14 3 / 2011
Imagine being at the brink of realizing that the best friend you have known for 30 years — the only person in the world that knows you more than you know yourself — might possibly be the love of your life. But then, a former lover — the one you loved with an almost obsessive passion — suddenly returns to take you back. Who would you choose? (Photo: “9 ends, 2 outs”)
13 3 / 2011
So I left my cellphone at home…again
And I try to remember the time when I didn’t have a cellphone at all. Not even a pager. I remember that is was most LIBERATING.
So in case some of you people are trying to reach me…not today, dears. Catch up to you later.
13 3 / 2011
"In my world everyone is a pony, and they all eat rainbows, and poop butterflies."
11 3 / 2011
"We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected."
10 3 / 2011
Sidewalk literature
I am still amazed by the wealth of literature just — literally — lying on the sidewalks bounding the Supreme Court in Ermita, Manila. During weekdays, a few vendors bring out an assortment of used titles from NY Times bestsellers to literary classics. The first time I went there I was able to buy Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” for a measly 150 pesos. Today, I got something better — “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller” for 300 pesos! I spotted some other books that I wanted to buy but didn’t have enough money to spend. Sigh. Will just have to wait for the next paycheck to arrive.
