jari m

Tag: productivity

  • Life Update #2014x

    I’ve been living the past few days in a haze of hesitant lethargy. I don’t actually go to sleep every night planning to sleep over fifteen hours the next day, but that’s what happens. Curse the invention of naps.

  • Hey, it’s Southeast Asia!

    Or, A Case for Southeast Asian Travel. Like many middle-class Filipino teenagers infected with this dangerous thing called wanderlust, I was enamored with a vision of backpacking through Europe, riding transnational train systems, eating foreign delicacies (such as, ahem, Italian pasta and French escargot). I’ve whipped up a dream or two of finding love under Tour…

  • Holiday Hairstyle

    Last Saturday I lost twelve inches of hair and a couple of pounds to go with it. All in the spirit of Christmas.

  • A study break featuring 1D

    Involves me reading up on this promising review on One Direction’s latest album, and just. It’s 3AM and I’m so proud of them. This: We’ve come to expect a few years of bombast from groups like this, then a soft slope down toward a break-up, followed by D-list name recognition punctuated with the occasional guest…

  • on the rewards of slothism

    I have lived by several mottos through my (19-years-one-week-and-ongoing) life. One is Time enjoyed is time not wasted; another is No regrets, and also maybe You only live once, when I’m feeling especially ultra-dated-mainstream. In effect, my philosophy in life is always to do things that I enjoy for myself (because, perhaps, my life motto…

  • the ephemeral life

    It was a quick affair. My darling mother asked, “what do you want?”. I said a bento box, please, ebi tempura. And in a blink of an eye all I had left was this: This says a lot more about my life than I would like. Fast, furious and quiet; burning moments that fly too…

  • z

    Today I have reached my tolerance for work; yesterday I was beyond exhaustion. Tomorrow I will sleep before the dawn, and on the next I will carry the earth. Sooner or later I will run out of the words to say: I am tired.

  • Books: Delta of Venus

    At least three people over the weekend have asked me: “What are you reading?” Without a wince, unapologetically and unashamedly I replied: “Porn.” Or perhaps more accurately I should have said erotica. Because that was what it was. Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus was a journey into the hot and bothered, into the sexual deviances and discoveries of…

  • …

    Also technically an unscheduled holiday because #MarioPH came and ruined all of my plans. I have done nothing the whole day but sleep and maybe study. A little bit.