Blame it on Rio. No.

RIGHT, Sam and Suzie, the new parakeets of the house.

I abandoned regular blogging months ago. I got basically lazy. I had Manila weather to blame it on. Why?

With the warm Manila weather, everything else could wait.

First order of a day would be either getting up so early or so late. I prefer the former. I am usually up at five in the morning, and having coffee and toast bread.

If ever I go to the 6 am mass, I'd be in front of the computer at around 7:30 and having a formal and bigger breakfast at 9 am. Then the lazing around bit continues after lunch. If I have any appointments, or chores to do outside the house, it'll be done in the mid-afternoon.

With the sun streaking through the house, the laid back existence is easy to do all day - going through the papers, doing crossword puzzle, surfing the Net, reading , doing social networking and calling people, and blogging takes a back seat.

But if ever I wake up early (which is more the norm), I make it a point to do the yard before I hit the laptop. My dog Shadee, and now the parakeets, get my early attention and care.

If I were in Toronto these days ,with the winter in full blast, I'd be camped at home and blogging more. It seems that with a cold weather, I need to internalize my energy and let it out by writing.

Not with a warm weather; the energy is spent sweating out by doing even the minutest and easiest of things. So blogging becomes laborious to do. Even leisure activities take so much energy.