Sound of Music is in my top grossing non-dislodgeable favorites movie list of all time. And I simply love the song, My Favorite Things. Take a look at the lyrics:
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things
Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things
When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I’m feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don’t feel so bad
I love this song strangely because it quaintly brings me back to the simple things of life. It reminds me of the importance of appreciating the stops of life and the need to be thankful. Not at all celebrating the ordinary (which I often remember whenever I think of Neruda’s Ode to Simple Things), but it is simply being thankful for the things that we often take for granted and relegate to ordinariness.
I’m sure we all have our own favorites list. I love the rain and the aroma from the ground after it rains–it reminds me of the first day of school. And the first day of school reminds me of excitement over limitless possibilities in the new school year. I love walking home from work at 5pm or at 7am in the morning (I often stay late in the office), because the neighbors are out, attending to their front yards or walking the dog or watering the plants. The succession of folks and their various activities form a very beautiful picture. I also get to say hello to the adorable (albeit a bit spoiled) pug named Nino. 
I love notebooks with crisp paper and very thin boil point pens–writing down notes becomes a pleasure. I love the smell of new books–it signals a journey of discovering a new world. I love newly cooked jasmine rice–anything paired with it tastes fantastic. I love waking up to a cool morning, with the sound of birds on the window sill chirping the dawn away. I love the sunlight on my face at 8am in the morning–it reminds me that the day is a new day with all the possibilities. The list goes on and on.
What are your favorite things?
–The Fool
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My most favorite thing would be proving that poor people are so much brighter than rich ones.
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I love pickled artichokes, green tea latte, vegetarian vermicelli rolls, sugar-free chocolate mouse and herb-steamed Chilean sea bass.
I also love E.E. Cummings’ poems, Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams, Ah Xian’s porcelain sculptures and the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
My Favorite Things!
1. my laptop
2. my books, especially C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, Lois Lowry’s The Giver, and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series
3. nature (i love to take pictures of all the scenic views in the Philippines)
4. stars (I LOOOOOVE astronomy)
5. tea sipping (yum yum)and it’s alternative: coffee
6. pizza and pesto
7. the library (hihi)
Another beautiful topic fool! (I really hesitate to call you such) I am a fan of Sound of Music and I really find a lot parallelisms with a lot of things that have to what I do as a way of living. What I do takes and teaches a lot of patience, passion and purpose from a man, but then again I am thankful we don’t lose these in our own professions. Anyways, here are my favorite things (or ideas):
The outright and special:
1. Chinese food taken in an airconditioned oriental restaurant, authentic no less.
2. Filipino food eaten beside the beach with the summer breeze blowing sand and heat making the feast all the more worthwhile (actually is a good appetizer)
3. Italian food til I drop stuffed. Side note, Zesho as opened my eyes to the possibilities of eating Japanese food.
4. Gadgets! I may not be able to acquire the latests things to help serve my needs but I do like being in the know. I like things from the blazing fast laptops to digging deep into car specs. =) Having seen the evolution of these machines growing in the fast 1990s helps a lot.
5. The Internet…for the good and the bad things I learn about it.
6. DVDs and perhaps Blu-ray discs in time. Why? Movies! PC Games!
7. Books. I like the scent of new books I have encountered a variety of about 10 scents ranging from Amazon.com-US scents to freshly-baked glossy ones. Of course, I love their content! Building a personal library is a crusade!
The subtle and special:
1. The peace and quiet I find in 10 minutes of cold shower inside my gym’s shower. It makes me sing and I do not mind. Only time spent in meditation beats it. =)
2. Sunday afternoon rain
3. A day spent in the mall with at least three special acquisitions.
4. That corner in a room when there is a party or gathering that allows you to sit and think about why you are there
5. MY CLASSROOM!…the office and everything and anything within.
6. My day-dreaming and hopelessly complicated brain.
7. A child’s smile.
8. A powerful sermon.
Too much to mention! Argh!
erratum: a lot to do with what I do (3rd sentence I think) thanks!
wow. very interesting. speck tackle, i haven’t tried pickled artichokes. but i love green tea latte. now that you mentioned it, i am definitely getting one when the sun comes up later.i DEFINITELY LOVE EINSTEIN’S DREAMS! i remember reading it while on holiday at puerto galera where i taught myself to swim and experienced the miscomfort of being chummy with a jelly fish. as to music…. one of my favorites ofcourse is the rach 3.
but i suggest….don’t have some green tea latte while listening. i dunno with you but i’d get a heart attack.
hello resplend3nt and absolute searcher….whoa… you love lists now don’t you?
i also love pizza (CPK) and pesto! why don’t you try making pesto yourself from fresh basil. basil btw is easy to plant and grow. get a pot and try it. and as for building a personal library, i suggest absolute searcher, that you try thelibrarything.com and do your own card catalogue! that would be fun. 
and yes it is a crusade.
hi rimewire! somehow, your reply reminds me of something that gandalf said in LOTR: All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
in my 1 cent worth of opinion
, challenges(which include economic status) are myriad but they don’t spell what we become. life i believe is determined by our choices–what we do with what we have (may it be time, resources, and opportunities). people can be insensitive, apathetic, visionless, non-thinking and blind because they choose to be, regardless of economic status.
Bon Appetit in Rustan’s used to serve pickled artichokes.
The last time I had it was in 2003.
I hope they offer it again. It’s one of their best appetizers.