Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t I?

… also think you’re cool?*
Recently I’ve found myself fascinated with the anthropology of self-consciousness and conceit. I wonder if it has an evolutionary purpose, like pessimism or the attraction to big bajonggas.
Also, was again Friendster surfing. All these people getting married and having babies. Not necessarily in that order. More since the last time. I [...]

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
From Sylvia Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song”
In a surge of self-gratification, I googled for one of my lesser known user names and discovered that some time in 2002 I [...]

Everyone in Copenhagen is so well-dressed it’s driving me nuts. I find myself wondering where they buy their damn clothes, and also how they can afford to look so well-put together considering clothes and shoes cost an arm and a leg practically. You know Mango, that Spanish retailer whose sales in Manila all the colegialas, [...]

Thank God for cheap wine and Blockbuster.
Eric said it was boring, but I just realized. I do love me some musicals and the residual American Idol finalist.
All the hours spent training with The Sound of Music certainly proved to be not for naught. My attention span for musicals was greatly developed.

Where did it begin? The admission to myself that I tend to think of myself as a character and the narrator in some story. Then the realization that that’s superbly egoistic. Then the justification (or maybe lame disclaimer) that I guess that’s how all writers feel like. And there’s the catch, me writer? *Snort*
And then, [...]

No shit, this is the weirdest fucking dream I’ve ever had.
In this dream, which I swear to God I had, I am Tom Cruise’s second wife. Kate(ie) Holmes is of course numero uno muchacha. I’m miserable and depressed; must be how some girls are shipped off to arranged marriages or mail order husbands. I decide [...]

So eto yung trailer nung Pisay movie. Nakakatawang may Ma’am O’Dell person. Meron din kayang scenes na lampungan sa creek? Sabi ko kay JJ, feeling ko mga taga-Pisay lang yung makaka-gets nung sine. Not in a mean way, pero parang masyado atang specialized pop culture yung topic. Pero passion project kung passion project. I don’t [...]

Just watched The Beach, if you can believe that. Everyone’s been shilling the book or the movie to me for the past n years, but I finally mustered enough attention span tonight to sit through it. I couldn’t get past the first two chapters even though Aya made me read it; I breezed through The [...]