Catching Up

HI all!!! I said I'd tell about a bunch of things and I try to keep my promises...

1- My trip to the Far East...
It was fantastic! I went for work and honestly I can tell you the Far East is a bunch of factories and hotels from where I stand... no Wall of China, no Pagodas, no nothing that you would expect a tourist to see... but experiencing new cultures in their everyday environment is fun too... I worked my buttocks off, but I can say I was very very happy...

2- The sexiest Rebbetzin -sorry RenReb, somebody took your place in my book, but that's only cause I haven't met you in person :o)-
The rabbi's wife in the synagogue I went to in Hong Kong is some HOT STUFF!!! I was so positively impressed! Funky modern high heels... long skirt but not to her ankles... her wig was a fantastic burgundy color... green eyes, fantastic makeup, very cool top... tall, skinny and with an attitude!!!! I thought she was great!!! Yes, I think people should be modest, but I think "sexy" is not a bad thing... it's not being immodest, sexy is an attitude. :o) I wanna be like her when I grow up!!!

3- Designer replicas and my guilt trip...
Ummm....I guess it's illegal and maybe immoral, but, ummm, I have a $1400 Technomarine, a $3800 Bvlgari (not originals, obviously) and bought my sister a Cartier, and my friends an Armani and a Rolex... I think I spent less than a hundred bucks in total... yikes!

4- My blind-date in Hong Kong...
Wonderful dinner, wonderful drinks, laughs, talks, we hit it off... It would be fantastic if HE DIDN'T LIVE IN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD!!!! I'm so sick of long distance... I want Spiderman. I want him here. I want him NOWWWWW.

5- The cute guy I met in the train...
Just a cute mexican jewish guy... he was sooooo cute, had lunch at the airport, talked for a couple of hours and then, like the story of my life, he had a plane to catch and I haven't heard from him.

6- My hotel room overlooking the tallest building in the world...
Taiwan is nice. I loved Taipei. I had a hotel room as big as my apartment, overlooking the Taipei 101. What an impressive structure! It's standing out there... pretty much alone... surrounded by very small buildings, so it stands out dramatically like a power symbol!!! The color of the lights change every day, did you know that?

7- Missing out on Shabbes because I thought it was Thursday (tragic... i cried sooooo bad when I realized it)
One of those things you think can never happen. I was having dinner with my boss after an exhausting day of work, sure it was Thursday, had meetings scheduled for the next day, talking about work blah blah blah... and when we opened the calendar in my cell phone, there it was.... It was Friday night. No kiddush, no expectation, not even a shower before dinner... talking about work, using our electronic gadgets, with meetings scheduled the next day... WHAT A PAIR OF IDIOTS. My boss and I were in shock. We didn't know what to do!!! He said the kiddush over my glass of wine, and we then called (fairly late at night) to cancel our meetings. When I finally got to my room I started sobbing... until I realized what a blessing, it happened once... whereas there are soooo many jews out there who never ever get together to say kiddush... for whom Friday night is just another night... people who don't have the blessing of entering that splendid bond with God after candle lighting every Friday....

8- Survivor- Atlantic coast... you survive-your pictures don't!!!!
Four days. Four people. One dog. One boat. Atlantic coast, somewhere in central america... no toilet, no shower, no electricity... it was fantastic!!! I survived!!! And I enjoyed it!!! I had not camped since my last Hanoar Hatzioni Majane, back in 1990 or 91. The cameras didn't make it though... too much water.

9- Shabbes in the jungle
Saving the bread from the water was the most important task of all... everything got wet. Cameras were ruined.... clothes were completely wet... BUT I RESCUED THE CHALLAH!!!! We had a woderful Shabbat dinner, in the jungle, table set on a plastic bag on the floor... moonlight, stars, the ocean waves breaking behind us... WOW!!! It surely made up for the Shabbos I moronly missed!!!

10- My discussion with SpiderMan on what would Shabbos be like in the moon... or in a Space Station...
Really, it's not so far away from happening... So, how would it be? Would you follow your hometown's time? Is there no shabbos? Maybe follow the time of the place where you launched? Rotation of the moon takes a month, would there be shabbos every 7 Earth months? What would the Halacha say?

And now, back to working, working, working!!!

Nihau.

Wow.. it's been a while!!!

Well, hello Bloggers!!! I've been lost for a while, but I hope you understand it has been the good kind of lost... :o)

I have been keeping myself really busy and I have sooooo much to tell... I have been wanting to post, yet find no time whatsoever to do sooooo!!!

Right now I'm gonna head to work, but I will make sure to elaborate on the following issues very very soon... In the meantime, hey! I'm alive! BH

Issues to be discussed promptly:

1- My trip to the Far East...
2- The sexiest Rebbetzin -sorry RenReb, somebody took your place in my book, but that's only cause I haven't met you in person :o)-
3- Designer replicas and my guilt trip...
4- My blind-date in Hong Kong...
5- The cute guy I met in the train...
6- My hotel room overlooking the tallest building in the world...
7- Missing out on Shabbes because I thought it was Thursday (tragic... i cried sooooo bad when I realized it)
8- Survivor- Atlantic coast... you survive-your pictures don't!!!!
9- Shabbes in the jungle
10- My discussion with SpiderMan on what would Shabbos be like in the moon... or in a Space Station...

Interested? Stay tuned!!!!

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