2011 Review

1.What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? Asked the people sitting next to our table
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Ayoko na mag-mura at gusto ko na lang mag-mahal.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? No.
4. Did anyone close to you die? An officemate.
5. What countries did you visit?

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2011? Money. :)
7. What date from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory and why? The little fun times and the few bad times I had with Marco Polo.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? I quickly got a job after I losing one.
9. What was your biggest failure? Not getting that Creative Writer position in Star Cinema. :(
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? No. :-) Amen!
11. What was the best thing you bought? Plane ticket to Singapore.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Can I say mine? :)
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Some Chinese.
14. Where did most of your money go? My Dad's Suzuki Mola. Utilities.
15. What did you really, really, really get excited about? I should have been really, really, really excited with my Singapore trip, but I wasn't really really really excited at all. :P
16. What song will always remind you of 2011? Price Tag by Jessie James We just wanna make the world dance!
17. Compared to this time last year are you:
Happier? Grateful.
Thinner? Healthy.
Richer? Broke.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of? blogs.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of? twitter. definitely, twitter!!
20. How did you spend Christmas? With my father. At home. NOT FEELING ALONE. :)
21. How will you be spending new years? I've always celebrated New Years Eve wired and connected to the random people around the world. This time I went to bed really early. And I  had no internet.
22. Did you fall in love in 2011? I know someone who did.;)
23. How many one-night stands? 365. :P
24. What was your favorite TV program? Dog Whisperer. phhhhssssstt
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? I naturally don't hate.
26. What was the best book you read? I didn't get to finish any book. I was timeless last 2011.
27. What was your biggest musical discovery? I didn't discover any new artist.
28. What did you want and you got? That brown leather belt. That huge wallet. That black umbrella.
29. What did you want and not get?

Brown Mulberry Alexa Satchel

30. What was your favorite film of this year? These films weren't released in 2011 but I was intrigued:
Adaptation., Stranger than Fiction and The Hours
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old did you turn? I turned 23 last 2011, I was at home preparing stuff before I head back to Manila to find a new job, to start all over again. Surprisingly, my brother and his family came by to visit us. I got also the chance to see my mom that day with my brother and Enzo and Janette. Yes, I got the chance to see my mom, my dad and my brother all in one day. :)
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?   
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2011? Just the usual, boring office attire fashion kind of fashion.
34. What kept you sane? My dog. 
35. Which celebrity did you fancy the most? Two words --Brandon Lee!
36. What political issue stirred you the most? Norway killings: The laughing gunman who shot 85 young victims, one by one
37. Who did you miss? 

I used to refer to them the "Annoying Agents". Now I miss them. 

38. Who was the best new person you met? 

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2011: Dying. How fast life could be taken away from you. From a stranger. From an animal. From an officemate you've only known for a few days. From a customer you only get to see every month to pay his/her memorial lot's monthly amortization.
40. Quote or Song Lyric that sums up your year:
"We're only young and naive still." XD

Ang Swerte Ko Lang. literal.

Not the luckiest,

But absolutely luckier than others.

Art Thou?

FUCK FOR PEACE

Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world. You’ll thank yourself for it.  

– Jason Mraz

MAKE BELIEVE NOT WAR

You know, in a lot of people’s eyes, being a musician or a writer or an artist full-time is not something too respectable. But to tell you the truth, I think it’s the most respectable profession, because you’re doing what you want to do. And you’re not succumbing to the pressures of doing what you don’t want to do, just to make a living. You realize you can actually make a living by doing something that excites you. And the more you pursue what excites you, the more you’re rewarded.

– Brandon Boyd

The Killer Highway

Sa kahabaan ng Commonwealth:

• naisip ko na lumalaki carbon footprint ko dahil lang sa sobrang layooo ng inuuwian kong bahay araw-araw
• napupunta ang halos 1/4 ng sweldo ko para sa transpo
• nakita ang lahat ng pwedeng maiwanan sa kalsada tulad ng: tsinelas, pantalon, sumbrero, sapatos at t-shirt
• sobra akong inantok at sobrang lalim din ng tulog na dalawang beses na na may inspector na gumising sa 'kin para mag-check ng ticket!!
• feeling ko mas laging safe ako kung nakasakay sa bus kaysa sa fx kung may mangyaring banggaan
• nung ka-facebook pa lang kita noon at nasabi ko sa sarili ko na "napaka-ideal boyfriend nitong tao 'to"
• napanood ko ang pinakapamatay at magandang series ng lightning sa buong buhay ko
• at sa Commonwealth mo din ako napasagot

Maikli pa lang yung pinagsasamahan namin ng Commonwealth. 'Yung sa atin sana magtagal.