this is the view from my former boss' new apartment in the netherlands. her husband who is also there doing some scientific experiments through a grant entitled his facebook album "view from a crappy place." i'd take a crappy place for this sight. i love the church! i know there are more beautiful and magnificent churches in the area but i like this because it is at the center of a clump of apartments which seem to be enveloping it in an embrace. reminds me of a setting for a musical. an extreme urge to belt out "where is love" from Oliver suddenly overcame me upon seeing this photo. lovely lovely lovely!

(photo by nath)

*image picked up somewhere in the intarwebz,

i can't remember where*

If I ever get to have a kid, I will teach him/her to memorize a few poems just like how my mom did with me. Look at this cute kid reciting "Litany" by Billy Collins. He's a natural at the performing arts. You can tell by his tone and the way he prolongs certain words. Amazing!

i held out my hand and my heart was in it.

I told you about the fool on the hill,
I tell you man he living there still.
Well here's another place you can be.

- j, p, g and r

a moment of clarity, a succession of new questions. age has taught me so many things and, at the same time, has proven that i don't know any more than my 12-year-old self did. life just gives a lot of examples to prove the thesis statement. yet even the simplest of truths has so many facets that any explanation to dissect the many layers of its meaning is left wanting.

this is what booze looks like under a microscope. almost makes me happily drunk just by looking at it. a simple overused "thank you" understates all the gratitude i feel for all the people who have loved me at one point or another all these 27 years. if not in words or in actions, i hope by some telepathic force or energy transference, i am able to send you back all the love i have received tenfold. life is good, salud!

*more booze photos here.*

september air na! yahoo!!!

indecision kills. marami itong pinapatay. hindi lang mga katawan ng Chinese tourists at hostage-takers--pati puso at kaluluwa ng mga taong nilipas ng pagkakataon.

can't sleep. sad times for the whole country and for some people i know. it's times like these that i need a hug so bad.

Emerging Adulthood is the New Puberty
*what a timely article for the recent re-emergence of the same old shit


"With lifespans stretching into the ninth decade, is it better for young people to experiment in their 20s before making choices they'll have to live with for more than half a century? Or is adulthood now so malleable with marriage and employment options constantly being reassessed, that young people would better off just getting started on something, or else they'll never catch up, consigned to remain always a few steps behind the early bloomers? Is emerging adulthood a rich and varied period of self-discovery or is it just another term for self-indulgence?

Read full article here.

teka nadistract ako. disclaimer: ayoko sa kantang 'to at lalo naman sa bandang 'to. hahaha. pero ang ganda lang ni angel locsin dito. great make-up too! sorry naman, ngayon lang ako nakapag-TV dahil kailangan lang mag product review ng pinahiram na Samsung 3D LED TV. woohoo! woohoo!



oo, at dahil jologs ako, myx ang pinanonood ko kahit na plug and play ang usb at puwedeng mag-games at mag-internet dito. :))

ah yes, one needs a lot of money to buy a heads set. one hard-bound book, 11 CD's and a fan shirt are inside. kulang nalang board game. abangan!!!

ang payat payat na ni armi! woohoo. wolf whistles!!!

Anong gagawin mo pagkatapos ng shoot sa Ultra, rush hour, at wala kang masakyan pauwi? Gaya ng nakagawian, magpunta sa megamall para mag-ubos ng konting oras. Kumain ng Beef Pinatubo Jamaican Patty, mag-order ng P 40 na cappuccino sa Red Ribbon dahil kapeng-kape ka na ng disenteng kape at mahal sa Starbucks. Buklatin ang librong inorder mo sa Powerbooks, yung nakita mo dalawang taon na ang nakararaan ngunit ngayon mo lang napagdesisyonang bilhin.


Basahin ang mga kataga--tahimik, pume-pacing ngunit hitik sa kahulugan. Ngumiti habang umiiling. Minsan ka lang maaliw sa nasusulat na salita. Maya-maya lumabas ka na papuntang sakayan. Mahaba nanaman ang pila ngunit di tulad ng dati, tama lang ang takbo ng oras. Pabugso-bugso ang iyong hakbang ngunit wala kang problemang humanay sa tamang hanay. Naisip mong huwag nang tumangkilik sa mga sasakyang wala ding disiplina sa pagpila. Nagmamadali kang umuwi, nagmamadali siyang kumita. Malamang sa malamang magkaka-kontratahan. May kasunduang magaganap pero ang ending, may isa sa inyo uuwing iniisip na nalamangan siya ng isa. Hindi, dito ka nalang sa pila.