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top ten

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i chanced upon time’s top ten lists for 2006 and after discovering new books & movies to hunt for, i resolved to make my own lists:

top 5 events of 2006
1. UP graduation
2. bicol getaway
– butandings, bagyo & everything
3. being a new hire@HP
– meeting SWAT, BI/DW, & planning the Nth new hire presentation…
4. jam@hp gigs
– dream come true for a frustrated musician :o)
5. caveman ink
– first serious shot at entrepreneurship. who could forget the binondo adventures?

top 3 songs of 2006
1. alapaap – eraserheads (jam@HP’s first gig)
2. going under – evanescence (rock on, tanya!)
3. kapag nawala ka – stonefree (astig.

top 3 sites i could not survive without in 2006
1. google.com/ig (starts my every day. i swear by it.)
2. youtube.com (to get through my bakit-kaya-wala-akong-ginagawa? moments)
3. deviantart.com (nothing to say but loooooooove)

top 3 discoveries of 2006
1. panic at the disco
2. rockstar supernova (i first watched this while on the treadmill at fitness. i ditched the gym; i’m still watching the videos.)
3. stephen colbert (i just love him, love him, love him.)

top 3 things i miss most in 2006
1. getting up late in the morning
2. card games @ the tambayan
3. catching up with old friends

top 3 things i’m grateful for in 2006
1. P80 dvds (hindi ako makatulog dahil sayo, did you know? buti na lang hindi mo din ako pinapatulog tuwing night shift ko. :p)
2. LNS (wheeee!)
3. friends, new and old (double wheeeeee!)

top 3 lessons of 2006
1. kahit ano pang sabihin mo, family first.
2. regret’s not a bitch. it’s a he.
3. all things shall pass. bloom where you are planted.

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for thought

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After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a HAND, and chaining a SOUL,

and you learn that LOVE doesn’t mean leaning, and company doesn’t mean SECURITY,

and you begin to learn that KISSES aren’t contracts, and presents aren’t PROMISES,

and you begin to accept your defeats with your HEAD UP and your EYES OPEN, with the grace of an ADULT, not the grief of a child.

After a while, you learn that even SUNSHINE burns if you get too much.

So plant your own GARDEN and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And your learn that you can really ENDURE… that you really are STRONG.

And YOU really have worth.

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it’s all good

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[ if you’re looking for a rant post, then scoot. ]

during my birthday weekend, my HS crush, my college crush & my HP crush greeted me. yep, it’s all good.

sometimes, we do feel that we have it all. even if just for a while. even if just for a trivial thing. yep, heaven’s definitely here on earth.

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[ non-geeks stop here ]

whoa. an ancient supercomputer.

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that prince

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hmm, i think i deserve a good whack on the head, right about now. ikay made us watch this new koreanovela dvd called ‘Princess Hours’. i’d rather watch a rene requestas film.

but lo and behold, by nightfall, my sister and i were marathoning up to episode 8. never mind the bad (and i mean really BAD) subtitles; i had to summon all my context clues skills. but man, we were hooked. especially me. whenever the prince’s cousin comes out, i literally SHRIEK. can’t help it. eeek. me, shriek at an intsikin guy? this is so not me.

*whack*

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you were probably one of the nicest things God could have ever sent my way. if you weren’t standing there, actually breathing & talking, i’d probably dismiss you as a mirage, a myth.

you’re one of my biggest regrets too. i have to say, you’re the biggest. knowing you exist could not let me forget this gaping loss. i feel hollow. cowardly. stupid.

the memory’s vivid, the one when you told me how you knew she was the one. man, that hit me the hardest.

*whack*

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what’s the rush?

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you ubiquitous starbucks cup, you. it seems everyone’s scrambling for a frap today, just to get that 2007 planner.

it just dawned on me — somehow, somewhere along the way, i stopped ‘planning’ my life. i used to keep this papemelroti calendar everyday, along with a bunch of post-it reminders. heck, i used to wear a watch. i’ve never really been a long-term planner, though. the farthest i go, i guess, is freeing the next weekends for birthdays & night-outs.

i guess i stopped when i realized that sometimes, not planning can ironically be more eventful. messier, but more eventful. more mistakes, but more life lessons as well.

here’s to not knowing what tomorrow brings.

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minute post

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i found this grad pic thumb among my long-forgotten files. eeek. but i won’t trade my 5-minute morning prep time for anything.

ok, minute is up. this is for the lost musings i would have written down, if i weren’t commuting. or wasted. or both.

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unload

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i’ve seen crap before, but never like this. trust me, never like this.

a sewer section ‘exploded’ in binondo. the stench reaches you a block away. must have been a crappy day for their starbucks & yellow cab. patrons scampered away, eh?

yep, when people see crap, they turn away but can’t wait to tell others about it.

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i know why support’s such a hit. finally, we got to pull together a system wherein we know who should help who, how who should help who with what, and for how much.

uyyy. sinong jaded?

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‘Sorya!’ He was screaming for Sorya. More like barking, actually. And here I was, ranting, while this 6-year old yells for grumpy jeep drivers and stands in smoke all day. damn.

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self-actualization

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ooh. big word.

it’s the only thing to keep us sane once you realize you’re in a race without a direction. be it as grandiose as an assault to everest’s peak, or as trivial as managing to keep your room in order for once, it’s important. urgent. vital, even.

i gotta get those sign language lessons.

ultimately, imho, the only heaven’s here on earth. and it’s grand.