Was it just a dream?

Earlier this evening I spotted an interesting photo on Flickr via labpixies' Flickr slideshow widget, clicked on the link to view the picture and marked it as my favorite. But my internet connection was apparently slow and it took about a minute before the favorite star icon finally turned fuschia.

I was puzzled though that the photo didn't appear among my favorites when I later checked my favorite Flickr photos. So I attempted to bring up the Flickr webpage with the photo--the labpixies Flickr slideshow was by then showing a different series of photos--by checking my browser's history. The page was nowhere to be found. Then I looked among the latest interesting Flickr photos via Flickr Browser. It wasn't there either.

Now I'm wondering whether I had just imagined it all.

Green food

Featured on the news on tv just earlier was some green pizza, complete with green cheese and toppings, prepared by a pizza place in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. My first thought was, why not green eggs and ham a la Dr. Seuss? (The timing too would be perfect to toast the acclaimed film adaptation of Seuss' "Horton Hears a Who" which had just topped the box office over the weekend.)

The smell of rain

There had apparently been a brief rain shower several minutes before I crossed the wet street to go to the next office building sometime today in the mid-afternoon. Then as I walked, I got a whiff of rainwater heated by the sunbaked asphalt. Mmm. The weather had been so unusually cool these past few months that I had not experienced that smell for a long time ...

Thank God for Sundays!

After going through such a stressful weekend working overtime to meet a deadline, it came home to me once again why God insisted on reserving the Sabbath--be it Saturday or Sunday--for rest and worship. I don't think I'd survive another fortnight without a chance to rest and recharge physically, mentally and spiritually for the following week!

A deadline met

Okay, I went to bed early and woke up early. But since I automatically reached over to turn off my alarm clock, I actually got up not at 1am as I planned but rather just before 3am--which was just fine because I also got to watch some tennis live on tv at the same time while working on my papers! (Haha. Dubai champion Roddick lost to Tommy Haas.)

Still, as I discovered later this morning at work, I made some errors. Although I felt alert while working earlier I guess my brain was still half asleep. Or I might have been distracted a bit by the tennis .... but then I wasn't really watching.

But hey, at least I got my papers done in time for today's deadline!