It’s time to update, yes.The past month was another trying time for me. While it was a highly anticipated month for various reasons, such as NaNoWriMo, and several birthdays (Tatay on the 4th, me - 23; Theresa – 26; and finally, Lilia on the 30th), something else happened (again). *Sigh.*The birthdays went fine, except mine. But that’s okay. What’s breaking my heart now is missing NaNoWriMo (again) this year. I had a great start, with 17k words already on the 5th, making me swell with pride and confidence that this year could be my NaNoWriMo year....
Monday, 3 December 2007
Monday, 26 November 2007
It’s been a while since my last post. A lot has happened, my novel is still not finished, I am in need of MRI and MRA scans, and I’m having trouble with my headache attacks.But… last night I dreamt of a two-car garage with a firetruck-red Miata inside. Whoa. But what I saw in my dream is kinda unsettling for an OC like me. Ehehe. There are stuff strewn everywhere, the tools are simply placed in one heap on top of a battered table, and the garage floor’s coating is cracked and is full of oils stains. Well, I searched the Net and found this cool...
Sunday, 4 November 2007
I finally got past the 15,000-word mark last night. It's a word count that I set for myself to write during the whole 4-day weekend Halloween holiday here in the Philippines. Lucky Me?In between commuting from my apartment and my parents' house, (can't stay there, it's already a madhouse with three kids--sometimes five--and I couldn't write in such a noisy place) I did some writing--a lot of writing. Hear me out, I'm not bragging about it, I only needed to write more while I could because this week and all the coming ones this month are overflowing....
Saturday, 3 November 2007
I'm trying to write a novel this month, and so my erratic blog-posting habit will be more, uh, erratic. I'm writing a novel similar to the theme I used last year, I only modified some characters, scenes, situations, etc. It's an erotic fiction (*blushes*) and I am truly itching to finish it this year. (Never mind if I have a 15-chapter book to help supervise production, and a new GS brief coming u...
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
All this rain is driving me nuts. It's been raining since Saturday! It's Thursday already and it's still raining. Good God. My feet are tired and aching from wearing a leather almost-waterproof shoes. Makes me miss the dry, sunny days when I can wear those super-comfy Converse Chuck Taylors...My red Chucks, taken on a Monday morning sometime last mon...
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
The two important notebooks in my life right now:my blue Journal and my 2007 Starbucks diary planner.Can't live without them, really. Just as I got busy with personal and family stuff over the weekend, I was unable to write anything in my Journal at all. I felt so guilty and irresponsible, that when I saw it in my bag last night I wanted to hug it. (sigh) But well, all that guilt went away after I wrote five pages of Journal entry to recap everything...
Monday, 15 October 2007
It’s that time of the year again.It’s the time of the year again when thousands of writers around the world write novels like crazy for 30 days, max. It’s time of the year when thousands of them lose sleep, numb their fingers typing their novels, and get overdosed on caffeine. It's the time of the year when writers around the globe go through the same pain and joy producing a novel. It's a temporary respite from most social activities as more time...
Thursday, 11 October 2007
The Archer’s Chronicles is 1 month old today. Hmmm... That translates to 60 pages of more than 17,000 words written in the last 31 days. Whoa.It also means that I have successfully chronicled the last 31 days of my life.Indeed, this is the most serious Journal I’ve had in my entire life. I always say serious because I have kept it updated on a daily basis. I treat it with respect. And foremost, I have kept it decent. Anyone can peer into my Journal...
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
UPDATE: The design on the back cover (and also printed on all the inside pages) that looks like a totem (to me, at least) is a tumi. According to Wikipedia, a tumi is "a sacrificial ceremonial knife distinctly characterised by a semi-circular blade, made of either bronze, copper, gold-alloy, or silver alloy used by Inca and pre-Inca cultures in the Peruvian Coastal Region." For more details, read the article here.My boss went to Lima, Peru last week...
Monday, 8 October 2007
Whoa. These two shotglasses were presented to me as gifts by someone I do not know. The shotties came wrapped in layers of old newspapers with a note: "I just cleaned out my cupboards and saw these. Thought they may be good to add into your collection."Well, they may be vintage shotglasses, considering the design. But I'm no expert here. I will have to consult other glass experts later. After careful inspection, I saw water stains inside the glasses,...
Friday, 5 October 2007
In my trips to Manila, I always visit a National Bookstore branch. To me, a trip is incomplete without visiting any NBS shop. Or any bookstore for that matter. It’s the time I browse for books, buy a notebook or two, and splurge on pens. And so last Thursday, after my “collecting” trip to the Summit Media offices at Robinson’s Galleria in Ortigas, it’s NBS time!First stop: Notebooks!!! …and papers. I so wanted to buy a Mead notebook. They are so...
Shotglass No. 50Shotglass number 50 is the shotglass that almost didn’t make it to my collection. Its seller didn’t reply to my email even after the bidding was finished, and I had to wait for several days to pay for it. Luckily though, they shipped it on time. But shotglass number 50’s odyssey did not end there. The courier service delivered it to the wrong addressee who surprisingly received the package even though it is clearly not his. (The package...
Wednesday, 3 October 2007
It felt like Christmas morning yesterday afternoon when the Aboitiz guy knocked on my office door. He's like Santa to me as he has something I had been praying so hard to have: my own Moleskine notebook. And yes, oh yes, I am now a certified Moleskine owner. I remember a song that my aunts and uncles sang to me when I was a kid. It's an American folk song, but to me it is an unforgettable lullaby. Suprisingly, when my Moleskine arrived yesterday,...
Sunday, 30 September 2007
I've always tried to keep an updated Journal since I was a small kid. Sometimes I'll fill a notebook, but mostly, the pages are left empty after the first few get doodles of ink. Lately, after I moved back to the pen and paper scheme, I entertained the idea of keeping a journal/diary. And I took it seriously. Today, 19 days after I started writing, The Archer's Chronicles is 20 pages rich of scribbles, doodles, drawings, and stickers. For the last...
Saturday, 29 September 2007
Here is the 49th addition to my shotglass collection. It's a University of Michigan souvenir shotglass manufactured by Libbey, shown by the embossed L script found on the outer bottom of the glass. It is my collection's 49th shotglass, first university souvenir, second Libbey glass (the first is the St. Louis Cardinals shotglass), and seventh to come all the way from the US of A.Another one is coming up early this we...
Thursday, 27 September 2007
In the chaos of my Friday life... In the confusion of a hectic calendar... A kind soul uttered words that made my head spin and my heart skip a beat. Not in a romantic way, though.This is what Sir Armard B. Frasco* said about this blog:Kudos on your wonderful blog - a real paper/pen connoisseur's voyeuristic find.Maraming salamat po, Sir Armand!* Mr. Frasco is the Founder of Notebookism, a website showcasing notebook and notebook-related stori...
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Monday, 24 September 2007
This is my 48th shotglass and it's cool that it's from a local alcohol advertising campaign. I consider it a treasure because it's a gift from someone I least expected to be giving me a gift after all we've been through. My shotglass collection has surprisingly grown in the past several months, and I have created a gallery at Photobucket.com to make public viewing a bit easier. It also makes it possible for me to view them from time to time, rather...
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
This is it. The promised post for what I called 'massive weekend looting' in my two earlier entries. I call it that because I bought so much pens I'm wondering now how I'm going to use them. Besides, I have never in my life bought as many pens as the ones I bought last weekend. Add to that the Stradmore notepad and small reporter notebook I bought, plus the green shotglasses from Korea, and all the stuff EJ brought me from the US, Canada and China....
Monday, 17 September 2007
Wednesday, 12 September 2007
People are probably confused why they now see me use an old Nokia 1100 and an even older Nokia 3100. I’m tempted to ask, what’s wrong with these phones, anyway? Friends are surprised to see me enjoy these two phones nowadays because they used to see me with high-tech phones and gadgets.Barely a year ago, I carry in my backpack a small purse that contains, more or less, the following: a Nokia N70 (a craze at that time), a Sony Ericsson K608i, an HP1940...
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
In August, Lifehacker.com asked its readers to send in photos of their 'Go Bags'. A photo submitted must show all the contents of a 'Go Bag', and a full text description. Lifehacker was so swamped with submissions that they had to do Parts 2 and 3.When I submitted my entry, they were well into the 2nd part. But Part 3 came and my bag still wasn't selected. Oh, well. So here it is. My own 'Go Bag'. (Note: below the photo is a full description of my...
Thursday, 16 August 2007
Now that I am slowly getting back into the regular grind of things, let me post my ‘new’ wish list.1. Notebook.I want a Moleskine 2008 Diary!!! Woohoo!!! May be a good change from using Starbucks Diaries for three years now. Moleskine is a bit expensive, though. Hmmm…2. Bag.A new Timbuk2™ “Track Day Pack” backpack. It is waterproof, has a rubberized bottom, and it’s blue!!! It also has a headphone port. Wow. Not that I am in a hurry to dump my old,...
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Most of us go through significant experiences in our lives. Some are hilarious and even comical, leaving us breathless with laughter. Some are bold, daring, and risky, while others are awfully dreadful. And while others are trivial, some experiences, however, are just so difficult that we are left panting and heaving in their intensity. In time, through our experiences, we find ourselves changed, if not tainted.The two months of summer had been surprisingly easy for me. Though I was mostly miserable because of Lilia’s departure, so much was happening...
Sunday, 5 August 2007
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Thursday, 7 June 2007
I have finally got my apartment windows new sheets of curtain. Thanks to my mother for going with me to Panching's in San Pablo to buy the cloth and for asking her friend to sew it for me.I never knew it was that easy to have curtain sheets sewn. I was even surprised to know that choosing the cloth for your own curtains is actually fun! Although the argument about the blue top accent was not fun at all. My mother wanted me to choose a 'happier' color...
"Bigti" Songs? Hahaha!!! You had me laughing so hard I almost feel off my chair while figuring out why a lot of people from South Africa share just one email address.Thanks to my friend Inez, and her blog entry called "Bigti Songs" which she dedicated to me.Hay, Nez. I really miss the old days when you and Biboy were still here.When we'd hang out in his apartment and watch the evening news.When the three of us would go to JJ and just drink all the alcohol we wanted.When we'd laugh so hard at private jokes and read all those gay Star Wars script...
Monday, 4 June 2007
"C" is for Carolina. And it will be the name carrier for a product line I have been conceptualizing for a long time now. For starters, I'll do personalized, one-of-a-kind, hand-painted tee-shirts. Hah. A friend suggested I try doing bags and pouches. Will do. Ehehe. And just now, as I was tidying up my bag, I saw my plain blue folded umbrella. Hmmm...I will create a new blog/site for the products and announce it here. Watch out for the shirts!...
Sunday, 3 June 2007
SATURDAYBreakfast: A mug of cold Milo and Skyflakes.Lunch: Lucky Me Instant Noodles (Bulalo flavor)Dinner: 2 slices of Buko Pie from El-Mare(No snacks. Yup. No snacks for me.)SUNDAYBreakfast: a slice of cold Buko PieLunch: 2 slices of cold Buko Pie and a bag of garlic and onion flavored Brean PanDinner: Steamed Jasmine Rice and Tuyo flakes dipped in a mix of vinegar, sweet onions and lots and lots of siling labuyo!!!And it all started with Friday night's dinner of Purefood's canned sisig...
Saturday, 2 June 2007
It is quite obvious that the last two months of my life is far from blissful. I really do not know for sure how I get by. People may shun me for being too emotional, and some even think that I am just over-reacting. Hell, no. I guess no human being would want to go through the pain I go through, and it is my deepest prayer that everyone is spared from this emotional torture.This dilemma has led me to consider an idea that has long been haunting me. Well, let us also include the fact that watching more “L Word” episodes lately has also influenced...
Wednesday, 30 May 2007
Over lunch yesterday, my colleagues and I shared funny anecdotes about housekeeping. I was actually surprised that they found my housekeeping habits a little ‘radical’. Ehehe.After moving into my own apartment two months ago, I came up with two housekeeping schemes. (Schemes?!? Wahahaha!!!) One that I do during the week, an “on-the-surface” thing which I do two or three times between Monday morning and Saturday evening. The other is an intense, almost ceremonial “dirt-digging” routine done once a week, usually on Sundays. Well, to understand my...
Friends who read my earlier post either emailed or sent me messages via SMS asking about it.My apologies, pipol, but I really have to keep it a secret.Let me just say that I have learned to stay away from people who keep on pulling me down.Let me just say that I have let go of those who eternally question me and my causes, my principles and ideals in life.Let me just say that I have learned to push away those people who were trying to step hard on my foot.Let me just say that I have learned to get angry at those who belittle my wisdom and insult...
Tuesday, 29 May 2007
Yep. Yup. Right. I'm feeling sooo damn good about myself now. And believe me, nothing feels better than being able to stand firm on my resolve not to give in. I did not give in this time. And if I do not write about it, I have a very valid reason why I am keeping it to myself. But yes, I am feeling good about myse...
Monday, 21 May 2007
Due to the hilarity of a recent experience, I have to write parts of this entry in Filipino to be able to relate it in its original funny, amusing, and somewhat uproarious state. Have a hoot!It’s a sad fact that tap water in my apartment is down to nil at times, especially in the morning. So last Saturday, while suffering from painful menstrual cramps, I decided to stay indoors and just laze and bum around. I did a few housekeeping in between dozes, though. But when precious H-2-O came around by lunchtime, I decided to call a friend and invite...
Friday, 27 April 2007
And now I understand. And I want you to know, I understand.Two nights ago, I felt tempted to write an entry called Red after talking to Lilia for half an hour. I wanted to write about my anger and my pain because as always, our conversation was far from saccharine. I was so angry, and I wanted the whole world to know how angry I was. And so the familiar feelings from too long ago came haunting me again. I felt hurt, betrayed and violated beyond words.Then again, in the middle of my throbbing anger, I realized I was being selfish. I realized I was...
Tuesday, 24 April 2007
In late March, I purchased my first home appliance. It's a silver Sanyo Star Emerald refrigerator. Great. Not that I don’t have anything else in the apartment, but the other appliances I have are previous purchases while I was living elsewhere. Now that I have my own place, I am slowly starting to buy stuff to make my apartment a home sweet home. Need new curtains, though. Also need a sofa, or a simple, un-upholstered, plain, solid plank of wood as a bench. I also need a decent dining table and a divider for the other room in my apartment which...
I neglected writing again. And I deliberately did it this time around. For several reasons, though. And these reasons I promise to write about in my succeeding entries with color-full titles.While browsing through old magazines in my files recently, I came across an article about a person who likes to color code everything in her life—from her files to her shoes to her bathroom—Red, White and Blue. And that article inspired the theme for my new series of entries to follow this short int...
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
(This entry is a repost from my Friendster Blog. Just edited and updated it a bit.)... how do you say you're giving up the fight?... how do you accept that the fight is over?... how do you face defeat?Yes, I gave up the fight. I just gave it up. But no, i am not going to admit defeat. I gave up the fight because it was not a good fight. I gave up the fight because it was not meant to be.Yes, I gave up the fight, but I am not a coward. I gave it up not because of fear, or weakness either. I gave up the fight because I chose to give it up. I gave...
Monday, 26 March 2007
1.Lost weight. Lost 4 kgs (or roughly 8.81 lbs), especially during the first two full weeks of the month. Doesn't make me happy, anyhow. If I lost weight either because of dieting or working out, then that's fine. But I lost weight because of sadness. Yep. Sadness has a way of 'eating' me. And why am I sad? Well, oh, well... read entry #7. 2.At 33, my nocturnal asthma has advanced into a strike-anywhere, strike-anytime thing. In other words, it’s a full-blown asthma. Sadness. It used to be occasional attacks, starting with hacking coughs and deep,...
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