May 2012
9 posts
Isa's Cantina birthday bash (18 May 2012)
Isa-Geoff-Me and Miggy boy. It’s always refreshing being with these people.
The cutest cousins ever. Sevilla reprezent! Isa and Nico.
Miguel is about to leave for Anawangin and I have work to do on Sat so we decided to just chill inom since it’s also Friday. Poor Sandoy didn’t show up so he missed the fun. Hahahaha! :)) And again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ISA!!!
Always reminds me of summer days in college when...
On uncertainty and the future.
Geoff: With everything that you’re saying, I feel pressured. I don’t have something you can call a career yet.
Janine: It’s okay to feel pressured. It’s better to be pressured than to be relaxed all the time. You should push, push, push. Because at one point in your life you should be awakened by that responsibility. Your future is like crossing the street. You can’t...
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“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply that they have perfect...”
– Peter Pan by J.M Barrie
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““No little children love me!”
Strange that he should think of...”
– Peter Pan by JM Barrie
yourglassceiling asked: Your thoughts on spending the rest of your life with me?
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“Surely, you know what a kiss is? she asked, aghast.
“I shall know when...”
– Peter Pan by J.M Barrie
Anonymous asked: I like you a lot. You seem like a reasonable cool chick with good taste but I'm disappointed with your faith vs science post. It's very problematic. You said you're interested in Philosophy and if you would delve deeper into that I'm certain that you will be rethinking that post. Btw, I suggest you watch The Fall (2006). It seems like your type, at least visually.
Anonymous asked: Your thoughts on casual sex.
April 2012
20 posts
Beijing Lu Trip (25 to 29 April 2012)
Second trip abroad. Decided to take a day off the night before we left. Our new friend from Ghana, Eben, told us to go to Beijing Lu at night. Went there and its was like their Boni High Street (only 7 times bigger).
Went to this awesome bookstore where we splurged (yet again) in new issues of Vogue, Elle and Fashion China.
The awesomest is the floor where art books and a coffee shop are...
God vs. Blackhole vs. Time vs. Light
(shortened version of the conversation le boyfriend and I had this afternoon)
Geoff: Do you actually ever think about how gravity works? I mean we know gravity is pulling force, but how does it really function? Einstein once said that the universe is like a piece of cloth that is always moving. To test that 3 scientists proposed to NASA to align 3 gyroscopes consisting of 2 discs the one moving...
Random late night conversation.
Janine: Can we go to the zoo? I miss seeing animals. Last time I saw a lion, grade 2 pa yata ko.
Geoff: I want to see a lion! And other animals too. Last time kong nakakita ng animal, SA OFFICE yun eh.
Janine: HAHAHAHAHAHA
“I don’t just want your heart. I want your flesh, your skin and blood and bones,...”
– Isobel Thrilling
Anonymous asked: What do you think about Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini & His Wife by Jan Van Eyek? :)
Anonymous asked: What was your course in College?
“The oceans remind me
of your room.
There are things unbearable.”
– Anne Carson, from “Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions”
Faith vs. Science
Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ? Student : Yes, sir. Professor: So, you believe in GOD ? Student : Absolutely, sir. Professor : Is GOD good ? Student : Sure. Professor: Is GOD all powerful ? Student : Yes. Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others...
I bought Dickens' David Copperfield from Booksale...
Good old photos from my camera phone.
Unearthed old photos from my 3.25 megapixel camera phone 3 years ago and cross-processed them.
1. taken right across our street. 2. my bedroom window 3. quote from the book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra 4. taken while I was waiting for a jeep 4. an installation in Ateneo Art Gallery 5. buffalo wings from Wicked Kitchen 6. my torn apart Moleskine 7. drying my bags after Ondoy 8. vandalism on one of...
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“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.
...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Random vacation post.
I finally finished Camus, and right after I read The Bell Jar, 2 days straight. Plath made me a little confused but Plath is Plath and all her life she had her own struggles. After finishing the book, I’m just “re-reading” my Elle magazine, April 2012 which I bought from China for only 10 Yuan or 70 pesos!!! (tho I can’t read Chinese characters, pictures would of course...
I'm very proud of this girl (Inquirer article...
STARS IN MY PALMS by Jemika Kathryn F. Soledad
So here’s the thing. I was hit by the nostalgia bug after seeing photos of my closest college friends having a get-together because in the not too distant past, I enjoyed being with them in similar gatherings.
I don’t feel bad. Not at all. It’s just that I miss them. Not just them, but all the other friends I have who are scattered around the...
Spoiler.
Aside the fact that I have quoted too much of the book, I am amazed that I bought The Fall for 25 PESOS, and found this treasure hiding in a corner of the old shelf of a bookstore I always go to every month, in UP. It had the previous name of the owner, Teret De Villa circa 1970. I am overwhelmed with all the nights it got me thinking on how I judge myself and others. I loved how he loathed...
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“For anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of the...”
– Albert Camus, The Fall
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“But what do I care? Don’t lies eventually lead lead to the truth? And...”
– Albert Camus, The Fall
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Albert Camus, The Fall (On Christ and the self)
There are reasons for murdering a man. On the contrary, it is impossible to justify his living. […] The real reason is the he knew he was not altogether innocent […] He must have heard of a certain slaughter of the innocents. The children of Judea massacred while his parents were taking him to a safe place - why did they die if not because of him? Those blood-spattered soldiers whose...
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“You must have noticed that men who really suffer from jealousy have no more...”
– Albert Camus, The Fall
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“Each of us insists on being innocent at all costs, even if he as to accuse the...”
– Albert Camus, The Fall
March 2012
9 posts
Anonymous asked: im gay and i think im in love with you. :)) why did i just discover your tumblr just now? BTW, what did you major in? if its Philosophy, i think im gonna marry you! :)) i just bookmark your tumblr. kudos to your writing skills!
With Honor by Averill Pizarro (21 March 2012)
“I have to admit — magna cum laude looks very good on paper. Most people are immediately impressed when they hear about it — and one of them, my current boss, was impressed enough to offer me a job. But that’s about as far as graduating with honors has taken me. It got me into a job, but staying in the job, and performing well in it, is a different matter entirely. That’s a fact that...
Anonymous asked: Hello. I just graduated from HS, and apparently I'm looking for any kind advice for college, just to call it a night. I happen to run into your blog and I just might be lucky.
What Fresh Graduates Should Always Remember.
My dear fresh grads,
I barely have time for anything, but I just wanted to give a quick advice. Once you get out of college, just be prepared to accept whatever it is, even if it’s something you were not familiar with it. Life is a big game, whatever the rules are, make sure you win it but there’s no way to cheat. Once you’re out of school, reality will make you feel like...
China Business Trip photo diary!
16 March to 19 March 2012, beybeh!
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Albert Camus, The Fall (On Friends, Success and...
1. In my eyes my fellows ceased to be the respectful public to which I was accustomed. The circle of which I was the the centre broke and they lined up in a row as on the judges’ bench. The moment I grasped that there was something to judge me, I realized that, in fact they had an irresistible vocation for judgment. Yes, they were there as before, but they were laughing. Or rather it seemed...
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Albert Camus, The Fall (On Death, Suicide and...
1. He was right; he forgot. To tell the truth, the contrary would have been surprising. You think you are dying to punish your wife and actually you are freeing her. It’s not better not to see that. Apart from the fact that you might here the reasons they give for your action. As far as I’m concerned, I can hear them now: ‘He killed himself because he couldn’t...
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Albert Camus, The Fall (On Power)
1. I am well aware that one can’t get along without dominating or being served. Every man needs slaves as he needs fresh air. Commanding is breathing — you agree with me? And even the most destitute manage to breathe. The lowest man in the social scale still has his wife or his child. If he’s unmarried, a dog. The essential thing, after all, is being able to get angry with...
February 2012
21 posts
500th day Surprises of Geoff (Part 2)
February 25, 2012
As you may have noticed, we don’t celebrate monthsaries but we do celebrate by a hundred days. I just thought that celebrating every month is too common and tiring that you’d run out of surprises for your partner. We decided to celebrate it every hundred days so that it will be something we’ll look forward to, instead of something we’d dread every month.
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500th day Surprises of Geoff (Part 1)
February 24, 2012
I remember was Geoff kept on texting me, asking if we are busy in the office. I kind of felt that he was up to something. But since it was already 5:30pm, I thought the day will be over soon. But to my surprise, an officemate saw someone coming from the hallway, IN A BOW TIE AND FULL SUIT REGALIA, WITH A BOUQUET AND STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE.
To my surprise I SHOUTED OH MY GOD and...
The photo shoot that was. (2011)
shoot happened inSuite 128 LRI Business Plaza 210 N. Garcia St. Bel-Air 2 Makati City
with Mam Vene, my former prof in Ateneo who was also featured in the magazine. I love her so much, I didn’t absent myself in her class and got an A for her subject.
All photos were taken by my ever-supportive chubby hubby. :)
Enchanted Kingdom photodiary! (05 November 2011)
used Ensogo to get discounted coupons for EK and went there commuting! one of our first few memorable adventures together! :)
“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatter-brained woman,...”
– from my current read, The Fall by Albert Camus
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“Have you noticed that death alone awakens our feelings? How we love the friends...”
– from my current read, The Fall by Albert Camus
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“Whence that harmony in me, that relaxed mastery that people felt, even to...”
– from my current read, The Fall by Albert Camus
The cutest thing on earth.
sitting pretty on her favorite couch, I mean, person next to me. Geoff is Cola’s eternal slave.
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Sexing the Cherry, On God and Self-Discovery
I have met a great many pilgrims on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves. Perhaps I’m missing the point — perhaps whilst looking for someone else you might come across yourself unexpectedly, in a garden somewhere or on a mountain watching the rain. But they don’t seem to care about who they are. Some of them have told me...
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Sexing the Cherry, On Time
Thinking about time is like turning the globe round and round, recognizing that all journeys exist simultaneously, that to be in one place is not to deny the existence of another, even though that other place cannot be felt or seen, our usual criteria for belief.
[…] The world is flat and round, is it not? We have dreams of moving back and forward in time, though to use the words back and...
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Sexing the Cherry, On Self
I had in the past entangled myself in numerous affairs with women who would not, could not, or did not love me. And did I love them? I thought so at that time, though now I have come to doubt it, seeing only that I loved myself through them.
[…] A man or a woman sunk in dreams that cannot be spoken, about a life they do not possess, comes suddenly to a door in the wall. They open it. Beyond...