crazy people

New opening line: "All the crazy people I've met, I've found on the street."

or something like this.

How Filipino am I?

[ X] eat rice like everyday
[ ] take off your shoes before you walk into someones house?
[ X] when you get in trouble, your parents look at you in a weird way?
[ ] you get hit with the hand or a slipper or a belt?
[X ] you talk in tagalog a lot? (haha)
[X ] you've been to the Philippines?
[X ] your parents are strict but cool?
[X ] you sing or put on the magic mice at parties
[ x] you sometimes act as if you're in the Philippines?
[X ] you bless your elders by the hand?
[ X] you eat Filipino food a lot?
[ ] at parties, you always serve at least bbq, pancit, and rice?
[ X] you always serve your guest food or drinks, even if they don't want any?
[x ] you have a lot of plants in your house
[ X] you break the rules a lot.

I am apparently only 60% Filipino.
Go figure.

book worms

I am reading AUTO FICTION.

I will not stop till I understand how she writes so well.

Maybe, I will never know.

laLalaLA, I am such a nerd.

i feel like

I like to make play lists on aeroplanes!!!

Things never go as planned.

remember: play list was written on Tui Non (motion sickness bag)
Vietnam Airlines
Flight from HO CHI MIN to SIEM REAP

I guess the playlist shows how I am feeling. Well, I guess "was" feeling would be more appropriate.

Transmission- Joy Division
Blankets like Beavers- Chin up Chin up
Some Cities - Doves
Alala - CSS
Tomorrow - Death Cab For Cutie
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Under the Milkyway Tonight - echo and the bunnymen
Busy Signal - the exploding hearts
(Just Like We) Breakdown - Hot Chip
Sunny Afternoon - the Kinks
Never as Tired as when I am waking up- LCD Soundsystem
Say What You Mean - Make Believe
Love is a Place - Metric
Ursa Minor - At the Drive in
The Charming Man - The Smiths
Megalomaniac - +/-
Easy Girl - Coconut Records
Alone in Kyoto- Air

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Siem Reap (which means the place where Siem fell)
to Hanoi, 2 hours; heavy head; tired eyes; little brother on shoulder; music blocks noise; i've decided to stop listening to the news

a few things i've learned (mostly thanks to the discovery channel): Electricity wasn't invented it was discovered; don't be a dumbass; half a volt is not alot of electricity; dumbass; it's much harder to find ancient DNA that's still intact; my DNA isn't intact?; that's right dumbass! it has trees growing out of it; oh, like tomb raider shit; that's right dumbass just like tombraider; oh, there's no way that humans alone could have built it; where do you think DNA comes from?; Oh, the universe, the solar system; it radiates; it breaks apart; it has gravity, weight, movement.

Playlist on THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM's ARRIVAL- DEPARTURE DECLARATION CARD

What's up- 4 non blondes
can't smile without you - Barry M.
son of a preacher man- Dusty S.
Somebody I used to know - Elliot Smith
Let's Go - the feelies
Mushaboom (postal service remix)- Feist
Dreams- Fleetwood Mac
Lovers need lawyers- the good life
Parenthesis - the blow
forth time around - bod dylan
It's all gonna break - broken social scene
glory days- bruce springsteen
Drive- the cars
Needy girl - chromeo
the most beautiful girl - data rock
Ava Adore- smashing pumpkins
Gut feeling- Devo
Look After Me - Hot Chip
Lola - the kinks
City girl- kevin shields

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saigon to manila
philippine airlines; on tranquil traveller ; for your comfort and well being in the air; feathers; pillow forts.

dance music - the mountain goats
trapped under ice floes- +/-
i don't like it like this - the radio dept.
california - joni mitchell
hey- pixies
the twist - metric
the ocean - VHS or BETA
trigga hiccups- menomena
augustine - patrick wolf
where you'll find me now - neutral milk hotel
bodysnatchers - radio head
singing in my sleep - semisonic
prophecy - remy zero
mad world - tears for fears
satellite - TV on the RADIO
Dancing Barefoot - Patti Smith
It's a hit - Rilo Kiley
;mirror in the sky what is love?; a: BODY SNATCHER

Kayuzo Sejima

I wish I was an architect.
Poetic, because:
"The fifteen rooms are there to allow both escape and togetherness, 'so that people can choose their distance depending on their feeling.' "

nice boy

NOW, LIFE OST (also The BEACH OST)

• 01 - Leftfield - Snakeblood
• 02 - All Saints - Pure Shores
• 03 - Moby - Porcelain
• 04 - Dario G Featuring Vanessa Quinones - Voices
• 05 - Underworld - 8 Ball
• 06 - Sugar Ray - Spinning Away
  
• 07 - Asian Dub Foundation - Return of Django
  
• 08 - Blur - On Your Own (Crouch End Broadway Mix)
  
• 09 - Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke (Hard Floor Mix)
  
• 10 - Faithless - Woozy
  
• 11 - Barry Adamson - Richard, It's Business As Usual
  
• 12 - New Order - Brutal
  
• 13 - UNKLE - Lonely Soul
  
• 14 - Angelo Badalamenti & Orbital - Beached
  

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In other news...
My coffee mug has snowballs and reindeer as its day coat. It changes in the evening when it becomes my after dinner tea cup. When its evening coat , which has a billy goat on a sun burnt hill who seeks shelter underneath a weeping Banyan tree, reminds me that I am tropical;
I cry for the first time in a long time. I am reminded that I am not cut out for the winter.