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Ms. Curtis
2. Still in literature, I never appreciated Hemingway until I read A Moveable Feast. That led me to read a bit of F. Scott’s. I couldn’t help but feel Hemingway and F. Scott were sharing something truly gay (this was before I checked online) while Zelda could only go crazy and ballistic. They’re dead so…
3. I don’t claim to know Salinger’s works like the back of my hand. Give me a break. I use the nick to get him out of hiding before he dies.
4. I only started reading The Hardy Boys when I was in high school already. I wanted them to be my best friends. That’s when I knew…chuckle, snort, snort…
5. When I was in first year high school, a senior named Israel took an interest in me. Suddenly everyone thought and was curious if he was my boyfriend. We used to talk on the phone for hours about nothing of importance, and he wanted to be in our field trip bus instead of their class’s but he wasn’t permitted. That gave me a glimpse of what it was like, but we never were. I didn’t even find out what he wanted from me. Then I came out to whoever asked. I came out in other, crazier ways too…
6. Consider performing impromptu a Spice Girls song in front of an audience during a lull at a press conference. It was well received.
7. I was destined to be a geek but don’t know how to do the dirty bits properly: can’t do calculus (probably can, but too lazy to review), can’t program (probably can, I used to when I was elevenish but I never mastered any language and by the time I was in college, I got distracted, bored, lazy).
8. I firmly believe in only a few things: I could be wrong most of the time, nothing is impossible. Let’s hope I’m right this time.
9. I got stuck here.
10. I’ll be 27 in May, despite the lack of evidence and my admission.
11. I’ve been in the labor force since I was 20. That’s when I dropped out of college.
12. Speaking of unfinished business…I still haven’t returned my ex’s books. They’re in the shelf, actually..now if I can only find Calvin and Hobbes.
13. Unfinished business still…when I was a child I wanted to build my own RC fleet: boats, cars and trucks, planes, tanks, blimps. But the neighborhood kids wanted to play Chinese garter.
14. To control what changes you make that get published on Facebook, go to Settings, Privacy, News Feeds and Wall. I was able to change my relationship status without the whole world knowing. The recent one was a mistake. I mean, it was a Facebook bug, I wasn’t really “in a relationship”. So, yes, I am still single.
15. ^KC, ^KV, ^KS, etc. I was amazed with WordStar cir. 1994, hypnotized by the almost infinite blue field, wondered what was on the other side. MS Word came along…
16. My recurring dreams are about earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, alien invasion, and flying (usually to escape the enemy, it’s more efficient and effective than running, dammit the flight control!)
17. Will probably go to hell, by popular standards, if this isn’t it already.
18. Having an unhappy childhood doesn’t make me want to do crazy/cruel things. I just want to punch someone from time to time.
19. I find it hard to explain what I do for a living, so I just say Research and Consulting. If I need to explain further, I say Business Research, Competitive Intelligence. If that confuses them further, I say, companies hire us to research on their competitors, markets, industry. Then they say, ah! like ACNielsen! Or, a call center? But here’s the definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive
20. I will not forget what they did to Alan Turing. And Oscar Wilde, among others.
21. According to last.fm, my most listened to artists are Jason Mraz, Mariah Carey, and Michael Buble (?). Something is wrong.
22. I’m 30% done with the whole Discworld Series.
23. I am grateful to the Ateneo Glee Club for teaching me how to sing bel canto.
24. I look forward to the perfection of cloning, nanotechnology, quantum computing, and the art of intellectual orgy.
25. It took me a day to finish this.
- Music:Cross My Heart - EBTG
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Love
I don't know if it's a good thing to have 2.5 relationships in a year. But it’s filed under positive because learning is always good in my book. Don't ask who 0.5 is.
I have no idea how the 2 exes are doing but I hope Mr. Nice One is in good health. Mr. Nice One pushed me to conquer my fear of being in hospitals. One word: FAIL. Not only do I still fear being in hospitals, I think I fear it more now.
Mr. O (not orgasm), who I always forget I had been involved with, I think is doing pretty well.
To Mr. 0.5, a lot had not been said but I made peace with that. I killed curiosity and put a vague sense of suspended disbelief in its place.
What did I learn from these? You can't change them no matter how much you love them, for one. And I think with changing the other person in mind as an objective in entering a relationship is fundamentally problematic. And when the time comes, and it's your call, you should always hold their hand when you break their heart, as GEN said. This is something I have to keep in mind for posterity's sake.
I always write/post some things that embarrass the hell out of me in retrospect-- poems, blog entries, streams of consciousness, etc. Forgive my predilection for cheese.
My being a selfish person has been confirmed. Mind you, there is nothing wrong with being selfish. Being hypocritical about it is. Selflessness is not the opposite of selfish but I don't know what is. My understanding of how selfishness works makes me more forgiving of others, I think.
Nex suggested last night that we promise each other to work on love this year, for each of us to build a good relationship. Well, I don't know if I really want one and I said I am not ready. I'm not sure what made me say that. Maybe because I can't see what lies ahead and I can't commit to something without the benefit of foresight. I could have just said "yes" but there was a nagging uncertainty in my head. If I will promise anything, it's to make the effort to understand what I really want.
Work
Nothing interesting to note here, apart from broken promises. Oh, sorry! New friends and fun people! You know who you are. We are the best and the brightest, we distort the intelligence density along Shaw. I just wish we do the same for the per capita income.
2009 promises (crossing fingers before they are broken, not the fingers but the promises) to be a prosperous year for us. I'm not at liberty to discuss the details, sadly.
Play
Singapore Marathon! Baguio-Pangasinan year-end vacation! Crystal Beach, Zambales getaway! Zambales company summer outing! Did we go to Galera? How about Sagada?
1521, Cyma, Jake the Steak, UCC, Starbucks (sige na nga), Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (Coffee Bin and Tih Lef), Burger King E. Rod, Palawan (not the province), Max Brenner, Fruit Magic, Lorry's (I always forget the new name), Adarna, Vieux Chalet, to name a few, I LOVE YOU.
I can't recall the countless roadtrips but I'm sure they were all fun.
All things considered, 2008 had been a good year. Could have been better but I can't complain. So..
To fame and fortune,
To music-- both newly discovered and re-appreciated,
To the most reliable playlist generator ever, my head,
To the countless cups of coffee and stories told in whispers or hysterical laughters, which are the only stories of interest, by the way,
To the wounds that never heal,
To all those men who, we are resolved so as to curse, will never find love,
- Mood:
contemplative
from my plurk:
few things i didn't like about twilight: make-up, Rosalie was ugly, i kept thinking cedric diggory, the hatchback volvo, meadow moment,wish there were bigger and more swarovski on edward's skin, jacob was ugly, the hair omg, the clothes, dry humping while kissing (i think), no one noticed the damage caused by edward's hand on the car (in the book it was okay, in the film, there needed to be an excuse), carlisle was the most beautiful, Rosalie needed to smash the poor bottle, the small nonwhite cullen house, edward's smallish room
- Location:apartment
- Mood:
stressed - Music:When She Cries - idk
