So, it's simple. But is it logical?

If simplicity borders on stupidity then it's not actually logical to use it as an argument and/or rationale for your actions. You are born with the most complex organic computer that is the product of a thousand years of evolution. Use your brain.

Okay, so I might not be using mine the moment I let those syllables come out of my mouth. But would you accept my reason (or rationalization) that it was everything my puny little mind could conceive at that point in time?

Of course not. It's a very big thing to say, especially coming from someone who periodically hates human company. And you were bursting to proclaim that... uhm... thing days before the said words came out of your mouth. So was it real?
..... Yes I think it is. No, rephrase that to "Yes, it is".

Would you go with it until the end? Which is very near, considering your family's decision to migrate.
..... Yes. Even though the time is short, I will compensate, rather, we will compensate by living as if each day was the last. And as if each one is the last.

By the way, never mind the last three paragraphs, that was the coffee talking... Wait, why are you looking at me like that as if I'm about to say something?
.....
Okay, you win, that was the coffee and my heart talking.

Sorry, but I can only tell you strangers the story, even if you wouldn't understand and/or care.

Nietzsche, on writing equipment

When Nietzsche started using a typewriter, his prose became tighter and more “telegraphic”. Accordingly, Nietzsche said, “Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.”

That's why I write first in longhand and then type it in the computer. The feel of rough paper, the bleeding of the pen into the paper and the strain that comes with writing too furiously.
I also love my handwriting too much.

Perfection is destructive

There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of a creosote bush or the pattern of it's leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see the peril in finding the ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains it's own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.

-The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
(From Dune by Frank Herbert)

Notes from the Greenhills Promenade

1. High School Musical is full of stereotypes. Don't let your children watch it too many times for they might confine their views on what life is or how people think. For the record, I would also like to state that I was... uhm... being.... what's that word? Oh yeah, diplomatic, when I watched this. Btw, bring coffee along if you are very... diplomatic in your movie preferences.

2. Greenhills Center exists on a chasm between two worlds. The world of the bourgeoisie and the middle class separated only by a few meters of concrete roads and walls. It's quite a contrast.

3. The noisiest and most crowded places are always the best places to talk in secret for everyone's minding their own business of listening to what their companions are talking about. You are already having a hard time listening to that guy blabbering to you across the table that you will not be able to hear that guy in the black suit whispering to his friend on how to make a bomb from household materials.

4. The invisible hand principle, put forward by Adam Smith, can also be applied to matters outside economics. It's especially fun seeing the invisible hand work it's wonders on people.

5. Corollarily to the above statement, the laissez faire principle (means leave it alone) can also be applied to real life.

6. Time and, unfortunately as I have realized, money, flies when you're having fun. Ugh, my wallet is on a diet.

7. After watching HSM3, I suddenly have this strong unexplainable desire to learn how to waltz. Please, someone, teach me!

Fear is the mind killer

Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

-Jessica, in Frank Herbert's Dune

Sarah Palin Debate Flowchart

Jordan recently posted something about the obama-mccain rivalry for the White House throne. This made me remember something that I stumbled upon in the net while researching about the Palin candidate:


Looks familiar? It's because you were probably hearing it every election here in the Philippines.

Wasak na wasak.

Ang isang tao ay nagiging makabuluhan ang buhay kapag sila ay nasa kani-kaniyang lugar, kung saan alam nila ang kanilang layunin at responsibilidad. Dito ngayon sa lugar na ito iikot ang buhay ng isang tao at ito ang magiging pundasyon niya sa isang masaya at makahulugang buhay.

Kapag winasak mo ang lugar na iyon, mawawasak din ang tao. Ito ang pinaka malupit na pagsupil sa tao, mas masahol pa sa pagbuklat ng kanyang bungo at ang pagkain ng kanyang utak.

Ewww. Kadiri. Wasak na wasak.

Is Pablo Banila annoying you? I have a simple proposal.

Ok. You are a female (or even a male) who felt very insecure about a certain Pablo who viewed your homepage because he has a crush on you. He does it at regular intervals and even everyday, establishing his position in your mind as a frigging stalker. You even went to great lengths to make all your posts viewable by contacts only, or worse, changed your site just to evade that... that.... person.

Because many people I know have been complaining, I now have a simple proposal to counter and hopefully shame (if he knows shame) him to the point that he will reconsider his actions and stop his unsettling ways.

I propose that we download his animated GIF headshot and make it as your own headshot. We then view his site as many times as possible and comment on him "who's the bitch now?" repeatedly and until his site crashes.

I predict that he will be very annoyed (let's hope he will be) and stop whatever he is doing to us. However, if he is the attention craving, pathetic and hopeless creep that he is, I think he will be delighted.

God save us all. n_n

ps: any comments and/or suggestions on improving this proposal would very much delight me and his victims. thus, comments and suggestions are very much welcome.

Dirge for Jamis

Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.

-Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from "The Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan.
(From Dune by Frank Herbert)

Random Observation part 5

Understanding must move with the process, must join it and flow with it.

Obama-McCain rivalry fans

I got this from a friend and it captures the gist of their battle tactics.
Wait for it to load, as it is a GIF image.

Graves and Photographs

There are things in life that change drastically
Men and women, adults and children
there are people whose fathers have changed twice
People that were living, eventually turn into graves and photographs.
Shapes that were once visible suddenly disappear. Shapes within the heart also change.
They fade, and in the end, disappear.

However, before things that one thinks will always be the same change, it might be that it just ended.
will I change? Will I be able to change?
I soon realized that I can't find the answer to this by thinking about it.
Things in life will all eventually end
People's feelings end.

But life might be all about repeating things over and over.
But I want to keep all things that will eventually change or disappear for now.
For that reason, I got a camera.

despair

everything goes downhill from here.

hello despair, my old friend.

Oct. 18 2008: Notes from Cinemanila

Hmmm... I was supposed to watch a film with my friend here at Gateway but unfortunately, the universe conspired against me and made him unavailable at that hour so... I'm alone. Incidentally, the film I was going to watch was Evangelion 1.0: You are (not) alone. How ironic. Actually I have seen this before on my pc (thanks to the torrent leviathan, piratebay) but the experience of watching a film on a theater (and sharing that experience with other moviegoers) is always different so I went.

I arrived an hour and a half before the screening because I arrived early (I had alloted two hours travel time as I didn't actually know where in cubao is gateway, but it was just around the block) and I have this insane compulsion of arriving at least an hour before my... uhmm... engagements, well, at least those that matter for me. Ironically, I hate waiting. So I waited... And waited...

Standing around and doing nothing always makes me observe the most interesting subjects on earth: humans. I noted the following things:
- People's dependence on cell phones had escalated to the point that gone were the timeswhere you talk to someone on the phone, set a specific time and place to meet and expect the person you would meet at the said place at the exact time. Nowadays you would have to contact the person continuously on the matter of his/her whereabouts, especially those with morning sickness and those with a severe case of indecisiveness. It's sad. But I would like to stress this fact: I am not saying that majority of people have a habit of being late (or not coming at all), it's just that there are people like this.
- Likewise, people had become addicted to personal music devices and they will walk around with earphones (or worse, headphones) jammed into their ears, bumping into people and not hearing car horns until it is too late. Haha, I just realized, I am one of these people. I use it to shut the world out. What's your reason? n_n
- If you stare at people from above (as I did from the 4th floor of Gateway) then you would realize that all these people walking around in circles below you look like ants. I imagine God, looking at us from heaven laughing at how miserable and futile our lives are and eventually stepping on us, to smite our pitiful lives. Haha. Now I'm the cynic.

Ooops, I have to wrap this up, as I also have this insane compulsion to be inside the theater 20 minutes before the show starts.

iBlade

The new iBlade. Perfect for listening to emo shit like My Chemical Romance, and slitting your wrists! ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!!.

Friendship's labor's lost

We weren't good friends because we can tell each other anything.
It's because when someone doesn't want to answer, we don't ask questions,
and when someone wants an answer, we don't stay quiet.

That's why we're friends.

I use TECHNIQUE to take you out

Taking superior angling, taking superior movement and leverage to break one's joints, to paralyze the arm, use manipulation of joints, to break necks, break legs, break shoulders, joint locks, joint manipulation, nerve strikes, so therefore I dont have to use strength anymore, I use technique to take you out.