More than three years since my last thefridayfive post! Below are my answers to the 28 June 2019: The National Holiday edition.

My answers pertain to my experiences in the beautiful Sultanate of Oman, where I have lived since 2007.

1. What is one of your favorite things about your country?I love the people of Oman. The kindest, most generous people I have ( Read more... )

You have reached the newly revitalized LiveJournal of Shirley! Thanks for dropping by ( Read more... )

Another week over! Thank goodness it's Friday, although I had a shoot earlier today, followed by an early dinner and then grocery shopping. When before this sounds like nothing, for the pregnant version of me it is exhausting!

Below are my answers to the 19 February 2016 installment of thefridayfive:

1. Do you live in a house, a condo, or some kind of ( Read more... )

Since there have been no new prompts at the thefridayfive community for the past two weeks, I have decided to backtrack a little bit and answer the first set posted for 2016.

Here are my answers to the 1 January 2016 installment:

Looking back at 2015!

1. Favorite TV show
Last year was when I was introduced to and became a true-to-the-bone fan of George R.R. ( Read more... )

Below are my answers to the 22 January 2016 Edition of the thefridayfive meme.

1. What celebrity death affected you the most (all time)?
Losing Bruce Lee at the prime of his life and career.

2. What celebrity couple were you happy to see together?I have always had respect for Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, if that counts, since they were together before I was ( Read more... )

The last week of July has been quite, well, memorable to me. On the 25th, the Thursday previous, I took the Philippine Career Service Professional exam so I could qualify for a permanent position in a government organization.

Shock of shocks, my score was 95.95%. Sans review and sans sanity ( Read more... )

In spite of Korea's recent bow-out as contender for championship in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, I have retained enough caffeine-induced energy to go around glomping people, sweet Eru be blessed ( Read more... )

During the time she was out of reach and turned into a green squishy-tentacled anthropomorphic personification, it is apparent to this Queen that my darling dreamlessness was, in fact, not abducted by aliens but rather by the members of the SWAT ( Read more... )

This list was sent to one of my Yahoo! groups earlier today. I found it very amusing and figured it would be nice if I posted it here for more people to read. Of course, none of the things listed are accurate or totally true, but the ideas made my day. Enjoy, minna ( Read more... )

It was late last night when I decided to start blogging here at LiveJournal. Pitas has been performing very erratically lately, plus Virtue, the host of my image files, has been dying in and out like you wouldn't believe. Here it is much simpler and somewhat more fun, with the really cute mood icons. I got this account some time ago but didn't get ( Read more... )