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12th-Sep-2008 11:29 pm - ethnocentricities
beautiful
Hello Livejournal. It's nice to see you again.

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You know what I miss? I miss being Filipino. You see, it's like this: America is beautiful. America teaches you to stand on your own two feet and be your own person. It teaches you how to not take crap and smile like nothing happened. It takes you for a ride, in one of it's 2008 Mercedes S-class sedans, Chris Brown blaring on your stereo hooked up to your i-pod while you laugh and scream on your bluetooth i-phone.

But you see, as many a thing America can possibly teach you, it doesn't know about where you came from. Sure you'll go to that cultural festival, but that little child singing, "Bayang magiliw, Perlas ng sinananaaaang!!" will not be singing it that way to be droll. And the people in the audience will not clap in delight because they know her lyrics are adorably erroneous but because oh! That child sings Tagalog songs so well! It's so nice to see parents teaching their children their beloved culture!

Because here, you will buy that $6 bottle of Palmolive coconut shampoo, and you will go to that sad place that passes itself for Jollibee with their sad, sad Chicken Joy and gravy, and you will get that t-shirt with Manny Pacquiao's face benevolently surveying that limp Philippine flag tied haphazardly onto that flagpole bearing the American flag.

Because you have to. And because you have no choice.

Because this place, America, is about adapting.

It's about turning your scathing, over-analytic, ethnocentric eyes away from the revelry that becomes carnage in your mind because that is how you want to see it.

But damn, I still want my Chicken Joy.
1st-Jun-2008 12:12 am - in hollywood
beautiful
I saw someone who looked like you.

I saw someone who looked like you.

I saw someone who looked like you.

I saw someone who looked like you.



And I kinda remembered. 



But not that much.
21st-May-2008 11:19 pm - pudpod
beautiful

Ako. Wala na akong maramdaman. Puro iwas, sa araw-araw (araw-araw-araw) na
Buhay? Yun ata ang tawag nila dun. Winala na ata ni Oras. Si Ako.

Huminga ka man, tatlong higup ng hangin. Huwag ka nang pipikit. Tapos.
Hihilain ka nila pabalik. (Sayang daw ang liwanag, nandiyan na ang dilim)

Matatawa ka na lang. Nang walang dahilan.
Hahalakhak ka. Hahalakhak. (Haha-ha-ha-lak-hak).
Para 'di ka nila pa-iisipin. Itago mo lang 
May dugo pa bang umaagos sa iyong katawan?





(erm, to be continued.. napudpod na ko... sa uulitin)

30th-Apr-2008 09:04 pm - I'm bored.
reality, bites

I'm bored. I'm not rich-white-girl-does-yoga-twice-a-week-and-classes-once-a-week-and-parties-and-does-drugs-but-is-so-omg-so-effing-bored bored.  But I'm bored.

Dear God, can I get a life line? 

ouch
Like damn, man.

Gabby had an operation last week and today we learned she has thyroid cancer. Granma Luz had it and its scary that I might get it too. Mom is going crazy because of it and has eliminated sodas and adding blueberries and naked juice to the shopping list.

And I'm sick because I've been doing overtime this whole week. Damn.

And, and... status quo is in the top two! WTF man. W-T-F.

In happier news, Alaine is having her debut on April 5 so woohoo!

Plus today in the bank guess who I saw... Marcia Cross from Desperate Hosewives. I could've helped her out if I wasn't stuck with another customer. Gah.

13th-Feb-2008 09:23 pm - (UP) fair past
film, cinema




In the spirit of UP Fair month... ta-dah! Ha ha. Kakamiss. Happy valentine's folks!



Gawrd, what I'd give to be that thin again. LOLZ.
 
10th-Feb-2008 08:25 pm - on sabbatical
reality, bites

I don't write simply because I do not have anything to write about. What drives me to write is, for lack of a better term, teenage angst. 

I think teenage angst has more to do with the weird (supposedly small) things we concern ourselves with like feeling as if we were the center of the universe and heartbreak and nasty clique wars, and less to do with being over twelve and under twenty (because after all, you can still think you're the center of the universe when you turn twenty-one).

Less than a year out of college and I think my supply in teenage angst is running low.

I miss writing things that have more to do with my neverending process of mending myself after every fall and less about how much I spent on overpriced shoes.

I miss my teenage angst.



I'm hoping it's just on sabbatical.
 

7th-Feb-2008 09:30 pm - yay votes!
run, omg
I voted for Clinton. If she wins it'd be so awesome because when I'm sixty-five I can take my teeny grandchildren aside and say, 

"Alam nyo ba, isa ako sa mga bumoto sa pinaka-unang babaeng presidente ng Amerika! Aha ha ha. Mga Amerikano talaga, ano? Tagal-tagal pa bago nagkaroon ng babaeng leader. Ayan tuloy, tagal din bago gumanda ang pamamalakad ng gobyerno nila."

Ha ha ha.

But I don't think it would go that way. Di ko naman kasi ginagamit yung mga salitang pamamalakad at gobyerno.


La lang.

 
22nd-Jan-2008 07:19 pm - farewell verona.
yoikes, hands, cover

"What can I help you with today sir?"
"Oh just a deposit."
"Alright." Take slip and checks, enter amount, validate receipt...

"My son's friend died today."
"Oh goodness. I'm so sorry. What happened?" What the..? Like I care, old man. Move on.
"Not quite sure. He's in New York." Blah blah blah blah.
"Will you be going to New York for the funeral then?"
"No, my son is there though. Keith Ledger...?"
"Oh."
"Yeah, he's a young actor. You know, the one in that cowboy movie..."
"Heath Ledger?"
"Heath, yeah that's him."


Holy shit.



NOOOOOO!!!!

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