Randomness
I’d like to think that the reason I haven’t posted for quite some time is because I want to give Italo Calvino maximum exposure, but truth be told it’s just my usual procrastinating self talking. So now for the anticlimactic update…
Dahil labo-labo na ‘to:
1. Ancient wisdom is rarely wrong. Don’t delay what you can do in a day. Take, for instance, posting an entry in your web blog. I’m living proof that stalling is not healthy at all. But then again, I’m only capable of saying this. A perpetual procrastinator can never change. So much for realizations.
2. Disappointment is one of the worst you could ever feel.
3. I hate getting disappointed by people who made me believe they’re not what they really are.
4. But I hate to disappoint even more. Especially when it’s myself I’m disappointing.
5. It seems the Christmas season has started late this year. I was expecting bright lights and Christmas carols immediately after the Halloween season, which was not this year’s case.
6. I finally realized it is Christmas while walking in Glorietta a few days ago. Why? Santa Claus was chasing after this giggly woman while belting out his “ho, ho, ho’s.” (That and the 2 hours closing time leeway for shoppers and population explosion at the malls) It was so funny I could not help laughing along with the people concerned—parang intruder of the month tuloy ang dating ko hehe. And another thing that wrings a smile from me is the multiple rendition of what is probably the hardest Christmas carol to sing--that is, if you have speech defect: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. You wouldn't believe the transmutations I've already heard.
7. Still I’m disappointed with this year’s apparent "lack" of Christmas lights. Childish I know, but it really broke my heart because it’s my one source of joy to travel at night and indulge this eye candy. Taghirap na nga talaga.
8. Oh, add confusion to the list of the worst you could ever feel.
9. You think the world is small? Think again. It’s exceedingly small, to say the least.
10. To misquote Anne Sexton: It is December. I’m tired of being a lot of things.
11. I really, really hope next year would be a better year for everyone.
12. Sleep is the best friend of someone drunk, but it becomes the enemy when that someone drunk has to go to work.
13. Children have that uncanny ability to stare back at you unflinchingly. Just this morning a little boy looked me in the eye for the longest time and my attempt to stare back did not work. I would avert my gaze every few minutes. I don’t exactly know why this is, but I have a theory.
14. I want to take a vacation. Kahit maikli lang basta quality time. At dahil dyan si Anne Sexton ulit: There is no word for time./ Today we will/ not think to number another summer/ or watch its white bird into the ground... I know,I know--it's impossible to go back. I'd settle for Baguio or Sagada though. Maybe extreme cold would do me good.
15. Life would have been simpler if you hadn't reappeared. And dammit, if you mess up again I’m so walking out of that door.
Then there were pictures!
At work, this is what I get paid for to do:
-=Christmas Duckie pic; with pretty Pepay of Goin' Bulilit; a pouty photo-op with sNEKers sa "tagaytay"=-
At Greenbelt Raddisons with my college barkada:
-=My Army=-
At Rica Bolipata-Santos's Book Launch:
-=Invite; My Dumaguete Hot Mommas (Rica and Chitchat); Rica with the comebacking Nikko Vitug=-
Writers Night at UP
-=Sa Hardin ng mga Diwata; Naya Valdellon, longlost twins Larry Ypil and Ian Casocot, and Moi; with Marie La Viña; The Three Macopas (Kit Kwe, Me and Anna Bernaldo) ; Ian C., Moi, Astrid Tobias, Dennis Aguinaldo)=-
(Photo Acknowledgements: Anna Bernaldo, Ian Casocot, Kit Kwe, Janeca Racho and Ana Zamora)
Dahil labo-labo na ‘to:
1. Ancient wisdom is rarely wrong. Don’t delay what you can do in a day. Take, for instance, posting an entry in your web blog. I’m living proof that stalling is not healthy at all. But then again, I’m only capable of saying this. A perpetual procrastinator can never change. So much for realizations.
2. Disappointment is one of the worst you could ever feel.
3. I hate getting disappointed by people who made me believe they’re not what they really are.
4. But I hate to disappoint even more. Especially when it’s myself I’m disappointing.
5. It seems the Christmas season has started late this year. I was expecting bright lights and Christmas carols immediately after the Halloween season, which was not this year’s case.
6. I finally realized it is Christmas while walking in Glorietta a few days ago. Why? Santa Claus was chasing after this giggly woman while belting out his “ho, ho, ho’s.” (That and the 2 hours closing time leeway for shoppers and population explosion at the malls) It was so funny I could not help laughing along with the people concerned—parang intruder of the month tuloy ang dating ko hehe. And another thing that wrings a smile from me is the multiple rendition of what is probably the hardest Christmas carol to sing--that is, if you have speech defect: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. You wouldn't believe the transmutations I've already heard.
7. Still I’m disappointed with this year’s apparent "lack" of Christmas lights. Childish I know, but it really broke my heart because it’s my one source of joy to travel at night and indulge this eye candy. Taghirap na nga talaga.
8. Oh, add confusion to the list of the worst you could ever feel.
9. You think the world is small? Think again. It’s exceedingly small, to say the least.
10. To misquote Anne Sexton: It is December. I’m tired of being a lot of things.
11. I really, really hope next year would be a better year for everyone.
12. Sleep is the best friend of someone drunk, but it becomes the enemy when that someone drunk has to go to work.
13. Children have that uncanny ability to stare back at you unflinchingly. Just this morning a little boy looked me in the eye for the longest time and my attempt to stare back did not work. I would avert my gaze every few minutes. I don’t exactly know why this is, but I have a theory.
14. I want to take a vacation. Kahit maikli lang basta quality time. At dahil dyan si Anne Sexton ulit: There is no word for time./ Today we will/ not think to number another summer/ or watch its white bird into the ground... I know,I know--it's impossible to go back. I'd settle for Baguio or Sagada though. Maybe extreme cold would do me good.
15. Life would have been simpler if you hadn't reappeared. And dammit, if you mess up again I’m so walking out of that door.
Then there were pictures!
At work, this is what I get paid for to do:
-=Christmas Duckie pic; with pretty Pepay of Goin' Bulilit; a pouty photo-op with sNEKers sa "tagaytay"=-
At Greenbelt Raddisons with my college barkada:
-=My Army=-
At Rica Bolipata-Santos's Book Launch:
-=Invite; My Dumaguete Hot Mommas (Rica and Chitchat); Rica with the comebacking Nikko Vitug=-
Writers Night at UP
-=Sa Hardin ng mga Diwata; Naya Valdellon, longlost twins Larry Ypil and Ian Casocot, and Moi; with Marie La Viña; The Three Macopas (Kit Kwe, Me and Anna Bernaldo) ; Ian C., Moi, Astrid Tobias, Dennis Aguinaldo)=-
(Photo Acknowledgements: Anna Bernaldo, Ian Casocot, Kit Kwe, Janeca Racho and Ana Zamora)
posted by hija_giovanna at 5:48 PM
7 Comments:
haha, wangis! I have a weirdly shaped head. And why are you quoting so much from anne sexton?
that's because you're too thin, kit. i'm telling you: EAT! hehe;-)
hmmm, i'm trying to imbibe the feel of sexton's 18 days without you. baka makagawa rin kasi ako ng lyric sequence hehe;-)
Sa wakas! Nag-update din! Nice pics! I didn't know I could say this, but I miss that slavedriver of company. Or maybe just the people. :)
abbie! oy, good luck pala sa exam ha? big time ka na, siyet. pasalubong ng autographed na the unswept room, dude! hehe:-)
onga. naalala ko kasi yung promise ko sayo na mag-update kaya ayan. kahit pilit ang pagsulat e sige, nag-post pa rin=)
email add mo? madalas ka naman palang online e--judging from the rate of your exchange with nek.
abbieaustriaco@yahoo.com, dude.
i'll try, dude. i spend all my moolah on books. i go crazy everytime i enter stores that i refrain from going near them anymore. :)
"A perpetual procrastinator can never change. So much for realizations." ---disagree.change possible.will jut take a very long time.
there's an operative word, den. it's "perpetual":-)
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