Here's when I'm trying to find something to blog about
1/ Highlight of the weekend: I spent the entire afternoon doing a general cleaning of my room. Cleaning hurts. It forces me to throw away things that I want to keep, though have no place for. Mostly it's because I really have nowhere to stash them anymore. The fun part about cleaning though is finding all these little keepsakes that you didn't know you still had. Today, I found a picture of my high school barkada taken back in 2001. The funny thing is, the people who are in the photo are those that are left behind here! It was like a prophecy photo! The photographer should have told us, "after 2002, you will be the only ones left in Manila!"
It's very difficult to get me to clean my room because I have this bad habit of just throwing things around. In effect, my room doesn't stay in its pristine state for a very long time. I love the feeling afterwards though. I can go in and just smile.
I got inspired to clean my room because of something I have read about procrastination from letters to a young artist by Anna Deavere Smith. To procrastinate = to rob yourself. And I no longer wanted to rob myself of a clean room.
2/ Book of the moment: Anna Deavere Smith's letters to a young artist. Char gave this to me last Friday as a very belated birthday gift (THANK YOU!!!). At first I was doubtful that I could relate to it, because I don't really see myself as an artist. In fact, "artist" was never a word that I would pick to describe myself. But I realized that there is more than one kind of artist, and there is a certain kind that I could specifically relate to. I've gone almost halfway in just a day, and I'm really, really (!!!!!) loving it. I understand very clearly why Oprah made this mandatory reading for her staff. I highly recommend it to artists, aspiring artists, and would-be world changers.
3/ Fetish of the moment: SHOES! I have outgrown ransacking the mall for clothes and cosmetics. I think I have enough of both, though I am still on the quest for another pair of really good jeans (that I can afford on my paycheck!), and still get the urge to enter Beauty Bar, Body Shop, and TheFaceShop every now and then, if only to look. :D I don't know what it is about shoes that has gotten to me this time. My shoe closet isn't particularly missing the essentials (at least, shoe essentials for work!), but finding good shoes is just so fun! I restrain myself from entering VNC because the past times I've gone in there, I always ended up buying something. :D I adore their shoes! They're so comfortable and pretty and reasonably priced.
4/ Fancy Fridays: It's both futile and fun to spend the entire week wishing that Friday would come. And there are some Fridays that are even more anticipated--those that are spent on night outs with good friends. I don't like being cheap on Fridays, for some reason. This is my feel-good day, and I want to do it properly. Last Friday was a mini-reunion with my Chinese friends, Char and Rach (see, their names are even the reversed of each other!). We had a nice dinner in MyLK (though despite this nice dinner, I think I will still associate it more for the "bad" memories from last August) and watched Scoop afterwards (Hugh Jackman is too hot). It feels a bit odd, though comfortable at the same time, to be together at this age. After having gone through high school together, and going through college together in a rather trivial way (because we were not exactly together), right now is just... this thing, this moment that we experience in a very dramatic, yet also very quiet, way. It feels great to have familiar people at your side who are experiencing the exact emotions that sort of fuel you at that same moment.
The thing about growing up that I am most grateful for is that I don't ever have to go through it alone.
5/ Fixation of the moment: Figuring out what I want to do with the rest of my life.
It's very difficult to get me to clean my room because I have this bad habit of just throwing things around. In effect, my room doesn't stay in its pristine state for a very long time. I love the feeling afterwards though. I can go in and just smile.
I got inspired to clean my room because of something I have read about procrastination from letters to a young artist by Anna Deavere Smith. To procrastinate = to rob yourself. And I no longer wanted to rob myself of a clean room.
2/ Book of the moment: Anna Deavere Smith's letters to a young artist. Char gave this to me last Friday as a very belated birthday gift (THANK YOU!!!). At first I was doubtful that I could relate to it, because I don't really see myself as an artist. In fact, "artist" was never a word that I would pick to describe myself. But I realized that there is more than one kind of artist, and there is a certain kind that I could specifically relate to. I've gone almost halfway in just a day, and I'm really, really (!!!!!) loving it. I understand very clearly why Oprah made this mandatory reading for her staff. I highly recommend it to artists, aspiring artists, and would-be world changers.
3/ Fetish of the moment: SHOES! I have outgrown ransacking the mall for clothes and cosmetics. I think I have enough of both, though I am still on the quest for another pair of really good jeans (that I can afford on my paycheck!), and still get the urge to enter Beauty Bar, Body Shop, and TheFaceShop every now and then, if only to look. :D I don't know what it is about shoes that has gotten to me this time. My shoe closet isn't particularly missing the essentials (at least, shoe essentials for work!), but finding good shoes is just so fun! I restrain myself from entering VNC because the past times I've gone in there, I always ended up buying something. :D I adore their shoes! They're so comfortable and pretty and reasonably priced.
4/ Fancy Fridays: It's both futile and fun to spend the entire week wishing that Friday would come. And there are some Fridays that are even more anticipated--those that are spent on night outs with good friends. I don't like being cheap on Fridays, for some reason. This is my feel-good day, and I want to do it properly. Last Friday was a mini-reunion with my Chinese friends, Char and Rach (see, their names are even the reversed of each other!). We had a nice dinner in MyLK (though despite this nice dinner, I think I will still associate it more for the "bad" memories from last August) and watched Scoop afterwards (Hugh Jackman is too hot). It feels a bit odd, though comfortable at the same time, to be together at this age. After having gone through high school together, and going through college together in a rather trivial way (because we were not exactly together), right now is just... this thing, this moment that we experience in a very dramatic, yet also very quiet, way. It feels great to have familiar people at your side who are experiencing the exact emotions that sort of fuel you at that same moment.
The thing about growing up that I am most grateful for is that I don't ever have to go through it alone.
5/ Fixation of the moment: Figuring out what I want to do with the rest of my life.
hugs, 
@ 9:12 PM
2 Comments:
At 12:36 PM,
Author said…
hahahahahah, i was makapal! i fancied myself an artist (sort of), so when i heard about the book, i was like, i'm going to get it!!! :) hahahahahah :)yeah, i know what you mean about cleaning. it can really be theraputic! sometimes when i'm frustrated with my work, i organize my stuff! hahahaha :) Hahahahaha :) hahahahaha :)
At 11:05 PM,
Erika said…
ooooh speaking of jeans, the absolute best are sevens! they flatter any body type and they hug just the right curves. they're phenomenal, i tell you. go to shopbop.com and search for the brand, seven for all mankind. :) and they definitely have it there in manila too...my aunt was ecstatic when she found one in makati.
ps - cleaning bites.
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