Israel Trip - Bet She'an

Another ruins of an ancient Roman town of Bet She'an in Israel. At this point, it did not seem as spectacular as it did the first time at Caesarea. Mama did not even bother coming with us as we walked through the ruins. She was content staying by the cafeteria to wait for our return. I don't blame her. One ancient Roman ruin looks just about the same as the other.

Tribute to the paramilitary men.

I thought I saw a white doggie.

Tonight is one of those rare nights since I got Janet that I have the house to myself without my lil bitch. Everything seems ok with me until I thought I saw her at the corner of my eyes as I was applying my eye cream in my bathroom. She does have a habit of looking at me from the door when I do things in front of the mirror. Was it just my imagination or deja vu or does it mean I missed my bitch's presence? Before anybody start thinking that I will now baby my dog and kiss her all over and have her sleep in my bed, that will not happen. I care for my dog so I give her shelter, food and appropriate attention. The day that I will treat my dog as a human child is far far away or none existent. I am very practical and dogs are just too dirty to kiss or have sleep in my bed. She has her own comfy bed that I paid for. But despite all my firm opinion about how dogs are to be treated, it was very odd that my subconscious showed her to me. Perhaps I am starting to love that bitch like a human child. Perhaps that day that I will kiss my dog or have her sleep in my bed is not that far at all.

Blogging and me: It's my blog damn it.

As I mentioned in the beginning and in the heading, my blog is a record of my thoughts. Sort of like a diary. The difference is this blog is public. So when I mention something unpleasant about anybody I know, I would anonymize the names or places so as to not slander the actual person in public. But I will still write about the subject or incident that I have strong feelings about. It is sort of my way to release whatever feelings it is if I do not have the recourse to confront the issue or the desire to confront it. It is not gossip at all cause I am writing about the situation from my point of view. And I think my blogging is just the same as somebody talking about me to another person. That somebody needs a release of his/her feeling and he/she is sharing it to another person.

So when a person I know (who normally does not care enough to read my blog) confronts me about an incident I wrote in my blog (that I have taken care not to use the real names), I get pretty annoyed naturally. First that person has no right to sanction my thoughts cause I did not mention his/her name to begin with. Second, it is an non-issue because that particular unpleasant incident happened just between the two of us. So if he/she did not blab to another person about the incident, nobody would even have a clue it was him/her involved. And third, that person does not even read my blog normally so he/she would not have known about the entry if it was not alerted to her by another person. So now that the entry could be about him/her, he/she reads my blog? I did not want to confront him/her about my feelings but that does not preclude my need to have an outlet. It just happens to be my blog.

Finally, it is my blog damn it and I will write whatever I want. Read it or not read it. No apologies.

Israel Trip - Caesarea

Caesarea was the first ancient Roman ruin in Israel that we visited. I was still excited and awe inspired with all the sights I saw. It was a warm day but it did not bother me much because of the different dug up structure we saw. We saw an amphitheatre, a hippodrome for chariot races, a sea port that is now under water, an ancient mouat and even a Jewish sea gull. Quite interesting.