The untouchable.

How many people have you seen barenaked? I haven’t seen much but the light was cast in the right direction and it was more than enough to make me appreciate beauty.

Often times, people need an overexposure to something to get the bigger picture. I don’t think I’m one of those people even though my vision is far from 20-20. The darkness can be deceiving, yes, but my perception to it is one that cannot be taken for granted.

All the light in the world can never replace the beauty that I found in you amidst the darkness, amidst the chaos, amidst the uncertainties. I know there could have been more, but now is the time to move on, to accept the reality that yours was the only beauty cast upon by the dim light to have been truly appreciated.

I love you. I love you not.

There is always something you can do.

A friend told me a dreadful story. Last night, he was out with some friends. They were on their way home when they heard a girl screaming for help from a distance. It turned out that she was being beaten to the pulp. The guy was literally banging the girl’s head to the gate.

As my friend and his friends were approaching, the man that the girl was with called out my friend’s name and told him to back off, and that he “got this”. My friend didn’t do anything. He backed off. His friends told him that they should help but my friend told them off and said that he didn’t want to interfere. He knew the guy that was beating up the girl and he didn’t want to get involved, he didn’t want any friction between him and the guy because they were old buddies. More than that, they used to play basketball together. This is just one incident, God knows how much more of this happens everyday, everywhere.

This is what you read in Philippine literature, what you see in Filipino movies. There is always someone you know who fucks someone’s life but you choose to go blind because of “pakikisama” (camaraderie) or “utang na loob” (debt of gratitude). You may find my naivety funny but I just wish that each one of us should at least try to change this attitude. Maybe, just maybe, a little effort can make all the difference in the world.

U.P. Fair 2009

Here's the rest of the U.P. Fair Schedule (Feb 11th to 14th 2009).

February 11 (Wednesday)

AMPLIFIED (Alpha Sigma Fraternity)

Parokya Ni Edgar
Kamikazee
Slapshock
Queso
Urbandub
Chocosci
Typecast
Moonstar88
The Youth
Blue Boy Bites Back
Machine Gun Poetry
Feedback
The Ambassadors
The Out Of Body Special
Franco
Nyctinasty
Salamin
Hansom
Diary of My Last Days
United By Fate
The Haneps
Crudeoz
I-Ray
Eternal Now
Luzia
Look Out Kid
Liquid Courage
Makarel
Jejaview
Made For Midnight Movies

February 12 (Thursday)

RAMBOL (UP Brotherhood of the Filipinos 1955 aka Pinoy ‘55)

Sponge Cola
Grin Department
Join the Club
Urbandub
Greyhoundz
Typecast
Pupil
Brownman Revival
6cyclemind
Imago
Hilera
Up Dharma Down
Radioactive Sago Project
Paraluman
Giniling Festival
Mayonaise
Cambio
The Ambassadors

February 13 (Friday)

LOVERAGE (UP Pan Xenia Fraternity and UP Adelfe Enu Crea Sorority in cooperation with UP Circuit and UP Cursor)

Bamboo
Sugarfree

Urbandub
Kjwan
Itchyworms
Greyhoundz
Raorkback
Typecast
Moonstar88
Silent Sanctuary
Kitchie Nadal
Stonefree
Mayonnaise
Cambio
Hilera
Soapdish
Giniling Festival
DeLara
Valley of Chrome
Fuse
Zelle
Salamin
Fuerzza
Chubibo
Top Junk
Intolerant
Menaya
Playphonics
Sopiz
Kelevra
Check Experiment
Fireworks at midnight. (Yey!)

February 14 (Saturday)

MEANT FAIR EACH OTHER (the University Student Council)

Taken by Cars
Callalily
Sandwich
Paraluman
Duster
Reklamo
Soapdish

Tickets are for P90.00 per night and available at the venue and with the sponsoring organizations.

KITA KITS!! =)

Photos: Meiday @ Cubao Ex (Feb 07th)

This pretty much sums up everything. I'm lazy photoblogging like that. Hehe. If you're my contact on Multiply or Facebook, you can check out more photos there.

Props to JL for the photos. His shots are way better than mine. Hehe.

CS, Frances, Chelo

Is that Ciudad? Why, yes. (Haha)

Wasted.

Dizzy spell.

The happy crowd. =D

Captured. =D (Myrene and Mong of Sandwich)

No, that ain't a light saber. (Diego of Pedicab)

On the gu-gu-gutter! Hehe (With JL)

And good night. Till the next one! =D

Miley Cyrus on mocking Asians.

Random reading always leads me to OMG. Heh. And I find it hilarious every time Miley Cyrus is in it, which is, well, always. The latest about her includes another scandalous photograph where she, her boyfriend and some friends made a "goofy" face by "slanting their eyes and squinting at the camera". Yes, another mockery (the other one involving a video mocking Selena Gomez and what's-her-face goth-wannabe) but this time, of Asians.

First of all, not all Asians have chinky eyes so that was really insulting. Hahaha. And second of all, we are all aware that Miley Cyrus is the real-life Blair Waldorf, the doe-eyed girl acting all sweet and innocent when in reality, she's just downright mean. Bleep bleep.

I love "Hollywood". Yey.

Hats, hats, hats.

One accessory that I've been putting off buying is hats. They are the perfect accessory to any occasion, in any season (especially now that Summer's almost here). I have always wanted to collect them but too skeptic because I'm literally big-headed and too round-faced. Heh. Although I have had a couple of fedora and conductor hats but sold them to random people because I realized that what I bought just didn't fit me well.

Last summer though, I discovered a brand of fabulous hats from my favorite online surf shop, Swell, called Brixton and thought, hey maybe this I can pull off. When I was in the US last summer, I was too busy ogling at other stuff that I did not bother to look for hats. It's a bummer that Swell's international shipping costs are overrated at $90. I tried to look for Brixton hats at Melrose Skate Shop in Tomas, Morato (beside Chilli's) and surely, the store had them but the sad part was that they were all for men so I guess I'm going to have one of these pre-ordered again, as usual, which will take about more than a month of waiting. (Patience, my love.)

Topper (Navy Chambray) - $35

Bridge (Navy/Gray Houndstooth) - $35

Cadence (Burgundy Tweed) - $38


Fiddler (Navy Twill) - $35

Drifter (Natural Straw) - $45

Apart from Brixton, Urbanoutfitters also offers a variety of adorable women's hats. There's one I've been eyeing since the holidays and it's now on sale (Woopee!) Hehe.

Wool Fedora (Urban Outfitters) - $9.99

For a more conventional but cute fedora, you can opt for Roxy's Betty Hat ($26), which comes in colors black, khaki and orange.

So, go grab a shift dress, a pair of soft-bed flip flops, a bottle of beer, top it off with a hat and you're good to go! =D

Meiday, Meiday: I AM PARTY!

February 7, 2009

Cubao Shoe Expo, QC

FREE ADMISSION

with

SANDWICH

PEDICAB

CIUDAD

TOPJUNK

ARIGATO HATO

ANG BANDANG SHIRLEY

THE LOWTECHS
SUNFLOWER DAY CAMP

and a whole lot more!

WOOT WOOT!!! LET'S DO THIS! =D

Crazy, not bitter: A pseudo-Valentine post.

I rarely have time to blog nowadays. *sigh* Almost everything on my other blog is saved as draft because I couldn't seem to finish them with so much that's been going on inside my head, and I just couldn't find the inspiration to organize all the phrases into meaningful sentences. *blah*

We barely have two weeks before the big red day. Honestly, I'm not too psyched about it because even as a kid, I couldn't find the hype in it at all. I thought maybe "Hey, when i grow older I'll probably get the meaning of all the shaking." But then I grew older and still don't get it. What I'm excited about, though, is coming up with a good v-day blog entry. Haha! And even with that, I think I might be heading nowhere.

I asked one of my friends if he was feeling "it", with or without a date. Like, if he had a date, would he feel excited about it because Valentine's is supposed to be "special"? And if he didn't have one, would he be as miserable as the rest of us? He still can't give me a straight answer. Heh.

I suddenly remembered a line from Almost Famous that goes like this -- "Who puts such a high premium on being typical?" So much for Valentine's day dates. It feels like a rip-off of that foreign indie film or song that you totally dig since the 80's. Millions of people celebrate the joys of being in love for one excruciating day. Can't we move on and celebrate it instead for 365 days a year, 366 if you count the leap years? If it isn't love you're feeling, motels are open 24/7 all year round, you people should not panic and horde the place for only a night. Countless single people wanna get laid, too.

Another friend told me that Valentine's is a marketing tool, an advertisement gone wrong in so many levels. Don't you just wish that Valentine's was still another indie thing that the masses would just love to hate? Cos yeah, I do.