This one is for You. This song now spells everything I have for you. I need not say more.I Won't Be the One to Let Go By Barbra Streissand and Barry ManilowBarbra:I have dreams for you and meAnd wishes that will lastAnd live beyond eternityBarry:Summers gone, winters onCan we weather everythingOur eyes have yet to see?Barbra:As the years go byI promise you that i...Both:I will be the one to run toWhen the nights are longI'll be there when winds begin to blowEven when it seemsThat everything is going wrongBarbra: This I swearBarry: I swearBoth:...
Monday, 15 December 2008
Thursday, 27 November 2008
I was using my inked fountain pens to write on my new notebook (to be posted later) when I found out that my Inoxcrom Vivaldi doesn't write properly. I thought the ink in the cartridge has ran out or dried, so I replaced it with a fresh one. But that did not help, as the lines coming from my pen's nib is still broken and wobbly. Hmmm... Time to clean it up, I thought. But my cleaning materials were at home, so I improvised. I took out a WOW Philippines...
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
I found them!!! Yes, I found my missing Pilot FriXion Ball gelpens. Phew! Remember this post last September? These FriXion pens should have been included in the Pilot pens collection photo, but they were missing the time I was shooting and I could not remember where I placed them no matter how hard I tried to recall. Surprisingly, while organizing my toy truck collection the other night, these pens turned up in one of those small plastic bags holding...
Monday, 24 November 2008
From my friends at work: This beautiful bouquet of flowers came with this extra special message:Birthdays are celebrated to give a person time to think about life’s blessings and all the reasons to believe that God has put you there for a special reason. May you enjoy the solitude and peace as well as happiness and joy on your special d...
Sunday, 23 November 2008
So I wasn’t able to NaNo. Again. Sadly. Well, there are excuses, and there are reasons, and I have several of both. But to protect the sanctity of my sanity, I choose not to elaborate on these things. There’s another NaNo next year, and I’d like to look at it as my chance to make-up for all the years I missed NaNoWriMo. But so much for NaNo.A lot of beautiful things happened in November. Tatay’s birthday came around during the first week, and we...
Monday, 17 November 2008
I've been out of touch lately, I know... And I'll start posting again by end of this week, to make up for all the missing posts. But for now I'd like to share something my good friend Consol sent me today.We were talking about the stalkers who are making my life a bit difficult lately, and perhaps in her effort to cheer me up, she told me this: With great power comes great responsibility. With fame comes unwanted attention. Oo nga naman. Although the first line sounds borrowed, the second sounds a lot better. Parang... sikat na ako? Hahaha...
Sunday, 26 October 2008
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
This morning is just so good I feel like singing as my three-year old niece does in her class. Her song goes on like this:Thursday (day of the week), today is ThursdayThursday, Thursday,What a happy day! Who wouldn't feel good on a morning with my comfort food of hot, thick, sweet, milky, and chocolatey champorado for breakfast? And then for our morning snacks, someone brought a box of sweet, melt-in-the-mouth sylvannas. Whoa. I'm one lucky person today. For this morning, at least. *Win...
Sunday, 19 October 2008
Woohoohoo!!! I got new notebooks, and... ta-da! More pens!!!My collecting habit is currently centered on notebooks and pens. (Rest muna sa toy trucks and shotglasses.) Thanks to my friends who love to spoil me rotten with gifts and pasalubong stuff when they travel within or out of the country. And now here are new notebooks and pens on my stash:An 'Eagle' notebook, ring-bound with indexed pages and colored dividers. What makes it a winner is the...
Sunday, 12 October 2008
My new pens are here!!!Here are my new Schneider pens, coming from the Calligraphy set promised by a friend to me as "payment" after I fixed her phone the other week. The set has two fountain/calligraphy pens with 1.1mm and 1.5mm nibs and two ink cartridges. After opening the pack, I tried using the 1.1 nib and below is the product: Khalil Gibran's Joy and and Sorrow from the Prophet. The poem is part of a project I am currently on: handwriting selected...
Monday, 29 September 2008
Yep. My new book is here. It's Khaled Hosseini's second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns. I decided to forego his first bestseller after reading all the good reviews about this one. I may get The Kite Runner later, but for now, I'm just so happy with this. And oh, it's my first book from Fully Booked. NBS loyal ako e. *Wink.*...
Sunday, 28 September 2008
Only recently, Sunday morning has become clean-up time for me. I used to tidy up the house on Saturday or Sunday evenings, but that has changed lately. Though I love cleaning up at night when everything's quiet, Sunday morning has an envigorating charm that's simply perfect for dusting, mopping, and scrubbing. *Wink.* *Grin.*I love waking up early on Sunday mornings while the neighborhood is still, while the aroma of freshly brewed coffee and toast...
Friday, 26 September 2008
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
I was in the City the whole day yesterday for a project meeting with a client at his posh building at Paseo de Magallanes. I got time to spare after the meeting and so I went to Alabang in search of the stuff that make me happy: pens, toys, books. And so here they are, my mid-week loot. Sinful, I know, especially to my shrinking budget and a headache to my savings allotment, but never mind. I haven't rewarded myself like this in a long while... *Grin.*First,...
Sunday, 21 September 2008
Now here's my Monday morning show and tell: my weekend loot. *Grin.*Just because I really, really, really love Haruki Murakami and I was left wanting for more after finishing Norwegian Wood, I rushed to the nearest NBS last Saturday and got myself The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Later in the day, my B sent me this SMS: I got Kafka, which meant she has found me Kafka on the Shore which was unfortunately unavailable at the first NBS we went to.Then a good...
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
So long, Toru... And even if you did not ask me, I will never forget you. Who could?I can never forget you or Naoko, or Midori, or Reiko. I won't. I can’t. For you all taught me so much in death as in life in the two and a half months we spent together.From you Toru, I learned so much about loving, giving, and taking, losing, and loving again. And what else? Hm. A lot. And that includes courage, integrity, responsibility, and hard work. From you, I also learned to deal with pain, and loss, and death.I felt your pain when you knew Naoko was thinking...
Sunday, 14 September 2008
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Here's the most recent addition to my growing toy collection, a Choro-Q firetruck. This one's #18 on the Choro-Q list, and it's my second Choro-Q toy, a very memorable gift from someone very special. Well, I'm glad that I now have all the firetrucks from the Cho-Q lineup. I'm hoping to get the police cars next time...
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Pik-One milk chocolate wafers...... and butterflies!!! Three butterflies on a sunny Thursday morning...I know I said three and only thought of two, so You immediately sent me the two, way long before the deadline I specified. Sometimes You do work in mysterious ways that's unique, overwhelming, and suprising. Gracias, Papa... Pik-One photo courtesy of Christian Bering of http://www.flickr.com/photos/beri...
Sunday, 7 September 2008
This Rotring Core Rubidium with an XL nib is surprisingly my current favorite pen. It uses cartridges instead of converters, and slurps up ink like a thirsty camel. So I stocked up on Inoxcrom cartridges, which surprisingly (and thankfully) fits this baby. This beauty is the fourth on my budding collection of fancy fountain pens, my first German, and my third red.I am surprised that it has become my favorite writer because even if I collect them,...
I really do not know how I got into the hobby of fountain pen collecting. I know I have always preferred gel pens and ballpoints for my everyday writing. Perhaps my interest in getting more of these interesting pens started when my sister-in-law Jelyn gave me a Parker Vector a few years back. It was an interesting gift but not interesting enough that I kept the pen but didn't use it.Months later, I went to attend a writing class and felt the urge...
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Here's the most recent addition to my growing notebook collection: a colorful notebook from Korea. The cover says it's a Study Planner, but actually I don't feel it is. The inside pages are divided into different colors: black, blue, and orange. The plastic cover has a button closure to keep the pages together. It's a fun notebo...
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
It's overwhelming what serendipity can sometimes do to us. Yesterday, while I was waiting for a friend, I went to a record bar to while away the time. As I browsed through records and movies, Michelle Krusiec's face greeted me.I was speechless and motionless as I tentatively picked the DVD, but when I read the title, I almost jumped with joy. I've always wanted to have a copy of this Alice Wu movie for years now. And so I bought the DVD, watched...
Monday, 1 September 2008
Everything in this world is just so tentative, so unsure, so uncertain.Often, what is beautiful gets muddled by what is twisted and cruel. Often, what is good gets askewed by what is unkind and spiteful.Ah, well. Nobody ever said that life is perfect. Or fair. Somehow, somewhere there will always be someone who is better and stronger, who is ready to outshine everyone, and always ready to beat anyone.This is life's absurdity, its inconsistency. But somewhere in its paradox, lies the test, the beauty, that which is good. And so we remain in awe...
Friday, 29 August 2008
I got myself more toys!!! Here are my new Tomica truck carriers: #14, which is a Mitsubishi Super Great Car Carrier, and #47, an Animal Carrier.And now that my interest moves to collecting police cars too, here is my first Tomica police car, a Toyota Probox Voluntary Service Police Car scaled at 1/...
Friday, 22 August 2008
Got myself new toys yesterday. I got two new Tomicas, both Toyota Coasters, #92 and #118. I'm not keeping away from my passionate affair with firetrucks and trucks, I just couldn't resist the coasters when I saw them. Who could? Look at these beauties here: Above is TOMY #92, a Toyota Coaster scaled at 1/89. Below is #118, the Toyota Kindergarten Bus, also scaled at 1/89. I'll get the buses next time around. (Gri...
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Thursday, 14 August 2008
Monday, 11 August 2008
Thursday, 7 August 2008
It's Friday once again.Come to think of it. It's been six Fridays since I wrote Heartbreak. It's not the same since, and it won't be the same again, but life went on. It will go on.Though on some occasions, like this morning when I was rummaging through my closet and saw something that reminded me of her, the pain returns, but only a dull ache now exists in my heart.And because I love her so much, I want to sing this song to her, one that's on the Brokeback Mountain soundtrack: music by Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla, lyrics by Bernie Taupin,...
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
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