Monday, March 13, 2006

What I saw at the bookstore and other non-sequiturs

A new book entitled, "Japanese Women Don't Get Fat Or Old" - clearly riding on the "French Women Don't Get Fat" trend. Maybe I should write, "Filipino Women Don't Stop Smiling."

Had a conversation with a someone at FX recently, about how certain people, no, how a lot of people here are "matipid sa ngiti." I keep trying to come up with a satisfactory translation into English, and only hit on "thrifty with her smile." She relayed the experience we apparently both share...how she'll be humming at work and someone will inevitably say to her, "Wha, so happy, lah?" She and I both tend to answer, "No, not really."

Yin yoga is hugely hip opening. Did a hatha for an hour. Had a fifteen minute break. Then went on for a 75 minute yin. Yowch! I imagine it's good for the digestive and reproductive organs. Very slow and deep and intense on the tissues, but at the end of it all, I'm not really sure what I did for myself.

Crockpot stew is even better on the second day.

Kids are on term break. Wish I could be, too.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are you crazy? Why did you do that? An hour of hatha yoga and then 75 minutes of yin yoga?

Over.

Did you like yin yoga?

Noelle Q. de Jesus said...

It's okay. It's not as bad as it sounds, because there are no balancing poses. There's nothing "power" about it. It's just holding a lot of stretching poses in the hip area for 3-4 minutes.

Hard to walk afterwards...

Mostly I will do either Hatha or Hot. There's also this thing called Hot Flow which is actually Power Yoga in a hot room. Very strenuous. I had a momentary dizzy spell. Doing that tomorrow, because it's the only 7am choice.

Anonymous said...

Is hot the same as bikram?

Kids on break

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