January 2011
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“Walking is controlled falling.”
– Tim Cada
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“So the lesson is, get there first. Then dictate what the rules should be.”
– John Hofileña
(There was a time when my chats with John was all about love life. Now it’s all business. My, my, how we’ve grown.)
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The epic randomness of my weekend. →
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“…Then it was a day of sitting in the beautiful, heart-stopping rawness of Liw-Liwa. I can’t describe to you how beautiful that beach was. We were all seated in groups, typical beach bum fashion. There were remnants of what would have been a dike or a pier: huge five-by-five feet tall cement cubes, just haphazardly put together like a giant kid was trying to make a...
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“What if the water that came out of the shower was treated with a chemical that...”
– Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
(Instead of highlighting my favorite passages and ruining a decent book, I’ll just copy the passages I like from my book on to my Tumblr account. Yes. that sounds good.)
New tattoo. →
I have a tattoo.
You can only imagine how I looked when I wrote that down. Try: a shy, proud smile, coy downward look, and maybe the slightest of shoulder shrugs. I like my first tattoo like I like…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-9) →
The Bird and The Bee (28)
Imago (25)
Miike Snow (19)
She & Him (15)
Cynthia Alexander (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“You come to me with a sword, a spear and a javelin, but I come to you in the...”
– David to Goliath.
(To go into battle with nothing but a name. And win. It’s mind-boggling.)
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for...”
– 1 Peter 2:9
(It amazes me that even if I mess up and stumble extravagantly, He would still remind me of this.
“‘Eto ‘yung nanay ng mga tattoo mo. Manganganak ‘yan.”
– Translation: “This is the mother of your tattoos. Because you will get more.”
- Gary, my tattoo artist (who’s also, originally and still is, Heidi Franco’s tattoo artist)
These days… →
These are golden days we are in.
I mean this literally, of course. This is probaby the only month that a Filipino can stand in a pool of sunshine and not feel like he or she is being roasted alive….
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“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So...”
– Haruki Murakami (via justbesplendid)
How I spent the first 24 hours of 2011 →
This is me numbering my days.
00:15 | Arroz caldo, my uncle and dad reminiscing about their crazy childhood, my grandmother (getting drunk), and a bottle of Mouton Cadet’s Bordeaux (Baron Philippe…
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WatchThis is my cousin Ayla Liberato’s audio-visual compilation of her trips last 2010. She’s an extremely talented photographer and an awesome woman. This lady is a lecturer at the University of the Philippines, is a materials engineer, and can tell you, on a materials engineering level, why katanas are magical.
I’m proud to have been part of a couple of her trips last year, like...
December 2010
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