life is what happens in between

December 12, 2011

Wow! This has been the longest hiatus I’ve ever had in blogging (I keep on saying that every time I post and it seems that I keep on beating the longest time interval in blogging). I’ve been meaning to blog (really really) to put special moments especially when my heart cannot contain some moments anymore as if my insides are going to burst out of my body (seriously, I had too many of those moments this year) but I guess aside from the lack of time, I had the lack of words. Ohmy… emotional constipation! All too many things happening throughout the year, by far it this has been the most drama-magnet year I’ve had. Maybe I’m growing old, maybe life is really getting more complicated, maybe it’s all psychological, maybe it’s none of the above, maybe it’s all.

My next blog was supposed to be my annual year-end post - just a quick recap on what life has been but Jones couldn’t have said it any better - life is what happens in between. Sorta similar to 500 Days line - ‘life is what happens when you are busy making plans”. True! And so far, 2011 has been a real colorful and eventful year unfolding before my eyes both as the best drama-magnet and best blessing-magnet year (because, what’s the point of the climax without the drama?)

I had in mind a real long post to recap things but I guess that would be too dramatic and I’ve had so much drama already for 2011 that I’ve got the quota for next year covered. So what life has happened in between? 

This is the year that I finally earned my MBA degree! Finally the efforts of the last 4 years, sleep-walking mostly, paved off. This is also the year that I left Junathan. I never thought I’d have the guts to do it although I’ve been complaining for some time, because honestly most of the time I still feel very lucky where I was. But I guess big decisions like that also happened in between. It was really tough and at that time it would have been one of the biggest decisions of my life so far. Now though looking back I think I made the right decision. I know I made the right decision. I couldn’t be more thankful to Lord God for granting my heart’s desires - a life of more peace of mind though I remember this is the year when my dad went through a tough operation. I’ve seen though how my mom’s family showed their love and support. It was difficult then but at the same time my heart was flowing with gratitude and warmth seeing them standing by. Sorry iyakin lang talaga ako. This is also the year of the Ipad. Wala lang! Hahaha

I don’t think my blog is still coherent. Haha.. Oh my! The truth of the matter is I wanted to blog to feel good because I had a sudden attack of underachievement over the weekend. But now, I’m wondering why I felt that because I have all the reasons to be thankful for. Lord God, thank You for 2011! Thank you for giving me the greatest loved ones who understand and accept me for what I was, what I am, and what I will ever be. Thank you for the life that is destined to go with a bang with new experiences, new pursuits, new explorations and everything in between.

lomo day 001

April 6, 2011

 

Corner of my Corkboard.

  

Project 3Liters of Water: ON!

  

Project Sipag Blog!

Items always on top of my desk (that are not work related. hehe)

  

Currently reading.

 

Master Cleansing for 1 day. hehe

loco over lomo

I wanted to test lomo photography for years but - well but it’s one of those things I wanted to do but didn’t know where to start - until Harry told me that he would try it. I said I’d join him. Today I downloaded iPhone apps - a good starter kit I believe. I searched the net for some quick must-know.

1. Take your camera everywhere you go. Yeay! Since it is a downloaded application on my phone, I can take it wherever I go. haha!

2. Use it anytime - day and night. Again - I use my phone day and night. I hope taking pics won’t be a problem.

3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it - Ok! so far I have taken few pics in my workstation alone. On my way to the restroom I thought of few areas I should have taken a shot. haha! Ang OA ko.

4. Try the shot from the hip. - OK I will remember that.

5. Approach the object of your Lomographic desire as close as possible. - It says investigate the world from inside. Hmmm. Interesting enough!

6. Don’t think. - This will be easy for me.

7. Be fast. - Another easy one for me.

8. You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured. - Applicable in the generic sense of my life.

9. Afterwards either. - Again, applicable in the generic sense of my life.

10. Don’t worry about rules. - HAHA! See! Now it makes sense why this is so apt for me.

 

Good luck to us!

reposting: date a girl who reads

“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”

 

A very interesting read especially I really love reading!!! After the crunch time for Compre Exams in Feb and Mar, I am now on my 3rd book for the year. Quite few for the year but official leisure reading started March. This year, I will account all the books I read. Target: 40! Yeay! Perhaps, I should create: a. date a girl who loves coffee, b. date a talkative girl, c. date a girl who has an endless pursuit of things to pursue, d. date a  girl who loves vodka. e. date a girls who smokes (nah!)

separation anxiety

April 1, 2011

We will be moving out of Gats Mansion anytime soon. Officially our last day was yesterday but we haven’t found the dizizit unit yet so we are relying that Providence will provide us another roof on our heads soon. We checked on one unit already that is OK except for the fact that it is in the 4th floor of the building - NO ELEVATOR. There is another one on the 3rd floor (still no elevator) but I think that is fairly more acceptable.

So I’m having this separation anxiety! I love our humble abode - less the gats rats and the hidden charges. It is very accessible to our needs - Cabs are always available. The guards and janitors are very kind-hearted. There is Tapa King and Labandera Queen and Appliance King (it’s really the Mandaluyong Circle of Royalty). We are walking distance to the church, Shakey’s, Mercury Drugs, Vetsin Practice, Som’s and a variety of roasted chicken and liempo joints. It’s 10-15 minutes away from Greenbelt! More  than anything else, there are lots of memories in that place - most understated sentence in this entry. 

I will also sorely miss my dearest Bogart who has been my housemate for 5ish years. Hope to still see you from time to time. XOXO (Turuan mo pa rin ako ng techniques sa PVZ ha)