Here’s hoping that we’ll be hearing more from Zee Avi in the future.
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May
07
2009
Apr
30
2009
State of the Heart Address
[BGmusic: Stormy Weather by Louis Armstrong]
Quote for the day:
“I’ve made a horrible mistake.”
- Gob, Arrested Development
Last week, I made the unpleasant discovery that the person I had deemed worthy of my bad poetry and daydreaming was, in fact… not.
See people, I have a disease.
I have pedestalectasis. When I find someone… interesting, I have the tendency to fling them up on a pedestal and idolize idealize all their good qualities while pretending that the bad qualities aren’t really all that bad… these flaws only make them three-dimensional. Then I find someone from film or literature to associate them to, so everything I don’t know or understand about this person is filled in and explained by their fictional counterpart’s traits and background stories. So you can imagine what a mess I end up with when everything falls into shambles.
Eventually, [sometimes thankfully] I get a wakeup call.
Usually, it comes in the form of another girl on his arm [nuuuuuu!]. But in this case, it was… an unresolvable, intolerable clash of opinions. Taste is relative. I get that. Good and bad taste is not, but it’s tolerable. Then there’s right and wrong taste, which is on a whole different level altogether.
Illustration:
Bad taste is tolerable: “So… you like Gokey… *insert abrupt topic change here*”
Wrong taste is wrong: “You’re a Nazi? Have a nice life.”
Apr
23
2009
TRUTH THURSDAYS: In Love I Carry…
A lamp; being a moth only gets you burned.
[Sometimes it's okay to sit and wait.]
A shield; knights in shining armor are hard to come by these days.
[And I'm no damsel in distress.]
Band-aids. Lots of band-aids.
[In all colors, patterns, and sizes. Preferably sparkly.
Having a hurting heart doesn't mean I have to stop smiling.]
And a prayer.
For you to be safe.
For you to be a blessing to those around you.
For you to guard your heart, hopefully better than I guard mine. [*ehem* Stay away from evil, evil girls. NEWSFLASH: I'M THE ONE THAT YOU WANT!]
For growth.
For wisdom.
For passion.
For love.
And for us to find each other one day, in God’s perfect time.
This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Apr
18
2009
Rowing
[BGmusic: Roxanne by The Police]
Quote for the day:
Earl: *straight face* “Umiinom na nga ako ng rootbeer.”
Everyone: *hands in the air* “WOAAAAAAAH!”- Erik’s younger brother (age 6?)
telling us of his experience with alcohol
Yesterday I emptied out the bag I most recently used for school.
I fished out things I hadn’t seen since my last day [March 31]:
- my planner
- a highlighter [pink Faber Castell - I've been using the same highlighter since sophomore year]
- photocopies of four chapters for Econ161 [Industrial Organization]
- two notebooks
- a used [marked, and recorded] blue book
- a gluestick [never used]
- two mints
- my 7 peso backup ballpen
Gutting my school bag was like finally acknowledging the end of an era.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am officially educated, and come graduation day on the 26th, officially unemployed.
And I’m not going to beat around the bush, it’s scary as hell.
Apr
07
2009
Mmmbop
[BGmusic: Sky by Joshua Radin and Ingrid Michaelson]
Quote for the day:
“In an mmmbop they’re not there.
Until you lose your hair. But you don’t care.”- Hanson, Mmmbop
Last weekend I got a little taste of life on the other side of the generation gap.
I was in Laguna for this retreat my parents were holding for some military families, and was one of the oldest “kids” there [the oldest being my sister]. Because my mother kept insisting that I should make an effort to be sociable, I made myself look busy by sitting with my sister, who was socializing with some [obviously younger] girls.
Check out the dialogue:
Girl1: “OMG, you’re turning fourteen this year.”
Girl2: “Yeah, so are you.”
Girl1: “But you’ll be first. You’re sooo old.”
Me: *blank face*
Mar
16
2009
I love you, goodbye
[BGmusic: The Beautiful Ones by Suede]
Quote for the day:
“But when I think about leaving,
I think about losing
The only love I’ve ever known
Every time I think of youMy heart starts aching
My hands keep shaking
And you know, you know, you know…It would take a strong, strong [girl]
To ever let you go.”- It Would Take a Strong Strong Man by Rick Astley
[sorry Raianne haha.]
Remember freshman year?
Out of tens of thousands of suitors, she picked you. Yes, you.
Remember that surreal and euphoric feeling you got during those first few months? For years you had thought of her as somewhat out of your league, yet there you were, by her side, asking yourself, “What on earth is she doing with a loser like me? I can’t believe she picked me.”
Feb
26
2009
TRUTH THURSDAYS: In love I become…
…gawky.
Quote for the day:
“But somehow I can’t believe
That anything should happen.
I know where I belong,
And nothing’s gonna happen.”- Tal Bachman, She’s So High
Well, gawkier than usual. Just like the guy whose feet were too big for his bed; nothing seems to fit… Nope, nothing has ever fit.
I guess it’s just a sign that it’s not time [to make a change, just relax take it easy...]. When things finally click between me and a guy, I’ll let you people know.
Until then, I’m going to enjoy singledom. I’m pretty happy being “loveless” anyway.
Most of the time.
This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Feb
22
2009
Anything for you
[BGmusic: After Hours by We Are Scientists]
Quote for the day:
“I would do anything for love,
I’d run right into hell and back.”- Meat Loaf, I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)
I had an epiphany last night.
WARNING: THIS POST MAY BE A LITTLE GROSS FOR MANY READERS.
As the household’s official poop-scooper, I took my dog out for her to do her business like I do on most nights.
Because of her current situation, she’s been eating the worst smelling dog food on the face of the earth. Aaaand the change in her diet obviously had a direct effect on her excrement.
Before when she was on dry food, her crap came in cute little lumpy stumps [see Mr. Hankey]. But now with her PHP50/day magic in a can, they look like black moist Play-Doh snakes [I can't get hold of an image that could capture what they look like; let's just say that I've never seen sh*t like that in my entire life].
I’m not the kind of person who likes waiting around, but since she’s so cute that even when she’s doing her thing you can’t help but go “kyaaa” even a little, I didn’t mind so much. As I watched her answering nature’s call, and I noticed that she was taking longer than usual to get her business done. I guess the muscles down there aren’t as strong as they used to be.
Feb
19
2009
Anoop for Wildcard!
I never blog about TV because I hardly watch TV and blog posts about television bore me to death.
But I have to do this.
Because American Idol is the only show I bother watching.
And because Season 8 without Noop Dogg isn’t worth watching.
Yes, he was out of his element last night, but it was still good.
And come on, you can’t let a guy with this kind of talent get away that easily.
You just can’t.
It’s wrong.
I don’t even like RnB and I love this guy.
For more of Anoop, visit anoopdog.com.
Feb
17
2009
Today is a happy day
[BGmusic: my mom's music - Michael Buble, I dunno this song]
Quote for the day:
“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,
You make me happy when skies are gray.
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you.
Please don’t take my sunshine away.”- We all know the song.
I spent Valentine’s with some friends at the air show at Clark. And yes, it was fun.
But I’m not blogging about my Feb14 to tell you guys about how sunburned I was at the end of the day, or how we got stuck in traffic so we missed the balloons altogether, or how I’m itching to know how Rico Yan and Judy Ann Santos resolved their conflict in Kay Tagal Kita Hinintay [we stopped over a friend's house for merienda and it was showing on Cinema One, okay?]…
I’m writing about Feb14 because of someone I love very much.