adventures in neverland

who says that getting older is fun? my sixty-something friend confessed that it is getting harder to sleep well at night the older he gets. most of the time, he feels sleepy while driving his car or while doing something in the office because of lack of sleep. he also tires easily and most of the time, his body aches all over. add to that are the lines on the face, the grey hair, the unstoppable weight gain, he sighed. the worst? the drop in his in sexual appetite, he pointed out. gosh! &&&&&&& i have always said that i wanted to die at forty. but i am still here. so what can i do? (maybe with rising interest rates and strengthening currencies, fifty is the new twenty.) i don't want to wake up one day only to find that all my hair has turned gray up and down there. eww! (can you dye your hair down there? will parlors and spas one day offer such services? or is there one already that i have not heard of?) ******* when i w...

lately, i have become even more forgetful. sometimes, i would even forget what i ate for lunch. most of the time, i just forget to have lunch. not because i am busy (though most of the time, i am), but simply because i forget all about it. god knows how many times i have stood at the doorway of my former apartment building because i forgot the code at the main door. (good thing that in my present building, we have this card that serves as a key to the main door. no need to punch those codes that change every two to three weeks.) i have also spent a lot of money to pay a professional locksmith to open the door at my flat simply because i forgot my keys inside. &&&&&& whoever said that growing older is fun must be joking. or totally delusional. no honey, age is not just a number. or a state of mind. it's a whole lot more. it means having slower metabolism, so you gain weight easily. don't tell me i need to exercise or go to the gym, because as ...

i must be old. really vintage archaic aged museum piece old. last nyt, while resting because of flu, colds and cough, i watched before sunrise and before sunset again, richard linklater's ode to young luv and the foolish things we do before real lyf hits us. surprisingly, after watching the two movies back to back for the nth time, i was more drawn to before sunset this time. like i could totally relate to the older jesse (ethan hawke) and celine (julie delpy). anyway, i luv the soundtrack of these films. too bad, i left my cd at our villa in the philippines. chos. i always luv this song. listen and weep. it's so heartfelt, so touching, can't help but look at my own foolish, self centered, selfish youth. as celine puts it - "m emories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with the past." i hope richard, julie and ethan will find time to make another one - this time with jesse and celine married, hopefully, happily with kids. dealing wit...