself while your body experiences internal cleansing.
In any day of fasting, you will need:
- 1 to 2 cups of herbal tea for Breakfast
- Water in between meals (at least 2 liters per day)
- 1/4 liter of fruit juice mixed with water for lunch
- 1 to 2 cups of herbal tea (tasted with honey if you wish)
- 1/4 liter of vegetable broth
potatoes, carrots, leeks, celery roots and leaves and cook it for
about 20 minutes. I sift about a bowlful of soup pressing the
solid vegetables and spice it with sea salt, bio- instant vegetable
broth and garnish it with finely chopped parsley.
For the fruit juice portion for dinner or lunch, I use juicer for my
cocktails of mangoes, pineapples, carrots, apples or buy bottled pure
juices from bio-shops.
Personal Note.
2nd Fasting Day: Weight: 59,500 kg.
3rd Fasting Day: Weight: 58,800
I felt a bit weak early this morning and did not have a good sleep.
Dreams were colorful but really chaotic. Was dreaming of these two
boxes "save as draft" and "publish".
Mouth was tasting sticky and tongue getting "chalky".
Did not apply any cream nor use deodorant and body lotion.
More updates later.
Friday, 2 February 2007
Start of Heilfasting or Mga Pinay, Gusto ba Ninyong Pumayat?
February 02
Weight: 60.6kg
There are two options left when I can't get into
my jeans: buy new and baggy jeans with long
blouse or start my annual Heilfasting. I decided
for the radical choice. No chocolate, no wine, no
dunkin' doughnuts nor nuts, no solid food for the next five
days. I will begin a week of fasting and that means,
no solid food only tea, lots of water and juices and veggie
soups.
First Fasting Day: Friday
Dissolved 1.5 Tablespoon of Glaubersalz (salt) in half liter
mix of fruit juice and water. Stirred it well and drank the juice.
(Yaks! I know the taste but this is an important step before
one starts with Heilfasting.)
Stayed domestic. Kept running between computer
and john. Read old emails. Chatted with mates.
Warned a chatmate that she is sending me porno links.
She said that must be a virus and I should not open it.
More on Heilfasting:
Each day, one needs to drink 2 liters of water. (I still have to
manage even a liter!) Then one or two cups of tea for breakfast,
1/4 liter of pure fruit juice or vegetable broth either for lunch
or dinner. Better stay at home for the first and second day.
No heavy manual work. (Yehey!) One can blog the whole
day.
I'll keep you posted.
Pinay von Alemania
I saw Mommy Chewing Santa Claus
Remember the delicious looking Santa Claus I posted
last December 06 ?
See the photos.
Will wait for the new gift in December.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)