February 2012
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Quicks, Twelfth (Favorite Words Edition)
Universe. n. 1. All matter and energy, including the earth, the galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space, regarded as a whole. 3. The sphere or realm in which something exists or takes place.
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Pace. n. The rate of speed at which an activity or movement proceeds.
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Wonderful. adj. 1. Capable of eliciting wonder; astonishing 2. Admirable; excellent.
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Passion. n. 3....
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Gunpowder
As a note to self:
You know how the smell of frying garlic triggers grumbling in your stomach, or how listening to “Mi Mancherai” by Josh Groban triggers memories from when you were a freshman in college, or how those stupid cats doing their kitty walk trigger Lotty, Booger and Hunny to bark like they smell cheese in your hands?
Today, you’ve found that those cause-effect...
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What kind of bird am I? →
For when “overthinking” means thoughts spilling through my facial orifices all over my keyboard — Twitter!
January 2012
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Quicks, Eleventh
Keeping private doesn’t mean keeping secret. There will always be something about you the world won’t know about. That doesn’t make it a “secret.” It’s really just none of their goddamn business.
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Success is overrated, don’t you think? I find that most people strive for success, sadly in pursuit of opportunity to make it a status, to project it. And...
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Quicks, Tenth
I woke up yesterday. It was 2012. There’s supposed to be some significance in that. I can’t find it. — Oh, look! Here’s a glass, it’s half empty!
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When I ask for advice, I’ve noticed, I don’t really look for the most logical, sensible answers. I only really wait for a good nudge, an uttered suggestion that reinforces my already-there inclinations....
December 2011
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trixaaay asked: Hi Kuya!! :)
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Quicks, Ninth
I wish sunsets would last longer here in the Philippines. Or maybe even just having sunlight around. By six in the evening, it’s already sundown. In, say, Europe, it’s already half past seven and the sun’s barely begun to set. In my ideal world, my ability to teleport affords me to globe-trot minute by minute so I only ever see the world drenched in light.
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I’ve...
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November 2011
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And also this. “Together We Will Live Forever” by Clint Mansell. The film this piece was composed for, “The Fountain,” probably ranks in my Top 10 favorite movies of all time — and the music in it was a huge part of the reason why.
Because, hey, here’s the kind of music that compels you to take a seat, get into the most comfortable, un-conscious sitting...
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“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular...”
– Carl Sagan
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Quicks, Eighth
It’s an ironic thing — that as a fan of democracy, a supporter of choice, an advocate of freedom — I am beginning to hate being given options. It’s become a burden, a source of stress. I’m indecisive, that’s what I am. In some ways unprincipled, in that choices should be based on values, and that I’m having a hard time making them. This is frustration....
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October 2011
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Quicks, Seventh
You know how Tito Boy goes in his interviews? You’re the interviewee. You’re told there’s an imaginary mirror in front of you — your reflection. You have a chance to say anything to that person staring back at you, any advice, any add-insult-to-injury utterance of a life realization.
Alternatively, you’re asked to look at the camera, into its lenses. “Nanonood...
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July 29, 1946
Dear Salome,
Strangely, it seems that fate has, more than once, been too unkind to me. When I thought I could grasp the opportunity to say, personally, a few words to you, it had slipped off, leaving me desolate, forlorn.
Now, again as before, I have to content myself with a silent message, though I have known its pliancy, since this is the only way I could impart my feelings.
I love...
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September 2011
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"What we have in life is based upon moment to...
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Why aren't there more celebrities like Anne...
Today someone had asked me come up with a quick write-up on who I think is the most influential local celebrity right now. Here was my answer:
Has there been any other celebrity who can make a brand so high-fashion, so loudly Paris-chic it alienates the masa, do exactly the opposite — capture an audience not once in the brand’s existence has been its target? Any other celebrity...
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Pouring my thoughts out in 5 minutes
I’ve just recently subscribed to a site called Daily Challenge; it gives you just that — a daily challenge that will contribute to your well-being. And this is my first challenge. To write non-stop, for five minutes, all my thoughts on what is currently stressing me out, let it all out.
Right now, what’s troubling me is my lack of motivation to get out and find a job. It’s...
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This hung-up feeling you're on about right now is...
Seriously, you’ll regret pressing that button. So, no. We good?
August 2011
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If I were a reality TV contestant
I’d be boring.
See, I have a pretty normal life. There’d be no sob story to tell, no baggage to carry around to “fuel” my performance, no issues to impair my social skills.
Growing up, we weren’t poor, but we weren’t rich either. We didn’t live under a bridge, or pooped on flowing water like river Pasig. But I wasn’t sent to another country to...
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“Nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
– Milan Kundera, Ignorance
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Quicks, Sixth
I love how whenever Ma gets better, she wastes no time to head to the salon to get a make-over and to the nearest tiangge to find good bargains. Last night, she went home with my sister sporting a bob haircut — dyed red! — with the lingerie-inspired nighties to match. She had already tried them on to show us when I went downstairs to greet her home. “Matutuwa si Papa nito,”...
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My ideal family
I was going through our old family photo albums (the ones where you actually lift hard paper and turn it so you can see the next page) last night — a favorite pastime of mine — and I came by this compilation of photos of me growing up with anecdotes and captions and comments and shiz for a school project. This is something I wrote when I was 13 for that school project, detailing what...
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demidaylim asked: Will you ever write a book? Say yes. :)
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