Stop and Stare

It's time to make our move, I'm shakin' off the rust...

Time to wake up and decide if it's fight or flight.

I think I'm moving but I go nowhere...

I don't think all my efforts were lost or didn't amount to something. The truth is it's kind of tiring and I'm not certain if I want to do this for the rest of my life. That's the first big step, that admission. Though I'm still stuck because I can't figure out what to do next. What do I really want then?

You start to wonder why you're here not there...

Exactly! But then again, where should I be going?

2013 Year-end Survey

    1) DRINKING BUDDY OF THE YEAR

    Jonnalee! Coffee buddy every morning! Di naman specified kung anong klaseng drink anyways. (I'm getting old!)

2) LIFETIME SERVICE AWARD (longest friend/s)

Same answer as last year! (Hi Zan, Ivan, Nik, Yshio, Kim, Cris, Gandara, and Melai!)

3) NEWCOMER AWARD - COOLEST NEW FRIEND/s?

Patrick, Reyza, and Sarey. #NoRegret

Shobe (Belle) and Alch!! :)

3) HIGH POINT OF THE YEAR?

June-July, around that time I started swimming :)

4)LOW POINT OF THE YEAR?

Two: When Midnight passed and some time last December when something "life-changing" happened to me (but, thankfully, those days passed quickly, na-depress lang ako ng total of three days haha). 

5) BEST HOLIDAY?

Malaysiaaaa truly Asiaaaa! (Holiday nga ba 'to?)

6) YOUR SONG FOR 2013?

Be Still, The Killers (Battle Born)

7) MOVIE FOR 2013?

She's the One! HAHAHAHAHA.

10) WHO DID YOU SPEND VALENTINE'S WITH AND WHERE?

Che, Volt, and Shara! Ate at Recovery Food for the first time then went to S&R to do some grocery shopping. AND recorded our version of  Nora Aunor songs that we used as ring tones in the next couple of months. :P

12) WHAT WERE YOU FOR HALLOWEEN?

Waley! May seminar kami nun.

13) RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR?

FRENCH BAKER

14) KISS OF THE YEAR?

Hershey's Kisses

15) BEST DECISION MADE THIS YEAR?

Move over. (Oo, over hindi on).

16) WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR 2014?

Change careers! (Charot lang, pero sabi nila jokes are half-meant hihihi) Yung totoo? Magka-boyfriend. Joke. Yung pinaka-totoo: Bumili ng lote or ng condo.

17) MOST STUPID IDEA WHEN DRUNK?

Ohmayghaaaaaaaad I haven't been senselessly drunk last year.

18) TV SHOW/s OF THE YEAR?

Innocent Man hehehe. Kang Ma Roooooo!!!!

19) MOST LOYAL FRIEND(s)?

ARISTIDES BEJOSANO I love youuu! I'm also grateful to Shara and Jonna for keeping me sane throughout all the ups and downs of the past year. And of course, special shoutout to Zan for being the big sister I never had (Parang antanda mo Zan no!).

20) BIGGEST CHANGE OF THE YEAR?

Chopped my hair off.

21) NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION?

Don't be afraid of going to the doctor/dentist. I-schedule na yang executive check-ups at dental check-ups na yan!

10 Book Recommendations

(In no particular order)...
1. Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
2. Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
3. The Sense of An Ending, Julian Barnes
4. Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
5. On Writing, Stephen King
6. The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
7. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
8. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
9. The Hours, Michael Cunningham
10. The Long Walk, Stephen King

{Day}dream

Your shirt smells like safety

Warm, sweet, sunlight trapped between the threads

A piece of summer in winter, autumn leaves with the scent of spring

I breathe in deep -at first a shy sniff

But then you lay my head on your chest

And I breathed you in, my heart racing yet content

But then I woke up

Yet the mirage of you still lingers...

This Week in Music: Sara Bareilles and The Blessed Unrest

Sara, Sara, Sara. You did it again. Another album worth listening to from the first track up to the last. The best songs speak the truth, like any form of writing or art, and Sara, you are a master storyteller. I can feel your truth in every song. Enough said ( and just listen to the album).

Personal favorites: Island, Manhattan, Chasing the Sun, December, Beautiful Girl, and I Wanna Be Like Me

What Color Matches Up with your Personality?

Mine's Yellow.

The sunniest color in the spectrum, which has long been associated with good cheer and happiness. Those who love yellow are often creative, artistic, social people who have dramatic imaginations and a love to create! You are a positive thinker and loved by many people!
28.8% of people that have taken this quiz have achieved this result.

Take the test here.

Love in the Time of LOTR

Eowyn and Faramir. Image from here.

"Do not scorn pity that is a gift of a gentle heart, Eowyn! But I do not offer you my pity. For you are a lady high and valiant and have yourself won renown that shall not be forgotten; and you are a lady beautiful, I deem, beyond even the words of the Elven-tongue to tell. And I love you. Once I pitied your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, were you the blissful Queen of Gondor, still I would love you. Eowyn, do you not love me?"

(The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, JRR Tolkien)