29 June 2008
A rare sight
After a two-week nagging marathon, my mother successfully dragged me to her friend’s 25th wedding anniversary celebration this evening.
It was a formal dinner-type event, and was slowly eating up my night, which I would have wanted to spend elsewhere. After the food was served, they played an eight-minute video about the couple’s history and journey. My eyes grew watery (the video editing was awesome, but no, not because of that). By the time, the daughter was giving a speech about her parents, I had to force my eyes to dart all over the place and pretend to go on a yawning spree.
Strange.
I was supposed to write entry after entry about my recent Indonesia trip, but I’ve grown lazy. Nngghh. In a nutshell, what I did there was help out and attend meetings and an event. You can check out some pictures in my new Flickr; the rest are in sites you adroit stalkers are probably capable of finding.
anna wrote at 1:18 am5 comments
11 June 2008
Behave, bishes
I’ll be flying to Jakarta later with hardly any cash in hand and a mountain of work left behind (I’m sure my teammates love my emails of.. direction).
Whee (?)
anna wrote at 11:48 am8 comments
8 June 2008
Yay for Philippine Independence
I am going to waste perfectly good space here just to say.
I DON’T HAVE TO GO TO WORK ON MONDAY.
Yay.
anna wrote at 4:32 am6 comments
6 June 2008
Learning unconditionality
In my own world of pseudo-values, infidelity is [among others,] up there with situations I cannot stomach, nor is it something I do not and will not condone.
It then shows another side when the guilty party is attached to a familiar face, a good history, and a light attempt at a justification (thought claimed to not be one). It hits you differently, but is at the same time quite a challenge because the unwritten rules of friendship dictate that despite my own conflicts with Mr. Conscience, some situations just call for support and not a lecture, especially, especially during emotional turmoil.
How can you tell right from wrong these days anyway?
I still believe in love.
anna wrote at 12:42 am3 comments
2 June 2008
A second, unseen death
“I’m going to drive slowly okay?” Lionel said as he continued driving. He told me about how his sister recently was within the vicinity of a car crash. It generally isn’t wise to speed when it’s past 1AM.
A good ten minutes later, we came across a few cars along the side of EDSA. We slowed down a bit (isn’t it annoying though when vehicles speed down to get a look of any commotion?)
I spotted a woman wobbling toward one of the cars. My gaze went backward a bit, and that was when I noticed a person sprawled on the ground.
good lord
A panicky man alighted from the car and ran toward the man and lifted him. The lifeless man didn’t respond in any way. It was frightening to think that he’d died then and there. Had he? I couldn’t tell.
The guy lifting him called out to the cars passing by, asking for help I think. Or maybe clarifying that he had nothing to do with it? I’m not so sure.
I have to be at the office tomorrow later at 8AM, was the first thought that came to mind.
“Keep driving,” I told Lionel. And then we sped away.
I’m going to have to remember to keep driving carefully/slowly/sober/alert since if and when I find myself killing a random biker in the future, I doubt I’d be getting any immediate help from anyone who passes by.
anna wrote at 2:18 am9 comments
29 May 2008
Jobs is the man
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement, 14 June 2005
“I live my life theoretically,” was something I said not too long ago. Not good, haha.
Experiencing life. I wonder what the first step is.
anna wrote at 11:28 pm11 comments
26 May 2008
Palindromic milestone
Every year, I’m made to feel like one big magnet of unlucky incidents, specifically during my birthday. I’d list them all, but then again, I’d rather keep mum about it in case someone decides to purposely revive them in the years to come.
One’s birthday is truly self-centered (totally justified) and at the same time messianic (feed the hungry), and it’s only now that I’m reacquainted with this feeling again.
It’s kinda cool. =)
I haven’t been alive that long, but moments like these prompt me to look at myself from a bird’s eye view. It’s an annual thing I guess. I haven’t quite gotten there, but I’ve developed an idea on the definition of worth, quality, and wise investments.
I am one lucky bitch.
By the way, I’m happy to report that my unlucky streak did not spill over to this year. =)
anna wrote at 12:44 am9 comments
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