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Category: Life

  • Video: Tatia Pllieva’s FIRST KISS

    Some things are meant to be shared with the world. The atmosphere of the short video is soft and sweet and really beautiful. It also probably hit all my kinks and most of my notions about humanity. And then there’s lovely, lovely music by Soko (“We Might be Dead Tomorrow”). Go on. Watch it. …apparently…

  • Books (on the horizon)

    I spent over an hour in National Bookstore, longingly fondling books and notebooks and organizers. And by horizon, I mean the very distant future where I have both time and money.  

  • / time and humanity

    Jeanne Calment lived to be 122. She saw the turn of a century, lived through two world wars, witnessed the changing of republics, the invention of the computer and the shift from silent to animated to blockbuster films. She met Vincent Van Gogh and breathed from the same world as me as I was born…

  • Foreigner: Pinoy Inability to Improve is due to Escapism

    via Foreigner: Pinoy Inability to Improve is due to Escapism. Comments: It is valid to say that we are escapists, preferring to tolerate certain injustices to a certain point. The failure to act is either a product of failure to reach critical mass (that is, the needed number of people who are still willing to…

  • IWD + A Bone to Pick with Anti-Feminists

    Women are awesome. I can’t really write a lot about IWD, since I failed to celebrate it this year (or every year since I learned about it, actually), but there is something I can say for or about women, and it began with these posts:

  • An open letter to the universe (aka UP Manila Administration)

    An open letter to the universe: Still in light of the GAB Caf issue

  • Word Vomit: GAB Caf

    Rant about school, administration and state universities with their cool logic. …No judgment, this is a word vomit of feelings.

  • Pen and Pencils: New art style?

    I started a #TenMinuteStudyBreak from Physics 51 and ended up with this in my reviewer and a total loss of one hour. Sigh. Note to self: when you listen to a motivating playlist, productivity will happen. But not necessarily the studying kind.

  • Retro Diary: Europe 2010

    Retro Diary: Europe 2010

    A few memorable notes on our 2010 Europe tour.