November 2010
165 posts
passing on the luck and love
Letting go
3 tags
babang luksa
it’s been two years. and this last year was infinitely better than the last, or so i think. and if that’s not true, please just let me think it to be. i need to make it better, make it better with words, because i know that sometimes those words mean what they do.
in Filipino, we speak of babang luksa as the full year after a death. i realize now that babang luksa is the same, every...
4 tags
“I remind myself that not everything is a sign, that some things simply are what...”
– Diane Schoemperlen (via mlq3)
3 tags
“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject...”
– Elie Wiesel (via nathanielstuart)
3 tags
horridelivery: dinner at 11PM
Jollibee, Boni branch. though their 8-7000 people were as lost. one put me on hold forever when i was following up. the one who took my order was just bored. but maybe the worst part of it all: they said they don’t have chicken breast, but that there’d be some thighs.
and lo behold, there was the breast tied to the chicken wings.
and instead of thighs, i got the back. THE BACK. wala...
4 tags
the failure of those who party: the fight for the... →
3 tags
my stake in the RH Bill
here, for good measure, is mine. when I speak of the RH Bill, these are some of the more consistent memories that I battle with, that I live:
(1) an act of infidelity brings me to a room in the middle of nowhere, as the other woman needed a friend while she got herself an abortion: i was her only friend. (2) I skip a pill, and think nothing of it; let me overdose and do the-day-after-thing I’ve...
2 tags
3 tags
4 tags
4 tags
when it happens, it's glorious
Robin Bratone, Ms. Bertine’s maid of honor, said she worried that her friend’s heart could be broken by a new widower looking for a shoulder, but not a commitment. She soon realized it was more than that.
“I’ve known her since she was 3 years old, and I have never seen her so happy,” Ms. Bratone said. “Life happens, and love happens, too. It’s never perfect. It’s always messy. But when it...
3 tags
2 tags
“What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in...”
– Yann Martel (via mlq3)
4 tags
5 tags
“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings...”
– Alice Koller (via yahel, random-people) (via teachingliteracy)
2 tags
on Manny Pacquiao, and why we could be handling... →
4 tags
“This is what you do. If you feel low, you stand tall. You mess up, you move on....”
– Hobson Brown (via mlq3)
5 tags
3 tags
4 tags
dear Flip Video
i still want you, and methinks you will be the perfect addition to my life online, because my ideas are overflowin’ and can only imagine them happening with you.
ah, it seems like love at first sight, eh?
love,
Katrina.
6 tags
4 tags
Filipino words that don't exist in the English...
inspired by Kael Co, who responded to my reblog, it’s like pay it forward inspiration. haha. his first set of words are here. i can’t reblog him, since he reblogged me, and now i’m just confused.
my words off the top of my head. because Kael spoke of water.
anggi: the spray of rainwater as it bounces off another surface, or as blown by the wind.
and because i know of the ways...
4 tags
2 tags
the street of my childhood, is where i'm at →
3 tags
“The world is no longer a romantic place. Some of its people still are however,...”
– Ally McBeal (via iloveyoursoul)
7 tags
“Struggling, despairing, Klein fought with his demon. All the new understanding...”
– Hermann Hesse (via mlq3)
4 tags
3 tags
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via mlq3)
3 tags
3 tags
5 tags
7 tags
freedom and love, the universe and its design, in... →
4 tags
hell yeah. and if you don't know where we are,... →
sarahmeier:
A poster created by Philippine design and apparel house Team Manila upon hearing from tourism experts that “nobody even knows where the Philippines is on the map”.
—-
Shouts to Team Manila, co-conspirators in an initiative to rebrand our country and give the Philippine Department of…
1 tag
5 tags
5 tags
because Pinoy pop rock are these two: Arnel Pineda... →
7 tags
1 tag
on the war in mindanao, the war in our midst →
3 tags
“The maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
– Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (via girlwithoutwings)
3 tags
6 tags
3 tags
3 tags
4 tags
5 tags
