Shot this pic on my way home last night. 'Twas a really rainy day. Observe the hazy view of the lighted towers at the central business district. And the guard at the walkway was trying to prevent me from taking the pic (anti-terror stuff. Do I look like I can be a terrorist? Hello? heehee!) until I pointed out how strange the scene looked and he relented. Really glad I have this decent camera with my new cellphone. Easier to carry around and thus take pics at the spur of the moment.
1. inane Sunday noontime variety show/s on TV with people who do nothing but sing, dance, sing and dance some more. -- You derive no value from it and it almost feels like your brain is being fried or turned to mush. There aren't even any games on this show. No challenge at all. Same goes with showbiz talk shows with guests whom you never knew existed before as actors. hehehe. Is there still Philippine cinema at all? I think it's dead. Eat Bulaga is waayyy more entertaining than these, with the wit of Joey de Leon and his gang around.2. small-minded people who like poking into other people's business in the guise of concern but then promptly get eaten up with the green-eyed monster of envy or jealousy should they find that all good things happen to you that they start behaving consistently like crap to you or the unlucky person each time and doing more than one of the following: hide information from you that you were supposed to know, their evident smug satisfaction each time they feel like they gave you the one-up, talk about other people's secrets to you even if those secrets belong to their close friend, and tell you to keep them secret as well (geez), manipulate communication or conversation such that other people or you get the burden of responsibility for blame, and not them, when in fact it was their idea, etc. And the whole time you weren't even aware that that's how they're actual characters are while you were just being yourself, minding your own business. Believe me, I've met one or two embodiments of this sort of person and it's not a pleasant experience undergoing this dawning realization that that's what they turn out to be. No wonder they end up flocking together. haha! Someone you thought was a friend is actually the devil in disguise. hehehe! A tip on weeding out such a person, they're the ones who like complaining, or showing concern and invading others' privacy or make remarks that don't exactly sound like complaints but are dropped to bait others into getting the ball rolling about such complaints and them ending up not carrying the burden of responsibility for the remark made. They like covering their _ _ _es and let others unfairly take the downfall. Actually, they're like cowards. And I think they really have some serious insecurities going on inside themselves for them to do such things just so they can feel better about themselves. I pity them. These people, I certainly never met from school or university. And I feel sorry for people who get fooled by such persons and think they are good friends with them. All I can say is, watch out. Tener amigos como estos, quien necesita a enemigos, no?3. Philippine journalism that appear to pander too much to has-beens who still believe that they have things to say that are of national importance. Puh-lease. I find the daily news full of the same petty political stuff with the same characters it puts me in a bad mood. It's the same old story all the time. Nothing's changed. These news shows have no other subject to talk about to get the ratings and advertising revenues they want so they quote and interview some politicians and ex-politicians who are so full of themselves. That's why nothing happens with this country.
Whitey in color.
So now I can remove "get a dog" from my to-do list. hehe!
Got a dog last weekend. One of many dogs of my uncle. It's a pomeranian. Or a mix with another breed. Am not sure. Anyhow, it's a year old and very sweet. Guess what her name is? Whitey. Yup. That's what my uncle, the previous owner, named her. Hehe! Used my mobile phone's camera for the pics. Taken this morning before I left for work.
"Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg." -- from the book The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard "W e travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. "-- from Why We Travel by Pico Iyer
1. not you certainly, hehe.
2. street food such as squidballs, fishballs, "maasim na mangga" with "bagoong", banana-q. Waaah!!!
3. the walk home after work
4. Edsa Shangri-La Mall and Alabang Town Center
5. the beach
6. accessibility in going to see movies7. Manila and Makati
8. Bohol, 'nough said.
9. film and concert DVDs/VCDs so cheap they're practically free...
10. the following shows in their original English format: 24, The Apprentice, The Amazing Race, Desperate Housewives, LOST, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Nip/Tuck
I like this U2 track Walk On, somehow conveys in another way my current life track:
And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage that you can bring
Love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind...
And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong
Oh, oh Walk on, walk on
What you got, they can't steal it
No, they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight
You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed, to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly, for freedom
Oh, oh Walk on, walk on
What you got, they can't deny it
Can't sell it, or buy it
Walk on, walk on
You stay safe tonight
And I know it aches
And your heart, it breaks
You can only take so much
Walk on...
Walk on...
Home...
Hard to know what it is, if you never had one
Home...
I can't say where it is, but I know I'm going
Home...
That's where the hurt is...
And I know it aches
And your heart, it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on...
(Hooo)
Leave it behind
You got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you feel
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason, (it's only time)
(Love is a feeling on my mind)
All that you sense
All that you scheme
All you dress-up
All that you've seen
All you create
All that you wreck
All that you hate
