Waiting for the Train

2009-10-06T15:20:00.000-07:00

~ Date of Last Update: 05.23.11 ~

We spend most of our lives waiting...

for the time to go home after a long day's work...
for our date to show up...
for the cake to rise...
for the water to boil...
for that much needed cup of coffee from the barista...
that 16 yr old's driver's permit...

for the love of our life...
that much-awaited baby...

the sunrise...
the sunset...

that most of the time, the focus of our lives is on what hasn't happened yet,
instead of the moment that's passing us by.

HOW ARE YOU LIVING YOUR LIFE?

HOW AM I LIVING MINE?

~Clarisse

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I started this blog with no agenda in mind. Spur of the moment! But today, I had this bulb that lit up above my head *ding* do you see that flicker?

I want this to be a place where I can witness my imagination, thoughts and dreams come into play, and hopefully tie lassos around them so I can see them come into fruition one by one. A small step at a time.

Everyone has dreams, below is a captured list of mine beginning from 2006, with items duly scratched off as I achieve them. (Thus, this will be my one and only post -- only, it is dynamic, and definitely will get longer as time goes by):

*pink = done

* brown = status/remarks/update

1. Sing and dance in a concert a la J-Lo (with matching earpiece and mic)…yeah, right! but I did something pretty close to that at last year’s dance recital, but sing??? Who knows… CHECK! 20062. Meet Tiger Woods in person, shake his hand, take a pic with him and talk to him (and come home with an autograph) -- well, I made the beginning of this list back in 2001, way before his evil misconduct...so I guess I'm changing my mind now. But he's still good in golf and I think I still want to watch him play, just for the sake of scratching this 9-yr old item off my list... Maybe one day at Pebble Beach (8/24/10)...
3. Win a target shooting competition (or at least participate in one)…I shoot soda cans with my airsoft gun in the backyard…does that count? (Hubby and I started going to the range again and I've been shooting the AK and I think I'm doing really good at it! (8/24/10)
4. Be a barrista at Starbucks (and master all that coffee-stuff) - losing interest... (8/24/10)
5. Write and publish my own book OR books (and hopefully get Oprah to endorse ‘em, weehee!!!) -- GETTING THERE!6. Hold a one-man show art exhibit of my paintings and sketches -- WORKING ON MY COLLECTION/S!
7. Play in the rain as an adult (ooops, I did that already when I was 28) -- CHECK! 1998. This time, bathe naked under the full moon in the middle of an open field.
8. Speak a little French. (changing my mind, see #43, 8/23/10)
9. See the Celtic Castles in Europe with Al and touch the rocks of Stonehenge…and yes, meet a real druid.
10. Have my own complete bar at home-- CHECK! 2009 (not really that complete but then!!!) or at least learn a lot of cocktail mixing and bartending stunts.
12. Take figure-skating lessons or adult ballet, some hula CHECK! 2007 to present or master a hot salsa number with my hubby, woohoo!!!
13. Buy my hubby a Rolex Yachtmaster watch (I wish, I wish…) CHECK! 10/05/09 I DIDN'T EXACTLY BUY IT WITH MY MONEY, BUT I SAID YES TO HIM BUYING ONE!!!14. Get a real tattoo on my left lower back almost sinking halfway down the knicker line (that fairy on a moon that I have always wanted since my 28th birthday)
15. Play the drums (Mahal? Can I have my own drumMania video set for Christmas, the big arcade kind? hehehe *joke*)...a rock band set?
16. Volunteer in a kick-ass mission a la Laura Croft or the Tomb Raider. In my dreams...
17. Watch Criss Angel and David Blaine in person and learn a trick or two from them. Getting there, me might go to Vegas July 2011. Maybe, Maybe not (yet)
18. Get married in Reno or Vegas, just for kicks (Al wants to do it too, maybe on our anniversary?)
19. Be an orphan’s long-term mentor about life and living
20. Fly

AND THEN MY LIST GOES ON (2009/2010):
21. Have a baby.

22. Put up my own home-based biz (my own press to market my own books and creations through Amazon?), register! - check! April 2010

23. Set up an Etsy shop (paintings, notecard prints, wire-wrapped jewelry and other stuff).
24. Join Alameda Art Association. Getting there too! Just need to finish my collection and that professional website!
25. Be known as the Bay Area Organic Artist (Coffee and Wine) - working on it, but my art is taking another direction, let's see.

26. Eat chocolate-covered bacon in Santa Cruz Boardwalk (CA) - check! 06/13/10

27. Do the flashlight tour at Winchester Mystery House.
28. Bring my husband to HongKong and China and eat soup dimsum.

29. Or eat soup dimsum in NYC. check - I ate it in SF (Yank Sing)

30. Hold an all-in-one party when I get reunited with my parents (on their visit). All-in-one: Christmas Gift Exchange, Thanksgiving Turkey, 4th of July Barbecue, Halloween Costume party -- no matter what part of the year it is! - check! Thanksgiving in May at Berkeley CA (2010)

31. Have a small and simple retirement home in the Philippines (duplex, so we can rent out the other half)
32. Learn how to make Tamales (Filipino-style)
33. Make Siopao.
34. Learn ARNIS again (stick-fighting) Not sure if I can pull it off, my left wrist has been hurting quite a lot recently
35. Have a lot of CHANEL purses (I have 4 at the moment) Weehee!!!
36. Sell my artwork - CHECK!!! 2010 - present

37. Visit the DASH Boutique of the Kardashians - check! 6/17/10

38. See an Aurora Borealis at night time.
39. Have a Balenciaga City Motorcycle purse. LOL - check! (11/2011)
40. Lose weight. (again...)
41. Visit the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz CA
42. Go to Philippines for Christmas, my mom's 70th bday, and my gradeschool's 25th this year 2010...

AND THEN MY LIST GROWS EVEN LONGER (2011):

43. Speak a little Italian (or more!) - check! Working on it!

44. Do more mixed media art/collages
45. Watch Cirque du Soleil's "O" and Mystere" in Vegas
46. See my favorite Filipino celebs in person ("Kimerald") LOL - check! StarMagic18 US Tour Concert, San Jose CA 04/16/11

47. Go to Paris

48. Visit Barcelona
49. iFly indoor skydiving (not sure if I'll be allowed to do it though, because of my recurrent heart palpitations boohoo)
50. Just for kicks, be a part of a flash mob, dancing to great moves and great rhythm with hundreds of others in a public place. And you think I'm kidding? Heck no!
51. Launch my professional website in July 2011. A very nice angel is assisting me. I can't wait!!!
52. Help send a child to college. I'm helping to send my stepdaughter to college, but I guess that's a different category. I realized, this deserves a separate item on my wishlist...and really send an indigent to school (back home in the Philippines).
53. Work out my charity goal in relation to my art projects. Find a good charity to benefit from the sale of some of my art pieces (glicees). Preferrably in the Philippines. Maybe the street children? Pondo ng Pinoy? I'll work on it.
54. Volunteer in a soup kitchen, or volunteer to take some development-challenged individuals out for a group fun, like bowling, or something (I saw this when I went to a bowling alley one time and I wanted so bad to be a part of the volunteer group).
55. Win the lotto. I'd say....Why not put it here?
56. Meet Kat Von D in person and hopefully get tattoed by her!!!
57. Draw a Tattoo on one person. I don't know who's gonna trust me with the ink needle. Myself? The hubs? Tee hee. But I wanna draw on someone else, even just one dot, knowing that it will last forever. (that is, if it doesn't get laser-erased of course). Well, just for the heck of scratching this off my wishlist. Haha.
58. See more centuries-old ruins all over the world.