My Tribute to Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki makes literature out of films. I tried to make it as caricature-like as possible. Of course it doesn’t come close to Miyazaki, but I think it turned out pretty okay! Anyone else...

13 Books and Stories That Changed My Life

1.) Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe For people new and old to Faustus, you have to WATCH THIS. It’s only 30 seconds but it’s the most EPIC trailer for an EPIC stage adaptation of Doctor...

I Don’t Know What Love Is But It Must Be Something Like This

Start complaining about your weight and not wanting to eat out anymore, and then hear the words “Why don’t we go grocery shopping and cook the food ourselves so both of us can go on your healthy...

A Rant on Pedants or I’m Not an Idiot Because I Abbreviate Text Messages (Stephen Fry Said it Better)

“…There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne, Truss and John Humphrey than to write poems, love letters, novels and stories it seems. They whip out their...

The Things I Do When I’m Not With You

1.) Avoid everything that reminds me of you – American Psycho, emergency rooms, Roger Ebert, anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and that glorious portrait of a bodacious Victorian woman lying in a...

wholeness was a rather luxurious idea

I thought I understood it, that I could grasp it. But I didn’t. Not really. Only the “smudgeness” of it. A pink-slippered, all-containered, semi-precious eagerness of it. I didn’t realize it would...

The Top 2 Problems I Find with the Educational System

Here’s an animated PSA narrated/made by Sir Ken Robinson as a supplementary support to my qualms about the problems I find with the educational system: ”The problem is they’re trying to meet the...

I Don’t Miss You

but sometimes it’s hard not to

2011: Bildungsroman

I had planned on publishing a new post on the eve of New Year but I was too sick that time even to just sit up my bed and start typing. Yup. I spent new year’s eve in bed, watching The Office and...

For (You), Forever Ago

1.) Skinny Love – Bon Iver 2.) Gravity – Sara Bareilles 3.) No Woman, No Cry – Bob Marley 4.) I Am Trying to Break Your Heart – Wilco 5.) Nothing Compares to You – Stereophonics 6.) I Want You to...

A Lesson in Growing Up and Saying Goodbye: The Philosophy of Enough

Dear Self, Goodbyes are always such big troubles. When you’ve lived so long with an addiction, or the love-of-your-life-so-far (and in your case, these two are the same thing) you end up trying to...

Save the Best for Last

Why is it every time I think I’ve tried my hardest It turns out it ain’t enough cause you’re still not mentioning love But, despite the truth I know I find it hard to let go and give up on you...

My Life in Rage Comics: Issue #3 – Reverse Psychology

FFFUUUUU!!! Dwight!!! *shakes fist in the air*

Smile for the Camera

One of the things I always carry is that video camera right there. I promised I’d learn how to use iMovie so I can staple all the home movies I’ve recorded starring the dogs running around the...

Petography™

One of my greatest hobbies is taking photos of my pets. I think they’re much more interesting to shoot than people. Much easier to deal with too. heehee…

Don’t Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother

When my siblings and I were kids, my mom kept drilling in our heads that as Catholics, we’ve got to live by the 10 Commandments religiously without any exception. Of course, being the rigid...

(i do love you)

Cthulhu

I write like H. P. Lovecraft I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing! A little gem one of my lit friends Julienne found online. I don’t think it’s 100% accurate, but it’s...

On to the Elysian Expedition!

Have I finally found the coordinates to the evergreen terraces where I would believably discover the key to living? At the veriest, the notion of eternal life for me was founded in eternal death....

My Life in Rage Comics: Issue #2 – “It’s A Long Story”

This ALWAYS happens to me!

A Guide to Stereotyping People by Their Favourite Author

A little funny gem I found on tumblr, which links back to this blog on WordPress. Ditto on Plath, Orwell, Huxley, Gaiman and Wilde. (at least for me, lol!) J.D. Salinger Kids who don’t fit in...

My Life in Rage Comics: Issue #1 – The Crane Machine

Have I mentioned that I’m addicted to memes?

New Make-Up Reviews

I love make-up. Not gonna lie. I’ve thrown away a lot of make up from my earlier blog post so here are some relatively new stuff I have. L-R: Laura Mercier Illuminating Tinted Moisturizer, Laura...

Fuel

If not for romance, or other sources of dramatic inspiration, I doubt I’ll ever find myself writing again. So here I am, writing, not surprisingly about romance. And not surprisingly, about you. A...

Death, Fear, and Love

All men fear death. It’s a natural fear that consumes us all. But I believe that a love that is true and real creates a rest pit from death. All cowardice comes from not loving and not loving well,...

Last Year’s Reasons

They seem so far away from today.