VALENTINE JAH LOVE

Facebook, the modern-day hotbed of nostalgia, brought back these two forgotten class pics. Compare.




From age seven to sixteen, I was the class thumbellina! Geez. Anyway, I haven't seen the first picture in 18 years and am just amused. Even at seven, I was already a giggly kid. Hee.



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My best friend Mark and my highschool sis Jac are back in Manila! Last Saturday we already had the salubong dinner for Jac, and last night I just hung out inside Mark's room, just playing his PSP (which is now mine, woot!) and just listening to him go on and on about his Florida adventures. Really happy my two closest friends are here again! While Jac, Mark, Paz, and Shiela are videoke-ing their hearts out at this very moment, I'm stuck in front of the computer, meeting deadlines because the day after tomorrow I'm off to Cebu and Bohol with these people! Repeat of last year's out-of-town lakad, and I'm just giddy giddy.


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The other weekend: Paz's birthday slash The Grand Videoke Tourney where I realized that Tootsie Guevara's "Kaba" is my token/winning videoke song (score of 100 points for two videoke nights and counting), and welcoming Mindanao-Hipon Yas to Manila.



Happy days, happy days.

Oh wait, talk about happy: buying "The Handmaid's Tale" for P85 and "Short Shorts: Anthology of the Shortest Stories" for P65. Robinsons Forum FTW!

Good Monday morning! It's going to be a looong week ahead; I have four major articles-2 for raket, 2 for the magazine-due this week. So, yes, here's to posting photos and stocking up on good vibes!




Spent my weekend with my HS barkada, college sisters, Cosmo team, and yes, Cosmo hunks!;) Had my fortune read, got lots of hugs, plus Armie and Rache told me I lost weight! Yay! :))

Now back to work :))

What a lovely, lovely song. Beam and I just sang this here in the office with so much passion ♥

"There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know their hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more."

And this was me, last Holy Week:
"She will read one page. One more page, to calm and locate herself, then she'll get out of bed."

♥

Outside, the city is blanketed in sepia. Like I'm looking at a '50s photo.

Sylvia Plath's son, Nicholas Plath Hughes, committed suicide. I remember him as this pudgy, fat-fingered baby in Sylvia's diaries. In her diary, Sylvia Plath recounted the birth, how perilous was it, how long it took for him to slide out of her womb. And now his death makes me feel sad in a way that I never thought I could be.


Nick And The Candlestick by Sylvia Plath
I am a miner. The light burns blue.
Waxy stalactites
Drip and thicken, tears

The earthen womb

Exudes from its dead boredom.
Black bat airs

Wrap me, raggy shawls,
Cold homicides.
They weld to me like plums.

Old cave of calcium
Icicles, old echoer.
Even the newts are white,

Those holy Joes.
And the fish, the fish-
Christ! They are panes of ice,

A vice of knives,
A piranha
Religion, drinking

Its first communion out of my live toes.
The candle
Gulps and recovers its small altitude,

Its yellows hearten.
O love, how did you get here?
O embryo

Remembering, even in sleep,
Your crossed position.
The blood blooms clean

In you, ruby.
The pain
You wake to is not yours.

Love, love,
I have hung our cave with roses.
With soft rugs-

The last of Victoriana.
Let the stars
Plummet to their dark address,

Let the mercuric
Atoms that cripple drip
Into the terrible well,

You are the one
Solid the spaces lean on, envious.
You are the baby in the barn.

yesterday, cosmo helped build a house :) the staff, friends from the office, staff's guests (mine was Analyn, my highschool girlfriend), and the readers volunteered for habitat for humanity. what a tiring and fulfilling saturday, i shoveled, hauled sacks of sand, bent steel, and filled hollow blocks with this mixture called grout.

anyhow, i've fallen more in love with my job after meeting our dear readers and supporters! sarap ng feeling. analyn, who even made friends with the readers so much so i didn't have to check up on her, said: "mas nakakagana kayo magtrabaho noh?" ♥

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last friday: 1am i was inside mercury drug for sunblock and when i was about to step out of the drugstore, i bumped into my childhood sweetheart, dean. "hi samantha," he said, and because i was anxious/flabbergasted/and oily and generally ngarag-looking, i could only yelp an "uy! hi!" and ran away from him asap. the story of our lives, it's been 13 years since our premature love affair, but why does he still have that effect on me?

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tonight, i'm revising my story for our finals. the heat isn't helping, all i want is to jump into the waters and swim, swim, swim until my skin goes heat-resistant and leathery.

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bracing myself for an insane week (school- and work-wise). one happy, get-me-through-this-stress thought: boracay next week!

Whatever, hahaha.

Oh btw the Basti Artadi group I created in Facebook has now 33 members, haha! I was asking friends if I could invite Basti himself to the group, and they were all like: "Parang...no." Haha!

Cosmopolitan Philippines March issue. I wrote the cover story (my second!), yay!


Sorry for the super shameless plugging. Haha!

"Ako iyong nagwave sayo the other night. Malabo ba mata mo? Parang hindi mo ako nakilala e.. Nakakahiya naman so hindi na ako lumapit."

I wish I could wear my glasses but they're ugly and make me dizzy (and I'm still paying for them ugh!) and contact lenses freak me out.

Isn't she a beauty? Got it from Fully Booked. ♥

http://iloveyoumorethanblank.com/








Thanks Beam for the link!

*hopefullyhopefully*

I get to watch the Peter Cetera concert! ♥

"You're the meaning in my life...You're my inspiration..." ♥

Your Personality Is Like Heroin

You're capable of the highest highs and the lowest lows. Addicted to feeling good, you'll do almost anything to avoid pain. People seek you out, even though you can be quite moody. They're hooked on you! At your best: You are euphoric, stress free, and a little sleepy. What people like about being around you: They're not exactly sure, but they can't get enough about you. What people dislike about being around you: When you finally leave, they go some pretty serious withdrawal. How addicted people get to you: Very... you're quite dangerous.

Friday news: Subjected myself to an eyelash extension procedure and now my eyelashes are thiiiis long. And they're making me sleepy.

I'm looking forward to breakfast with Mel tomorrow at Cafe Mary Grace. It's going to be a challenge, waking up at six in the morning, but screw sleeping in; what better way to welcome the day than taking the hot chocolate-and-hugs-from-a-bestfriend combo?

Today: bought "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf and The Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories, gave in to my leche flan cravings, encountered a longganisa that's hard as a pebble, clocked in productive hours at the office, uploaded the mushiest 80s songs onto my iPod. (from "A Very Special Love" to "First Love Never Dies" to "Up Where We Belong"). Mushmush. I hereby declare 2009 as the year of the fuzzies.

Last Monday (or Tuesday?): learned how to use an eyelash curler--apparently all this time mali pagkakakagamit ko haha, burned my finger with the hair straightening apparatus, dreamt of ghosts, wrote a story..well, tried to.

Been listening to Tori Amos songs. n o n s t o p.

Talk about a disjointed post. How come I don't know how to blog anymore? I used to be good at this.

Have a starry Christmas, my dear LJ friends! ♥

May you have a joyful, meaningful, and extra blessed celebration :)

Ngayong Pasko Treat Ko IV aka the highschool gang's pet project
December 27, 2008
Children's Joy Foundation, Project 6, Quezon City

Last year there were SO many kids, it was just a good thing we had enough sources left. Help us help them? Cash or toys or books or clothes. Email me chasing_cloudATyahooDOTcom, 0917-5008323. Merry Christmas guys! :) God bless your generous hearts.

:):)

SPECIAL THANKS to Jane for the poster <3

I have great hopes for this month. My high school friends and I are staging our annual outreach program, I have a longer list of people to give gifts to (which reinforces the fact that I have met a lot of awesome people this year), one of my dearest friends is back from Canada, I'm starting my maid-of-honor/wedding coordinator duties, I will be having a real vacation...plus plus plus, I will be seeing Wolfgang again! Only eight days to go.

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How sweet my friends are:

One gave me the books "The Writers' Wives" and "Sarilaysay: Tinig ng 20 Babae sa Sariling Danas Bilang Manunulat" just because. Another surprised me with an ID necklace with the sweetest note: "Just to say thank you for your generosity. You have no reason NOT to wear your ID anymore." Then someone volunteered to be my dancing partner!

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I just want to say hello and show off my brand-new totally cool Super Garfield icon!

Taking my cue from Steph and Macy . Funfunfun!

1. A blowdryer. Because my new hair cut says so, hehe.


2. "The Dark Hours" by Conchitina Cruz. I borrowed Mavs' copy...and I want my own too! :)


3. The Merriam Webster Garfield Dictionary. I've been jonesing for this since high school!!


4. These ADORABLE necklaces from ku-ki shop!







5. "Negotiating With the Dead" by Margaret Atwood


6. Bright and perky journals and notebooks like this one:


7. This bag from Guess. Loving the color!


8. Bright and perky bags like this one:


9. Havaianas High in these colors:




10. Family Guy DVD: Freakin' Party Pack


11. Magic Sing!


Just looking at my list makes me drool *hee* Sorry for not using the LJ-cut, yikes! :D