February 2012
9 posts
You never wanted to figure me out
“Our two teachers, pain and fear”
– Magnificent Ruin
“Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you’d bring me up in conversation...”
– Sucker, John Mayer
“To a young heart, everything is fun!”
– Charles Dickens
Ooh, electrons disturbing the activity in my brain
January 2012
7 posts
“But I know I’m who I am today because I knew you. Like a comet pulled from...”
– For Good, Wicked
“Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight....”
– Charles Bukowski
December 2011
10 posts
Tama na ang pakikinig ko sa mga kwento mong paulit-ulit, hindi naman sa nagsawa na ako, pero mabuti na rin namang tumigil na ang ganito. Naubusan na lang din siguro tayo ng sasabihin. Naubusan na rin ako marahil ng gana para mamansin. Ito na lang: ayaw na kitang makausap, matignan, malapitan dahil alam kong hindi mo na ako kailangan. Maligayang Pasko. Maligaya ang Pasko. At Bagong Taon na namang...
“Stop spending time with the wrong people. – Life is too short to spend time with...”
– Mr. Miroy
Paano kung hindi pala para sa akin iyon. Paano kung hindi na lang pala nakita. Paano kung hindi na lang pala. Paano kung hindi na lang. Paano kung hindi na. Paano kung hindi. Paano kung. Paano.
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even...”
– Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
November 2011
12 posts
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves...”
– White Noise, Don DeLillo
The One That Got Away (Mark J. Macapagal)
In your life, you’ll make note of a lot of people. Ones with whom you shared something special, ones who will always mean something. There’s the one you first kissed, the one you first loved, the one you lost your virginity to, the one you put on a pedestal, the one you’re with…and the one that got away. Who is the one that got away? I guess it’s that person with who everything was great,...
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever...”
– Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
And I had a feeling that I belonged And I had a...
October 2011
3 posts
“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to...”
– Dead Poets Society
“You have to choose your battles, you have to choose the things that you want to...”
– Fr. Adolfo Dacanay, S.J.
September 2011
12 posts
“Your work is going to fill the large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs
“UTS to Town Hall walkathon with Wade, shopping for five pretty tops and actually...”
– My Facebook status, two years ago (September 8, 2009). I’ve always loved September :)
“This is not to say that I am so much ready more than ever to face life head-on...”
– My brother’s concluding paragraph in his application essay for the Ateneo College Entrance Test :)